Lucy Cavendish College Research Day 2020

Free and open to all the College Research Day, on 17 March 2020, presented an opportunity for research ideas or outcomes to reach a wider audience; the afternoon started with a poster session. A short Q&A session after each talk enabled participants to dig deeper into specific areas of interest.

Speakers

Julia Hayes, Education: Educating children with disabilities in Colombia: Is the ‘Escuela Nueva’ model a local solution? Abigail Salamone, Education: A Wider Lens: Using ‘Photovoice’ to understand student experiences in Varanasi, India Clarisse Beurrier, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology: Cell-based meat: Advances towards environmentally-friendly, scalable and cost-effective manufacturing strategies Eleonore Poli, Materials and Metallurgy: Investigation of failure mechanisms in turbine blade coatings Alice Dearle, Electrical Engineering/Physics: Anisotropic growth of hybrid perovskite crystals for application as photo/ x-ray detectors Mary Sharpe, Visiting Scholar: What is love - biology, culture, spirit? Emma Hopkins, Land Economy: An Analysis of the South China Sea Dispute Lauren Lee, Medicine: Excess HIF-1 activity causes pathogenic necrosis of mycobacterium-infected macrophages Matilde Duarte, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute: Novel models and therapeutics for choroid plexus carcinoma Dr Jessica Taylor, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute: Precision Cancer Medicine for Medulloblastoma Blanche Gonzales de Linares, Theoretical and Applied Linguistics: An analysis of scalar items under memory load using an inference task Emma Perry, Earth Sciences: Dissolution of mixed oxide fuels Dr Stephanie Brown, Psychiatry: Diffusion structural network metrics as a predictor for Alzheimer’s Disease diagnosis in Downs Syndrome Sabrina Jamil, Centre for Gender Studies, POLIS: South Asian Muslim women’s experiences in British Politics Tessa Morgan, Public Health and Primary Care: Do older caregiving spouses identify as carers?

The presentations were illustrated on the day by one of the speakers, Julia Hayes, 3rd year PhD whose research focuses on Colombian children with disabilities. She combines her passion for art with academic research.

Prizes

Best poster:

Sophie Scott, “Revitalising the Wapato: Indigenous EcoCultural Restoration among Katzie First Nations, British Columbia, Canada.”

Best talks:

Alice Dearle, “Anisotropic growth of hybrid perovskite crystals for application as photo/x-ray detectors”

Blanche Gonzales de Linares, “An analysis of scalar items under memory load using an inference task”

Emma Perry, “Dissolution of mixed oxide fuels”?”

Four diverse topics from the day, from Cancer Research to environmentally friendly, scalable and cost-effective manufacturing strategies, have been distilled into in our Research Day 2020 Podcast. Speakers are Matile Duarte, Clarisse Beurrier, Dr Stephanie Brown and Mary Sharpe. Our thanks to Fellow-Commoner Boni Sones OBE for producing it. The podcasts can be found on our website.

“Many thanks to everyone who came to the research day yesterday, and to everyone who presented. We had a fantastic line up of posters and talks, covering a wide range of research from right across the College.”

- Organiser Sarah Morgan