Wolfson Research Event 2023

Overview

Now in its twelfth year, the Wolfson Research Event (WRE) is one of the highlights of the College calendar, which showcases groundbreaking and innovative research from current Wolfson students, alongside internationally renowned keynote speakers.

As a mature college, many of Wolfson’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 world.

Programme

The conference takes place over two days: Thursday 4 May from 10.00 - 16.30 and Friday 5 May from 10.30 - 17.15.

Thursday 4 May - Morning Session

10.00 - Registration

10.45 - Welcome

10.50 - Opening speech by Professor Jane Clarke

11.25 - Hailun Cui - Mechanisms underlying capsulotomy for refractory obsessivecompulsive disorder: neural correlates of negative affect processing overlaps with deep brain stimulation targets

11.40 - Sally Yan - From series to cycles: Depictions of parasite development and transmission, c. 1898-1955

11.55 - Min-Kyoo Kim - “The ghost of Chernobyl or the spectre of Communism? Documentary, drama and nuclear disaster”

12.10 - Yiran Xu - The development model of county tourism in China: A case study of Wuyi

12.30 - Lunch and networking

Thursday 4 May - Afternoon Session

13.30 - Anna Dikova - How to get your work done and keep your hands clean: Dealing with moral anxiety in Russian state-controlled media

13.45 - Annoa Abekah-Mensah - Towards a decolonial politics of receptive generosity: the imperial gifting order and its discontents

14.00 - Susie Triffitt - Tiktok believers: Did the pandemic enable people to explore religious belief

14.15 - Jenny Smart - Mental illness and the menopause: 'Climacteric Insanity' in the nineteenth century

14.30 - Poster session and networking:

From 14.30:

Viviana Orena - Scoping review on COPD patients' non-referral to pulmonary rehabilitation in primary care
Alison Owen - Norse-Inuit contact in Medieval Greenland
Anna Pullinger - Development of a stem cell model of the aging heart

From 15.00:

Francisco Wang - Racial composition in advertisements and its effects on White consumers' perceptions and purchase intent
Éireann Attridge - Understanding and managing identity: working-class students at the University of Oxford.

From 15.30:

Charlotte Hutchings - How are adeno-associated viruses trapped inside cells?
James Ashton - How do clinically administered MSCs influence the inflammatory cytokine profile and disease progression markers in patients with inflammatory disorders: a systematic review of randomised control trials
James Ashton - Pre-conditioning mesenchymal stromal cells for chronic wound repair

Friday 5 May - Morning Session

11.00 - Registration

11.30 - Aslan Uddin - Verifying early Islamic history using new techniques and discoveries

11.45 - Francesca Melle - Metal-organic frameworks: a new ally in the fight against pancreatic cancer

12.00 - Benjamin Goh - In Asia, for the world: Six historians and the making of world history at the University of Malaya in the 1950s and 1960s

12.15 - Muhammad Balarabe - Assessing the built environment for physical activity: a comparative analysis of two methods (virtual and field audits) and two cities (Cambridge, United Kingdom and Soweto, South Africa)

12.30 - Lunch and networking

Friday 5 May - Afternoon Session

13.30 - Keynote speaker, Professor Tolullah Oni

14.00 - Poster session and networking:

From 14.00:

Jiaru Bai - A derived information framework for a dynamic knowledge graph and its application to smart cities
James Sheppard - Building on binary: Integrating creative collaboration within digital design processes in the UK Construction Industry
Mark Owusu - Analysing the immunity profile of group A meningococcus in Ghana

From 14.30:

Nathan Magnan - From dust to planets: the role of vortices in planet formation
Kenneth Gwee - 'This Empyreal Substance Cannot Fail’: Immortal Bodies and the Poetics of Trauma in John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1674)
Nimrod Hertz - Extending case formulations of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder to idiographic statistical networks

From 15.00:

Boris Vasiliev - Combinatorial in silico drug discovery in treatment- resistant Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Simran Kaler - How do children colour characters?: Analyzing creative responses to imaginings of character in Ezra Jack Keats' The Snowy Day
Christopher McDermott - ‘Duplicity’ – A stage play investigating the complexities of human relationships

15.30 - Oisin Challen Flynn - The Imider sit-in, resource extraction and environmental protest in North Africa c.1986-2019

15.45 - Sara Corona - Contested landscapes in Sardinia: Heritage and ethnic identity under Italian green resource nationalism

16.00 - Nancy Karreman - Understanding the role of the state in dietary public health policymaking: A critical scoping review

16.15 - Michael Elizabeth Gasior - Trauma experiences, financial stability, and access to mental healthcare for Arabic-speaking migrants and refugees in the Netherlands

16.30 - Awards and closing remarks

17.30 - Wolfson Research Networking Reception

The conference is immediately followed by a networking reception where you can meet and celebrate with the student researchers who presented at the WRE, ask them questions, and explore avenues of investigation, research collaborations and potential projects.

You will also have the opportunity to meet representatives from Wolfson's Interdisciplinary Research Hubs and Societies, who provide avenues for Wolfson students, alumni and academics to explore potential research and project collaborations.