Brunel Graduate School

Congrats to our 3MT winners!
•5th Sean Cullen
•4th Donna-Marie Holder
•3rd Christopher D’Souza
•2nd Femke Cappon
•1st Kavita Gadar

•People’s Choice: Charity Aienobe-Asekharen

For University Mental Health Day 2022 the Centre for Research Staff Development warmly invites researchers and all involved in developing the researcher ecosystem to an online panel discussion that takes the relationship between workplace culture and mental health as its focus. Join us at 16:00 on 3 March for the panel.

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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: University Mental Health Day 2022. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. This event is for researchers, researcher developers and professional colleagues in research to have a conversation that examines the relationship between mental health and the experiences of researchers at work. The culture in which researchers work can have profound effects on their mental health,...

Book your place at our Zoom lecture on The Science of Learning with Dr Josh Eyler on Wed 23 Feb and you could win his book, How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories behind Effective College Teaching: The Science of Learning and Why It Matters Tickets, Wed 23 Feb 2022 at 15:30 | Eventbrite - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/.../the-science-of-learning...

Huge thanks to all our researchers who showed up for our 1st on-campus coffee morning last week.

Hello to all our lovely ECRs.
Thank you for attending Postdoc Appreciation Week virtual sessions and the Cheese & Wine lunch.
We hope that you enjoyed it, and we look forward to seeing you soon.

Come and catch up with other researchers on campus with some refreshments in the John crank marquee.

Date: 14th July 2021
Time: 18.00 – 20.00
Location: John Crank Garden Marquee

Sign up here: https://doctoralresearcher.eventbrite.co.uk sing up in advance to guarantee your place and choose dietary requirements.
A chance to meet other Doctoral Researchers, Post doc’s and members of staff at a fun and relaxed evening social. A chance to network with peers and indulge in some food and drinks.

To keep everyone safe with the ongoing pandemic, please check the terms and conditions of the event, and only sign up if you agree with them:

Terms and conditions: I agree that I will take a lateral flow test within and up to 48hrs prior to the event. I agree to provide evidence of a negative result via the NHS confirmation email and or text.

Research Social Come and catch up on campus with some refreshments in the marquee with other Researchers

A chance to meet other Doctoral Researchers, members of staff at a fun and relaxed evening social. A chance to network with peers and indulge in some food and drinks. So book today and pop along on 14 July at 6pm in the John Crank Gardens Marquee.

Here is the booking link:

Research Social Come and catch up on campus with some refreshments in the marquee with other Researchers

Hello DRs,

Thank you for attending the bbq yesterday. We hope that you enjoyed it, and we look forward to seeing you soon.

James Farmer, one of our doctoral researchers, has organised a replacement event for the statue wars discussion with Inge Dornan and Alison Carrol which we had to cancel earlier this month.

The event will take place this week 24th June at 2pm on the lawn opposite the Meeting House (the Meeting House is the small building between Marie Jahoda and Gaskell which houses our chaplaincies). Inge and Alison will give a joint presentation / roundtable discussion on the statue wars, followed by a small social. You may know Inge and Alison if you're studying politics and/or history, but this topic should be of interest for students in any subject in our department, so all are welcome. I'll be there and looking forward to hearing what Inge and Alison have to say about statues.

Please email James ([email protected]) directly to book your place.

The winning posters are now available in a single online display: Click https://brunel.padlet.org/brunelgraduateschool3/sm3qmq1466spgnu1 to view

List of winners:

• Rebecca Hampton-Flory
Poster title: A Socio-Legal Analysis of Assisted Dying
Supervisory team: Dr Gerard Conway, Dr Serena Natile; Dr Adrienne Barnett
College: CBASS

• Rachel Kerslake
Poster title: The Asprosin Enigma: Expression of OR4M1 and FBN1 in Ovarian Cancer
Principal Supervisor: Dr Emmanouil Karteris
College: CHMLS

• Mikhail Gorbounov
Poster title: Fighting Climate Change with Waste Ash
Principal Supervisor: Dr Salman Masoudi Soltani
College: CEDPS

• Emma Stroud
Poster title: Fear and Wonder: The Other on the Early Modern Stage
Supervisory team: Dr Iman Sheeha, Dr Katrina O’Loughlin and Dr Jessica Cox
College: CBASS

• Elaine De Vos
Poster title: Women in Boxing: Considering the Impact of Using Digital Methods for Ethnographic Research
Supervisory team: Prof. Louise Mansfield, Dr Neil Stephens and Dr Nicola Ansell
College: CHMLS

• Best Early-Stage Researcher: Femke Cappon
Poster title: Development of the Next Generation Mock Circulatory Loop
Supervisory team: Prof. Ashraf Khir, Dr Xinli Du
College: CEDPS

• Provost’s Interdisciplinary Research Prize: Jo Holmberg-Hansson and Sahil Datta
Poster title: Psychological Resilience Explored Through Deep Learning: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Supervisory team: Dr Toshie Imada, Dr Nikolaos Boulgouris, Dr Aiyana Willard
College: CHMLS and CEDPS

We hope you enjoyed the experience. Perhaps you’ll consider joining us in our next competition – the 3-Minute-Thesis?

Prizes - Brunel University Doctoral Research Poster Conference Winners

A big congratulations to all of the participants who did an amazing job presenting their research in 3 minutes in our Virtual 3MT Finals on 30th June 2020.

Our Vice-Chancellor Prof Julia Buckingham headed up this year's panel with Prof Bill Leahy, Prof Benjamin Zephaniah, Liz Flint and our last year's 3MT winner Saqlain Suleman.

The judges were so impressed with all their hard work.

Huge congratulations to:
Our winner to win £500- Denise Ragusa
3MT Title- Can gene editing help us understand infant leukaemia?

1st Runner up to win £200-Angel Naveenathayalan
3MT Title-Conceptual Design and Development of an Organ-on-a-Chip Research tool to Investigate the Initiation, Progression and Treatment of Bacterial Vaginosis

2nd Runner up to win £100 - Shasheen Payoe
3MT Title-Nanoparticles in Drug Delivery

People's Choice Award Winner to win £100-Sankarshan Verma
3MT Title- Innovative Vacuum Insulation Panels for Refrigerators

Hello Researchers

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