UGRE 2019
UGRE 2019
Wednesday 13th February
G11b Clothworkers South
1.30-4pm
| 1.30-2pm Refreshments and Welcome | ||
| 2-2.50pm - Presentations | ||
| Rosie Cousins | History | Proving a Royal Point: The (Show)Trial of William Davison |
| Eliza Maher | History | Elizabethan government: the face of compromise |
| Leonidas Adams | Linguistics & Phonetics | Trans and Gender Variant Narratives in Antiquity |
| Jonathan Turner | Linguistics & Phonetics | Analysing and Measuring differences between the regional accents of Newcastle and Hull |
| Questions | ||
| 2.50pm-3.05pm Refreshment Break | ||
| 3.05-3.15pm - Interactive Performance | ||
| Natalia Izquierdo | Theatre & Performance | Enhanced Audience Experience through Interactivity in Performance |
| 3.15-4pm - Presentations | ||
| Isabelle Blodorn | Linguistics & Phonetics | Learning a second language as an adult and the factors affecting the process |
| Kayra Uguz | English & History of Art | Masking the Ottoman |
| Liv Powell | International History & Politics | New Diplomacy or New Imperialism? Soviet Activities in the Far East, 1917-31 |
| Cameron Martin-Campbell | Ancient History & English | How can China’s ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ be compared with the Power and Control strategies of the Ancient World? |
| Mailies Fleming | English & Sociology | Silence is violence: taking an intersectional approach to researching sexual violence in South Africa |
| Questions | ||
Day Two
Thursday 14th February
Workshop Theatre Studio
12-3pm
| 12-12.30pm Berkofsky Arts Prize Panel and Information Session (Finalists) |
| Are you going to be graduating this year in the creative arts? Want to find out more about the prestigious Berkofsky Art Prize of £2000 EXCLUSIVE to students in Arts, Humanities & Cultures. Recent recipients, Layla Hillsden, Callum Isaac and Liz Mann will be sharing their experiences and advice. |
| 12.30-1pm Refreshments and Networking |
| 1-1.45pm - Presentations | ||
| Lucy Slater | International History & Politics | The Role of Intelligence in Political Decision-Making: The Special Operations Executive and Tito 1941-1943 |
| Ben Riely | English Language & Linguistics | How you can create another identity by learning another language |
| Lydia Valentine | English Literature | The Racialization of Beauty in The Tragedy of Mariam and Renaissance Culture |
| Questions | ||
| 1.45-2pm Refreshments and Networking | ||
| 2-2.45pm - Presentations | ||
| Aneeka Hussain | English Literature | The 'Poetic Home' in Poetry by Moniza Alvi and Imtiaz Dharker |
| Mary O’Gorman | English Language & Language | The Hillsborough Disaster: A Comparative analysis of language use in UK newspapers using a corpus |
| Hatty Mathews | Music | To what extent can we accuse music as an ethical problem of the contemporary documentary? |
| Natasha Raistrick | History | The Darker Side of Medical History: Nazi Physicians and Medical Experiments in the Third Reich’s Concentration Camps |
| Sahima Miah | Arabic & Islamic Studies | Islam & Politics |
| Questions | ||
| 2.45-3pm Refreshments and Networking | ||
Friday 15th February
Michael Sadler LG10
Presentations 1-5pm, After Show Party - 4.30-7.30pm
| 12-1pm FOAR2000 Research Placement Research Poster Carousel | ||
| Celebrating Refugees in Leeds
Refugee Voices Angry Young Men |
WW1 Army Pensions Database
Responsibility to Protect (R2P) Africa Responsibility to Protect (R2P) Middle East |
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| Find out what our students have been getting up to in this fast-paced “speed” networking event - just drop in at any time in the hour. | ||
| 1-1.30pm Refreshments and Networking | ||
| 1.30-2.30pm - Presentations | ||
| Natasha Downs | Chinese & Japanese | The influence of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms in Japan |
| Connie Dimsdale | Liberal Arts | How do religious identities interact with ideas of gender equality for young women studying at the University of Leeds? |
| Carme Llorca Bofi | English Literature | 'To Shakespeare or not to Shakespeare' Authorship and Computational Methods |
| Uthpala Ramprasad | English Literature | Religion and its models of governance in the medieval period |
| Maria Stankiewicz | Arabic & International Development | Iranian Christians in Leeds: Experiences of Church Membership |
| Tom Shepherd | History | Coins as Historical Evidence: Examples from the Seventh-Century Middle East |
| Questions | ||
| 2.30-2.40pm - Refreshments | ||
| 2.40-3.30pm - Presentations | ||
| Bachittar Singh | Art & Design | Abstracting Nature. Using natural elements in art |
| Weronika Tupaj | History of Art with Cultural Studies | The End of Utopia? The Emergence of Modernism in Nowa Huta – Socrealist Ideal City |
| Emilia Bazydlo | History of Art | The Car Shapes the City |
| Katherine James | Art & Design | Coffee and Contemporary Art Jewellery |
| Questions | ||
| 3.30-4pm Q Step Summer Internship Panel and Information session (for 2nd Years) | ||
| Want to find out how you can get paid up to £1500 to carry out a cutting edge research project, and get high quality research training? Then come along to this panel & info session! Find out more from Liv Powell, Alexandra Prellberg and Isobel Sale who took part in the scheme last year. | ||
| 4-4.30pm Laidlaw Undergraduate Research & Leadership Panel and Information session (for 1st Years) |
| Love research? Want to develop leadership skills? Fancy a bit of international travel? Then check out the Laidlaw scholarship panel, where you can get top application tips from current and former scholars: Rianna Harree, Liv Powell, Maria Stankiewicz, Emma Herbert-Davies, Kelsie Root, Anna May as well as the Laidlaw administrators. |
| 4.30-7.30pm After Show Party FREE wine, non-alcoholic drinks & nibbles - Performances from 5.00pm Performances include Alex Webb with an acoustic set, Abinav Bhattachan a digital media student who writes songs about experiences within the online and digital world and finally a set from the amazing Acapella Society. |