{"id":233,"date":"2026-05-14T17:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moles\/?p=233"},"modified":"2026-05-14T17:40:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:40:33","slug":"moles-phd-student-jamie-mckeown-presents-research-at-stem-for-britain-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moles\/2026\/05\/14\/moles-phd-student-jamie-mckeown-presents-research-at-stem-for-britain-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"MoLES PhD student Jamie McKeown presents research at STEM for BRITAIN 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In March, one of our excellent PhD students Jamie McKeown was selected to present his research in the prestigious STEM for Britain competition, held at the Houses of Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event is a highly competitive scientific poster competition, organised by the Parliamentary &amp; Scientific Committee to celebrate the work of early career researchers. Jamie had the opportunity to present a poster of his PhD research, focused on the development of partial differential equation models to describe invasive pest spread in the UK. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read an interview with Jamie and learn more about his research and STEM for Britain experience in the News Article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/maths-physics\/news\/item\/stem-britain-26\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/maths-physics\/news\/item\/stem-britain-26\/\">Mathematics PhD student represents Newcastle at STEM for Britain 2026.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations Jamie!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"756\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moles\/files\/2026\/05\/JamieSTEMforBritain-1024x756.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moles\/files\/2026\/05\/JamieSTEMforBritain-1024x756.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moles\/files\/2026\/05\/JamieSTEMforBritain-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moles\/files\/2026\/05\/JamieSTEMforBritain-768x567.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moles\/files\/2026\/05\/JamieSTEMforBritain-406x300.jpg 406w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moles\/files\/2026\/05\/JamieSTEMforBritain.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March, one of our excellent PhD students Jamie McKeown was selected to present his research in the prestigious STEM for Britain competition, held at the Houses of Parliament. The event is a highly competitive scientific poster competition, organised by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moles\/2026\/05\/14\/moles-phd-student-jamie-mckeown-presents-research-at-stem-for-britain-2026\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4649,"featured_media":24,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conference-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}