The Brigstow Institute brings researchers together with a range of partners across the city and beyond to experiment in
30 April to 9 May
Research without Borders 2018
Festival programme
Welcome to Research without Borders 2018, our annual festival of postgraduate research.
From health and disease to climate change, security, energy and social injustice, today’s challenges are not confined by borders; geographical, disciplinary or otherwise. Through ground-breaking research and creative answers to global problems, our University strives to help solve these global challenges. Research without Borders 2018 brings together postgraduate researchers from across disciplines to showcase some of the latest research that is taking place here in Bristol. I invite you to explore the pioneering advancements into sustainability, technology, education, culture and identity, engineering, and health, underway at our University — and to contribute your own insights. Through meeting with our researchers, asking questions and sharing your own ideas, we hope to strengthen the research underway and continue to serve both local and international communities. I hope you enjoy the diverse programme of events on offer. Professor Nishan Canagarajah Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Enterprise, University of Bristol
Programme of events Discussion series, 30 April to 3 May Various city centre venues Four evening talks led by a panel of postgraduate researchers discussing their work on 21st century challenges that affect us all. Showcase exhibition, 9 May Colston Hall From robots to electric bees, refugee camps to the latest innovations in sustainable energy, this public exhibition will feature more than 70 interactive research exhibits for you to explore.
Monday 30 April 6pm to 7:30pm
Taking inspiration from nature to tackle sustainability from the bottom-up The Station, Silver Street Bristol, BS1 2AG With the Cabot Institute Tuesday 1 May 6pm to 7:30pm
Living well with the past
Watershed, 1 Canon’s Road Bristol, BS1 5TX With the Brigstow Institute Wednesday 2 May 6pm to 7:30pm
Do you know what they know? Challenges in a data-driven world Bristol Energy Hub, Waterfront Bristol, BS1 4XJ
With the Jean Golding Institute
Thursday 3 May 6pm to 7:30pm
Health in an unequal world
Bristol Energy Hub, Waterfront Bristol, BS1 4XJ
With the Elizabeth Blackwell Institute Wednesday 9 May 10:30am to 4:30pm*
Showcase exhibition 12 noon to 1:30pm Networking lunch
4:30pm to 5pm Three Minute Thesis final
5pm to 6pm Drinks reception and prize-giving Colston Hall, Colston Street Bristol, BS1 5AR *You can drop-in anytime between these times. We suggest allowing at least one hour to explore the exhibition.
Accessibility information All events are free and open to all. We strive to ensure that people have equal access to public events. All the festival venues are accessible for wheelchair users. For full access guides please visit www.disabledgo.com and search by the venues, as outlined above. If you require additional information or have specific requests, please contact us by emailing
[email protected]. We will make reasonable arrangements, where possible, to make the events accessible to all.
Discussion series 30 April to 3 May We present a series of provocative and lively exchanges, led by a panel of postgraduate researchers on a theme or challenge of global significance. These evening discussion events are brought to in you in collaboration with the University’s four interdisciplinary research institutes, which connect researchers from different disciplines around key research themes. The Brigstow Institute brings researchers together with a range of partners across the city and beyond to experiment in new ways of living and being. Research is focused around four initial themes: living well with technologies, living well with difference, living well with uncertainty and just plain old living well. Our research is underpinned by a commitment to a distinctive way of working that focuses on inter-disciplinarity, co-produced research with – and not just for – external partners, and an emphasis on ‘critical making’ as a research methodology.
Monday 30 April 6pm to 7:30pm, followed by a drinks reception The Station, Silver Street, Bristol, BS1 2AG
The Elizabeth Blackwell Institute for Health Research nurtures health and biomedical research at Bristol and beyond. We identify and support excellent, world-leading research to deliver novel and ground-breaking results of benefit to health. The Institute supports research that brings together fields as well as researchers, clinicians, industry and members of the public. The Cabot Institute conducts worldleading research on the challenges arising from how we live with, depend on and affect our planet. Launched in 2010, the Cabot Institute carries out fundamental and responsive research on risks and uncertainties in a changing environment. Its interests include natural hazards, food and energy security, water, city futures, and global environmental change. The Jean Golding Institute connects a community of experts who share common data challenges and provides expertadvice on the latest data science methods to benefit research – across disciplines – within the University and the wider Bristol community.
Taking inspiration from nature to tackle sustainability from the bottom-up In our rapidly evolving world, uncertainties regarding our health, ecology, water and energy are rising. In this evening event, four researchers from the University of Bristol will discuss their work on sustainability, including furthering antibiotic discovery, converting CO2 to renewable fuels, improving community participation in water management and mitigating the impact of fertilisers on local ecology. Through understanding our relationships with each other and taking inspiration from nature, we share our personal journeys so that together we can get to the bottom of sustainability and what we mean by it.
Panel members: Adriana Suarez-Delucchi 2nd year PhD in Environment Energy and Resilience, Law School Edith Villa Galaviz 4th year PhD in Biological Sciences School of Biological Sciences Gael Gobaille-Shaw 2nd year PhD in Chemistry School of Chemistry Sam Williams 1st year PhD in Biochemistry School of Biochemistry Chaired by Professor Richard Pancost Director of the Cabot Institute
This event is organised with the Cabot Institute
Tuesday 1 May 6pm to 7:30pm, followed by a drinks reception Watershed, 1 Canon’s Road, Bristol, BS1 5TX
Wednesday 2 May 6pm to 7:30pm, followed by a drinks reception Bristol Energy Hub, Waterfront, Bristol, BS1 4XJ
Living well with the past
Do you know what they know? Challenges in a data-driven world
Coming to terms with dark periods in our history has never been easy. In Bristol, there are ongoing debates about the renaming of buildings and removal of statues as the history of the transatlantic slave economy is re-examined.
Panel members:
How can we learn to 'live well' in the present with these challenging periods of history?
Diana Erandi Barrera Moreno 4th year PhD in Education, School of Education
In this discussion, we will consider this by questioning historical "truths", including generational differences, gender and sex, the Holocaust, and political tension in Taiwan. History is made as personal stories intertwine, and understanding that this could help us reconcile ourselves with our past and build bridges between generations in our present.
Doreen Pastor 4th year PhD in German Studies, School of Modern Languages
Chad McDonald 3rd year PhD in History, School of Humanities
Milo Rengel 1st year MPhil in Classics, School of Humanities Yung-Chen Liu 3rd year PhD in Arts, School of Arts
Knowledge is power, but who holds that knowledge and what do they know? Following the recent revelations about data harvesting by Cambridge Analytica, four researchers from the University of Bristol take a hard look at the ethics of data acquisition and use. Automated decisions – those made entirely by computers – have real impacts on our lives, so how can we ensure that those decisions are fair? Research using electronic health records and genetic data can benefit the population, but at what cost to the individual? What are the ethical and political implications of permanently gathering real-time data to predict the next big disease outbreak? And now that the genomes of deadly viruses are known and readily available, what does this mean for biosecurity?
Chaired by Professor Tim Cole Director of the Brigstow Institute
This event is organised with the Brigstow Institute
Panel members: Alexis Bedolla Velazquez 3rd year PhD in Sociology, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies Kacper Sokol 2nd year PhD in Computer Science, School of Computer Science, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Engineering Mathematics Samantha Saunders 3rd year PhD in Biomedical Sciences, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine Venexia Walker 3rd year PhD in Social Medicine, Bristol Medical School Chaired by Professor Kate Robson Brown Director of the Jean Golding Institute
This event is organised with the Jean Golding Institute
Thursday 3 May 6pm to 7:30pm, followed by a drinks reception Bristol Energy Hub, Waterfront, Bristol, BS1 4XJ
Health in an unequal world It is estimated that half of the world’s population have inadequate access to full health coverage. Yet enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being, according to the constitution of the World Health Organization. This discussion event will look at the challenges and opportunities facing healthcare in today’s unequal world. Four researchers will discuss their work on fertility, mental health, energy provision and transfusion medicine, and hope to leave you questioning your very definition of health.
Panel members: Gareth Griffith 4th year PhD in Advanced Quantitative Methods PhD, School of Geographical Sciences Katherine Macinnes 2nd year PhD in Biochemistry, School of Biochemistry Peter Thomas 1st year PhD in Civil Engineering, School of Civil, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
“I am one of those who thinks that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.”
Sara Davies 2nd year PhD in Law, South, West & Wales (Arts & Humanities) Doctoral Training Partnership Chaired by Professor Rachael Gooberman-Hill Director of the Elizabeth Blackwell Institute
This event is organised with the Elizabeth Blackwell Institute
Marie Skłodowska Curie, Polish/French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.
Panel members Taking inspiration from nature to tackle sustainability from the bottom-up
Adriana Suarez-Delucchi
Edith Villa Galaviz
Do you know what they know? Challenges in a data-driven world
Gael Gobaille-Shaw
Sam Williams
Living well with the past
Chad McDonald
Diana Erandi Barrera Moreno
Alexis Bedolla Velazquez
Kacper Sokol
Samantha Saunders
Venexia Walker
Peter Thomas
Sara Davies
Health in an unequal world
Doreen Pastor
Milo Rengel
Yung-Chen Liu
Gareth Griffith
Katherine Macinnes
Showcase exhibition 9 May Explore some of the latest research emerging at the University of Bristol on this day of interactive exhibits, talks and presentations to celebrate the work of 100 postgraduate researchers.
Drop-in exhibition
Three Minute Thesis final
Get inspired by the 75 interactive activities, exhibits and demonstrations on display. From robots to electric bees, refugee camps to the latest innovations in sustainable energy, there’s something of interest for everyone. Wander through the five floors of research exhibits and ask questions to the researchers taking part.
An 80,000 word thesis would take 9 hours to present. Their time limit: 3 minutes.
10:30am to 4:30pm Across all five floors of Colston Hall foyer
4:30pm to 5pm Lower ground floor
Eight researchers compete in this internationally-recognised communications competition. With just three minutes to present their doctoral research, who will best explain their work and its impact?
Networking lunch (invite only) 12 noon to 1:30pm Third Floor terrace bar
This networking lunch is for external organisations interested in finding out how to engage with the University of Bristol and discuss potential opportunities to work together. Featuring presentations from some of the inspirational research students involved in Research without Borders and short talks from University staff. This is a ticketed event and prior booking is essential.
Drinks reception and prize-giving 5pm to 6pm Third floor terrrace bar
Join us for drinks and canapes while we announce the winner of the Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition and which exhibitors have been awarded festival prizes.
Access and directions to Colston Hall Colston Hall is on Colston Street in Bristol city centre. It is around a ten minute walk from the University of Bristol. By bus – Most city centre buses stop at the central promenade where you should alight for Colston Hall. By train – Bristol Temple Meads, the nearest station, is about a mile from Colston Hall. Buses 8 and 9 run directly to the city centre promenade, or it takes approximately 20 minutes to walk. By car – we recommend parking in Trenchard Street Car Park, which is behind Colston Hall. For more information on getting to Colston Hall please visit colstonhall.org/visit-us
Showcase exhibition map
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Jennyfer Vervisch / Stall 13 Self-determination and Informal Imperialism
Exhibitors The researchers participating in the showcase exhibition on Wednesday 9 May are listed below under the exhibition themes. Refer to the floorplans on the previous page to locate each researcher.
Matías Rodríguez Burr / Stall 14 Who should we protect under antidiscrimination law? Joel Leander Geraets / Stall 15 "It's Not Interesting": An Analysis of the Landscape of Political Graffiti in Istanbul Between 2015-2017 Samir Balakishi / Stall 16 Russian Outward Foreign Direct Investments in Emerging Economies
Engineering and data Lower ground floor, Colston Hall
Elpida Katsiveli / Stall 7 Shake it, don't break it!
Stephanie Denning / Stall 17 Faith motivated volunteering: responding to UK children's food poverty
Alexandra Moylett / Stall 1 Building better computers with lasers
Mengwei Xu / Stall 8 Creating robots that can behave intelligently and learn new ideas
William Hamilton / Stall 18 Broken Heroes: German Comics and the First World War 1914-1933
Ana Guerra-Langan and Salua Hamaza / Stall 2 Can drones do more than just take selfies? Anouk Spelt and Cara Williamson / Stall 3 Bio-inspired flight: from urban gulls to drones Andrea Iannelli / Stall 4 Investigating new approaches towards aircraft design for greener aviation Hsing-Yu Chen, Richard Suphapol Diteesawat, Alice Haynes, Alixander Partridge, Melanie Simons and Enrico Werner / Stall 5 Robots: With a Twist Kacper Sokol / Stall 6 "Let's discuss your mortgage application." Explainable Artificial Intelligence for trustworthy automated decision-making
Building communities Ground floor, Colston Hall
Peter Thomas / Stall 19 Could you live without access to electricity?
Venexia Walker / Stall 23 High blood pressure and Alzheimer’s disease – what is the link? Debbie Daniels and Katherine MacInnes / Stall 24 Lab grown blood – the future of transfusion medicine? Emily Bowen / Stall 25 How does food poisoning cause kidney failure? Ellie Shingler / Stall 26 Fasting During Chemotherapy Janine McCaughey / Stall 27 Brittle bone disease – What stops us from falling apart? Jannete Stevens / Stall 28 New blood vs Old blood Jiahe Lu / Stall 29 Cancer's invisibility cloak: "stop-killing" signals Richard Seager / Stall 30 To divide or not to divide. That is a complicated question
Diana Erandi Barrera Moreno / Stall 9 Personal stories – the making of history: Old and young in Bristol
Seerat Kaur / Stall 20 Humanising' representations of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK using photography and film
Yung-Chen Liu / Stall 10 Personal stories – the making of history: Stories of Taiwan
One Health First floor, Colston Hall
Claire Roberts / Stall 32 Measuring Quality of Life in Dogs
Doreen Pastor / Stall 11 The future of memory in Germany: representing atrocities for contemporary audiences
Tackling disease
Kathryn Bennett, Elena Paci and Rachael Stentiford / Stall 33 The Cerebellum: The little brain with a big role
Jayu Jung / Stall 12 Does your neighbourhood make your children antisocial?
Noura Al Mulhim / Stall 22 Alzheimer's disease: Potential targets toward prevention and treatment
Carlos Eduardo Muñoz Neira / Stall 21 Insight and social cognition in dementia
Soraya Safazadeh / Stall 31 Do traumatic events in our childhood predict poorer cardiovascular health?
Jon Prager / Stall 34 A new approach to treating paralysis
New technologies
Wellbeing
Alexis Bedolla / Stall 35 Can big-data help to prevent the next pandemic?
Emma Ranger / Stall 45 Being active - how easy is it?
Antonis Vafeas / Stall 36 Monitoring health in the comfort of your home Chris Moreno-Stokoe / Stall 37 Can Online Services Save the NHS? Jessye Aggleton / Stall 38 Are you handier than a Neanderthal?: Looking at the bare bones Rhiannon Macefield / Stall 39 Can patients help with assessing their surgical wound for signs of infection after they have left hospital? Stephen O'Brien / Stall 40 Developing new ways to help women give birth Learning and the mind Angie Makri / Stall 41 Do you...mind? Exploring different types of memory Emma Roscow / Stall 42 Sleep on it: replaying memories during sleep helps you learn Katrina Daw / Stall 43 Why Do Children Call Lions Tigers? Megan Thomas Penney / Stall 44 Experiments in the Imagination
Jasmine Khouja / Stall 46 Why do young people use electronic cigarettes? Maddy Dyer / Stall 47 Anxiety and Alcohol Use: What is the Relationship? Gareth Griffith / Stall 48 Big Boys Don't Cry – Masculinity in Mental Health Sara Davies / Stall 49 Cheap Labour and Bargain Babies Sarah Peters and Steph Suddell / Stall 50 Mood matters: How do you see the world? Trang Mai Tran / Stall 51 Outgrowing the challenges: Psychological Wellbeing of EU/International PhD students Simon Bishop / Stall 52 "Experience is the main teacher": The Phenomenology of Cultural Adjustment for International Students in the UK
Culture and identity Second floor bridge, Colston Hall
Eve Benhamou / Stall 55 Animated Feminism? Gender and Genre in Disney's Contemporary Films
Gael Gobaille-Shaw and Xin Sun / Stall 65 Sun, Air and Water: The future of sustainable energy
Milo Rengel / Stall 56 What’s the T? LGBT+ History in Ancient Greece
Natural Environments
Sarah Kelley / Stall 57 Harry Potter and the marketing of movies: what ideas about British culture are represented?
Climate change Third floor, Colston Hall
Ailsa Naismith / Stall 66 Risk and responsibility in networks around Fuego volcano, Guatemala Glyndwr Jones and Ashley Pridgeon / Stall 67 How do plants hold their breath?
Sustainability and water
Clara Montgomery / Stall 68 Electric bees
Adriana Suarez-Delucchi / Stall 58 Participation in water law-making in Chile
Edith Villa Galaviz / Stall 69 Looking for an insect friendly burger
Chris Gregson / Stall 59 Hidden Oceans: Water in the Deep Earth
Felipe Vicencio / Stall 70 Seismic Interaction of adjacent buildings
Joe Butchers / Stall 60 Micro-hydropower: Providing reliable electricity to rural Nepal
Sustainable health: Antibiotics
Jonathan Teague / Stall 61 Every Coral Reef Serves a Porpoise; A New Take on Monitoring Coral Health Katherine Short / Stall 62 Life in the Extreme; Tardigrades and Antarctica
David Dewar / Stall 53 What's the point of amateur music?
Maryory Sarria Dulcey / Stall 63 Climate change and how Marine shells in Antarctic respond to it
Elizabeth Kajs / Stall 54 Depicting Modern Female Citizenship in Käthe Kollwitz’s Artwork
Pamela Iskra Mejia-Estrada / Stall 64 Fast as a flash: predicting when heavy rains put a city at risk in a matter of hours
Henry Stennett and Sam Williams / Stall 71 Antibiotics from the Abyss Marcus Eales, Joshua Jenkins and Irill Ishak / Stall 72 Bursting Bacteria on Nanospikes Viivi Hirvonen / Stall 73 Predicting antibiotic resistance with computers
Three Minute Thesis final Wednesday 9 May 4:30pm to 5pm
Join us in Colston Hall on Wednesday 9 May to witness the fast-paced finale of this year’s Three Minute Thesis competition (3MT®). Eight researchers made it through from the semi-final, but which one will impress the judges the most? Last year’s Bristol winner went on to take part in the UK final, so the standard is sure to be high at this event, which takes place as part of our showcase exhibition. Come along, enjoy some enlightening and entertaining presentations, and vote for the competitor you think should receive the People’s Choice award. Three Minute Thesis is an academic research communication competition developed by the University of Queensland, Australia.
A chance to watch researchers attempt one of the toughest communication challenges in academia: to present their work, clearly and concisely, in just 180 seconds.
Presenters: Andres Rivero School of Civil, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Flexible airplanes: achieving higher fuel efficiency by adapting wing shapes during flight Felipe Perez School of Mathematics Order and chaos: two faces of the same coin Helen Deeks School of Chemistry A virtual reality game for drug discovery Irill Ishak Bristol Dental School Fighting superbugs with nanospikes
Isabel Stockton School of Economics, Finance and Management What women workers want (and what they’ll pay for it) Sam Williams School of Biochemistry Antibiotics from the Abyss Silvia Pregnolato Bristol Medical School Brain injury in babies born prematurely: understanding the role of genes Victoria Taylor School of Chemistry Ultrafast lasers — shining a light on the future of renewable energy
We hope that Research without Borders has informed, intrigued and inspired you. We invite you to jot down any ideas, notes or questions that arise from attending Research without Borders 2018 and meeting with the festival participants.
“Research is formalised curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.”
Zora Neale Hurston American folkorist and writer
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Research without Borders is brought to you by the Bristol Doctoral College. The Bristol Doctoral College grows, develops and supports our thriving community of postgraduate researchers across all research degree programmes at the University of Bristol. Find out more about the work that we do on our website: bristol.ac.uk/doctoral-college Thank you to everyone who has taken part in Research without Borders 2018. If you would like to find out more about opportunities to collaborate with our postgraduate research students, or have any ideas for next year’s festival, please email:
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