We are delighted to recognise the scholars whose posters have been selected for submission to F1000Research after this year’s conferences at Durham and Brown.

Editors from Taylor & Francis Group reviewed the poster symposia at both conferences and chose 45 projects to proceed to peer review and open access publication. This marks an important step from conference presentation to published scholarship that others can learn from and build upon! 💙

The shortlisted work spans health equity, climate action, social justice, technological innovation and many other areas. Together these projects reveal the rigour, imagination and courage that characterise research across the Laidlaw network.

To everyone who presented this year, thank you for sharing your ideas, your questions and your commitment to meaningful change. Finally, to the scholars now preparing submissions, we look forward to seeing your research reach new audiences.

Explore the shortlisted projects and celebrate your fellow scholars below:

Brown conference scholars

• Terrah Garner (Barnard College): “Follow the Money”: Qualitative Evidence on Financial Literacy and College Choice
• Diya Wadhwa (Barnard College): Are We Pricing Protection or Segregation? Housing-Market Consequences of Gujarat’s Disturbed Areas Act
• Stella Dull (Barnard College): Coal, Capital, and Climate: Theorizing China’s Green Transition under State Capitalism
• Camila Rojas (Barnard College): Georgia vs. New York: A Policy Divide in Access to Higher Education
• Liliana Quiroga (Barnard College): Restraint and Seclusion in Special Education: An Analysis on Policy in Texas from 2001 to 2025
• Catarina de Albuquerque Mello de Costa (Barnard College): The Legal and Ethical Aspects of Repatriation: An Analytical Study on the International Repatriation of 9 Brazilian Indigenous Human Remains
• Ava Blum (Barnard College): Theatre of the Censored: How Contemporary Chinese Artists Subvert Commercial Theatre Censorship
• Nuna Endale (Barnard College): Tracing Discipline Disparities: Racial Inequities in Virginia Schools
• Aneesha Needamangala (Columbia): Modeling Endangered Language Shifts and Revitalization: Applying the Abrams-Strogatz Model to 'Ōlelo Hawai'i
• Kamtoya Okeke (Columbia): When The World Ends: A Comparative Analysis of Destruction Myths
• Wiann Wilson (Columbia): Writing the National Man: Masculinity, Kinship, and Nation-Building from Colonial to Postcolonial Ghana
• Angela Chen (Duke): The Canary in the Coal Mine: Spotify, Generative AI, and the Future of Cultural Labor
• Anika Dugal (Duke): The Canary in the Coal Mine: Spotify, Generative AI, and the Future of Cultural Labor
• Kate-Yeonjae Jeong (Duke): The Canary in the Coal Mine: Spotify, Generative AI, and the Future of Cultural Labor
• Alfonso Chan (Georgetown University): Comparative analysis of total and partial body irradiation in nonhuman primates over 60 days in urine, serum, and saliva
• Grace Ye (Georgetown University): Running for Justice? Understanding Women’s Path to Prosecutorial and Judicial Office
• Emma Zhu (Georgetown University): Threads of Resistance: Chinese Women and Transnational Labor Organizing in New York City's Chinatown Garment Industry
• Pui Yan SHAM (HKU): CAR-ATM to Combat Obesity
• Neasa Nic Corcráin (Trinity College Dublin): "Investigating the link between endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in menstrual hygiene products and hormonal health and awareness through a social justice paradigm."
• Ramina Bebezova (Tufts University): Characterizing the Relationship Between Multimodal Emotion Recognition and Psychopathology
• Aung Khant Paing (Tufts University): Dissecting RIPK3 Autophosphorylation with the Potent Necroptosis Inhibitor UH15-38
• Isabella Tabora (Tufts University): Extracellular Vesicles Mediate Interorgan Crosstalk During TKI-induced Chemotherapy
• Amna Habiba (University of Toronto): Anticipatory Science Diplomacy as a Framework for Addressing Inequities in Cancer Research and Care: Insights from Geneva
• Harpuneet Singh (University of Toronto): Opto-Dye Hyperspectral Identification of sperm cells in sexual assault victim samples
• Viktoria Anna Doret Springer (University of Toronto): Peripheral Immune Dysregulation in PD: Integrative Analysis of Human Transcriptomics and Preclinical Validation
• Giorgi Kaikatsishvili (University of Toronto): Rays of Equity: Overcoming Toronto's Solar Barriers
• Alden Marcus Olemos Arciaga (University of Toronto): Towards Culturally Responsive Educational AI
• Jason Bouramia (University of Toronto): Unraveling Insights from the Spanish High-Speed Rail Project for Canadian Infrastucture Dynamics

Durham conference scholars

• Beth Cooley (Durham University): Listening to mangroves: Using Autonomous Recording Units and Machine Learning tools to assess avian biodiversity in the mangroves of coastal Suriname
• Alexia Kirwan-Jones (Durham University): Neurodivergent Experiences of Eating and Body Image: Understanding the Mechanisms Behind Eating Distress in Autistic, ADHD, AuDHD Individuals
• Emma Willaume (EPFL): Analysis of hydro-mechanical response under deep geological conditions
• Thomas Delaloye (EPFL): Bio-Inspired Feet Design for Salamander- Like Quaduped Robot
• Laura Coccia (EPFL): CAN SQUARES BE SMARTER THAN YOU? Exploring the link between dynamics and computation in Cellular Automata
• Darius Giannoli (EPFL): Feeling the Swarm: Enhancing Drone Control with Haptics
• Sara Vaccino (EPFL): Maintaining Magma A Ground-Truth Fuzzing Benchmark
• Ming Wai Sophia Wong (HKU): VR classrooms
• Marya A. Y. Abuarqoub (Imperial): Assessing functional recovery in burn patients: A retrospective study using digital activity monitoring
• Zachary Hobart (Imperial College London): ECMO Referrals in the UK
• Risandi Kodagoda (St Andrews): Humanizing maths
• Tina Yu (The University of Hong Kong): Evaluating the Efficacy of Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation (tACS) combined with Speech Therapy for Cantonese-Speaking Individuals with Post­Stroke Aphasia: A Randomized Controlled Trial
• Ben Kieran-Glennon (Trinity College Dublin): Between Law and Politics: Execution of ECtHR Judgements in Ireland
• Ishna Tripathi (Trinity College Dublin): Cloud with a chance of Exomoons: Hunting got Transiting Exomoons around a Brown Dwarf
• Meabh Ní hÉalaithe (Trinity College Dublin): Cones have a point: Using the cone sheets of the Carlingford Igneous Complex to understand deeper crustal architecture and mineralisation in the system.
• Andy Choi (UCL): A Large-Scale Cohort Study of Organic Catatonia: Demographics, Comorbidities, and Mortality
• Megan Kwok (UCL): Preserved Curiosity-Driven Learning in Children with Communication and Behavioural Difficulties
• Naviya Gupta (University of Cambridge): Optimising a Myocardium-like Hydrogel for Enhanced Cardiomyocyte Culture
• Caitlin Prescott (University of Cambridge): Why are there so few women as metro mayors? Exploring the gender disparity in local and devolved politics in England
• Ben Stancliffe (University of Leeds): Adventuring Through Research: Exploring the Role of Tabletop R PG s in Neurodiverse Communities
• Florrie Crawford (University of Leeds): Unveiling the Metabolic Tango: Exploring the Interplay of Lipid Droplets and Mitochondria Through a New Staining Technique
• Teodora-Maria Marinescu, Fatima Syed Zafar Waris, Mahnoor Kamran, Jasmine Ye & Charlotte Qi (University of Oxford): Demand and Barriers: Extracurricular (ECA) Provision in Oxfordshire Schools
• Nicolas Etessami (University of St. Andrews): APPLYING BAYESIAN NETWORKS TO BRAIN DATA
• Henry Farmer (University of St. Andrews): BEDTIME IN THE THIRD REICH: HOW CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOKS INDOCTRINATED A GENERATION
• Murray Purkis (University of St. Andrews): Evolution in the Extremes