On 27th and 28th February, we ran a research poster competition which offered graduate students an opportunity to meet, advertise and discuss the innovative research they are undertaking, thereby providing them with an opportunity to raise the profile of their research.
Thanks to all the students who entered.
FIRST PRIZE (£400)
Kate Gwilliam IOE Psychology and Human Development
“Early childhood sleep patterns in Williams Syndrome and typical development, a longitudinal approach”RUNNERS-UP (£100)
Patcharaviral Charoenpacharporn Department of History
“A perspective from the south: a Cold War history of India and Thailand”Chris Dyke IOE Social Science
“No Crystal Balls: how do decision-makers evaluate the risk posed by a domestic abuser”Aleksandra Kaye Department of History
“Mapping the Polish knowledge network in nineteenth-century Latin America”
FIRST PRIZE (£400)
Bhavisha Parmar Ear Institute
“Testing Hearing in Space”RUNNERS-UP (£100 each)
Angeliki Zarkali Institute of Neurology
“Using visual perception to understand hallucinations in Lewy body disease”Alexandra Petrache UCL School of Pharmacy
“Investigating the fate of regulatory inhibitory interneuron networks in Alzheimer's disease”Alexandra Hopkins Institute of Neurology
“Biased Learning about the Self characterizes High Fear of Negative Evaluation”
FIRST PRIZE (£400)
Daniel Mannion Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering
“Memristive Machine Learning”RUNNERS-UP (£100 each)
Rupy Matharu Department of Mechanical Engineering
“Manufacturing a New Generation of Antimicrobial Fibres for Air and Water Filtration Systems”Jude Ejeh Department of Chemical Engineering
“Optimal multi-floor process plant layout”Constantina Nicolaou Department of Physics & Astronomy
“Gravitational Wave Cosmology: The impact of peculiar velocity on the Hubble constant”
FIRST PRIZE (£400)
Eleanor Stead Cancer Institute
“Pharmacological Anti-Ageing Intervention for Cancer Prevention”RUNNERS-UP (£100 each)
Chantal Edge Research Department of Epidemiology & Public Health
“Using video consultations to improve access, cost and quality of hospital care in prisons”Sarah Dib Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
"Identification of the most effective relaxation tool for use in a trial to improve breastfeeding outcomes in mothers of late preterm infants”Yi Lu Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
“Early-life rapid weight gain and subsequent body mass index trajectories across birthweight groups”
The Doctoral School would like to thank the following who acted as judges:
Arts & Humanities, Institute of Education, Laws, Social & Historical Sciences
· Dr Benet Salway (Chair), Dept of History
· Dr Jane Gilbert, School of European Languages, Culture and Society
· Dr John Gray, IOE Culture, Communication and Media
· Professor Ian Preston, Department of Economics
Built Environment, Engineering Sciences,
Mathematical & Physical Sciences
· Dr Simon Banks (Chair), Faculty of Engineering Sciences
· Dr Daisuke Kawata, Space & Climate Physics
· Dr Stanimira Milcheva, Bartlett School of Construction & Project Mgmt
· Professor Davide Ravasi, UCL School of Management
· Dr Aeli Roberts, Bartlett School of Construction & Project Mgmt
Brain Sciences & Life Sciences
· Professor Robyn Carston (Chair), Div. of Psychology & Lang Sciences
· Dr Josephine Barnes, Neurodegenerative Disease
· Professor Snezana Djordjevic, Structural and Molecular Biology
· Professor Karl Matter, Institute of Ophthalmology
· Professor Claudio Stern, Cell and Developmental Biology
Medical Sciences & Population Health Sciences
· Professor Jill Norman (Chair), Centre for Nephrology
· Dr Annie Britton, Research Department of Epidemiology & Public Health
· Dr Rachel Leeson, Eastman Dental Institute
· Professor Kholoud Porter, Research Dept of Infection & Population Health
· Dr Claire Thorne, Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health