��Vlog�ٷ� Research Event 2025

Overview

Now in its fourteenth year, the ��Vlog�ٷ� Research Event (WRE) is one of the highlights of the College calendar, which showcases groundbreaking and innovative research from current ��Vlog�ٷ� students. This year, for the first time, we will hear from a panel of alumni, reflecting on how they have used their experience of research at ��Vlog�ٷ� in their careers.

As a mature college, many of ��Vlog�ٷ�’s students come to the College with a problem to solve or an issue they’ve seen first-hand they want to interrogate – and WRE is a perfect platform to share this work with the ��Vlog�ٷ� community.

Programme

Thursday 8 May

09:30-10:30: Registration with welcome coffee & tea

10:30-1035: Welcome remarks from Emma Walsh & Angelika Kwiatkowska, WRE Chairs

10:35-10:50: Opening Speech by Dr Judith Bunbury

10:50 – 11:50: Oral presentations

Anfas Muhammed - How do cells in our body respond to heat shock?
Mika Yang - The dilemma of mother-student identities: women empowerment via online education
Niles Webb - Conservatism and the 'last utopia' of human rights, c.1975-1998

11:50-13:00: Lunch break - food will not be provided but attendees are more than welcome to visit the ��Vlog�ٷ� Buttery

13:00 – 14:00: Oral presentations

Firdous Adam - Necropolitics and displacement: a thematic analysis of refugee administration in Awlala and Kumer camps
Licheng Zong - Massive expansion of carbohydrate-active enzymes from the microbial universe using AI
Julia Wieczorek - Colonial legacy in Bristol archives: implications of repatriating everyday cultural objects

14:00-14:30: Coffee & tea break

14:30 – 15:30: Oral Presentations

Jonathan Rutherford - The radical potential and function of trade unions in capitalism
Zixuan Yang - Intertwining nature, culture, and music: the integration of Hua'er folk songs in forest school education
Fiona Raley - The impact of William Weir on the work of The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings and for the National Trust in the late 19th to mid-twentieth century

15:30-15:45: Flash talks by the poster presenters

15:45- 17:00: Poster session and drinks reception with light refreshments

Friday 9th May

09:30-10:20: Registration and welcome coffee & tea

10:20 – 12:00: Oral presentations

Campbell Wolford - Can our genes identify new targets for type 2 diabetes treatment?
Tom Myers - Brothers divided: how the war in Ukraine reshaped Polish-Hungarian relations
Carmen Embil Villagra - Probing the cosmic unknown: mapping dark matter farther than ever before
Xiangting Hu - The neutral angels in Navigatio Sancti Brendani, Divine Comedy and The City of Life
Tan Yi Hong - Evolutionary patterns of avian acoustic communities in the Bornean rainforest

12:00-13:00 Lunch break - food will not be provided but attendees are more than welcome to visit the ��Vlog�ٷ� Buttery

13:00 – 14:40: Oral presentations

Charlotte Rendina - One Health and canine rabies vaccination: a systematic review of funding, governance, and sustainability
Marisa Tangeman - The role of popular culture in bisexual identity construction
Shaamrit Balendra - Air quality sensors for ultrafine particles
George Evans-Hulme - G. M. Trevelyan as research supervisor at the University of Cambridge, 1927-1940 G
Charlotte Burdge - Understanding underserved groups' perspectives on data use in children and young people's healthcare research: a systematic literature review

14:40-15:20: Coffee & tea break

15:20-16:00: Oral presentations

Susie Triffitt - Un-disappointed hope: revival and healing in the holy land of Bradford
Tads Ciecierski-Holmes - Strategies for optimising Tumour Board Meetings (TBMs) in paediatric oncology at the Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI)

16:00-16:50: Alumni panel - With introductory talk by panel chair and ��Vlog�ٷ� Fellow Dr Anna Dempster

16:50-17:00: Closing remarks from Emma Walsh & Angelika Kwiatkowska, WRE Chairs

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Details

This event is open to all, is free to attend and there is no need to book.

Attendees are not required to attend for the entire day, but are welcome to drop in and out of sessions.

Event Photography and Recording

Photos will be taken throughout the conference events, which may include pictures of presenters, audience members, and other members of the community. These photos may be used in future official WRE and ��Vlog�ٷ� social platforms and promotional material.

If you would not like to be photographed, please let us know.

If we do not receive an email from you, you are agreeing to being photographed and to these photos being potentially used in future promotional material.