Annual Graduate Symposium

This event showcases the full spectrum of research carried out by our PGR students and is held in the 5th week of the Undergraduate Summer term each year. Term dates.

Attendance is is compulsory for all research students in the Department. Training Advisory Panel meetings, supervisory meetings and demonstrating should not be scheduled to clash with the event.

Final year students deliver a 20-minute talk and first year PhD and MSc by Research students present posters over lunch. The best talks and poster are awarded a KM Stott prize awarded at a joint social event on following the end of the talks.

We run a photograph competition with a cash prize for all research students as part of the Symposium. The theme is your ‘Research in Action’ - look out for the emails on how to enter.

Final year PhD students

You deliver a 20-minute talk with up to 5 minutes for questions in one of two parallel sessions. A KM Stott prize will be awarded in each session for the best talk in the academic judgement of two members of academic staff. Students are asked to provide a title and abstract (maximum 125 words) approximately 3 weeks before the Symposium.

List of final year students presenting including timetable and abstracts

Year 1 PhD and MSc by Research students

You will present posters over an extended, catered lunch. TAP members are asked to provide feedback on their student's poster. One KM Stott prize will be awarded for the best poster in the judgement of a panel of staff.

Poster requirements:

Size A0, portrait style
The cost of the poster is borne by the lab
Posters should describe the student's own work only

List of Year 1 and MSc by Research students presenting posters