adjunctions from either the category of small categories or the category of groupoids

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I'm looking for examples of adjunctions involving either the category Gpd of groupoids or the category Cat of small categories.

The insertion of Gpd into Cat has both a left and a right adjoint, so any adjunction involving one of the two can be composed to give a new adjunction involving the other instead.

I know a few easy ones already:

  • adjunctions involving the category Set of sets
  • taking the free category on a directed graph
  • taking the nerve of a category as a simplicial set

As a related question, Cat has a full subcategory SkCat of skeletal categories. Does the insertion of SkCat into Cat admit an adjoint? Obviously we can ask the same for SkGpd.