Knowledge Transfer Scotland: Policy and Practice Conference

Impact Poster Competition 2010

Run in association with the KT Scotland Conference, early-stage researchers (PhD students and Postdoctoral Fellows) were encouraged to consider what could be the potential impact of their research on wider society by preparing a poster for display at the conference. The posters were intended to describe how their research could be utilised by different user groups via Knowledge Transfer. The top 20 posters of all the proposals submitted were selected to be displayed at the conference and considered by the judging panel for the Impact Poster Prize. The winning poster was the one which most convincingly explained the potential wider impact of the applicant's research and how that impact could be achieved through the different processed of knowledge transfer.

Impact Posters selected to be displayed at the KT Scotland Conference:

HEALTH category

• Mr Graham Brennan, University of Strathclyde: "Delivering better methods of recruitment in physical activity"
• Miss Caroline King, University of Edinburgh: "Health visitors and health policy for new mothers"
• Ms Jing Jing Lui and Ms Emma Davidson, University of Edinburgh: "Developing health promotion interventions (smoking and obesity) for ethnic minorities"
• Mrs Catriona Macintyre-Beon, University of Glasgow: "Identifying and managing prematurely-born children with perceptual visual dysfunction"
• Miss Lesley McIntyre , University of Dundee: "Way-finding in buildings by people who are blind/losing their sight"
• Miss Tina Parkin, University of Edinburgh: "Employee health and well-being at work"
• Miss Varia Ranjbar, University of Edinburgh: "Psychologically supporting young volunteer aid workers"

WEALTH category

• Mr M Aldib, Heriot-Watt University: "Application of Photochromic Dyes to Textiles"
• Dr Katherine Champion, University of Abertay, Dundee: "Supporting small firm growth strategies in the digital media industries"
• Dr Venkat Ibrahim, Heriot-Watt University: "Developing a biometric product from an object recognition algorithm"
• Mr Javid Khan, University of Edinburgh: "Commercialisation of large, 3D holographic displays"
• Ms Julie Thomson, University of West of Scotland: "A framework for technology valorisation to faciliate Open Innovation"

ENVIRONMENT category

• Mrs Rachel Danermann, University of Stirling: "Delivering affordable housing in areas of high landscape value"
• Dr Katherine Edlmann, University of Edinburgh: "CO2 storage — undertanding geochemical reactions"
• Dr Jun Hong, University of Strathclyde: "Towards zero and low carbon energy supply systems for buildings"

CULTURE category

• Ms Emma Flynn, University of St Andrews: "Growing the Art Market"
• Mrs Lilia Gomez-Flores, Glasgow School of Art: "Developing new research methodologies in social and human sciences using Virtual Communities (avatars)"
• Miss Magarita Kominou, University of Edinburgh: "Ethical consumerism"
• Dr Betsy Super, University of Edinburgh: "How to do grass roots politics"

The Impact Poster Competition 2010 overall winner was Miss Caroline King, University of Edinburgh: "Health visitors and health policy for new mothers". She won the top prize of £2000 to help her further develop the impact of her research.