2025 Annual Student Conference Agenda
The 2025 Annual Student Conference will be held on Thursday 30th October at Commons Building, Bath Spa University. The conference brings together social science researchers from across our consortium.
Please note that the agenda may be subject to change.
10:00 – 10:30: Registration, Tea and Coffee
10:30 – 11:45: Plenary Session – Alumni and Early Career Researcher Panel (Panellists TBA)
11:45 – 12:00: Break
12:00 – 12:40: Student Presentations:
Room 1: Engagement in Decolonising Research
Kate Matzopoulos – When Rivers Meet the Ocean: Rethinking Positionality and ‘Who Researches Who’ in Indigenous Research
Mercy O. Martins – Reimagining Education through Language: Decolonial Reflections on Power, Ethics and Participation in Fieldwork
Room 2: Confronting the Uncomfortable
Razan Alem – Encountering the ‘Spooky’: The Researcher’s Role in Navigating Engineered Fear
Filipa Torres – I’m sorry… you research what?! Reflections on doing “dirty research” as a PhD student
Room 3: Insider Challenges in Health Research
Büşra Yildiz – An Exploration of the Meaning of Participation for Older Adults from Diverse Cultural Backgrounds
Jennah Evans – Pushing myself away? Navigating insider status in the study of a novel breastfeeding condition
12:40 – 13:30: Lunch
13:30 – 14:15: Plenary Session – Keynote Presentation
Dr Camilla Morelli, University of Bristol
14:15 – 14:30: Break
14:30 – 15:10: Student Presentations:
Room 1: Ethics in Workplace Research
Tom Carr – Ethical Tension in Desk-Based Legal Research: ‘The Hope of Transcendence’
Margaret Edmondson – Listening to Silence: A reflexive exploration of Care and Emotional Demands in Qualitative Research
Room 2: Impact and Environmental Justice
Felipe Schaeffer Neves – Protecting the Amazon by Sustaining its Peoples
Heidi Barron – Between Theory and Practice: Care in Multi-Species Justice Research
Room 3: Co-creation: from Portraits to Play
Claire Hadfield – Whose story is it anyway? Constructing and Co-curating participant pen portraits
Luci Gorell Barnes – Developing ‘A Box of Ethics’ to prompt children’s perspectives around ethical issues in research
15:20 – 16:20: Student-led Workshops:
Room 1: Slow Thinking, Deep Feeling
Facilitator: Rachel Griffiths – Reflective journals as tools in close-to-identity research
Room 2: Researching Technology
Facilitators: Ksenia Lavrenteva, Maria Volkova and Henry Bennie – What Can Social Scientists Bring to the Table?
Room 3: Creating a culture of agreements in participatory practice
Facilitator: Hannah Gardiner – Exploring a new framework to support interpersonal reflexivity
16:30 – 16:45: Plenary Session – Closing Remarks