Habs Diploma Extended Research Project Prize Giving Ceremony
WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER - PREVETT HALL
The Extended Research Project began in September 2020 as a new initiative across our two schools. It builds on and takes the best of two existing prizes for Sixth Form scholarship: the Aske Project from the Boys’ School and the St Catherine’s Prize from the Girls’ School. It forms a key component of the Habs Diploma.
Year 12 students across both schools produce an independent project over the course of the year, under the supervision of a staff member. They decide on their topic and title before submitting the finished article in June the following year.
The projects are then marked by subject supervisors according to set criteria and most projects receiving a Distinction are sent to external examiners whose recommendations form the basis of the awards.
The Extended Research Project extends students beyond their studies allowing them to develop research tools and an expertise in their chosen area.
Order of Proceedings
Welcome and introduction
DR HAZEL BAGWORTH-MANN, HEADMISTRESS OF HABERDASHERS’ GIRLS’ SCHOOL
MR ROBERT SYKES, HEADMASTER OF HABERDASHERS’ BOYS’ SCHOOL
Announcement of Creative Faculty prize winners
Creative Faculty winner - presentation
ELIJAH SUMMER
Announcement of STEM Faculty prize winners
STEM Faculty winner - presentation
DAWEI TAO
Announcement of Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty prize winners
Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty winner presentation
GAVRIELLA EPSTEIN-LIGHTMAN
Closing remarks and congratulations
List of external examiners
ART STUART TODHUNTER
BIOLOGY
CHEMISTRY
COMPUTER SCIENCE
CREATIVE WRITING AND ENGLISH
ECONOMICS
ENGINEERING
PROFESSOR SUSAN SMITH
DAVID FOX
VARUNA DA SILVA
KISHAN GANATRA
TOM GLINNAN
JARED RICHARD
HISTORY
MUSIC
MEDICINE
MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES
POLITICS
PHILOSOPHY
PHYSICS
PROFESSOR LAWRENCE GOLDMAN
DR J.F. VILJOEN
PROFESSOR SUSAN SMITH
ALISON MCKENSIE
PAUL GOLDSMITH
RAPHAEL LEVY
MIKE STANBRIDGE
Prize winners
Creative Faculty
1ST PLACE
2ND PLACE
3RD PLACE
STEM Faculty
1ST PLACE
2ND PLACE
3RD PLACE
HIGHLY COMMENDED
ELIJAH SUMMER (MUSIC)
ZOYA MANKHAND (ENGLISH CREATIVE WRITING)
HARISHAN JENIRATHAN (DESIGN ENGINEERING)
DAWEI TAO (CHEMISTRY) (VOGEL PRIZE)
NAADIYA MIRZA (BIOLOGY) (TIETZ PRIZE)
SANJHAY VIJAYAKUMAR (COMPUTER SCIENCE)
THALIA AL-MADFAI (BIOLOGY)
ALEX PYLYPENKO (COMPUTER SCIENCE)
CASPAR GOWAR (PHYSICS)
Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty
1ST PLACE
GAVRIELLA EPSTEIN-LIGHTMAN (HISTORY)
2ND PLACE OLIVER WEST (PSYCHOLOGY)
3RD PLACE JAI SHAH (ECONOMICS) (RIYEN KARIA PRIZE FOR ECONOMICS)
HIGHLY COMMENDED
EMMA BERNHOLT (ECONOMICS)
MAAZ YASSER (ECONOMICS)
LANRE PRATT (HISTORY)
MIKAEL HELBITZ (HISTORY)
AARUSH BAHEL (LAW)
AMELIA HOWIE (MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES)
MATEO PAVLOV (PHILOSOPHY)
DYLAN LADWA (PHILOSOPHY)
WILLIAM MACE (POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS)
SAVIN DIAS (POLITICS AND ECONOMICS)
ISABELLA MICHAELSON (PSYCHOLOGY)
Externally marked projects Biology
NAADIYA MIRZA Is bioelectricity the future of human limb regeneration?
THALIA AL-MADFAI
Chemistry
How can artificial intelligence (AI) enhance diagnoses and prognoses of cancers?
DAWEI TAO Is silicon-based life possible?
Computer Science
SANJHAY VIJAYAKUMAR
ALEX PYLYPENKO
Is the shift towards neuromorphic computing in AI development justified? Explain whether the programming paradigm for neuromorphic systems provide a tangible advantage over conventional approaches in terms of both efficiency and ease of implementation
Jacobyte: a tale of computer vision, generative AI, Murphy’s Law, and (occasionally) Bridge-playing robots
Design Engineering
HARISHAN JENIRATHAN The beauty of disorder: an introduction to chaos theory, its role in turbulence and why turbulence should be embraced
Economics
JAI SHAH
EMMA BERNHOLT
MAAZ YASSER
Are passively managed funds better than actively managed funds for the long-term equity investor?
To what extent is girls’ education key to economic development?
Have economic development and civil rights posed a dilemma for Qatar?
English Creative Writing
ZOYA MANKHAND
History
Gosha: a screenplay
GAVRIELLA EPSTEIN-LIGHTMAN Was Phyllis Schlafly’s campaign against the women’s liberation movement the most significant reason for the rise of the conservative Right as a political force in the USA?
LANRE PRATT
MIKAEL HELBITZ
‘No Longer at Ease’: the legacy of British Colonial Rule on contemporary Nigeria and its diaspora
Why was the Jewish community generally reluctant to face the trauma of the Holocaust straight after the Second World War?
Externally marked projects
Law
AARUSH BAHEL
Athlete data and current legislation
Modern Foreign Languages
AMELIA HOWIE
Music
ELIJAH SUMMER
Philosophy
MATEO PAVLOV
DYLAN LADWA
Physics
CASPAR GOWAR
What impact did different forms of Resistance have on the Nazi occupation of France?
What does the future of stringed instrument production look like?
Should we be determinists?
The Prisoner’s Dilemma and its implications on real world situations
Terraforming or space habitats, which could be the future for human civilisation?
Politics and Economics
SAVIN DIAS The pathology and symptoms of populism
Politics and International Relations
WILLIAM MACE
Psychology
OLIVER WEST
Economic weapons - to what extent have they historically been useful in the face of military action or threats?
Reconciling evolution with modern theories of consciousness
ISABELLA MICHAELSON The psychological and neural effect of acting
