Festival of Postgraduate Research 2017: the winners

Winners photo
Back row (L-R): Daire Cantillon, Qiaoyi Wang, Marta Falcinelli, Lujain Mirza.
Front row (L-R): Katie McCallum, Majed Al-Jefri, Kate Monson

Congratulations to all competition winners in our inaugural Festival of Postgraduate Research! Along with your peers, you highlighted the wealth and diversity of exciting, important research being undertaken at Brighton and helped make our festival a resounding success. Thank you.

Enormous thanks too to everyone who participated in our festival, whether as presenter, competition entrant, organiser, online voter or member of the audience.

Winners of our four competitions are listed below. Click the names in the poster and photo competitions to view the winning submissions. To view all poster and photo entries, go here.

RESEARCH POSTER COMPETITION

RESEARCH STUDENT PRIZE
1st prize: Marta Falcinelli (School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences)
2nd prize: Qiaoyi Wang (School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences)

STAFF PRIZE
1st prize: Jenny Hassall (School of Health Sciences)
2nd prize: Dr Matt Adams (School of Applied Social Science)

PEOPLE’S CHOICE PRIZE
Majed Al-Jefri (School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics)

RESEARCH PHOTO COMPETITION

PEOPLE’S CHOICE PRIZE
1st prize: Daire Cantillon (BSMS)
2nd prize: Lujain Mirza (School of Media)

THREE MINUTE THESIS (3MT) COMPETITION
1st prize (post-transfer) and entrance to the national 3MT semi-final heat: Lujain Mirza (School of Media)
1st prize (pre-transfer): Qiaoyi Wang (School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences)
People’s Choice Prize: Lujain Mirza (School of Media)

OPPOSITES ATTRACT COLLABORATION CHALLENGE
1st prize, in memory of Professor David Arnold: Majed Al-Jefri (School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics), Katie McCallum (School of Humanities) and Kate Monson (School of Applied Social Science). Find out about the winning project here.

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