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Selected candidacies, organised by admissions stage and entry year.
A curated library of verified Avandy outcome records, organised by admissions stage and entry year. Each entry sets out the anonymised academic profile, target programme, university outcome and recorded areas of Avandy support.
The outcomes shown represent a selected set of documented Avandy cases. Additional verified outcomes are added to the library on an ongoing basis.
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2016 Entry
University of Manchester — PhD in Accounting and Finance
Built a difference-in-differences model for corporate governance and non-financial disclosure, supporting Manchester doctoral admission.
- Academic background
- Southwestern University of Finance and Economics + University of Manchester — Bachelor's degree in Accounting + MSc in Accounting and Finance.
- Academic profile
- MSc with Distinction; advanced financial knowledge, with a proposal requiring an empirical model of capital-market disclosure and ESG accounting audit.
- Target programme
- PhD in Accounting and Finance
Admissions highlights
Built a difference-in-differences model for corporate governance and non-financial disclosure, supporting Manchester doctoral admission.
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University of Manchester — PhD in Accounting and Finance
2022 Entry
Newcastle University — PhD at School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
Used spatial-justice theory to examine the politics of public space in high-density cities, aligned with relevant research in geography and planning.
- Academic background
- Wuhan University + Newcastle University — Bachelor's degree in Political Science + MA in Human Geography.
- Academic profile
- MA with Distinction; good fieldwork, with a proposal requiring stronger critical perspectives from political geography, spatial justice and urban sociology.
- Target programme
- PhD at School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
Admissions highlights
Used spatial-justice theory to examine the politics of public space in high-density cities, aligned with relevant research in geography and planning.
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Newcastle University — PhD at School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
2016 Entry
University of Oxford — DPhil in Engineering Science
Proposed a robustness analysis combining nonlinear control and machine learning, and prepared for two departmental interviews.
- Academic background
- Tsinghua University + University of Oxford — Bachelor's degree in Automation/Engineering + MSc in Engineering Science.
- Academic profile
- MSc with High Distinction; strong algorithms and mathematics, with the DPhil proposal needing an original contribution to intelligent control and engineering applications.
- Target programme
- DPhil in Engineering Science
Admissions highlights
Proposed a robustness analysis combining nonlinear control and machine learning, and prepared for two departmental interviews.
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University of Oxford — DPhil in Engineering Science
2022 Entry
Queen Mary University of London — PhD in Business and Management
Focused on dynamic capabilities and strategic transformation in the platform economy for Queen Mary’s doctoral review.
- Academic background
- Queen Mary University of London — Bachelor's degree in Business Management + MSc in Business and Management.
- Academic profile
- MSc with Distinction; extensive practical experience, with a proposal requiring stronger engagement with organisational-behaviour and strategic-management literature.
- Target programme
- PhD in Business and Management
Admissions highlights
Focused on dynamic capabilities and strategic transformation in the platform economy for Queen Mary’s doctoral review.
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Queen Mary University of London — PhD in Business and Management
2016 Entry
University of Southampton — PhD in Management
Built an integrated model of green supply-chain resilience and technology acceptance for the supervisory review.
- Academic background
- University of Southampton — Bachelor's degree in Management + MSc in Management.
- Academic profile
- MSc with Distinction; a comprehensive business background, with the proposal needing to progress from general management towards sustainable supply chains or innovation management.
- Target programme
- PhD in Management
Admissions highlights
Built an integrated model of green supply-chain resilience and technology acceptance for the supervisory review.
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University of Southampton — PhD in Management
2016 Entry
UCL — PhD in School of Pharmacy, UCL
Focused on how lipid-nanoparticle surface modification could improve blood-brain barrier penetration, aligned with UCL Pharmacy research.
- Academic background
- China Pharmaceutical University + UCL — Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy + MSc in Pharmaceutics.
- Academic profile
- MSc with Distinction; strong wet-laboratory experience, with a proposal requiring clearer molecular mechanisms for targeted mRNA delivery using lipid nanoparticles.
- Target programme
- PhD in School of Pharmacy, UCL
Admissions highlights
Focused on how lipid-nanoparticle surface modification could improve blood-brain barrier penetration, aligned with UCL Pharmacy research.
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UCL — PhD in School of Pharmacy, UCL
2021 Entry
UCL — PhD in Linguistics
Designed a combined eye-tracking and event-related-potential experiment on syntactic processing in real-time sentence comprehension by second-language users.
- Academic background
- Beijing Foreign Studies University + University of Edinburgh — Bachelor's degree in Linguistics + MSc in Linguistics.
- Academic profile
- MSc with Distinction (76/100); a strong syntax foundation, with a proposal requiring eye-tracking and ERP methods in psycholinguistics.
- Target programme
- PhD in Linguistics
Admissions highlights
Designed a combined eye-tracking and event-related-potential experiment on syntactic processing in real-time sentence comprehension by second-language users.
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UCL — PhD in Linguistics
2021 Entry
UCL — PhD in Computer Science
Proposed an equivariant geometric graph neural network to predict binding affinity between small-molecule drugs and target proteins.
- Academic background
- University of Warwick + Imperial College London — Bachelor's degree in Computer Science + MSc in Computing Science.
- Academic profile
- MSc with Distinction (81/100); GRE 332; advanced coding skills, with a proposal requiring algorithmic innovation in graph-neural-network molecular representations.
- Target programme
- PhD in Computer Science
Admissions highlights
Proposed an equivariant geometric graph neural network to predict binding affinity between small-molecule drugs and target proteins.
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UCL — PhD in Computer Science
2021 Entry
UCL — PhD in Education
Used a difference-in-differences design to evaluate the long-term cognitive and non-cognitive effects of high-quality preschool investment for children from low-income families.
- Academic background
- East China Normal University + UCL IOE — Bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education + MA in Education.
- Academic profile
- MA with Distinction (75/100); extensive teaching experience, with a proposal requiring quantitative assessment of early cognitive development and a cross-cultural comparative framework.
- Target programme
- PhD in Education
Admissions highlights
Used a difference-in-differences design to evaluate the long-term cognitive and non-cognitive effects of high-quality preschool investment for children from low-income families.
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UCL — PhD in Education
2021 Entry
UCL — PhD in Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Combined convex optimisation with deep reinforcement learning to address millimetre-wave beam tracking in RIS-assisted 6G communications.
- Academic background
- University of California San Diego + UCL — Bachelor's degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering + MSc in Wireless Communications.
- Academic profile
- MSc with Distinction (78/100); strong RF hardware skills, with a proposal requiring 6G reconfigurable-intelligent-surface channel estimation and beamforming algorithms.
- Target programme
- PhD in Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Admissions highlights
Combined convex optimisation with deep reinforcement learning to address millimetre-wave beam tracking in RIS-assisted 6G communications.
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UCL — PhD in Electronic and Electrical Engineering
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