The EPQ will provide you with the opportunity to demonstrate your academic prowess in a field/context of your choice and enable you to illustrate within your UCAS application, (specifically your Personal Statement) that you have completed a ‘superior piece of independent research’. The EPQ will intrinsically support your application and provide a tangible discussion point upon interview and an opportunity to ‘stand out’ among other applicants, with respect to the courses and universities, which you apply in the future. Some pupils chose to align their projects to their choice of undergraduate courses of study, although this is not essential, some recent projects can be found below: • At what point should parental authority to make medical decisions for their children be challenged? Lessons to be learned from the case of Charlie Gard. • How are art and literature shaped by our responses to War? • Controlling the transmission of malaria using gene-drive technologies: analysing the implications of population suppression and population modification strategies. • To what extent have the pressures placed upon professional cyclists by government and political organisations contributed to increased drug use? • Multiple Sclerosis: How common is misdiagnosis and how might such errors be reduced? • Life or Death: are we taking full advantage of the therapeutic values of animal venom and its potential to contribute to medical science and the treatment of diseases.