Postgraduate Researcher of the Year

Coventry University will once again be awarding one postgraduate researcher the title of ‘Postgraduate Researcher of the Year’. One nominee representing each faculty or University Research Centre will compete for the title. There will be a cash prize of £1000 for the overall winner and £100 for each nominee.

Faculties and URCs have been asked to select nominees who are outstanding in their faculty/URC, are producing high quality research and are an active member of your research community.  

The nominees will present their research during the Research Hootenanny on Thursday 16 January from 10.30 to 13.00. Our panel of judges will mark the nominees presentations and interview each candidate.

If you would like attend the PGR of the year presentations and support our nominees, you can book to attend using the following link: 10.30 – 13.00: Postgraduate Researcher of the Year Competition Presentations

The 2020 nominees are:

Jacqueline Shanley

Representing the Centre for Global Education: Learning and Attainment


Christopher Day

Representing the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations 


Clair Dempsey

Representing the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences 


Arpit Goyal

Representing the Faculty Engineering, Environment and Computing 


Andrew Tomlinson

Representing the Institute for Future Transport and Cities 


Gloria Giambartolomei

Representing the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience 


Nora Lanari

Representing the Faculty of Business and Law 


Molly Browne

Representing the Faculty of Arts and Humanities