Student - Ziyi Tang Supervisor - Gillian Sales This project is a visitor handbook for the Museum of Life Sciences at King's College London (Guy's Campus), designed for life science undergraduates. Using the vertebral column as a unifying theme, the handbook guides visitors through specimens in Cupboard 64 and Cupboard 46, tracing vertebrate evolution from early chordates supported only by a notochord, through jawless fishes such as hagfish and lampreys, cartilaginous fishes i

Student - Cherie (Ruyi) Cheng Supervisor - Tom Arichi How do you communicate cutting-edge brain science to a parent who has just been asked to consent their newborn to an MRI scan? This project addresses a critical gap at the intersection of medical research communication and public engagement: participant-facing materials produced by clinical neuroscience groups rarely reflect contemporary science communication theory, leaving anxious families without the emotional and infor

Student - Mariana Cameiro De Sousa Supervisor - Robert Hindge This project is a five-minute promotional video introducing the Hindges Lab and its research on neural circuit development to a non-specialist audience with assumed GCSE-level scientific knowledge. The video opens with a hook designed to turn potential skepticism, why study a fish?, into curiosity, before explaining why zebrafish are powerful model organism: transparent, fast-developing, and genetically similar to

Student - Kitty Finnie Supervisor - Bill Edwards This 2-minute 30-second illustrated YouTube animation draws on research from the Khan Lab to explore current neuroscientific understanding of how the brain generates flexible behaviour. It is targeted at GCSE students considering A-level Psychology or Biology and seeks to make neuroscience feel accessible while encouraging curiosity and further engagement with the subject. The animation follows the narrative of Sally, a mouse w

Student - Francis Kurniawan Supervisor - Laura Pellegrini This project sits somewhere between being a student in the lab and looking at it from the outside. I was placed in a group working on choroid plexus organoids and CSF, and very quickly realised that their work is both technically impressive and almost completely invisible compared to flashier stories about “mini‑brains” or AI in biomedicine. That imbalance bothered me, so instead of writing about the lab from a distanc

Student - Cecelia (Ceci)(Tsz Kwan) Lam Supervisor - Juan Burrone To Fire or Not to Fire: How Neurons Decide This project is a short-form science communication campaign designed to explain a core principle of neuroscience to a GCSE-level audience: how neurons decide whether to fire. Across a series of 60–90 second videos, the campaign communicates a consistent mechanistic “backbone”: neurons integrate excitatory (“go”) and inhibitory (“stop”) inputs, and generate an action po

Student - Marielle Batungbacal Supervisor - Benedikt Berninger This poster explores the process of neural reprogramming likened to the journey of a student entering a career in academia. The Berninger lab seeks to develop the preclinical science to optimize the method of converting an astrocyte into an induced neuron through viral gene delivery and its subsequent validation and integration into the neural network. The lab works to generate a novel treatment method for neurode

Student - Pinhuan Wang Supervisor - Tanya Shaw More Than Skin Deep is a magazine-style brochure that explores how cardiovascular awareness might be communicated to Black women with fibrotic conditions, including keloid scars and uterine fibroids. Designed for non-specialist audiences, the piece is intended for settings such as clinic waiting areas or community-facing spaces, where readers may have limited time but may be open to engaging with a visually inviting health resour

Student - Ilhan Hussein Supervisor - Sophie Waring My project aims to discuss the consistent absurdity in beauty through its intersect with disease. Disease and beauty are often framed as oppositional, disease associated with decay, and beauty with vitality. During the development of the Old Operating Theatre, Romanticists aestheticised tuberculosis, viewing it as an enlightened way to die despite the emaciated look it resulted in. Upper-class women sought to replicate this u

Student - Divine Offomah- Supervisor - Katie Long This project piece reframes the debate around adult human hippocampal neurogenesis as a hands-on boardgame style “science cold case” for an A-level biology audience. Using a physical pinboard-style demo board and a curated deck of forensic “Evidence Cards”, players investigate one guiding question: does the adult human hippocampus continue to generate new neurons? The cards present contrasting lines of evidence across methods,

Student - Alex Lisinge Supervisor - Bill Edwards My project is a case-based poster paired with a supporting leaflet designed to help medical clinicians and students of medical backgrounds recognise imported parasitic disease through clinical reasoning and travel history. The audience is the medical public visiting the Gordon Museum of Pathology, who all have varying depths of understanding. The poster introduces two patient scenarios and asks visitors to identify the most l