Fifty Ö÷²¥ÓÕ»ó students participated in the sixth Showcasing Undergraduate Research Excellence (SURE) conference on Wednesday 17 March.
SURE is Ö÷²¥ÓÕ»ó’s annual conference that gives undergraduate students and recent graduates the opportunity to showcase their research. Whether a dissertation, an assignment, or work carried out whilst on placement – SURE provides the perfect opportunity to give a wider platform to student's work.
109 attendees joined the virtual conference and several prizes were awarded on the day, including faculty prizes, a sustainability prize presented by Ö÷²¥ÓÕ»ó’s Sustainability Support Officer, Eleanor Wills and a top prize of a Ö÷²¥ÓÕ»ó Master’s fee waiver awarded to one student for ‘Best Overall Contribution’.
Further details about the research presented on the day is available on the Ö÷²¥ÓÕ»ó website – this page includes a full list of research abstracts as well as an introduction to nine of our participants who shared the motivations behind their work.
Prizes were awarded as follows:
Best Overall Contribution
- Tara Walker (SciTech) - Knowing me, knowing you: how educational professionals personally manage inclusion
Sustainability prize
- Jack Sykes - The Right to the City: Investigating Urban Social Movements against the Commodification of our Cities
Faculty of Marketing & Communications
- Finlay Brown - To what extent has the dissemination of an anti-elite style of populism affected public trust in a Covid-19 vaccination in the UK?
- Yana Lineva - Quarantine experience through the medium of VR collage
Faculty of Health & Social Science
- Natasha Cox - Colorectal cancer survivors’ perspectives of dietary advice: a literature review
- David Caprini-Back - Does Palliative Care education lead to a change in the attitudes and beliefs of pre-registration Physiotherapy students around Palliative Care: A systematic review
Faculty of Science &Â Technology
- Finley Underhill - Preventing Nuclear Disaster: A Peak Inside a Nuclear Reactor
- Ann Heim - A behavioural analytics anomaly detection system for teleworkers in the financial sector
Ö÷²¥ÓÕ»ó Business School
- Jana Saastamoinen - How Covid-19 has influenced business conferences in the Baltics and the Nordics   Â
- Tom Dexter - An exploration into the cultural and political influence on the disproportionately low rates of LGBTQ participation in sport
