From AI co-workers to degrowth practices – research posters from our PhD students
- Research and innovation
Earlier this month, we hosted our annual doctoral research conference – an event where our Postgraduate Researchers (PGRs) can come together to share their research, make connections, and gain valuable feedback.
As part of the event, we had research posters created by some of our PGRs on display, and a slot in the programme that allowed time for attendees to look at the posters and speak to the poster authors.
Research posters are a visual way of presenting academic work and a useful tool to communicate key findings, methods, and recommendations. They allow researchers to share their work with a wide audience and encourage discussion and feedback in an informal setting.
For postgraduate researchers, creating a poster is a valuable exercise in distilling complex ideas and communicating them clearly to both specialist and non-specialist audiences. It also helps develop skills in visual communication and academic storytelling.
Here are some of the posters that were on display on the day.
You can listen to the audio clips to hear the poster authors introduce their research topic, and what key message they wanted the conference attendees to take away after viewing their posters.
Luke Nolan (People, Work & Employment)
Transcript: “Hi, I'm Luke Nolan. I'm a first year PhD student with the Department of People, Work and Employment, and my research is focusing on worker cooperatives and green jobs. And the main thing I want people to take away from my poster is the relationship between economic democracy and fighting climate change.
“I'm hoping that the novelty of my research will come from demonstrating the relationship between workplace practices that maintain economic democracy and the sustainability of the work being performed.”
Download the poster to view it in detail.
View an accessible text version of the poster.
Ying Zhang (Analytics, Technology & Operations)
Transcript: “My name is Ying Zhang. I am a first year PhD student. My research focuses on forced labour supply chains. I intend to answer the research question “how do migrant workers in the UK become forced labour?”
“I hope that everyone can know that even today in the UK we have around 122,000 people who [are] trapped in the modern slavery and they can be exploited at all stages of their migration, so we need to pay more attention to this labour exploitation.
“As part of the research, I intend to develop a conceptual framework of migrant worker flow alongside the creation and increase in vulnerabilities to define the concept of forced labour supply chain.”
Download the poster to view it in detail.
View an accessible text version of the poster.
Yagiz Talay (Management & Organisations)
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Transcript: “Hi, my name is Yagiz. I'm from [the] Management and Organisation Department. I'm a PhD student in the second year right now. My research interest is AI receptivity. I am trying to understand how we trust AI. It's not just an academic endeavour. It's about building better, safer, and fairer digital colleagues. So my main question is – “does giving AI a more human-like persona genuinely deepen our trust? Or is it just a superficial charm?”
Download the poster to view it in detail.
View an accessible text version of the poster.
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