On Tuesday 23rd March 2010, the Department held its 7th annual PhD conference. The conference is a celebration of the outstanding work that our PhD students do, featuring posters, oral presentations and keynote talks. This year our PhD students have done us proud by gaining sponsorship from four organisations for prizes and logistics. Well done to Phil Bateman, Aaron Mason, Ioana Sporea and Stefan Stafrace, not forgetting Maggie Burton and Lilian Tang, for organising such a successful conference.