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The winners of the have been announced.

During the Festival our University gets to showcase the best of its research student talent and this year the standard of entries was very high. Expert judges were extremely impressed by the breadth and quality of work on display and the knowledge and passion for research demonstrated by our presenters.

The prize winners were:

• The Graduate Dean's Prize for Best Poster 2015 - Ni Ni Moe Myint (Department of Cancer Studies and Molecular Medicine) for her poster "" .
• Peer Review Prize winner - Sophie Whitehouse (School of Management) for her poster "".Ìý
• Leicester Mercury Media Prize winner - Katie Dexter (Department of Physics and Astronomy) for her poster "" .
• Best Poster (College of Arts, Humanities and Law) winner - Emily Wilce (Department of the History of Art and Film) for her poster "" .
• Best Poster (College of Medicine, Biological Sciences, and Psychology) winner - Shane Hussey (Department of Genetics) for his poster "".
• Best Poster (College of Science and Engineering) winner - Thomas Clements (Department of Geology) for his poster "" .
• Best Poster (College of Social Science) winner - Haiyan Xu (School of Education) for her poster "".
• Best Poster (Distance Learning/Part-Time Research Students) winner - Margrethe Stuttaford (School of Modern Languages) for her poster "" .

Also there to receive their prizes was Nawshin Dastagir, runner-up from the University's 3 Minute Thesis competition, and Shane Hussey (winner) and Joe Emmings (runner-up) in the.

The Festival concluded with a talk on the 'power of research' by Dr Jago Cooper, curator of the Americas at the British Museum, who has hosted a number of BBC programmes, and currently runs three projects all based in South and Central America.