Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
Lead for Department of Biological and Medical Sciences and Department of Psychology, Health and Professional Development: Dr Adam Lonsdale, alonsdale@brookes.ac.uk
Here are some of the ways students in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences can share and publish their research.
Presenting at the British Psychological Society conferences
In 2014 the psychology demonstrators (Wakefield Morys-Carter, Emma Davies and Aspa Paltoglou) were awarded an Oxford Brookes teaching fellowship (which included funding for a two-year project on Vertical Enhancement of Statistics and Psychology Research). One of the main outcomes of this project was to increase the number of Oxford Brookes students presenting posters and papers at external conferences, and the department has continued to support this activity beyond the end of the project. Since 2015 a total of 27 psychology undergraduate students have presented posters at the British Psychological Society general conference in May. Undergraduates have also presented papers as well as posters at the British Psychological Society regional section conference in September, often based on their second year group research projects. Wakefield Morys-Carter emails the relevant cohorts and supports students who would like to present.
Here are just a few of the Health and Life Sciences students who have presented their research at conferences through this project while studying at Oxford Brookes.
Copy of - Natalie Barcena.pdfNatalie Barcena studied in the Faulty of Health and Life Sciences. She presented her research 'Sex Trafficking: Female Survivor Needs & Implications for Social Work' at the GetPublished! Oxford Brookes University poster conference 2017 and won the prize for Best Postgraduate Taught Poster.
Copy of Kate Summerton Posterks.pdfKathryn Summerton studies in the Department of Nursing. She presented her research 'The experiences of siblings of hospitalised children: an integrative literature review' at the GetPublished! Oxford Brookes University poster conference 2019 and won the prize for 'Highly Commended' Undergraduate Poster.
Evie Day - GP poster presentation.pdf
Evie Day studied Psychology. Her poster presenting research on the the psychological benefits of choral singing won a 'Highly Commended' prize at the 2017 conference.
Students in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences have presented their research at national multidisciplinary conferences too:
Posters in Parliament:
Nabeela Talib (2017) - Asylum Seekers in Immigration Detention: Implications for Social Work
British Conference for Undergraduate Research:
Almothana Altamimi (2019) - Development of an animation to alleviate patient anxiety before endoscopic treatment
Beth Santry (2019) - The nutritional value of UK commercial ready meals
Francis Hughes (2018) - Message in a cellular bubble: Tracking genetic material - Testing the localisation of miR-21 in extracellular vesicles
Daniel Underwood (2018) - A secondary data analysis of respiratory data from a patient cohort with Parkinson's Disease
Sachin Amonker (2017) - Comparison of interferon gamma production using different promoter and signal peptides in baculovirus expressions system
Students in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences have also successfully co-published journal articles with staff. Here are just a few examples:
Amber Clark published the findings of a research project that was originally undertaken as part of a second-year research methods module.
The project investigated the links between people's self-esteem and their music preferences, while also taking into account factors that are likely to moderate these links (i.e., age, gender, and personality).
The article ("Music preference, social identity, and collective self-esteem") was published in 2022 in the Psychology of Music.
Please follow this link to read the open access article.
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Former Oxford Brookes student Evie Day, who won a 'Highly Commended' prize at the 2018 GP! conference (see above), has co-published research with her ex-supervisor Dr Adam Lonsdale.
The article ("Are the psychological benefits of choral singing unique to choirs? A comparison of six activity groups") was published in 2021 in the Psychology of Music .
Please follow this link to read the open access article.
Image by wayhomestudio from Freepik
17 undergraduate students published research on mosquito DNA with Dr. Andrew Jones in the Journal of Medical Entomology.
The study involved the DNA sequencing of mosquitoes in Laos, which spread malaria, dengue, chikungunya and the Zika virus, resulting in invaluable new insights into insecticide resistance in these disease carriers.
The 2020 article is titled 'Malaria and Dengue Mosquito Vectors from Lao PDR Show a Lack of the rdl Mutant Allele Responsible for Cyclodiene Insecticide Resistance' and can be found here.
The students are: Zuhal Rahmani, Penelope J Saverton, Omobolanle H Abdullateef, Jordan Forward, Anna E Jacob, Safina Khadam, Wlaa Ali, Chloé Boer, Hayato Kakinuma, Joseph Hawkins, Rosie Longstreeth, Natalie M Portwood, Madeleine Smee, Natasha Brown, Nursu C Kuyucu, Susannah Lechmere and Gabriela Stieger.
In 2016, Nick Stewart co-published research from his Masters dissertation project with his supervisor Dr Adam Lonsdale.
The article is on the psychological benefits of choral singing and became the most-cited article in the journal for several years.
The article can be found here.
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