The HLS Communications team is delighted to announce the winners of the Faculty’s first photography competition.
The competition provided an opportunity for staff and students to showcase their photography work, and to celebrate health and life sciences research, Faculty life, and even provide a take on the ‘obscure’.
We received dozens of fascinating submissions from right across the Faculty, covering a vast range of topics and locations. The judging panel noted that the quality of the images, and the care and time our people had put into preparing their submissions was truly remarkable.
There were six categories, with the winner of each receiving a £25 Amazon voucher. Below you can see all our worthy winners, the category which they won, and their successful submission:
The Scientific Prizes
In the Lab - Marie Held, Image Analyst and Technical Specialist, Liverpool Shared Research Facilities
Set on what looks like a starry night sky, a mouse embryonic kidney stained for multiple developmental markers floats in the air, teasing us with its secrets. The kidney was imaged with a light sheet microscope in the Centre for Cell Imaging.
The Living World - John Cameron, Livestock & One Health
Lambing at Ness Heath in 2023
On Campus - Catalin Bivolaru, Vet Anatomy, Physiology & Pathology
Sunbath
The General Prizes
Obscure - Catriona Waitt, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Global Health
I was in eastern Uganda building a collaborative relationship with investigators on the neonatal unit at Mbale Regional Referral Hospital. Since this is close to Mount Elgon, and since I believe in life-work balance, I then took my family for a 44 km hike. Afterwards, we realised this chameleon, who had initially been a vibrant green, had made her home next to our camera. This photograph shows the magnificence of these creatures in their colour changing abilities.
People - Serena Saligari, PhD Student, Social and Medical Anthropology
Mary, one of the people I met during my ethnographic fieldwork in the peri-urban community of Langas (Kenya), is moving her charcoal stove into the yard to disperse the smoke, which is recognised as damaging to health. Taking an anthropological approach, I was studying the social and cultural dynamics in which domestic energy practices (such as cooking) are enmeshed, to help develop awareness that clean energy interventions are implicated in a wide range of issues to be understood in places and through the insights offered by locals. This image conveys that academic knowledge is not merely produced by academics, but through the situated and embodied experiences of laypeople. More is to be done to recognise the active role of participants in our research and to foster a better alignment of the knowledge we produce to the contextual contingencies of the phenomena we study.
Places - Elena Maciuca, Veterinary Microbiology Technician
A glimpse of the working day at Leahurst in winter; beautiful light filtered through the trees
Due to the overwhelming amount of fantastic submissions we received, we would like to take a moment to acknowledge some of the other brilliant images we were sent with the honourable mentions contained below:
