INCLUSION COLLABORATION INTEGRATION
Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Education
Research and Knowledge Exchange [RKO]
Time
Session 1
9.30am - 10am Registration/The Atrium
10am - 10.15am Welcome Notes: Jermaine Ravalier and Liana Psarologaki / Gateway Lecture Theatre
10.15am - 11am Keynote: Framing Integration, Iris van der Tuin/ Gateway Lecture Theatre
11.15am - 12.15pm
Parallel Session 1: DEVICES
Mathew Banton, Hewa Khalilifar and Luisa Contreras: “A Collaborative Approach to Enhance Self-Insight, Technological and Psychological Approaches to Mood Tracking”
Luisa Contreras and Ben Aziz: “The ADA Project: A Multinational Approach to Digital Healthcare Using 5G and AI”
Estabraq Makiyah and Muntasir Al - Asfoor: Bridging AI and Emergency Response: Multi-Agent Semantic Routing in Infrastructure-Less SAR Networks.
Room: N3.06
Chair: Safak Sahin
Parallel Session 2:
COMMUNITIES
Alison Pearce: “The Inclusive Nature of Community-Driven Research: Exploring Health and Social Inequalities Among Commercial Sex Workers”
Syed Aurangzeb: “Policy and Governance Practices: Institutional Barriers to Girls’ Education in Balochistan”
George Clerk: “An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Childhood Vaccination Decision - Making in the UK”
Room S3.01
Chair: Lauren Vincent
Parallel Session 3:
EXPERIENCES
Elizabeth Bridgen and Liana Psarologaki: “The Precarious Labour of A Woman’s Cleaning Business; an interdisciplinary fictioning of interpersonal care, wellbeing, and safety”
Alexandra Constantinescu and Adetoro Adegoke: “Migration, Dietary Acculturation and Health: A Bibliometric Analysis and Problematising Review”
James Shelton: “A Righteous Infliction of Retribution: Morality, Practices and Transdisciplinary Analysis of Filmed Narratives”
Room: S3.02a/b
Chair: Tuncay Durna
12.15pm - 12.30pm BREAK
12.30pm - 1pm
Plenary: The Adult Social Care Nursing Workforce Development Project, Karen Buckwell-Nutt and Adetoro Adegoke / Gateway Lecture Theatre
1pm - 2pm Lunch and networking/ The Atrium
2pm - 2.45pm
Panel Discussion: The Anxiety of Interdisciplinarity, Michelle Devereaux, moderated by Liana Psarologaki
Room: The Willow B
Workshop: Understanding inclusive and collaborative knowledge exchange, Francesca Martin
Room: S3.01
2.45pm - 3pm BREAK
3pm - 4pm
Parallel Session 4:
SYSTEMS
Safak Sahin, Nilantha Senaratne, Ewuradjoa Quansah: “Explicit or Implicit? SME Communication of the SDGs on Corporate Websites: Evidence from the East Midlands”
Mohammed Ahmed, Rafid Al Khannak, and Shahadate Rezvy: “A Hybrid CNN–Vision Transformer Framework for Cross-Dataset Generalisation in Breast Ultrasound Image Classification”
Room N3.06
Chair: Estabraq Makiyah
3pm - 4pm
Parallel Session 5:
SERVICES
Louise Farrell-Doyle: “A Transdisciplinary and Industry-Collaborative Approach to Evaluating Mental Health Support for Pilots in Compliance with EASA Regulations”
Hardeep Singh: “Enhancing Wellbeing and Belonging for International Postgraduate Students: Insights from a Multifaceted Support Initiative”
Ruth Trout: “Designing and Evaluating an Inclusive Anatomy Learning Experience for Post-Registration Healthcare Professionals”
Room S3.01
Chair: Alexandra Constantinescu
3pm - 4pm
Parallel Session 6:
INEQUALITIES
Lauren Vincent, Nandini Das, Charlotte Prentice, and Gurpreet Singh: “Where Are the Men? A Space to Address Gender Disparity in the Early Years Workforce”
Tuncay Durna and Keelin Howard: “Beyond the Paradox: Trends and Inequalities in Fear of Crime in England and Wales”
Katharine Hubbard: “Making Metrics Matter: A More Ambitious, Interdisciplinary and Critical Approach to Measuring Racial Equity and Inclusion in Higher Education”
Room S3.02a/b
Chair: Liz Bridgen
4.15pm - 5pm
Launch of Wycombe Chairs Festival 2026 by the High Wycombe Museum Director Roz Currie and curator Catherine Grigg. Project presentation “Reviving The Wycombe Chair” by Scott Harper and Harry Aldridge / The Atrium
5pm onwards Day 1 closing reception / The Atrium
Pedagogy and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning [LEAP]
Time Session/Room
9am - 09.30am Tea and Coffee – Posters showcase/ The Atrium
09.30am - 10.15am Keynote: Breaking the Mould: Challenging How We Think About Teaching Excellence, Sarah Jones / Gateway Lecture Theatre
10.15am - 10.30am BREAK
10.30am - 11.15am
Workshop 1 (SoTL)
“Moving Beyond Reasonable Adjustments: Advancing Digital Accessibility for Students with Specific Learning Differences (SpLDs)” led by Muntasir Al-Asfoor / Room S3.02a
11.15am - 11.30am BREAK
11.30am - 12.15pm
Roundtable 2:
“Nurse Education through Visual Narratives of Films: A collaborative project” led by Maria-Eirini Galanaki / Room S3.02a
Roundatble 1 (SoTL)
“Enhancing In-Course Cultural Belonging and Identity: Rethinking Classroom Practice” led by Mallika Sharma / Room S3.02b
Workshop 2:
“What does building a career in teaching and learning in Higher Education look like” led by Katharine Hubbard / The Willow
12.15pm - 1pm
Panel 1
Ina Stan: “The Use of Generative AI Among HE Students: What’s Their Experience of Engaging With It?”
Euthan Newman: “Embedding the Oliver McGowan Training (OMT), Within the First-Year Nursing and Midwifery Curriculum”
Room S3.02a
Panel 2
Uchenna Nweke: “Postgraduate Entrepreneurship Education: Improving Engagement and Learner Outcome through Industry Collaboration and Assessment-Conference Mapping”
Geeta Lamichhane: “From Interruption To Achievement: The Stories of Returning Nursing Students” Room S3.02b
Panel 3
Paula Han and Debbie Slavo: “Using Peer Observations to Foster Reflective Practices for the Development of Consistent and Effective Classroom Teaching”
Barbara Nicolls: “What works, What doesn’t and Why: Learning from iterative design-based research on UDL in Practice in a UK Postgraduate Certificate Practice Education (2023–25)”
Room S3.01
1pm - 1.45pm Working lunch – pedagogy principles and teaching excellence workshop, Zahara Chawdhury and Paula Han. Posters showcase by Diya Gupta, Borbala Kenez-Burns, Leo Soundararajan, Medha Verma, and Amsale Wamburu / The Atrium
1.45pm - 2.15pm Plenary: The Evaluation Framework, Zehui Yang / Gateway Lecture Theatre
2.15pm - 2.30pm BREAK
2.30pm - 3.15pm Workshop 3
“From Toyota to Your Classroom: Using Muda, Mura and Muri to Fix AI Integration in AI Era”, led by Lubna Rizvi/ Room S3.01
3.15pm - 3.30pm BREAK
Show and Tell Workshop 4
“PeerPower: An Interdisciplinary Model of Relational Presence for Inclusive and Psychologically Safe Peer Assessment”, led by Katyon Warrick/ Room S3.02a/b
3.30pm - 4pm Closing Panel: “What’s teaching excellence without joy?” Our vision for T&L at BNU, Damien Page, Paul Morgan, Katharine Hubbard, Arinola Adefila, moderated by Zahara, Chawdhury, followed by the launch of the expert teacher network/ The Willow
