Research Starts Now: The NUI Galway Undergraduate Research Conference, Thursday 19th March 2015
Welcome Keynotes
10.00-11.00
"Welcome" Professor Lokesh Joshi, Vice President for Research
"How to Conference" Undergraduate Student from Conference Steering Committee
"Research Postgraduate Study at NUI Galway" Anna Marie Leonard, Graduate Studies Office and Cian Moran, Hardiman PhD Scholar with Dr. Maria Gallo
"Research Skills for your Personal and Professional Developmet" Josephine Walsh, Career Development Centre
Parrallel Sessions
Lead Author Fi
Last Name
Carmen
Kealy
Hazel
Wolstenholme
Linda
11.00-3.00
College of
Table Number
Scheduled Tim
Arts, Social Sciences, & Celt The Importance of Play and Early Years
A-1
11.00-12.00
Arts, Social Sciences, & Celt The Role of Acculturation, Family Functioning and Health Self-Efficacy in Adolescents Living in Ireland
A-1
11.00-12.00
Spollen
Arts, Social Sciences, & Celt Young adults’ attitudes toward help seeking for emotional and personal problems'
A-1
11.00-12.00
Heidar
Al - Hashimi
Arts, Social Sciences, & Celt Community Profile of Athlone Accommodation Centre at Lissywollen
A-2
11.00-12.00
Cillian
Moran
Arts, Social Sciences, & Celt Historical Impacts of EU Constitutional Reform and Implications for EU law
A-2
11.00-12.00
Maria
Ní Fhlatharta
Business, Public Policy, & L Questioning Constitutionally, the fifth amendment, disability and false confessions
A-2
11.00-12.00
Jessica
Lane
Medicine, Nursing, & Health Role of the Nurse in the Prevention & Management of Neutropenia
A-3
11.00-12.00
Phoebe
McKenna
Arts, Social Sciences, & Celt Social Cognition, Parental Relationships & Schizotypy
A-3
11.00-12.00
Eunice
Phillip
Triage: Factors influencing its ability, accuracy of Decision Making and Reliability triage scale in the Emergency Department
A-3
11.00-12.00
Alina Madita
Wieczorek
Feeding Patterns of the Lesser Spotted Dogfish (Scyliorhinus canicula) Inhabiting Inshore Nephrops norvegicus Fishing Grounds
A-4
11.00-12.00
Veasna
Sum-Coffey and Science
Cloning fragments of Syndecan 2 to create an SDC2-Fc fusion peptide
A-4
11.00-12.00
Chris
Moran
Arts, Social Sciences, & Celt Their Dark Materials: How the National Theatre’s adaptation captured the essence of Philip Pullman’s 'His Dark Materials'
A-5
11.00-12.00
Sarah
Carthy
Arts, Social Sciences, & Celt “What they did was worse”: Do advantageous comparisons influence our moral judgement when confronted with acts of violent extremis
A-5
11.00-12.00
Niall
McHugh
Arts, Social Sciences, & Celt To what extent was the New Deal successful in overcoming the consequences of the Great Depression of 1929?
A-5
11.00-12.00
Kristine
Kenny
B-1
12.00-1.00
Claire
Gibbons and Co Medicine, Nursing, & Health Assessing parental knowledge and attitues towards HIV status disclosure in schools
B-1
12.00-1.00
Sinead
Gaffney
B-2
12.00-1.00
Cormac
McGarry
Arts, Social Sciences, & Celt All the Heroes Wear Black: Superhero Cinema in the Post-Millennial Age
B-2
12.00-1.00
Jason
Walsh
Business, Public Policy, & L How to Understand Financial Markets
B-3
12.00-1.00
Andre
Alves
Engineering & Informatics
Contribution to research of concrete strength prediction by ultrasonic pulse velocity test: influence of cement consumption
B-3
12.00-1.00
Mark
Roche
Engineering & Informatics
Digital Control of a Magnetic Suspension System
B-4
12.00-1.00
Edel
Browne
Science
Free Feet: A device to reduce freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease
B-4
12.00-1.00
Nigel
da Silva Lima a
Engineering & Informatics
A Browser-based Activity Monitoring and Analysis Tool
B-5
12.00-1.00
Elaine
Higgins
Medicine, Nursing, & Health Exploring the aesthetic font preference of adults with mild intellectual disability
B-5
12.00-1.00
Cáit
Ní Nialláin
Arts, Social Sciences, & Celt The Distorted Male Gaze in a Growing Cyber Society
B-5
12.00-1.00
Amy
Rossiter
Medicine, Nursing, & Health An evaluation of the prevalence of childhood trauma in individuals attending an adult mental health service.
C-1
2.00-3.00
Katie
Fallon
Arts, Social Sciences, & Celt The appropriate balance between justice and peace in conflict resolution efforts?
C-1
2.00-3.00
Fionn
Delahunty and
Arts, Social Sciences, & Celt Report from a survey on technology usage among university students.
C-2
2.00-3.00
Evandro
Costa
Engineering & Informatics
Ferrocement hull: A Small Contribution for Shipbuilding in Riverside Communities
C-2
2.00-3.00
Morgane
Clarke
Science
Investigation of the Role of DNA Methylation in Regulating Toll-Like Receptor Activity
C-3
2.00-3.00
Jack
O'Meara
Engineering & Informatics
Fabrication of electro-spun poly (lactic-co-glycolic) acid scaffolds functionalised with dextran sulphate for tendon repair
C-3
2.00-3.00
Fionnuala
Nic Pháidín
Arts, Social Sciences, & Celt The verbs of existence in Spanish and Irish: a comparative analysis of ser and is in predicate adjective constructions.
C-4
2.00-3.00
Jordan
Markey
Arts, Social Sciences, & Celt Why were questions around language so important in Galicia in the period from 1867 to 1914?
C-4
2.00-3.00
Alison
Hughes
Science
C-5
2.00-3.00
Peter
Houston
Medicine, Nursing, & Health An in vitro model of heart valve disease: A pilot study
C-5
2.00-3.00
School of Nursing
Science
Education Department
Education
Title of Research
Inviting global perspectives into the diverse Irish classroom: restraints of a Westernised curriculum at Junior Certificate level
The Home Economics teacher as leader within the school community: A reflection
Lunch
Closing Keynote
1.00-2.00
Development of A Natural Marine Products Library
3.15-3.30