# Display campaign counts the disciplines at one core tray

> A new display advertisement from the School of Underlying Conditions presents its core shed as the room where the University's fields meet over the same rock.

Collaboration across fields is ordinarily arranged by committee. The School of
Underlying Conditions has found that it can also be arranged by leaving a tray
of drill core on a table, and has said so on the University's portrait display
panels. _More Disciplines per Borehole_ was prepared by Associate Professor
Ragnhild Uzoma, Lead of the Basement Relations Group, with Dr Vigdis Emenike,
Senior Lecturer.

The panel shows the inside of a core shed, its racks running back on either
side, and six people at a trestle. Between them they hold a hand lens, a
notebook, a net, a flask, a rolled chart and a pair of calipers. There is one
tray.

> Nobody was invited. They came for the rock one at a time, each with a
> perfectly good reason, and by the end of the season there was a queue for the
> lens. We started writing down who was in it.
>
> --- Associate Professor Ragnhild Uzoma, Lead of the Basement Relations Group

The advertisement mobilises that list as an account of the School's
collaborative posture, anchoring a cross-disciplinary capability in a single
piece of shared apparatus. Beneath the campaign line it points to three of the
School's publications: on a groundwater amphipod, on relations between
neighbouring surveys, and on a clay that takes the colour out of seed oil.

The University takes some encouragement from a school that has widened its
company without lengthening its table. Dr Emenike said the tally "is kept on the
back of the shed door, where anyone who has been counted is welcome to check
it".

The advertisement is available from the University's research repository under
an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.7li1e6.