{"id":3140,"date":"2023-06-08T14:25:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T13:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/graduateschoolnews\/?p=3140"},"modified":"2023-06-27T14:59:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T13:59:54","slug":"grc-annual-postgraduate-conference-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/graduate-researcher-college-studenthub\/2023\/06\/08\/grc-annual-postgraduate-conference-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"GRC Annual Postgraduate Conference 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the 7th of June 2023 the GRC welcomed staff and students alike to our Annual Postgraduate Conference.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>It was a busy and vibrant day celebrating all of our of postgraduate researchers, thank you to all who attended. If you have any feedback from the event, please do fill out our form <\/span>here<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u202f<\/span>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.\u202f\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Kent Researcher talks featured some our most exciting postgraduate projects explained in just over ten minutes by their researchers. Yeshashwini Kadiri spoke on \u2018Informal Urbanism and Gendered Infrastructure in the Global South\u2019, Bamidele Ogunjumelo on \u20183-D Flame Visualisation through Optical Imaging\u2019 Sophia Ppali on \u2018Music from anywhere & everywhere: Exploring the design space of remote music performances\u2019 and Antonis Karamalegkos delivered \u2018Investigating the effects of Natural compounds on health and lifespan\u2019. We\u2019ll never think about worms in the same way.\u202f\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u202fDiversity, Inclusion and Decolonisation in Postgraduate Research. \u202f<\/span><\/p>\n

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Our last panel included speakers from three of Kent\u2019s Research Institutes. Catherine Richardson from the\u202f<\/span>Institute of Creative and Cultural Industries<\/span><\/a>\u202fpresented with David Sefton, and gave us a tantalising hint and the exciting interdisciplinary creative arts project taking place in Medway at the Docking Station. Shujun Li told us more about the\u202f<\/span>Institute of Cyber Security<\/span><\/a>\u202fand Bob Smith told us about the European Bison in Blean as part of an update from the\u202f<\/span>Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology<\/span><\/a>. All day attendees were able to view the many incredible research posters, and photographs entered in the conference competitions.\u202f \u202f \u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Awards Ceremony<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Three Minute Thesis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Runner Up – Richi Mohanty<\/p>\n

Winner – Maria Alvarez<\/p>\n

Research Poster<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

People\u2019s Choice Winner \u2013\u202fYeshashwini Kadiri<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Judges Highly Commended \u2013\u202fKatrine Callander<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Judges Winner \u2013\u202fSophia Ppali<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Research Photograph<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Judges\u2019 Winner \u2013\u202fMinoya Patkunam<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

People\u2019s Choice \u2013\u202fSophia Ppali<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Graduate and Researcher College Prizes<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Director of Graduate Studies\/Programme Lead\u202fMaria Elisavet Balta<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Postgraduate Professional Service Champion\u202fAlexandra Marnerou (Highly Commended: Dave Donaldson, Arts and Hums PGR Admin Team)\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Postgraduate Teacher\u202fGeorge Simpson<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Research Degree Supervisor\u202fDonna Arnold (Highly commended: Ambrose Gillick)\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Postgraduate Researcher\u202fDaniel Marshall (Highly commended: Holly McPhillips)\u202f\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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All Photos:\u00a0Nathan Eaton-Baudains<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the 7th of June 2023 the GRC welcomed staff and students alike to our Annual Postgraduate Conference.\u00a0 \u00a0It was a busy and vibrant day celebrating all of our of postgraduate researchers, thank you to all who attended. If you have any feedback from the event, please do fill out our form here.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u202fWe kicked … Continue reading GRC Annual Postgraduate Conference 2023<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79746,"featured_media":3141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[204320],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/graduate-researcher-college-studenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/graduate-researcher-college-studenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/graduate-researcher-college-studenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/graduate-researcher-college-studenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79746"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/graduate-researcher-college-studenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3140"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/graduate-researcher-college-studenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3215,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/graduate-researcher-college-studenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions\/3215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/graduate-researcher-college-studenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/graduate-researcher-college-studenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/graduate-researcher-college-studenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/graduate-researcher-college-studenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}