Author: Thomas Jenkins

Presentations provided by:

• Sri Padma Sari – Digital interventions to support self-management for people with schizophrenia
• Chris Day – Overcoming Barriers: Connecting through affective practices at PRIDE
• Dr Ala’a Azzam and Dr Dennis Chapman – Avatars and “levelling up” post-Covid-19: Implementing intelligent virtualisation to increase student engagement in HE

This was Chris’s second presentation at a Research Café following the presentation given at the November 2020 event.  

Chris’s completed PhD thesis, ‘Aroused assemblages and rapturous rabbles: collective emotion and emotional dynamics at large-scale social justice events’, is available to read on our Pure Portal.

Presentations were provided by:

• Darren Stevens – How aware are you of your self-awareness?
• Ismail Jumale – The Search for Peace in Conflict-Affected Countries: Internally or Externally led Peacebuilding Efforts? The Case of Somalia’s Peace Conferences (1990s–2000s)
• Khaled Alosaimi – Reconstruction strategy in post-conflict setting: a case study of Yemen

This was Darren’s second presentation at a Research Café following the presentation given at the Inaugural event in October 2019.

This was the first Research Café to be held in an online format following the Covid-19 pandemic.

Presentations were provided by:

• Devi Megawati – ‘Assessing Disclosure and Enforcing Sharia by Zakat Institutions in Indonesia’
• Shamala Evans – ‘Development of a decision support model for future recharging infrastructures across different markets’
• Eko Cahyo – ‘The Impact of Good Governance and Operational Risk Management on the Sustainability of Waqf Based Education (A Case Study of Darussalam Gontor Islamic Institution, Indonesia)’

Presentations were provided by:

• Leema Kuttiyil – ‘What are the potential barriers to success in clinical placement and coping methods for International Nursing students’
• Elizabeth (Lizzy) Norman – ‘What child piracy in Somalia reveals about the interconnections between human insecurity on shore and maritime insecurity’
• Carole Still – Navigating the space between linguistics, philosophical inquiry and sociology to investigate the interpretation of skills mapped into the ‘official’ curriculum 

Presentations were provided by:

• Farhana Lunat – ‘An Investigation of Student Engagement with Maths and Stats Support’
• Adrian Guel Cortez – ‘Parameter estimation in a cardiovascular system mathematical model’ 
• Simon Renner – ‘Raw Material Policy of Great Britain during the Interwar Period’ 

Adrian Guel Cortez’s research publications are recorded on the University’s institutional repository at: https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/persons/adrian-josue-guel-cortez/publications/. 

Presentations were provided by:

• Tsehaye Haidemariam  – ‘How Old is Posthumanism? Biface, New Technologies, & Crises of Epistemology’
• Chris Day – ‘”They don’t think like us”; Exploring attitudes of non-transgender students towards transgender people using discourse analysis’  
• Nick Peters – ‘Golden Sunset, Blue Rain — A Presentation on Practice-Based Research in Music-Making and Shamanic Journeying’

Chris Day’s presentation was focussed around research which resulted in the publication: Day, C., & Nicholls, K. (2021). “They Don’t Think Like Us”: Exploring Attitudes of Non-Transgender Students Toward Transgender People Using Discourse Analysis. Journal of Homosexuality, 68(6), 914-933. 

https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2019.1667161.

An Open Access version of this article is available at: https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/publications/they-dont-think-like-us-exploring-attitudes-of-non-transgender-st    

Nick Peter’s PhD is also available online through Coventry University’s institutional repository at: https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/golden-sunset-blue-rain  

Presentations were provided by:

• Clair Dempsey – ‘Pros and cons of using the photovoice methodology’
• Sarah Charles – ‘The psychobiology of social bonding’
• Darren Stevens – ‘Does constructed development exist as a conceptual measure of self-awareness in the moment?’

Since presenting at the inaugural Research Café, Darren Stevens has completed his PhD. This can be read online at: https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/does-constructed-development-exist-as-a-conceptual-measure-of-sel