Vote for your favourite Capture Your Research Contest entry!

By Maisie Northing | Aug. 07, 2024 | Prize Researcher Experience

During each AuthorAID Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) we host the Capture Your Research Contest. The contest asks for early-career researchers to share a photo of their research, and an accompanying description of their work. In our recent 'Getting Started with Writing and Publishing Your Research' MOOC we received absolutely fantastic submissions, so thank you to everyone who participated.

We would like for you, the AuthorAID community, to cast your votes on your three favourite submissions! Below you will find the shortlisted ten photos and their descriptions. The winner will be featured in a blog post with an interview on the AuthorAID website. Please vote for your favourite three entries on Mentimeter by clicking here.

For those whose entries are not featured here, your photos may still be used in future INASP and AuthorAID activities, so do look out for INASP and AuthorAID publications to potentially see your photos. We look forward to the next contest!

The voting will close on Friday the 16th of August at 1pm BST (GMT+1).

A person wearing a beekeeping suit holds up a honeycomb on a piece of wood. Trees are in the background and an open wooden bee hive is on the floor. — **Christian Opoku-Kwarteng**
“Pure honey in comb produced by a healthy bee colony. Beekeeping research by CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana"

A person wearing a white labcoat and blue mask, sitting at a white desk. A laptop is open which the person looks at, and uses a small wired object with a light on the end over a petri dish. — **Damilola Akande**
"My research work in Sokoto"

A person standing in a dark cave, wearing a headlamp, looking at the camera and giving a thumbs up. The cave is mostly dark but what appear to be enormous stalagmites and stalactites are visible. — **Dung Chi Nguyen**
"The field trip time inside the cave"

Three people in the foreground sit around a table outside under a gazebo-like structure. A large red and white banner hangs reading Department of Cardiology and Community Health and Primary Health Care of Lasuth/Lasucom. Many people are in the background, at a market. — **Folasade Daniel**
"Client Engagement during Public Health Awareness at a Market in Lagos"

Four people wearing overalls stand in a large building. One person is spray painting the underside of a small plane a grey colour. In the same building, a wider shot showing a green military helicopter

Mai xuan Truong

“I am currently researching military and antifouling paints. The attached pictures show examples of helicopter camouflage paint applications - a part of a research project about the Military paint.”

Six people stand together in a line facing the camera, all wearing white lab coats and smiling. Each person holds fruits in their hands, and there are different coloured trays and bowls on a table in front of them, all laden with the same yellow fruits. — **Nguyen Huong**
“My research activity. This picture is about my research team's activity. Our research focus on removing tannin from cashew apple juice and applying in beverage production.”

A person wearing a white lab coat and blue gloves standing at a bench holds a pipette-like instrument and is using it on something in their hand. — **Obaiya Utoblo**
“My photo: during a training on nanotechnology”

Two photos, one on top of the other. The top photo shows four people in a red-ish coloured soil field with green plants of the same type, growing in lines. The tallest plants look hip-height to the people. The people are looking at the plants. The bottom photo shows 3 people in the same kind of field, all smiling and facing the camera. — **Oluchi Ewuziem**
“My research and action pictures as an LSI in Nigera. The pictures in both layers were taken at a field inspection, data collation and research work as a licensed seed inspector working with registed cassava seedpreneurs in the seed tracking system of the National Agency for Seed Certification. I am in blue top along with my colleague in white, making sure the farmers' crops meet the requirements for certification at various stages of the crop cycle in order to produce quality seeds for both the local market and export standards.
In the first layer, I am specifically observing an incidence of cassava mosaic disease (CMD) on the particular crop stand in focus and we are discussing with the farmer on appropriate measures to adopt. In the second layer is another farmer who is satisfied with our inputs and feedback on her progress so far. All parties present in this photo agreed to be captured.”

A person crouching in a mostly brown soil field. In front of the person are two sparse rows of small green plants. The person wears blue gloves and appears to be holding one of the plants and an implement. Black tubing is visible across much of the field. — **Osman Abdulai Seidu**
“Towards making microbial biofertilizer – sampling of root nodules”

A person wearing a pink top and white hard hat leans an elbow on a white machine that has many dials and levers. The person smiles at the camera. — **Thi Hai Anh Nguyen**
“The drilling equipment factory”

Thank you for voting and look out for our interview with the winner!

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