The Graduate School Poster Competition took place on May 25^th and saw nine amazing posters. The Poster Competition is a development opportunity for doctoral research students, who present their research on a research poster, giving short 1-1 verbal presentations alongside.

Taking place at the Owl’s Nest in the Learning Hub, the poster competition was an exciting opportunity for PGRs at UON to engage the community with their research and practice their presentation skills.

The posters and presentations were evaluated by 6 judges picked from academic and non-academic staff who scored them on design, accessibility of content, verbal presentation and researcher engagement. The competition was stiff, as all entries were fantastic, and the first prize was shared between two winners who got exactly the same score from the judges.

The prizes were awarded by Matthew McCormack, head of the Graduate School. The first prize winners received £100 Amazon Vouchers. They were Leanne Jones from Science whose poster was on the role of dystrophin in head and neck cancers, and Jude Offe Krampah also from Science whose poster was on finding alternative ways of assessing cognitive function. The second prizes winners received a £75 Amazon voucher. They were awarded to Lisa Dunkley and Stephanie Shea, both from FHES. Lisa’s poster was on the learning disability sexually harmful behaviours pathway while Stephanie’s was on a service evaluation of clinical supervision for advanced practitioners.

Congratulations to all our winners and to everyone who took part in the competition!