| Year | Name | Department | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Joni Wildman | Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering | Advancing Mycelium-Based Composites for Sustainable Insulation |
| 2024 | Sam Craft | Department of Psychology | Clinical and epidemiological features of synthetic cannabinoids and their detection in drug matrices and biological specimens |
| 2023 | Joe Bonsor | Department of Life Sciences | The true diversity of British dinosaurs |
| 2022 | Jakub Dziegielowski | Department of Chemical Engineering | Can soil replace oil? Soil Microbial Fuel Cells and their true potential |
| 2021 | Bas Lodewijks | Department of Mathematical Sciences | The fit, not the rich, get richer: Improving random graph models for complex networks |
| 2020 | Olivia Bailey | Department of Chemical Engineering | Sewer Systems of the Future |
| 2019 | Isabella Poli | Department of Chemistry | Clean hydrogen fuel powered by the sun |
| 2018 | Hope Christie | Department of Psychology | Let Flowers Grow in Dirt - Exploring the Impact of Trauma on Parents and Their Parenting Outcomes |
| 2017 | Emma Robson | Pharmacy & Pharmacology | Finding your way around: The importance of brain rhythms |
| 2016 | Jack Olston | Biology & Biochemistry | Convergent Evolution: Roadmaps or Roundabouts? |
| 2015 | Tara Cheetham | Psychology | Learning to cope under pressure: manipulating stress and exploring resilience in children |
| 2014 | Ed Carter | Pharmacy & Pharmacology | Branching out: key players in the growth of the airway tree |
| 2013 | Katie Charneski | Biology & Biochemistry | Positively charged amino acids are the major determinants of ribosomal velocity (and why don't codons slow ribosomes after all?) |
| 2012 | Joe Kinrade | Electronic & Electrical Engineering | Sky on fire - The Auroral Effects on GPS in the Antarctic |
| 2011 | Tatiana Kim | Mathematical Sciences | Danger: high-frequency! |
| 2010 | Tobias Warnecke | Biology & Biochemistry | Colonel Mustard, with the candlestick,... in the loft conversion??!! Redrawing the board of genetic Cluedo: How mutations cause harm in unexpected places |
| 2009 | James Stone | Physics | Blue wavelength enhanced supercontinuum generation “Getting the blues” |
| 2008 | Shifaan Thowfeequ | Biology & Biochemistry | Towards a Novel Therapy for Diabetes: A Bio-alchemist's approach |
| 2007 | Miss J Parmley | Biology & Biochemistry | Splicing and the Evolution of Mammalian Genes |
| 2006 | Miss H Shearer | Chemical Engineering | Tissue Engineering for Bone Repair: A Four Dimensional Challenge |
| 2005 | Ms K Coopman | Pharmacy & Pharmacology | Exploring a Role for Cannabis Products in Inflammation |
| 2004 | Ms A Dowling | Biology & Biochemistry | The insecticidal toxin Makes caterpillars floppy (Mcf) promotes apoptosis in mammalian cells |
| 2003 | Ms A O Urrutia | Biology & Biochemistry | Human Genome Organisation: the fine tuning for transcription |
| 2002 | Mr A Parfitt | Mechanical Engineering | Adaptive camouflage based upon biological principles |
| 2001 | Ms S Iyer | Biology & Biochemistry | Structure and function of the Placenta growth factor |
| 2000 | Mr E B Mallon | Biology & Biochemistry | Decision-making in colonies of the ant Leptothorax albipennis |
| 1999 | Mrs C Edmunds | Pharmacy & Pharmacology | T lymphocyte activation within the immune system |
| 1998 | Mr N G C Smith | Biology & Biochemistry | The costs and consequences of gene copy number variation |
| 1997 | Mr S Serkov | Mathematical Sciences | Asymptotic Analysis of Mathematical Models for Elastic Composite Media |
| 1996 | Mr J D Schmitt | Biology & Biochemistry | The design and synthesis of novel synthetic trans membrane peptides |
| 1995 | Miss E C M Crooks | Mathematical Sciences | Reaction diffusion systems |
| 1994 | Mr T J Gosling | Mathematical Sciences | Modelling dislocations in strained-layer devices |
| 1993 | No award | ||
| 1992 | Mr W J Crowther | Mechanical Engineering | Aircraft Yaw Control at High Angle of Attack by Tangential Forebody Blowing |
| 1991 | Mr I W Davies | Chemistry | New Methodology for Asymmetric Synthesis |
Past winners of the Doctoral Researcher Prize
A list of the past winners of the prize for the best doctoral researcher.
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