Bake Your Research, 28 November in Library Atrium and Online

29 October 2024

Dear Postgraduate Researchers,

Also for the attention of Supervisors and Research-degree-related staff

Please mark your diaries, Thursday 28 November is that most exciting date on the Graduate School calendar: Bake Your Research 2024. Baking-related prizes and kudos are up for grabs.

If you would like to enter the online or in-person competition this year, please fill out the entry form by 4 November.
For those on campus, please come to the Library Atrium 11:00-12:30 on 28 November for viewing, tasting and voting.
For those of you off-campus, please stand by to view and vote for online entries on 28 November.

A long and noble tradition

Since 2018, OU PGRs (and a few research-degree-related staff) have come together to share their research conveyed in cake form and win votes based on taste (when in-person), concept and audacity. Enjoy past entries:

Bake Your Research 2021 online entries

Bake Your Research 2021 event photos

Bake Your Research 2022

Bake Your Research 2023

The rules?

There aren't many; the competition is about having fun with colleagues and being creative in your research communication.

Let us know if you're competing in-person or online via the entry form by 4 November.
We'll send further instructions to in-person bakers about listing ingredients/allergens etc.
Online bakers can go ahead an upload their image and abstract to the Bake Your Research 2024 Padlet up to the competition day at 9:00 GMT: remember to include:
- your name in the title
- an image of your bake
- an explanation of your bake and its link to your research in the description
- some alt text to go with the image to describe it for screenreaders.
Voting instructions will go out on the day: everyone in the OU community is welcome to vote for in-person and online entries.