2026 Five-minute fellowships and three-minute research projects
Could you present the impact of your Daphne Jackson Fellowship in only five minutes and two slides? Seven former fellows will be doing just that in our Tuesday morning session Five-minute fellowships.
On Tuesday afternoon find out about the research some of our current fellows are involved in at the Three-minute research presentations. Nine of our current fellows have three minutes and one slide to tell you everything you need to know about their research projects. See their details below.
Five-minute fellowship presenters
Dr Ali Alzwayi
Host organisation:
University of Glasgow
Department:
Systems Power & Energy Research Division
Supervisor/s:
Prof Manosh C Paul
Dr Angela Busse
Fellowship Funder:
UKRI
Fellowship dates:
January 2022 – January 2024
Fellowship: A Novel Thermal Management System of Cylindrical Battery Cells Using Cooling Fins
Dr Ban Al-Jassani
Host organisation:
University of Leeds
Department:
Mechanical Engineering
Supervisor/s:
Dr Greg de Boer
Osvaldo M Querin
Fellowship Funder:
UKRI-EPSRC
Royal Society
Fellowship dates:
November 2022-October 2025
Fellowship: Extensions to the Growth Method for the Design of Space-Frame Structures (Trusses)
Dr Clara Barker
Host organisation:
University of Oxford
Department:
Department of Materials
Supervisor/s:
Prof. Susie Speller
Professor Lapo Bagani
Fellowship Funder:
Royal Society of Chemistry
Fellowship dates:
July2022 – July 2025
Fellowship: Next-generation superconducting thin-films for quantum devices with off-line quality assessment
Dr Lynsay Blake
Host organisation:
Durham University
Department:
Department of Engineering
Supervisor/s:
Professor Karen Johnson
Fellowship Funder:
Durham University
Fellowship dates:
July 2018 – July 2020
Fellowship: Integrating waste into the Circular Economy
Dr Melissa Marr
Host organisation:
University of Edinburgh
Department:
Royal School of Veterinary Medicine and the Roslin Institute
Supervisor/s:
Prof Rob Ogden
Dr Peter Lurz
Fellowship Funder:
University of Edinburgh
UKRI
Fellowship dates:
September 2020 – September 2022
Fellowship: Comparative population genomics of Scottish red squirrels: understanding diversity to support conservation management in a key species stronghold
Dr Ainsley McIntosh
Host organisation:
University of Edinburgh
Department:
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Supervisor/s:
Professor Penny Fielding
Dr Robert Irvine
Fellowship Funder:
UKRI
Fellowship dates:
November 2021 – October 2023
Fellowship: Thinking in Ink: Composition, Materiality, and Mediation in Romantic Poetry
Dr Miriam Watson
Host organisation:
University of Birmingham
Department:
School of Physics and Astronomy
Supervisor/s:
Professor Peter Watkins
Fellowship Funder:
UKRI
Fellowship dates:
September 2008 – September 2010
Fellowship: Single top quark physics at the ATLAS experiment
Three-minute research presenters
Dr Jocelyn Auger
Host organisation:
University of Birmingham
Department:
Institute of Cardovascular Sciences
Supervisor/s:
Dr Steve Thomas
Dr Natalie Poulter
Fellowship Funder:
British Heart Foundation
Fellowship start date:
January 2024
Fellowship: Establishing a microfluidic model of thrombus and endothelial cell interaction under flow as a tool for application of novel imaging techniques
Dr Kerry Francksen
Host organisation:
Coventry University
Department:
Centre for Dance Research
Supervisor/s:
Professor Sarah Whatley
Fellowship Funder:
AHRC
Fellowship start date:
March 2024
Fellowship: Advanced creative practices in virtual reality performance and artificial intelligence applications
Professor Rosemary Fricker
Host organisation:
University of Cambridge
Department:
Cambridge University Botanic Garden and Department of Plant Sciences
Supervisor/s:
Professor Sam Brockington
Fellowship Funder:
UKRI
Fellowship start date:
November 2025
Fellowship: Using Cambridge University collections to assess the impact of changes in land use and climate on the flora and fauna of the Fens – towards effective restoration work within fenland agricultural systems.
Dr Luke Hepworth
Host organisation:
University of Cambridge
Department:
Earth Sciences
Supervisor/s:
Professor Marian Holness
Fellowship Funder:
Royal Society
Fellowship start date:
November 2024
Fellowship: The collapse of mafic magma chambers: new insights from the Rum central intrusion, NW Scotland
Dr Sally Kawamura
Host organisation:
University of York
Department:
Department of History of Art
Supervisor/s:
Dr Anna Bilbao Yarto
Fellowship Funder:
University of York
UKRI
Fellowship start date:
March 2024
Fellowship: International Reverberations: Group Ongaku, Fluxus and Experimental Communities
Dr Justyna McKinlay
Host organisation:
Heriot-Watt University
Department:
School of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Supervisor/s:
Professor Martin Paterson
Fellowship Funder:
UKRI
Fellowship start date:
January 2025
Fellowship: Photochemistry, photophysics and design of transition metal complexes for photodynamic therapy – a computational study
Dr Karolina Rygiel
Host organisation:
University of Oxford
Department:
Centre for Medicines Discovery, Nuffield Department of Medicine
Supervisor/s:
Professor Roman Fisher
Fellowship Funder:
Royal Society
Fellowship start date:
May 2025
Fellowship: Developing spatial immunopeptidomics in colorectal cancer
Dr Zhengui Xue
Host organisation:
Queen’s University Belfast
Department:
Engineering/Computer Science
Supervisor/s:
Professor Sean McLoone
Fellowship Funder:
Queen’s University Belfast
Fellowship start date:
October 2025
Fellowship: Machine Learning Empowered Intelligent Robot Control