Poster Competition
Applications for Poster Competition are open, and will close at 5pm on Monday 20 May 2024. Please note we are unable to accept applications after the deadline.
Our Research Poster competition is one of the highlights of the University calendar, showcasing the leading postgraduate research from across the institution. One of the key aims of the poster competition is to challenge PGRs to communicate and disseminate their research to a lay audience. This is a fantastic opportunity for PGRs to practice various skills such as communication, written, presentation and creativity skills. This can be a chance to practice showcasing your research in preparation for conference attendance and participation.
Entrants are not expected to stand by their poster for the duration of the competition. The posters will be on display for those around campus to visit and enjoy. Entrants won't be presenting their research to an audience. All judging will be based on the poster itself and your ability to present your research in this format.
Research Showcase poster display at Streatham Campus will take place Monday 10 June - Thursday 13 June 2024; posters will be displayed in the Forum. The date and venue of the Penryn Campus poster display will be during Monday 1 July - Friday 5 July 2024 in the Social Street, Exchange Building.
The prizes for this year's competition are as follows:
- 1st prize £100 voucher
- 2nd prize £75 voucher
- 3rd prize £50 voucher
There is also a prize for Most Innovative Poster (£100 voucher).
We are running a webinar on Designing research posters, which will take place on Tuesday 16 April, 13.00-14.30pm. You may also find our webinar on Creating impactful public engagement content- Wednesday 1st May, 10am-12pm- useful.
If you are unsure as to where to start with the creation of your poster we also recommend that you look at our Designing Research Posters ELE resources and Planning, Preparing, and Presenting a research poster: Hints and tips for the Research Showcase 2023 guide.
Rules
Posters can be:
- Portrait size A0 or A1
- Landscape size A1
- Please only submit one poster.
- Please ensure your name and University email address is on your poster
- You will need to pay for the printing of your poster
- You can submit a poster that has already been printed
We are running a webinar on Designing research posters, which will take place on Tuesday 16 April, 13.00-14.30pm. You may also find our webinar on Creating impactful public engagement content- Wednesday 1st May, 10am-12pm- useful.
If you are unsure as to where to start with the creation of your poster we also recommend that you look at our Designing Research Posters ELE resources and Planning, Preparing, and Presenting a research poster: Hints and tips for the Research Showcase 2023 guide.
Poster entries will be judged according to:
- Content
- Design
- Overall impact
- Innovation
The judges for the 2024 Poster Competition are TBC.
There are two poster categories- Best STEM and Best HASS. In each category there will be a first, second and third prize.
The prizes for this years competition are as follows:
- 1st prize £100 voucher
- 2nd prize £75 voucher
- 3rd prize £50 voucher
There will also be a prize for Most Innovative Poster (£100 voucher).
The winners for this year's poster competition are as follows:
STEMM Category:
1st Place- Flossie Brown with ‘Estimating fire-driven O3 damage to trees in the Amazon’
2nd Place- Rebekah White with ‘Isolating nematodes as soil health bioindicators’
3rd Place- Sophie Whistler with ‘Satellite Wave Data for a Surrogate Wave Model for Offshore Wind Farm Operations’
HASS Category:
1st Place- Latifah Almughayribi with ‘Critical Evaluation of the Role of Influencers in Festival and Event Marketing Strategies in Saudi Arabia’
2nd Place- Stuart Busby with ‘The leadership identity of Tanzanian head teachers is shaped by a range of competing factors’
3rd Place- Wejdan Alamri with ‘Towards A Wider Perspective On The Institute Adoption Of Blended Learning In Saudi Higher Education: Challenges and Benefits’
Most Innovative Poster: Latifah Almughayribi with ‘Critical Evaluation of the Role of Influencers in Festival and Event Marketing Strategies in Saudi Arabia’
You can see all entries for the 2023 poster competition here.
The winners for this years competition were as follows:
HASS category:
- 1st Place: Katy Humberstone with “Contemporary Cornish identity in Hidalgo, Mexico”
- 2nd Place: Fatma Sabet with “The role of school-caterer partnerships in mobilising sustainable school food in England”
- 3rd Place: Latifah Almughayribi with “Critical Evaluation of the Role of Influencers in Festival and Event Marketing Strategies in Saudi Arabia”
STEMM category:
- 1st Place: Jamie McMurtrie with “Relationships between Tilapia skin and pond water microbiomes for healthy aquaculture ponds in Malawi”
- 2nd Place: Huang Rong with “The Effects of Physical Activity on Bone Architecture in Adulthood: A Systematic Review of Peripheral Quantitative Computed Tomography Studies”
- 3rd Place: Emily Fletcher with “Workload and workflow implications associated with the use of electronic clinical decision support tools used by health professionals in general practice: a systematic scoping review”
Most Innovative Poster category:
- Estrella Torrico Cuadrado with “Statues’ Rumours: The Communicative Phenomenon of the Italian 'Talking Statues' from the Renaissance to the Present Day.”
Our 2021 winners were:
HASS (Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences) Category
- 1st place - Maddy Millar
- 2nd place - Elis Jones
- 3rd place - Leona Heimfeld
STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine) Category
- 1st place - Katy Chapman
- 2nd place - Clemency White
- Joint 3rd - Gillian Phua
- Joint 3rd - Sanjit Debnath
Most Innovative
- Joint 1st - Clemency White
- Joint 1st - Suzan Kors
Best HASS Poster
Winner – Latifah Almughayribi (UEBS) ‘Marketing Strategies for Local Tourism Activities in Saudi Arabia’
Runners up:
- Katie Snow (HUMS) ‘Satirising the Breast: representations of transgressive femininity in eighteenth-century British caricature’
- Nina Van Volkinburg (UEBS) ‘Disruption to Destruction: The Effects of Digital Disruption on the Value Creation Processes within the Fashion Industry’
Best STEMM Poster
Winner – Neil Chanchlani (CMH) ‘Developing personalised therapy for Chron’s disease’
Runners up:
- Hannah Barnard (EMPS) ‘A 'Magnifying Glass' to Look at Proteins from Inside the Body’
- Hannah Meinertzhagen (CLES) ‘Effects of wind on seabird flight & distribution: Implications for assessing impact of offshore wind farms’
Most Innovative Poster
Winner – Laura Burnett (HUMS) ‘For Change and Charitie’
Runners up:
- Mayra Rodriguez (EMPS) ‘Green infrastructures - A sustainable future for our cities?’
- Nina Van Volkinburg (UEBS) ‘Disruption to Destruction: The Effects of Digital Disruption on the Value Creation Processes within the Fashion Industry’
Our prize winners for 2018 were as follows:
Best poster - Humanities Arts and Social Sciences (HASS)
- Winner - Manami Goto (SSIS) - Untold Stories of Masked Women: Analysing the functions of masking the face in the United Arab Emirates
- Runner up – Gemma Edney (HUMs) - Girl(y) Sounds: Music and Girlhood in Contemporary French Cinema
- Runner up - Stephanie Meek (HUMs) – Rethinking Censorship
Best poster - Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine (STEMM)
- Winner – Isabel FitzGerald (UEMs) – Stopping your heart palpitations without drugs
- Runner up - Katie Hall (CLES) – The effect of artificial light at nighttime on the development of bean plants
- Runner up - Janice Ranson (UEMs) – DECODE Dementia Clinical Prediction models: Development and Validation
Most innovative poster
- Joint Winners – Manami Goto (SSIS) - Untold Stories of Masked Women: Analysing the functions of masking the face in the United Arab Emirates
- Joint Winners – Katie Hall (CLES) – The effect of artificial light at nighttime on the development of bean plants
Best Poster – Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS)
Postgraduate: Caroline Nye, College of Social Sciences and International Studies
Poster title: The Forgotten Farm Worker
Best Poster - Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine (STEMM)
Postgraduate: Lauren Adams, College of Life and Environmental Sciences
Poster title: A new protein required for building the cell's antenna
Most Innovative Poster
Postgraduate: Anna Sowa, College of Humanities
Poster title: Creative impact producer
Judges Mention
Postgraduate: Sinibaldo de Rosa, College of Humanities
Poster title: Looking at the Alevi semah through the Kinetography Laban
The Poster Competition took place as part of Postgraduate Research Showcase from 15 – 17 April 2016.
Best Poster – Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS)
Postgraduate: Dawn Thorley, College of Social Sciences and International Studies
Poster title: Perfectionism
Best Poster - Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine (STEMM)
Postgraduate title: Kirsten Thompson, College of Life and Environmental Sciences
Poster: Secrets of the dead: Examining genetic kinship in Gray's beaked whales
Most Innovative Poster
Postgraduate title: Sarah Foxen, College of Humanities
Poster: Investigating language and identity in the (Franco-)Belgian borderland: The untold story
The Poster Competition took places as part of Postgraduate Research Showcase from 27-29 April 2015.
Best Poster – Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS)
Winner: Mathilde Pavis, College of Social Sciences and International Studies
Poster: Who values disabled dance artists?
Best Poster - Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine (STEMM)
Winner: Carole Lee, College of Life and Environmental Sciences
Poster: Can environmental enrichment improve the welfare of laboratory zebrafish?
Most Innovative poster
Winner: Martha Vardaki, College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences
Poster: Can light help us diagnose prostate cancer?