Interdisciplinary Research Talks
On Day 1 of the Festival of Doctoral Research, we invited speakers to give crafted short talks on interdisciplinary research. Here, you can seek a deeper understanding of how to conduct interdisciplinary research to address complex social and global challenges, as well as a deeper connection with other researchers and research at Warwick!
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Our Speakers
Bringing an interdisciplinary lens to police research
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Dr Rachel Lewis is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Law. Her PhD was co-supervised in Applied Linguistics and Sociology, and her research engages with issues around bordering, policing, and punitivity in the UK. She is currently researching the potentials afforded by arts and culture for effecting change in police practice.
Lack of improvement in preterm birth outcomes: could interdisciplinarity break the impasse?
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Dr. Sabrina Twilhaar is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow in the Department of Psychology. Her research focuses on the impact of preterm birth on children’s development, individual differences, and the role of social factors. Her current MSCA-project at Warwick and the OECD aims to identify factors that promote resilience that can be used as targets for interventions.
Branches from the same tree: educational approaches in academic disciplines and beyond
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Bing Lu is an Early-Career Fellow in IAS at University of Warwick. Bing’s doctoral research investigates how academics who have returned from overseas doctoral study conduct doctoral supervision in their home countries. Bing is generally interested in the transnational flows of academics, doctoral supervision, and post structuralist exploration of research data authenticity.
Emmanuel Effiong Johnson is a Nigerian researcher, filmmaker and poet. His background is Media and Communications and he is committed to research that borders on the theme of personal experience. His other areas of focus include identity, belonging, film, education, faith/religion and everyday life. The most significant and reoccurring focus of Emmanuel's work is the exploration of personal (lived) experience, and how people are affected or/and transformed by events, situations and experiences.
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Interdisciplinary thinking and skills are increasingly moving into the core of sustainability research addressing the increasing complexity of human-nature relationships in a volatile and continuously changing world. Global sustainability challenges are inherently multifaceted and profoundly complex and require solutions that transcends traditional disciplinary silos and combine the knowledge, skillset and expertise from a variety of scientific backgrounds. In this context, although interdisciplinary collaboration is fundamental for tackling the current and future sustainability challenges, it is not always easy to implement as it requires continuous negotiation, management of nested scientific interests and a shared vision for a sustainable and resilient world.
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Vangelis Pitidis is an Assistant Professor of Global Sustainable Development at IGSD, focusing on the intersection of urban resilience, governance and citizen science both in the Global North and in the Global South. His research is focused on urban resilience and its potential to transform the traditional pathways of urban governance delivery as well as in developing participatory methods for engaging local communities in disaster risk management, based on dialogical co-production methods. Vangelis is an interdisciplinary urban scholar currently involved in a number of research projects that cut across a range of disciplinary fields and methodologies, including spatial planning, urban resilience, sustainable development, sustainability transformations, climate change, community planning, participatory mapping, and co-production of geospatial data in disaster risk management.
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Shweta Singh is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Management at the Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. Furthermore, she is a Behavioral Data Science researcher at The Alan Turing Institute, London, United Kingdom.Her primary research interest lies in Artificial Intelligence(AI), Societal Injustice, Behavioral Data Science and exploring value creation through Information Technology. Her AI research involves designing next generation AI, which includes mitigating AI bias, designing Explainable AI (XAI), responsible AI and fighting Societal Injustice through AI. Her research has appeared in Information Systems Research, International Conference on Information Systems, Statistical Challenges in E-Commerce Research and Workshop on Information Systems and Economics.
Tackling the space debris problem: transcending disciplinary boundaries
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Space debris is a truly global problem. What’s more, with tens of thousands of satellites licenced to launch in the coming decade, it is a problem that looks set to worsen. How do we tackle it? One thing is for sure: no one nation, sector or discipline can solve it alone. This talk will highlight the importance of interdisciplinarity and collaboration in space debris research, drawing from our experiences in establishing and managing the Warwick Centre for Space Domain Awareness and the Global Network on Sustainability in Space.
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Dr James Blake (he/him) is a research fellow in Warwick’s Astronomy and Astrophysics Group. His research focuses on the problem of space debris. He is a founding member of Warwick’s Centre for Space Domain Awareness and an Advisory Board member for the Global Network on Sustainability in Space.
Making Sense of Academic Conferences
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This session unpacks the mysterious world of academic conferences, based on a recently published book, Making Sense of Academic Conferences: Presenting, Participating and Organising (Routledge, 2023) by Dr James Burford and Dr Emily F. Henderson (Department of Education Studies). James and Emily are higher education researchers, and they co-edit the academic blog Conference Inference as well as research and write about conferences. The session will include insights on and critical dimensions of participating in conferences, presenting at conferences, organising conferences, and important directions of thought for the future of conferencing. After the presentation, there will be structured discussion around key topics of conferencing, followed by an open Q&A session with the audience.
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Dr James Burford is an Associate Professor of Global Education and International Development at the University of Warwick. His research interests include doctoral education and the academic profession. James is co-editor of the journal Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education. He tweets as @jiaburford
Dr Emily F. Henderson is a Reader in Gender and International Higher Education and Co-Director of Post-Graduate Research Degree Programmes in the Department of Education Studies at the University of Warwick. She specialises in researching doctoral education and the academic profession. She tweets as @EmilyFrascatore