Previous JRA projects
Below are some titles of some previous JRA projects as well as some examples of winning and shortlisted academic posters from the last few years, produced by JRAs to showcase their research projects.
- Business, Management and Economics
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- The Impact of global Health Partnerships' Innovative Interventions on the Health Landscape: A gendered Approach.
- Does the Nature of Remittances Have an Effect on Household Expenditure? A Comparison of Households in Ghana and Zimbabwe.
- Are Fintech companies showing similar price patterns to Technology businesses in 2000 and if so, is the FinTech industry the next Dot-Com bubble?
- An investigation into how bank default probabilities and stock prices were affected as a result of the implementation of Vickers’ Ring-fencing policy within the United Kingdom.
- Banking efficiency in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- The impact of Covid-19 pandemic on the R&D of pharmaceutical multinationals.
- Is expenditure Growth Dependent on the Type of Migration?
- Gendered Impact of the Pandemic: Analysing the burden of the labour market crisis on women.
- Building a Framework of National AI Strategies.
- How the UK's Points-Based Immigration system May affect Migration.
- Arts & Crafts Small Business Perspective: The Big Shift to Going Online during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
- Supply Chain Resilience: The dangers of 'pick n mix'
- Understanding freelancers as an agent of innovation in the creative economy
- What is the potential of the Metaverse for customer engagement in retail finance? Analysis of the new product development and the critical success factors.
- Social Entrepreneurship in Resource-Constrained Contexts: A Grounded Theory Approach from Jordan
- Educational and Social Work
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- SEND education: the impact of provision type on academic achievement, school engagement and SEND support.
- Becoming Independent: How Adolescents with Kidney Transplants Form Their Own Identity as They Get Older
- Subverting normative representations of disability: exploring the relationship between TikTok and British Sign Language users
- Supervision of workers in adult services: improving outcomes from a service user/carer prospective.
- Exploring teachers' understanding of the relationship between behaviour and potential
- Informed consent: In the Context of 'Sharenting' of Severly* Autistic Children
- Engineering and Informatics
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- An investigation into the use of three-dimensional printing in anatomy education.
- Automating Exam Marking with Document Image Analysis.
- Exploring Holographic Representation of Images as a Non-Human Animal Interaction Modality.
- Developing Accessible Remote Technologies to Ensure The Welfare of Dogs
- Ambush: Modelling cooperative predation against a self -protective evader using Genetic Programming.
- Modelling Low-Dimensional Feature Representations to Improve Fairness of Neurodegenerative Disease Predictive Models.
- Developing Affordable Instrumentation for Fluid Flow Measurements.
- Employing Image De-rotation to Explore Heat Transfer in Jet Turbine Engines.
- Modelling blood flow with MPS (Moving particle semi-implicit).
- Floating-Point Conversion Compared to Few-Spikes Conversion
- Locomotion Modelling for Shape-Morphing Origami Robots
- Autonomous robot navigation using GPU enhanced neural networks.
- Sleep-Wake Robotics: Evolution of a Braitenberg vehicle through continuous modelling of the environment.
- Developing a Practitioner Design Toolkit for Animal Computer Interaction Technologies.
- Experimental Investigation into using Targeted Surface Microjets to Control Flow Separation over Compressor Blades.
- The Visualisation of Associations between HLA-Alleles and Viral Diseases
- Colour Balanced NeRF: Enhancing Robustness with Augmented Data
- Influence the Regeneration Creativity of a GPT - An Adventure in Prompt Engineering
- Investigating BBR on low earth orbit satellite constellations using Hypatia - A satellite simulation framework based on ns3, a packet level discrete event network simulator.
- Why is Traditional Cybersecurity Teaching Falling Short? - Exploring alternatives with Docker, Cloud & Raspberry-Pi 4
- Investigation of Colour-Opponent Gabor Filters on Spatial Frequency Sensitivity and Object Recognition via Deep-Convolutional Neural Network
- Global Studies
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- An Indigenous-lead analysis of the presentations of Native American powwow regalia in British museums.
- 'Whose coffee are you drinking?' An exploratory study into ethical consumerism.
- An Introductory Study into the Origin and Morphology of Landforms in the Yana-Indigirika Lowland, Siberia
- Bridging the Gap: Applying concepts of sustainability to grassroots organisations.
- The Environmental Lives of Rural Workers: Representations Through the Medium of Painting and Prose, C.18-19th.
- What is the role of the music sector in the transition to urban environmental sustainability?
- Policing animal liberation and animal rights activism in the UK.
- Embodied Democracy: HIV and Politics of Medicine in South Africa, Brazil and India
- British expats in Spain and Brexit: A Survey and Socio-Historical Review.
- Drawing Local Demarcations: Perception of Refugees in Zones of Contact.
- Putin’s embodied sovereignty; the rise-of hyper-masculinity and struggles over legitimacy and identity in U.S. political discourse.
- The new social stratification in contemporary China and its relations to economic and political change.
- Human rights versus authoritarianism. Arms transfers to Egypt and the Arab Spring.
- "Rich Means We're Able to Have Healthy Food" - Building sustainable access to food through community: Voices from Three IDP settlements in Myanmar
- Escaping the Limbo: How the "Masters of Peace Project" set and outstanding example for the importance of women's spaces in refugee camps.
- Law, Politics and Sociology
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- Female Genital Mutilation ("FGM"), Female Genital Circumcision, Female Genital Operation: Do UK laws banning "FGM" undermine the complexities of this practice?
- The politics and Discourses of Human Rights Protection: A Critical Analysis of the Status of Syrian Asylum-Seekers and Migrants in the UK.
- A socio-legal analysis of land reparation measures in Colombia's Victims Law 2011: can they provide effective restitution to Indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities?
- Problems of Race render Neoliberalism a Failing System: an analysis of the government's response to the Black Lives Matter movement 2020.
- Comedy Is Simply a Funny Way of Being Serious' - Differences and Similarities in Political comedy Across Different National Contexts.
- Feeling Safe in Brighton & Hove: A Mixed Methods Study of Women's Experiences
- “Don’t feed the troll” - A dramaturgical analysis of interactional responses to deviant behaviour in an online community.
- What are the implications of gender stereotypes within children's books on the adults' later lives?
- Swipe, Message, Block? A comparative study of men's use of online dating services.
- The ethnography of Grime music: An exploration into the urban disenfranchised.
- The privacy implications of the 'Online Safety Bill'
- Do the Interactions Between UK Parliament and Fracking Lobbyists Suggest Undue Influence?
- Serial Killers vs. Ponzi Schemers - What are the sociological and psychological similarities and differences between Ponzi Schemes and Serial Murder and those that commit them?
- Final Escape from Inceldom - A psychodynamic exploration into the authoritarian tendencies of Incels
- Shame and Nostalgia in Transgenerational Narratives of Palestinian Diaspora
- Life Sciences
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- Novel roles for the exoribonuclease Dis3L2 in cell proliferation.
- Biochemical and crystallographic studies of a cAha1-Hsp90 complex.
- Investigating Beta-catenin Protein Interactions in Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML)
- Does the intercellular exchange of micro-RNAs regulate the expression of Blimp-1 in inflammatory cells?
- Determining the toxicity of Graphene Quantum Dots to evaluate their suitability as a breast cancer drug delivery system.
- Synthesis of Leptin Peptides for Novel Therapies of Alzheimer's Disease
- Investigation for Ni/Dy Polynuclear Coordination Clusters with Interesting Magnetic and Catalytic Properties.
- Ribosomal Subunit Processing Dysfunction in the Delta FUS Cell Model of ALS.
- Synthesis of novel 1,4-benzodiazepine compounds for application within drug discovery.
- Investigating differential enrichment of Spo11 and Top2 DNA breaks during S. cerevisiae meiosis.
- The role of TDP-43 in aberrant alternative translation in motor neuron disease.
- Investigating the silent synapse: The kinetic properties of GluN2A and GluN2B knockout glutamatergic synapses in magnesium-free environment
- Using computer modelling to further understand and refine Deep Brain Stimulation as a treatment for Parkinson’s Disease.
- Investigating the effects of the anti-depressant, ketamine, on neurotrophic growth factor expression and synaptic potentiation.
- Alzheimer's Risk Factor APOE4's Effect on Sodium Conductance and Neuron Firing
- Investigating the Importance of Sudan Ebolavirus Glycoprotein Epitopes to Aid Vaccine Development
- Effects of AMPK Activator and Calcineurin Inhibitors on EGFP-Kv2.2 Clustering in HeLa Cells
- Towards the synthesis of novel manganese contrast agents for use in Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Establishment of a Globalastoma-Immune Microenvironment Model for the Screening of Novel Therapeutic Compounds
- Using CRISPRa to enduce EMT in Colo-357 cells
- Identifying the functional domains of Mrc1 required for chromosome stability in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- The control of ion concentration in chemical reaction kinetics by electric field effects
- Investigating the effect of Tau mutations in neuroblastoma cells and patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cell-derived Astrocytes.
- Novel Thiazole Synthesis from Sulfoxonium Ylides via Acid Catalysis
- Assessing the Establishment of Insect Communities on Re-Created Chalk Grassland
- The Cognitive Ecology of Pollination: how flower orientation affects bee foraging preference
- Investigating the Performance of the Wood Ant Visual System through Retinal Structure and Function.
- Investigating Magnetoreception in Larval Zebrafish
- Application of acoustic data reading to detect colonies of barbastelle bats (Barbastella barbastellus).
- Effectiveness of Sussex Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs) and Trawler Exclusion Zones (TEZs) on Marine Species Diversity and Kelp Restoration.
- Mathematical and Physical Sciences
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- Implementation of Numerical Approximations of Systems Coupling Curve Evolution to Diffusion on the Curve
- An investigation of random fields with radically elementary probability theory.
- Fourier Multipliers, Bochner-Reisz Summability, and the Littlewood-Paley g-functions.
- Unearthing mathematical models for cell-surface dynamics: from experiments to mathematics.
- Quantum Logic: can we resolve its conflict with the well-established truths of classical reason?
- Numerical and computational analysis of a mathematical model for tumour growth in two space dimensions.
- Faint-End Upturn of the Luminosity Function of Galaxies in Clusters.
- Testing Theories Beyond General Relativity with Gravitational Waves
- Higgs production with a jet-veto via bottom quark annihilation.
- Why is there more matter than antimatter in the universe? A re-evaluation of systematic effects affecting neutron electric dipole moment experiments.
- Aspects of T-Duality in String Theory.
- Enhancing the measurement of physical phenomena through the exploitation of quantum state fragility.
- Computational quantum mechanics: visualizing the quantum wavefunction.
- Supporting precision cosmology with clusters of galaxies: conversion of a legacy IDL code into python.
- Creating synthetic galaxy catalogues and maps for Webb, Euclid and Rubin using XID + SED tool
- Imagine conversion to suit the requirements of tactification.
- Mathematical Queueing Models and Their Applications in Everyday Problems
- Using the Top quark to make predictions beyond the Standard Model
- Hometronics: Producing Graphene Using Common Household Items
- The Search for Dark Matter: Could we detect Axion Like Particles using X-ray Astronomy?
- An Exploration of Ultra-Rare Kaon Decays
- Media, Arts and Humanities
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- The Works of Lesbian and Gender Nonconforming Playwrights in the Off-Off Broadway Movement, 1960-1985.
- A Black Body: Recasting Black British Art 1980s-Present.
- Representation of African Americans in Surrealist magazines and periodicals.
- Uncovering alt lit: Tao Lin, and the 'death' of an internet subculture
- Black Girlhood and Invisibility in the Work of Toni Morrison
- The Appropriation of 19th- Century Aesthetic by LGBTQ+ Young People Today
- Triggering affected states: The politics and ethics of staging trauma in the work of Katie Mitchell.
- Developing a parts-of-speech tagging system for Cameroon Pidgin English.
- Investigating orthographical kisses (x) in computer mediated communication.
- The Rise of Dissociative Feminism in Popular Culture.
- Recalling Macaulay: A treatise into the life and works of the celebrated historian Catherine Macaulay.
- A Mufti in Brighton: Muhammad ‘Abduh and the formation of a Muslim Brighton.
- Holocaust education beyond the History Classroom.
- The Fate of Universal History in the Age of Planetary Collapse: Rereading Adorno in the Anthropocene.
- Eliminativism about the Manifest and Common-sense Realism.
- Exploring aesthetic choice in gendered presentation: how can our clothing help actualise our identities?
- How has Anna Maria Maiolino defined embodiment through sculptural practice?
- Coloniality and British Museums - North-African Objects in British Museums as Embodiments of Coloniality
- Mapping Sussex University Library's Black History Archives
- Contemporary Crisis, Disease and Decay in the Novels of Philip Roth
- Dressed to Protest? How University of Sussex students in the 1960s and 70s used their dress as a form of protest.
- Psychology
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- Developing Stimuli to Test Infant Hue Discrimination.
- Endogenous distractors: How and why does a thought achieve salience?
- Characterising cell specific knockdown of α2-containing GABA receptors in the brain.
- Beyond contagion? Testing Social identification as mechanism and boundary condition in involuntary influence of aggression.
- Phenotypic characterisation of neurons activated by cocaine-associated contexts.
- A study of the influence of APOE on hippocampal overactivity.
- Perceptual hyper-sensitivity in synaesthesia using the pattern glare test and TMS.
- The influence of cardiac control of fear in the brain on treatment for spider phobias.
- Substance specific risk factors for relapse in early recovery from substance misuse.
- Understanding the impact of a 4-day working week: from wellbeing to productivity.
- Does Phenomenological Control Increase Susceptibility to Demand Characteristics?
- Developing novel methods of mitigating racial bias in EEG research.
- Safe Haven or Trans Exclusionary Island? An IPA Qualitative Analysis of the Effects of Stigma, Transphobia and Mass Media Portrayals on Transgender Individuals Living in the UK.
- Trans Identities within the Autistic Population: a mixed-method exploration of how masking affects trans-autistic gender experiences in healthcare and beyond.
- Reading comprehension in children with autism spectrum disorders and its relationship with their perceptual span.
- Neural Underpinnings of Appetitive Associative Memory Extinction.
- Wrapped in Time: Investigating Hyperfocus in Everyday Life
- Reading Between the Lines: An Investigation Into Baby Books And Infant Visual Preference
- Brain ATP concentration levels after mild hypoxia exposure
- Exploring the Correlation Between Interoception and Primal World Belief
- Brighton and Sussex Medical School
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- Beyond oxidative stress: is glutathione just an antioxidant or is it a signalling molecule?
- Quality of online information on autism and vaccinations: an evaluation, content analysis and comparison of English and Mandarin webpages.
- Regulation of SARM in monocytes from rheumatoid arthritis patients.
- Characterisation of the recruitment of E3 SUMO ligase Pli1 to telomeres in regulation of telomerase activity.
- “Developing BETter Cancer Treatments” Targeting autophagy as a therapeutic strategy in acute myeloid leukaemia.
- Development of an assay for serum Hypoxia Inducible Factor 1 (HIF1) alpha and its application to studies of atherogenesis.
- Role of acid sensing ion channels in the peripheral mechanisms of neuropathic pain.
- What is an arteriole? Towards an improved classification of the cerebromicrovascuature.
- How do general practitioners conceptualise and record anxiety disorders? A qualitative interview study.
- Perceptions on frailty and frailty screening of people living with HIV and their healthcare professionals in Ethiopia: A qualitative study
- Predictors of Successful Brain Regulation in Individuals with Depression: An fMRI Neurofeedback Analysis
- Is It Just Normal Periods or Endometriosis? - Perceptions of Period Pain and Understanding of Endometriosis Among 2023 Medical Graduates
- Feasibility and Diagnostic Value of Point-of-Care Ultrasound in the Diagnosis of Fractures in Newborns and Small Children verses Conventional Radiographic Imaging in Different Settings: Systematic Review
- Brain correlates of speech perception in schizophrenia with and without auditory hallucinations
- Increasing Diversity of Anatomy Body Donors: Body Donation Study - Unveiling voices & Beliefs
Winning JRA Posters 2023
Shortlisted posters from the 2023 JRA scheme, including winner Tom Baird-Taylor and runners-up Natalia James, plus the People's Choice Award winner Keerthy Vijendran.
Winning JRA posters 2022
Shortlisted posters from the 2022 JRA scheme, including the winning entry from Dana Aljarrah and runner-up Sam Husk plus BSMS winner Melissa Rajalingam.
Winning JRA Posters 2021
Shortlisted posters from the 2021 JRA scheme, including winner Phoebe Valentine and runners-up Eden Franklin-Lester and Phoebe Watson Brown, plus the BSMS Poster Competition winner Zara Coombes.
