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Research Cafés
Looking for the opportunity to share your research and practice your presentation skills?
Whether you want to practice a presentation before a big conference, or you want some feedback on your research ahead of publishing it, or if you just want to share your work, why not take part in one of ORSP's Research Cafes!
Each term, the ORSP team hold a Research Café, usually in the Lanchester library, that provides researchers an informal environment to share their research and practice presenting to a non-specialist audience. The cafés offer an open forum where peers can discuss their research, often leading to new perspectives and interdisciplinary insights. These are particularly helpful for PGRs and ECRs looking to hone their presentation skills.
Presenters are typically given 20 minutes to share their research, which is then followed by an opportunity for audience questions afterwards. Twenty minutes is not a long time, so we generally recommend presenters either focus on a specific aspect of their research or give a broad overview. Also, audiences are drawn from a range of backgrounds and disciplines, which often leads to fascinating interdisciplinary insights, but as a result presenters are encouraged to factor in some time to contextualise their research, including defining any technical vocabulary that may be unfamiliar to a non-specialist audience.
Our Next Research Café: 23rd October 2024 - Community Over Commercialisation
Our next Research Café will take place on the 23rd October. We welcome any presentations, particularly around the theme of "Community over Commercialisation".
If you would be interested in presenting at this Café, please either email oa.lib@coventry.ac.uk or fill in the form below and we will get back to you.
Past Research Cafés
Research Café – 23rd October 2024
Theme: Community over Commercialisation
Presentations were provided by:
- Julyan Levy - 'Solidarity Economy and Plant Agency'
- Mohamed Sami Mehiaoui - 'Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, Academia and Practice: A Case Study of thepactnetwork.com from a researcher and an entrepreneur perspective'
- Daniel Rink - 'The Presentation of Economic Issues in The Press During the 1951 General Election Campaign'
Recording:
Research Café – 12th June 2024
Presentations were provided by:
- Ruth Postlethwaite – 'Effects of the MoveMore lifestyle intervention on immunological, psychological, and physiological variables in sedentary individuals with overweight, or Class I or Class II obesity.'
- Sana Cheruvallil – 'Trust Dynamics in Industrial Symbiosis'
- Dr Haipeng Liu – 'A case study of computational simulation in medical research: hemodynamic effects of tortuosity and stenosis in transcranial artery bypass'
Recording:
Apologies to viewers for the initial few minutes of Ruth’s presentation being missed out on the recording.
Research Café – 9th February 2024
Theme: Immersive Research
Presentations were provided by:
- Dr Jo Sperryn-Jones – ‘Reciprocity Forest: developing an AR app that enhances perceptions of our surroundings, increases the time people spend outdoors and improves wellbeing’
- Dr Joshua Caldicott – ‘Sound Your Lowdest Noise’: The Sound of Applause in Early Modern Drama’
Research Café – 25th October 2023
Theme: Community over Commercialisation
Presentations were provided by:
- Drew Elepaño – 'Cotutelle PhDs: Too Many Masters?'
- Adeola Eze – 'The Scroll’s Journey through Time'
- Kayden Schumacher – 'Transcribing the Trans Experience: Trans Embodiment in the English Education System'
Recording:
Research Café – 2nd February 2023
(As part of the 2023 Research Hootenanny)
Presentations were provided by:
- Mirabel Pelton – 'An evaluation of working with autistic people as an early career researcher exploring suicidal thoughts and behaviours'
- Uroosa Mushtaq – 'Testing Intercultural Dialogue in fragile non-western contexts: A case study of Jammu and Kashmir'
- Mark Lewis – 'Escape Racism'
Research Café – 26th October 2022
Theme: Open For Climate Justice
Presentations were provided by:
- Dr Joanna Kubicka – ‘ESG reporting - the real challenges of climate change’
- Ebenezer Akore Yeboah –Nursing in the context of climate change ''
- Yves Tramblay – ‘Changes in floods in Africa and main generation mechanisms’
Research Café – 29th July 2022
Presentations were provided by:
- Dr Carlo Avilio – 'The role of art architecture in the process of cultural negotiation between the Spanish colonizers and indigenous communities in South America (16th-19th centuries)'
- Uroosa Mushtaq – 'Discussing a critical approach to Intercultural Dialogue: An Insider perspective of dialogue in fragile non- western contexts'
Recording:
Research Café – 30th March 2022
Presentations were provided by:
- Dr Annie Pettifer – 'Thoughts on a Long Recruitment Process: Recruiting the Vulnerable in an Unfamiliar Hospital Environment'
- Leitrim Doyle – 'The Impact of Feeling Anxious on Public Good Payments: An Introduction'
Recording:
Research Café – 2nd February 2022
Theme: “Beyond the Viva: Life after a PhD”
Presentations were provided by:
- Dr Nick Peters – 'Post-PhD: Life as a Coventry University FAH Sonic Arts Alumnus'
- Dr Beena Manoj – 'PhD to Postdoc: Career Planning'
- Dr Darren Stevens – 'I’ve got a PhD! Now what?'
Recording:
Research Café – 27th October 2021
Theme: It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity
Presentations were provided by:
- Dr Sarah Charles & Dr James Bartlett – 'Open Research Practice & Data Reproducibility'
- Tobias Steiner – 'Open Access Books, and the COPIM Project'
- Dr Patrick Hart – 'Editing an independent open access journal: tales from the front line'
Recording:
Apologies to viewers for the initial few minutes of Sarah’s presentation being missed out on the recording.
Research Café – 25th August 2021
Presentations were provided by:
- Colby Glover – ‘Does vitamin D enhance COVID-19-relevant in vitro immune responses in leukocytes from Caucasian and South Asian individuals?’
- Dr Luca Morini, Steve Raven and Dr Arinola Adefila – ‘Decolonising Research in CU – Recognising Interdependence’
- Han Zhang – ‘Blockchain adoption in steel supply chain conceptual framework’
An Interim Project Report, Decolonising Education – Fostering Conversations – Interim Project Report, related to the second presentation is available online at: DOI 10.18552/GLEA/2021/0001
Research Café – 21st July 2021
Presentations were provided by:
- Paulette Toppin – ‘How senior public service leader practice is understood and reflected upon by senior public service stakeholders: The case of Jamaica as a developing state’
- Thomas Jenkins (Library staff) – ‘Understanding Transformative Agreements, the new way to publish Open Access’
Research Café – 31st March 2021
Presentations were provided by:
- Solene Cargill – ‘Airflow in lungs: what do we know about alveoli and why is it still not enough?’
- Holly Gilbert – ‘Mathematics and Statistics Support in the New Normal’
A paper authored by Holly related their presentation was published as: Gilbert, H., Hodds, M., & Lawson, D. (2021). “Everyone seems to be agreeing at the minute that face-to-face is the way forward”: Practitioners’ perspectives on post-pandemic Mathematics and Statistics Support. Teaching Mathematics and its Applications, 40(4), 296-316. https://doi.org/10.1093/teamat/hrab019
Research Café – 24th February 2021
Presentations were provided by:
- Mark Dawson – How can Collaborative Online International Learning enhance Higher Education?
- Mairi Laird – Freddie Mercury as Schrodinger’s Cat – Alumni fundraising in the higher education sector
- Jaque Durrant – WCET Tutors: An Undergraduate Journey to Group Instrumental Pedagogy
Research Café – 27th January 2021
Presentations were provided by:
- Dr Richard Hillier – ‘Inequality in higher education. Are universities doing enough?’
- Olusola Oladipo – ‘A qualitative study of Black African – Caribbean church leaders to explore and understand their views on running church-based health programmes to improve nutritional health and physical activity’
Research Café – 28th October 2020
Presentations were provided by:
- Ainul Mardiah – Investigation of the Association of Religious/ Spiritual Interventions (R/SI) on Mental Health Outcomes in Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review
- Stephen Powley – Enabling full-lifecycle cybersecurity for connected vehicles: a model-based systems engineering approach to improving enterprise capability
- Thomas Jenkins (Library) – Open Access Week 2020: Exploring the Global OA Landscape
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