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Our 26 scholars for 2021/22 are:

Hannah Boyle

Politics

Year 1

Title: Discourse on Poverty and Inequality: How has the U.K. Labour Party changed their discourse and proposed to challenge domestic poverty and inequality since 2010?

Academic mentor: Daniel Keith

Sophie Brandon

Natural Sciences

Year 2

Title: The effects of pollen migration caused by climate change on respiratory health.

Academic mentor: Katherine Selby

Joshua Chapman

Politics

Year 1

Title: Electoral Systems and Populism: How Have The Electoral Systems Of 4 G7 Members Contributed To The Spread Of Populism In Those Countries?

Academic mentor: Pavlos Vasilopoulos

William Charles

History

Year 1

Title: What are the strengths and weaknesses of military interventions in crises? Particularly in the case of UK Government response to COVID-19.

Academic mentor: Janaka Jayawickrama

Catherine Christabel

Biology

Year 1

Title: Analysis of Gene Expression in the Larval Stages of Schistosomes through RNA Sequencing Data

Academic mentor: James Hewitson

Gracie Daw

History

Year 1

Title: How has devolution affected the UK’s response to the coronavirus pandemic?

Academic mentor: Tom Fleming

Mary Friend

Natural Sciences

Year 2

Title: An Investigation Into The Modulation Of Working Memory And Its Neural Representations

Academic mentor: Fiona McNab

Hannah George

Education

Year 1

Title: Laidlaw Foundation Project - Multi Academy Trusts (Durham University)

Academic mentor: Chris Brown

Pennie Haigh

Psychology

Year 1

Title: Language Comprehension: How are we affected by sentence contexts and tasks as we age?

Academic mentor: Angela De Bruin

Lydia Haines

Biology

Year 1

Title: How are inflammasomes activated in Multiple Sclerosis?

Academic mentor: Dave Boucher

Aya Hammad

Hull York Medical School

Year 1

Title: Understanding immune cell dysfunction in the myeloproliferative neoplasms

Academic mentor: David Kent and Alyssa Cull

Imogen Hannaby

Psychology

Year 2

Title: How do people judge the truthfulness of accounts given by individuals with and without language difficulties?

Academic mentor: Hannah Hobson

Sarah Heptinstall

Psychology

Year 1

Title: Filtering external and internal distraction, and implications for working memory capacity

Academic mentor: Fiona McNab

Sohail Hussain

Hull York Medical School

Year 1

Title: Mapping the 5 unhealthiest high streets in the UK: what are the implications of this on young people’s health?

Academic mentor: Ireneous Soyiri

Andrew Hill

Archaeology

Year 1

Title: A Comparative Viewshed Analysis of the Hilltops and Archaeological Sites of the Mid-Cheshire Ridge

Academic mentor: James Taylor

Diyar Keyhanfar

English and Related Literature

Year 1

Title: Understanding the Voice of the Youth: Valuing Coming-of-Age Literature in our Education

Academic mentor: Helen Smith

Ellen Lavender

Psychology

Year 2

Title: “Ooo look!”, “ What’s that?”: A Comparison of maternal communication strategies in attention directing in the United Kingdom and Uganda

Academic mentor: Katie Slocombe

Thomas Mason

Electronic Engineering

Year 1

Title: IA: The Art of Decision Making - Exploring how intelligence augmentation is the future for decision making in organisations

Academic mentor: Philip Garnett

Emma Merryweather

Natural Sciences

Year 1

Title: Exploring thermoelectric materials for body heat powered biomedical electronics

Academic mentor: Demi Kepaptsoglou

Josh Rutland

Politics

Year 1

Title: Is public order strategy in British policing influenced by politics?

Academic mentor: Indrajit Roy

Shehnaz Salad

Economics and Related Studies

Year 1

Title: Relationship between the Sustainable Development Index and other measures of economic performance such as GDP growth and inequality

Academic mentor: Jonathan Busch

Zara Sharif

Education

Year 1

Title: Body Hair and Racialized Bullying of girls in UK Secondary Schools

Academic mentor: Vanita Sundaram

Emily Shepherdson

Language and Linguistic Science

Year 1

Title: Hidden behind a smile: acquisition and societal perception of speech sounds in children with cleft lip and palate.

Academic mentor: George Bailey

Cherry Sylge

Chemistry

Year 1

Title: Ring expansion approaches to ‘NICE’ molecular building blocks for pharma

Academic mentor: William Unsworth

Isla Thomson

Politics

Year 1

Title: To what extent do private sector development projects address the needs of LGBTQ+ people?

Academic mentor: Sara de Jong

Rebekah Young

Language and Linguistic Science

Year 1

Title: Travelling Language: An Investigation into Romany Slang Found in Scotland and North-East England

Academic mentor: Dominic Watt