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The Postgraduate Christmas Poster event is held annually just before Christmas. It is a chance for everyone in Psychology to get together over a glass of mulled wine and a festive mince pie, and to learn about the research being carried out here at Stirling.
Students should email their poster titles to Linda Cullen, Postgraduate Secretary, three weeks before the event. Poster boards (1m x 1.5m) will be in place by one o'clock, allowing students plenty of time to put up their posters. Thumbtacks will be provided.
All postgraduate students are expected to produce a poster and, during the event, to stand by their poster explaining it, much as they would do at a standard conference poster event. Other members of Psychology are welcome to display posters if they wish. Posters should provide:

    * an overview of the research that you have carried out;
    * a review of the area that you are working in; or
    * a proposal about the research that you plan to do.

There are two prizes of £50 each for the best MSc student poster and the best PhD student poster.  The emphasis will be on content (e.g. good ideas and clear communication) rather than form (e.g. fancy laminated printing). 

The 2011 PhD joint poster winners were Vicky Mileva with her poster ‘Human Facial Expressions are Modulated by Manipulated Facial Dominance’ and Eoin O’Sullivan with his poster ‘Steps toward identifying automatic imitation in Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus apella):  Piloting a new comparative methodology’

The 2011 MSc poster winner was Clare Dawson, with her poster ‘The impacts of technology on working memory, learning outcomes and IQ in teenagers’

 

Previous winners were:-

2010 PhD poster winner: Cornelia Hien, with her poster 'Children's use of social and linguistic cues in word learning'.

2010 MSc joint poster winners: Eoin O'Sullivan and Lauren Reid with their poster 'sThe Sneaky Side to Natural Selection: Deceptive Mimicry in Fork-Tailed Drongos'.

2009 PhD winner: Claire Watson, with her poster 'Neighbour effects in marmosets', with the judges also noting the excellent posters presented by Hannah Blair and Johanna Simpson.

2009 MSc winner: Hannah Newall, with her poster 'The ups and down of language - the importance of information on children's learning of language', with Margherita Sacca and Jennifer Botting also receiving honourable mentions for their poster presentations.

2008 PhD Winner: Jack Griffey, with his poster 'Is Human Detection and Preference for Facial Masculinity Species Specific?'.    The runners up were Daniele Ortu, with his poster  'Association Relationships and the N400 effect;  how increasing degrees of association within word pairs influence learning and remembering', Alex McIntyre, with her poster  'A Smiling Face Bias Can Improve Facial Composite Identification' and Emma Scott-Smith, with her poster 'ARTIVISM;  Reach Out with Arts in Mind'.

2008 MSc Winner:  Rebecca Wyper, with her poster 'Crop Raiding Behaviour of the Buton Macaque'.  The runners up were Stuart Woollacott, with his poster ' Recognition of Unfamiliar Faces;  Investigating Two- and Three- dimensional Representations'    and Beth Richardson, with her poster 'Understanding Misunderstanding'.

2007: Joint Winners: Carolyn Choudhary, with her poster 'Effects of Fear Induction on an Emotional Stroop Task: Are Left and Right Handers Different?' and Ida-Maria Skavhaug with her poster 'Dissociating Judgements of Learning from Memory Encoding: An Event-Related Potential Study'.

2006: Lynn Williams, with her poster 'How does Type D Personality Work?'

 
There is a poster template here.

 

Some advice on making and printing your poster

If you do not have the relevant program on your computer, contact the IT Support Officer, Shona Gunn.

Making a poster in Microsoft Publisher: Under 'more blank page sizes' scroll down to custom and select 'create new page size'. Under name, type the name you want to call your new page size (e.g. A1 poster). Set page width to 81.5cm and page height to 57.63cm. Reduce all margin guides to 0. Then click 'OK' and select 'Create'. When you have created your poster, go to Print. Make sure you select the correct printer, set the paper size to A3 (or A4 if your printer doesn't allow a bigger format), and select the orientation as landscape. Make sure that you also select for your poster to be printed in colour.

Making a poster in Powerpoint: If you have created your poster in PowerPoint then you will need to copy and paste it onto your created page in Publisher (copy and paste from the small slide on the left hand side of the PowerPoint page). Once copied, the slide will appear very small given the dimensions of your poster, so use the cursor to enlarge it to fill the page in front of you. then you should be ready to print.

Posters can be printed using Psychology's colour printers (the Cannon i9100 prints A3 and the HP2605 prints A4) in Room 3B144F.  Please contact a Technician if you need any assistance.