IEU photo exhibition

A nice example of a low-effort, high-fun way to build community within a department: a photo exhibition.

The original invitation, sent round the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies (IEU) in late 2014, was simple:

Share your research experiences, subjects, highlights (even lowlights). Choose one or two of your best photos, have them printed, mounted, or framed as you like, and bring them along to be hung on boards at an apéro — around the Christmas party, or another department social. Maximum two photos per person.

It’s a nice format: everyone gets to see the fieldwork, systems, and places behind each other’s research, with no more organisational overhead than picking a date and finding some boards to hang things on. Worth repeating from time to time.