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    Congratulations to the 2025 Images of Research Winners

    by Junelle Mah June 10, 2025
    written by Junelle Mah

    Congratulations to all U of A graduate students who submitted their work to our 2025 Images of Research (IOR) Competition and Exhibition! This annual event, which is a collaboration between the U of A Library and the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, welcomed 69 submissions that allows students to depict their research in a single image. Our panel of judges narrowed the field to 24 semifinalists, our People’s Choice vote was held online, and we celebrated our winners on Thursday, May 29th in our Exhibition Opening.

    We thank all of the graduate students who sent in their images, as well as our judging panel. All submissions, including our semi-finalists and winners are available on our IOR Virtual Exhibit. Please join us in congratulating our 2025 Images of Research winners:


    First Place + People’s Choice

    Theatre for Change

    by Valentine Ukoh

    Actors perform in an outdoor community theatre, engaging a seated rural audience in a participatory drama.

    This image captures an open-air theatre performance unfolding in a rural community setting. The audience, composed of local residents seated on benches and the bare ground, is visibly engaged—some leaning forward, others responding with laughter and gestures. At the center, actors use minimal props and vivid expressions to dramatize a pressing community issue. This moment symbolizes the transformative power of theatre when rooted in familiar spaces, languages, and cultural practices. My research explores Theatre for Development (TfD) as a dynamic tool for communicating change and development. This image embodies how participatory theatre creates shared spaces for dialogue, awareness, and collective problem-solving—where community voices are not only heard, but activated toward meaningful social transformation.

    Second Place

    Flowing Insights: Illuminating Turbulence in Sewer Airflows

    by Khaled Mohamed

    Grayscale visualization of turbulent airflow patterns using smoke structures within a sewer pipe cross-section.

    Sewer odours have become a significant urban concern, notably affecting communities in Edmonton such as Steinhauer and Bonnie Doon. Our research addresses these challenges through sewer airflow modeling and experiments. This grayscale image illustrates intricate turbulent airflow patterns, clearly showing vortices and recirculation zones responsible for odour dispersion. This study represents one of the first successful attempts to capture intricate airflow features such as Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities, and it introduces an innovative technique for accurately measuring low air velocities in sewer systems. This visualization not only deepens the understanding of airflow movement and odour transport in sewer systems but also informs more effective ventilation designs to mitigate odours and enhance urban environmental quality.

    Third Place

    Emergent Landscapes: Urban Gardens and Bicycle Infrastructure Explored in Painting through the Lens of Human Ecology – Material Culture

    by Jill Thomson

    A colourful painting depicts neighbourhood houses and buildings with people gathering inside and in the front garden.

    This research painting represents spatial interior and exterior relationships of material culture within the dense confines of cities in North America and ancestral Holland. It is a personal remembering and observing of unexpected entanglements among buildings and wild spaces, kitchens and gardens, sitting rooms and forests, where vibrant cities with the familiar vernacular of neighbourhood architecture and public space are travelled on multiple planes. Paths are created by people walking around homes, front yards and gardens and by cycling past local shops and green spaces. The complex interconnectivity among humans, things and the natural world are rendered intuitively through washes, drip marks, and brush strokes. Memories of material relationships—riding and discovering balance on a Dutch-styled bike and helping my children to bike—are a ‘coming home’ to ancestral landscapes that give structure to the painting. Material things created by humans transcend time through memory and overlay places and spaces to create a sense of belonging. The painting’s pathways afford renewed connections to cities, bring spaces alive, and provide people with agency, balance and possibility.


    We invite you to read more about how these images were created! Please visit each entrant’s submission page on our IOR Virtual Exhibit.

    For more information on Images of Research, including its history, please visit our IOR website.

    This content is licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Creative Commons licence.

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  • 2024 Images of Research Winners

    by Junelle Mah May 31, 2024
    by Junelle Mah May 31, 2024

    On behalf of the University of Alberta Library and the Faculty of Graduate & Post Doctoral Studies, we are pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 Images of Research (IOR) competition. It was a great year for submissions with 75 eligible entries. This was also the first year in the competition’s seven-year history that the use of AI generated images were accepted. Congratulations to all participants on their hard work. You…

  • 2023 Images of Research Winners

    by Junelle Mah June 1, 2023
    by Junelle Mah June 1, 2023

    The University of Alberta Library, in partnership with the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Graduate and Research Studies (FGSR), is pleased to announce the 2023 winners of our Images of Research Competition and Exhibition (IOR). We were thrilled to receive 89 spectacular submissions from a diverse pool of graduates, which made our judges’ tasks all the more difficult. The submissions were narrowed down to 24 images, which were then assigned a first,…

  • 2021 Images of Research Winners

    by Meredith Bratland April 6, 2021
    by Meredith Bratland April 6, 2021

    We are pleased to announce the 2021 Images of Research winners. It was an exceptionally exciting year for winners and a tie for the People’s Choice Award. Congratulations to all! We have a virtual exhibit for everyone to enjoy the finalist and semifinalist images this year that will be live April 7, 2021. First Place Turning Women’s Trauma into Strength Sara Nekounamghadirli MA Faculty: Extension In my research about ohtisiy (a word…

  • IOR Where Are They Now? Katrina Aranas

    by Meredith Bratland February 8, 2021
    by Meredith Bratland February 8, 2021

    In our final interview of IOR Where are They Now? we catch up with Katrina Aranas. Images of Research is accepting submissions for the 2021 competition and exhibition between January 25 and February 12, 2021. See IOR’s website for official rules and FAQs. What did you learn about yourself or your research while you created your IOR image?  Creating my image for IOR reminded me that research has an impact on the…

  • IOR Where Are They Now? Deanna Neri

    by Meredith Bratland February 1, 2021
    by Meredith Bratland February 1, 2021

    Please join us as we catch up with Deanna Neri, a former Images of Research semifinalist and winner of the People’s Choice Award in 2019, to talk about what she learned participating in the competition and exhibition and where she is now. What did you learn about yourself or your research while you created your IOR image? I learned that research is more than just getting data and gaining more knowledge. I…

  • IOR Where are They Now? Mudasser Seraj

    by Meredith Bratland January 25, 2021
    by Meredith Bratland January 25, 2021

    Please join us as we catch up with Mudasser Seraj, a former Images of Research semifinalist, on what he learned participating in the competition and exhibition and where he is now. What did you learn about yourself or your research while you created your IOR image? Visual communication is a highly effective medium to develop an interest in complex research methods among the general population. How did IOR boost your professional and…

  • IOR Where Are They Now? Jonathan Green

    by Meredith Bratland January 18, 2021
    by Meredith Bratland January 18, 2021

    Are you on the fence about entering the Images of Research Competition and Exhibition this year? We caught up with former IOR semifinalists to find out about their past experience with IOR and what happened afterwards. Please meet Jonathan Green! What did you learn about yourself or your research while you created your IOR image? Looking upon all the research I had done – the books, the journals, articles, photos, conversations –…

  • 2020 Images of Research Winners

    by Meredith Bratland March 25, 2020
    by Meredith Bratland March 25, 2020

    We are pleased to announce the 2020 Images of Research winners. Congratulations to all! Due to social distancing measures for COVID-19, we are creating a virtual exhibit for everyone to enjoy the finalist and semifinalist images this year – stay tuned. First Place Perspectives of time and adaptation Anna Magdalena Hubmann PhD Philosophy Faculty: ALES, Agricultural Food & Nutritional Science Mirrored close shot of a painted floor at Hewko House, a Ukrainian-Canadian…

  • 2019 Images of Research Winners

    by Sonya Leung April 3, 2019
    by Sonya Leung April 3, 2019

    Congratulations to the winners of the 2019 Images of Research! We are so pleased to present the outstanding entries of the Images of Research competition for 2019. Out of 67 eligible entries, a panel of judges chose the winners and semifinalists; all will be on display in HT Coutts Education Library from April 4 to 30, 2019. Images of Research exhibition Location: HT Coutts Education Library, main floor Date: April 4 –…

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