UofG VYT 2024
The 4th annual University of Glasgow Visualise Your Thesis competition Award Ceremony took place at the Glasgow Film Theatre on 21 August 2024. Our expert judges in attendance were:
Better known as ganyamatope dzapasi, Tawona's ancestral family name inspires him to connect with other people through creativity and the anticipation to learn. A poet, mbira player, storyteller and playwright, he co-founded Seeds of Thought - a non-profit arts group. He is a Research Associate for MIDEQ Global Migration Hub and a UNESCO artist-in-residence at the School of Education.
Dr Cia Jackson is a Digital Social Media Coordinator for the College of Arts & Humanities. She hosts, produces, and creates the social content for the College's award-winning research podcast, Stories From Glasgow, now in its fourth season. When not creating content for, and managing @UofGArtsHums channels, she leads College training in social media best practice for staff and students.
Kirsten is an artist, filmmaker, and writer with a professional background as a journalist, producer and director at the BBC, where she made documentaries and magazine programmes for network television and television news. Her current work uses experimental film practice to provoke new conversations on concepts of home, place and belonging in times of war. She currently teaches and researches experimental filmmaking and artists moving image at The University of Glasgow.
- Debbie McNeill (UofG profile)
Debbie is a director and founder of the award-winning Glasgow Science Festival, which has been running since 2006 to showcase Glasgow researchers' outstanding contribution to the STEMM field (science, technology, engineering, maths, medicine). She is also head of the Public Engagement in STEMM at the College of Medicine, Veterinary & Life Sciences (MVLS) at the University of Glasgow, where she is also a marine biology researcher with extensive expeditionary and diving experience. In addition, Debbie sits on the UofG Exploration Council, Glasgow City of Science and is the Chair of the Scottish Youth Film Festival.
Results
Winner - Kirsten Somerville (School of Education)
- Earth Stories in Geographical and Environmental Education
Runner Up - Catriona Ewart (School of Health & Wellbeing)
- Eyes Wide Open: An Arts-Based Approach to Co-Developing an Adolescent Sleep Intervention
People's Choice - Meita Wulandari (Adam Smith Business School)
- Unintended Consequences of Perceived Unfair Performance Evaluation Systems in the Public Sector
Erin Bartley (School of Education)
- Once upon a Teenage Time - Exploring the use of storytelling in career guidance with adolescents and the implications for executive function, well-being and identity formation
Grace Anne Helen Reynolds Paizen (School of Critical Studies)
- From Automata to Virtual Assistants: The Edisonade and the Literary Legacy of Gendering Machines
Marcus Russell Slater (School of Education)
- Movement as a means of understanding
Nadine Sigalov (School of Critical Studies)
- Embodied Interconnectedness: Synaesthesia and Contemporary Literature
Craig Houston (School of Health & Wellbeing)
- Care experienced young people's perceptions of third spaces and social connectivity
Paula Ledesma Fernandez (School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine)
- Studying dog neurons to find new ways to treat pain
