The Social Sciences Division invites you to present a research poster at the Social Sciences Welcome and Induction event for new DPhil students in October 2026. Along with meeting the new cohort of students, the event offers you a unique opportunity to present your research in an informal setting and to network with researchers at different stages of their academic careers. The cost of producing your poster will be covered by the Division and you will able to keep a copy of your poster for use at future conferences.
Prizes will be awarded for the best posters; £50 in Amazon vouchers for the winner, £30 for second place and £20 for third place. Winners will be announced on the evening during the drinks reception.
The event will take place on Thursday October 8th 2026, 16:00 - 18:00 at The Blavatnik School of Government.You will need to attend on the day from 16:00 and be available to talk with attendees about your research.
See below for full guidelines
Posters will need to be A1 size, portrait (not landscape) and must be submitted in PDF format.
All posters should include the University of Oxford logo.
They will be printed for you at no charge by the Division and you can take your poster with you at the end of the evening.
The deadline for poster submission is 21 September 2026.
Final posters should be emailed to: researcherdevelopment@socsci.ox.ac.uk
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Judging Criteria
Content
Clarity of purpose
Use of language appropriate to a poster
Clear communication (not too much detail or an excessive amount of content)
Poster communicates to a non-specialist academic audience
Impact
Balance of images to text
Impact if seen across a room/conference hall
Images that communicate rather than illustrate
Use of complementary and appropriate colour palette and typefaces
Layout
Readable text
Clear navigation path/flow through the poster
Accuracy of layout and alignment
Portrait orientation - landscape posters will not be accepted
Intended Audience
DPhil Students
When
8 October 2026, 16:00 - 18:00
Where
Blavatnik School of Government
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
2025 Winners
Jasem Albanai
2025 Winner! 1st Place
School of Geography and the Environment
Have you ever wondered how we locate dust storm sources across vast deserts?
Youyi Xie
2nd Place
Department of International Development
Tikuna Agrifood Transformation: Practice, Autonomy, and Future-Making
Nadia Talukder
3rd place
Department of Education
"They couldn't beat the teacherness out of me" An investigation into the experiences of Muslim student-teachers in Initial Teacher Education in England.
2024 Winners
Lucy Robinson
2024 Winner! 1st Place
Department of Education
How does military life shape service children's identity and school experiences?
Yesim Desticioglu
2nd Place
School of Geography and the Environment
Migrants' home-making practice as self-idealisation: A study on the dowry objects of Balkan migrants across two generations in the UK
Amirah Sumarto
3rd place
Blavatnik School of Government
How do citizen complaints shape local governance and public services in Indonesia?
2023 winners
Xiujuan Wang
2023 Winner!
Department of Education
How do master's students transition from UK higher education into the global labour market?
Felippa Amanta
2nd Place!
School of Geography and the Environment
Social and Climate Implications of On-Demand Digital Services
Judit Molnar
3rd Place!
School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography
Home state ideologies and the cultivation of diaspora subjectivity amongst Hungarian and Venezuelan migrants in London
2022 winners
Szilvi Watson
2022 Winner!
Department of Education
The Experiences of Christian Postgraduate Students at Universities in England
Chloe Curtis
2nd Place!
School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography
Side Effects and Subjectivities: Hormonal Contraceptive Consumption in the UK
Lan Duo
3rd place!
School of Anthropology and School Ethnography
What are the Sound, Shape, Colour, and Taste of Healthiness?
2018 winners
Iris Po Yee LO
2018 WINNER!
Department of Sociology
The Conception and Formation of Families among Non-Heterosexual Women (Lalas) in Urban China
Tansy Branscombe
School of Archaeology
Integrating Zooarchaeological and Archaeometric Approaches to Seasonality: A Case Study from Northern Japan
Satoshi Araki
Department of Sociology
Educational Expansion, Skills Diffusion, and The (De)valuation of Educational Credentials and High Skills
