Fifth Annual Student Research Symposium a Success
13/11/2016
The 5th Annual Student Research Symposium was held on Sunday November 13th in the LGS, Block 4. This annual event provides undergraduate and postgraduate students a forum to share their research findings with an audience of their peers, university staff, and family members. Each presenter discussed their work with the audience, expertly answering questions, and the displayed posters were of very high quality. All presenters were give participation certificates in recognition of the quality of their research, and ‘Best Poster’ awards were given to the top undergraduate and postgraduate presentations based on feedback from the judging panels.
The two undergraduate winners were
- Ruby Shaniah Oayda, supervised by Tenia Kyriazi
“The European Court of Human Rights: Bans on the wearing of religious attire in schools, the workplace and the public sphere”
- Isabel Giannina Feldbauer, supervised by Cody Paris
“Investigating tourist’s perceptions, attitudes and behaviour towards sustainable development and preservation of the World Heritage Site: The Historic Centre of Rome”
The postgraduate award went to:
- Teneille Saayman, supervised by Muneeza Shoaib
“The impact of celebrity scandals on brand image. The rise and fall of sports hero Lance Armstrong: A theoretical and empirical investigation”
Participants in the 5th Annual Student Research Symposium
Student | Programme | Supervisor | Title |
Lakshmi Nair | MBA (Business Excellence) | Mohammad Meraj | Work-life Integration and ‘Leaveism’ - a study of workplace practices in business excellence award winning organisations in the UAE |
Khizar Jave Khattak | MA Marketing Communications | Cody Paris | Effects of Political Campaign advertisements on the destination brand of the USA: A look at Obama and Trump |
Teneille Saayman | MA Marketing Communications | Muneeza Shoaib | The impact of celebrity scandals on brand image. The rise and fall of sports hero Lance Armstrong: A theoretical and empirical investigation |
Anna Soboleva | Journalism and Communication Studies | Eve Stubbs | The Differences in Representing Gender and Sexuality in Cosmopolitan Magazine in Various Cultures |
Aysha Siddiqua and Ruth Jacob | Psychology | Anita Kashi | “Alhamdulillah, we are still having our culture”: A qualitative study among Emiratis in Dubai |
Anna Maria Wojcieszek | Psychology | Lynda Hyland | Social media overuse: From gratifications to “addiction”. An exploration using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis |
Alia Mohamed Wasfi El-Abiary | LLB | Tenia Kyriazi | Assisted suicide and Voluntary Euthanasia in the UK courts and the European Court of Human Rights |
Ruby Shaniah Oayda | LLB | Tenia Kyriazi | The European Court of Human Rights: Bans on the wearing of religious attire in schools, the workplace and the public sphere |
Rachel Bianca Simmons | International Tourism Management | Cody Paris | Generation Y’s tourist gaze on Rome’s cultural destination image |
Ujala Tariq | International Tourism Management | Cody Paris | Destination image differences between first-time and return-visitors to Rome |
Hamna Ashraf | International Tourism Management | Cody Paris | An analysis of the ‘pull factors’, used by restaurants, as a motivational factor amongst the urban tourists to try Italian Cuisine |
Isabel Giannina Feldbauer | International Tourism Management | Cody Paris | Investigating tourist’s perceptions, attitudes and behaviour towards sustainable development and preservation of the World Heritage Site: The Historic Centre of Rome |
Cezalyn Gomba | International Tourism Management | Cody Paris | Brand Management of Dubai with relation to Dubai Expo 2020, and the Perception of Tourists towards both |
Aysha Haniya Hashim | International Tourism Management | Cody Paris | The Pop |