FameLab UK showcase

The class of 2025

Every region's winner who took the stage at the FameLab UK Final in 2025, and how far they went.

UK Final

2025 FameLab UK Champion

Winner

Spatika Jayaram

Time Travel with Your Brain

Source

Date & venue: 6 Jun 2025, Cheltenham Science Festival
Region: East of England
Runners-up: Holly Davies; Tiffany Baptiste
Audience winner: Tiffany Baptiste
Finalists: 10
What's next: International Final at CERN Science Gateway, 25 Nov 2025

North West representative · Finalist

Erin Pallott

Biology (intestinal mucus & parasitic worms) · "Snot Just Slime!"

Hub: Univ of Liverpool & Univ of Salford

Regional winners

10 regions, one stage

Each card is a regional champion who represented their hub at the UK Final. The North West is outlined.

East of England

Spatika Jayaram

Neuroscience

Time Travel with Your Brain

UK Winner Source

North West

Erin Pallott

Biology (intestinal mucus & parasitic worms)

Snot Just Slime!

Finalist Source

East Midlands

Caitlin Lewis

Chemistry & Physics

The 0 to 1 of Quantum Computing

Finalist Source

Gloucestershire & West Midlands

Lindsey Sinclair

Medicine, Health & Disease; Neuroscience

Of Mood and Memory

Finalist Source

London

Tiffany Baptiste

King's College London

Engineering (cardiac digital twins)

From Heartbreak to Digital Healing

Joint runner-up; Audience winner Source

North East

Elisha Doi

Chronic Pain

Drowning in Pain, Reaching for Relief

Finalist Source

Northern Ireland

Erin McEvoy

Marketing & Public Health

Not Quite Home: Irish Women, Gambling Addictions and the Long Way Back

Finalist Source

Scotland

Eugénia Delacou

Soft Matter Physics

Early Bird Gets the Worm, Early Worm Gets the Organ

Finalist Source

South East

Julia Shumway

Epidemiology & Statistics

Music is Medicine: How music therapy can heal our minds and bodies

Finalist Source

South West

Holly Davies

Physics & Astronomy

Extraordinary Exoplanet Expeditions

Joint runner-up Source

North West Final 2025

The North West finalists

Everyone who took the stage at the 2025 North West Final at Science and Industry Museum, Manchester.

2025

10 finalists

Erin Pallott NW winner

PhD researcher · University of Manchester

“Snot Just Slime!”

UK finalist 2025

Her talk at the FameLab UK Final 2025 · Watch on YouTube

Chris Myerscough

Laboratory Manager · Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

“Pneumococcus: long studied, often unnoticed, yet still important!”

Lois Clark

Undergraduate, Wildlife Conservation with Zoo Biology · University of Salford

“Why are animal bums so weird?”

Back again in 2026

Melissa Azombi

PhD researcher, Astronomy and Astrophysics · University of Manchester

“Your Stellar Journey”

Silas Yenbon Sebire

PhD candidate · Edge Hill University

“Bridging the gap: developing nurse managers in evidence-based practice”

Holly O'Dea

Principal Clinical Scientist in Genetics · NHS

“The genetic test that could save your life”

Known online as The Scouse Scientist

TEDxTeesside: Genetics and the future of the NHS · Watch on YouTube

Megan Jones

PhD researcher · University of Manchester

“Dinosaurs: now in colour”

Kirsty Styles

Journalism lecturer · University of Huddersfield

“Why we're still trashing the planet, and what it might take for us to stop”

Can stand-up comedy help journalism rebuild trust? Hacks/Hackers London · Watch on YouTube

Laura Bih

MSc student, Biotechnology · University of Salford

“Making vaccines edible!”

Lonnie MacDonald

PhD researcher · University of Liverpool

“T-cells: a patient's friend and foe”

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