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.
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.
The impact of Covid-19 pandemic on the R&D of pharmaceutical multinationals.
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
- Education 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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Automating Exam Marking with Document Image Analysis.
Exploring Holographic Representation of Images as a Non-Human Animal Interaction Modality.
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.
Sleep-Wake Robotics: Evolution of a Braitenberg vehicle through continuous modelling of the environment.
Colour Balanced NeRF: Enhancing Robustness with Augmented Data
Influence the Regeneration Creativity of a GPT - An Adventure in Prompt Engineering
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.
Embodied Democracy: HIV and Politics of Medicine in South Africa, Brazil and India
Drawing Local Demarcations: Perception of Refugees in Zones of Contact.
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.
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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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
Swipe, Message, Block? A comparative study of men's use of online dating services.
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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Investigating Beta-catenin Protein Interactions in Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML)
Synthesis of novel 1,4-benzodiazepine compounds for application within drug discovery.
Alzheimer's Risk Factor APOE4's Effect on Sodium Conductance and Neuron Firing
Effects of AMPK Activator and Calcineurin Inhibitors on EGFP-Kv2.2 Clustering in HeLa Cells
Establishment of a Globalastoma-Immune Microenvironment Model for the Screening of Novel Therapeutic Compounds
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.
Investigating the Performance of the Wood Ant Visual System through Retinal Structure and Function.
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.
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?
Higgs production with a jet-veto via bottom quark annihilation.
Computational quantum mechanics: visualizing the quantum wavefunction.
Creating synthetic galaxy catalogues and maps for Webb, Euclid and Rubin using XID + SED tool
Mathematical Queueing Models and Their Applications in Everyday Problems
Hometronics: Producing Graphene Using Common Household Items
The Search for Dark Matter: Could we detect Axion Like Particles using X-ray Astronomy?
- Media, Arts and Humanities
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A Black Body: Recasting Black British Art 1980s-Present.
Representation of African Americans in Surrealist magazines and periodicals.
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.
The Rise of Dissociative Feminism in Popular Culture.
A Mufti in Brighton: Muhammad ‘Abduh and the formation of a Muslim Brighton.
Holocaust education beyond the History Classroom.
How has Anna Maria Maiolino defined embodiment through sculptural practice?
Mapping Sussex University Library's Black History Archives
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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Endogenous distractors: How and why does a thought achieve salience?
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.
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.
Reading comprehension in children with autism spectrum disorders and its relationship with their perceptual span.
Reading Between the Lines: An Investigation Into Baby Books And Infant Visual Preference
- Brighton and Sussex Medical School
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Beyond oxidative stress: is glutathione just an antioxidant or is it a signalling molecule?
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.
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.
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
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 2024
Shortlisted posters from the 2024 JRA scheme, including winner Charlotte Richardson and runner-up Elliot Jones, plus the People's Choice Award winner Ivana Maria Ireson.
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.
