It is a pleasure to invite you to this year’s doctoral conference for the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Stirling: Stay Connected - Become Resilient. The conference will take a hybrid format and you are welcome to participate either in person or online.

Thursday 16 June 2022 - Friday 17 June 2022

Conference Programme:

Thursday 16th June

10:30 - 11:00 On Campus registry* with Tea/Coffee and pastries on arrival. Venue: Iris Murdoch Building

11:00 - 11:05 Housekeeping and Welcome from the Organisers. Venue: Iris Murdoch Building

11:05 - 11:15 Professor Derek McGhee's Welcome Message [Live online]. Venue: Iris Murdoch Building

11:15 - 12:15 Workshop 1. Venue: Iris Murdoch Building conference room and Campus.

Research Buddies and Outdoor Pals: Connections in and beyond Stirling (by the organising committee)

12:15 - 13:15 Lunch. Venue: Iris Murdoch Building

13:20 - 14:20 Keynote by Professor Lynn McAlpine [Live online]. Venue: Iris Murdoch Building

Post-PhD career trajectories: What might the future hold?

14:30 - 15:30 Paper Sessions 1 & 2. Venues: Iris Murdoch Building & R.G. Bomont Building 3T1

Joe Ce Qiao: Different methodologies for same research topic in the same research context - how the findings are different and connected? [Iris Murdoch Building]

Zoey Zhe Zheng: English Language Teachers' Identity Construction and Perceptions of Teacher-Student Relationship at Multilingual Chinese University [Iris Murdoch Building]

Luqman Mayi: The role of Christian faith in English language teaching: fulfilment and dilemmas of five missionary English language teachers in Thailand [R.G. Bomont Building 3T1]

Phusima Pinyosinwat: Exploring School-based Teacher Development Practices in Thailand by using Actor-Network Theory [R.G. Bomont Building 3T1]

15:30 - 16:30 Tea Break and Poster Exhibition. Venue: Iris Murdoch Building

Frankie McKittrick: Exploring the shopping experiences of older people and the role of local shops: methodological approaches during the pandemic

Anastasia Fjodorova: “Little corridor conversations”: the necessity of physical spaces to informal moments of learning in photography undergraduate degree courses

Hu Mei: My story, my PhD research

SPARK: Spark some interest: write, edit, publish

16:00 - 17:00 Workshop 2. Venue: R.G. Bomont Building 3T1

Academic Publishing – a look behind the scenes with Stirling University’s postgraduate journal SPARK

Friday 17th June

9:00 - 9:30 Registration, tea/coffee and pastries upon arrival. Venue: Iris Murdoch Building

9:30 - 10:30 Workshops 3 & 4. Venues: Iris Murdoch Building & R.G. Bomont Building 3T1

Yagmur Cisem Yilmaz: The Path to Completing PhD: Wellbeing, Productivity and Staying Still in PhD [Iris Murdoch Building]

Corinne Angier: Writing Retreat taster session [R.G. Bomont Building 3T1]

10:30 - 11:00 Tea Break. Venue: Iris Murdoch Building

11:00 - 12:00 Keynote by Dr Kara Makara [in-person]. Venue: Iris Murdoch Building

Connecting and interconnecting: Encouraging communities of practice among postgraduate researchers

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch. Venue: Iris Murdoch Building

13:00 - 14:00 Paper Sessions 3 & 4. Venues: Iris Murdoch Building & R.G. Bomont Building 3T1

Rosie Priest: Vulnerability and Resilience in Research [Iris Murdoch Building]

Julie Eshleman: Research with Disabled People in Care Homes During COVID: Connections for Resilience [Iris Murdoch Building]

María Lavilla Gracia: From clinical nurse to doctoral student: was it a good decision? [R.G. Bomont Building 3T1]

Leelajini Paranjothy: From Ethnography to online interviews: Mitigating a PhD through a pandemic [R.G. Bomont Building 3T1]

14:00 - 14:30 Tea Break. Venue: Iris Murdoch Building

14:30 - 15:30 Panel Session: Making our way through connections and resilience. Venue: Iris Murdoch Building

Dr Maria Erss, University of Stirling and Tallinn University, Estonia

Dr Lois Liao, London School of Economics

Christoph Naborowski, University of Stirling

Dr Joe Smith, University of Stirling

*Online participants will receive Teams link invitations for the event on 15th June. All the events are hybrid-designed. Anonymous comments or enquiries can be accessed via Padlet throughout the conference.

Any enquiries should be sent to FoSSDoctoralConference@stir.ac.uk