Research Student Conference
Research Student Conference
Saturday 8th May 2010Cotswold Suite, Edward Elgar Building
Programme
9:15-9:30 Arrival - Tea & Coffee
9:30-10:00 Caryn Thorogood, ‘Accidental researcher: exploring a personal journey into academia’
10:00-10:30 Colin Akhurst, ‘Organisational Development in Family Businesses: Religious and Cultural Influences’
10:30-11:00 Jenni-Louise Johnson, ‘Effect of canter velocity on equine hindlimb pro- and retraction kinematics’
11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-12:00 Kate Flynn, ‘Fat and the land: size stereotyping in Pixar’s Up’
12:00-12:30 Frauke Jung, ‘“Drawing an imaginary line”: Scottish boundaries in Daniel Defoe’s Caledonia and A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain’
12:30-1:45 Lunch
1:45-2:15 Erin Peters, ‘The construction and transmission of cultural memories in early Restoration ballads, specifically focussing on “The Battle of Worcester”’
2:15-2:45 Paul Hazell, ‘Properties, functions and value complexes: early work in exploring critical factors in the emergence of iconic technical artefacts’
3:00-3:15 Tea
3:15-3:45 Clare Perkins, ‘The Husbandry of Technology: An ethnographic approach to ‘radical’ engagements with a changing global context by UK farm families’
3:45-4:15 Christopher Leck, ‘Measuring the psychosocial value of care farming’
