2011 Press Releases
20.06.2011
Where is the coldest place in Ireland? How many witches and druids are there in the country? (there are more of them than you might think…) What constitutes a good gaming experience?
The answers to these and many other questions were given to those attending the UCC Doctoral Showcase on June 21st where 36 PhD students gave short descriptions of their work in layman’s language to the general public.
Dentist, Gerald McKenna won the prize for the ‘Best Poster’ on the subject of the dental needs of older patients and how patients with a few missing teeth might be treated. His PhD thesis is being supervised by Professor Finbarr Allen and Dr Denis O’Mahony of the Cork University Dental School and Hospital and is funded by the Health Research Board.
Sinéad O’Neill, who won the section on the ‘The Three Minute Thesis Presentation’, discussed her work on whether delivery by Caesarean section is associated with subsequent sub-fertility, ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage. Large scale population level research in this area is lacking to date. Her research is being supervised by Dr Ali Khashan and Dr Patricia Kearney with co-supervisors Professor Richard Greene and Professor Louise Kenny and Jennifer Lutomski of the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Epidemiology and Public Health.
The winner of the ‘Oral Presentation’ was John O’Donoghue, who is researching ways of finding new platinum based anti-cancer drugs with less side-effects and increased strength. John is based in the Analytical, Biological and Chemical Research Facility, Chemistry Department and his PhD supervisor is Dr Orla Ní Dhubhghaill.
The Doctoral
Showcase was organised by the Office of Graduate Studies, UCC.