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Research

Supervised Work and the Questions Under It

Four pieces: two under university supervision, an Extended Project Qualification, and the engineering work behind the solar pack. Where there is a paper to read, it is linked.

  • 01

    Lumiere Research Scholar Program

    Jul to Dec 2025

    Economics and Sustainability in Fishing

    Co-authored with Dr David Willer · Research Fellow, University of Cambridge

    To what extent is it possible to balance economic factors and sustainability in the fishing industry?

    A quantitative paper asking how far the economics of the fishing industry and its sustainability can actually be reconciled, written to journal standard across six months of supervision.

    The National High School Journal of Science

    Under review at the National High School Journal of Science. Three university credits awarded by UC San Diego.

    Read the paper

  • 02

    Independent

    2025

    SolarStep: Never Run Out of Power Again

    A hybrid solar–piezoelectric energy-harvesting backpack for sustainable, off-grid power: how much a wearable panel and the wearer's own steps can return over a day, and what it takes to store and regulate it well enough to charge a phone.

    American Journal of Student Research

    First place at the Dubai Science and Econ Fair 2026, and exhibited at the London International Youth Science Forum Science Bazaar, Imperial College London.

    Read the paper

  • 03

    Extended Project Qualification

    Financial Self-Efficacy and Gen Z Crypto Investment

    Submitted to AQA · Nord Anglia International School Dubai

    To what extent does financial self-efficacy influence how social media affects Generation Z's cryptocurrency investment intentions?

    An independent research project carried alongside the A-Levels — self-directed from the question to the write-up, with the reading and the method the candidate's own.

    AQA Level 3
  • 04

    Cambridge Centre for International Research

    From Stigma to Standard

    Mentored by Dr Barbara Maciejewska · Research and Innovation Fellow, University of Oxford

    Carbonation Curing and the Performance-Based Case for Recycled Concrete Aggregates in Middle Eastern Construction

    A supervised study of carbonation-cured recycled concrete blocks: how they perform against conventional block, and what keeps contractors in the region from specifying them. The same recycled carbonised concrete went into the ping pong table on the projects page.

    Cambridge Centre for International Research

    See the table

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Sultan Al-Farhan