Research Poster Competition 2012

Finalists going to midland hub competition

• Traffic Noise Reduction using Surface Treatments, Trees and Vegetation Imran Bashir MCT, DDEM
• Learn as you play: How can real-time feedback enhance learning the violin? Rose Johnson MCT, Computing
• Empathy and Emotion recognition in people with autism and their parents Edward Sucksmith Science, Life Sciences
• Microplasma Satellite Thrusters Daniel Barthaud Science Physics & Astronomy
• Plasma physics inside microscopic diamond devices Sebastien Mitea Science Physics & Astronomy
• Tropical trees emit methane Sunitha Pangala Science Earth and Environmental Science
• Humour in British academic lectures and Chinese students' perceptions of it Yu Wang FELS, CREET

Discipline winners

• Arts and Humanities
  "Books are an essential part of one's life": a systematic enquiry into Joseph Conrad's reading using the Reading Experience Database 1450-1945 Helen Chambers Arts, English
• Engineering, Maths, statistics and computing
  Traffic Noise Reduction using Surface Treatments, Trees and Vegetation Imran Bashir MCT, DDEM
• Medical, life and Physical Sciences
  Tropical trees emit methane Sunitha Pangala Science, Earth and Environmental Sciences
• Social sciences
  Humour in British academic lectures and Chinese students' perceptions of it Yu Wang FELS, CREET

OUSA prize for People's choice

• Cognitive Radio - A Sustainable Technology for Green Wireless Communications? ATM Shafiul Alam MCT, Comms and Systems