Research

An extended 6,000 word statistical study on the probability of getting an individual collectable card in a single packet of 8 from a collection of 230 total card types.

This study has been used as an examplar at my Sixth Form of how to do a statistical study.

I showed that, to complete the set I had with the 16 remaining cards, that I would need to buy an additional 200 packs for almost £9,000!

This is useful for understanding probabilities in games, particularly where the players are having collect sets of random objects. Player frustration and unhappiness will ensure if this is the case!

I want to design games that players feel they have a chance of completing - even if it means 'fixing' the game to make it feel fairer. Sometimes random isn't fair!

An extended 10,000 word scientific study on whether humans had any impact on the crab population at a popular saltwater riverside location. This research project aimed to find out if crab numbers changed with the amount of human activity and took several months to complete in total.

This essay included hundreds of individual datapoints: crab location and substrate type, food-web position, size and number of barnacles on the crabs as a proxy for age and health; water factors such as turbidity, pH and temperature; human activities and behaviour.

The outcome of the study indicated that, in contrast to expectations of humans having a negative effect on the crab numbers, in fact, crabs in the areas closer to human activity seemed to be larger, older - even if they were less healthy.

An essay on the way in which Ugur Gallenkus uses techniques of juxtaposition to draw attention to the effect of conflict on children.

This essay looks at how Gallenkus uses visual language to communicate: perspective, colour, shape, emotion, juxtaposition and composition.

This 5,500 word study assesses the extent to which dust particles effects the efficiency of solar panels as measured by the power output.

I had to find ways to create a simulation of the dust particles. In the end I settled on printing graded acetate sheets to simulate the reduction in light on a photovoltaic cell.