Summer Gold Competition 2022 winners
View the posters and videos submitted by our Summer Gold winners from 2022.
The Summer Gold Competition aims to acknowledge the research achievements of the students who participated in the recent Summer Research scholarship programme by inviting them to design a poster or create a video about their research in collaboration with their supervisor.
Best Overall Poster
Zoë Simpson with the poster The digitization of Marcel Proust's letters.
Best Overall Video
Awarded to two videos:
Madison Jones with the video Attention in Emotional States: Insights from Virtual Reality.
Rachael Lockhart with the video Ecology of tussock grasslands.
Best demonstration of research
Patricia Ong with the poster Wellington Hospital wayfinding.
Best Visual Presentation
Madison Juriss with the poster Emotive products.
Group awards
Group 1
School of Biological Sciences
Samara Maxwell with the poster Restoration of a cDNA library for ELISA.
Group 2
School of Chemical and Physical Sciences
School of Engineering and Computer Science
Liam Anderson with the poster Exploring methods to deposit metallic
carbon nanotubes.
Group 3
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences
School of Psychology
Ani Barr with the poster How can geothermal support Māori wellbeing on papakāinga?
Group 4
School of Architecture
School of Design
Zoe Glentworth with the poster Te Papa pā harakeke.
Group 5
School of History, Philosophy, Political Sciences and International Relations
School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
School of Languages and Cultures
Wai-te-ata Press
School of Education
Courtney Powell with the poster Investigating Te Papa's South African collection.