The Sheffield Institute for Policy Studies (SIPS) invites you to its Fourth Annual PGR Poster Competition and Research Showcase, kindly sponsored by Oxford University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Policy Press, Blackwell’s and Emerald Publishing. 

This multi-disciplinary event encourages postgraduate research students from across the University to develop a range of skills in a friendly and supportive environment, including communicating their research, responding to questions and feedback, developing their researcher profile, and developing their contact networks. 

Students’ posters will be available to view throughout the Conference. You are also invited to meet the students and discuss their research at the Poster Competition and Research Showcase when the prizes for the best posters from each category will also be announced. 

Featured students’ posters:

• Evaluating the impact of the NEMESIS Educational model – Jenifer Wall 
• ASB victims’ experiences of Community Protection Notices – Zoe Rodgers
• Understanding the influence of helmet-layer characteristics on impact properties during compliant impacts –  Daniel Matthias Haid
• The Subjective Post-Conviction Experiences of Whole Life Prisoners within England and Wales. – Hannah Gilman
• The Secret Life of Empty Buildings: The hidden activity involved in maintaining a site’s ‘inactivity’ – Charlene Cross
• ‘The right to change religion, the experiences of apostates and the efficacy of UK law and policy, including hate crime, domestic abuse and coercive control’ – Ellen Johnson
•  The escalation of crime control; examining the impact of state monitoring on asylum seekers, offenders and communities. – April Christina Murray Cantwell 
•  It Bloody Ads Up! Quantifying and responding to the framing of shaming in the menstrual discourse – Chella Quint