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Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May
Oral and PechaKucha Presentation Abstracts
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.
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
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.
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.
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%.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May
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.
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.
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.
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.
Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May
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.
Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May
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
Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May
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.
Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May
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.
Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May
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.
Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May
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.
Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May
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.
Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May
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.
Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May
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.
Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May
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.
Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May
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.
Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May
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.
Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May
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.
Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May
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.
Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May
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.
Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May
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.
Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May
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.
Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May
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.
Doctoral Capability and Development 2019 (DCAD19) Conference Tuesday 30th April – Thursday 2nd May
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.