Conference Programme
Join us and learn about the exciting research taking place across the University.
DCAD22 will be taking place at the Techno Centre, Coventry University Technology Park,
Please contact RECAP@coventry.ac.uk if you have any questions about the programme.
Register to attend DCAD22 HERE
Please find the draft programme below:
Day 1: Tuesday 26 April 2022
09.30 – 10.00 Registration & Refreshments
10.00 – 12.00 Keynote Speaker, James Hayton: The challenges of interdisciplinary research and collaboration (and how to manage them)
Doing a PhD in a single field is hard enough, but interdisciplinary and collaborative research comes with extra challenges. These can include having to quickly learn new skills or knowledge outside your comfort zone, as well as managing communication and expectations between different partners or departments. On top of these practical issues, there’s also the common feeling of being an impostor in another field. In this session, we’ll talk through some of these challenges and practical ways of managing them.
About James Hayton
Formerly a physicist, I used to work in nanoscience before moving on to bigger things. Since 2010 I’ve coached hundreds of PhD students in academic writing and general PhD project management skills.
12.00 – 12.30 Refreshments
Early-PM Parallel Streams
12.30 – 13.45 Safety & Security
James Olela: Protection of Publicly Accessible Locations from Terrorism: towards a strategic framework for Kenya
Mohammad Rashed Alam Bhuiyan: Investigating precarity among Bangladeshi labour migrants in Malaysia
12.15 – 13.30 Creative Cultures
Hiten Mistry: Reshaping the routines of our past
Jade Ward: Feeling good and functioning well: The importance of participant voice in dance for health research
Giorgia Rizzioli: Screening Coventry: Past is Now: when cinema meets Coventry
David Beauchamp: The language of the first phase: how politicians’ media briefings sought to bring order from chaos during the initial outbreak of coronavirus
Rosa Postlethwaite: ‘Dramaturgy with other-than-human species’ PhD Introduction
12.30 – 13.30 Intelligent Products & Processes
Christopher Gardner: Investigating fibre optic based sensing as a battery state diagnostic method
Amirhossein Sadeghian: Laser welding of aluminium and copper thin sheets for electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturing
Saud Sattar: Advanced Li-ion Battery Diagnostics
13.30 – 14.30 Lunch
PM Parallel Streams
14.00 – 17.00 Outstanding Supervisory Team of the Year Awards
Each of the short-listed Supervisory teams will give a short 10 minute presentation to address and consider the team’s approach to research supervision and its impact, followed by a 10 minutes Q&A. The winning supervisory team will receive £500 each towards a national or international conference of their choice. The winning team will be announced at 16:00.
Finalists:
| Nominated by | Supervisory Team | Centre |
| Adrianna Marin | Rachel Monaghan, David Curran and David Mcllhatton | Centre for Trust Peace and Social Relations |
| Saud Sattar | Tazdin Amietszajew, Joe Fleming & Rohit Bhagat | C-Alps |
| Eun Lee | Sarkar Kabir, Sailesh Tanna, Aqsa Aziz, Rashedul Hasan | Centre for Financial and Corporate Integrity |
| Ida Suandi Al Shara | Luca Morini and Lynn Clouder | Global Learning |
| Ellen Calteau | Deborah Lycett and Riya Patel | Centre for Intelligent Healthcare |
14.30 – 16.00 Pecha Kucha Session
Hillary Chindodo: Farmer to Cup – Reimagining the Coffee Value Chain
Ulya Fuhaidah: The Salafi Movement in Jambi
Catherine Mazhandu: Collaboration in Food Sustainability
14.30 – 16.00 Intelligent Products & Processes
Constantin-Lucian Radu: Electric Vehicle efficiency improvement by predicting the issues in the design stage
Abiola Babatunde: Working to solve difficult decision problems
Danial Sarwar: Towards a new method for assessing the health of Electric-vehicle batteries based on Non-linear frequency response analysis (NFRA)
Arun Mambazhasseri Divakaran: Applying advanced thermal management and optimisation to E-scooters and E-motorbikes
18.00 – 20.00 PGR Social @ DCAD
It’s time for….PGR Board Games Night!
Food & drinks reception available
End of Day 1
Day 2: Wednesday 27 April 2022
09.15 – 10.00 Registration & Refreshments
AM Parallel Sessions
10.00 – 10.50 Health & Well-being Stream A
Kathleen Hill: Lifetime prevalence of intimate partner violence among a cohort of sexual assault survivors
Laura Wilde: What are the experiences of people with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) using activity monitors?: a qualitative scoping review
10.00 – 10.50 Sustainability & Resilience
Ashem Egila: Oil and gas supply chains sustainability still matters
Stacey Moon-Tracy: Exploring and Sharing the Narratives of Female Intensive Care Nurses and Their Experiences of COVID-19
11.00 – 13.15 PGR of the Year Awards: The Presentations
Coventry University will be awarding one postgraduate researcher the title of ‘Postgraduate Researcher of the Year’. One nominee representing each Research Institute will compete for the title. A panel of judges will mark the nominees presentations. Learn more: PGR of the Year Competition
An announcement of the winner will take place at the afternoon’s poster session & celebration event.
13.15 – 14.00 Lunch
PM Parallel Streams
14.00 – 16.00 Health & Well-being Stream B
Sahar Rahbar: Intelligent bio-signal processing for optical pulses: towards reliable wearable monitoring for daily activity use
Sophie Mowle: To walk or to run? Comparing recreational and walking football for older adults
Elif Oran: A comparative study between one rotor and double rotor versions of a novel axial pump for heart assist
Gabriel Marin Vandenbroucke: Austerity, COVID-19 and the risk of mission drift among grassroots sport clubs in the UK
Mohammed Abdullahi: The “Brain Drain” of Nigerian Doctors to the UK: Causes and Possible Solutions
Samena Rashid: Exploring UK domiciled Pakistani and Bangladeshi student’s experiences of engagement with short term outward international mobility (STOM) (Global Learning)
Diana Rodríguez Cala: The ornamental sector and alien plants’ spread in Southern Africa: what do the environmental specialists say? (Sustainability & Resilience)
15.30 – 16.30 3MT Final: Video Presentation Showing
This is a popular competition held both nationally and internationally between universities. During the competition PGRs talk about their research for 3 minutes only and a winner is selected by a panel of judges.
An announcement of the winner will take place at the afternoon’s poster session & celebration event.
16.30 – 19.00 Official Poster Session & Celebration Event (Announcement of PGR of the Year & 3MT Winners)
Join us for the official poster session of DCAD22. Learn more about the wide ranging research that is being conducted by Coventry University’s postgraduate researchers’ and get the opportunity to discuss this with them.
Food & drinks reception available
End of Day 2