2018 participants

Ausaf Hayat Khan

  • Mpharm Pharmacy
  • A Review of Patient Decisions Aids in Older People to Address Polypharmacy

Cathleen Burton

  • BA (Hons) Archaeology
  • Materialising Witchcraft at the Salem Witch Trials (1692-1693)

Nicholas Sundin, Ben Atkinson, Sarah Edwards & Esther Michel-Spraggett

  • BA (Hons) Geography
  • Attitudes to and effects of international actors in the Cyprus conflict

Cristovao Mario Cacombe

  • MEng (Hons) Electronics Communications
  • Motorised finger for Partial hand amputation

Ann Kathryn Waschko

  • MA Cross-Cultural Communication
  • To investigate and find correlation between the goals and outcomes of all participants in a short-term study abroad program.

Marco Romeo Pitone

  • PhD Archaeology, School of History, Classics and Archaeology/PhD Digital Humanities/ MA Digital Creative Practice and Film Practice
  • Experimental Bronze Age Copper Smelting: a tool for research and outreach

Devaditya Agnihotri

  • BA (Hons) Politics
  • Gender, the military and the media in India: gendered framings of the first woman fighter pilot

Nishaal Ajmera

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences
  • Vulnerability of interneuron populations in the cerebral cortex of a mouse model of Lewy Body Dementia

Akinola Akindele

  • MPpharm Pharmacy
  • The development of potential allosteric inhibitors for HIV-1 integrase

Cezar Nicolae Barbu

  • BSc (Hons) Physiological Sciences
  • Targeting the non-canonical NF-B pathway in glioblastoma

Zoe Bell

  • MPhys Physics
  • Examining the role of exosomes in the spread of bone cancer

Farzaan Bhandari

  • MBBS
  • Development and evaluation of an anatomy education MOOC in observational drawing

Emily Birch

  • BA (Hons) Architecture
  • Active Origami

Phumrapee Boonklang

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences
  • The Role of Sphingosine-1-Phosphate in Endothelial Integrity

Rebecca Brabin

  • BSc H Chemistry w Medicinal Chemistry
  • Towards enzymatic production of conducting polymer-DNA hybrid nanowires

Louise Bulman

  • BSc (Hons) Speech and Language Sciences
  • Using longitudinal data to evaluate the feasibility of a minimal dataset for diagnosing speech sound disorder in children age 3-6 years

Abbie Carr

  • MChem Chemistry with Medicinal Chemistry
  • Development of a New “Advanced Medicinal Chemistry” Laboratory Course for Stage 3 Undergraduate Students

Emma Carter

  • MBiol Biology
  • The physiology of epithelial sodium ion channels

Alexandra Charlton, Rachel Potter & Hannah Marmaro

  • BA (Hons) English Literature and History
  • LGBT History of Newcastle

Chee Chzi Ching

  • MBBS (NUMed Malaysia)
  • Reviewing the evidence base for ‘total communication’ therapies for people with aphasia.

Chui Leng Cho

  • MBBS (NUMed Malaysia)
  • The Requirement for Primary Cilia in Heart Development: Cre-Lox Based Analysis of Cardiac Progenitor Lineages

Daniel Cockling

  • BA (Hons) Archaeology
  • The Seat of Power: An investigation of thrones.

John Cornilious

  • BSc Biomedical Sciences (NUMed 2 +1)
  • Comparing the virulence of S. aureus Mu50Ω1 and Mu50Ω2 in a C. elegans model

Imogen Creswell

  • MPhys Physics
  • Stellar models for hydrodynamic simulations

Madeleine Cromack

  • BA Hons Archaeology
  • The Fall of Little Germany: The Effect of The First World War on German Communities in Bradford

Nathan Davidson

  • MChem (Hons) Chemistry
  • Effect of a Rigid Backbone on the Stability and Reactivity of Main Group Carbene Analogues

Adam Duxfield

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences
  • The role of p52/p100 NF-κB2 Serine 222 phosphorylation in senescence and cancer

Helen Ette

  • BA (Hons) History
  • Gender and the Development Agenda: female agency and overseas development in Britain, 1964-2018.

Muaz Bin Ezhar

  • MBBS (NUMed Malaysia)
  • Effect of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on dual task walking and cortical activity: A feasibility study

Libby Finnigan

  • Bsc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences
  • Is the loss of normal astroglial function implicated in cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease?

Louis Francis & Team

  • PhD Film by Practice
  • Small Spaces documentary project

Caitlin Gadsby

  • BSc Hons Biology
  • Characterisation of a novel bacteria in the genus Streptomyces

Adam Gardner

  • Mpharm Pharmacy
  • The identification and synthesis of novel allosteric integrase inhibitors

India Gerritsen

  • BA Combined Honours
  • Abolitionist Sentiment in the North East:

Hannah Grice

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Genetics
  • Investigation of epigenetic regulation of PM20D1 in susceptibility to neuroblastoma

Timothy Hajda

  • BSc (Hons) Surveying and Mapping Science
  • Assessment of habitat associations of threatened upland wading birds using remote sensing and GIS.

Kiera Hardy

  • MBBS
  • Retrospective study into T1 (early stage) rectal cancer treatments and associated oncological outcomes.

Ciara Henderson

  • BA Hons Politics
  • The Role of Non-Profit Organizations in Bridging Ethnic Divides Through Integrated Education: Northern Ireland

Thomas Hoather

  • MBBS
  • Fits and Reduced Conciousness with “Not-So-Legal Highs”

Francis Howe

  • BA Hons Ancient History and Archaeology
  • The functionality of weaponry: a comparison between Tongva Indians from the west coast of North America and the Mayan peoples of the Yucatan Peninsula, Southern Mexico.

Joshua Howlett, Lois Lorenzo Holland Bonnett, Thomas Croom & Cooper Saint Robson

  • BA (Hons) History/BA Combined Honours/BSc (Hons) Mathematics
  • An interdisciplinary project on the study of the effects of disease and maltreatment on the American peoples after the arrival of Europeans to the Americas after 1492 running to the year 1800

Tara Hunter

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences
  • Investigating the localisation of clinical uropathogenic Escherichia coli strains to the tight junctions of bladder cells.

Shahdab Jahan

  • BSc (Hons) Physiological Sciences
  • The effects of flavoured electronic cigarette liquid on calcium signalling and ion transport function of airway epithelial cells.

Eloise James

  • MBBS
  • Genome dynamics and phylogenetic tracking in paired diagnostic and relapsed neuroblastomas

Dan Jobson

  • Bsc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences
  • Biochemical and structural characterisation of CDK1/2-RingoA complexes and its possible role in cancer

Marima Kauser

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences
  • Neuropathology in Dementia with Lewy Bodies

Megan Keates

  • BA Hons Ancient History & Archaeology
  • Discovering Hampton Gay: the landscape of a ruined manor house.

Penelope Kempson

  • BA Hons Music
  • Birds in English Folk Music

Jerry Tan Hai Kok

  • MBBS (NUMed Malaysia)
  • How does the Praying Mantis detect Motion in Depth?

Gokul Krishnan

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Genetics with Professional Placement Year
  • High-Throughput Generation and Temperature Sensitivity Assessment of Yeast Mutant Libraries

Craig Lacey

  • MChem (Hons) Chemistry
  • Experimental analysis of N-heterocycles: Imidazoles

Ryan Lamb

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences
  • Investigating vascular endothelial cell activation during ex-vivo organ perfusion

Edward Land

  • MEng Marine Technology with honours in Marine Engineering
  • An experimental study of oscillating fins as bioinspired propulsors for Marine Vehicles

Mohammed Latif

  • MEng (Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Closed Loop Implantable Sensor System

Zena Latt

  • Mpharm Pharmacy
  • The Identification and Synthesis of Novel Allosteric Integrase Inhibitors

Francesca Lawson

  • Mpharm Pharmacy
  • The identification and synthesis of novel allosteric integrase inhibitors

Phyllis Leung

  • BSc (Hons) Psychology with Professional Placement
  • Support for Teaching Assistants – What Needs to Change?

Willhelmina Lucinescu

  • Msci Biomedical Sciences
  • The impact of patient mutations in Na/phosphate cotransporters to function and trafficking of the protein

Jennifer Lumley

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences
  • Profiling notch ligand expression in human tissues

Hou Mak

  • MBBS (NUMed Malaysia)
  • The Requirement for Primary Cilia in Heart Development: Cre-Lox Based Analysis of Cardiac Progenitor Lineages.

Sher Min Mak

  • Bsc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences (NUMed 2 +1)
  • Screening, isolation and identification of antibiotic-resistant coliform bacteria from suburban river water

Prothoma Masudur

  • Mpharm Pharmacy
  • A qualitative study exploring community pharmacists’ experiences of interventions that support quality medication use

Eleanor Mawson

  • BSc Psychology (Hons) with a Professional Placement
  • Helicopter parenting: Creating a validated scale to assess the relationship between protective parenting and academic resilience

Hannah Mearns

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences with an Industrial Placement Year
  • Is the 5’UTR of HIF1α mRNA important for HIF1α regulation?

Sarah Mearns

  • Telomere length inheritance
  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences with Professional Placement

Kwong (Chloe) Sou Meng

  • BA (Hons) Combined Honours
  • Malaysian English Syntax- Particles

Katherine Miles

  • BA (Hons) Linguistics
  • A Heritage Language Hub for Low-educated Adult Immigrants’ Home Languages

Rosa Mitchelmore

  • MBBS
  • Effect of influenza and treatment of influenza on morbidity and mortality of COPD admissions

Yue Ling Moo

  • MBBS (NUMed Malaysia)
  • Use of precision cut liver slices to delineate early fibrotic events in NAFLD

Catherine Morrison

  • BSc Speech and Language Sciences
  • Evaluating the use of a web-based assessment of reading for people with aphasia.

Oliver Mumford

  • BA (Hons) History
  • “What it is good for?” The Role of the University in Society; Stellenbosch and Newcastle

Sam Murray

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences
  • In vitro models of Complement dysregulation.

Liam Myers

  • BA (Hons) English Literature
  • Evolution of a Poet: Reading and Interpreting Wordsworth’s Manuscripts

David Olowookere

  • Mpharm Pharmacy
  • The identification and synthesis of novel allosteric integrase inhibitors

Joohyun Park

  • Bachelor of Laws
  • The Political and Legal Impacts of Brexit

Aidan McCall & Zameer Parvez

  • MMath Mathematics/MComp (Hons) Comp Sci W Industrial Placement
  • Adaptive testing as a tool for diagnosing mathematical proficiency

Jasmine Pearson

  • Msci Biomedical Sciences
  • Analysis of functional connectivity in human brains, comparing patients with varying degrees of major depression to healthy controls

Stephen Platts

  • MBBS
  • Management of Methicillin Sensitive Staphylococcus Aureus bacteraemia in Newcastle Trust Hospitals.

Daisy Pope

  • BA History & Archaeology
  • Remembering the Haitian Revolution today

Sannah Quarban

  • BSc Speech and Language Sciences
  • Does hearing a word affect word retrieval and production?

Sheikh Tousif Rahman

  • MEng (Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering with Industrial Project
  • How Well Can Low-Power Embedded GPUs Handle Large Non-Graphical Tasks?

Melissa Raine

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences
  • Ex vivo exploration of host-microbial interactions in gastrointestinal health and disease: Isolation and banking of microbial isolates from preterm infants

Reham Sedeeq

  • Mpharm Pharmacy
  • A Time and Motion Study to assess the impact of a novel medication administration scanning device on nursing efficiency

Elliot Sexton

  • MBBS
  • Testing the validity of the QRSVm parameter for predicting ventricular arrhythmic events in patients with Tetralogy of Fallot

Low Li Shan

  • MBBS (NUMed Malaysia)
  • Investigating the Potential Genotoxic Effects of Ionising Radiation in BRCA1 Heterozygous Mutant Cells

Mohammed Naeem Sheikh

  • BDS Dentistry
  • The effect of non-ideal illumination on the properties of new dental composite based filling materials

Ivan Shmarov

  • BSc (Hons) Physics
  • Discerning the origin of the abnormally high efficiency in Perovskite solar cells

Liang-How Sie

  • Batchelor of Laws
  • Examining epigenetics research findings presented in the public sphere through the media

Nannapat Siraboriphantakul

  • BDS Dentistry
  • The Role of Voltage-gated Potassium Channels (Kv7) and Ca2+ sensing receptors in Persistent Orofacial Pain

Wei Yan Soh

  • MBBS (NUMed Malaysia)
  • Does Low Dietary Phosphate Cause Kyphosis?

Sean Nicholas Sutiono

  • BA (Hons) Accounting and Finance
  • The Evolution of Finance from the 20th Century to the 21st Century

Josie Swan

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences
  • Urinary fluoride excretion for monitoring fluoride exposure in humans: a systematic scoping review

Anthony Sweeting

  • Theoretical Physics
  • Relativistic corrections to Schrödinger's equation based on the Zeroth Order Regular Approximation

Isabel Sykes

  • BA Hons English Literature and History
  • Women’s industrial work during the nineteenth century and its impact on working-class female identity in Northern towns and cities

Tam Yun Tak

  • BA Hons Architecture
  • Self-Sufficiency and New Sustainable Paradigms: Autonomous Alpine Huts of the European Alps

Jia Xin Tang

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences (NUmed 2+ 1)
  • Assessment of Antimicrobial Property of Hedyotis diffusa (White flower snake tongue grass) Extracts

Thomas Wei Han Tay

  • MBBS (NUMed Malaysia)
  • Reticular activation for Stroke Recovery: Plasticity of Rapid Visual Reactions

Monalisa Thamed

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences
  • Can early hyperphosphorylated tau depositions in mixed Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body disease give insights into disease progression?

Hannes Ingo Torbohm

  • BA (Hons) Philosophy
  • Towards a Nihilistic Framework in Monetary Theory

Emily Toulson

  • BSc (Hons) Biochemistry
  • The role of Bcl-3 as a ‘master’ regulator of T-cell function in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis

Jessica Watson

  • MSci (Hons) Biomedical Sciences
  • Therapeutic targeting of androgen receptor variants in prostate cancer

Jess Weisser

  • BA (Hons) English Literature
  • Gendering the Pregnant Male in Fan-Fiction Communities

Lucy Willis

  • BA Hons Politics and Sociology
  • Hate Crimes in the North East

Ellen Wiltshire

  • BA History and Archaeology
  • Commemorating the Dead in Early Modern Newcastle