22 June 2012Last updated at 18:36

In pictures: Swansea University Research as Art winners

Maggot on nose by Yamni Nigam / Dr Peter Willshaw

Swansea University has been celebrating the "beauty and diversity" in academic research with a competition of photographs of the work of staff and students. Among over 100 entries was this image as part of the university's Maggot Research Project looking at their natural wound-healing abilities.

The overall winner was Hollie Rosier, a postgraduate student in the materials engineering department, who took an image of a salt grain, 2mm across, under a microscope during research on making jet engines safer.

Prof Tavi Murray, from the Geography Department, took this Arctic scene as part of work in glaciology. She said: "I am a scientist rather than an artist or photographer but a landscape like this talks directly to my soul. These are the true colours of the Arctic."

Flow structure of a tidal stream turbine, by Rami Malki

Rami Malki, working at the university's Marine Renewable Research Group, submitted this image which shows the flow structure evolving downstream of a tidal stream turbine, generating renewable energy from the sea.

Coke and iron ore loading pattern in a blast furnace by Marc Holmes and Steve Brown, Dept of Materials Engineering

A snap shot of a coke and iron ore loading pattern in a blast furnace by Marc Holmes and Steve Brown in the materials engineering department using a Discrete Element Model which calculates the behaviour of granular material.

Josie Parker from the university's College of Medicine submitted this knitted a model of an enzyme called CYP51. Her work looks at how certain anti fungal compounds act by binding directly to CYP51, inhibiting its activity. "Furthering our understanding of these changes may aid the design of better anti fungals," she said. "Making this model (for my colleague’s Christmas present) reminded me of the beauty and complexity of life."

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In pictures: Swansea University Research as Art winners

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