Past projects

Over the last number of years, Scholars have executed impactful research projects. 
At Imperial, all Laidlaw Scholars Programme research projects have to address at least one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. 

Some examples of the research projects done by Imperial students:

1. Beyond Dollars: Rethinking Flood Impact Assessment in Vulnerable Communities of Bangladesh
2. How does socioeconomic deprivation impact polypharmacy prevalence and outcomes in CKD patients in North West London? 
3. Solar Solutions: How to Empower Low-income Homes in Hyderabad, India
4. Exploring Polymerase Chain Reaction strategies for sequencing-based diagnostics for the detection of Human Enteroviruses
5. Transcutaneous Microneedle Patch Delivery System for Cervical Cancer Therapeutic Vaccine
6. Are Climate Finance Models Fit for Purpose?
7. Sustainability in Healthcare: Understanding the Enablers of and Barriers to Green Hospitals
8. Analysis of Company Sustainability Gaps
9. Assessing the Scalability of Green Hydrogen Innovation for Net Zero 
10. Can you Predict the Year? A Machine Learning Approach to Identify Sustainability Reports
11. Market Mechanisms for Financing Industrial Decarbonisation: Steel Case Study
12. Gender- and income-specific barriers to mobility in emerging economies: Case studies of Kenya, Zambia and Laos
13. Monitoring Grid Voltage Fluctuations in Rural Schools in Maharashtra
14. The Impact of Microbial Cell Size on Greenhouse Gas Emissions in a Changing Climate
15. The Role of the North Sea in Achieving Net-Zero: Assessing the Feasibility of Large-Scale CO2 Storage in Saline Aquifers
16. Use of Smartphone Physical Activity Data to Monitor Functional Recovery after Reconstructive Burns Surgery 
17. Advanced Biorefining with Ionic Liquids: Unlocking Sustainable Materials from Mixed Biomass
18. Missed Diagnoses, Unmet Needs: Exploring Barriers to Asthma Care in India's Government Hospitals
19. Study the evolution of SDG-related actions companies use to address in their corporate sustainability initiatives in the GOLDEN Sustainability Database
20. EQUALISE – Equity of Access to Life-Saving ECMO 

You can also see the posters of the research projects from 2024: Imperial College - research projects 2024

and 2025: Imperial College - research projects 2025

Some of the research projects conducted at other Universities, addressing SDGs:

1. How Climate Change Contributes to Human-Wildlife Conflict in East and Southern Africa 
2. Water Security in Southeast Iraq - The Role of Iran in Environmental Degradation and Subsequent Socio-Economic Consequences on the Marsh Arabs of Southeast Iraq
3. The Forgotten Majority: The impact of the cost-of-living crisis on white working-class males aged 14-16 years old in Islington, London
4. A Global Capstone Experience: Developing and Promoting Global Cultural Awareness and Educational Opportunities
5. Embedding Sustainability in Engineering Education
6. Bees, Pesticides and Insect declines: defining the sublethal effects of pesticides on honeybees
7. Sexuality and Sexual Education Resources for Autistic Youth - Increasing Accessibility and Awareness
8. A Right to a Healthy Environment in Ireland
9. Influences between the Evolution of Legal Framework and Civil Society in Singapore
10. Building a “smart” monitoring system for bee colony observation
11. Turning Trash into Treasure: Nitrate Upcycling and Wastewater Treatment for Ammonia Production
12. Artificial Muscles for Post-paralysis Facial Reanimation
13. How to get up-to-date science accessible to people
14. Pesticides and Insect Decline
15. Development of Sustainable Supercapacitors from Food Waste
16. Does Homelessness Undermine Democracy? The Role of Home in Democratic Citizenship
17. Design and Development of a Modular Bio-Impedance-Based Wristband for Human-Machine Interfaces
18. Youth Voices for Sustainable Futures in Higher Education
19. Environmental Law in the European Union
20. How Advocacy Drives Policy
21. Europe’s Forgotten – An Analysis of the European Union’s Refugee Asylum and Housing Policies
22. The Eldercare Debate in East Asia: Sustainable “Solutions” in Modern Aging Societies
23. The Governmental Limitations of Entrepreneurial Women: India vs. United States
24. Morocco’s Multilingual Advantage: Unravelling the Impact on Trade and Foreign Investment
25. Blockchain Economics and Financial Development

You can find more examples of the research projects from previous years and read about Scholars' journeys here

LiA projects map