Following the success of our previous postgraduate research sessions, we are delighted to continue the series with our first session of the 2026/27 academic year. The event provides an opportunity to showcase the work of our postgraduate research community, with three researchers each giving a short presentation (approximately 15 minutes) to share their work and engage with the wider BVI network.
For this session, we are pleased to welcome the following speakers:
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Veronika Shkaraburova (Biological Sciences) - My project examines how artificial light at night affects wolf spiders' visual system to understand how light pollution shapes their behaviour, physiology, and development.
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Kane Colston (Bristol Veterinary School) - My PhD research consists of a mixed-methods approach to investigate the threats to vulture health and conservation in South America from veterinary pharmaceuticals, including the use of computer vision for automated species detection. Moving forward, I am also keen to implement computer vision approaches as part of a wider effort to investigate individual captive and wild vulture welfare.
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Caitlin Naylor (Cognitive Psychology and Applied Health Psychology) - My PhD focussed on understanding variabilities in body perception disturbances in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. These insights were used to develop a novel VR tool to personalise the appearance of embodied VR hands to represent and alter body perception.