The Research Awards recognise the exceptional contribution of doctoral researchers to research group, School, Faculty or University research strategy.
The recipients of these awards were decided by each Faculty and announced at the Doctoral College Awards Ceremony on Tuesday 30 June 2020, by Professor Chris Howls, Director of the Doctoral College.
The awards were allocated by Faculty, with a Winner, Runner-Up and Best in Faculty. There was one ‘Winner’ award (£200) per School, one ‘Runner-Up’ award (£100) per School, and one additional ‘Best in Faculty’ award of £100 per Faculty.
Winners by Faculty and School
Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences
Best of Faculty
- Robert Cooke (Geography & Environmental Science) - Projected losses of global mammal and bird ecological strategies.
School Winners
- Luke Holman (Ocean & Earth Science) - Detection of introduced and resident marine species using environmental DNA metabarcoding of sediment and water.
- Robert Cooke (Geography & Environmental Science) - Projected losses of global mammal and bird ecological strategies.
- Marios Biskas (Psychology) - A prologue to nostalgia: Savouring creates nostalgic memories that foster optimism.
- Joel Allen (Biological Sciences) - Site-specific glycan analysis of the SARS-CoV-2 spike.
- Norah Alhwoaimel (Health Sciences) - Do trunk exercises improve trunk and upper extremity performance, post stroke? A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Runners up
- Duncan Stevens (Ocean & Earth Science) A complete structural model and kinematic history for distributed deformation in the Wharton Basin.
- Laura Paddon (Geography & Environmental Science) Therapeutic or Detrimental Mobilities? Walking groups for older adults.
- Laura Vowels (Psychology) Strategies for Mitigating Sexual Desire Discrepancy in Relationships.
- Liudi Yao (Biological Sciences) Paracine signalling during ZEB1-mediated epithelial-mesenchymal transition augments local myofibroblast differentiation in lung fibrosis.
Faculty of Social Sciences
Best of Faculty
- George Katsianis (Mathematical Sciences) - Anomalous Supersymmetry.
School Winners
- Amey Kansara (Southampton Business School) - Towards a better understanding of the full impact of the left digit effect on individual trading behaviour: unearthing a trading profit effect.
- Ekaterina Perevoshchikova (Southampton Law School) - Access to Customer Data under the Second Payment Services Directive - Remedial Blueprint for the Digital Era?
- Georgios (George) Katsianis (Mathematical Sciences) - Anomalous Supersymmetry.
- Jennifer Norman (Economic, Social & Political Sciences - Joint Winner) - The Police Education Qualification Framework: A Professional Agenda or Building Professions?
- Luiz Valerio de Paula Trindade (Economic, Social & Political Sciences - Joint Winner) - Disparagement humour and gendered racism on social media in Brazil.
Runners up
- Ana M. Fuentes Cano (Law) - Transnational policing of online sex trafficking.
- Dan Devine (Economic, Social & Political Sciences) - Does media coverage drive public support for UKIP or does public support for UKIP drive media coverage?
- Joanne Ellison (Mathematical Sciences) - Forecasting of cohort fertility under a hierarchical Bayesian approach.
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Best of Faculty
- Blake Troise (Humanities) - The 1-Bit Instrument: The Fundamentals of 1-Bit Synthesis, Their Implementational Implications, and Instrumental Possibilities.
School Winners
- Blake Troise (Humanities) - The 1-Bit Instrument: The Fundamentals of 1-Bit Synthesis, Their Implementational Implications, and Instrumental Possibilities.
Runners up
- Amber Dudley (Humanities - Joint runner-up) - Aspectual contrasts in the English present tense revisited: Exploring the role of input and L1 influence.
- Charles Boddicker (Humanities- Joint runner-up) - A Nietzschean Account of Valuing.
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Best of Faculty
- Andy Oakey (Engineering) - Assisting St Mary's hospital on the Isle of Wight in its Covid-19 response which led to the first drone flight of medical supplies across the Solent.
School Winners
- Andy Oakey (Engineering - Joint winner) - Assisting St Mary's hospital on the Isle of Wight in its Covid-19 response which led to the first drone flight of medical supplies across the Solent.
- Jed Clark (Engineering - Joint winner) - Idea for the vehicle handing control back and forth from vehicle automation to the human driver for which Jaguar Land Rover has applied for a patent.
- Ben Fletcher (Electronics & Computer Science) - A spike-latency transceiver with tuneable pulse control for low-energy wireless 3D integration.
- George Bacanu (Chemistry) - Discovering THz peaks in the NMR spectrum of C60 in solution.
- John Paice (Physics & Astronomy) - A black hole X-ray binary at ∼100 Hz: multiwavelength timing of MAXI J1820+070 with HiPERCAM and NICER.
- Yu Wang (Zepler Institute) - Successfully demonstrated Bi-doped amplifiers with a maximum gain of 40dB at 1340nm (the highest gain reported to-date in the bismuth system), a broadband amplifier with a record 115nm bandwidth from 1345nm to 460nm.
Runners up
- Amy Parkes (Engineering – Joint runner-up) - Physics-based shaft power prediction for large merchant vessels using neural networks.
- David Lusher (Engineering – Joint runner-up) - laminar separations in three-dimensional ducts.
- Andrew Heard (Chemistry) - Synthesis of a Mechanically Planar Chiral Rotaxane Ligand for Enantioselective Catalysis.
- Erika Cortese (Physics & Astronomy) - Understanding of nonperturbative light-matter coupling in nanostructures.
- Yangbo Wu (Zeplar Institute) - A waveguide integrated bolometer for the mid-IR wavelength range.
- Yusha Liu (Electronics & Computer Science) - Finding solutions for the large-scale access of devices to the Internet-of-Things (IoT).