Summer Gold Competition 2019 winners
If you’ve ever made up a song about what you’re doing or hummed while waiting in a queue—you’ve demonstrated a behaviour explored in the winning video entry for Victoria University of Wellington’s annual Summer Gold Competition.
Psychology and Theatre student Pauline Ward’s research project investigates how singing is used in our day-to-day lives and as a conversational tool, and won her Best Overall Video and $1,000 in prize money.
The judges praised Pauline’s use of simple, vibrant animations and narrative in her video to present the research in an accessible and relevant way. Her work was supervised by Professor Ann Weatherall from the School of Psychology.
The Summer Gold Competition aims to acknowledge the research achievements of the students who participated in the recent Summer Research scholarship programme by inviting them to design a poster or create a video about their research in collaboration with their supervisor.
Best Overall Video
Pauline Ward with the video Singing in conversation.
Humanities and Social Sciences winner
Sophia McKellar with the poster The building of Māori community connections to places through environmental activism.
Highly commended:
Ellen Tapsell with the poster Te Whakamaru o Horohoro Maunga.
Millie Godfrey with the poster The Pulter Project.
View all the winners here.