The Research Poster Conference 2013 winners

The Research Poster Conference 2013 took place on 12 June and consisted of 112 posters displaying research of current postgraduate researchers.  This was an opportunity for our postgraduate researchers to explain their research to students, peers, academics and the public.  The winning posters and presenters are as follows:

PGMSA Award for most creative poster

• S. Lou. Stratton: 'Lesbian Pulp Fiction and Community Formation 1950 - 1969' (PDF - 4.7MB)

Peer Award

• Charlie Pinder: 'Will the sedentary smartphone owner please stand up?' (PDF - 753KB)

College of Engineering and Physical Sciences:

• Runner up, Maryam Najafian: 'Automatic speech recognition for British accents using accent dependent acoustic models' (PDF - 160KB)
• First place, Charlie Pinder: 'Will the sedentary smartphone owner please stand up?' (PDF - 753KB)

College of Arts and Law:

• Runner up, Gido Hakvoort: 'Connect and Connectivity: Revealing a World of Interactions' (PDF - 10.26MB)
• First place winner, Carl Graves: 'Connections: Communication in Ancient Egypt' (PDF - 749 KB)

College of Medical and Dental Sciences:

• Runner up, Shamil Haroon: 'Detecting undiagnosed COPD: using routine primary care data to select and validate candidate variables for COPD risk prediction' (PPT - 1.12MB)
• First place, Fareed Iqbal: 'Developing DNA epigenetic biomarkers to predict bowel cancer in patients with chronic Ulcerative Colitis' (PDF - 373KB)

College of Social Sciences,

• Runner up, Pobsook Chamchong: 'Collaboration between local governments in Thailand: Lessons from the United Kingdom' (PPT - 1.46MB)
• First place: Judith Buckley, 'Deputy and assistant headship: Why headship is no longer an option' (PPT - 1.28MB)

College of Life and Environmental Sciences:

• Runner up, Danique Fintelman: 'Optimal cycling time trial position models' (PPT - 3.29MB)
• First place, Adam Bibbey: 'How stressed do you get? A negative personality constellation is associated with higher feelings of stress but lower blood pressure, heart rate, and hormone responses to stressful experiences' (PPT - 1.35MB)

Overall winner:

• Adam Bibbey: 'How stressed do you get? A negative personality constellation is associated with higher feelings of stress but lower blood pressure, heart rate, and hormone responses to stressful experiences' (PPT - 1.35MB)