How to use images in your work

Discovering and using images, graphs, charts, and figures

Learn how to find images, graphs, charts, and figures you can use and explore some considerations required when using them in your work.

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Creating, editing, generating and using images

Learn about the power of images, how and when to use them in your work, as well as how to create or edit the images you need using online software / apps.

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Thinking about using Artificial Intelligence tools to generate images for your university work? Explore an overview of AI image generation, the models that power it, a practical introduction to using Google Gemini for visual content creation, and an overview of the critical issues with AI image generation below.

How to generate images using Artificial Intelligence

Using other people’s images in your work

Learn how to attribute images used in your work to give fair credit to those whose work you use, and how this differs in digital and print forms.

Guidance for taught course students inserting images and figures into university work

Discovering and using images, graphs, charts, and figures

Learn how to find images, graphs, charts, and figures you can use and explore some considerations required when using them in your work.

Start the online tutorial - Discovering and using images, graphs, charts, and figures

Book a place on the Discovering and using images, graphs, charts, and figures

Understanding and questioning images using the 5 step process

Established approaches to analysing traditional visual sources are a useful starting point from which to develop your ability to critically read images.  

Learn how to use the five-step process to analyse and question images, and understand what an image can tell you, both explicitly and implicitly. 

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Understand your intellectual property rights

In the course of your studies you will create intellectual and creative outputs, both assessed and unassessed. These may include posters, computer code, essays, diagrams, 3D models, videos and audio, and many other formats. From time to time situations arise where students or staff would like to make further use of these materials.

This page provides practical guidance for how students and staff can understand and manage their intellectual property in line with the University’s regulations (section XXIII). 

Student-created content and intellectual property

Next steps

• Creative Media
• Digital Commons
• Communication