2015 cohort
Student | Project Title | Supervisor |
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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? | Dr Chris Hooley |
Sam Mills | First Flickers: The Curation of an Accessible, Digital Database on Early Cinema | Dr Tom Rice |
Joanna Moodie | Adaptive Interaction as an Intervention for Individuals with Advanced Dementia: Investigating Physiological Changes | Dr Maggie Ellis and Dr Karen Spencer |
Cameron Okoth | Making and Testing Surface Wave Cloaks using Metamaterials | Dr Andrea Di Falco |
Gareth Owen | ‘History Education as National Identity Construction: How Britain’s Elites Portrayed the History of the British People through the National Education System, c. 1944-1999’ | Dr Riccardo Bavaj |
Nefeli Piree Iliou | The Christianization of the Cyclades. A Transformation of Religious Space: Kea, Andros, Tenos, Delos, Sikinos & Folegandros | Dr Rebecca Sweetman |
Connor Powell | Synthesis of various analogues of the lead compound MMV006169 to find a greater degree of potency as an inhibitor of the malarial parasite Toxoplasma gondii | Prof Nicholas Westwood |
Callum Reekie | Oxidation of the Oceanic Lithosphere: Evaluating the Influence of Water upon Plate Tectonics | Dr Tim Raub |
Katerina Sanchez-Schilling | The Construction of the Self and Class Representations Through Food: A Global Multi-Media Culture Obsessed with Food | Dr Sabine Hyland |
Roxana Shafiee | How Does Deforestation Influence the Climate – by Impacting the Carbon Cycle or by Altering the Reflectivity of the Land Surface? | Dr Timothy Hill |
Amy Sheader | Super-resolution Microscopy with Optical Trapping | Prof Kishan Dholakia |
Konstantina Stefanova | Should we Listen to Background Music while we Perform Cognitively Demanding Tasks? | Dr Ines Jentzsch |
Conor Stevenson | Thermal Quantum Diodes in Nanostructures | Dr Bernd Braunecker |
Dorian Stone | Theological Perspectives on Social Media and the Culture of Sousveillance | Dr Eric Stoddart |
Liam Sutton | Modelling Spontaneous Vortex Formation in Lasers and Photon Condensates | Dr Jonathan Keeling |
Amol Thakkar | The Conversion of Renewable Feedstock to Unnatural Amino Acids and Cyclopeptides: Application of Phenolic Monomers Isolated from Lignin. | Prof Nicholas Westwood |
Liam Walker | A Laser Cooling Experiment for the Teaching Lab | Dr Donatella Cassettari |
Raymond Wang | Writing in the Towers’ shadow – American Self-Perception and Remember 9/11 | Professor Gerard De Groot |
David Weston | Modelling Energy and Information Transfer along a Chain of Two Level Systems | Dr Brendon Lovett |
Eva Wewiorski | Film Sound Design and How it Contributes to Sensory Properties | Dr Lucy Donaldson |
Alice Zamboni | Grand Tour at the Mirror: a Ceremonial Regatta Seen Through the Eyes of British Travellers and Venetian inhabitants. | Dr Elsje van Kessel |