2011 Participants

Alexander Sangster

  • BA (Hons) Ancient History & Archaeology
  • The Hellenistic levels at Kilise Tepe in their wider context.

Benjamin Storey, Sean Mongan & Joshua Robinson

  • BSc (Hons) Human Geography
  • Critically examining the socio-economic effects of the 2010 South Africa FIFA World Cup on the Durban beachfront and the townships of Clermont, KwaMashu and Umlazi.

Amanda Dalby

  • BSc (Hons) Human Genetics
  • Next-generation sequencing in families with inherited cardiac arrhythmias.

Alex Smith & Rob Barker

  • Bsc (Hons) Physical Geography
  • Tunbergdalsbreen Expedition, Norway, 5th -25th August 2011

Joe Tuffnel

  • BSc (Hons) Zoology
  • ‘Survival of the bitterest’: Taste-rejection behaviour of praying mantids and the evolution of distasteful toxins in prey.

Daniel Ahlert

  • MBBS
  • Functional Sequelae of Factor 1 Heavy Chain Mutations in Atypical Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome

Raheel Ahmed

  • MBBS
  • Investigation of markers during the differentiation of human corneal epithelial stem cells

Catherine Alexander

  • BA (Hons)English Literature
  • Jane Loraine’s MS Recipe Book (1685): A critical and contextual study and partial electronic edition

Erica Bello

  • MSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences
  • Validation of genetic abnormalities in T-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (T-ALL) detected by Multiplex Ligation-dependent Probe Amplification (MLPA)

Aina Bergum

  • BA (Hons) History
  • The Lost Utopia.

Thomas Birdsall

  • BEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering
  • Learning from failure: a study of explanted metal on metal hip joints

Esther Brewis

  • MChem (Hons) Chemistry
  • Investigating Unusual Behaviour in Thermoresponsive Polymers

Paik Chow

  • MBBS
  • The role of colour and texture in object recognition: does the answer lie in the search?

Emily Cottrell

  • MBBS
  • PIWIL2 modulation in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

Philippa Cowles

  • BSc (Hons) Surveying & Mapping Science
  • An Interpretation of the permanent deformation of the Christchurch earthquake 2011, using GPS monitoring data.

Alexander Docherty

  • BA (Hons) Linguistics
  • Sharing Digital Dialect Data with ‘Silver Surfers’ and the ‘Google Generation’.

James Fleming

  • MChem (Hon) Chemistry
  • Chiral Magnetic Nanoparticles as Recoverable Asymmetric Catalysts.

Helen Gertig

  • MBBS
  • Is neutrophil dysfunction in primary bronchiectasis reversed by GM-CSF?

Nicholas Gibson

  • BA (Hons) History
  • Turncoats and Defections during the English Civil Wars.

Julia Gjerstad

  • MSci Biomedical Sciences
  • Investigation of drug treatments that may reduce the severity of morphine dependence and relapse to drug abuse using intravenous self-administration in the rat.

Helen Gray

  • BSc (Hons) Biology
  • Do essential amino acids in nectar influence honeybee learning and memory?

Jonathan Guckian

  • MBBS
  • What has been the professional and lay media response to the recent Brian Deer articles in the British Medical Journal concerning the Wakefield MMR vaccine affair?

Lisa Hindmarsh

  • BSc (Hons) Zoology
  • An examination of the behavioural effects of Thymol, a plant essential oil used as a miticide in bee hives, on the Honeybee Apis melifera

Simon Hobson

  • BDS
  • The optimisation of orthodontic adhesive regimes to improve patient treatment

Rosanna Jackson

  • BSc (Hons) Pharmacology
  • A model of synaptic transmission in the orbitofrontal cortex- modulation by monoamines

Craig Johnson

  • BA (Hons) Politics
  • A Pluralist or Majoritarian Future? The AV referendum and the Strategic Direction of the Labour Party.

Dominic Jones

  • BSc (Hons) Genetics
  • Examining the Efficacy of Novel Androgen Receptor Modulators in Models of Castrate-Resistant Prostate Cancer

Jayne Kelleher

  • MSci Biomedical Sciences
  • A novel and efficient translational read-through generates a sorting receptor in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Kelvin Leung

  • MBBS
  • A tool for assessing motor planning across the age spectrum: towards understanding the motor difficulties after early brain damage

Wendy Malkin

  • BA (Hons) Archaeology
  • Lost British slave ships 1680-1807: historic newspapers and the location of wreck sites.

Ruwaydah Mamode Ally

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences
  • Vascular development in non-pregnant endometrium

Claire McGahan

  • BSc (Hons) Human Genetics
  • An allele replacement mutagenesis system for chromosomal manipulation in Bacillus subtilis.

Laura McKenzie

  • BA (Hons) Classical Studies & English
  • A Digital Archive and Research Resource on Nineteenth-Century Fairy Tales

Fiona McNally

  • BA (Hons) History
  • Anglo-Saxon Northumbria and the Late-Antique World.

Gavin Montgomery

  • BSc (Hon) Geographic Information Science
  • Metadata management of geospatial data for Earth System Engineering research.

Jessica Moore

  • MBBS
  • Is the prevalence of neural tube defects decreasing: a 25 year register based study

Stephanie Morton

  • MChem (Hon) Chemistry
  • Dies-Alder/Ene Reactions for a Three Component "One Pot" Synthetic Approach to Kinase Inhibitors

Ishaana Munjal

  • MBBS
  • A model of synaptic transmission in the orbitofrontal cortex – transmission by monoamines.

Christopher Pearson

  • BSc (Hons) Surveying & Mapping Science
  • Analysing the changes in water mass balance over various areas of the Himalayas using GRACE data.

James Pickles

  • MChem (Hon) Medicinal Chemistry
  • Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of Nek2 kinase inhibitors as antitumour agents.

Oliver Routledge

  • BA (Hons) History
  • A Man of Contradictions: James Murray, Religion and Secular Democracy in Newcastle 1764-1782.

Alexandra Shippey

  • BSc (Hons) Physiological Sciences
  • Do face-like stimuli enhance how sight and sound interact?

Emma Smith

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences
  • Perfluorinated compounds: a cause for neurodevelopmental concern in humans?

Luke Smith

  • MEng (Hons) Civil Engineering
  • Evaluating a New Computer Model for Urban Flood Modelling- Application to the Carlisle 2005 Event

Rachel Towers

  • MBChB (Glasgow University)
  • Equine Incontinentia Pigmenti.

Sarah Tupper

  • BA (Hons)Geography
  • A new South Africa, a new identity? A critical analysis of the Zulu identity in contemporary South Africa

Anna Vanderpuye

  • BSc (Hons) Pharmacology
  • The inhibition of Doxorubicin metabolism by ACE Inhibitors

Sebastian Vasquez Lopez

  • BSc (Hons) Genetics
  • Changes in mitochondrial respiration and function during induced senescence