We are excited to be able to share more details with you about this month’s Extended Research evening. The projects being presented on Thursday 25th January represent the very best examples of this year’s research and illustrate the astonishing range of topics our students typically choose to research. If you would like to join us and have not already booked your tickets, please RSVP here.
Our students have the freedom to choose whatever area intrigues them to investigate and the resulting projects are as diverse and individual as our students, and are extremely impressive. This year’s research projects cover an extensive range of topics in the arts, humanities, social science, languages, performing and creative arts and STEM.
We encourage our Sixth Form students to go beyond the confines of A Level and to explore their academic interests. Each student’s extended research project is an opportunity for in-depth study of their chosen topic. It also offers students the chance to demonstrate intellectual curiosity, independent learning and initiative – all skills which are highly valued by leading universities in the UK and abroad.
For those of you who have not yet joined our Sixth Form, this is an opportunity to find out more about the Extended Research Programme and how it can support your ambitions beyond A Levels.
The evening will begin with refreshments from 6.00pm and a series of poster presentations in the Dining Hall. This will be an opportunity for you to talk to students about their research and ask them questions.
The poster presentations will include the following topics:
- Guilty or Innocent: exploring female victimisation in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing and Othello.
- In which ways is origami a useful problem-solving tool?
- In what ways have historical events of the late 20th and early 21st centuries shaped the portrayal of villainy in Hollywood?
- What are the possible mutations and mechanisms by which SOD-1 causes neurodegeneration in people with MND?
- What is the future of Faecal Microbiota Transplantation in the treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease?
- A discussion of how biomimetic thermally activated coiled polymer fibres can be used as effective artificial muscles for upper-limb prostheses.
- How Successful are the Common Reporting System (CRS) and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) in Detecting and Tackling Cross Border Tax Evasion?
- What is the Importance of Solvents and What are the Details of Solvent-varnish Interactions During the Cleaning of Easel Paintings?
- Nuclear Fusion – To what extent is it likely to replace energy sources such as fossil fuels and nuclear fission in a manner that is both efficient and environmentally friendly?
- Raising awareness of the 3 categories of cancer causing genes and evaluating to what extent they link to available cancer treatment.
- Are there any viable alternatives to antidepressants in the NHS?
At 6.30pm we will move into the Hall. We will be hearing 6 students present their research on:
- Renaissance Feminism: the “overlooked” first wave of feminism?
- How prominent was Antonia Minor in the Roman Empire and does her representation accurately reflect this?
- Would a manned mission to Mars benefit from growing some of their own food?
- Can immunotherapy be the treatment of choice for allergic rhinitis?
- Ultra Processed Food; Is the degree of processing now a greater risk to health than the nutritive value?
- At the end of each student’s presentation, there will be the opportunity for some questions from the floor.
Since its foundation in 1875, Oxford High School has placed great value on agile thinking, scholarship and research, and the Warnock Research Programme (named in honour of Mary Warnock, former Headmistress of Oxford High School, distinguished public servant and academic) is a central feature of our Sixth Form programme.
If you would like to join us and have not already booked your tickets, please RSVP here.