The subjects covered by the winning theses range from the health needs of women who sell sex on the street and a detailed study of ways to improve the teaching of physics in schools to the development of Chinese Nationalist (Kuomintang) rule on the disputed island of Taiwan.
The winners are:
Faculty of Arts: Tehyun Ma (Department of Historical Studies): ‘Total mobilization: Party, state and citizen on Taiwan under Chinese Nationalist rule, 1944-55’.
Faculty of Engineering: Alberto Politi (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering): ‘Integrated Quantum Photonics’.
Faculty of Medical and Veterinary Sciences: Kara Van Aelst (School of Biochemistry): ‘A new Logic for Directional Long-range Communication on DNA’.
Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry: Nicola Jeal (School of Social and Community Medicine): ‘The Health Needs and Service Use of Women Selling Sex in Bristol’.
Faculty of Science: David Attewell (Department of Experimental Psychology): ‘The Natural Reflectance Signal and its Implications for Vision and Behaviour’.
Faculty of Social Sciences and Law: Lawrence Cattermole (Graduate School of Education): ‘Teachers, Students and Ideas Caught in the Tangled Webs of School Physics Knowledge’.
Full details and citations of these prize-winning theses are available in pdf format (PDF, 331kB).