The Student Research Launch Pad project awards several prizes each year to encourage, celebrate and reward excellent student work.
Empowering nursing students: giving voice to the next generation
Emily Palmer
Applying the prototype willingness model to predict binge-drinking and investigate the influence of gain, loss, and combined message-framing
Liberty Griffin
The expression of the antimicrobial peptide RLK-SMP24 in Nicotiana benthamiana and its localisation to the plasma membrane to prevent tomato blight
Dan Jackson
The architectural strive to rejuvenate the Angolan urban fabric
Adalgisa Cassuende
Lobster estates
Alfie Gurtler
Effects of Serretations on a Wing
Arish Syed
An investigation into the gender imbalance in Formula One: identifying the barriers that impede women from entering the industry
Racheal Wilson
Applying machine learning tools to detect cyber attacks in financial firms and banks
Md Aminul Islam
Drinking and mental health in middle adulthood: exploring the impact of wellbeing, mental health literacy and drinking motives on drinking risk level.
Angela Creery
Blame the parents for my toxic relationship: An exploration of attachment and dyadic trust within romantic relationships
Eve Brassington
Has the pandemic affected consumers' motivation and consumption habits towards second-hand clothing resale platforms?
Martha Power
Do conservative British tabloids portray Ukrainian refugees more positively than Syrian refugees?
Rosanna Mills
The perception of plywood planes
Jim Hubbard
Occupational therapy and mental imagery for suicide prevention
Jennifer Hayes
Assessing the impact of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods in Oxford
Jacob Grant
Contextual factors affecting access to sustainable finance by female owned micro, small, and medium scale enterprises: A case of shea butter producers in Niger State, Nigera
Indira Usman
The Impact of Fintech on Financial Development in Nigeria between years 2002 – 2021
Yinka George
The effectiveness of providing prehospital care training to prehospital care providers in reducing mortality and morbidity outcomes of trauma victims
Amali Nawarathna
A substantive judging team comprising academics and students from a range of disciplines from across the university chose the winners based on the quality of the work and presentation design and delivery.
The judges were:
Patrick Alexander, Reader in Education, HSS
Mary Wild, Professor of Child Development and Education, HSS
Nicole Pohl, Professor in Early Modern Literature and Critical Theory, HSS
Jeremy Macclancy, Professor of Anthropology, HSS
Chara Bakalis, Reader in Law, HSS
Sarah Quinton Professor of Digital Society, ADRKE, OBBS
Husni Kharouf, Reader in Marketing , OBBS
Kat Kwok, Researcher, OCAED
Elizabeth Mullenger, Student partnership, OCAED
Rebecca Jones - Research Engagement Officer , HLS
Daniel Bell, Senior Lecturer in Engineering, TDE
Olga Barrera, Reader in Mechanical Engineering, TDE
Dave Valler, Professor of Spatial Planning, TDE
Sangeetha Thondre, Research Lead for Oxford Brookes Centre for Nutrition and Health, HLS
Sakhile Masuku, Senior Lecturer in Management and Professional Development in Health and Social Care, HLS
The influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on the language learning environment, and the importance of taking age into account
Francesca Surman
Home and belonging in three works of historical fiction by contemporary Middle Eastern authors
Gul Imaan Ali
Monkeys of TikTok
Hannah Giammarco
What are the experiences of children’s nursing students caring for children with learning disabilities in a hospital setting?
Caitlin Skene
Social media use and self-control
Julia Synowiec & Nanami Tanaka
Plastic Pollution and Human-Primate Interactions – a Lose-Lose Situation
Evelyn Anca
Media Coverage and the Uptake of the COVID-19 Vaccine /Differences in likelihood of clinical diagnosis for depression between males and females in a given scenario
Lauren Cann/Oliver Knight
Are the daily diets for children (2-5yrs) suggested by social media influencers meeting dietary guidelines for the specific age group and how any inadequacies could affect the child's health/growth
Meghna Mundkur
Health Apps and Diet Fads: How Diet Culture’s Digital Environment Facilitates Eating Disorders
Ebony knowles
Intergenerational identities among black and mixed-race women: understanding the role of hair in navigating racial politics
Meriel Colenutt
Exploring the Influence of Attachment Styles on Close Relationship Memories
Sarah Andrews
Zookeepers' perceptions of the impact of COVID-19 on primate behaviour and welfare in zoos
Jasmine Gandy
Konner Holzwart
Identifying mechanisms of Behaviour Change Techniques based breastfeeding support in UK mothers: A quasi-systematic review
Prafulla Chandravadiya
Food Banks: An Insight into Food Insecurity and the Accessibility of a Healthy Diet
Olivia Johns
Young and Understudied: Psychological Wellbeing in Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer
Ishmeet Kaur
A small judging team comprising academics and students from a range of disciplines from across the university chose the winners based on the quality of the work and presentation design and delivery.
The reality of refuge: How can we adopt a more humane response to a humanitarian crisis?
Ava Pevsner, BA Architecture, Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment
Exploring cognitive linguistic processes through cloze probability tasks
Eleanor Budenberg, BSc Psychology, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
Communication and leadership practices in Enterprise Risk Management
Thomas Wolter, MBA, Oxford Brookes Business School
How can comics be used to support young people's meaning-making with museum collections?
Irina Richards, MA Education (Artist Teacher Practice), Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
To what extent are safe distancing guidelines for viewing orangutans adhered to by tourists in Bukit Lawang, Indonesia?
Amy Woolloff, MSc Primate Conservation, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
The suitability of the upstream Gala Water for Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) spawning
Edward Eyre, BSc Geography, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Exploring cognitive linguistic processes through cloze probability tasks
Eleanor Budenberg, BSc Psychology, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
Community participation in slum upgrading projects. A case of Nairobi slums
Diana Muthiani, BA Urban Design, Planning and Development, Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment
The reality of refuge: How can we adopt a more humane response to a humanitarian crisis?
Ava Pevsner, BA Architecture, Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment
Communication and leadership practices in Enterprise Risk Management
Thomas Wolter, MBA, Oxford Brookes Business School
Gamification of Information Delivery
Sunny Goswami, MSc Digital Media Production, Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment
UK consumers’ perception of facial recognition technology application for in-store marketing
Ghita El Haitmy, MSc Digital Marketing, Oxford Brookes Business School
A small judging team chose the winners based on the quality of the work and the quality of the poster design and presentation design and delivery.
The 2020 GetPublished! Conference couldn’t run in person, but that didn’t stop our students! Many Brookes students submitted and published fantastic posters on a wide range of impressive research project topics through the GetPublished! collection, part of the Student Research online collection on RADAR.
Undergraduate
Rhiannon Woodford, joint prize-winner for best poster: Vienna: An Urban Planning Pioneer (BA Architecture)
Charlotte Cox, joint prize-winner for best poster: Oxford City: Closer to Net Zero Carbon Transport (BA Urban Design, Planning and Development)
Joachim Toftegaard Hansen, highly commended poster: Wind farms of the future (BEng)
Postgraduate taught:
Helen Burton, prize-winner for best poster: The diet of a small carnivore in a recovering semi-arid landscape (MSc Conservation Ecology)
Melinda Mcpherson, highly commended poster: Service evaluation: Factors associated with missed or delayed diagnosis of major trauma in older people at a UK level 1 trauma centre (MSc Advanced Practice Clinical)
Sally Gunnett, highly commended poster: How do I use my domestic space as an art studio? (MA Education Artist Teacher Practice)
£100 voucher - Best Undergraduate Student Journal Article*
£100 voucher - Best Postgraduate (taught) Journal Article*
To apply, email studentresearchlaunchpad@brookes.ac.uk by 31/05/2021 with details including your name, student number, and which category of prize you are applying for, plus proof of your article having been accepted by your chosen journal (e.g. a screenshot of the acceptance email), and attach a copy of your article.
*The article must be based on undergraduate or postgraduate (taught) work to qualify (though you may have actually submitted it for publication after graduation). The article must have been accepted at some point between 01/07/2020 and 31/05/2021. The article may have been accepted subject to revisions. The article does not need to have been published by 31/05/2021 to qualify - as long as it has been accepted by this date, it is eligible.
Check out our list of journals that publish undergraduate work.
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