Academic Poster category

Winner: Sam Mackay (Business)
Sex, Drugs & Terror: Exploring the 'Secret Lives' of Expatriates Confined to Kabul's Fortified Compounds

Runner-up: Annabelle Cranswick (Science)
Bryde's whale abundance and connectivity across northeastern Aotearoa New Zealand

People's Choice: Santosh Bhujbal (FMHS)
Formulation and characterization of transfersomes for ocular drug delivery

Research Image category

Winner: Farid Ullah Khan (EDSW)
Broken Walls, Unbroken Spirit: The fight for Girls' Education in Conflict

Runner-up: Marjan Rafiei (CAI)
Reimagining the Built Environment: Keys to a Regenerative Future

People's Choice: Qun Ma (EDSW)
Chinese early childhood teachers' professional identity: A stratified phenomenon in critical realism

Special Mentions

Clear Articulation of Research Impact:
Inka Pleiss (Science), Josefina Barrera Morelli (Science) and Katie Henderson (Business)

Creative Poster Design:
Brandy Biggar (Science) and Claire Webster (Science)

Enthusiastic Presentation:
Alexia Searchfield (FMHS) and Melissa Cuthbertson-Moon (ABI)

Outstanding Provisional Candidate Entry:
Julia Imo (ABI) and Ross Millar (Science)

The School of Graduate Studies (SGS) Research Showcase brings together doctoral candidates from across the University and celebrates their research. This annual event encourages our doctoral researchers to creatively communicate their research and its impact to a broad audience. 

Participants can submit entries to one (or both) of the categories: 

• Academic posters
• Research images

In addition to the possibility of winning prestige and prizes, the SGS Research Showcase is a unique opportunity for doctoral researchers to: 

• broaden the impact of their research 
• enhance research communication skills 
• extend personal and professional networks 
• refine the art of poster design 
• express their creativity 
• build their CV by having work published on Figshare
• have fun