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Keynote speaker: Dr John Troyer

Grad School Nirvana: Everything No One Tells You about
Academia before You Graduate
While finishing my Ph.D. at the
University of Minnesota, my Ph.D.
Supervisor (Professor John Archer)
told me that many academics
remember Graduate School as the
best of times. I told him that I
thought he was crazy. Now, I
completely understand what he
meant. My talk will open up a
series of points on pursuing
research that I think all Ph.D.
students should think about when
entering the academic job market
and universe.
Bio Note: Dr John Troyer is the Deputy Director of the Centre for Death and Society
at the University of Bath.
His interdisciplinary research focuses on contemporary memorialization practices,
concepts of spatial historiography, and the dead bodys relationship with technology.
Dr. Troyer is also a theatre director and installation artist with extensive experience in
site-specific performance across the United States and Europe.
He is a co-founder of the Death Reference Desk website
(http://www.deathreferencedesk.org), the Future Cemetery Project
(http://www.futurecemetery.com) and a frequent commentator for the BBC. His
forthcoming book, Technologies of the Human Corpse (published by the University of
North Carolina Press), will appear in 2015.

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Timetable Thursday 25th June

Registration(& coffee)
9:00 - 9:45
4E Level 3 Foyer
Welcome Address
by Professor Stephen Gough
9:45 -10:55
Associate Dean (Graduate Studies)

in the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Keynote: Dr John Troyer

4E 3.10
Understanding Pain and
Relationships
11:00-12:25
Session 1
Chair: Anna Csernus

Discussant: Dr Joe Walsh
4E 3.38
P8
New Technologies,
New Worlds
Chair: Gus Bosehans
Discussant: Dr Nina Parish
4E 3.10
P10
S. Wang
R. Edwards
H. Heath
K. Bozukova
E.A. Skoulikari
Lunch
12:30-13:25
4E Level 3
Education
in a Changing World
13:3016:15
Session 2
Chair: Faisal Al Saidi

Discussant:
Dr Harry Kuchah Kuchah
4E 3.38
P11
A. Lewis
E. Polymenakou
Imagining Communities
Chair: Andrea Delgado
Discussant: Dr Sam Carr
4E 3.10
P15
I. Costas Batlle
N. Stutter
G. Bosehans

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Break
15:00 15:15
E. Stevens
P. Lazetic
C. Smith
N. N. Tarun Chakravorty
16:15-16:45
Break
16:45-17:45
Workshop
(Public Engagement with
Dr Helen Featherstone and Ed Stevens)
Session 3
4E 3.10
Drinks & dinner

*(The venue will be confirmed upon booking)
19:30
*Dinner costs 5 per person.

Stay after dinner for an entertaining Pub Quiz and win a prize!

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Timetable Friday 26th June

Registration and Coffee
9:309:55
4E Level 3 Foyer
Contemporary Challenges
in International
Cooperation
Voices of Youth
10:00-12:00
Chair: Ioannis Costas

Discussant:
Dr Aurlien Mondon
Chair: Jaime Kim

Discussant: Dr Brett Edwards
Session 4
4E 3.38
P19
F. Sutto
B. Bowman
A. Gearon
12:00-12:55
4E 3.10
P22
S. Sauerteig
T. Chika-James
M. Romano
M. Cacciatori
Lunch
4E Level 3
Discourse and Society
13:0014:55
Session 5
15:00-15:15
Chair: Milena Romano

Discussant: Dr David Moon
4E 3.10
J. Jackman
L. David Evans
N. Chi Hang Li
N. Shaftelskaya
P25
Break

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15:15-16:15
Session 6
Workshop
(Careers with Dr Anne Cameron)
4E 3.10
IGNITE
Drinks & snacks
4E 3.10
16:15-17:15
F. Al Saidi
A. Delgado
A. Csernus
L. Cahill
*drinks & snacks to begin at 16:45

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Understanding Pain and Relationships

Spatial frequency information in identification of pain expressions as a
function of exposure time
Shan Wang, University of Bath
Being able to detect pain from facial expressions is critical for pain
communication. Alongside identifying the specific facial codes for pain, there
are other types of more basic perceptual features. For example, early stage of
visual analysis consists of the extraction of visual elementary features at
different spatial frequencies (SF). Low spatial frequencies (LSFs) convey
coarse elements, and high spatial frequencies (HSFs) convey fine-details. In
clear and intact representations (conveyed by broad spatial frequencies, BSF),
both LSFs and HSFs are available. Pain expressions could be identified in
challenging visual conditions, with limited SF information, and the LSFs play a
more prominent role in terms of identification accuracy. A series of studies,
including a fast identification study and a series of hybrid studies, were
conducted to further investigate the role of SFs in identification of pain facial
expressions as a function of exposure time. We found the LSF information
functions to form up a rapid (exposure of 33 msec) and salient impression of
expressions of pain, which provides the basis for pain face decoding that is
progressively refined when the HSF information is integrated, which requires
more time (up to 150 msec) to be adequately extracted and perceived.
Do interpersonal relationships impact on the reporting of pain?

Rhiannon Edwards, University of Bath
Pain is a subjective experience, therefore, it is important that pain is
communicated accurately. Research suggests that the relationship between
individuals experiencing pain and observers can impact on how pain is
communicated. The current studies investigated whether the precise nature
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of the dyadic relationship is important when reporting pain. Study 1 recruited

48 dyads; 24 friends, 24 strangers. Study 2 also recruited 48 dyads; 24 samesex friends, 24 opposite-sex friends. In all dyads, one participant completed
the pain induction task, one participant observed. Participants who
completed the pain induction task verbally reported their pain threshold and
tolerance on the cold pressor task. Both studies concluded males reported
less pain than females. Additionally, the presence of an observer can increase
pain threshold and tolerance. In study 1, pain tolerance increased more in the
friends condition than in the strangers condition. Study 2 revealed the
biggest increase in pain tolerance was when the dyad was a same-sex male
friendship. Our results support previous literature on sex differences in pain,
and indicate that social relationships play a role in how pain is reported.
Future research should examine why the dyadic relationship and sex of the
observer matters when reporting pain.
Developing a support tool for the friends of those who self-harm

Hannah Heath, University of Bath
It has been well established that young people who self-harm seek support
from their friends (Evans, Hawton & Rodham, 2005), and friend self-harm is
the biggest short- and long-term predictor of own self-harm (Hasking,
Andrews & Martin, 2013). Yet, research has largely ignored the experiences of
the friends, and as such the support tools designed for them are
predominantly focussed on giving advice for supporting the person who selfharms. In this presentation I will discuss my findings from a series of focus
groups with the friends of young people who self-harm, and support
providers. A support tool aimed at providing support and guidance for the
friends was developed from these focus groups. The support tool has sections
on, what self-harm is, how to support the self-harming friend, what the
friends might be experiencing, and what the friends can do to support
themselves. This support tool has implications for how young people who
have a friend who self-harms can be better supported and need to be
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considered as a vulnerable population, and something other than

gatekeepers to those that self-harm (Klingman & Hochdorf, 1993, p. 123).
New Technologies, New Worlds

Vlogging for a living - the rise of the personality economy
Katya Bozukova, University of Bath
According to various news outlets, vlogging is the new employment goldmine.
The success of Internet stars like Zoella, Tanya Burr, and Fleur de Force, who
launch their own books and beauty lines, might lead one to think that we can
all make a living off being ourselves online. In an economy where graduate
unemployment is high, turning your blog or YouTuBe channel into your fulltime job is very tempting. Departing from the notion of the knowledge
economy, I argue that we are seeing the development of a new sub-segment:
where branding comes from ones online persona, and the draw is the idea
that youre getting recommendations from your best friend; a personality
economy is on the rise. I also explore some of the questions associated with
it: Can anyone become a YouTuBe celebrity, or does it take more than a
webcam and access to the Internet? What is the price tag put on personality,
and, more importantly, what kinds of tax do you pay? Is this a sustainable
model? And, most importantly, how do you define privacy when living your
life in public is your profession?
The use of Novel Technologies in Educational Assessment at Primary

Schools
Eleni Anna Skoulikari, University of Bath
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Assessment is one of the most important aspects of an educational system, as

it offers information of learning, guides the progress and performance of
students and illustrates understanding of the curriculum. However, research
suggests that current practices of assessment dont link to the requirements
of todays students. Assessment should be updated in order to be able to
illustrate what students have learned in similar ways to how this knowledge
was acquired. It is also a fact that traditional methods of assessment, such as
tests and oral exams, provoke students stress and emotional upsets that
influence their performance and thus, the result, which most of the times is a
grade or a general classification of their abilities. Following the abovementioned statements, this research focuses on how novel technologies
could be exploitable in educational assessment at the level of Primary Schools
in order students instead of taking a typical handwritten paper-based exam,
which requires memorization skills, could test and actually apply their
knowledge in a real context situation using a digital device, like a tablet or a
mobile phone. More specifically, the first study explores the perceptions and
experiences of students and teachers regarding the interplay between
technology and assessment as it is formed nowadays.
Education in a Changing World

Well-being in the curriculum: is it caught or taught?
Alyson Lewis, Cardiff University
In 2008, well-being explicitly appeared for the first time in the curriculum
placing a different expectation on practitioners working with 3 to 7 year olds
in Wales. This study examines the perceptions and practices of well-being in
the curriculum with teachers and teaching assistants. Well-being is a complex
concept, the discourse confusing and there is limited consensus across the
disciplines. Applying well-being in a classroom context is under-researched.
The study draws upon the work of Bernstein and the concept of two
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curriculum types. This is an exploratory qualitative study where focus group

discussions and practitioner interviews took place. 342 hours of observations
also took place in two different schools. Findings indicate that the perception
of well-being has not necessarily changed since the new curriculum in 2008.
Practitioners think that well-being is unnaturally placed as an Area of
Learning. It is more commonly viewed as something caught not taught. Wellbeing is not (yet) conceptually embedded as something that practitioners
should timetable, teach and be accountable for despite this being the
intention of the Welsh Government. The study attempts to provide clarity in
delivering well-being. Developing also an educational well-being discourse
and calling for more collaboration between stakeholders.
Intercultural Competence and Foreign Language learning as

Internationalisation at Home pedagogical strategies at the Greek University
Eva Polymenakou, University of Bath
In an era of rapid change and globalisation, universities have been
increasingly incorporating Internationalisation aims in their strategic plans.
Among other desired learning outcomes of internationalisation initiatives are
students development of intercultural competence and foreign language
communication skills. These can be vital for the preparation of tomorrows
global citizens on a personal and professional level within and across
boundaries of diverse communities in a changing world. Study abroad has
been shown to yield linguistic and intercultural competence gains, but the
numbers of students involved are not large. This is where Internationalisation
at Home (IaH) comes in as a potentially more accessible pedagogical
philosophy that could reach all Higher Education students at home. The
presentation will involve a discussion of the research that has been
conducted in this field to date and the rationale, objectives and methodology
of my current PhD research project. My study will seek to explore
intercultural and foreign language learning opportunities at the Greek
University and will examine the possibility that they may constitute aspects of
an IaH pedagogy. The focus will be on students perceptions of those
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educational experiences and the interrelationship of identity, language and

culture. The research approach will be predominantly qualitative, possibly
ethnographic.
How will impact affect you?
Ed Stevens, University of Bath
This research explores the influence of the research impact agenda in higher
education on the academic identity of social science researchers. The
research impact agenda in the United Kingdoms (UK) higher education sector
has, through structures such as the Research Excellence Framework (REF) and
the pathways to impact section of Research Councils funding proformas,
become a feature of the academic contract (Watermeyer, 2014(a): 359). The
agenda is marked by a blurring of the boundaries between knowledge held in
the academy and that in wider society. There is (contentious) recognition of
the importance of different forms of knowledge both professional and lay
as they inform the policy process (Gaventa & Cornwall, 2008: 183). Such
recognition intimates a social contract between the academy and society
(Martin, 2012: 543). But what impacts might this social contract have on the
academic identity of researchers particularly, of early career researchers? For
example: How might it affect notions of intellectual freedom, about how
researchers think of themselves? How well-positioned are researchers from
varied academic disciplines to engage with the impact agenda? Does impact
rhetoric disadvantage early career researchers in relation to senior? These
broad issues will be discussed before strategies addressing them are
advanced.
Higher education graduates and quality of their jobs in Europe

Predrag Lazetic, University of Bath
The proposed paper analyses the problem of job quality within growing highly
educated labour force in Europe based on the REFLEX and HEGESCO graduate
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survey data. The paper proposes the taxonomy of graduate job types five
years after graduation and analyses the distribution of job types in different
European countries and their employment regimes. This research
understands job quality as a multidimensional concept and a combination of
job characteristics (wage, type of contract, skill requirement and utilisation,
reported level of autonomy in work, reported level of job security, work
effort etc.) Job quality can be defined as the extent to which a job has work
and employment-related factors that foster beneficial outcomes for the
employee, particularly psychological well-being, physical well-being and
positive attitudes such as job satisfaction (Green, 2006; Warr, 1990.
Operationalised in the terms of good and less good graduate jobs this means
that a good graduate job represents a job in which objectively good job
features produce high job satisfaction. Further analysis is aimed at
understanding the quality of the jobs that graduates are undertaking in
growing knowledge intensive sectors in these countries. Quantitative trend
analysis based on occupational categories alone might be misleading, as to
the quality of the work graduates are undertaking if they are allocated to
occupational categories where there has been a fundamental change in the
nature of work (Holmes et al, 2012).
Imagining Communities
Youths in poverty, social justice, and the dark side of charities
Ioannis Costas Batlle, University of Bath
UK charities are often perceived as wholesome organisations because their
remit is to offer a public benefit. Despite a veneer of purity and altruism,
there is a dark side to charities that rarely surfaces and is often kept out of
the public eye. In this talk, I will recount my experience of working with a UK
sports charity that supports disadvantaged youths from impoverished
backgrounds. Based on autoethnographic research, these experiences will
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take the form of a narrative where I will intertwine observations with

personal insights. The data in my story will serve to illustrate how the reality
charities contend with is far more complex, regulated, and fast paced than
what we might otherwise think. The implications of my findings and
experiences add another layer to the ongoing conversations about social
justice and young people: to what extent can charities actually achieve social
justice for both youths in poverty and their communities?
Exploring the social life of street food in Hanoi, Vietnam

Natalia Stutter, Cardiff University
The overwhelmingly visual, olfactory and auditory nature of the street food
environment invokes an imagery of streets lined with stalls, vendors pushing
carts and people sitting around chatting and eating. Street food usually exists
because of a high demand for tasty, affordable and accessible food; it also
offers valuable employment opportunities for those with little formal
education or skills. However, to date there has been relatively little research
conducted on the phenomena from a social perspective. Focusing on the
practice of street food vending in the city of Hanoi, Vietnam, this research
builds upon the current work conducted on street food and street vending. In
light of the rapid urbanisation taking place in and around Hanoi, the aim of
the research is to explore whether street food is indicative of a socially
sustainable environment within society.
Eight key themes of social sustainability, identified in the literature, were
used to develop a mixed methods research design which consisted of two
surveys, semi-structured interviews with key-stakeholders and observations.
This paper provides an overview of this doctoral research, it illustrates some
of the findings and identifies which themes of social sustainability are most
pertinent to the selling and consuming of street food.
From True Captives to Aspiring Environmentalists: Can overarching

types of travellers be distinguished across modes?
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Gustav Bosehans, University of Bath

When people engage in the same behaviour, such as driving, this does not
automatically mean that they share the same attitudes or values.
Consequently, travel behaviour market segmentations have become a
popular method of identifying different types of car users, cyclists or public
transport users. However, so far, an integration of the accumulated evidence
has been lacking. Furthermore, while research has looked at different types
of users within single modes, such as the car, little research has explored the
existence of traveller types transcending modes. The present study is, to the
authors knowledge, a first attempt at the integration of some of the most
prominent segmentation research to date. In addition, an independent
segmentation study using a combination of hierarchical and iterative
partitioning methods was performed within the scope of a bi-annual
University Travel Survey at the University of Bath. The findings suggested the
presence of several, fairly distinct, traveller types. Arguably, there is no right
or wrong answer in terms of the number of traveller segments. However, the
extracted groupings showed some strong overlap with existing segmentation
research. Future research efforts should focus on the further consolidation of
the current findings and test their applicability in real-world applied settings.
Psychological factors influencing the development of community-economic

initiatives
Carmen Smith, University of Bath
Environmental challenges remain unresolved and the interconnected nature
of these with other economic, geopolitical and social risks is highlighted
(World Economic Forum, 2014). The emergence of more localised solutions is
pushed by the potential failure of a global monetary reform policies and
climate change frameworks. As such, this study investigates paths to
developing sustainable and resilient livelihoods at a local level. Selected
community-economic initiatives are an Ecovillage, Time Bank and Local
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Exchange Trading Scheme. These unique and recently emerging communityeconomic models are a novel subject for research in this interdisciplinary
field. They are an evolving social experiment in sustainability, representing
new ways of working together towards the vision of a sustainable world. The
contribution of this research is to further understand the psychology of group
membership as well as documenting the evolution of the chosen initiatives as
dynamic social systems. This paper demonstrates how group experiences
coalesce into group cultures and larger social movements i.e. how these
evolving patterns relate to social change at the grassroots.
Impact of Immigration on Output, Employment and Wages In the United

Kingdom
N N TARUN CHAKRAVORTY, University of Bath
Following the current debate on the impact of immigration in the UK
economy a strong motivation was felt to carry out a new study using the most
recent data when inflows of immigration have increased significantly in
recent years. The general wisdom builds our hypothesis that immigrants exert
beneficial effects for natives; motivation for conducting this study, therefore,
also includes a desire to influence the policy making of the British
government so that workers, students and graduates from densely populated
developing countries may enter this country easily. From the wide study of
existing literature on this issue, it has been learned that impact of
immigration on the labour market outcomes depend on many factors such as
average ages of locals and immigrants, size of the skill-group population,
types of skills of immigrants, complementarity and substitutability between
the immigrants and residents, flexibilities of labour market and output
market, elasticity of the supply of labour, entrepreneurship and amount of
capital brought in by immigrants, inter-regional migration and so on. The
effects of immigration on the UK economy have been examined in various
ways and the variables on which this impact has been investigated are GDP,
growth, wage and unemployment. Firstly, a time-series analysis applying OLS
technique shows immigrants to be contributing to increasing GDP, reducing
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unemployment and increasing wages. The study has conducted unit root tests
and found immigration share nonstationary at levels but stationary at first
difference, applied ARDL approach and found these variables not
cointegrated but the long run coefficient indicates a positive impact of
immigration on GDP, the short run coefficient shows an adjustment rate of
12% per annum. Granger non-causality test rules out any role of economic
growth of UK in immigrants decisions to migrate here but confirms
immigrants role in causing growth of this country. In VAR model impulse
response function was used to examine the extent of response created by the
shock occurring to the variables mentioned earlier on one another. A shock in
GDP is seen to have negligible impulse response on immigration share, and a
shock in immigration share is also seen to have a very small impulse response
on GDP, unemployment and wage. Finally, a panel data model is used to
investigate the effects of immigration share on unemployment and wages on
twelve regions over 2002-2006 time period putting some control variables
namely average age of immigrants, skill-group populations, outflows and four
time dummies capturing the region-specific effects and year effects. In this
technique wage increases due to immigration share according to OLS and
Between Effect (BE) estimators but decreases according to Fixed Effect (FE)
and Random Effect (RE) estimators. Unemployment rate decreases according
to FE and RE estimators but increases according to OLS and BE estimators. In
brief, it can be said that the positive impact of immigration on wages and
employment has been predominant although all estimators have not
supported this view. Impact on GDP has been clearly positive all through.
Therefore, in end, overall impact of immigration on UK appears to be positive.
Voices of Youth
Sarah Crossan's The weight of water - The representation of Eastern
European immigrants
Fanni Suto, University of Roehampton
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In my presentation, I would like to discuss Sarah Crossan's The weight of

water which is a Carnegie shortlisted novel about the immigrant experience
and bullying. The protagonist, Kasienka is a Polish girl who arrives to London
with her mother in a desperate quest after her father. The book touches upon
the question of Eastern European immigrants who, although appearing quite
frequently on the covers of newspapers, are not very well represented in
books aimed at children. In my paper, I am looking at the ways how Crossan's
free verse novel brings the immigrant experience closer to the reader, thus
helping empathy and understanding. She achieves her aim by using the
emotive effects of poetry to her advantage and brings in topics such as being
an outcast and the target of bullying. These themes make the story accessible
even for those who are not immigrants themselves. In context, the novel can
show us how works of children literature can facilitate understanding and the
forming of a more tolerant generation.
The Bus to Nowhere? Young politics in the UK

Ben Bowman, University of Bath
What's the point in voting? We often hear that young people don't vote,
don't engage and don't care. Yet, young people in the UK navigate risky
transitions to adulthood amid continuing economic and democratic
marginalization. We need to welcome young people into democracy as
citizens. On the other hand, elections and representative democracy are
coming across to all ages as a bus to nowhere. Young people know about the
systems available, how to vote, and are assailed on all sides by
advertisements calling them to the ballot box. Yet we have done a poor job of
making young votes equal youthcentred policy and we have given young
people little voice in the political process. The interstitial and liminal spaces of
youth provide opportunities for crafting political subjectivities, and
participating in politics through a toolbox of methods from formal
institutional to more informal, everyday ways of doing politics. If we want to
keep elections in the toolbox of politics, this paper discusses ways to remedy
the disconnection between political institutions and young citizens.
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Standing on one foot: creative steps in research engagement

Alinka Gearon , University of Bath
Deciding to undertake 'child trafficking' research with young people directly
affected by trafficking brought a number of challenges in the research
process. Not least was the difficulty in this kind of research not having been
done before, requiring my research to be flexible and exploratory in what
might work with this group of young people. Reflections on fieldwork &
qualitative methods in accessing and engaging young people are shared,
focusing on creative arts-based methods and improvised dance. The use of
improvised dance is reflected upon as a specific method that built trust in the
research relationship, strengthened social bonding between young people
and facilitated research engagement in a very difficult and sensitive subject
area.
Contemporary Challenges in International

Cooperation
The Road not Taken: Improving International Commitment towards the
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime
Sascha Sauerteig, University of Bath
The nuclear non-proliferation regime (NNPR) aims at preventing the
horizontal proliferation of nuclear weapons, furthering nuclear disarmament,
and supporting the peaceful use of nuclear energy. Compliance with the
regime is manifested through three different systems that built upon one
another: The commitment system (refers to what states commit (not) to do in
order to counter the horizontal and vertical proliferation of nuclear
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weapons), the verification system (the monitoring and verification of

commitments), and the enforcement system (the institutionalized attempt to
alter and punish the misbehavior of a member state). Focusing on the
commitment system, the paper addresses the question of how the
international commitment towards the nuclear non-proliferation regime can
be improved. The work proceeds in three steps: 1. It defines the role of the
commitment system within the NNPR. 2. It determines the effectiveness of
the system following the Oslo-Potsdam solution to measuring regime
effectiveness. 3. It discusses different scenarios for improving the
commitment system. It will be argued that nuclear weapon states and states
outside the Non-Proliferation Treaty are a particular challenge to the regime.
The paper concludes that an approach of institutional layering is the most
promising approach to improving the commitment towards the NNPR
The context and implications of ethnic-organisation relationship on

organisational culture management: A case study of a Nigerian oil and gas
company.
Theresa Chika-James, Cardiff University
Practitioners have been engaged in on-going discussions and practical
initiatives towards organisational culture management. This is in spite of the
range of complexities that academics have identified as relating to efforts
towards culture management and aspects of total control attributed to the
process. Previous studies, indicating these complexities have focused on
internal and external influence in the process, leading to culture changestability outcomes. This paper, as part of a doctoral study, extends the
dynamism of culture management with a focus on the context of internalexternal relationship. It applies a stakeholder theory to explore aspects of
power, legitimacy, urgency and proximity in the relationship. It further
examines the implications of stakeholder attributes on organisational culture
management. Using a case study approach, it analyses the overlooked
research context of African organisations, exploring the relationship context
between a Nigerian oil and gas company (currently undergoing a culture
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management process) and ethnic stakeholder communities in the Niger Delta

region. It concludes with a discussion of the preliminary findings on
relationship context, and its implications towards organisational culture
management.
The EU As a Crisis Manager: A Comparison Between Georgia and Ukraine

Milena Romano, University of Bath
Over the past two decades, the European Union has considerably extended
the focus on external policies in terms of its geographical presence and aim of
activities. As a global actor, the EU faces complex and uncertain security
issues and, consequently, a high demand to become more coherent and
effective in terms of strategic approaches. As highlighted in the EU Security
Strategy, the EU has come a long way improving the use of the appropriate
instruments. The purpose of this paper is to offer an analysis of the EU's
growing credibility as a crisis manager in conflict situations. In order to prove
this point, a discussion about the dynamics of EU interventions will be
conducted together with an analysis of different factors interacting in a crisis
context. In particular, the cases of Georgia and Ukraine will be the main
objective of investigation. In fact, these case studies underline strengths and
weaknesses of the EU, focusing on the capacity to respond to potential
shocks and to activate early warning systems. On the basis of this study, a
final overview will clarify how a more coherent European engagement could
develop essential capabilities to deal with new challenges and effectively
impact on conflict scenarios, via a comprehensive approach under the
direction of the European External Action Service.
Russia and China: the 'reluctant covenants' of the international society

Mattia Cacciatori, University of Bath
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The very definition of 'great power' holds a normative connotation. States

that have the ability to influence the course of international events, i.e. great
powers, have 'additional' responsibilities towards the international society,
such as the promotion of shared norms of human rights. This paper aims at
understanding if Russia and China have been fulfilling their additional
responsibilities in the past five years, with a specific focus on the situations in
Libya (2011) and Syria (2013). In order to prove this, an English School's
Solidarist framework will be applied to the case studies, explicitly pointing at
understanding whether the decision by the two states to veto the UN
resolution to refer the Assad regime to the International Criminal Court (ICC)
can be considered as legal, legitimate, and responsible. Furthermore, the
analysis will question the validity of pluralists' claim that prioritizing order
over justice in the international society equals to protecting the 'common
good' for the international community. On the basis of this study, a review of
the conventional views on the 'Responsibility to Protect' norm will
demonstrate that a widespread consensus on what constitutes justice already
exists, especially in relation to human rights in the international society.
Discourse and Society

Silencing in practice: the case of Elie Wiesel on Gaza
Jane Jackman, University of Exeter
During Israel's latest incursion into Gaza, the Guardian newspaper outraged
many readers by publishing a full-page letter written by famed Holocaust
survivor and Nobel Peace Laureate Elie Wiesel, condemning the use by Hamas
of children as human shields. Sponsored by an organisation whose mission it
is to defend Israel, the letter tackles the issue most damaging to Israel
internationally - the killing and maiming of children. Taking Wiesel's letter as
a case study, this paper examines a use of language that manipulates
perceptions and distorts narratives as a means of disarming critics of Israeli
policy - in other words, of silencing them. Silencing as discussed here is not
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about the erasure of language to create an expressionless void (Thiesmeyer,

2003). Rather, it refers to dynamic, socially constructed practices aimed at
replacing unwanted discourses with others more advantageous to a particular
cause. Wiesel arguably does this in both his choice of words and his dubious
conflation of fact and fiction. This paper attempts to separate one from the
other and, as a demonstration of how silencing works, highlights the chief
discourses apologists typically use to remedy Israel's deteriorating image over
its policies towards the Palestinians.
A Critical Analysis of How Global Dominance Passed from East to West

Lee David Evans, University of Sheffield
This proposal is for a piece of research that is currently ongoing. Below is a
summary of the research focus, with the conclusions to follow. "Recent
decades have witnessed a significant assault on the idea that globalisation
was both shaped by and driven by the West. Indeed, a critical view has
emerged which identifies the East as the dominant hemisphere until the 19th
Century, shaping the earlier phases of globalisation before latterly receding
behind the West. However, critical scholars have yet to adequately explain
why the East was superseded by the West, a task hitherto largely left to
orthodox scholars who sideline Eastern dominance altogether. This paper
seeks to explain the switch in dominance from East to West from a critical
perspective: as a process not just of Western emergence, but Western
emergence in the context of Eastern quasihegemony."
Ideological Transformation of Population Policy in the early PRC

Neville Chi Hang Li, University of Bath
The Peoples Republic of China (PRC), with over 1.3 billion population, is the
largest of any country in the world. Although the one-party state is wellknown for its strict and coercive one-child policy, the manner of the Chinese
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Communist Party (CCP) handling its population was completely opposite in its
early years of rule. Party officials like Mao put faith in Marxist ideology and
rejected Malthusian bourgeoisies idea of population control. Nonetheless,
the communist leaders found it problematic in adopting Marxism, a western
ideology developed in industrialized countries, off-self to an Asian agricultural
society, leading to arrays of population-related problems such as the Great
Famine (Leap Forward). The PRC strived to open up a path to legitimize
birth control without contradicting Marxism. With its massive propaganda,
the CCP took personal birth decision upward to a collective level of state
planning, convincing the Chinese that they have to control their reproduction
for the development of the socialist state. The idea of family limitation indeed
disproved by traditional customs and this paper attempts to examine how the
authoritarian government manufacture a revolution in personal values of
reproduction by its propaganda campaign, which laid a good foundation for
the implementation of later one-child policy.
Euphemisms and their influence on the Russian Language

Natalia Shaftelskaya, University of Bath
It is a well known fact that languages and politics are inter-related and cannot
exist separately without affecting each other. All the processes which take
place in language are reflected in politics, its institutions and political
developments. It is language that evokes most of the political realities people
experience. The challenge is to learn how language and gestures are
systematically transformed into complex cognitive structures. (Murray
Edelman Political Language page 3). Language is a fundamental part of
politics and ideologies. W. Bergsdorf in his work Politik und Sprache wrote
that a language is politics and politics is a language as power cannot rest only
on physical and economic powers but also needs the ruling classes to be
coordinated. So power used by politicians and its impact depend a lot on the
language they use and how professionally they do it because a language is a
means of power and also its instrument. A conclusion can be made that the
language acquires power only when it is used by people who have this power
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because the language on its own doesnt have any power. Like religion,
politics both arouses and assuages anxiety, though people typically think of
government as a rational device for achieving their wants and see their own
political opinions and actions as the epitome of reasoned behaviour.
Governments shape many public beliefs and demands before they respond to
the peoples will (Murray Edelman Political Language page 4). That is why
the functions of the political language are rather controversial as on the one
hand it is the language of authority and power which is used to gain definite
aims, on the other hand it should be understandable and intelligible
according to the aims of the political propaganda. The collapse of the Soviet
Union led not only to the foundation of 15 independent states on the
territory of Europe and Asia but also to the end of totalitarian ideology,
censorship and limited freedom. It resulted in the establishment of absolutely
new political, economic and administrative systems and in its turn had an
impact on the vocabulary of the Russian language. The Soviet vocabulary was
characterized by a unified and ideological evaluation, which was imposed on
everybody (Ryazanova-Clark, Wade 1999, p.91). The transition from the
planned to a free market economy and a new political system encouraged the
appearance of the lexis borrowed from the English language or a
reinterpretation of the lexical meanings of existing words and their
application to Russian reality (Ryazanova-Clark, Wade 1999, p.99) as there
were not appropriate equivalents in Russian.
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Ignite
Faisal Al Saidi:
Complexity Theory in Language: Through the Looking Glass
Andrea Delgado
What lies behind the Arms Trade Treaty?
Anna Csernus
An investigation into in-service EFL teachers selection and use of grammar
teaching techniques: A belief perspective
Luke Cahill:
How many divisions? Influence of the Holy See on US foreign policy and US
Catholics, 1990-2003
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Map
Conference venue 4E and bus stop marked in green
Library & security desk in light blue building marked number 1
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Programme summary
(full programme page 4 - 7)
All rooms in 4E unless otherwise stated

Thursday 25th June
9:00
9:45
11:00
Registration &
coffee
Welcome&Keynote:
Prof. Steve Gough
Dr. John Troyer
9:30
Registration &
coffee
10:00
Parallel Session 4
4E 3.10
Understanding Pain
and Relationships
4E 3.38
New Technologies,
New Worlds
4E 3.10
Lunch
13:30
13:30
Parallel Session 2
Education in a
Changing World
Imagining
Communities
The session includes
15min. break
(15:00-15:15)
16:00
Break
16:45
Session 3
Workshop:
Public Engagement
/Publication
19:30
4E
level 3
foyer
Friday 26th June
Parallel Session 1
12:30
Room
Drinks & dinner
4E
level 3
foyer
Voices of Youth
4E 3.38
Contemporary
Challenges in
International
Cooperation
4E 3.10
12:00
Lunch
13:00
Session 5
4E
level 3
4E 3.38
Room
Discourse and
Society
4E
level 3
4E 3.10
4E 3.10
15:15
Session 6
Workshop:
Careers
4E 3.10
16:15
IGNITE
4E 3.10
16:45
Drinks & snacks
4E 3.10
4E 3.10
TBC
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Drinks & dinner

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Timetable Friday 26th June

Chair: Ioannis Costas

Chair: Jaime Kim

Chair: Milena Romano

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Understanding Pain and Relationships

Do interpersonal relationships impact on the reporting of pain?

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of the dyadic relationship is important when reporting pain. Study 1 recruited

Developing a support tool for the friends of those who self-harm

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considered as a vulnerable population, and something other than

New Technologies, New Worlds

The use of Novel Technologies in Educational Assessment at Primary

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Assessment is one of the most important aspects of an educational system, as

Education in a Changing World

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curriculum types. This is an exploratory qualitative study where focus group

Intercultural Competence and Foreign Language learning as

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educational experiences and the interrelationship of identity, language and

Higher education graduates and quality of their jobs in Europe

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take the form of a narrative where I will intertwine observations with

Exploring the social life of street food in Hanoi, Vietnam

From True Captives to Aspiring Environmentalists: Can overarching

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Gustav Bosehans, University of Bath

Psychological factors influencing the development of community-economic

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Impact of Immigration on Output, Employment and Wages In the United

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In my presentation, I would like to discuss Sarah Crossan's The weight of

The Bus to Nowhere? Young politics in the UK

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Standing on one foot: creative steps in research engagement

Contemporary Challenges in International