WINNERS 2020/21
THEME 1: Understanding and transforming human societies
FIRST PRIZE (£400)
Nicole Minckas, Institute for Global Health
“Mistreatment of women during childbirth as predictor of adverse postnatal outcomes”
RUNNERS UP (£100 each)
Eva Jermutus, IOE Social Research Institute (SRI)
“The Social Construction of Artificial Intelligence (AI): Discourse Analysis of Media Representations of AI in Germany & the UK”
Ludwig Wagner, School of European Languages, Culture and Society (SELCS)
“Queer South African Cinemas: A Critical Analysi”
THEME 2: Advances in technology
Joint FIRST PRIZE (£200 and £210)
Rawen Kader, Division of Surgery and Interventional Sciences
“Computer Aided Diagnosis of Colorectal Polyps Using Artifical Intelligence”
David Sheard, Benjamin Aslan and Daniel Platt (joint entry, shared price – £70 each), Dept of Mathematics
“Machine Learning with Symmetries”
THEME 3: Making our world
FIRST PRIZE (£400)
Fabio Santos, Security & Crime Science
“Mapping the relationship between elements of urban form and density of crime occurrences”
THEME 4: Discovering worlds, improving ours
FIRST PRIZE (£400)
Andy Shu Ho To, Space & Climate Physics
“Solar Coronal Composition During a Solar Flare”
RUNNER UP (£100)
Nicole Watson, Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources
“Transforming the UK energy system: consumer engagement with future energy markets”
THEME 5: Understanding the mind and behaviour
FIRST PRIZE (£400)
Alexis Macintyre, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences (PALS)
“Task-Irrelevant Auditory Rhythms Influence Visual-Motor Sequential Learning”
RUNNERS UP (£100 each)
Annie Morsi, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences (PALS)
“Face perception varies across the visual field”
Ali Alim-Marvasti, Queen Square Institute of Neurology
“Seizure Foci Can be Predicted Using Bayesian Inference on Epileptic Symptoms and Signs”
Oakley Morgan, Division of Biosciences
“Restraint stress exacerbates inflammation-induced facial and hind-limb hypersensitivity”
THEME 6: Frontiers in health and medicine
JOINT FIRST PRIZE (£200 each)
Anand Patel,Chemistry
“Transforming biomedical imaging technologies by understanding the excited-state dynamics of firefly oxyluciferin”
Saif Malik, Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
“Rewiring The Human Sieve - Targeted Glomerular Therapy”
Max Beesley, Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
“Assessing fetal susceptibility to COVID-19 Infection”
THEME 7: Unlocking the secrets of life
FIRST PRIZE (£400)
Phoebe Cunningham, Division of Biosciences
“Novel Support for the Size-Complexity Hypothesis in Epiponine Wasps”
RUNNER UP (£100)
Miroslava Katsur, Institute of Cardiovascular Science
“Purification of exosomes which affect myriad of bodily processes”
