Research and leadership projects
The Laidlaw Leadership and Research Programme provides a unique opportunity for Scholars to develop research and leadership skills. After completing two summer projects (focused on research and leadership, respectively), Scholars are encouraged to share their results with the wider public. All Scholars produce a poster of their research project and a video of their leadership-in-action experience, amongst other outputs.
A list of past research projects may be viewed below, with examples of the other fantastic work created by St Andrews Laidlaw Scholars collated on the main Laidlaw Scholar Network. Research posters and leadership-in-action videos created by recent St Andrews Laidlaw Scholars may also be viewed at the Scholar Project Showcases linked below.
Scholarship projects arranged by year
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Student Project Title Supervisor Ayam Babu Applying Machine Learning to Pharmacology Dr John B. O. Mitchell Millie Barker The hidden environmental cost of digital activity in museums and heritage institutions Dr Nicole Meehan Lachlan Carroll Navigating the Self in the Algorithmic Mirror: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Personal Identity Dr Alexander Douglas Allyson Chai Resilience through Flavours: How culinary practices aid the Edinburgh Chinese/Hong Kong Diaspora in navigating mental wellbeing Dr Bridget Bradley Sophie Cooper Ostalgie and Ostpolitik: Exploring Germany's Complicated 'Special Relationship' to Russia Dr Stavroula Pipyrou Cameron Coutts The Role of Russian Emigres in Anglo-Russian relations in late Victorian Britain Frances Nethercott Maya DaSilva A Material History of Esperanto: A planned language and its objects Dr Bernhard Struck Oliver Dann How is global fragmentation affecting the Serbia-Kosovo dispute? Dr Mateja Peter Elena Diaz Understanding the Transgenerational Neurogenetic Effects of Maternal Opioid Use Dr. Elizabeth Byrnes Andrew Edginton Reconstructing the History of Volcanic Forcing of Climate from Polar Ice Cores Dr Andrea Burke Celia Irving Esperanto and the performing arts: the use of performance in enriching a language community Dr Bernhard Struck Jingxuan Jin The gaokao culture and its implications in Chinese society Dr Juan Coderch Thenujaya Kaluarachichige Dynamics of subsurface oceans in icy satellites of Jupiter and Saturn Dr Daphne Lemasquerier Nicola Mayer How does ocean acidification affect the coral reef building process? Dr Nicola Allison John McNealy A Study on the Unique Treatment and Status of Praying Indians in Massachusetts Bay Colony leading up to and during King Philip's War Dr Andrew Edwards Stella McVey Fridtjof Nansen: Polar explorer, St Andrews Rector, and Artist. An investigation of Nansen's artworks and related materials in the University's collections. Dr Shona Kallestrup Rose Overton Exploring Adverse Childhood Experiences and the likelihood of developing early-onset dementia Prof. Peter Donnelly Alice Pigelet Almanacs and Calendars as Family Enterprise in the 1600s and 1700s Isobel Falconer Alexander Richardson Design of computer-generated holograms for augmented reality applications Prof. Andrea di Falco Gitika Sanjay Queer Lives of Asia: The Histories of South and East Asian LGBTQ+ Communities Dr Elise Watson Hugues Sayer Microbial Life on Ancient Earth Dr Joanne Boden Aleksandra Tracichleb The impact of environmental enrichment on expression of mitochondrial fission and fusion proteins in rats Dr Gayle H Doherty Finlay Whitton Developing a more inclusive high-school peer mentoring system Paula Miles Gabriel Wigny Climate Finance: how to fix the hurdles that prevent funds from reaching net-zero housing projects in Scotland? Dr Sean Field Noor Zohdy A True Gothic: The tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte Dr Katie Garner -
Student Project Title Supervisor Lily Bates Does differential mRNA expression predict better protein-mRNA correlation: A meta-analysis Dr V Anne Smith Kas Bernays Evaluating Holism and Otherness in Philosophical Approaches to the Ecological Crisis Dr Benjamin Sachs-Cobbe Amar Bhandal How does ethnicity shape South Africans’ recollections of their country’s past? Dr Kristen Harkness Carlota Bloch Varela The Diversity and Evolution of Micro-organisms in Hydrothermal Vents Dr Joanne Boden Lina Chi The impacts of redirecting attentional focus on piano performance – a performance anxiety intervention Dr Ines Jentzsch Yoshino Homma Retelling Medieval Tales: Storytelling and the Global Middle Ages Dr Victoria Turner Aloka Jayasinghe Comparative evaluation of two different instructive formats on understanding of Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI) amongst mainstream teachers: Video simulation versus orthodox test, including establishing prevalence of knowledge of CVI Ms Helen St Clair Tracy Shengyuan Ji A Crossroads for Three Generations: Life trajectories and national identity construction in Mae Salong Dr Huon Wardle Jolie Lay The Governmental Limitations of Entrepreneurial Women: India Vs. United States Dr Shruti Narayanswamy Joanna Magnuson The function and role of CAZymes within the human intestinal microbiome, and implications in human health and disease Dr Tracey Gloster Noura Mahmoud The Children of Enslavement: historical legacy and lived experiences of children in trans-Atlantic slavery Dr Andrew Edwards Otilia Meden Self-care in peace education Dr Alice König Ami Melville Rhetorical Metamorphosis: The Evolution of Figurative Dr John Gallagher Nuri Morad Investigating many-body localisation in clean and disordered systems for quantum information processing. Dr Chris Hooley Rosa Morgan-Young Conflicts of interest and hormone replacement therapy Dr Margaret McCartney Callum Murrison Mapping a star-forming region in 3D with Gaia astrometric data Dr Paula Stella Teixeira Chico Paulics Bresler Thermo-optic tunable metasurfaces Dr Sebastian Schulz Elena Rico Hernando The effect of alpha-synuclein aggregates on astrocyte calcium signaling in neurodegeneration. Dr Juan Alberto Varela Oliver Righton Development of Photovoltaic Cells as Educational Material on Sustainability and Green Energy Dr Renald Schaub Heather Robinson Natural Behaviour and Interspecific Interactions of Whale Species in Southern Iceland Prof Patrick Miller Lucy Robinson Proteomic and Functional Analysis of Neurochondrin: A Potential Therapeutic Target for Spinal Muscular Atrophy and Other Motor Neuron Diseases. Dr Judith Sleeman Camille Ryder Measuring the musical and social impacts of StAMP Ms Ellen Thomson Victoria Schroeder-Finckh Lead Optimisation of Pan-Trypanosomatid Inhibitors Inspired by Nature Dr Gordon Florence Finn Smyth Devolution and the Decline of the Scottish Left Dr Malcolm Petrie Zachary Vincent Rethinking Heritage: studying resilient pasts and presents in times of crisis Dr Bruno Brulon Soares -
Student Project Title Supervisor Sam Allen Tailoring the Flexible Zeolite Molecular Sieve Merlinoite for Carbon Capture Prof Paul Anthony Wright Alexander Becket The viability of novel identities in response to separatist tensions: A comparison of French Algeria and Northern Ireland Dr Gavin Bowd Joel Beckles Modelling Room Temperature Bose-Einstein Condensation Dr Jonathan Keeling Sofie Brøgger Jensen The Potential of Adopting a Holistic Design Approach to ‘Meadows in the Making’ in St Andrews, Fife Dr Rehema White Cyrus Chu The role of sleep and technology use as moderators in the relationship between interpersonal stress and mental health among university students Dr Barbara Dritschel Luis Cunha Gil A new pathway for cancer-drug related cardiac toxicity Dr Samantha Pitt Lia Da Giau Circularity in the fashion industry: assessing the potential of sustainable textile recycling Dr Patrick O’Hare Leo Doherty Interpreting James Gregory, mathematician and astronomer Dr Isobel Falconer Nicole Entin Alfred Tennyson’s Idylls of the King and other Poems Illustrated by Julia Margaret Cameron: challenges to gender roles and tradition in the formation of Victorian artistic and literary legacies. Dr Luke Gartlan Mana Gana No slacking off: solutions to free-riding in Rotary Clubs Dr Ian Smith Sarah Gough How do School Curricula and Children’s Books Shape Young People’s Habits of Visualising War and Peace? Dr Alice König Mateo Guzmán Subiría The impact of the Dzhanibekov effect on the global magnetic field Dr Irena Leonhardt Chloe-Anna Hunt Mens sana in corpore sano Dr Gayle Doherty Nikko Juengsophonvitavas Identifying active galactic nuclei for the SPHEREx space mission. Dr Juan Hernández Santisteban Eli King Accelerating biodegradation of waste plastics: enzymatic mechanisms for breaking polymer chains Prof Rebecca Goss Karis Lonie Reforestation: how effective is it as a nature-based solution for climate change mitigation? Prof William Austin Zoe Lynn Britain’s Oldest Rocks Revisited- Zircon Textures in the NW Highlands. Dr Sebastian Fischer Campbell MacPherson How do Scottish expatriates and diasporic populations negotiate their Scottish and non-Scottish identities overseas, and in what ways does their Scottish identity shape their experience living abroad? Mr Stephen Gethins Matin Moors How does popular animated shows, anime, manga and comics influence young people’s habits of visualising war and peace? Dr Alice König Lola Mors A new age for old rocks – Dating the Iona gneisses and exploring their link to Britain’s ancient crust Dr Sebastian Fischer Charles Norman Regional Identities in Nation-branding and Nation-building in Kyrgyzstan. Dr Filippo Costa Buranelli Sarah Routley Epistemic injustice in cases of sexual assault and the implications for university and legal policy Dr Jade Fletcher Lou Selfridge Affa Queer: LGBTQ Poets’ Use of the Scots Language Dr Peter Mackay Radhe Shantha Kumar How should children with Bell’s Palsy be treated? Prof Frank Sullivan Elisabeth Xia Queerness and Gender in Chinese-German Diaspora – Intersections of Migration, Ethnicity, Sexuality and Gender Identity Prof Derek Duncan -
Student Project Title Supervisor Robyn Adams Determining the effectiveness of different health promotion approaches in child portion size decisions Dr Joanne Cecil Toni Andres A Queer Catullus? The power of gender impersonation in creative arts Dr Henry Stead Tim Berger International and National COVID-19 Vaccination Production: Comparing the Benefits Dr Nikolay Chernyshev Rebecca Bisset Computational Investigation of NMR Properties of Mixed-Metal Niobate Perovskites Prof Sharon Ashbrook Sophia Brousset Incan Lesbianism: A Paradigm for Rethinking Rich’s “Compulsory Heterosexuality” Prof Caron Gentry Robb Calder Clouds and Weather on Hot Jupiters Dr Christiane Helling Lucia Cathers What were the attitudes and motivations of those involved in the Easter Rising of 1916 in Ireland? Dr Tim Wilson Callum Clarke Outcome-based evaluation of leaders: an incentives perspective Dr Margherita Negri Sofya Dobrynina Designing epsilon-near-zero metasurfaces Dr Sebastian Schulz Joseph Edwards Topological origami: material properties from geometry and combinatorics Dr Louis Theran Polina Foteva Exploring the outer limits of ATP-dependent DNA ligase sequence space and the phylogenetic distribution of DNA ligases across Nucleocytoviricota Dr Stuart MacNeill James Johnson The reimagining of dynasty: A subaltern success or just more of the same? Dr Milinda Banerjee Isabel Kestler Philosophy of Space Exploration and Exoplanet Science Dr Ben Sachs Edith Lee The Effects of Culture on Leadership Personality, Public Accountability and Decision-Making Process in Modern Democracies Dr Ryan K Beasley Marcelina Lekawska Blue carbon as a nature-based solution for climate change; research, policy and citizen engagement within a UK and Scottish context Prof William Austin Isobel Merrie Research with Maggies – the cancer charity Dr Morven Shearer Anne Moorhouse Das Unheimliche: Symbolism, Surrealism and the Art of Introspection Dr Shona Kallestrup Isabella Redmayne The presentation of storytellers and liars in Greco-Roman literature: Fake News in the Ancient World Dr Ann-Sophie Schoess Ana Rodrigues Ferreira The effect of online and blended learning on note-taking strategies Mr Paul Gardner Robyn Smith Designing Activities to Support Simulation-Based Learning in Quantum Mechanics Dr Antje Kohnle Claire Taylor Local Internationalists? Scotland’s connections to the global world of Esperanto, c.1890- 1920 Dr Bernhard Struck Pia Tiwari Investigating the politics of English-language voluntourism in Africa. Dr Stan Frankland Isaac Turner Outcome-based evaluation of leaders: an incentives perspective Dr Luc Bridet Eirini Vryza Representations of the Mediterranean Sea in Modern Greek prose: exploring alternative dynamics between humans and nature Dr Christina Alt Maria Yates Designing epsilon-near-zero metasurfaces Dr Sebastian Schulz -
Student Project Title Supervisor Andrew Adams Evangelicalism and the White Savior Complex: How religious worldviews promote rituals of ‘voluntourism’ in Uganda Dr Stan Frankland Kaja Andersen Improving assessment of behavioral adaptability in clinical settings Dr Reiner Sprengelmeyer Anna Bajerska Role of children’s literature in shaping environmental literacy Dr Emily Finer Isaac Bateman The political and personal identity of exclusion Dr Ben Sachs Jonathan Berry End of life care experiences – intervention suggestions elicited through experience based co-design with patient and practitioner stakeholders Dr Mara van Beusekom
Dr Virginia SantiagoYukiko Braun Comparing how internal and external focus of attention influence performance in everyday tasks Dr Ines Jentzsch Gwendoline Choi Remembering German Colonialism: Understanding cultural memories through a Phenomenological Lens Dr Tom Smith Isaac Dilley Investigating the relationship between group-embeddable monoids and the bimorphism monoids of infinite graphs Dr Thomas Coleman Jillian Ducker The politics of presentation in the Court of Henry VIII Dr Jacqueline Rose Garmon Dyfri The impact of sports on diplomacy between America and China since the Nixon-era Dr Chris Ogden Matthew Fry Making Stuff Glow: Multiresonant Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence in Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells Prof Eli Zysman-Colman Lucia Guercio Artistic translations of Dante’s Inferno Dr Alistair Rider Peter Ingarfield Computer aided classification of relational structures up to elementary equivalence Dr James Mitchell Ole Jorgensen Investigation of the Rado Graph Prof Peter Cameron Benjamin Kao American Crisis: Identity, Materiality and Modern Literature Dr Daniel Knight Lilyan Kelleher How does the individual experience the modern city in ‘Les Fleurs du Mal’ by Charles Baudelaire and ‘The Waste Land’ by T.S.Eliot? An interdisciplinary approach between comparative literature and urban studies Dr Dave Evans Alice Martin Development of Coupling Strategies for Peri-Substituted Rings in Main Group Systems Dr Petr Kilian Margaret Mitchell Autobiography and the Construction of a Feminine Language Prof Sonia Hofkosh Thomas O’Brien Producing macroscopic analogues of gravitationally bound mulit-fermion states Dr Chris Hooley Charlotte Rogers Social identity and climate change reform: investigating how environmentalism is represented and the extent to which it encourages (and/or) marginalises groups from collective action Prof Stephen Reicher Laoise Rogers An evaluation of forced migration from Guatemala to the USA and its environmental justice aspects,as a case study of the wider international relations challenges to be addressed by the global community when tackling both climate change and forced migratio Prof Ali Watson James Samuel History, religion and community in North East Fife Dr Amy Blakeway
Dr Jacqueline RoseMarika Schenkels A scoping review comparing flavoured and non-flavoured e-cigarette compounds in causing health effects Prof Frank Sullivan
Dr Peter SelbyMichael Sutherland Classification, enumeration and symmetry of fractal carpets Prof Kenneth J. Falconer Anna Todsen The Digital Body: Technology and Mental Disorders Dr Huon Wardle -
Student Project Title Supervisor Aimee Bebbington Under Pressure: Measuring Nanometre Distance Changes in Biomolecules Dr Janet Lovett Riccardo Bonzano Dissipative Quantum Phase Transitions in Systems with Memory Dr Brendon Lovett Thomas Burdge Understanding Experience of Time Dr Simon Prosser Aaron Carruthers Models of Cloud Development Prof David Dritschel Rebekah Cathcart The Scottish Opposition to Sir Robert Warpole in 1739-42 Prof Steve Murdoch Rory Changleng Bright Green Dot or Red Tide? How the Colour of Earth’s Early Oceans Controlled Evolution of Life Dr Tim Raub Molly Chung Investigating Mathematical Patterns in Music Prof Peter Cameron Steph Coulter Hungary’s Illiberal Turn and the EU’s Response; Consequences for the Future of the Union Dr Mateja Peter Matthew Cunningham The Development of Curveplotting Dr Isobel Falconer Charlotte Doherty War and Religious Change Dr Madhavi Nevader Aubrey George Visualising War: Interplay Between Battle Narratives in Ancient and Modern Cultures Dr Nicolas Wiater
Dr Alice KonigThibaut Goldsborough Determination of Plant-Controlled Traits Regulating the Highly Diverse Symbiotic Communities Found in the Traps of Carnivorous Pitcher Plants (Nepenthes spp.) Prof Graeme Ruxton Anna Harris Examining Key Similarities and Differences Between the Versions of the Works of Julian of Norwich Associated with Syon Abbey and those in the Sloane and Stowe Manuscripts to Understand What They Indicate About the Understanding and Acceptance of Julian of Dr Harriet Archer Joseph Horsnell Separatism in Quebecer and Tuareg Political Discourse Dr Jeffrey Stevenson Murer Mostin Hu Investigating the Role of the Autophagy Response in Intracellular Parasite Infections Dr John Lucocq Finlay Langham Soapbox Poetry: Exploring the Politics of Edinburgh’s Spoken Word Scene Mr Peter Mackay Annie Layhe Dissipative Quantum Phase Transitions in Systems with Memory Dr Brendon Lovett Joseph Luke Female Computers “A Suitable and Economical Method” for the Royal Observatory Edinburgh Dr Isobel Falconer Darsh Manoj Analysing the Factors Which Could Affect Speed of a Task and Their Effects on Performance Dr Susmit Sarkar Geraint Morgan How and Why Did the Roles of Women Change in Pre-Edwardian Medieval Wales (c.750 – c.1280) Dr Alex Woolf Reuben Morris-Dyer Conceptions of the Sonic Body: Technology, Embodiment, Gender Dr Lucy Donaldson Hannah Pedone Climate Change and the Inter-Temporal Problem: Analysing Environmental Risks in an Age of Uncertainty Prof David Ulph Emma Porter Walking the Path of Medieval Inquisition Prof Frances Andrews Mathilde Roze Life Trajectories, Hopes, and Equality of Opportunity in Elite Secondary Education: the Case of Mariama Ba Boarding School, Senegal Dr Matia Fumanti Panth Shah A Study to the Extent to Which Elements of the WHO Action Plan Were Followed in the Major Pandemics Which Have Occured Since 2007 Prof Frank Sullivan (St Andrews)
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Student Project Title Supervisor Abigail Georgia Robinson Societal Adaptation to Drought: Multiculturalism as a Medieval Asset Dr Tim Raub Ada Quek Little Queer Dot: How the Singaporean Arts Scene Reflects and Shapes Emerging Queer Cultures in Singaporean Society (1988 – Present) Prof Derek Duncan Anastasia Ellis Determining ParaHox gene regulatory mechanisms in gut and central nervous system patterning. Dr David Ferrier Arvo Munoz Moran Inconsistencies in mathematics Dr Fenner Stanley Tanswell Calum Austin McCutcheon The utility of colon capsule endoscopy for symptomatic patients in the community Prof Frank Sullivan Clara Alice Julia Defachel From Comorian folktales to Francophone contemporary fiction: investigating the oral story-telling tradition of the Island of Anjouan Prof Nicki Hitchcott Daniella Black When good mating systems go bad: the evolutionary causes and consequences of unexpected sexual behaviour in animals Dr David Shuker Eleanor Jane Braithwaite The Law’s Two Bodies Prof John Hudson and Prof Caroline Humfress Elizabeth Barlow Women in Mathematics: an Unresolved Problem Dr Isobel Falconer Gabriele Uboldi Theatre and Ritual at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival Prof Roy Dilley George Tillisch Proof, Rigour, and Conceptual Engineering Dr Kevin Sharpe Henry Buckminster Marles Reclassifying the eleventh cranial nerve: is the accessory nerve a single entity? Dr Ourania Varsou Hugh Alexander James Franklin Architects in Society: Engineering and Building in Late Antiquity Dr Carlos Machado James Hinch Anti-terror Legislation, Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Climate Change Prof Ali Watson Juanita Maria Barreto Monje Scotland and the Amazon in the nineteenth century Prof Mark Harris Katie Mary Delahooke Identifying the enigmatic Ediacaran fauna using their geochemical fingerprint Dr Catherine Rose Laura Rafaela Nebout Revolutionary Women: Wives and Daughters in the Indigenous Revolt of 1783, Peru Dr Sabine Hyland Lorna McCarron The Pill in East and West Germany: A Form of Male Institutionalised Control over the Female Body Dr Tom Smith Lot Koopmans Earth analogues for Martian fossil life: What is the ExoMars mission capable of detecting? Prof Tony Prave Nathan James Jones Government policies to encourage the construction of social housing Dr Luc Bridet Oskar Leimkuhler Exploring Machine Learning in Chemistry: Teaching Molecular Structure Solution to Artificial Neural Networks Dr John Mitchell Pui (Angel) Tang A Stranger to Myself and to the World: Existentialism in Postmodern East Asian Literature Dr Ricardo Fernández Simona Mezzina The vanishing of an artist: exploring the role of Giuseppe De Nittis among the Impressionist Circle Dr Linda Goddard Valeriya Ryabchina Attention in Three Dimensions Prof Juie Harris Zoe Alice Elizabeth Voice Reclaiming space: how Scandinavian female artists remodelled the domestic sphere in the nineteenth century Dr Shona Kallestrup -
Student Project Title Supervisor Alexander Lombardo Law, Politics and the Past: The Uses of History in the Prologues to Late Antique Legal Codes Professor Caroline Humfress Alice Bumstead Alkane to alcohol conversion using late transition metal oxide nanoparticles encapsulated in metal-organic frameworks Professor Paul Wright Alison Lightfoot Anti-Perovskites – A New Family of Functional Materials? Professor Phil Lightfoot Ayesha Hussain Purcell Gods of the In-Between: Personal Cosmology and Chameleon Gods on Hadrian’s Wall Dr Eleri Cousins Bao-Chau Pham Multiple Speakers, Competing Discourses: The construction of security in the 2016 Austrian presidential election campaign Dr Faye Donnelly Bethany Gwyther End of life decisions: balancing quality and length of life in late-stage cancer treatment. Dr Morven Shearer Caitlin Bloomer Assessing Anthropogenic Impacts of Dams on Water Quality in Riverine Systems Dr Iain Matthews Calum Bonthron Activity-dependent changes in the structure of astrocytes within the mammalian spinal cord. Dr Gareth Miles Carolina Zucchi Central Asia as a point of cultural and linguistic convergence: an analysis of Bukhara Arabic versions of tales from “One thousand and one nights” Dr Orhan Elmaz Catherine Newman Controlling the Rising Generation: Repressing Revolutionary Potential in British Reviews of Children’s Literature, 1789-1805 Dr Susan Manly Charlotte Gordon The genesis of Icelandic granites: a window on the birth of continental crust Dr William McCarthy Craig Walton Copper isotope fractionation during subduction: Implications for planetary accretion, core segregation and mantle dynamics Dr Paul Savage Dylan Howel Bridging Borders: Transcending Issues of Syrian Displacement in the Scottish Borders Dr Stavroula Pipyrou Ella Williams French or Arabic? Contemporary Moroccan Francophone writers and their relationship with the French language Professor Nicki Hitchcott Emilia Wilson Finding an Evaluative System for Human and Non-Human Animal Extinction. Dr Ben Sachs Emily Madoff Testing the Thermal Lid Model for Sediment-Hosted Stratiform Copper deposits Dr Jonathan Cloutier Erin Phillips Analysing Aggregation: The Effect of Prey Group Shape on the Likelihood of Detection by Predators Professor Graeme Ruxton Ian Cawood Water & Earth’s crust: The role and source of water in a crystallizing magma Dr William McCarthy Isabella Hoskins Transmission of Chronic Bee Paralysis Virus, an emerging pathogen of honey bees Professor David Evans Jae Chul Park Flight of the flower-swallows: disposable, forgotten children in North Korea Professor Ali Watson Jamie Park The Bedchamber of James VI and I: Personal Connections, Patronage and British Identity 1603-1625 Professor Roger Mason Jennifer Earp A chemical harpoon protein of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium Dr Ulrich Schwarz-Linek Jordy De Vries Taking the Earth’s temperature: testing graphite lubrication in major mountain belts Dr Timothy David Raub Joshua Holloway Exploring Spirituality in Schools Dr Eric Stoddart Jude Bernard Unconscious Good: Theorizing Beneficial Implicit Bias Dr Derek Ball Lanita Gutieva Atmospheric evolution and climate cycles during the most extreme Snowball Earth glaciation: Scotland’s spectacular record. Dr Timothy Raub Laura Trad Memories to Movies: How does Lebanese Cinema reflect and shape perceptions of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990)? Dr Nick Brooke Luke Elliott Computing, Commutative, Semigroups Dr James Mitchell Magda Michalska Drawing the Iron Curtain: The political and social influence of the Polish School of Posters at the dawn of political transformation in Poland (1956-1989) Dr Jeremy Howard Mostafa Manssour Transverse Field at Zero Temperature in a 2D Spin Model which exhibits a Kasteleyn Transition Dr Chris Hooley Naomi Newall-Watson Yoga in Prison; exploring the punishment and rehabilitation paradigm Dr Mattia Fumanti Nathalie Becker Towards a ‘Historic Turn’? Archiving in Non-Profit Organisations Dr Lucy Wishart Nourjahan Khafaga Conditioning cancer cells to targeting the immune system Professor David Harrison Olga Grochowska The Absent Neighbour: Post-War Memory of the Jewish Community in Pultusk, Poland Dr Emily Finer/ Dr Jeffrey Murer Olivia Budde White supremacy- the rise of a new breed, or one that never disappeared? Dr Hazel Cameron Oscar Westerblad “I know it is wrong, but so what?” Investigating the connection between moral judgement and moral motivation. Dr Justin Snedegar Patrick Schrempf Explainable Artificial Intelligence Professor Aaron Quigley Rachel Murray Investigating the role of sumoylation in telomere elongation Dr Helder Ferreira Ronan McLaughline Redefining the Republic: The Front National, France and Secularism Dr Gavin Bowd Ruaraidh MacIver Triumph and Propaganda: The Campaigns of Heraclius Dr Timothy Greenwood Rufaida Al Hashmi For Love of Country? On Patriotism and Cosmopolitan Justice Dr Elizabeth Ashford/Dr Natasha Saunders Samantha Baker A Comparative Approach to Refugee Rights – A Study of Canadian, Swedish, British and Australian Refugee Policy and the Treatment of Refugee Rights Professor Patrick Hayden Savannah Smith Contemporary Art and Gentrification: Art’s Impact on the Urban Environment Dr Catherine Spencer Stacie Bradly Presenting Jane Austen: The evolution of the publication of Austen from past to present (1811 – 2016). Dr Katie Garner Thomas Miles The Legacy of Duns Scotus: Hopkins and Merton as Mystical Poets Dr Bill Hyland Valeria Duca A new attribution to the painting Venus in the Forge of Vulcan Dr. Julian Luxford Veronika Ambrozova Why do we get lost? Neural mechanisms underlying distance perception Dr James Ainge Vinh Dihn Quantitative image analysis to help with the study of invadopodia which uses Elastic Resonator Interference Stress Microscopy to measure the forces applied by them Professor Malte Gather William Brown Essence Domain Inference Professor Ian Miguel Yura Shin Effects of Lithium treatment on Endosome Dynamics and Endosomal Lipids in Bipolar Disorder Dr John Lucocq -
Student Project Title Supervisor Marnie Adamson ‘Could I do that to somebody?’: The Ideological Shifts That Occur in the Mind of Conflict Personnel to Allow Them to Commit Atrocities Professor Karin Fierke Maria Almeida Reis Iberian Long Sixties? Youth Culture and Gender in Spain and Portugal, 1958-1980 Dr Nikolaos Papadogiannis Talah Anderson Transition, Transgression and Transcendence: Gender and the Propagation of Power in the Ancient Near East Dr Madhavi Nevader Ioanna Batzoglou What is the relationship between institutions and entrepreneurial activity? Dr Alex Trew Alexander Bell Encounters with memory: remembering the slave trade in Bristol, c. 1945-2015 Dr Riccardo Bavaj Sarah Bigelow Speaking Security Through Arabic: The Role of the Media in Translation Dr Faye Donnelly Samuel Boobier The mechanism behind Amino Acid Dating: what factors affect the racemisation of amino acids? Dr Tanja van Mourik Joanna Bowman Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs (1995 – 2015), or how 85 seats can change British Theatre Dr Sam Haddow Sian Burkitt Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Dr Aileen Fyfe Elinor Bushell Mad, drunk and diseased or simply in love? Dr Emma Buckley Joel Butcher Women in Church Leadership: How do Church Leaders Interpret the Bible? Dr David Moffitt Mary Chan Sex differences in workplace behaviour: The role of BIS/BAS scale sensitivity Dr Catherine Penelope Cross Da In Choi Internal Creation of Others in North-South Korea Relations Dr Konrad Lawson Emily Cook Syncretic Identities: Aleut, Slavonic, and English in Unalaska, Alaska Dr Stephanie Bunn Jakob Dowling Using Willingness-to-Pay Observations to Improve Climate Change Negotiations Mr Luc Bridet Katrina Drayton Mapping Rome’s Destiny: Navigation in Virgil’s ‘Aeneid’ Dr Nikoletta Manioti Rory Forbes Comprehending the Scottish Jacobite Constituency in 1688/89 Dr Steve Murdoch Sarah Glass An analysis of US foreign policy towards Zimbabwe during the Matabeleland Massacres, 1982 – 1985 Dr Hazel Cameron Maryam Golafshani Bringing the ‘Human’ Back to Medicine: Implementing Virginia Woolf’s Writing in Medical Education Dr Christina Alt Botond Hajdara Partitioned Binary Relations Dr James D. Mitchell Margaret Hyland Religion and Folk Belief in Scottish Fishing Music Dr Stephanie Bunn Jack Jameson Determining the Role of MG23 in hypoxia-induced apoptosis Dr Samantha Pitt Matthew Kaminski Testing the sensitivity of the Antarctic ice sheet to CO2 Dr James Rae Vienna Kim Art on the Catwalk: Performance Art in the shows of Alexander McQueen Dr Catherine Spencer Eirinie Lapidaki The Politics of Poetry in Victorian Britain Dr Clare Gill Konstantinos Liverakos The effect of physical exercise intensity levels on cognitive performance examined throughout the period of one day Dr Akira O’Connor Rhys Madden How to engage the next generation of anthropologists – an application of theoretical approaches in Museum Studies Prof Roy Dilley Shashank Manjunath Are we all heading down the same path? The developing world’s approach to an environmentally secure future Dr Eoin McLaughlin Suzanne Mcmanus Irvine Welsh’s Scotland: The Reality of Working Class Brutality, Addiction and Abuse Dr Peter Mackay Ryan Moodie Non-equilibrium Model of Photon Condensation Dr Jonathan Keeling Olivia Morton The role of Austrian Standard German in the teaching and learning of German as a foreign language Dr Christopher Beedham & Ms Kirsten Mericka Katie Munro Understanding the Role of HLA-B27 in Inflammatory Arthritis Dr Simon Powis Mai Nguyen The participation of children in the Vietnam war Professor Alison M S Watson Daniel Payne ‘Meat is Murder’: The Development of Social and Cultural Attitudes Surrounding the UK Meat Industry, c. 1964-present. Dr John Clark Asmithaa Prabhakaran The role of innate immunity pathways in host-parasite interactions during microsporidia infections Dr John Lucocq Joanna Rutkowska The influence of facial health cues of a defendant on decisions about the severity of punishment Professor David Perrett Kelly Schweizer The Changing Face of Fear: An examination of the Gothic Genre Dr Katie Garner Alessio Shostak Striking at their Core: De-funding the Islamic State Dr William Vlcek Alanood Sinjab The Securitization of Torture: A Legal Analysis of the General Security Service’s Use of Torture in the Palestinian Occupied Territories Between 1971-1991 Dr Faye Donnelly William Skinner Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer and White Emission of Light in Supramolecular Iridium Complexes Dr Zysman-Colman Justyna Slowik The Paper Dragon: Do we overrate China’s strength as a global superpower? The domestic factor. Professor Ian Taylor Finlay Smith Computing translations and the translation hull of semigroups Dr James Mitchell Melissa Turner Real and perceived barriers to participation in HE: a fulltime undergraduate student parent’s perspective Dr L Lasselle Karina Vitanova Leptin and the Mitochondria: New pathways to protect against dementia Dr Gayle Doherty Christopher Walker Double Discrimination: LGBT Asylum Seekers in the UK System Dr Gurchathen Sanghera Alice Watson How has tropicality been constructed in cultural media from the 1970s to the present day? Dr Dan Clayton Tadeusz Wojtych Not so iron curtain. Interactions between international students and local people in Gdynia (Poland) during the communist period. Dr Bernhard Struck Jessica Yin The evolution and impact of identity in US-China relations Dr Taryn Shepperd Kejian Zhao Human-Environment Relations in Beijing: Perceptions, Experience, Possibilities Professor Peter Gow Yura Shin Effects of Lithium treatment on Endosome Dynamics and Endosomal Lipids in Bipolar Disorder Dr John Lucocq -
Student Project Title Supervisor Sarah Alexander Natural History Educational Apps Dr Ruth Robinson Courtney Barnard The Legacy of British Imperialism in the Construction of Apartheid in South Africa Dr Stephen Tyre Samantha Bennett A Philosophy of the Predictability of Stock Markets Dr Patrick Greenough Sean Bourelle Disorder Correlations in Quantum Quenches of Cold Atom systems Dr Chris Hooley; Professor Andrew Cameron Laura Brassington Reading Philosophical Transactions in Nineteenth Century Manchester Dr Aileen Fyfe Stuart Burrell Exploring the Interplay of Topology, Dynamical Systems and Abstract Algebra on a Useful Class of Transformations Dr Collin Bleak Iain Campbell A Thin Film Sensor System for Dual-Phase Explosives Detection Dr Graham Turnbull Sara Chan Yun Yu Is this the Idea that ‘Laws of Nature govern’ a Conceptual Truth? Dr Aisling Crean and Professor Jessica Brown Agnes Chauvet Othering in the United States’ Presidential Speeches and Visual Propaganda during World War II and the War on Terror Prof Andrew Williams Ambra D’Antone Translating Dante: A Linguistic and Visual Approach Dr Claudia Rossignoli Alice Devlin The Christianization of the Cyclades: New Foundations Dr Rebecca Sweetman Thomas Doherty Computer Generated Holograms Dr Donatella Cassettari Euan Dowers Understanding the Relationship between Inequality and Growth Dr. Gonzalo Forgues-Puccio Toby Emerson What Effect did Western Imperialism have on State Formation in the Levant? Dr Kristen A. Harkness Stefan Farsang Life on Mars: Manganese (bio)mineralization Dr Tim Raub Francis Ferrone Medieval Remains: The Impact of the Reformation on Scottish Ecclesiastical Architecture Professor Richard Fawcett Charlotte Gorman Experiences of Women and Gender in the American Folk Music Revival, 1900-1980 Dr Gillian Mitchell William Gray The Formation of the Spectacular Blue Gemstone Lapis Lazuli Dr Harry Oduro Michael Grieve Earworms: A Fritillarian Reading of Muldoon’s Maggot Professor Don Paterson Mohammed Khan Preclinical Assessment of Combinatorial Therapy of Cancer Professor David Harrison Marianna Lanza Contemporary Memorials in Edinburgh Dr Catherine Spencer Gareth Lavan If I have No Desire to be Moral, then I have No Reason to be Moral. An Exploration of Internal Reasons for Action. Dr Justin Snedegar Jessica Lee Identifying the Recurrence of Bladder Cancer via the Integration of Nuclear Morphology and Cellular Expression of the MCM2 Proliferation Marker Mr Peter Caie Olga Loza Constructing Graduate Identities: the Performativity of Job Application Processes Dr Philip Roscoe Maebh Martin Musical Leadership in Opera, Concert and Recording: an Observation of Period Instrument Performers Dr Michael Downes Margot McLauchlan A New Approach to the Use of Mass Spectrometry in Microbiology Dr Matthew Holden Cameron McNicol Improvement of Optics in Light Sheet Microscopes and their Applications in Cell Biology & Neuroscience Prof Kishan Dholakia Vanya Metodieva The Potential of an Old Ethno-remedy as a New Dementia Drug: The Neuroprotective Properties of Ptychopetallum Placiodes Dr Gayle Doherty Andrew Millar What Causes the Binding of High-energy Fermions in a Deformable Space-time? 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