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HSS Student Research Bursary

Dear Students,

History is very pleased to announce a new round of the HSS Student Research Project Bursary Scheme.

These bursaries give students on HSS taught programmes the opportunity to gain experience of research and scholarship by carrying out projects to assist academic staff from January to April 2024.

The scheme aims to help students make appropriate career plans and to understand the employability assets that they will offer future employers. It is also an opportunity to develop generic and transferable skills, such as teamworking and communication, as well as subject-specific skills. Students who complete the scheme will be able to have their achievements recognised on their Higher Education Achievement Record. Please note that feedback will be requested from both staff and students for students' Higher Education Achievement Records.

Who can apply?

·         Y2 UG

·         Y3/4 UG

·         PGT

What projects can I work on?

There are six projects available to students in History. Click on the links below for full details of each project:

1.      Dr David Geiringer : ‘Who are the publics in public history?’ One bursary of £1000

2.      Dr Liesbeth Corens : ‘Histories of disability toolkit’ One bursary of £1000

3.      Dr Maggie Inchley (SED): ‘The Verbatim Formula: The Foundling Museum’ One bursary of £1000

4.       Dr Angela Dunstan (SED): ‘From Archive to Classroom: Building Student Skills in Accessing and Analysing Historical Sources in the School of English and Drama’ One bursary of £1000

5.      Professor Jeremy Hicks (SLLF): ‘Eyewitness to the 1921-23 Famine in Russia and Ukraine: Archival Research’ One bursary of £1000

6.      Jennefer Brown (SLLF): ‘An investigation of international students’ awareness and engagement with Careers & Enterprise services and an identification of measures to improve participation rates’ One bursary of £1000

Can I work on more than one project?

You can only undertake a maximum of 76 hours of work. With the projects available in this round, therefore, you will not be able to work on more than one project.

If my application is successful, how much will the bursary come to?

Bursaries of £1000 are offered for a time commitment of 76 hours which students will be able to commit to flexibly (e.g. 6 hours/week for 12 weeks and 4 hours/week for 1 week, or 7 hours/week for 10 weeks and 6 hours/week for 1 week, etc.). This makes the bursaries competitive with opportunities for paid work at the London Living Wage.

All work must be completed by 19 April 2024 .

How can I apply?

If you would like to work on any of these projects, please complete the attached application form and send it to [email protected] by  12:00 noon on 1 December 2023 .

We aim to announce selected students by 15 December to enable projects to be completed by 19 April.

If you have any questions about this scheme please contact [email protected] .

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• The History of Emotions Blog Run by the QMUL Centre for the History of the Emotions
• History of Emotions Research Centre At the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin.
• History of Emotions: Insights Into Research An online platform run by the Berlin Centre, carrying reports on new research.
• Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence: History of Emotions A multi-institutional project studying the cultural and social histories of emotions in Europe, 1100-1800.
• The Histories of Emotion Blog: From Medieval Europe to Contemporary Australia Run by the Australian Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.
• ACCESS: Amsterdam Centre for Cross-Disciplinary Emotional and Sensory Studies A platform for cooperation between scholars from the humanities, the social sciences, and the life sciences
• Languages of Emotion Center A research group at the Free University in Berlin focussing on language and affect in the arts, language, cognition and culture.
• EMMA – Les émotions au Moyen Âge A research project on the relevance of a historical anthropology of emotions and affective phenomena as applied to the Middle Ages.
• H-Madness Resources A collection-point for primary and secondary resources in the history of psychiatry hosted by the h-Madness blog.
• Emotions and Disease in Historical Perspective A helpful online overview connected to an exhibition put on by the U.S. National Library of Medicine in 1996.
• University of Exeter Centre for Medical History Research projects examining aspects of health, disease, emotions and wellbeing.
• Durham University Institute for Medical Humanities News and commentary in the medical and health humanities.
• REMEDIA: The History of Medicine in Dialogue With Its Present A wide-ranging medical history blog edited by Kate Womersley and Lisa Haushofer.
• The History of Physiognomy A Leverhulme Trust International Network organised by Queen Mary, University of London; Ecole Supérieure Normale (Paris); and Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa)

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Thesis submission and the viva,  please email  [email protected] to ask us a question., thesis submission .

To submit your thesis for examination you  must submit an electronic copy of the thesis to the Research Degrees Office in the approved format (a digital (PDF) file) by email to   [email protected] . The email submitting the thesis must be received in the RDO by 23:59 hours on the thesis submission deadline.

The thesis may be submitted by email to  [email protected]  or you may use the QMUL File Exchange Service at  https://collect.qmul.ac.uk/   (please email the link to  [email protected] ). If the File Exchange Service is used an email must be sent to  [email protected]  including the collect weblink on or before your thesis submission deadline. 

Please note: the QMUL File Exchange Service is scheduled to be closed on 31 st May 2024. We are working on an alternative system.

Please complete the PGR Thesis Submission Form (RD02) [DOC 39KB] and attach this to your email to RDO.

The two bound copies of the thesis are NOT required. The thesis must be submitted as a single combined document, preferably PDF. Appendices must not be submitted as separate documents. If you have any questions or need to submit additional material with your thesis, e.g. digital material, please contact   [email protected]   so that we can advise.

The date of thesis submission recorded on MySIS is the date on which the electronic copy of the thesis is submitted to RDO.

Thesis submission deadline

How to submit your thesis, embargo your thesis, presentation of the thesis, acknowledging support, examination outcomes.

The thesis submission deadline is determined by programme length and whether a student is studying full-time or part-time. Please see the table below for general guidance.

Students who have changed their mode of study from full-time to part-time (and vice versa), interrupted their studies, or have been granted an extension to their period of registration will have a different thesis submission deadline to the guide above.

A student’s thesis submission deadline is published in the  MySIS  Research Student Data view on the student’s home page. The submission deadline date is shown in the “Thesis” section.

Please contact the  Research Degrees Office (RDO) to confirm the thesis submission deadline. 

The formal entry for examination is the submission of the thesis to the Research Degrees Office before the thesis submission deadline. 

You must also submit a completed PGR Thesis Submission Form (RD02) [DOC 39KB] with the electronic copy of your thesis. The electronic copy of the thesis can be submitted by email to   [email protected] , or you can also use the QM 'Collect' file transfer service  for files up to 2GB. Please ensure that the maximum time limit for download is chosen.  

The date of thesis submission is recorded on MySIS by the Research Degrees Office. 

Once the Research Degrees Programmes and Examinations Board has approved your examiners (please see our page on the   nomination of examiners   for more information about this process), the Research Degrees Office will formally invite your examiners to act. 

Once the examiners have accepted the formal invitation, RDO will send the thesis to them electronically.

Your thesis will NOT be sent until BOTH examiners have accepted the formal invitation.

The two bound copies of the thesis will NOT be required . The thesis must be submitted as a single combined document, preferably PDF. Appendices must not be submitted as separate documents. If you have any questions or need to submit additional material with your thesis, e.g. digital material, please contact    [email protected]   

If you do not wish your thesis to be available online, you will be able to indicate it on the online form, when you submit the final version of the thesis to the library (post-viva).

The thesis must be presented in the format set out in the notes on PGR Presentation of Thesis Notes Apr 23 [PDF 122KB] . Bound copies of the thesis are not required unless the examiners request a paper copy. Please see the above guidance about thesis submission.

QMUL policy on editorial assistance for research degree theses

Please note that only a pdf of the thesis is required

Word limits.

The thesis must not exceed the following word limits:

• PhD – 100,000 words
• MPhil – 60,000 words
• MD(Res) – 50,000 words

For the degrees of DrPS, DPsych and DClinDent the minimum length of the thesis shall be no less than 25,000 words. [The bibliography is excluded from the word count; footnotes are included within the word count; appendices are excluded from the word count and should only include material which the examiners are not required to read in order to examine the thesis but to which they may refer if they wish.]

Your supervisor is responsible for arranging the viva and keeping you and the Research Degrees Office informed of these arrangements. If you have any queries about the viva, please speak to your supervisor in the first instance.

Research degrees oral examinations may be held remotely with all participants attending online or face to face on a Queen Mary campus in line with health and safety and travel guidance in place on the day of the viva. All participants must agree the format of the viva.  One examiner can attend remotely if the student and other examiner can attend in person together.  The student’s supervisor is responsible for organising the viva and will contact the examiners to liaise with them about these arrangements. This is subject to change according to Government guidelines. PGR Exam Guidance Notes August 2023 [DOC 67KB]

You must not contact the examiners yourself. You or your supervisor must not send the thesis to the examiners.  Your examination may be declared invalid if you do.  Please ensure that you or your supervisor(s) make it clear if your thesis needs to be printed and a hardcopy is to be dispatched to the examiner.  

Students who have received financial support from external funding bodies such as Research Councils should acknowledge this according to the format stipulated by their funding body. Research Councils require the following to be included on the appropriate page:

This work was supported by the [NAME of funding body] [grant NUMBER, if applicable]

Multiple grant numbers should be separated by a comma and a space. Where the research was supported by more than one agency, the different agencies should be separated by a semi-colon, with "and" before the final funder. 

For example:

This work was supported by the [NAME of funding body] [grant NUMBERS e.g.1234, 11223344]; the [NAME of funding body] [grant NUMBER, 12345]; and the [NAME of funding body] [grant NUMBER 000]

After the viva, your examiners will inform the Research Degrees Office of the outcome. They are required to do this within two weeks of the viva. They may inform you of the outcome of the examination at the end of the viva, but are not required to do so. There are eight possible outcomes:

• Pass subject to minor amendments to be completed and checked by one or both examiners within six months;
• Pass subject to major amendments to be completed and checked by both examiners within nine months.
• Not pass, but the candidate is allowed to revise the thesis and resubmit it within 18 months (for the PhD and MD(Res) degrees) or 12 months (for the MPhil degree);
• Not pass, but the candidate is allowed to take a written paper or practical examination;
• Not pass, but the candidate is allowed to submit to a second oral examination on the same thesis and by the same examiners within 18 months;
• [If entered for a PhD] Fail PhD but the candidate is deemed to have met the requirements for an MPhil (with or without minor amendments) or should be allowed to resubmit a revised thesis for the MPhil degree within 12 months;
• Fail outright: no re-entry permitted.

The Research Degrees Office will write to you to formally notify you of the outcome of the examination and advise you of the post-viva procedure. The RDO will send you a copy of the examination outcome form, a copy of the examiners’ report on the examination, and a list of amendments required by the examiners, unless you have passed outright or have already been provided with a list of amendments. You are responsible for submitting the revised thesis to the examiner(s) responsible for checking your amendments by the date stipulated on the examination outcome form. Please ensure that you keep your personal details up-to-date in  MySIS  to ensure that you receive this correspondence.

The outcome will need to be ratified by the Research Degrees Progression and Examinations Board which is held once a month. 

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Title: research on robot path planning based on reinforcement learning.

Abstract: This project has conducted research on robot path planning based on Visual SLAM. The main work of this project is as follows: (1) Construction of Visual SLAM system. Research has been conducted on the basic architecture of Visual SLAM. A Visual SLAM system is developed based on ORB-SLAM3 system, which can conduct dense point cloud mapping. (2) The map suitable for two-dimensional path planning is obtained through map conversion. This part converts the dense point cloud map obtained by Visual SLAM system into an octomap and then performs projection transformation to the grid map. The map conversion converts the dense point cloud map containing a large amount of redundant map information into an extremely lightweight grid map suitable for path planning. (3) Research on path planning algorithm based on reinforcement learning. This project has conducted experimental comparisons between the Q-learning algorithm, the DQN algorithm, and the SARSA algorithm, and found that DQN is the algorithm with the fastest convergence and best performance in high-dimensional complex environments. This project has conducted experimental verification of the Visual SLAM system in a simulation environment. The experimental results obtained based on open-source dataset and self-made dataset prove the feasibility and effectiveness of the designed Visual SLAM system. At the same time, this project has also conducted comparative experiments on the three reinforcement learning algorithms under the same experimental condition to obtain the optimal algorithm under the experimental condition.

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