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Postgraduate Research Festival 2013
The 3rd annual festival will be held in Woolf College on 18th June 2013.
The festival is an opportunity for all Postgraduate students at Kent, both Taught & Research, to showcase their research work to fellow students and academics.
- Academic talks on career development, success in publishing and research grant applications
- Prize for best poster in each Faculty (£100 Blackwells gift vouchers)
- Drinks reception and presentation of poster awards
Deadline for poster registration: 12 June 2013
Posters will be displayed on poster boards (1m wide x 2m tall). Please ensure your poster fits within these dimensions.
Programme
Poster set up from 1.00pm
2.00 pm:
Welcome & Refreshments
Professor Diane Houston, Dean of the Graduate School
(Woolf Lower Foyer)
2.15 -2.45 pm:
“Are our (genetic) male bits shrinking into oblivion?”
Darren Griffin, Professor of Genetics
2.45-3.15 pm:
Career Planning & Development Panel
Dr Fragkiskos Filippaios , Reader in International Business
3.15-3.45 pm:
”Universities – is there a future for us?”
Dr Peter Klappa, Reader in Biochemistry
3.45-4.15 pm:
Getting Research Funding
Phil Ward, Research Funding Manager
4.15 – 5.15pm
Poster presentations
led by Dr Colin Johnson (Sciences); Dr Ruth Blakeley (Social Sciences); Professor Paul Allain (Humanities)
5.15-6.00 pm
Drinks reception and award ceremony
Prize for best poster in each Faculty
Key Speakers
Darren Griffin, Professor of Genetics
Dr Fragkiskos Filippaios, Reader in International Business
Dr Peter Klappa, Reader in Biochemistry
Phil Ward, Research Funding Manager
Posters
Posters will be displayed on poster boards (1m wide x 2m tall). Please ensure your poster fits within these dimensions.
Examples of poster titles below:
Humanities
Identity and Perception: A curious relationship (Val Smith)
The Clay Balls of Ancient Egypt (Amy Hammett)
Social Sciences
The experience of job engagement within the working day (Luke Fletcher)
Can we ever understand consumer behaviour? (Sarah Tetley)
Sciences
Is the ageing population leading us to bankruptcy? Provision of Health Care for the Elderly in England and Wales (Mohamed Elsheemy)
Secret Life of Fascia: morphological changes in lumbar connective tissue: an ultrasonographic study (Kyra De Coninck)
2012 Research Festival
19th June 2012 marked the second annual Postgraduate Research Festival organised by the Graduate School, Kent Union and the Graduate Student Association.
Over 35 students exhibited posters and many more turned up to view the posters and attend the talks. This year’s talks covered a variety of subjects: Hannah Swift provided an insight into life outside academia focusing on ESRC and BPS internships, Dr Filippaios from Kent Business School spoke on the publishing process for young researchers, while Dr Mulvihill of Biosciences spoke about exploring the academic and commercial interface.
Download:
Hannah Swift's presentation "Life outside academia, ESRC & BPS internships: The application, the interview and the experience"
Dr Filippaios' presentation "Publishing for young researchers: Dealing with the submission process"
Posters were judged by faculty; Dr Montserrat Roser i Puig judged the Humanities posters, Ian Utting judged the Sciences and Diane Houston the Social Sciences. Winning researchers were awarded a Kindle.
The winners were:- from the Faculty of Humanities Gian Luca Amadei (PhD in Architecture); from the Faculty of Sciences Louise Holyoake (PhD in Microbiology); from the Faculty of Social Sciences Sally Palmer (PhD in Psychology).
Registering your poster for postgraduate research festival