On the 3rd of July 2024, the GRC welcomed staff and students alike to our Annual Postgraduate Conference.
It was a busy and vibrant day celebrating all of our postgraduate researchers, thank you to all who attended. If you have any feedback from the event, please fill out our form here.
This year, the Graduate and Researcher College (GRC) collaborated with the Division of Arts and Humanities, the Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, Kent Business School and the Division of Natural Sciences to celebrate our postgraduate researcher community.
The day kicked off with research talks, panel discussions, poster presentations, interactive sessions and divisional Q&As. We were then also joined by Kent Union, The Brilliant Club, Library Services, Careers Services, and Student Support and Wellbeing. After enjoying a Kentish buffet lunch students and staff mingled and networked, before heading off to more talks, panels, presentations and sessions.
Awards Ceremony
We ended with an awards ceremony and drinks reception, which celebrated the winners of the Three Minute Thesis, Academic Poster Competition, Academic Talks Competition, ECR Participation Competition, Supervisor Competition and the GRC Prizes. We were delighted to announce the winners of all our competitions this year at the event. These were:
Three Minute Thesis
Runner-Up – Olasunkanmi Arowolo
Winner – Becky Mcneill
Academic Poster Competition
Division of Natural Sciences Runner-Up – Amy Powell
Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Winner – Olivia Keers
Kent Business School Winner – Maryam Ajaj
Academic Talks Competition
Division of Natural Sciences Runner-Up – Mariam Yacoub
Division of Natural Sciences Winner – Ed Deshumukh-Reeves
ECR Participation Competition
Division of Natural Sciences Winner – Jake Hudson
Supervisor Competition
Division of Natural Sciences Winner – Professor Michelle Garrett
GRC Prizes
Research Supervisor Runner-Up – Dr. David Garbin
Research Supervisor Runner-Up – Dr. Marta Farré Belmonte
Research Supervisor Winner – Professor George Saridakis
Postgraduate Researcher Runner-Up – Krysia Waldock
Postgraduate Researcher Runner-Up – Waksh Awais
Postgraduate Researcher Winner – Basma Eldoukhi
We were delighted to see so many of you at the Annual Postgraduate Conference – thank you for joining us and making it such a wonderful day!
Hear what some of our students had to say about the day:
“I thoroughly enjoyed the conference and thought that all of the presentations were engaging followed by enriching discussions.”
“This year’s conference was absolutely fantastic. It was brilliant to see so many divisions collaborating and such a large portion of our PGR population in one space! Genuinely a massive well done to you and your team and it was a pleasure to be a part of it.”