This year’s Celebrating Research Scholarships and Expeditions event will take place on Wednesday 27th November 2024. 

There was significant interest in both schemes, with participation from students across all three faculties. Research projects were wide-ranging and included topics such as witchcraft and domestic treason; the role of algae in the Lake District aquatic ecosystems; air pollution and brain health and the prevention of pressure ulcers in susceptible patients. Three expeditions also saw a number of students travel to Bhutan, Greenland and Canada.  

Starting at 3:30pm, a poster display in the Lindisfarne Room, Hadrian Building, will showcase student research and expedition achievements, offering an opportunity to speak to the students involved.   

At 5:00pm in the Alec Campbell Lecture Theatre, BEDB.G.04.LT1 (Entrance 3) selected students will present their research and expeditions discussing their aims, methodologies and findings.   

27th November 2024 

*Student presentations:

1. Research Scholarship FMS

Investigation of the association between blood pressure medication use during life and dementia pathology in the brain after death.

Muzuki Ueda

2. Expedition HASS

Investigating the impacts of climate change on Russell Glacier and its surrounding landscape, Greenland Expedition 2024.

Joseph Thomas, Joseph McGrattan, Madeleine Graham, Isaac Benfield, Holly Muntus, Catherine Clarke

3. Research Scholarship HASS

“Let her be burnt to ashes”: Witchcraft and Domestic Treason in the Trial and Execution of Mary Lakeland.

Bek King Lamb

4. Expedition SAgE

A Newcastle University expedition into the heart of British Columbia to explore biodiversity and species distribution.

Henry Robinson, Kiera Scanlan, Jack Wakenshaw, Joshua Drake

5. Research Scholarship SAgE

Review on the Sustainability of Producing Nanomaterials.

Mayibongwe Adonis Jamela Sibanda

6. Expedition HASS

Reconstructing past glacier extent throughout Lunana, Bhutan.

Niamh Hope