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Special Issue - Student Academic Poster Competition 2025
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2025)Welcome to our first issue of the Northumbria Student Academic Journal, a special issue that highlights the scholarly rigour and creativity of Northumbria students through academic posters.
From the beginning of February to mid-March 2025 we ran a competition for our students, inviting them to share their exciting research and projects through this distinct format. Academic posters are an important part of scholarly communication, allowing researchers to distil complex ideas in a visually engaging and concise manner. The five entries in this special issue showcase the submissions from our competition, and true to our interdisciplinary aim, it features an array of research topics across subjects.
Wika Malkowska reveals significant new insights into the Conservation of Resources theory, through her compelling examination of gender differences between career satisfaction and success predictors using three-wave survey data. Noah Sinclair’s thought-provoking combination of design and conservation, raises awareness about the importance of preserving natural spaces in urban landscapes. Navi Mondair presents an illuminating study into the poet John Clare, highlighting why, despite being often overlooked, the poet remains an enduring voice in our modern world. Bao Tran’s impactful exploration of branding raises vital questions about the role of corporations and consumers in contributing to smoking culture and its effect on our health. And in his revelatory study, Nithyananthi Senthilkumar illustrates the notable challenges that remote and hybrid work structures pose to the work-life balance of professionals in the IT industry.
We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to our five authors, whose dedication to their academic work made this issue possible. A special thank you also to our editors, Vincent Gaillard and Abby Hilton, for their immense help in the peer review process.
We hope you enjoy this special issue!
Viviana Chetraru, Editor
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Special Issue - Neurodivergent and Queer Identities 2026
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2026)It is with great pleasure that we announce our special journal issue of 2026! Centring around themes of neurodivergent and queer identities, our authors shed light on the nuances of these under-researched areas, both individually and with how they intersect.
The Northumbria Student Academic Journal welcomed a range of submissions from February to March of this year to bring attention to the ever-changing policies, media representations, theoretical frameworks and lived experiences of these often-marginalised groups.
The five articles in this issue each offer unique perspectives on our neuroqueer theme. Jo McCormick proposes conducting queerness and neurodiversity research through the lens of Kimberlé Crenshaw’s Intersectionality Theory as opposed to the medical-versus-social models. Katy Stoman raises awareness of the potential negative impacts of the government SEND reforms affecting school children. Connor Smith reveals a profound autoethnographic account of masking, gender expression and fluid sexual identity. In terms of media representation, Tobias Radman discusses masking as a shared method of normativity across autism and sexuality in Heartbreak High and, Jane Inglis adds a thought-provoking analysis of Carmilla, the vampire novella, through a transfeminist perspective.
We are sincerely thankful for all our authors and their hard work to make this journal issue a reality. I would also like to give a special thanks to our peer reviewers, and editorial team members, namely Leah Maughan, Abby Hilton and Erin Stevens for all their help in the editorial process.
We hope you enjoy our special issue!
Līga Reimane, Editor-in-Chief
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Vol. 2 No. 2
We are delighted to announce the publication of the second issue of Northumbria Student Academic Journal! With general submissions opening at the beginning of the 2025/2026 academic year, we are now proudly showcasing some of the outstanding academic research done by students at Northumbria University over the year.
The journal issue consists of two papers examining currently significant themes, namely graphic evidence and juror decision-making in criminal trials, and the use of artificial intelligence in plastic surgery. As technology advances, it is important to consider the effects it can have on its users. In this issue, Georgia True brings forward evidence of graphic imagery creating prejudicial effects in the U.S. Criminal Justice System and the need for implementing tools for assessing evidentiary bias. In the second paper, Ayana Furukawa documents how to mitigate the risks of plastic surgery patients being negatively affected by clinicians using AI generated tools.
A big thank you to our authors for the dedication to their work, our peer reviewers for helping to refine our submissions and our editorial team, namely Leah Maughan, Abby Hilton and Erin Stevens for overseeing the editorial process.
We hope you enjoy this issue!
Līga Reimane, Editor-in-Chief
