UGRE 2020

The Undergraduate Research Experience (UGRE) is an annual celebration of the fantastic work of our undergraduate students here in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Cultures. Don't forget to vote in our Photo Competition 2020- voting closes at 3pm on Friday 21 Feb, we will announce the winners at the After Show Party.

All welcome, no need to book - just drop in!

Monday 17 Feb, G.23, 28 University Road
2-2.50pm

Eliza Kaya-Mattey, BA Philosophy, Ethics & Religion
Dog is a Person, God is a Person

Thomas Davy, BA History
Seagulls are never that nice

2.50-3.35pm
Charlotte Durham, BA Communication & Media
God at the Movies: A Presence of Biblical Narratives in Today’s Cinema

Holly Withero, BA English & Comparative Literature
Environmental Trauma and Native American Survivance

Annabel Cook, BA International Relations & Politics
Dissociative Identity Disorder: The Stigma of Multiplicity

3.35-4pm
Creative Show and Tell - artists from around the Faculty share their creative practice featuring:
Sofia Byrne, BA Art & Design
Traditional Cultural Influences in the Making and Perception of an Artistic Practice

George Fletcher, BA Fine Art
Sad or Dead: The Representation of Queer Women in British Television

Tuesday 18 Feb, G.23, 28 University Road
2-2.50pm

Aron Clark, BA Philosophy, Ethics & Religion
Philosophy in Primary School, a necessity in our current Political Climate

Kamarl Gabriel-Wilson, BA Philosophy & Sociology
(De-colonising) The Curriculum

Joshua House, BA Theology & Religious Studies
Priests, Manliness and Homophobia: How the Catholic Church has fostered a unique ideal of masculinity for Priests and what this means for homosexuality

2.40-3.35pm

Nathan Coundon, BA Philosophy
Consciousness and the Brain: are they distinct or the same?

Florian Read, BA German & History
From Communism to Capitalism: The impact of unification on rural East Germany

Abinav Bhattachan, BA Digital Media
You are what you consume: managing our digital diets in the 21^st century

Kathryn Bodha, BA English Literature
The Significance of identity in Matthew Lopez's play 'The Inheritance' and Tony Kushner's 'Angels in America'

3.35-4pm

Laidlaw Scholarship info panel - Find out more about this incredible opportunity, where you can develop your leadership skills, undertake research and earn up to £6000! Exclusively for FIRST years. Come along to this panel and get some insider top tips about the application process and find out more about the programme from current and former scholars, including Jae Eniraiyetan, Liv Powell and Sreya Vadlamani .

Wed 19 Feb, Business School 1.32

2.00-2.50pm

Janet Eniraiyetan (Laidlaw Scholar), BA Philosophy & Physics
The Metaphysical Implications of the Double-slit Experiment

Sara Green, BA History (International)
Marginal Voices: Collectivising Sahrawi memory in conveying a shared trauma of ‘hidden’ human rights violations in the Western Sahara

Victoria Boyden, BA English & Film Studies
Needy Lesnicki and the May Queen: Gender and Genre in the 21st Century Horror Film

Sara Felberg, BA International Relations & Politics
Defining Today’s Feminist Political Climate

2.50-3.40pm

Tanita Lewis, BA Economics & French
Decolonisation of Development

Charlotte Albion, BA Religion, Politics & Society
Religion & Feminism

Elizabeth (Lilli) Chung, BA English Literature & Theatre Studies
How we create spaces: Hong Kong and the Imaginative Sphere

Hugo Knowles, BA Theatre & Performance
Parkour as Performance: the Creative Process

Thurs 20 Feb, G.23, 28 University Road Here's a video of the location, as it's pretty tricky to find!

2.00-2.40pm

Farida Augustine (Laidlaw Scholar), BA French & Politics
Identifying West Africans in the French Resistance

James Winters, BA Philosophy, Politics & Economics
UK Policy and Regulation in the approach to the 4th industrial revolution

Maja Stefanska, BA Arabic & International Business
Slaves in Qatar: a rocky road to the 2022 Football World Cup

Sabrina Sampaio Martins, BA English & Comparative Literature
'Nature Strikes Back!': Representations of Climate Change in Horror Films

2.40-3.35pm

HIST2505 - Archive Intelligence Showcase

Charlotte Almey, BA History & English
Nursing in the First World War

Lea Benge, BA Professional Studies
What it means to be human through atrocities of WW2 Krakow Poland

Ben Kumar, BA History & History & Philosophy of Science
Louis Le Prince

Russell Downing, BA Professional Studies
Surviving historical buildings of Pudsey

Simon Walker, BA Professional Studies
The founding of the University of Leeds

3.35-4pm

Q Step Summer Research Internship info panel - find out more about this amazing opportunity for level two students in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures. You get PAID to carry out research and develop your data analysis skills! Come along to this panel and get some insider top tips about the application process and find out more about the programme from previous scholars: Mollie Plummer and Liv Powell.

Fri 21 Feb, Michael Sadler LG10

12.00-12.15pm Welcome & refreshments

12.15-1.15pm Research poster carousel - featuring posters on:

Radicals of Leeds; Exodus- a play about the refugee crisis; LGBQT+ Lives; WW1 German Prisoner of War camp; Sex Education in Schools; Digital Tibet; Men, Women & Care; Community Religions Exhibition; The life and times of Henry Marsden, Lord Mayor of Leeds; The experiences of a female ambulance driver in Russia during WW2.

1.15-1.45pm Refreshments & networking

1.45-2.45pm

Eden Parry, BA Theology & Religious Studies
'White Feminism' in post colonial, religious discourse

Vanesa Arias Bujia, BA Classical Civilisation
The Worship of Water: How did Roman influence affect ritualisation in the existing communities of Gallaecia

Zipporah Blake-Gravesande, BA Art History
The social history of afro hair

Katherine James, BA Art & Design
Exploring gendered materials in design

Alexander Wilde, BA History
When men with great expectations get forgotten

2.45-3.00pm Refreshments & networking

3.00-4.00pm - Michael Sadler LG15

HIST2505 - Archive Intelligence Showcase

Kenneth Knott, BA History
Quarry Hill Leeds: its population density and how it has changed

Megan Thomas, BA History & English
Oral History? Dialect Surveying in England