The Excellence in Research Awards results 2013

The University Graduate School is proud to run both of these awards and we congratulate everyone who was short listed and who won. Both awards will open again in the first term of the new academic year.

The Michael K. O' Rourke PhD Best Publication Awards

These awards recognise the significant contribution made by academic supervisors to the successful completion of high-class doctoral research at the University.  The winners are:

  • Isam Issa, College of Arts and Law, "Fragmentation, Censorship and an Islamic Journal: A Histor of the Translations of Milton into Arabic"
  • Adam James, College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, ''The lift invariant distinguishes components of Hurwitz spaces for A_5''
  • Richard Bruce, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, ''Muscle afferent activation causes ventilatory and cardiovascular responses during concurrent hypercapnia in humans''
  • Elise Lesage, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, ''Cerebellar rTMS disrupts predictive language processing''
  • Anna Skowronski, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, ''Biallelic ATM Inactivation Significantly Reduces Survival in Patients Treated on the United Kingdom Leukemia Research Fund Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia 4 Trial''
  • Jennifer Cowan, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, ''The Thymus Medulla is Required for Foxp3+ regulatory but not conventional CD4 Thymocyte Development''
  • Sonali Sen Gupta, College of Social Sciences, ''Coarse correlated equilibria in linear duopoly games''

The Excellence in Doctoral Researcher Supervision Awards

This is a prestigious award for PGRs who have made outstanding contributions in terms of publication of their research.  The winners are:

  • Professor Susan Hunston, College of Arts and Law
  • Professor Isabelle Szmigin, College of Social Sciences
  • Dr. Andreas Freise, College of Engineering and Physical Sciences,
  • Dr Andrew Peet, College of Medical and Dental Sciences 

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