Winners of SSPP images competitors introduced

The outcomes of ‘Research in Action’ the SSPP Photography Competition, have been introduced. 

The profitable {photograph} was ‘Where Carnival Becomes Care’ by Delia da Mosto, PhD Student, Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, School of Global Affairs.

The picture depicts two ladies strolling hand in hand down a Rio de Janeiro avenue throughout Carnival. It was taken throughout doctoral fieldwork for Transitions: The Ethics and Politics of Psychiatric Deinstitutionalisation in South America. It captures a second from the Carnival parade organised by Bloco Tá Pirando, Pirado, Pirou!, a collective shaped by psychological well being service customers, native residents, and professionals. 

Delia da Mosto, competitors winner, commented: “My picture exhibits psychiatric deinstitutionalisation not solely as coverage however as a lived, relational apply, woven by group transformation and types of horizontal and radical care.

She added: “Photography allows us to move beyond classical research methodologies. It doesn’t just document, it creates new ways of seeing and relating with the people we research with. It becomes part of a shared process, one grounded in commitment to activism and social change, values I know are shared by the carnival collective I have worked with, and many colleagues at King’s and SSPP.”

The full winners and runners-up are as follows:

• 1^st place (£250 voucher):
• Delia Da Mosto (PGR scholar, GHSM), Where Carnival Becomes Care
• Joint 2^nd (all £100 voucher)
• Balint Pongracz (PGR scholar, Defence Studies), A is for Apple, G is for Gun
• Zenobia Homan (Staff, War Studies), We defend one another
• Shuran Zhao (PGR scholar, Lau China Institute), She and the Tea Mountain

The shortlisted photographs had been:

• Natasha Lock (PhD scholar, Lau China Institute) Nostalgia for Sale 
• Dr Marguerite Müller (Senior Lecturer, School of Education, Communication & Society), Arts-based analysis for self-reflexive schooling management growth
• Dr Shiraz Maher (Reader in Non-State Actors, Department of War Studies) Layers of Resistance: The Hidden Geographies of War   
• Emel Akçalı (Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Defence Studies Department) The Unbroken Line  
• Professor Ekaette Ikpe (Director, African Leadership Centre) Knowledge Circles 
• Dr Adriana Ford (Senior Centre Manager for the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society, Department of Geography) Purposeful Flames 
• Samantha Day (PhD scholar, Department of Geography) Hope for the Future 
• Ji (Rocky) Shi (PhD scholar, Lau China Institute) Women Hold Up Half the Sky (妇女能顶半边天) 

The Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy Photography Competition: Research in Action celebrated the creativity and impression of analysis spanning the varied panorama of social science disciplines and the numerous fields that form our understanding of society. 

Staff and postgraduate analysis (PGR) college students from inside SSPP had been invited to submit images that carry analysis to life, shifting past the written phrase to seize moments of discovery, collaboration, and utility. Entrants had been judged on three standards: adherence to the Research in Action theme, Composition, and Originality.

The competitors judges had been Professor Linda McKie, Executive Dean; Professor Cathy McIlwaine, Vice Dean (Research); Lyanne Wylde, Head of Research Operations; James Brown, Director of Operations; the entire Faculty of Social Sciences and Public Policy.

The exhibition of winners and chosen entries shall be on show in The Exchange, Bush House North East Wing from Thursday 26 March till Friday 1 May.

You can learn extra in regards to the chosen images on the exhibition, or observe us on LinkedIn and BlueSky the place we shall be highlighting among the greatest entrants over the approaching weeks.