Report on the 2011 URIP Scheme
Twenty winners were selected for the 2011 URIP awards out of more than 100 high quality applications from undergraduates in Arts, Science, Divinity and Medicine. The students were selected on their academic record and on the quality of their research project, which they designed in consultation with their academic mentor. Research topics ranged across all disciplines and included a study of the St Andrews Psalter, the emergent structure of meaning in Hart Crane's lyric poetry, diffusive material transport and dust cloud formation in planetary atmospheres, and low temperature scanning tunnelling microsocpy (see full list of participants and projects).
URIP Poster event at Parliament Hall
All of the URIP winners along with a further 10 students who had won awards from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council were invited to present the results of their project at an event held in Parliament Hall that was attended by the academic supervisors, the Deans and Pro Deans, members of the Principal's Office, Heads of School and Directors of Teaching. The students presented posters and were on hand to answer questions and to explain their work to the visitors.
Holders of URIP awards at the autumn poster event at Parliament Hall
The £250 prize for the winning poster went to Michael Gray for his poster entitled Anti-Intellectualism: Invisible Plague or Political Movement?'. Michael carried out his research in the School of History under the supervision of Professor Gerard De Groot.
Runners-up prizes were awarded to Emily Sheppard (left) for 'Unisex Parka: The Rules and Exceptions of Grammatical Gender in French Nouns' which was supervised by Dr Chris Beedham in the School of Modern Languages, and Laurence Picton, who worked in the School of Psychology on 'Meeting of Minds: The Neural Correlates of Error Detection and Error Remediation', supervised by Dr Ines Jentzsch.