A Collaborative Research Cultures & Strathclyde Doctoral School initiative
Images of Collaboration is a competition and exhibition celebrating how Postgraduate Researchers experience, practise, and value collaboration in their research.
Through a single image and a short narrative, participants share how collaboration happens in practice — across disciplines, roles, institutions, sectors, and communities.
Delivered jointly by the Strathclyde Doctoral School and the Collaborative Cultures Programme, the initiative highlights collaboration as a lived, creative, and relational process at the heart of research and innovation.
The 2025–2026 competition is currently at the judging stage. Exhibition content will be released over the coming weeks.
What Is Images of Collaboration?
Images of Collaboration invited Postgraduate Researchers to:
- Reflect on how, why, and with whom they collaborate
- Explore collaboration through visual storytelling
- Share perspectives that go beyond outputs to highlight process, relationships, and culture
The exhibition presents collaboration as:
- A way of working
- A set of relationships
- A foundation for inclusive and impactful research
Themes
Entries sit under one of three themes:
Collegiality & Belonging
Supporting one another, working well together, and feeling part of a research community.
Collaborative Projects
Bringing people together in inclusive and effective ways to deliver complex research.
Relationships with External Collaborators
Building and sustaining partnerships beyond the University, including industry, the public sector, the third sector, and communities.
