How to present your findings
We encourage students to choose engaging ways to disseminate their research findings.
Identifying your audience
Who is your target audience?
Do you have more than one group you would like to engage with?
How could you best reach them?
What style of content and language would be most suitable?
You could create, for example:
We are inviting final year undergraduate students, postgraduate students and Early Career Researchers (ECRs) to present their research during the summer series of Insights Wales.
Resources and how-to guides
Bright IDEAS Showcase
Long-term drainage ditch hydrogeomorphological response to plot-scale timber harvesting in the Nant Tanllwyth Catchment on Plynlimon, Mid-Wales | Oliver Clegg | Bangor University
Key-words: timber harvesting, erosion, Plynlimon, aggradation, drainage ditch
Summary: Accelerated rates of river channel and drainage ditch erosion in response to plot-scale timber harvesting in the Tanllwyth catchment have been widely reported. This study shows that natural recovery in rates of erosion after plot-scale timber harvesting is followed by differential rates of aggradation within drainage ditches. An apparent binary system of ‘open’ and ‘closed’ drainage ditch types has established itself in the Tanllwyth catchment, and sediment distributions from each suggest subtle differences in depositional circumstances likely influenced by forestry-related activities. Tanllwyth drainage ditches have also been shown to be important sediment stores and may represent >16% of total sediment flux with implications for catchment hydrogeomorphological development dominated by low sediment entrainment competence within ditches. The findings in this study demonstrate that a longer-term perspective is warranted.
1 in 5 Research Challenge Showcase
How does the legal framework of Cardiff (b)order graffiti? | Isabella Ward | Cardiff University
Key-words: graffiti, street art, (b)ordering, legal frameworks, Cardiff, Criminal Damage Act 1971, ASBO, urban space, place-making, broken windows theory, youth culture, spatial governance
Across many Western cities, including Cardiff, walls narrate urban stories. Traces left by spray cans and paint raise increasingly familiar public debates on graffiti and street art. This dissertation explores the legal context of these debates. It dives into the complex legal framework regulating graffiti, exploring how the law responds to graffiti’s growing presence in urban space. Focusing on the Criminal Damage Act 1971 classification of graffiti management in Cardiff’s legal and geographical environment will be examined.
Through a look into case law, interviews with counsellors and an analysis of policy measures, this research project unpacks how Cardiff’s authorities approach graffiti. The findings reveal a growing tension between the criminalisation of graffiti and its cultural significance, raising questions like: Is there a way to legally embrace street culture through art without it losing control or prosecuting artists? This study explores how cities can rethink graffiti laws to balance legal perspectives with creative freedom.
