News

August 2026

Ms Umaiza Bhatti Wins SEED Award for Notable Contribution to QMCUR's Educational Infrastructure 25 August 2026 We are delighted to announce that Ms Umaiza Bhatti, a second-year Biomedical Engineering student currently serving as Development and Engagement Lead at QMCUR, has been awarded the SEED Award in recognition of her contributions to enhancing the learning environment and supporting tools for undergraduate researchers. During her tenure, Umaiza has ... [more]

July 2026

QMCUR attends the official inauguration of the Westminster Centre for Gene Editors of the Future at the University of Westminster! 15 July 2026 QMCUR was honoured to attend the celebratory and official launch of The Westminster Centre for Gene Editors of the Future, with a notable delegation of around ten affiliates. The inauguration was a fantastic full-day event featuring insightful talks from the University's leadership team, industry representatives, international collaborators, and students, alongside ... [more]

June 2026

QMCUR at the Festival of Education 9 June 2026 On 9 June 2026, our Director Dr Giuseppe Viola and Partnerships Convenor Mr Umer Asif presented a poster at Queen Mary's Festival of Education 2026 in the Octagon. The poster showcased our reflective work, "From Co-Creation to Student Leadership: Designing and Interpreting Academic-Style Roles within QMCUR," which introduces the C.R.A.F.... [more]

April 2026

Dhyey Joshi presents international collaborative research at Belle II VTX Workshop in Germany 27 April 2026 Last week, Queen Mary Centre for Undergraduate Research (QMCUR) member and second-year mechanical engineering undergraduate Dhyey Joshi presented at the 2nd General VTX Workshop, hosted at the DESY campus in Hamburg, Germany. This prestigious three-day event gathered researchers from around the globe to discuss the upgrading plans of the Belle ... [more]

QMCUR at British Conference of Undergraduate Research 2026 at the University of Glasgow 3 April 2026 A contingent of our students' team participated in the British Conference of Undergraduate Research (BCUR), hosted by the University of Glasgow on 1st and 2nd April 2026, presenting four research projects. The contributions included two oral presentations and two posters: Oral Presentation 1: "Seeing Through Touch: A Wearable Sensory Substitution System to ... [more]

March 2026

QMCUR exhibits at the Queen Mary Industrial Liaison Forum 23 March 2026 On the 11th of March, QMCUR participated in the Queen Mary Industrial Liaison Forum, marking our 5th consecutive presence at the event. In total, approximately 35 undergraduate researchers from our team presented 15 diverse posters, showcasing research across a wide range of engineering disciplines ranging from robotics and bioengineering to fluid dynamics ... [more]

QMCUR Students at Posters in Parliament and a standing ovation for Rindhiya Vishnu Shankar 3 March 2026 For the third consecutive year, our team participated in Posters in Parliament. This prestigious event brings together the most innovative undergraduate researchers from across the UK, offering them the opportunity to present their work directly to legislators, policymakers, and leading academics. This year, we showcased the following selected posters: 1. "A ... [more]

February 2026

Jensen J. Rajesh co-authors paper accepted for RoboSoft 2026 17 February 2026 Jensen Rajesh, a 3rd-year student in Biomedical Engineering and a member of the Queen Mary Centre for Undergraduate Research (QMCUR), supervised by Dr Thilina Lalitharatne, has co-authored a paper accepted for presentation at RoboSoft 2026 (IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics) in Kanazawa, Japan. The paper, titled: "Sensorised Residual Limb Phantoms: ... [more]