Making an Impact: Postgraduate Research Conference

Wednesday 15th June 2016, 9:30am – 4:00pm

A one-day event brought together postgraduate students from across all Faculties of the University to explore and articulate the impact of their research and how it relates to the concept of ‘cultural value’. Students were able to connect with postgraduate research students from a large range of disciplines, and to think about how explicitly engaging with ‘impact’ can benefit their future careers in both academia and industry.

 

Key Note Speech

"The Value of Culture - Keynote for the Making an Impact Postgraduate Research Conference at the University of Leeds " from Making an Impact Postgraduate Research Conference at the University of Leeds by Professor John Holden.

 

John Holden is The Hepworth Wakefield Visiting Professor in the University’s School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies,

Visiting Professor City University London, Hepworth Wakefield Trustee, member of Strategy Board of the Clore Leadership Programme, and the European Expert Network on Culture.

The speech covered his extensive experience of culture and public policy to introduce the concept of ‘cultural value’ and what can be gained from reflecting on the wider impact of postgraduate research.

 

Conference Presentations

The following presentations delivered at the conference are now available for download in PDF format:

• Lizzie Caperon – Making an Impact with a behaviour change intervention to improve dietary behaviour in low and middle income countries
• Paulette Dougnac – Engaging for Impact: A Participant-engaged Methodology
• Rachel Moss – Food consumption in children: exploring the role of stress and ethnicity
• Alaa Abd-Alrazaq – Factors that affect patients’ use of electronic personal health records
• Katie Timms – Spinal Cord Injury: how does surgical fixation affect outcomes
• Olga Andreevskikh – The Conceptualisation of LGBTQ Communities and Individuals in Contemporary Russian Media Discourse
• Xiaolei Sun – From Fabliau to ‘法博俚’：Genre Interpretation of Fabliau in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales