What Answers to Light, a research showcase led by the School of Underlying Conditions, brings together seven published University studies of things that respond once light reaches them.
A new brochure sets seven published studies side by side, from a monitoring bore to a share-house driveway
Seven of the University’s published studies have something in common that none of them set out to share: each concerns a thing that answers when light reaches it. What Answers to Light, a research showcase released today, sets them side by side for the first time.
The brochure is led by the School of Underlying Conditions, the University’s earth sciences school, and draws on work from all three schools. It moves from a groundwater animal in a monitoring bore to a fluorescent probe in drill-core leachate, and then out to a creek sampled by day and by night, a lit house number on a share-house driveway and a lamp in the rear window of a car. The University regards the collection as a considered statement of how its research capability connects across settings.
I had thought of these as seven separate pieces of work until somebody laid them out on one table. It says something about where the University has been heading that they sit together as easily as they do.
— Dr Vigdis Emenike, Senior Lecturer, School of Underlying Conditions
The showcase aligns laboratory, field and street-level inquiry under a single organising question, pairing each feature with the published record that underpins it and with the researchers who carried it out.
“A showcase is a way of inviting people in,” said Dr Anouk Mensah, Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Emergent Priorities. “What they make of it once they are inside is properly up to them.”
The full brochure is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.tdknni.