Name: Health, Psychology & Social Care Research Showcase 2025
Start: 2025-03-07T09:00:00+0000
End: 2025-03-07T16:35:00+0000

We are delighted to announce that the 2025 Health, Psychology & Social Care College Research Showcase will be taking place on Friday 7 March 2025, 9:00 am – 4:35 pm in OL2 at the University of Derby's Kedleston Road campus.

The Health, Psychology & Social Care Research Showcase is an established annual event that has been running for several years now and is always a well-attended, enjoyable event celebrating the fantastic work taking place across the whole college. It is always the ambition of the event to celebrate work from across all disciplines, regardless of the level of the academics and what stage they are at in their research journey.

We are also keen to encourage participation from our student body, from undergraduate to PhD level. We are delighted to showcase the breadth of our research projects through a number of talks and poster presentations at the university's Kedleston Road campus on Friday 7th March 2025, beginning with a keynote speech by Professor Mzwandile Mabhala (Professor of Public Health at the University of Derby).

Refreshments will be provided. Booking is essential for this event.

Please use the form provided to book your place by Thursday 27 February 2025, 5 pm. If you have any questions, please contact research-hpsc@derby.ac.uk

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College of Health, Psychology and Social Care Research Showcase Agenda

Time	Event
09:00	Registration from 9:00
09:30	Welcome from the Deputy Dean of Health, Psychology and Social Care: Professor Stephen Wordsworth
Session 1:	Chaired by Prof Stephen Wordsworth
09:40	Keynote Speech - Prof Mzwandile Mabhala (Professor of Public Health): Researching Among the Underserved Population. Being at the Bottom Rung of the Ladder in an Unequal Society.
10:00	Victoria Sweetmore: Narratives of Care: The Untold Stories of Mental Health Nurses Post-Asylum
10:15	Dominic Petronzi: Academic Sphere to Public Domain: How Storybooks can Bridge the Gap
10:30	Athina Tripli: Gender identity development among people with Klinefelter Syndrome: An investigation into the experiences and perceptions of people affected
10:45	Panel for Session 1
10:55	Refreshments and posters
Session 2:	Chaired by Dr Gerri Mortimore
11:15	Rachel Rozier: Investigating the feasibility of a novel dialogic reading intervention designed to enhance low socioeconomic status (SES) parental engagement in shared reading
11:30	Catherine Starr: The 'Fifty Shades Defence': Media Representations of Sexual Agency and Victim Blaming in the Grace Millane Case Explored Through Reflexive Thematic Analysis
11:45	Caroline Harvey, Fiona Holland & Chris Barnes: A night under the stars: The impact of outdoor residential experiences for young people
12:00	Magdalena Michalczyk: A Multi-Staged Investigation of Fears of Compassion In Competitive Sports
12:15	Dean Fido: Judgement Differences of Types of Image-Based Sexual Harassment and Abuse Conducted by Celebrity Perpetrators and Victims
12:30	Panel for Session 2
12:40	Lunch and posters
Session 3:	Chaired by Dr Amelia Woodward
13:40	Steffi Ward: The impact of armed conflict on the role and contribution of nurses in Ukraine- A Phenomenological Analysis
13:55	Michael Reen: The experience of practice uncertainty for nurses working in in-patient child and adolescent mental health services
14:10	Caroline Harvey & Frances Maratos: Compassionate Communication in the HE curriculum: A control comparison study
14:25	Erica Lloyd: An Exploration of the Lived experience of the transition from Clinical Nurse to Nurse Educator in UK Higher Education
14:40	Panel for Session 3
14:50	Refreshments and posters
Session 4:	Chaired by Dr Rachel Searcey
15:10	Peter Macaulay: Helping School Students Deal with Peer Provocations and Avoid Hostile Attribution Bias with the CATZ Cross-Age Teaching Zone Intervention
15:25	Tracey Whitmore: Ethical conundrums when research highlights challenges of learning in practice.
15:40	Malcolm Schofield: Conspirituality: Predicting COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs using, spirituality, purity, and political orientation
15:55	Megan Biddulph: Under Control or Out of Fear? Examining the roles of fear and control in conspiracy theory beliefs
16:10	Panel for Session 4
16:20	Professor Stephen Wordsworth Deputy Dean of Health, Psychology and Social Care: Closing Address.
16:35	End of conference

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