LUBS Doctoral Conference 2024
- Date: Friday 21 June 2024
- Location: Cloth Hall Court, Quebec Street, Leeds
- Cost: Free of charge
The LUBS Doctoral Conference will bring together Postgraduate Researchers (PGRs) from all departments providing them a platform to present excellent and frontier research.
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Reasons to register
The conference fosters stronger research connections among PGRs, Early Career Researchers (ECRs), supervisors, and colleagues in LUBS. The aim is to offer the opportunity to all PGRs to develop further their research presentation/communication skills, receive constructive feedback, and inspire researchers across centres and departments in LUBS. 1st Year students are encouraged to attend the conference to gain valuable experience and connect with PGRs and staff across the Faculty.
You can hear from current PGRs who have attended our previous conferences and how the experience has benefitted them:
The conference will include a mix of plenary, panel and breakout sessions. We anticipate the breakout sessions will follow a Pecha Kucha, short presentation, methodology to allow for as many colleagues to participate as possible and to provide plenty of space for discussion and dialogue.
LUBS has research strengths across many fields and disciplines, with theoretical, methodological and empirical depth that can offer insights and solutions to the most challenging and pressing of issues, be they corporate, policy-related or more societal.
All PGRs are invited to present their PhD research at the conference. 1st Year students are invited to give poster presentations. All types of research approach are welcomed, including theoretical, empirical, methodological, national-specific, international, and comparative research. Prizes are given at the awards ceremony for best talks (based on abstracts) and best poster.
Programme Overview (full programme to follow)
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 09:15 - 09:30 | Welcome from the Dean |
| 09:40 – 11:05 | Parallel Session 1 |
| 11:05 – 11:35 | Break & Poster Session |
| 11:35 – 12:50 | Publishing Session – Meet the Editors |
| 12:50 – 13:50 | Lunch |
| 13:50 – 14:55 | Parallel Session 2 |
| 14:55 – 15:10 | Break |
| 15:10 – 16:15 | Parallel Session 3 |
| 16:15 – 16:30 | Break |
| 16:30 – 17:45 | PGR Graduate Experience Session |
| 17:45 – late | Drinks Reception & Awards |
Poster Presentations
1st year students are invited to present posters at the conference. Posters must be A1 landscape and must be submitted as a pdf to j.rodley@leeds.ac.uk by 12 noon on Wednesday 05 June. Submitted posters will be printed and displayed at the conference for you and will be available for you to take away afterwards.
Academic poster training will be provided by LUBS before the conference where you'll also be able to get feedback on your finished poster.
Details will be added to the Minerva Training section.
Oral Presentations
PowerPoint presentations must be submitted to j.rodley@leeds.ac.uk by 12 noon on Thursday 09 May. These will be saved in OneDrive and you will be sent a link to continue to update them until 12 noon Friday 14 June.
PGR Prizes
Six prizes of £100 (as an Amazon voucher) will be awarded for the best PGR talk, based on abstracts, and one prize for the best PGR poster.
Deadlines
- Oral presentation PowerPoint submission - 12 noon, Thursday 09 May
- Oral presentation abstract submission - 12 noon, Tuesday 07 May
- Poster submission - 12 noon, Wednesday 05 June
- Oral presentations PowerPoint editing deadline - 12 noon, Friday 14 June
- Registrations close 12 noon, Friday 24 May
Photography and filming will be taking place at this event for use by the University for marketing and publicity uses in our publications, on our website, social media and any third party publications. Please contact Jennifer Rodley at j.rodley@leeds.ac.uk if you wish to be exempted from this activity.