On the 7th of June 2023 the GRC welcomed staff and students alike to our Annual Postgraduate Conference. It was a busy and vibrant day celebrating all of our of postgraduate researchers, we would like to offer a heartfelt thanks to all those who attended and made the conference such a success. If you have any feedback from the event, please do fill out our form below:
We kicked off with a fascinating, informative and all too brief discussion on AI in Academia, expertly lead by our host Tommy Pargeter-Grey. Many thanks to the interdisciplinary panel Alhena Saghir, Jerome Jaggi, Zsofia Baruwa and Harrison Grey for their insights. We will undoubtedly be having many more conversations like this, and do look out for our Research Cafes running termly from autumn. These will provide an opportunity for Postgraduate Researchers to present their research and participate in a thematic discussion.
The Kent Researcher talks featured some our most exciting postgraduate projects explained in just over ten minutes by their researchers:
During our Kentish lunch buffet, participants were able to network and ask each other questions about the research presented so far. We had exhibition stands from the library, careers and wellbeing services, plus the Gulbenkian, Docking Station, Brilliant Club and copies of the latest GradPost. Students had the chance to view posters and photos, sparking lively conversations with their creators.
After lunch, the final for our annual 3MT Competition was held, with the Runner Up being Richi Mohanty and winner Maria Alvarez taking first place. Congratulations! This was immediately followed by our special guest speaker Dave Thomas giving an important and fascinating talk on Diversity, Inclusion and Decolonisation in Postgraduate Research.
Our last panel included speakers from three of Kent’s Research Institutes:
All day attendees were able to view the many incredible research posters, and photographs entered in the conference competitions.
We ended with an awards ceremony and drinks reception, which celebrated the winners of the Three Minute Thesis, Research Poster Competition, Research Photograph Competition, and the GRC Prizes. Thanks to our poster and photo judges Dave Thomas, Gordon Lynch, Jim Ang, Jess Day and Shujun Li. We were delighted to announce the winners of all our competitions this year at the event. These were:
People’s Choice Winner – Yeshashwini Kadiri
Judges Highly Commended – Katrine Callander
Judges Winner – Sophia Ppali
Judges’ Winner – Minoya Patkunam
People’s Choice – Sophia Ppali
Director of Graduate Studies/Programme Lead Maria Elisavet Balta
Postgraduate Professional Service Champion Alexandra Marnerou (Highly Commended: Dave Donaldson, Arts and Hums PGR Admin Team)
Postgraduate Teacher George Simpson
Research Degree Supervisor Donna Arnold (Highly commended: Ambrose Gillick)
Postgraduate Researcher Daniel Marshall (Highly commended: Holly McPhillips)
