UROS projects:2019

UROS 2019 Project: Victim satisfaction with the Joint Diversionary Panel

by Hollie Skipp The Joint Diversionary Panel uses a Muti-agency approach to Youth Justice, which utilises information from a myriad of services to inform holistic decision making. The...

UROS 2019 Project: Islamophobia, ‘Brownface’ and media controversies: An analysis of newspaper media responses to channel 4’s ‘My Week as a Muslim’

by Gabrielle Weyer The documentary ‘My Week as a Muslim’ aired on Channel 4 in October 2017. This programme followed a white Christian woman, who spent a week...

UROS 2019 Project: Raising educational aspirations? Evaluating the second iteration of a student-mentoring scheme

by Elena Gaschino The educational underachievement of working-class boys has been the focus of public and policy anxiety in recent years and is recognised as an important contemporary...

UROS 2019 Project: Solastalgia – An Empirical Exploration

by Daniel Ford My project was a study on the topic of solastalgia – Glenn Albrecht’s term for the feeling of nostalgic loss toward the environment (2006). More...

UROS 2019 Project: Synthetic Atomic Force Microscope Data

by Broderick Harvey Atomic force microscopy has been a highly involved technique in analysing (crystalline) surfaces at an atomic level (in the order of a few ångströms, or...

UROS 2019 Project: Hybrid Electrical Energy Storage System (HEESS) for Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs)

by Billy Robinson (Winner of the UROS 2019 Dean’s Award for Outstanding Research) LiPo and Li-ion batteries are currently considered the modern standard in Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs)....

UROS 2019 Project: Improving unfamiliar face matching by working in pairs

by Bethany Raven & Ellen Wheeler Our UROS project provided us with the chance to investigate whether working in pairs can lead to improvements in unfamiliar face matching,...

UROS 2019 Project: Longitudinal study on the relationship between students’ objective smartphone and social media use and academic performance

by Andreea Moldovan In these modern times, technology became an extension of our lives. Because it represents such a big part of our day-to-day routine, it is only...

UROS Project Showcase 2019

Click on any of the project titles below to view the students’ reports on their projects and UROS experience. As well, you can also click on the corresponding...

UROS 2019 Project: The Replication Crisis in Psychology

by Alice Gains & Jacqueline Jones (UROS 2019 People’s Choice Runner-Up) Our UROS project was a fascinating journey that allowed us to explore the ‘replication crisis’. This topic...