Postgraduate Research Conference 2014
- Date: Tuesday 18 March 2014, 09:30 – 16:00
- Location: Beech Grove House
- Cost: Free
A student-led event with the underlying aim of encouraging the widest participation from postgraduate researchers.
This is a great opportunity to give a paper or poster in a friendly, supportive environment and receive feedback to inform the development of your work in the future. It is also a good opportunity to meet with other research postgraduates across the faculty.
09:30 - 10:00 Registration and refreshments
10:00 - 10:15 Welcome – Hugh Dyer, Graduate School Director
10:15 - 11:15 Session 1
Ben Docherty (Politics and International Studies) The fear of R2P as a Trojan Horse : State receptivity to intervention but not regime change 2001-2011.
Mohammad Bin Idris (Law) The Caroline Doctrine and its Interpretations.
Claudia Paraschivescu (Sociology and Social Policy) Romanians in London. Whiteness in everyday encounters.
Anne Outram Halstead (Education) School rules as a route to learning about citizenship and the law: the importance of understanding principles.
11:15 - 11:30 Refreshments
11:30 - 12:00 Networking session
12:00 - 13:00 Session 2
Abdulaziz Aleid (Law) Housing Finance: Improving the Legal Infrastructure.
Tat Dung Dang (Law) The Value of Fairness in the Law-Making Process from the Perspective of Fairness in Election and Participation in a Constituted Legislation.
Gisela Oliveira (Education) Learning the Hard Way: The Process of Data Collection and Analysis on a Research about Learning Transfer in Higher Education.
Shanna Saubert (Education) Exploring student engagement from the students’ perspective.
13:00 - 14:15 Lunch and Poster Viewing
14:15 - 15:15 Session 3
Paul Lally (Education) Understanding Policy Hegemony and the Potential for Change through an Analysis of Wittgenstein and Gramsci.
Yana Manyukhina (Sociology and Social Policy) Ethical Consumption as a Reflexive Project: Negotiation of Consumer Identities through Ethical Labelling.
Lucy Dix (Education) Understanding the development of Theory of Mind in children with Down syndrome; a mixed methods approach.
Yi Huang (Law) The legal capacity of mentally disabled people in the context of China’s Mental Health Law.
15:15 - 15:30 Refreshments
15:30 - 16:00 Poster prizes and close