Overview
'Bring your research questions!' is a drop-in session to help students think about research questions, methodologies, and find a community in College.
Come by to talk to us about anything - science, humanities, social sciences! Come talk dissertations (undergraduate, MPhil, PhD). Find a reason to remain excited when you are deep down in a rabit hole!
Facilitators
- Judith Bunbury
Judith Bunbury is a geologist working with archaeologists to explore evidence for ancient landscape and climate change in Egypt and elsewhere. In addition to her research articles, she is author of two books on the Nile. Dr Judith Bunbury is the Senior Tutor at Wolfson College. Based in the Department of Earth Sciences she has taught undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as taking a turn as Senior Tutor of St Edmund’s College. Now at Wolfson, she is combining her research interests with the role of Tutor for non-doctoral postgraduate students.
- Prajakti Kalra
Prajakti Kalra is a researcher and academic whose work explores the history and political economy of Eurasia, with a particular focus on the Mongol Empire and Central Asia. She has been affiliated with the University of Cambridge in multiple roles, including Research Officer at the Cambridge Central Asia Forum, Lecturer at the Centre of Development Studies, and Coordinator at the Centre of South Asian Studies. She is currently the Research Networks Manager at Wolfson College. Her scholarship highlights how historical perspectives can inform contemporary debates on development, diplomacy, and regional integration.
- Mohamed El-Zeadani
Dr Mohamed El-Zeadani is an 1851 Research Fellow in the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, working on enhancing connection ductility for the safe design of timber structures.
Mohamed’s current research investigates the ductility and energy dissipation performance of a promising new method of constructing timber connections using screwed-in threaded rods and steel links. Such connections are important in various scenarios, including tall timber buildings that can be subjected to extreme winds or earthquakes, and timber bridges that could carry large loads from over-sized vehicles. The proposed connections will be investigated through a series of experimental tests and numerical simulation studies. The vast results will then be used to inform the development of formulations for practical design purposes. The developed design expressions should enable connections to be fine-tuned to achieve the optimal balance of strength, ductility and stiffness to ensure the safe design of timber structures subjected to extreme loading scenarios.
- Lily Tekseng
Lily Tekseng specialises in Postcolonial and Related literatures, focusing her research specifically on the cultural productions about the Second World War in the Northeastern region of India, or the erstwhile China-Burma-India theatre. Her research lies at the intersection of the study of the empire, production of borderlands, questions of indigeneity and Postcoloniality. She has previously taught at the University of Delhi, India, and has a degree in History and English from the University of Delhi, India, and the Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. She is currently Wolfson College Research Networks Administrator.
Details
This event is open to all and free to attend - please book your place.
Submit your Research Question
Please feel free to submit your research question here in advance.
Access
This event will take place in the Lee Hall which has step-free access and an accessible toilet.
Contact
If you have any questions, please contact our events team - events@wolfson.cam.ac.uk
Wolfson College Research Networks
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