06/07/2026
Students lead on Refugee Week at Wolfson
Overview
Now in its fourteenth year, the Wolfson Research Event (WRE) is one of the highlights of the College calendar, which showcases groundbreaking and innovative research from current Wolfson students. This year, for the first time, we will hear from a panel of alumni, reflecting on how they have used their experience of research at Wolfson in their careers.
As a mature college, many of Wolfson’s students come to the College with a problem to solve or an issue they’ve seen first-hand they want to interrogate – and WRE is a perfect platform to share this work with the Wolfson community.
Programme
- Thursday 8 May
09:30-10:30: Registration with welcome coffee & tea
10:30-1035: Welcome remarks from Emma Walsh & Angelika Kwiatkowska, WRE Chairs
10:35-10:50: Opening Speech by Dr Judith Bunbury
10:50 – 11:50: Oral presentations
- Anfas Muhammed - How do cells in our body respond to heat shock?
- Mika Yang - The dilemma of mother-student identities: women empowerment via online education
- Niles Webb - Conservatism and the 'last utopia' of human rights, c.1975-1998
11:50-13:00: Lunch break - food will not be provided but attendees are more than welcome to visit the Wolfson Buttery
13:00 – 14:00: Oral presentations
- Firdous Adam - Necropolitics and displacement: a thematic analysis of refugee administration in Awlala and Kumer camps
- Licheng Zong - Massive expansion of carbohydrate-active enzymes from the microbial universe using AI
- Julia Wieczorek - Colonial legacy in Bristol archives: implications of repatriating everyday cultural objects
14:00-14:30: Coffee & tea break
14:30 – 15:30: Oral Presentations
- Jonathan Rutherford - The radical potential and function of trade unions in capitalism
- Zixuan Yang - Intertwining nature, culture, and music: the integration of Hua'er folk songs in forest school education
- Fiona Raley - The impact of William Weir on the work of The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings and for the National Trust in the late 19th to mid-twentieth century
15:30-15:45: Flash talks by the poster presenters
15:45- 17:00: Poster session and drinks reception with light refreshments
- Friday 9th May
09:30-10:20: Registration and welcome coffee & tea
10:20 – 12:00: Oral presentations
- Campbell Wolford - Can our genes identify new targets for type 2 diabetes treatment?
- Tom Myers - Brothers divided: how the war in Ukraine reshaped Polish-Hungarian relations
- Carmen Embil Villagra - Probing the cosmic unknown: mapping dark matter farther than ever before
- Xiangting Hu - The neutral angels in Navigatio Sancti Brendani, Divine Comedy and The City of Life
- Tan Yi Hong - Evolutionary patterns of avian acoustic communities in the Bornean rainforest
12:00-13:00 Lunch break - food will not be provided but attendees are more than welcome to visit the Wolfson Buttery
13:00 – 14:40: Oral presentations
- Charlotte Rendina - One Health and canine rabies vaccination: a systematic review of funding, governance, and sustainability
- Marisa Tangeman - The role of popular culture in bisexual identity construction
- Shaamrit Balendra - Air quality sensors for ultrafine particles
- George Evans-Hulme - G. M. Trevelyan as research supervisor at the University of Cambridge, 1927-1940 G
- Charlotte Burdge - Understanding underserved groups' perspectives on data use in children and young people's healthcare research: a systematic literature review
14:40-15:20: Coffee & tea break
15:20-16:00: Oral presentations
- Susie Triffitt - Un-disappointed hope: revival and healing in the holy land of Bradford
- Tads Ciecierski-Holmes - Strategies for optimising Tumour Board Meetings (TBMs) in paediatric oncology at the Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI)
16:00-16:50: Alumni panel - With introductory talk by panel chair and Wolfson Fellow Dr Anna Dempster
16:50-17:00: Closing remarks from Emma Walsh & Angelika Kwiatkowska, WRE Chairs
Details
This event is open to all, is free to attend and there is no need to book.
Attendees are not required to attend for the entire day, but are welcome to drop in and out of sessions.
Event Photography and Recording
Photos will be taken throughout the conference events, which may include pictures of presenters, audience members, and other members of the community. These photos may be used in future official WRE and Wolfson College social platforms and promotional material.
If you would not like to be photographed, please let us know.
If we do not receive an email from you, you are agreeing to being photographed and to these photos being potentially used in future promotional material.
Access
This event will take place in the Lee Hall which has step-free access and an accessible toilet.
