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Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May

Oral and PechaKucha Presentation Abstracts

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Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May

Can We Talk? Does Computer Autonomy Need Speech?

Adam Bogg

Tuesday 30 April

Safety and Security

14.00-15.40

We are apparently on the cusp of a technology

shift; the arrival of the autonomous car that can

drive itself freeing you to do whatever you want

other than drive the car. Of course, one question

that challenges this expectation is: will we accept

the car as autonomous? Will we over-trust or

mistrust the autonomy? Human Factors research

within the last decade on human interactions with

autonomous IT systems suggests that for humans

to accept IT as truly autonomous the IT needs to

behave less like a fixed machine and more like a

fallible human teammate. Yet, despite

acknowledging this requirement, research on

human autonomy interaction still focuses on

visual-graphical communication as the primary

form of interaction. This research hypothesises

that, for humans to view automation as a

teammate, it is essential that the automation

interacts through a medium all humans are used

to; through voice communication.

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Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May

Mixture Optimization for Compressive Strength of Red Geopolymer Mortar

Aminu Shinkafi

Thursday 2 May

Sustainability and

Resilience

11.00-12.30

Geopolymers are produced from the alkalination

of reactive alumino silicate source with alkaline

solution. Previously, iron rich lateritic clay are

considered as unsuitable precursors, despite their

global abundance and low embodied energy. This

is due to the reported harmful action of some

ferrous compounds Fe++ that hinders the

geopolymeric reaction. The performance of the

clay based geopolymers are influenced by the

calcination process, nature and type of alkaline

metal source, etc. In this work, mixes based on a

range of molar oxides and mass ratios were

designed to achieve the peak strength of the red

geopolymer mortar cured under sealed condition.

Also, setting times and rheological properties of

the peak strength mix were studied. The result

shows that calcined clay to sodium silicate

solution mass ratio of 1 gives the highest

compressive strength of 29 MPa at 28 days and

the binding phase is poly ferro sialate (Fe-Si-O-Al).

Keywords: Calcined clay, red geopolymer, mortar,

compressive strength, setting times

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Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May

Detecting Automobile Cyber-attacks

Andrew Tomlinson

Tuesday 30 April

Safety and Security

14.00-15.40

Modern cars contain many sensors and control

units connected via internal networks. One in-car

network, the Controller Area Network, has been

shown to be particularly vulnerable to cyber-

attack. On it reside units that govern

performance-critical and safety-critical functions,

such as braking, steering and engine operations.

Attacks on this network could disrupt the car,

putting drivers, passengers and pedestrians at risk,

as well as causing damage to the vehicle.

Detecting such attacks presents many challenges,

such as: the high volumes of data that are rapidly

generated on the network; the low computing

power available in the car; and the

unpredictability of future attacks. The

presentation looks at the characteristics of such

attacks, and shows how the attacks might be

detected by an in-vehicle cyber-attack detection

system. Results from testing potential detection

methods are presented and discussed.

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Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May

How Can You Win the Global Talent War?

Beena Manoj

Wednesday 1 May

Sustainability and

Resilience

13.45-15.00

The most fundamental aspect for any MNC is to

ensure that an organisational task demanding high

skill is sufficiently staffed with the right set of

appropriately-skilled people. The talented

workforce needs to be motivated for achieving the

objectives of the task at hand and ensuring

organisational success. Therefore, the

management of such a workforce is important to

ensure organisational requirements are met with

success. To achieve this, an organisation is

required to understand the multiple factors that

can influence different types of talents. This

research aims to understand the global talent

management and mobility strategies adopted by a

company while exploring the individual

motivational factors that influence a global

talent’s decision-making process. It also

investigates the methodology a company uses to

employ talent for its global talent pool. The

research uses semi-structured interviews to study

global talent management and global talent

mobility.

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Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May

Automatic Identification of Core Sections in Scientific Research Publications

Bello Aliyu

Muhammad

Wednesday 1 May

Intelligent Products

and Processes

15.30-17.10

As the volume of published literature grows bigger

and at an exponential rate, the extraction of

information becomes time consuming and error

prone. Hence, the need for automation

procedures for the extraction of relevant

information from the publications (papers). First, a

canonical model based on the well-established

structure of the scientific research articles was

proposed as a unified approach for the automatic

data extraction. The model is simply a depiction

of the core sections the articles contain. However,

the machines do not have true understanding of

these sections. This paper presents the machine

learning models that enables the computer

system to understand the canonical model to

identify the core sections of the articles. The

study involves 3,000 full-text research journal

articles from the software engineering. Support

Vector Machine (SVM), Naive Bayes, Random

Forest and Logistic Regression algorithms were

used in the experiment. Logistic regression

achieved the highest accuracy of 78%.

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Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May

The Use of Big

Data Analytics

for Retail Fraud

Prevention

Chiwuokem Nwoko

Tuesday 30 April

Safety and Security

14.00-15.40

Big data has been researched in many disciplines

and industries (e.g., Günther, et al., 2017; Wang,

et al., 2018). However, a peruse of literature not

only shows that there is little research into the use

of big data for retail fraud prevention, but also

that many a literature focus on

technical/quantitative methods in big data

discourse (e.g., Herodotou, et al., 2011; Cheng, et

al., 2014).

Therefore, we aim to evaluate the use of big data

as a technique to investigate cybercrime

management practices and develop a holistic

theoretical framework for online retailers to

improve their practice and prevention strategies.

We adopt a qualitative case studies research

method using semi-structured interviews and

combined with internal documents and external

publications about case studies.

Our research will offer better in-depth insights

into the design of a novel big data-enabled

cybersecurity framework that is proactive and

replicable in the retail industry.

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Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May

“You’ll Never Walk Alone”: Exploring Collective Emotion at the Hillsborough Vigil

Chris Day

Tuesday 30 April

Health and Wellbeing

10.00-11.00

This presentation explores collective emotions, at

the Hillsborough Vigil in 2016, by triangulating

multiple forms of data including online sources,

interviews etc. This research analyses

documented present-tense and retrospective

collective emotion in response to the vindicating

verdict. A cursory analysis of crowd behaviour at

the event would suggest a celebratory and

positive atmosphere. Contrary to this, critical

analysis of group-emotion can be interpreted as

more negative; alongside collective pride there

are signs of sombre reflection, shame, and anger.

One very clear theme was the collective use of

restraint to embody emotion. This was evident in

the use of silence and subdued body language at

specific points during the vigil. Particularly when

contrasted with more raucous displays of emotion

in response to impassioned speeches. The variety

of emotions demonstrated by Hillsborough

campaigners highlights that, despite receiving the

verdict so desperately fought for, this does not

result in positive group emotion.

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Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May

The investigation of predictors of English Reading and Spelling for Mandarin-English Bilingual Students in Higher Education

Chunyang Liang

Tuesday 30 April

Global Learning,

Education and

Attainment

14.00-15.30

Previous studies have found that phonological

processing skills were a unique predictor of

English word reading ability for Chinese-English

bilingual adults (Yeong, Fletcher & Bayliss, 2017).

However, Holm and Dodd (1996) showed that

bilingual Chinese-English students from Hong

Kong learned to read and spell in English without

developing phonological skills, but they possessed

strong visual analytic abilities. The current study is

going to investigate both intra- and cross-linguistic

factors that can predict reading and spelling

performance in L2 English and L1 Mandarin in

Mandarin-English bilingual adults and language

transfer effects between Mandarin and English.

Correlation and regression analyses will be used to

compare predictors of single-word reading and

spelling between two groups.

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Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May

Facilitating learner autonomy to encourage independent learning: The roles and responsibilities of lecturers within the higher education sector.

Craig Bartle

Tuesday 30 April

Global Learning,

Education and

Attainment

14.00-15.30

Independent learning is a process expected of

students within higher education and is frequently

‘advocated and promoted as a major

contemporary educational goal’ (Lau 2015). This

paper presents the results of a case study carried

out at Coventry University as part of my PhD

research. Drawing on the salient literature and

anonymised survey responses and interviews with

lecturers and students, activities and processes

considered necessary for successful independent

learning are explored alongside differences of

opinion about what it means to study

independently. Effective teaching practices aimed

at encouraging independent learning will then be

discussed together with the perceived barriers to

such approaches, which this research suggests

may be preventing lecturers from adapting their

teaching in this way. Finally, suggestions for

addressing these problems will be considered.

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Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May

The Effects of

Walking

Football on

Sleep and

Health.

Danielle Chippett

Tuesday 30 April

Health and Wellbeing

11.30-12.15

PechaKucha

Over half of the older adult population report

some form of sleep complaint, with insomnia

significantly correlated to increasing age. Despite

the beneficial effects of physical activity on sleep,

less than 10% of the older adult population meet

the guidelines for physical activity participation.

Research into common barriers to physical activity

participation amongst the older adult population

identified comorbidities as one of the most

common barriers, with participants reporting that

their existing symptoms and physical limitations

prevented them from exercising and a general

consensus of feeling physically unable to take part

in activities as a result of poor health. Walking

football has been growing in popularity since 2011

and has been specifically designed for the older

adult population. This presentation outlines the

intended research project which seeks to

investigate both the acute and chronic response

to walking football on sleep quality, as well as the

wider health benefits of participation.

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Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May

Fuzz Testing for Cyber-security Assurance of the Automotive CAN Bus

Daniel Fowler

Wednesday 1 May

Intelligent Products

and Processes

15.30-17.10

A car’s computational complexity has increased

with the emergence of the Connected and

Autonomous Vehicle (CAV). Researchers have

shown that CAVs have a new threat to safety, the

proven possibility of cyber attacks. Whilst fuzz

testing is listed as a requirement in recently

published guidelines, and forthcoming standards,

on testing the security of a cyber-physical system

(CPS), little, if any, verifiable results exist on fuzz

testing an automotive CPS. This is the first detailed

research on fuzz testing vehicle systems. It

provides empirical evidence from testing against

simulated and physical vehicular Electronic

Control Units (ECUs) and the widely used intra-

vehicular communications bus, the Controller

Area Network (CAN). A prototype CAN fuzzer

software tool was developed, using an iterative

methodology, to enable experimental

observations. The results demonstrate the value

of fuzz testing for vehicle cyber-security resilience,

verifying the claim that fuzz testing should be

included in national and international guidelines

and standards.

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Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May

At Arm's Length: The Selfie as A Technical Gesture

Darren Berkland

Wednesday 1 May

Health and Wellbeing

10.00-11.50

The selfie is commonly described as an image;

notably an image of oneself taken by oneself and

shared on social media. However, my research has

attempted to redefine the selfie as an embodied

gesture, and not simply as an image or a

photograph. While I am not the first to call the

selfie a gesture, the particular conceptualisation of

gesture I am using follows the work of Flusser. He

writes that a gesture is a production of meaning

contained within a practised performance: a

symbolic movement that both articulates and

expresses meaning. This means that selfies can be

understood as gestures of embodiment which

allow users to resituate themselves within the

complex cascade of screens we encounter every

day. Through the selfie – and other gestures

similar to it – we in many ways ‘perceive’ the

screen’s digital spaces not simply as something

‘out there’, but something that we are embodied

within.

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Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May

Can I measure your self-awareness?

Darren Stevens

Tuesday 30 April

Global Learning,

Education and

Attainment

14.00-15.30

As adults, we rely on certain shortcuts in our

thinking – called Cognitive Intentions – in order to

guide our decision-making every day. In my

research, I have first defined the shortcuts as part

of developmental psychology (Piaget) and then

asked if we can measure our awareness of these

shortcuts in order to affect our thinking, with a

view to changing our capacity for decision-making

in the moment. If we know how our thinking is

deconstructed into fifty of these Cognitive

Intentions then we can affect cognitive growth by

focusing on those that have the most effect on our

thinking style. Piaget would call this

Accommodation. My presentation will walk the

audience through five studies that defined

Cognitive Intentions, how we use them, how they

combine to create thinking styles and eventually,

how we can measure our awareness of our style in

order to affect change later.

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Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May

CSR and Financial Performance: An Impact of Large Shareholders

Didarul Islam

Wednesday 1 May

Sustainability and

Resilience

10.00-11.50

This thesis

investigates the

impact of large shareholders on the relationship

between- Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

and firms’ financial performance. It utilises a

sample of UK companies and a sample of Chines

Large State-Owned Enterprises. The thesis

employees the UK and Chinees contexts because

large shareholders of UK companies are usually

institutional investors while Chines firms are

usually State Own oriented.

We expect to find that large shareholders

influence the CSR policies and as a result

corporate financial performance in both reasons.

Previous research has shown that large

shareholders given their influential voting power,

have control of corporate decision making. This

research will test the impact of different types of

large shareholders on CSR actions and its

relationship with firms’ performance. Findings will

provide invaluable inputs for investors as well as

corporate managers to recognise large

shareholders and their effort of CSR policy

development, and government policy making.

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Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May

All at sea? A land-based perspective of children’s involvement in maritime piracy

Elizabeth Norman

Tuesday 30 April

Safety and Security

14.00-15.40

Current estimates suggest that one-third of

apprehended Somali piracy suspects are children

under the age of eighteen, who are pushed into

piracy due to fragility and insecurity on shore.

Beyond their involvement at sea, children also

occupy land-based roles in piracy networks, such

as guards for hostages. However, there is little

research into the involvement of children in piracy

networks. What does exist focuses on how to

treat children who are apprehended for piracy at

sea, with little attention paid to the land-based

context in which children join pirate groups, or the

shore-based roles they may occupy. The aim of

this research is to addresses this gap, by looking at

how organisations working in Somalia understand

and create land-based policy responses to the

issue of child piracy. Thereby, contributing

towards a better understanding of the

interrelationship between child piracy and human

insecurity on shore, along with examining

potential shore-based solutions.

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Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May

Identity and

'Mobile Homes':

Researching

Belonging and

International

Religious

Students'

Experience

Emmanuel Johnson

Tuesday 30 April

Global Learning,

Education and

Attainment

14.00-15.30

This presentation shall cover the approach taken

to analyse the concept of identity construction, in

regards to International Religious students, and

their strategies towards the establishment of

belonging in a foreign country. It shall introduce

the theory of ‘Mobile Homes’ and its place in the

creation of long-lasting relationships; looking at

how it makes up for inadequacies of geographical

elements of ‘home’ abroad.

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Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May

Disappearing content and performativity in archives of dance

Erica Charalambous

Thursday 2 May

Creative Cultures

13.30-14.30

In my PhD research, I am investigating what types

of dance archives exist, how they are organised

and what the transformation of archival data

reveals about archiving dance. In order to

respond to my research question, I investigated

how preservation and circulation of data

transform the archive and I selected two very

different archives of dance, as case studies: 1) the

Lucy Guerin Inc (LGI) private dance archive

collection of an Australian contemporary dance

company based in Melbourne, Australia; 2) The

TanzArchiv Leipzig (TAL), a traditional archive of

dance that blossomed in dubious political times in

East Germany, during the German Democratic

Republic (GDR) (1949-1990), in which art and

culture were valued as national currency. In this

presentation, I would like to discuss how these

archives are organised and to share my current

data collection and analysis reveal about these

archives and their content.

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Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May

Securing a New Era for Transportation - Autonomous Vehicles

Felix Batsch

Wednesday 1 May

Intelligent Products

and Processes

15.30-17.10

Through the centuries, humans have always

controlled vehicles. But as driving became easier

and faster, mistakes made by drivers resulted in

increased severity of accidents and therefore in

more fatalities. Autonomous vehicles promise a

new era of safety, and are also predicted to

reduce congestion, while allowing the once-driver

to engage in other activities. My research looks at

finding rare and dangerous road scenarios that are

threatening for self-driving cars and their

passengers. These scenarios could be used to

challenge these new machines and find faults in

their designs (faults which would never have come

to light in day-to-day situations). These scenarios

will form the foundation of autonomous vehicle

tests, helping to ensure safety and ultimately,

winning trust from the public to use this new

technology.

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Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May

The Manipulation of time in Haddad's Le Quai aux fleurs ne répond plus (1961) and Mosteghanemi's Dhakirat Al-Djassad (1993)

Ikram Berkani

Thursday 2 May

Creative Cultures

13.30-14.30

As they address

colonial and

postcolonial issues in their literary works, Algerian

writers Malek Haddad and Ahlam Mosteghanemi

make interesting use of the notion of time.

Through their fiction, they manipulate the concept

of time and succeed to present a state of

confusion about time that, not only reflects the

condition of individuals, but also the condition of

the entire Algerian culture. This paper aims at

exploring the different ways through which

Haddad and Mosteghanemi manipulate the

concept of time and its implications and possible

interpretations in their respective texts: Le Quai

aux fleurs ne répond plus (1961) and Dhakirat Al-

Djassad (1993). It also intends to examine how

two authors belonging to different periods of

Algerian history, and writing in different

languages, deploy notions of the past, the present,

and the future in their writings.

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Locating the Self through Representing the Other; Occidentalism as a Strategy of Social Exclusion and Recognition in Mohja Kahf’s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf.

Ishak Berrebbah

Thursday 2 May

Creative Cultures

11.30-12.30

Arab American women’s literature has emerged

noticeably in the early years of the 21st century.

The social and political atmosphere of post 9/11

America encouraged the growth of such literature

and brought it to international attention. This

diasporic literature is imbued with the discourse

of Occidentalism; this not only creates a set of

counter-stereotypes and representations to

Orientalism but it also works as a strategy for self-

exclusion—in which Arab Americans exclude

themselves from wider US society—and paves the

way for self-realization.

Taking Mohja Kahf’s novel The Girl in the

Tangerine Scarf (2006) as a sample of Arab

American literature, this paper tends to both

examine and discuss the extent to which Arab

American characters including Téta, Wajdy, and

Khadra represent and identify white Americans

from an Occidentalist point of view to exclude

themselves from wider American society, and

sustain their self-realization and recognition. The

arguments and analysis in this paper are outlined

within social identity theoretical framework based

on Henry Tajfel’s perspectives.

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Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May

Classification of a Pedestrian's Behaviour Using Deep Neural Networks

James Spooner

Wednesday 1 May

Intelligent Products

and Processes

15.30-17.10

Pedestrian deaths have seen a rise in recent years,

particularly in more developed countries. With the

development of Autonomous Vehicles, the

vehicles need to be able to perceive the behaviour

of pedestrians. To do this, deep convolutional

neural networks have been used to make a

classification on the behaviour of a pedestrian in

their current time step. The results of the

classification show that the trained network is

able to correctly classify the behaviour of a

pedestrian with an accuracy of 85%. This means

that this classifier can be applied to vision systems

to ensure the safety of pedestrians in the future.

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Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May

Can You Name #5WomenArtists?

Jennifer Dudley

Thursday 2 May

Creative Cultures

11.30-12.30

Each March during Women’s History Month, the

National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA)

has been asking this question on social media,

encouraging people to share their answers with a

hashtag. In 2019 NMWA teamed up with Tate to

spread their campaign even further.

#5WomenArtists aims to raise awareness of the

fact that women have not been treated equally in

the art world and have not had access to the same

opportunities as men. It is also an excellent way to

make women’s practice more visible to a wider

audience. My doctoral research is aligned with

this, as I seek to highlight the significant

contribution of British women artists to the

medium of sculpture in the 1980s and 1990s. In

this presentation I will share the work of five

women artists: Lilian Lijn, Margaret Organ, Su

Richardson, Veronica Ryan and Claire Barclay,

shining a two-minute spotlight on each.

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Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May

Height Matters:

strategies

adopted by UK

very tall young

adults to

manage

everyday life

and well-being.

Julie Booth

Tuesday 30 April

Health and Wellbeing

11.30-12.15

PechaKucha

Adults with a very tall stature (above the 97th

percentile for height) encounter challenges with

engagement in everyday occupations (Thomsett

2009) . This interpretive phenomenological study

has captured the occupational narrative of very

tall young British adults in relation to how they

manage the diversity of their stature when

participating in everyday occupations. Eight

participants between the ages of 18 and 40 years

engaged in an individual interview to share their

experiences. 65 words Strategies that emerged

from analysis of the data included making

compromises to fit into an average height world

which may have an impact on physical and

financial well-being. In addition, choosing

particular sports that would play to the strengths

of tall stature and developing a tall zone within

the social environment, could indicate strategies

for enhancing social well-being. Reference:

Thomsett, M.J. (2009). ‘Referrals for tall stature in

children: A 25-year personal experience.’ Journal

of Paediatrics and Child Health, 45, 68-63.

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The reuse of building structural elements - Towards achieving a circular economy

Kambiz

Rakhshanbabanari

Wednesday 1 May

Sustainability and

Resilience

13.45-15.00

Widespread reuse of building materials can

promote the circular economy. The structural

elements represent a significant proportion of the

overall mass of a building. Therefore, reuse of

these elements can considerably decrease the

environmental footprint of buildings during

construction and end-of-life phases. However,

since reuse is affected by various drivers and

barriers (factors), it is not yet a mainstream

practice in the building sector. While there have

been several case study buildings reusing the

reclaimed structural elements, there are no

quantifications about the reusability of those

elements. One of the objectives of this research is

to address this gap by assessing the weight and

impact of the factors affecting reuse based on the

experience of the professionals. I will then use

these professional experiences to develop a best-

practice model that can estimate the reuse

potential of the structural elements at the end-of-

life of a building.

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Dance, photography and the 'othered' body: exploring interventions to trigger perception change

Kathryn Stamp

Thursday 2 May

Creative Cultures

11.30-12.30

In 1980, the French literary theorist and

philosopher Roland Barthes describe photography

as an “uncertain art…a science of desirable and

detestable bodies” (18). Not only does Barthes

acknowledge the complex relationship between

object and spectator in photography, but also the

impact of judgement by spectator. Emerging from

early PhD evaluation research of People Dancing’s

’11 Million Reasons to Dance’ project, this

presentation will examine the impact of

employing photography as a medium for changing

perceptions of dancers who are disabled. This

multifaceted project included a touring, curated

exhibition of photographs, which demonstrated

disabled dance artists recreating famous dance

scenes from popular films. This presentation will

outline key theoretical areas explored through

PhD research including the impact of photography

within disability studies, the significance of the ‘re’

prefix for dance and disability activity and zines as

an intervention tool. Barthes, R. (1980) Camera

Lucida: Reflections on Photography. London:

Vintage 2000

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Making Space

for Food

Sovereignty?

Mapping the

Application of

the UN Tenure

Guidelines to

Struggles for

Access to Forests

and Rivers in

Nepal

Katie Whiddon

Thursday 2 May

Sustainability and

Resilience

11.00-12.30

In 2012, the reformed UN Committee on World

Food Security adopted the Voluntary Guidelines

on Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land,

Fisheries and Forests. Food Sovereignty activists

utilise this human rights-based instrument in their

struggles for access to resources and influence

over legislation. However, beyond national policy-

making, scholars question the effect on grassroots

conflicts. They suggest that outcomes are

subjected to political interaction of actors, and

their competing views; i.e. how the Guidelines are

interpreted by social forces in a contested terrain.

My ethnography maps state and non-state actors

applying the Tenure Guidelines in Nepal, following

the enshrinement of a "Right to Food Sovereignty"

in the 2015 Constitution. I investigate the

Guidelines' contribution to deliberative legal

reform in forestry, conservation and food security,

and track debates on indigenous peoples'

customary rights. I question whether participation

of grassroots activists in multi-actor platforms on

the Guidelines can make space for food

sovereignty.

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Selling surplus food successfully

Lisa Ruetgers

Wednesday 1 May

Sustainability and

Resilience

10.00-11.50

Tons of edible food

are wasted by all

actors along the food

and drink supply chain. Edible food destined for

waste is called surplus food. Innovative businesses

intervene in the wastage of edible food from

restaurants and retailers. Those businesses, two

supermarkets and an app, use surplus food as

resource and sell it cheaply to consumers. A case

study was conducted to investigate those

businesses as potential solutions to food waste.

The reasons for consumers to buy or not buy

surplus food from those businesses as well as the

challenges the businesses face in selling surplus

food, were identified. Moreover, it was examined

whether food waste is reduced, if the businesses

manage to distribute most of the surplus food and

if consumers consume the purchased surplus

food. The findings and their implications are

presented in this presentation.

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Intelligent

Optimisation

and Control for

Sustainable

Machining

Processes

Lorena Caires Moreira

Wednesday 1 May

Intelligent Products

and Processes

15.30-17.10

Computer Numerical Controlled (CNC) machining,

which is one of the most widely-deployed

manufacturing techniques, is an energy-intensive

process. It is important to develop energy-efficient

CNC machining strategies to achieve the overall

goal of sustainable manufacturing. Due to the

complexity of machining parameters, it is

challenging to develop effective modelling and

optimisation approaches to implement energy-

efficient CNC machining. To address the

challenge, a multi-objective optimisation model

has been formulated, and a novel improved

multiswarm Fruit Fly optimisation algorithm

(iMFOA) has been developed to identify optimal

solutions for the roughing stage in order to save

energy consumption. In addition, a supervisory

control design has been developed to ensure the

quality of the manufacturing process for the

finishing stage of machining. The smart

approaches have been tested and validated, which

results showed that it effectively enhanced the

sustainability of manufacturing.

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Benefits of Yoga for Mental Health in Adults with Intellectual Disabilities

Louise Gates

Tuesday 30 April

Health and Wellbeing

10.00-11.00

Adults with intellectual disability (ID) experience

mental health conditions at double the rate

compared to the non-disabled (Cooper et al,

2007). Limited evidence demonstrates the

effectiveness of complimentary group based

interventions, as an adjunct to usual care,

targeted at improving wellbeing of adults with ID.

Group based interventions can provide social

interaction, often lacking for those with ID. This 6

week study, with one month follow up, will

investigate the feasibility of psychosocial

interventions on adults with ID. Laughter yoga will

be compared to Vinyasa yoga with the means to

isolate and decipher the effect of the laughter.

This presentation gives the protocol and

preliminary findings of the study. It will present

physical measures, such as cortisol levels, blood

pressure readings and sleep monitoring data.

Psychological data will be collected via mood

rating scales and focus group decisions which will

undergo a thematic analysis to produce qualitative

data.

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Towards sustainable livelihoods: An understanding of smallholder livelihood strategies under agrarian reform in South Africa.

Lovemore

Christopher Gwiriri

Thursday 2 May

Sustainability and

Resilience

11.00-12.30

We analyse livelihood strategies followed by

‘emergent’ smallholder farmers in Eastern Cape

Province, South Africa, after accessing land under

agrarian reform. Three broad classes (subsistence

farmers on private land; small-scale commercial

farmers; and fully commercialized farmers) are

identified amongst 60 emergent farmers. We

apply a rural livelihoods framework to understand

the different capitals they draw upon to transition

into these classes. For subsistence farmers, three

strategies emerge (reverting-back to communal

areas, persisting on private farms and petty-

commodity production on private farms) and

these farmers continue to draw largely on

government grants. Small-scale commercial

farmers utilize context-specific knowledge, socio-

political positions, income diversification and

financial loans to make their transition, but

converting financial loans into agricultural capital

puts them in a vulnerable position. Fully

commercialized farmers primarily invest external

financial capital in specialized agricultural

production. We conclude that very little livelihood

transition is actually occurring for subsistence

farmers and fully commercialized farmers.

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How to change

behaviour – the

‘Intervention

Mapping’ way

Marya Mobeen

Wednesday 1 May

Health and Wellbeing

10.00-11.50

PechaKucha

Intervention Mapping is a systematic method for

developing programmes to improve health

outcomes.

Steps: 1) Explore needs of your target population,

including impact on quality of life. Identify causes

of the problem (the specific behaviours and

beliefs). Also decide on outcomes of the

programme. 2) Recognise what needs to be

targeted to improve things 3) Design a

programme for your target population, consider

their needs and previous programmes that have

been developed for the same problem 4) Develop

the programme, consider format and duration.

Pilot the programme with a sample from your

target population 5) Develop a plan for how the

programme will take place 6) Develop a plan for

how the programme will be evaluated

Pros: logical, helps ensure the programme is

evidence-base and meets needs of your

population and it encourages the use of theory

Cons: language is technical, it often seems very

prescriptive and it is time-consuming.

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The impact of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals on the implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices in mining companies in Sub-Saharan Africa:

McFoster Tembo

Wednesday 1 May

Sustainability and

Resilience

10.00-11.50

In recent years mining has become a major focus

of attention for governments in developing

countries. Prior literature suggests that despite

the claim by multinational mining companies

operating in Sub-Saharan Africa of implementing

local development projects, little contribution has

been made to the development of their host local

communities. On the contrary, there is evidence

of growing conflicts between mining companies

and their stakeholders and high levels of

corruption, abuse of human rights and

unsustainable practices. However, research that

examines the factors that contribute to the

underlying causes of conflicts, abuse of human

rights and rise in unsustainable and poor

governance practices is lacking. This study

addresses this gap, by examining factors that

contribute to the rise of corruption, abuse of

human rights and unsustainable practices. After

conducting 46 interviews with mining company

stakeholders and policy makers; our preliminary

findings revealed a number of factors leading to

unsustainable practices.

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The Lived Experiences of Algerian Women in the UK

Meryem Abdelhafid

Thursday 2 May

Creative Cultures

13.30-14.30

In the UK, little research has been done with

Algerian women with regards to their lived

experiences within the British society. By

challenging historical and contemporary

portrayals, this paper will uncover the experiences

and identities of Algerian women living in the

biggest Muslim communities in the UK (London

and Birmingham). I will be introducing my

qualitative research which uses feminist

ethnography, participant observation and semi

structured interviews. Through meeting and

communicating with these women, I attempt to

understand how migration, religion, and political

and social activism influence their daily life

experiences.

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Understanding

and reducing

suicidality

amongst

autistic adults:

applying the

Interpersonal

Theory of

Suicide

Mirabel Pelton

Tuesday 30 April

Health and Wellbeing

11.30-12.15

PechaKucha

Autistic adults are more likely to experience

suicidality but we don’t know how this is driven by

social, communication and sensory differences.

Non-autistic people frequently misunderstand

autistic differences leading to stigma and reduced

belonging. These studies apply the Interpersonal

Theory of Suicide to explore suicide mechanisms.

They employed an online cross-sectional and

longitudinal design of self-report measures of

belonging and burdensomeness (Interpersonal

Needs Questionnaire), depression, anxiety,

suicidality, trauma and fearlessness of death. In

a non-clinical sample (n=163, 65% female) autistic

traits led to suicidality through feelings of

‘perceived burdensomeness’ and ‘thwarted

belonging’. Phase 2 results will confirm whether

these findings are consistent in autistic (n>300),

non-autistic adults (n>200) and will model the

association between trauma, reduced fear of

death and suicidality. Overall, these studies will

highlight differences with the general population

to inform tailored support and interventions to

reduce suicide in autistic adults.

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Prediction of the Cement Lifespan at a Specific Depth Based on the Coupling of Geomechanical and Geochemical Processes for CO2 Storage

Mohammadreza

Bagheri

Thursday 2 May

Sustainability and

Resilience

11.00-12.30

The injection of carbon dioxide (CO2) captured

from combustion processes and injected into

underground formations is one of the plausible

methods to reduce its release into the

atmosphere and consequential greenhouse gas

warming. Depleted oil and gas reservoirs are

candidates for carbon storage projects with high

potential. However, legacy issues with a high

number of oil and gas wells abandoned during the

last few decades put the carbon capture and

storage projects (CCS) at risk. Any defects within

the cement surrounding the well casing or for

capping an abandoned well can become

unwanted CO2 leakage pathways. To predict the

lifespan of cement due to exposure to CO2-

bearing fluids at conditions found underground,

the geochemical processes are coupled with the

geomechanical changes within its matrix. This

work aims at providing a framework to predict the

behaviour of cement due to CO2 exposure under

reservoir conditions.

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Challenging traditional health-based research through the concept of the living Lab

Molly Browne

Tuesday 30 April

Health and Wellbeing

10.00-11.00

This presentation will explore the Living Lab

concept in relation to challenging the traditional

approaches in health-based research.

Traditionally, health-based research has been

situated within medical and biological sciences,

often founded on quantitative methods with large

sample sizes and rigorous control. However, we

are seeing the emergence of a more holistic

approach to health-based research; one that is

person-centred and focused on personal

experience through qualitative methods. The

living lab concept constitutes a collaborative,

innovative research approach centred on the

‘user’ in a ‘real-life’ environment. Living lab

projects are characterised by co-creation

throughout the design, implementation and

evaluation phases of research; building

partnerships which are often interdisciplinary.

The presentation will identify key features of the

living lab concept that can be applied to a PhD

project and demonstrate an alternative approach

to traditional health-based research in the field of

dementia care.

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Water resource availability in West and Central Africa by the mid-21st Century

Moussa Sidibe

Wednesday 1 May

Sustainability and

Resilience

10.00-11.50

Understanding the impact of climate warming on

hydrological systems in Sub-Saharan Africa, where

surface water is fundamental for economic activity

and ecosystem services is of paramount

importance. In this study, we investigate the main

modes of hydroclimatic variability and the

potential impacts of climate change on water

resource availability by the mid-21st century in

West and Central Africa using state-of-the-art

climate models and river flow prediction

techniques. The results highlight a zonal contrast

in future precipitation between western (dry) and

eastern (wet) Sahel and a clear signal of increasing

potential evapotranspiration induced by rising

temperatures for all models. Overall slight (±5%)

changes in river flow are expected by mid-21st

century over the region with however high

uncertainties reported over most of Central

Equatorial Africa inherent to climate model

scenarios and observation datasets quality.

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Corporate Social Responsibility and Earnings Management-The Moderating Role of Corporate Governance

Obinna Ugwu

Wednesday 1 May

Sustainability and

Resilience

10.00-11.50

After the passage of Sarbanes Oxley Act and other

related regulations around the world,

manipulation of accounting records through

discretionary accrual has a higher probability of

being detected by external auditors. Thus

managers have resorted to earnings management

via operational decision which draws less

attention from regulatory authorities.

The first purpose of this study is to analyse the

influence of quality CSR practice and disclosure on

earnings management proxied by REM across the

UK listed firms.

The second purpose of this study is to investigate

whether Corporate Governance (CG) could play a

moderating role in the relationship between

quality CSR disclosure and earnings management.

The potential improvement in understanding of

how good CG influences quality CSR disclosure

could aid policymakers, business leaders and

regulators to implement CG Mechanism that

specifically strengthens CSR as a way of reducing

earnings management.

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How can we

make adults

with type 2

diabetes live

longer?

Russell Brown

Thursday 2 May

Sustainability and

Resilience

11.00-12.30

PechaKucha

Cardiovascular disease accounts for more than

60% of all sudden deaths in England and Wales

with most of these deaths likely to have been

preventable. Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

(T2DM) are 2 to 3 times more likely to develop

CVD and suffer a heart attack or stroke compared

to people without T2DM. The challenge in T2DM is

to provide accurate assessment and a brief

presentation of the risks of developing CVD, to

influence patient attitudes towards adopting risk-

reducing behaviours. This study will examine

whether brief and very brief interventions for

smoking cessation and increasing physical activity

have been shown to facilitate positive behaviour

change. Evidence indicates VBI's are time and cost

efficient, more acceptable, and better attended

than interventions requiring multiple weekly visits.

It is possible that VBIs may be an appropriate

strategy for delivering effective CVD risk-reducing

advice in routine primary care consultations for

people with T2DM.

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Beyond Belonging: Understanding Environmental Justice, Emotions and Social Movements around Water in Dzongu in Sikkim, India

Shruti Vispute

Wednesday 1 May

Sustainability and

Resilience

13.45-15.00

This paper is based on my PhD research that

investigates the ways in which the development of

large hydropower projects affects an indigenous

community. I follow the case study of Affected

Citizens of Teesta (ACT) - a social movement

against large hydropower projects by the

indigenous Lepcha community in Dzongu in

Sikkim, India. This research focuses on three

narratives of dam building in Dzongu: the

environmental narrative, political narrative and an

emotional narrative. I make two key arguments in

this research. First, the development of large

dams became a stimulus for [re]producing diverse

emotions to reify identity, culture and socio-polity

for the Lepcha community. Second, it is important,

long overdue and urgent to reflect on the

relationship between emotions and

environmental justice in social movements around

water. This will contribute to the enhanced

understanding of environmental justice by

understanding the importance of spatial emotions

in the articulations of environmental justice.

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Dietitians role in the prevention of sarcopenia in older adults

Stacey Jones

Wednesday 1 May

Health and Wellbeing

10.00-11.50

Aim To explore the determinants of practice for

dietitians to deliver prescriptive exercise advice

alongside nutritional counselling in older adults to

prevent sarcopenia.

Methods A qualitative methodology used semi-

structured focus groups to explore perspectives,

attitudes and opinions of dietitians. Participants

were recruited using convenience and purposive

sampling until data saturation was achieved. Data

was audio recorded and transcribed, coded using

NVIVO and analysed using thematic analysis.

Results Findings highlighted perceived barriers

including lack of specialised exercise knowledge,

time and the need to prioritise nutrition advice

over exercise advice, perceived risks of providing

exercise advice, professional indemnity and

liability cover, and being able to identify risk in

individuals, particularly those with chronic

conditions or contraindications for exercise.

Dietitians also identified facilitators including

improving knowledge, written guidance or

resources, support from BDA, closer multi-

disciplinary team working, evidencing the

effectiveness of the interventions by measuring

outcomes.

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Too Many Cooks

Spoil the Broth’

– Student

Paramedic Views

of Teamwork in

an Sudden

Cardiac Arrest

Stef Cormack

Wednesday 1 May

Health and Wellbeing

10.00-11.50

Sudden cardiac arrests are common in the UK. As

part of student paramedics education

resuscitation skills are taught and assessed often.

This teaching does not routinely include

teamwork, leadership or communication, known

as soft skills. These soft skills have been found to

improve team performance and reduce error in

hospital resuscitation teams. Student paramedics

were asked to complete a questionnaire to

explore their perception of soft skills used in

sudden cardiac arrest to help understand how

their learning could be improved.

Seventy student paramedics volunteered and it

was found that their experience of sudden cardiac

arrests was limited. Many felt that the teams were

disorganised and that there was a lack of

leadership and communication. Student

paramedics felt that speaking up in a sudden

cardiac arrest was difficult as others would take

over. They felt teamwork was poor and that few

people involved thought ahead. Student

paramedics felt that soft skills including team

coordination, communication, task management

and situational assessment were helpful in

improving team performance.