Individual Research Project successes
Chinonso Ojiako
Supervisor: Dr Peter West-Oram
IRP Year: 2024/25
Chinonso's Individual Research Project resulted in publication in SAGE Clinical Ethics.
Publication: Ojiako C. Published in SAGE Clinical Ethics.
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Akram Hagos
Supervisor: Professor Joideep Phadnis
IRP Year: 2024/25
Akram's research was published in a peer-reviewed journal, demonstrating the impact of student-led research at BSMS.
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Georgia Laco
Supervisor: Dr Praveen Kishore
IRP Year: 2024/25
Georgia presented research at the 6th Congress of Joint European Neonatal Societies (jENS) in Belgrade, Serbia, in October 2025.
Research title: Management of Early Onset Neonatal Sepsis Using NICE Guidelines Versus the Kaiser Permanente Sepsis Risk Calculator: A Comparative Study
The conference abstracts were published in Pediatric Research.
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Rhys Nicholas
Supervisors: Dr Kate Alford and Professor Jaime Vera
IRP Year: 2024/25
Rhys presented an electronic poster at the European AIDS Clinical Society Conference 2025 in Paris. The work was subsequently published in HIV Medicine.
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Madeleine Alexander
Supervisors: Dr Eileen Nixon and Dr Gillian Dean
IRP Year: 2025/26
Madeleine presented research at the 28th Annual Conference of the National HIV Nurses Association (NHIVNA), held in Southampton in June 2026.
Sultan Cadir
Supervisor: Professor Hugo Critchley
IRP Year: 2024/25
Sultan presented an oral poster at the 19th European Headache Congress. The conference abstract will be published in The Journal of Headache and Pain.
Rhianna van Riel-Jameson
Supervisor: Max Cooper
IRP Year: 2023/24
Rhianna's historical medical research resulted in publication in the Journal of Medical Biography.
Publication title: Thomas Lewis Mackesy (1790–1869): Eminent Surgeon of Waterford
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Trisha Choudhary
Supervisor: Dr Alexander Hall
IRP Year: 2024/25
Trisha presented a poster at the Association for Simulated Practice in Healthcare (ASPiH) Conference 2025 in Bournemouth.
Research title: Manufacture and Evaluation of an Affordable High-Fidelity Ultrasonic Guided Rectus Sheath Block Model for Training in Regional Anaesthesia
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Dr Heshana Lingakumar
Supervisor: Dr Catherine Bevan
IRP Year: 2024/25
Heshana presented research at the 17th Excellence in Pediatrics Conference in Paris in December 2025.
Research title: What Can We Learn from Safety Incidents and Can We Translate This into Prevention? A Review of Drug Errors on the Patient Safety System (DATIX).
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Ziki Gurney
Supervisor: Saul Rajak
IRP Year: 2024/25
Ziki's research was published in Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and was also presented orally at the British Oculoplastic Surgery Society (BOPSS) Conference 2025.
Publication title: Ex Vivo Biomechanical Comparison of Silicone Sling Securing Methods for Frontalis Ptosis Repair.
Darya Grawe
Supervisor: Fiona Rees
IRP Year: 2024/25
Darya presented research at BSG LIVE'25, the annual meeting of the British Society of Gastroenterology, held in Glasgow.
Israa Hameed
Supervisor: Professor Michael Okorie
IRP Year: 2024/25
Israa presented a poster at the British and Irish Hypertension Society Annual Scientific Meeting 2025 in Cambridge. Following selection as one of the highest-ranking Early Career Researcher abstracts, Israa was also invited to deliver a 60-second presentation during the conference's Poster Storm session.
Yasmin Tyson
Supervisor: Muna Al-Jawad
IRP Year: 2024/25
Yasmin's IRP achieved both conference presentation and publication outcomes.
At the International Consortium of Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships Conference 2025 in Cardiff, Yasmin delivered an oral presentation titled: Co-designing a Medical Curriculum with Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship: Participatory Action Research.
Yasmin's work was also published in The Clinical Teacher.
Publication title: Participatory Action Research: Meaningful Student Involvement in Medical Curriculum Development.
Lucy Smith
Supervisors: Nina Lockwood and Richard de Visser
IRP Year: 2025/26
Lucy presented a poster at the Association of European Qualitative Researchers in Psychology (EQuiP) Conference 2026 in Lyon, France.
Jake Baxter and Vroshan Sivaraj
Supervisor: Dr Johann Willers
IRP year: 2025/26
Jake and Vroshan won prizes at the Association of Anaesthetists 2026 Annual Congress (AC26) for 'Development and evaluation of a low-cost ADAMgel phantom for simulated tunnelled central venous catheter insertion' and 'Beyond the standard neck: a low-cost eFONA ultrasound simulation programme incorporating obese and burnt-neck anatomical variants' respectively.
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