Past Research Events

I - 22nd October

• Anoushka Harit (PhD student, CRUK), “AI-based early detection of signet ring cell carcinoma in Herediatry Diffuse Gastric Cancer”
• Joanne McPeake (Fellow, Nursing/THIS Institute), “Life after critical and acute illness”

II - 19th November

• Valentina Rivera Bravo (PhD student, Children’s Literature), “Birds, journeys and suitcases: exploring common embodied metaphors in award-winning picturebooks”
• Kingsley Daraojimba (CRA, Archaeology), “Pits, Pots and Palaeofaeces: Archaeological Insights into Domestic Life in Early 1st–2nd Millennium CE Igbo-Ukwu, Nigeria”

III - 28th January

• Kristin Collett Caolo (PhD student, Sociology), “Normative medical expertise and the marginalisation of difference in Femtech”
• Theo di Castri (JRF, HPS), “Rethinking Drugs/Replanteando las Drogas (ReD): An Experiment in Democratizing Drug Education”

IV - 25th February

• Boryana Hadzhiyska (Fellow, Cosmology), "Tracing the hidden universe: an integrated view of cosmic gas (baryons) across cosmic time"
• Liv Hawkins (PhD student, Photonics), "Building the future with light: from fibre optics to the quantum internet"

V - 25th March

• Stanley Mims (Associate Fellow, Education), "When Identity Meets Intervention: How Black Studies and Tiered Supports Are Changing Student Outcomes"

VI - 13th May

• Jon Phelan (Fellow, Philosophy), ‘Do we really learn anything valuable from literature?

VII - 3rd June

• Charles Wei (PhD student, Genetics), ‘Evaluating Genomic Surveillance Methods for Shigella sonnei in a High-Income Setting’
• David Belin (Fellow, Psychological and Behavioural Sciences), ‘On the multifaceted nature of compulsive drug-seeking habits in addiction: insights from preclinical research’

I - 6th November

• Stav Zalel (College Teaching Officer, Physics), “Theoretical Physics: The Quest for Unification”
• Marisa Oliveira (College Research Associate, Medical Research), “Spatial proteomics reveals new RNA virus signalling pathway”

II - 27th November

• Michael Hobbs (MSt in Coaching student), “‘Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right.’ A brief insight into coaching and coaching research”
• Ioana Olan (College Research Associate, CRUK), “Measuring the robustness of epigenetic networks”

III - 5th February

• Emma Stone (PhD student, Children’s Literature) Reading Mormonly: Adulthood, Gender, and Divine Ascension in Mormon-Authored YA Speculative Fiction
• Federico Zangani (Renfrew Fellow, Archaeology), “Globalization in Antiquity: insights from ancient Egypt, Syria, and the Mediterranean”

IV - 26th February

• Will Fawcett (Associate Fellow, Physics), "Orbital Intelligence: How AI helps satellites avoid disaster"
• Mikha'el Seth (Clinical Medical student) “The ethics of euthanasia”

V - 14th May

• Nikos Nikolopoulos (College Research Associate, Department of Medicine Molecular Immunity Unit), “The HUSH Complex: guardian of the genome against retroelement invasion”
• Suchi Srinivas (PhD student, Education) ‘Resisting division, reimagining inclusion: Possibilities for participatory parity in the mathematics classroom’

VI - 4th June

• Angana Das (student) ‘Children’s Lived Experiences of Happiness and Well-being in Delhi Government Schools’
• Pat Kwok (College Research Associate), “Working with students as co-researchers in the exploration of 'awarding gaps': what have we learnt?”

I - 25th October

• Vincenzo di Bartolo (PhD student, Maths), ‘A mathematical journey through the theory of numbers and representations’
• Stephen Pates (CRA, Zoology), ‘How did the evolution of animals change our oceans?’

II - 22nd November

• Dita N. Love (JRF, Education), ‘“The spoken was first” - young poets ‘bite back’ at UK’s elitist education system’
• Emily Rushton (PhD student, Education), ‘PhD: The Musical - the drama behind undertaking performance’

III - 24th January

• Priscilla Day-Walsh (CRA, Biomedicine) ‘The effects of maternal gut microbial metabolites on human placental development and function’
• Bethan Morris (MB/PhD student, Medicine), ‘High risk, low reward: changing the balance for antibiotic drug discovery’

IV - 21st February

• Aigerim Kopeyeva (PhD student, Education), ‘Studying factors behind regional inequality in student achievement: preliminary results of a study in Kazakhstan’
• Alice Wilson (Associate Fellow, Social Anthropology), ‘When revolution survives defeat: Omani experiences’

V - 8th May

• Abdulwahab Alshallal (PhD student, Epidemiology), ‘Physical activity, fitness, and metabolic disease in different ethnic populations’
• Peter Hartley (JRF, THIS Institute), ‘Optimising physical activity levels of adults admitted to hospital after a stroke’

VI - 29th May

• Amelia Drew (JRF, Physics), ‘Probing new physics with cosmic strings’
• Ping Lin Yeap (PhD student, Oncology), ‘Personalising cancer radiotherapy through artificial intelligence'

I – 2nd November, States of being

• Meredith McLaughlin (JRF, Social Anthropology), ‘Moral terms: Visions of state welfare in rural India’
• Scott Swain (PhD student, Education), ‘Teacher wellbeing in the context of supporting student mental health needs’

II – 23rd November, In sickness and in health

• Elisabeth O'Flaherty Rottenberger (PhD student, Metabolic Science), ‘Gut hormones: opportunities for exploiting our natural metabolic messengers’
• Doug Easton (Fellow, Public Health), ‘Three decades of unravelling breast cancer genetics: from families to populations’

III – 1st February, War and peace

• Nat Jobbins (PhD student, Social Anthropology), 'Empathy on the peace lines: autism and belonging in a socially divided city'
• Richard Toye (Associate Fellow, History) '"Bet you’re sorry you won!" Generations, authority, and honour in the public memory of WWII'

IV – 22nd February, Modelling micro-mysteries

• Elizabeth I. Figueroa-Juarez (PhD student, Clinical Biochemistry), 'Extracellular matrix remodelling in brown adipose tissue: friend or foe?'
• Matthew Collins (Fellow, Archaeology), 'Are peptide bonds really that stable? The greatest unsolved mystery in protein research'

V – 3rd May, Social justice

• Diana Kudaibergenova (Fellow, Sociology), 'There's Nothing Unusual: Everyday life under Dictatorship'
• Megan Renoir (PhD student, History), “Recognition As Resilience: How Unrecognized Indigenous Nations Employ Global Visibility as a Pathway Towards Restorative Justice”

VI – 24th May, Growing up around the globe

• Zoe Du (PhD student, Children’s Literature), 'The Melancholic Romance of Adolescent Girlhood in the Works of Chen Danyan'
• Dawit Tibebu Tiruneh (CRA, Education), 'Large-scale educational reforms and learning outcomes of primary school children in Ethiopia: Who is benefiting?'

I - 27th October

• Research ‘speed-dating’: find out more about who’s who in Homerton’s research community! Prepare one slide/image summarising your current work to share with others in a rapid-fire online event.

II - 3rd November

• David Belin (Fellow), ‘Drug addiction’
• Jack Birch (PhD), ‘How equitable are interventions for obesity?’

III - 24th November

• Krishna Kulkarni (PhD), ‘Parents, play, and the pandemic in India’
• Iryna Voytyuk (CRA) ‘Alzheimer’s Disease therapeutic strategies and novel drug discovery approaches’

IV - 26th January, Educational research (part-time student showcase)

• Darren Macey (PhD), ‘Neoliberal gravity - assessment reform as an act of resistance’
• Lucy Rycroft-Smith (PhD), ‘Exploring the boundaries of research brokering: ‘and then you just opened your mouth and sang at me!’
• Georgina Saralis (EdD), ‘Courage to Research: exploring the inner landscape of the researcher’ [tbc]

Special event - 23rd February – Showcase of new publications in Architecture

• Tim Brittain-Catlin and Sofia Singler (Fellows)

V - 11th May

• Ahmed Alagha (PhD), ‘Ground-breaking research towards a safer underground space’
• Nick Green (CRA), ‘A quick guide to the origin of life and other chemistry we're glad happens’

VI - 1st June, CRA showcase

• Nino Läubli (CRA), ‘The use of acoustofluidic manipulation for the investigation of cells and small organisms’
• Nishant Dogra (CRA), ‘Exploring the quantum world with light’

I - Wednesday 28^th October

• Elsa Lee (Bye-Fellow, Education) – ‘Connecting Water to Global Citizenship via Education for Sustainable Development’
• Followed by breakout chat on - ‘How to conduct research in challenging times? Choice of themed discussion rooms: ‘Social Justice’; ‘Climate Crisis’; ‘Pandemic’; ‘Arts in an emergency’; ‘Tech-topias’.

II - Wednesday 18^th November

• Sophie Richter (PhD student, Medicine) - ‘What happens in your brain after a head injury?’
• Matt Holmes (Research Associate, CRASSH) – ‘Houseflies and fungi: the promise of an early twentieth-century biotechnology’

Special event - Wednesday 2^nd December

• Research ‘speed-dating’: find out more about what’s going on in Homerton’s research community in an end-of-term festive special event! Prepare one slide/image summarising your current work to share with others.

III - Wednesday 3^rd February

• Alex Dunn (PhD student, Neuroscience) - ‘Brain development in Autism and Rett Syndrome’

IV - Wednesday 17^th March

• Andre Neves (Fellow, Natural Sciences) - ‘Advanced imaging in the age of precision medicine’
• Carys Johnson (PhD student, Haematology) - ‘Culturing Haematopoietic stem cells for gene therapy’

V - Wednesday 12^th May

• Catherine MacKenzie (Bye-Fellow, Land Economy/Law) – ‘Breaking Rules: Comparing Professional Legal Education in England, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain’
• Carrie Spencer (PhD student, Children’s Literature) - ‘Mad Fantasy: Agency, Gender and Sanism in Philip Pullman’s The Subtle Knife’

VI - Wednesday 26^th May

• Carmen Ting (Renfrew Fellow, Archaeology) – ‘The making of Islamic glaze: What do we think we know?’

VII - Wednesday 9^th June

• Ines Lee (JRF, Economics) – What does it mean to be "educated"? Insights from Economics

VIII - Wednesday 23^rd June

• Michalis Michael (PhD student, Engineering) - ‘Responsive and energy-efficient glazed facades’
• Robin Bunce (Bye-Fellow, Politics) - ‘Televising the Future: Nineteen Eighty-Four and the political imagination of Nigel Kneale’

I - 30th October

• Chris Brooke (Fellow, Politics)
• Emma Reay (PhD Student, Children’s Literature)

II - 20th November

• Simone Hochgreb (Fellow, Engineering)
• Stephen Pugh (PhD Student, Earth Sciences)

III - 29th January

• Olivier Tonneau (Fellow, MML)
• Sharmila Parmanand (PhD Student, Multi-Disciplinary Gender Studies)

IV - 19th February

• Will Fawcett (Research Associate, Physics)
• Emily Calderbank (PhD Student, Haematology)

V - 29th April

• Clare Oliver-Williams (Fellow, Public Health)
• Subbulakshmi Sankarasubramanian (PhD Student, Medical Science)

VI - 20th May

• Anna Harrison (PhD Student, Children’s Literature)

I - 7th November:

• Ross Cole (JRF, music)
• Patrick Olsen (PhD, music education)

II - 21st November

• Susanne Hakenbeck (Fellow, archaeology)
• Sarah Madden (PhD, biochemistry)

III - 30th January

• Julie Blake (Phd, education)
• Beth Singler (JRF, AI)

IV - 20th February

• Elise Lapperousaz (Research Associate, Neuroscience)
• Alice White (PhD, Neuroscience)

V - 1st May

• Guy Aglionby (PhD, Computer Science)
• Maja Spanu (JRF, Politics)

VI - 22nd May

• Marcel Gehrung (PhD, Healthcare)
• Sam Strong (JRF, Geography)

• Jay Mok (HMC), ‘An Interregional Perspective on the Development of Chinese Maritime Archaeology’
• Kara Tam (HMC), ‘Information Networks of Migrant Domestic Workers in Senegal’
• Lydia Okoibhole (Homerton), ‘Lived Experiences of Sickle Cell Disease and its Implications for Genomics Research Engagement’
• Hanjun Zhao (HMC), ‘Plasma Proteomic Signatures of Alzheimer’s’
• Chung Yan Yu (Homerton), ‘High-Dimensional Screening of T-Cell Signalling Ligands Using Modular Hydrogel Microparticles for Phenotype Engineering’
• Rongrui Li (HMC), ‘Metal–Hydrogen Interactions: Experimental Characterisation of Hydrogen Permeation’
• Ahmed Tayee (Homerton), ‘Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) Modelling of Liquid Filaments’
• Laiba Malik (HMC), ‘Memes at War: Humour and Survival in Pakistan's Digital Spaces’
• Josita Kavitha Thirumalai (Homerton), ‘From Policy Priority to Classroom Practice: The Importance of Integrating Media Literacy into the Curriculum’
• Chang Jiang (Homerton), ‘Negotiating Gendered Subjectivities of Mathematics Teachers in Chinese Lesson Study:  A Feminist Poststructuralist Inquiry’ 
• Boseok Kim (Homerton), ‘Gratitude and Education’

• Saad Ismail (HMC), 'Avicenna on Knowledge'
• Agnes Purwoko (Homerton), ‘The role of eco-humour in fostering climate empathy: a multimodal analysis of Tidy and Flooded’
• Abdulwahab Alshallal (Homerton), ‘Is occupational physical activity good for you? A global analysis’
• Akshay Amesur (HMC), 'Dose for Development: The Role of Academic Infrastructure and Political Economy in Pharmaceutical Innovation'
• Kate Noble (Homerton), ‘Building bridges: strengthening caregiver-practitioner partnerships in the early years’
• Spencer Drake (HMC), 'Transatlantic Theology & the Reimagining of America, 1833-1877'
• Lucy Fergusson (Homerton), ‘A mandate for Mano Dura: understanding popular support for militarized security policies under President Daniel Noboa in Ecuador (2024–2025)’
• John Nguyen (Homerton), ‘Resonant spaces: harnessing resonators for acoustic control in built environments’
• Shujing Shi (Homerton), ‘Risk-taking decisions in organised drug trafficking – an analysis of financial interactions in China’
• Olivia Robinson (HMC), 'From Rationality to Relationship: The imago Dei in the Age of Alzheimer's Disease'.
• Andrej Zeman (HMC), 'Gods of the Gaps: Revisiting Divine Action in William Paley and Robert Chambers.'

• Alice King (Homerton), ‘Understanding materiality through Making Led learning: a case study exploring Making Led teaching and learning strategies for optimising A-level art student creativity and innovation’
• Andrés González Dinamarca (HMC), ‘Building a culturally and ontologically pertinent analytical framework for engaging Indigenous studies’
• Michele Chierici (HMC), ‘Integrating AI in corporate law: enhancing sustainability due diligence’
• Kogulan Vipulan (Homerton), 'Characterising liquid mixtures in porous materials using low-field 2D NMR'
• Maryam Zahra Kazimi (HMC), ‘Zainab bint Ali as a formative model of female religious authority in Shi'i Islam: feminist implications’
• Reyhannisa Haji (Homerton), ‘The historiography of Darwinism and the theory of evolution in Islamic contexts’
• Deborah Olds (HMC), ‘The death of tragedy’
• George Adams (HMC), ‘“[A]ll ear to hear new utterance flow”: divine voicing and listening in John Milton's Paradise Lost’
• Maximilian Kraus (Homerton), ‘Nuclear power for space-craft propulsion – studies on the nuclear salt water rocket concept’
• Catarina Pelicano (Homerton), ‘Cell-ebrity gossip: how the communication between cell types drives pancreatic cancer’
• Marcellus Korompis (HMC)

•  Nicole Machado (HMC), 'Targeting cell metabolism to alter the tumour microenvironment'
• Sean Laidlaw (Homerton), 'Small non coding RNA dysregulation in Germ Cell Tumours'
• Alexandra Loedin (HMC), 'Alternative non-homologous end-joining: an alternative method of targeting BRCA1/2-deficient cancers'
• Elizabeth Figueroa-Juarez (Homerton), 'Extracellular matrix remodelling in brown adipose tissue: friend or foe?'
• Jack Birch (Homerton), 'Are there inequalities in behavioural interventions for obesity?'
• Jan Hendricks (HMC), 'Monetary Imperialism and the Money Form of Value: The Case of the 2022-23 Ghanaian Debt Crisis'
• Nopparuj Chindasombatcharoen (Homerton), 'Behavioural aspects of technology transfer: Evidence from smallholder farmers and the agri-food sector'
• Marcellus Korompis (HMC), 'Improving the protective characteristics of a promising Tuberculosis vaccine candidate'
• Xingyan Liu (Homerton), 'Online MOOC tutors’ perceptions of their roles: a new profession in China'
• Robert Gullifer (HMC), '"Entrusted by Providence": Anglican separatism in nineteenth-century Naples and Palermo'
• Jarrod Sio (Homerton), 'Instructional leadership in Sarawak and its effects on student achievement'
• Rupa Nolan (HMC), 'The Occult Arts In Celestial Address: Contemporary Female Artists in Post-Modern Theological Practice'

• Adina Bezerita (HMC), ‘The relevance of syncretistic approaches in ancient philosophy and science and religion’
• Xinyue Li (Homerton), ‘Science learning with magic tricks: an investigation into motivation in science learning of secondary school age learners in out-of-class contexts’
• Jonas Schuff (HMC), ‘Adventures in tuning quantum computers’
• Amanda Oliver (Homerton), ‘New insights for antibodies and mucous in the lung’
• Marcellus Korompis (HMC), ‘Improving the protective characteristics of a promising TB vaccine candidate’
• Iryna Voytuk (Homerton), ‘Alzheimer’s Disease therapeutic strategies and novel drug discovery approaches’
• Lea Ballenberger (HMC), ‘Sleep in the fruit fly'
• Optional research ‘speed-dating’ with brief research introductions
• Trip to the Botanic Garden

• Cristian Soitu (HMC), 'Raising Fluid Walls around Living Cells'
• Jack Griffiths (Homerton), 'I Can’t See! The Light is Too Big!'
• Bianca Kremer (HMC), 'International Dispute Resolution and Blockchain'
• Emma Reay (Homerton), 'You Have to be Kidding! Why Studying Depictions of Kids in Videogames is No Joke'
• Bradley Hopper (HMC): Coinage and Commercialisation in Late Archaic Asia Minor: a re-Examination of the Colophon Hoard'
• Professor Jane Shaw (Principal, HMC), 'Manchester College - a Hub for Spiritual Networks in the Early Twentieth Century'
• Madison McLeod (Homerton), Finding the Fantastic in ‘The City’: Digital Mapping of Children’s Fantasy Literature set in London'
• Petra Hanáčková (HMC), ‘Underground University’
• Ian Baxter (HMC), 'Liberation Theology – A Political Kingdom of God?'
• Krishna Kulkarni (Homerton), 'PEDAL-ing across Countries: Parental Playfulness in the UK and in India'
• Darina Izhboldina (HMC), 'Self-Regulation as a Key Component of Mental Health'
• Patrick Allen (Homerton), 'To Enforce, or not to Enforce, that is the Question'

• Emma Reay (Homerton), ‘Appraising the aesthetic power of children’s video games’
• Jordan Miller (HMC), ‘Fantastic beasts and how to view them: from concept to representation in ancient Egyptian art’
• Elif Naz Çoker (Homerton), ‘Parents’ transition to parenthood and responsiveness to infants: a longitudinal study of prenatal expectancies and joint picturebook reading at age 1’
• India Cole (HMC), ‘Pushing daisies: the melancholia of flowers in the poetry of John Keats’
• Thierry Schultz (HMC): ‘If time passes, does this explain why the past differs from the future?’
• Sundeep Popat, (Homerton), ‘Including quantum effects in the motion of atomic nuclei’
• Joost Haarsma (Homerton), ‘Early psychosis is associated with a failure to scale key neural and behavioural learning signals to the reliability of information, explaining psychotic symptoms’
• Alice White (Homerton), ‘Neural correlates of decision-making in Huntington’s Disease’
• Lauren Bell (HMC): ‘Human or Neanderthal? A multi-disciplinary study in search of the makers of the Uluzzian technocomplex in Upper Palaeolithic Italy’
• Elizabeth Evens (HMC): ‘Undercover female police and abortion in New York, 1913–24’
• Sarah Streyder (Homerton), ‘Depoliticising the UN Human Rights Council’
• Patrick Allen (Homerton), ‘To enforce, or not to enforce, that is the question...’ 

• Lynne Foote (HMC), ‘Deep Rivers: W.E.B. Du Bois, H.T. Burleigh, and James Weldon Johnson on the significance of the Negro Spiritual, 1910-1930’
• Vera Veldhuizen (Homerton), ‘War – what is it good for? Empathy, ethics, and justice in children’s war literature’
• Sue Smith (HMC), ‘A struggle for hearts and minds: conscientious objectors in Oxford in the First World War’
• Jemima Hubberstey (HMC), ‘The role of horsemanship in the construction of masculinity in the eighteenth century’
• Aaron D’Souza (Homerton), ‘Discovering the function of a new mitochondrial protein, vital for survival’
• Daniel Celia Garza (HMC), ‘High performance computing in multiscale modelling of materials for fusion energy production’
• Guillermo Parada (Homerton), ‘Fine-tuning control of the genetic information flow’
• Joost Haarsma (Homerton), ‘Knowing how wrong you were: precision-weighted prediction errors in the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex during reinforcement learning and how it relates to dopamine and psychosis’
• Rachel Siegman (HMC), ‘Revival and retraction: discourse on the migration of Syrian refugees to Europe’
• Natasha Virani (Homerton), ‘The effectiveness of housing policy in Vancouver’
• Madeleine Hunter (Homerton), ‘Bric[k]olage: encounter and convergence in The Lego Movie’

• Sarah Madden (Homerton), ‘An alternative approach in the fight against cancer’
• Sean McIntosh: What is the connection between people and mathematics?
• Ruth Sims (Homerton), ‘Capturing light fields in a light sheet microscope’
• Guillermo Parada (Homerton), ‘What if we can sequence whole animal transcriptomes?’
• Alistair Beecher: Connections in the parish: Anglican hegemony in Alresford c.1780-1939.
• Charles Greensitt (Homerton), 'Group work in Design and Technology'
• Mandy Pipher: Emojis and the English Language: are they connected?
• Valentina Arnonica: Italy, the Mediterranean and boat people: how policies maritime migration shape the political space of the sea
• Andy Espinoza: Displacement without mobility? The impact of immigration on long-term residents of the 'global city'
• Meghanne Flynn (Homerton), ‘Meeting monsters in Young Adult novels’
• Helen Please: Is west or breast best? Why western breastfeeding trends fall short in the developing world.