The 5th Annual Student Research Symposium was held on Sunday November 13th in the LGS, Block 4. This annual event provides undergraduate and postgraduate students a forum to share their research findings with an audience of their peers, university staff, and family members. Each presenter discussed their work with the audience, expertly answering questions, and the displayed posters were of very high quality. All presenters were give participation certificates in recognition of the quality of their research, and ‘Best Poster’ awards were given to the top undergraduate and postgraduate presentations based on feedback from the judging panels.
The two undergraduate winners were
“The European Court of Human Rights: Bans on the wearing of religious attire in schools, the workplace and the public sphere”
“Investigating tourist’s perceptions, attitudes and behaviour towards sustainable development and preservation of the World Heritage Site: The Historic Centre of Rome”
The postgraduate award went to:
“The impact of celebrity scandals on brand image. The rise and fall of sports hero Lance Armstrong: A theoretical and empirical investigation”
Participants in the 5th Annual Student Research Symposium
Student
Programme
Supervisor
Title
Lakshmi Nair
MBA (Business Excellence)
Mohammad Meraj
Work-life Integration and ‘Leaveism’ - a study of workplace practices in business excellence award winning organisations in the UAE
Khizar Jave Khattak
MA Marketing Communications
Cody Paris
Effects of Political Campaign advertisements on the destination brand of the USA: A look at Obama and Trump
Teneille Saayman
Muneeza Shoaib
The impact of celebrity scandals on brand image. The rise and fall of sports hero Lance Armstrong: A theoretical and empirical investigation
Anna Soboleva
Journalism and Communication Studies
Eve Stubbs
The Differences in Representing Gender and Sexuality in Cosmopolitan Magazine in Various Cultures
Aysha Siddiqua and Ruth Jacob
Psychology
Anita Kashi
“Alhamdulillah, we are still having our culture”: A qualitative study among Emiratis in Dubai
Anna Maria Wojcieszek
Lynda Hyland
Social media overuse: From gratifications to “addiction”. An exploration using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
Alia Mohamed Wasfi El-Abiary
LLB
Tenia Kyriazi
Assisted suicide and Voluntary Euthanasia in the UK courts and the European Court of Human Rights
Ruby Shaniah Oayda
The European Court of Human Rights: Bans on the wearing of religious attire in schools, the workplace and the public sphere
Rachel Bianca Simmons
International Tourism Management
Generation Y’s tourist gaze on Rome’s cultural destination image
Ujala Tariq
Destination image differences between first-time and return-visitors to Rome
Hamna Ashraf
An analysis of the ‘pull factors’, used by restaurants, as a motivational factor amongst the urban tourists to try Italian Cuisine
Isabel Giannina Feldbauer
Investigating tourist’s perceptions, attitudes and behaviour towards sustainable development and preservation of the World Heritage Site: The Historic Centre of Rome
Cezalyn Gomba
Brand Management of Dubai with relation to Dubai Expo 2020, and the Perception of Tourists towards both
Aysha Haniya Hashim
The Popularity For Authentic Local Culinary in building Rome’s Destination Image