BNU ACADEMIC CONFERENCE 2026

B N U AC A D E M I C CO N F E R E N C E 2 0 2 6

INCLUSION COLLABORATION INTEGRATION Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Education

Day 1 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

11:15-12.15 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

Day 2 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)

Roundatble 1 (SoTL)

“Moving Beyond Reasonable Adjustments: Advancing Digital Accessibility for Students with Specific Learning Differences (SpLDs)” led by Muntasir Al-Asfoor / Room S3.02a

“Enhancing In-Course Cultural Belonging and Identity: Rethinking Classroom Practice” led by Mallika Sharma / Room S3.02b

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

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

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

3.15pm - 3.30pm

BREAK

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