UROS projects:2019

Investigating Gravitational Instabilities Within Planetary Rings During Planet-Planet Scattering Events

by Jake Muff // For this project we looked at the J1407 star system which is approximately 434 light years from Earth. The system consists of the Star...

Victim satisfaction with the Joint Diversionary Panel

by Hollie Skipp //   The Joint Diversionary Panel uses a Muti-agency approach to Youth Justice, which utilises information from a myriad of services to inform holistic decision...

Islamophobia, ‘Brownface’ and media controversies: An analysis of newspaper media responses to channel 4’s ‘My Week as a Muslim’

by Gabrielle Weyer   The documentary ‘My Week as a Muslim’ aired on Channel 4 in October 2017. This programme followed a white Christian woman, who spent a...

Raising educational aspirations? Evaluating the second iteration of a student-mentoring scheme

by Elena Gaschino //    The educational underachievement of working-class boys has been the focus of public and policy anxiety in recent years and is recognised as an...

Solastalgia – An Empirical Exploration

by Daniel Ford //   My project was a study on the topic of solastalgia – Glenn Albrecht’s term for the feeling of nostalgic loss toward the environment...

Synthetic Atomic Force Microscope Data

by Broderick Harvey //    Atomic force microscopy has been a highly involved technique in analysing (crystalline) surfaces at an atomic level (in the order of a few...

Hybrid Electrical Energy Storage System (HEESS) for Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs)

by Billy Robinson (Winner of the UROS 2019 Dean’s Award for Outstanding Research) //   LiPo and Li-ion batteries are currently considered the modern standard in Battery Electric...

Improving unfamiliar face matching by working in pairs

by Bethany Raven & Ellen Wheeler //    Our UROS project provided us with the chance to investigate whether working in pairs can lead to improvements in unfamiliar...

Longitudinal study on the relationship between students’ objective smartphone and social media use and academic performance

by Andreea Moldovan //    In these modern times, technology became an extension of our lives. Because it represents such a big part of our day-to-day routine, it...

Investigating Language Lateralisation and Motor Control in Development

by Amber Scotting //    My project investigated the link between hand performance and preference to language laterality. It has long been thought that handedness and language are...