Share your research at the Get Published! showcase

25 January 2023

Attendees at a Get Published! conference

Presenting your research as an undergraduate or taught postgraduate student is a great way to bring your work to a wider audience and develop new skills.

Oxford Brookes' annual Get Published! conference will showcase research projects by up to 120 students from Brookes and its partner colleges.

The event takes place in the Forum, John Henry Brookes Building, Headington Campus, on Thursday 20 April 2023 from 11.30am to 1.30pm.

Dr Louise Taylor, Principal Lecturer Student Education and Experience, leads the Student Research Launch Pad project. Dr Taylor says: "The Get Published! conference is an exciting part of the Student Research Launch Pad, which is all about helping you to get your work in front of a wider audience. Sharing and publishing your research helps develop invaluable graduate skills such as critical thinking, research literacy, and visual and verbal communication, as well as attributes including confidence, creativity and professional autonomy."

“Being able to communicate complex ideas to a wide audience in simple and interesting ways is a crucial stand-out skill in the digital age.”

Dr Louise Taylor

If you'd like to present your research from a dissertation, independent study or other module, you can write an abstract and submit it via the Get Published! application form by 1.00pm on Wednesday 22 February. Advice on how to write your abstract is provided within the form.

Here are two of the students who showcased their projects at previous Get Published! events:

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Evie Day: 'Are there unique psychological benefits of choral singing?'

Evie presented the findings from her undergraduate Psychology dissertation at the 2017 conference

Evie presented the findings from her undergraduate Psychology dissertation at the 2017 conference. The study compared the psychological wellbeing of choral singers with those who took part in five other activities: solo singers, band/orchestra members, solo musicians, team sport players and solo sport players. It found that any leisure activity that offers opportunities for improvement, mastery of a new skill or a sense of accomplishment could have a positive effect on our psychological wellbeing.

After graduating, Evie (pictured above left at the Get Published! conference) went on to formally publish her findings in Psychology of Music, an international, peer-reviewed academic journal.

Dr Adam Lonsdale, Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Evie's dissertation supervisor, says: "Evie's experience is a clear example of why the annual Get Published! conference and the work of the Student Research Launch Pad initiative are so valuable. They give students the opportunity to showcase their work in a supportive context outside of their own discipline, to practise key skills and to be taken seriously as a 'researcher'."

Dr Ishmeet Kaur: 'Young and understudied: psychological wellbeing in adolescents and young adults with cancer'

Ishmeet, a dentist, came to Brookes from India to study the one-year Master of Public Health programme. Her systematic review of the psychological impact of cancer on adolescents and young adults was motivated by her family's recent experience of the disease.

Ishmeet’s supervisor Dr Sarah Hennelly, Senior Lecturer in Public Health, says: "Based on her findings, Ishmeet developed evidence and theory-based recommendations for the psychological support of young people with cancer, aimed at global public health practitioners. We were delighted that she was accepted to Get Published! and awarded the prize for postgraduate research with the highest potential impact."

After leaving Brookes, Ishmeet went on to work in the public health sector in England.