Parkinson Court

Location

Parkinson Court
The Parkinson Building, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT

Date

19 Jun 2019

Time

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

WRDTP 8th Annual Conference

The White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership holds its 8th Annual Conference at the University of Leeds on the 19 June 2019. The conference is a great opportunity to network with other doctoral researchers, share your research experiences, find out more about the training on offer from the DTP Pathways and meet your Pathway Director.

The theme for this year’s conference is ‘The Sustainable Development Goals.’

The Sustainable Development Goals set us a challenge to solve the world’s wicked problems, from inequality to climate change, ageing populations to education for all. How do we provide meaningful and long lasting solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges? Join us for the White Rose Social Sciences Doctoral Training Partnership annual conference on 19 June, where we will explore the role of social science research in local and global transformation.

What are the Sustainable Development Goals?

The Sustainable Development Goals are a collection of 17 Global goals set by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015. They address the global challenges we face, including those related to poverty, inequality, climate, environmental degradation, prosperity, and peace and justice.

Conference Speakers

In the morning, there will be a ‘Question Time’ style Panel of Researchers and academics who have experience in conducting research in and securing grant funding related to the Sustainable development Goals. They are:

Rodrigo Moreno-Serra

Reader (Associate Professor), University of York

Rodrigo Moreno-Serra is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Global Health Economics at the Centre for Health Economics, University of York. He has previously held academic positions at the University of Sheffield and Imperial College London, after receiving his PhD in Economics from the University of York. Rodrigo has worked on multiple instances as a consultant for international organisations including WHO, OECD, World Bank and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. His research interests encompass various topics in health economics, global health and development economics. He has published papers in top academic journals and policy reports dealing with health system financing and the impact evaluation of health policies and programmes. Among other activity areas, Rodrigo is currently leading a large inter-disciplinary research project on the consequences of the Colombian conflict for population health, the health system and post-conflict health policy, as well as co-directing a programme of work exploring the effectiveness and value-for-money of health system interventions in Brazil, Indonesia and South Africa. Rodrigo’s research has been recognised through continuous external funding to lead different projects, awards by professional organisations, invitations to speak at international events and press coverage. He is an associate editor of the Journal of International Development (Wiley).

Professor Jean Grugel

Professor of Development Politics, University of York

Jean Grugel is Professor of Development Politics, University of York and Director of the Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre. Her research interests include sustainable development, global political economy, regional and global governance, human rights, global childhoods, children’s work, civil society, democratization. She is also working with colleagues in York on environmental risk, climate change, global health and the uses of NGO secondary data. Jean is a trustee of International Service and has previously served on the boards of Childhope UK and Hope and Homes for Children. She has advised the EU on the implementation of children’s rights and UNICEF on ring-fencing tax income to improve children’s welfare. She currently serves on the ESRC Grants Advisory Panel and its International Development Expert Group and was Chair of the ESRC/AHRC Panel Migration Leadership Team.

In York, she is a member of the University GCRF Steering Group and the Research Communications Strategy Group and is chair of the Research Communications Operations Committee. Recent publications include Demanding Human Rights in the Global South (edited) Palgrave-Macmillan, London and The Handbook of International Development (edited) Palgrave-Macmillan, London and articles in Development and Change, World Development, Human Rights Quarterly, Development Policy Review, Citizenship Studies and International Affairs.

Dr Richard Crisp

Reader at the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR), Sheffield Hallam University

Richard specialises in research on poverty, worklessness, social and spatial inequality and inclusive growth and has led projects for a range of organisations, including central government departments, local authorities and research charities. Richard is currently working on a number of related projects for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation looking at how economic development can deliver ‘inclusive growth’ that benefits low-income households in the context of the wider devolution of new powers to city regions in England. This includes a study of how the transport-related barriers to employment facing residents in low income neighbourhoods can be addressed. He has also recently completed research that explored how city regions can tackle poverty through housing and planning policy. Richard is also a member of teams undertaking two separate six-year evaluations of projects funded by the Big Lottery Fund: The West Yorkshire Finding Independence project which supports individuals with complex needs; and the England-wide Talent Match programme to help young unemployed people find paid work.

Dr Lucie Middlemiss

Associate Professor, University of Leeds

Lucie Middlemiss is Associate Professor in Sustainability and Co-Director of the Sustainability Research Institute at the University of Leeds School of Earth and Environment. Before joining the School, Lucie completed an MSc in Environmental Management at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. She has also worked in corporate communications at Wolters Kluwer, as a consultant for AEA Technology Environment, and briefly volunteered at Greenpeace International. Her research interests are at the intersection between environmental and social issues, with a specific focus on energy poverty and sustainable consumption. Her most recent output is a co-edited book on ‘Power and Politics in Sustainable Consumption Research and Practice’.

Professor Dorothea Kleine

Professorial Research Fellow, University of Sheffield

Dorothea’s research investigates sustainable human development, global justice, and the potential role of digital technologies in making progress towards these aims.

Her key research interests are:

Sustainable and just development futures in the global South (and North)
Information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D)
Ethics of ICT-related development interventions, responsible innovation and data ethics
The capabilities approach and sustainable development
Sustainable/ethical consumption research, food geographies, trade justice and Fair Trade

Themes such as participation, gender, justice and choice run strongly through her work. She has conducted research in Latin America (Brazil; Chile), Europe (UK, Germany), South Asia (India) and Africa (Kenya; South Africa).

Dorothea is strongly committed to research which is both academically excellent and can have a positive impact in the context of the global challenges we face today. Thus her work includes participatory action research in partnership with local communities and marginalised groups, theoretical reflections on the need to redefine “development”, evaluation of NGO programmes, as well as international keynotes, scientific advisory roles and speaking at global policy conferences.

Before joining Sheffield in September 2016, Dorothea held posts at Royal Holloway, University of London, the University of Cambridge and Bonn University. Educated at the University of Munich (LMU and TUM) and the University of Oxford, she holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is a Faculty Associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Dorothea has conducted collaborative research with and/or advised UNICEF, UNEP, EuropeAid, DFID, GIZ, IDRC, private sector organisations and NGOs.

Programme

Well-being, Health and Communities (WHC) Pathway afternoon session

Presentations

Danielle BEATON: ‘What is the function of self-compassion in the relationship between Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and mental health?’

Samiha MIRZA: ‘A systematic review on measurement properties of an observational tool (Infant CARE-index) used to assess the parent-infant interactions from birth up to 15 months’

Tyler MILLS: ‘Exploring Masculinities in Transgender Men’

Natalie BENNETT: ‘The ‘ethnic density effect’ in the UK: what are the pathways to mental health?’

Emily GAGNON: ‘Young people’s beliefs about new psychoactive substances’

If time remains after all presentations have been delivered, the following activities have been planned:

  1. Post graduate Research students will be led in interactive sessions with discussion to reflect about the ways in which your own research could link to Sustainable Development Goals.
  2. Pathway activities planned for 2019-2020 and Pathway communication: what events would people like to see for next academic year

Sustainable Growth, Management and Economic Productivity (SMP) Pathway afternoon session

Presentations

Christos MAVROS: ‘Leading for Creativity: How ambidextrous leaders facilitate the followers’ innovative work behaviours’

Michael CONN: ‘In-work benefits and ‘decent work’’

Shweta SHARMA: ‘Accessing decent work conditions: A study of women street vendors in Delhi, India’

Godbless AKAIGHE: ‘Narcissistic leaders and teammates: A toxic combination?’

Tahera MAYAT: ‘Is incentive funding associated with good outcomes?’

Benjamin RICHARDS: ‘The stable ground of nothingness’

Camila MATELUNA: ‘SDG Accounting and reporting in Chilean companies: A multiple-case study approach’

If time remains after all presentations have been delivered, the following activities have been planned:

  1. Post graduate Research students will be led in interactive sessions with discussion to reflect about the ways in which your own research could link to Sustainable Development Goals.
  2. Pathway activities planned for 2019-2020 and Pathway communication: what events would people like to see for next academic year

Education, Childhood and Youth (ECY) Pathway afternoon session

Presentations

Liam WRIGLEY: ‘A narrative investigation of NEET young people’s capital, social ties and networks in Greater Manchester’

Vijitha RAJAN: ‘Located at the margins? Migrant children and their educational exclusion’

Laura CASTILLO EITO: ‘Reducing youth violence: a multi-level meta-analysis’

Caroline CASEY: ‘Sustainable pathways to decent work in the UK’

Arwa OMAR: ‘The contribution of executive function domains to theory of mind and academic achievement’

Sophie PHILLIPS: ‘Why research Autistic women’s experiences of university?’

Muneer ALHADHRAMI: ‘Negotiating the socio-cultural Omani context by EFL teachers in a university in Oman’

Speaker

Hannah Langdana, Services Coordinator at Leeds Development Education Centre (DEC).

How do we teach about the SDGs in secondary education? 

Hannah will outline how Leeds Development Education is collaborating with colleagues across Europe, and working groups of teachers, to create lessons and materials for teachers on the SDGs (through the World Class Teaching project.) A gap has been identified between the SDGs (a set of internationally agreed targets) and ideas and learning objectives that are taught in the classroom. Therefore Leeds DEC is working on a set of ‘Big Ideas’ on each of the SDGs and would value discussion and input from the Doctoral students to make useful progress on these.

Security, Conflict and Justice (SCJ) Pathway & Civil Society, Development and Democracy (CDD) joint Pathway afternoon session

Presentations

Andrew LEARY: ‘On the location of realist equality: ethos vs hegemony’

Dietlinde N JACOBUS: ‘Evaluation of the performance of Environmental Impact Assessment in Namibia’

Alesia OFORI: ‘How a small mining community calls for synergy among the SDGs’

Ruth KELLY: ‘Holding the door open: ethics of North-South academic collaboration’

Sally OSEI-APPIAH: ‘Gender Inequality: perspectives from media representations of female politicians’

Itzel SAN ROMAN PINEDA: ‘Clustering from below: A tool for development in the Yucatan Peninsula’

Gracia PARAMITHA: ‘(Un)sustainable bilateral climate change aid in Indonesia’

Omran SHROUFI: ‘Radical Right discourse on Israel/Palestine’

Fawzia SLIMANI: ‘Social Capital and political Participation: The Case of Youth Engagement in Britain’

If time remains after all presentations have been delivered, the following activities have been planned:

  1. Post graduate Research students will be led in interactive sessions with discussion to reflect about the ways in which your own research could link to Sustainable Development Goals.
  2. Pathway activities planned for 2019-2020 and Pathway communication: what events would people like to see for next academic year

Cities, Environment and Liveability (CEL) Pathway afternoon session

Presentations

Christoph SCHIMKOWSKY: ‘Everyday incivilities and their regulation in contemporary cities – the case of Tokyo’

Alex RICKETTS: ‘Social Media and Community Disaster Resilience: A Process-Based Study of South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue’

Stephen LANGFORD: ‘How alliances across difference and place are made and sustained in British environmental activism’

Aimee FELSTEAD: ‘A pattern language for urban commons: A focus on resident participation in placemaking within cohousing case studies’

If time remains after all presentations have been delivered, the following activities have been planned:

  1. Post graduate Research students will be led in interactive sessions with discussion to reflect about the ways in which your own research could link to Sustainable Development Goals.
  2. Pathway activities planned for 2019-2020 and Pathway communication: what events would people like to see for next academic year

Data, Communication and New Technologies (DCT) Pathway afternoon session

Presentations

Monika FRATCZAK: ‘The role of data visualization in enabling participation in different kinds of democracies: exploring emotional responses’

Arran RIDLEY: ‘‘Good’ Data/Viz’

If time remains after all presentations have been delivered, the following activities have been planned:

  1. Post graduate Research students will be led in interactive sessions with discussion to reflect about the ways in which your own research could link to Sustainable Development Goals.
  2. Pathway activities planned for 2019-2020 and Pathway communication: what events would people like to see for next academic year
Registration has now closed

Poster Exhibition Competition – NOW CLOSED

Please note that we now have acheived the maximum number of posters that we can exhibit at this conference. Thank you so much for your interest in this competition and we look forward to seeing the entries.

EXHIBITORS: Where possible, you are strongly encouraged to show how your research has links to one of the Sustainable Development Goals. You will have the opportunity to present your poster to delegates during the extended lunch period, and delegates will vote for a winner.

Poster guidelines: all posters must be A0 size and include your name, contact details, university, department, funder and relevant logos, if appropriate. ESRC-funded students should note further branding guidance can be found here.

The winning poster will be awarded a £50 book voucher prize. 2 runner up prizes of a £20 gift voucher will also be awarded.

Presentation competition – NOW CLOSED

Please note we have now closed applications for the Afternoon Presentation competition. We have had a high level of interest in this competition and the afternoon Pathway sessions are looking very exciting!

PRESENTERS: Presentations should be approximately 10 minutes long, and where possible, we encourage you to use your presentation to consider how your research links to one or more of the Sustainable Development Goals.

The winning presentation in each Pathway will be awarded a £30 book voucher prize.