cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Bantu family entrepreneurship: a case of clan solidarity in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Creators: name: Lwango, Albert
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper aims to explore the specificities of Bantu family entrepreneurship. Based on the case of family entrepreneurship in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), we used three reading grids related to the context: the clan solidarity, the economic crisis and the Congolese family legislation. We analyzed qualitative data (Miles and Huberman, 1994) collected from three Bantu family entrepreneurships of Bukavu – an important urban center in eastern DRC. Our results indicate the central role of clan solidarity and the social responsibility of Bantu entrepreneurship. From a managerial point of view, the Bantu founder should assume a role as manager of the business and as a father of his clan members. The successor of the founder must ensure that he gradually reduces extended family influence in the business. This does not mean to abandon systematically family members. The successor should rather find a balance between the social responsibility and the growth or at least the survival of the business.
Impactos do Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar (PNAE) no Estado da Paraíba
Creators: name: Félix, Severino
name: Souza, Armando Lírio De
name: Santos, Ricardo Bruno Nascimento Dos
name: Ramos, Maria Da Conceição Pereira
Publisher: name: Revista de Ciências Agrárias
Year: 2020

description: O PNAE tem grande importância na economia dos estados brasileiros entre eles, a Paraíba. Esta pesquisa busca analisar impactos no Valor Agregado Bruto (PIB agropecuário) a partir de variáveis como: repasse do governo aos municípios, referentes ao PNAE, gasto dos municípios com o programa supracitado, produções municipal permanente e temporária, e também, a produção pecuária – produção de leite. Para cumprir tal objetivo, usou-se um modelo econométrico de Dados em Painel. As estimações evidenciaram que apenas repassar recursos não é suficiente para causar impactos positivos no PIB agrícola. Esperava-se que fosse necessário o investimento na aquisição dos alimentos do produtor agrícola para que fosse gerado impactos positivos. Contudo, as estimações não evidenciaram impactos mesmo com o gasto dos recursos do Governo Federal. Este cenário pode ocorrer devido à baixa participação do setor agrícola no PIB paraibano, também por falta de um planejamento melhor dos gestores, como também, porque falta fiscalizações mais rigorosas por parte dos órgãos competentes. Contudo, o investimento na produção das lavouras temporárias e permanentes, contribuiu positivamente na dinâmica das economias locais. Igualmente, a produção pecuária, produz impactos positivos no PIB Agrícola paraibano, provavelmente devido a programas de distribuição de leite à população carente, pelo Governo Estadual. Palavras-chave: Agricultura Familiar, Alimentação Escolar, Dados em Painel, Impactos Econômicos, PNAE.
description: Revista de Ciências Agrárias, vol. 43 n.º spe1 (2020)
Curing TB with Open Science
Creators: name: Ekins, Sean
name: Williams, Antony
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cheminformatics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Computational Chemistry
subject: Computational Biology

description: An opinion published in Tuberculosis http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1472979213001698
Session 28: Developing a business clinic approach: collaborative work and value creation
Creators: name: Brown, Jan
name: Dinning, Track
name: Agboma, Fredrick
name: Omuso, Boma
Publisher: name: Student Experience Proceedings
Year: 2024

description: In our joint session, we aim to integrate two complementary projects on the value and impact of business clinics in higher education, demonstrating their collective impact on community building, learning enhancement, and value generation. This integrated perspective underscores the role of business clinics in not only fostering academic excellence and real-world engagement but also in contributing significantly to the broader educational and community ecosystem.


Project 1 offers a comprehensive examination of Liverpool Business Clinic’s initiative in engaging students with external organisations to collaboratively deliver real-world project briefs. This approach is grounded in a holistic view of business education, emphasising the diverse types of value created through such engagements. The presentation will detail a process for conceptualising, mapping, and evaluating value from multiple stakeholder perspectives, thereby contributing to the LJMU’s strategy for place and partnership. The potential for transferring this value mapping process to other stakeholder and its implications for future collaborative research underline the broader applicability and significance of this model.


Project 2 presents a focused study on an educational intervention within the business clinic framework, highlighting the benefits of cross-level collaboration between senior and junior business students. Anchored in Vygotsky’s social constructivism, this project exemplifies the social dimensions of learning, where community building and collaborative experiences are central. By facilitating interactions that bridge the theory-practice gap and enhance consultancy skills among final-year students while broadening learning perspectives for second-year students, this initiative showcases the value of student-driven projects in creating a supportive academic community and improving learning outcomes.


Together, these projects illuminate the multifaceted benefits of business clinics in higher education, showcasing how holistic value creation strategies and targeted educational interventions can synergistically enhance student experience, community engagement, and organisational partnerships.


Developing a business clinic approach: collaborative work and value creation PowerPoint. Only LJMU staff and students have access to this resource.
description: Student Experience Proceedings, 2024: Students at the Heart Conference
Brazilian beef exports to the main destinations: a persistence to shocks analysis
Creators: name: Ribeiro, Viviane P
name: Silva Neto, Waldemiro A
Publisher: name: Revista de Ciências Agrárias
Year: 2020

description: O Brasil é indiscutivelmente um dos maiores players do agronegócio da atualidade, possui uma agropecuária competitiva, uma agroindústria pujante e instituições sólidas. As exportações em 2018 desse segmento da economia brasileira ultrapassaram US$ 85 bi, sendo o complexo carnes responsável por US$ 14,7 bi. No entanto, o Brasil sofre pressões internas e externas, o que afeta as expectativas dos agentes e gera grandes ruídos para os produtores, especialmente aos exportadores. Diante disso, o objetivo desse artigo é o de analisar se as séries de exportações de carne bovina, em moeda (US$) e em volume comercializado (Kg), para os principais destinos apresentam persistência aos choques. Especificamente, busca testar a presença de memória longa nas séries, verificar a existência de quebra estrutural nos dados e identificar se há heterogeneidade no comportamento das séries. A metodologia está baseada na econometria de Séries Temporais, especificamente no teste de long memory de Robinson et al. (1995a) para a identificação do grau de persistência aos choques. Os resultados apontaram que as séries possuem memória longa, evidenciando assim que o mercado exportador brasileiro de carne bovina é consolidado internacionalmente e que os choques exógenos não afetam de forma persistente e permanente as exportações.
description: Revista de Ciências Agrárias, vol. 43 n.º spe1 (2020)
COMPETITIVIDADE E INSERÇÃO DA SOJA BRASILEIRA NO MERCADO INTERNACIONAL
Creators: name: Ramos, Caroline Marques
name: Pizaia, Marcia Gonçalves
name: Caldarelli, Carlos Eduardo
name: Camara, Marcia Regina Gabardo Da
Publisher: name: Revista de Ciências Agrárias
Year: 2020

description: Este artigo objetiva analisar o grau de competitividade e inserção da soja brasileira no mercado externo, no período de 2008 a 2016, através do Índice de Vantagem Comparativa Revelada Simétrica (IVCRS), do Índice Orientação Regional (IOR) e do método Constant Market Share (CMS). Os resultados obtidos através do IVCRS revelaram que apesar dos Estados Unidos serem o principal país exportador da cultura, a vantagem comparativa do Brasil e da Argentina é maior na atualidade. O modelo CMS permitiu identificar as principais fontes de crescimento das exportações brasileiras do complexo agroindustrial de soja, onde as taxas de competitividade obtiveram valores significativos, subiram de 20,38 para 63,67, indicando que as altas taxas de exportações brasileiras são responsáveis pela competitividade do Brasil em produzir e exportar o produto. O IOR revelou os principais destinos das exportações brasileiras do complexo soja. Para a soja em grão, foi notável a forte tendência das exportações para China. As exportações de farelo de soja foram pulverizadas e as exportações óleo de soja decresceram. Conclui-se que as exportações do complexo soja aumentaram significativamente graças à competitividade brasileira, porém com a concentração em apenas um produto, a soja em grão. Palavras-chave: IVCRS, IOR, Constant Market Share.
description: Revista de Ciências Agrárias, vol. 43 n.º spe1 (2020)
Session 27: Laboratory efficiency assessment framework “LEAF”, promoting sustainable laboratory practices at LJMU
Creators: name: Fadden, Emma
Publisher: name: Student Experience Proceedings
Year: 2024

description: The Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (LEAF) at LJMU, implemented in 2023, addresses the substantial energy consumption in laboratories, estimated to be 3-10 times higher than regular office spaces. Technical teams play a key role in advising and implementing sustainable practices, facing challenges in altering established norms. The emphasis on small changes is crucial, fostering a culture of environmental responsibility. Overcoming resistance and promoting training contribute to successful implementation. The results are expected to showcase quantitative and qualitative improvements, contributing to LJMU's commitment to sustainable operations and setting an example for other faculties and the community.


Laboratory efficiency assessment framework “LEAF”, promoting sustainable laboratory practices at LJMU PowerPoint. Only LJMU staff and students have access to this resource.


 
description: Student Experience Proceedings, 2024: Students at the Heart Conference
Diagnóstico do desperdício alimentar num restaurante universitário
Creators: name: FreitasVian, Carlos Eduardo
name: Lobo, Gustavo
name: Monteiro, Diogo M. Souza
name: Miranda, Silvia
name: Meira, Ana
name: Poeta, Paula
Publisher: name: Revista de Ciências Agrárias
Year: 2020

description: artigo submetido ao nº especial da RCA, no âmbito do IX Congresso da APDEA/ESADR2019 A FAO estima que 30% da produção agrícola anual se perca ou se desperdice ao longo da cadeia de distribuição. O sector da restauração e responsável por 9 a 20% deste desperdício. As cantinas Universitárias servem milhares de refeições diariamente e originam perdas e desperdício devido à má gestão, ambiente dos refeitórios e comportamento dos utentes. Este estudo visa examinar as principais causas do desperdício e compreender quais as atitudes dos utentes. Usando uma metodologia mista os resultados preliminares sugerem que existe uma grande amplitude de desperdício ao longo do ano. Os questionários aplicados junto aos usuários permitem concluir que oos seus valores e atitudes, a qualidade dos alimentos e a quantidade servida são fatores determinantes do desperdício. Também foi possível determinar que nos semestres finais do ano academico e quando são servidos pratos á base de proteina animal o desperdício de alimentos na ESALQ é maior.
description: Revista de Ciências Agrárias, vol. 43 n.º spe1 (2020)
Session 26: Community and collaboration: co-creating resources to promote opportunities for disabled and neurodivergent students
Creators: name: Tannett, Jennie
name: Coney, Keren
name: Eletr, Refaat
name: Mousley, Jack
name: Summerville, Jasmine
Publisher: name: Student Experience Proceedings
Year: 2024

description: For many years, studies of the destinations of UK graduates illustrate the disadvantage experienced by disabled and neurodivergent graduates when it comes to employment (AGCAS 2024, 2022, 2021). Employment is recognised as a way in which people find purpose, self-confidence and economic wellbeing (Pratt et al. 2014); indeed, employment is a human right (Nolan & Gleeson 2017). For several years, colleagues in Student Futures have collaborated with disabled and neurodivergent students - those we see as experts by experience - to develop resources to support the success of LJMU students in the workplace. In this fourth year of collaboration, we have been particularly concerned with ensuring that our message reaches current disabled and neurodivergent students, so that they are aware of the resources and provision available to aid their success.


In this session, three students and two careers practitioners from Student Futures will describe the latest iteration of the co-creation internship project. A range of videos, social media posts and other resources were created, which will be shown during the session. In addition, the learning gained from this collaboration will be shared. For the interns, this has included the enjoyment of being able to choose the ways to promote initiatives to fellow students which they deem to be most effective. For the careers practitioners, working with the interns has led to a deeper understanding of the concerns and perspectives of these students, with implications for future practice. This session will describe the achievements of the project, outline recommendations for other staff and highlight the benefits of a deepened understanding and a sense of empowerment for all involved.


Community and collaboration: co-creating resources to promote opportunities for disabled and neurodivergent students PowerPoint.  Only LJMU staff and students have access to this resource.
description: Student Experience Proceedings, 2024: Students at the Heart Conference
Session 24: Beyond accessibility: empowering students through assistive AI
Creators: name: Mursic, Sara
Publisher: name: Student Experience Proceedings
Year: 2024

description: In our digital learning world, equitable access to technology and the skills to use it effectively are critical for impactful learning and a positive student experience. This presentation dives into Assistive AI, a new SAW programme designed to empower all students, particularly those with disabilities, to bridge the digital divide and leverage technology ethically and effectively for their academic journey.


The programme is designed to equip students with the necessary skills and awareness to utilise AI as an assistive software that can significantly enhance their academic experience. From text-to-speech functions and breaking down bigger tasks, all the way to creating quick lunch recipes or reminders for appointments, this technology has been a game changer for those who discovered its potential. However, leaving students to discover these benefits on their own is not enough. We, as a community, must actively share and teach the skills needed for students to leverage AI for personalised support and independent learning. Beyond equipping students with skills, our project fosters responsible AI use. Through interactive workshops, students explore real-world scenarios and discuss potential risks, building a deeper understanding of academic integrity and safety in the digital age.


The purpose of this presentation is not only to showcase the successful implementation of the Assistive AI project, but also invite collaboration from the wider university community. We believe this programme has great potential to be replicated and expanded across different departments, fostering a more inclusive and technologically empowered learning environment for our whole community. What do you believe? Let’s join forces, because only by fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing, we can collectively ensure that technology serves as a bridge, not a barrier, to success.


*We aim to include direct student testimonials (or potentially students as co-presenters), but do not have that information yet.


Beyond accessibility: empowering students through assistive AI PowerPoint. Only LJMU staff and students have access to this resource.
description: Student Experience Proceedings, 2024: Students at the Heart Conference
Session 25: Working in a wellness community: assessing the benefits to student curators in a creative collaboration
Creators: name: Carroll, Juliet
Publisher: name: Student Experience Proceedings
Year: 2024

description: The paper will present the outcomes of research that has investigated the impact on student wellbeing of an internship to enhance the public spaces at the new Royal Liverpool Hospital, (RLH).We asked if this contribution to the ‘common good’ enhances the student experience of internship, as opposed to a work experience that is based on ‘private good’ or only of commercial interest. This responds to ‘the philosophy of focusing on the common good as a measurement of wellbeing’ Ahuvia et al,(2015)


The paper has three central aims:
• To enable students to present their insights and conclusions.
• To offer the results of reflection and thematic analysis as an effective methodology
• To submit the results of the research to public scrutiny.


Students have recently participated in a curatorial project at the new RLH. Art works were transferred from the old buildings, prior to demolition, and rehung in the new hospital, building a sense of continuity and community. The response from staff and RLH senior management has been overwhelmingly positive, and we have been offered many art works to develop a phase two, commencing in February 2024.


Positive feedback from students was previously captured informally. In the next phase, we have offered paid internships to eight students to explore the impact of an activity that has a ‘focus on the common good’, i.e., improving the working environment of the community of staff at the RLH. Interns have been tasked to keep a regular reflective journal alongside their curatorial activities and asked to consider specific questions that will allow us to assess the impact on their wellbeing, both mental and physical, using a thematic analysis. This has received a Curriculum Enhancement Grant.


Working in a wellness community: assessing the benefits to student curators in a creative collaboration PowerPoint.  Only LJMU staff and students have access to this resource.
description: Student Experience Proceedings, 2024: Students at the Heart Conference
Session 23: Workshop: Improving impact reporting: a gameplay approach to understanding theory of change
Creators: name: Smith, Emma
name: Boerkamp, Fenna
name: Holland, Natalie
name: Zaitseva, Elena
Publisher: name: Student Experience Proceedings
Year: 2024

description: This workshop offers an opportunity for colleagues involved in Access and Participation Plan (APP) and broader student experience activities to engage with the game ‘Change Busters’. Through gameplay, participants will enhance their understanding of the stages of a Theory or Change (ToC). The game aims to facilitate better intervention and evaluation design, ultimately contributing to better student outcomes.


Regulation of equality of opportunity, as mandated by the Office for Students (OfS) through the new wave of Access and Participation Plans (2024-2029), emphasises the importance of clear and robust evidence of which interventions are working, and why. Additionally, providing impact evidence of initiatives aimed at enhancing the student experience is also a critical component of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). Our recent excellent TEF score indicated that providing more robust impact evidence could lead us to achieve a gold rating. Thus, it is evaluation must form an integral part of interventions designed to enhance the student experience.


A key tool to support intervention design and impact evaluation is the Theory of Change (ToC) model. A ToC provides a structured approach to outline how specific interventions are expected to lead to desired changes. It helps to define the challenges being addressed, the intended outcomes, and the activities planned to achieve these outcomes. Integrating both process and impact evaluations, and establishing measures of success for each stage, ToC can significantly strengthen the design and evaluation of an intervention.


Over the last 12 months, the Student Voice & Evaluation Team, situated within the Teaching and Learning Academy has worked with colleagues across professional services to ensure that staff are equipped with the knowledge and skills required to develop a ToC. This has been driven largely by the interactive game called ‘Change Busters’, developed by colleagues from Sheffield Hallam for Advance HE.


Improving impact reporting: a gameplay approach to understanding theory of change PowerPoint. Only LJMU staff and students have access to this resource.
description: Student Experience Proceedings, 2024: Students at the Heart Conference
Estudo de Mercado de Café Biológico de STP
Creators: name: Salvador, Jukisia
name: Lucas, Maria Raquel David Pereira Ventura
Publisher: name: Revista de Ciências Agrárias
Year: 2020

description: A região de Monte Café, um lugar de destaque na produção do café antes da independência do país em 1975, entrou em declínio até à criação da CECAFEB (Cooperativa de Exportação de Café Biológico) e o relançamento da cafeicultura de qualidade, em modo biológico. A CECAFEB depara-se, contudo, com problemas de baixo volume de produção e dificuldades de abastecimento e de conhecimento do mercado, razão pela qual, o objetivo deste artigo foi o de fazer um estudo de mercado do café biológico junto aos estabelecimentos vendedores e não vendedores deste café, em São Tomé e Príncipe (STP). A metodologia adotada, de natureza mista, foi desenvolvida em duas etapas, uma exploratória e, outra conclusiva-descritiva, assente na observação e na recolha dos dados por entrevista e pelo método de sondagem. Os resultados, permitiram identificar os elos da cadeia de valor do café biológico e os potenciais estabelecimentos clientes deste produto e evidenciar falta de conhecimento do café biológico, da marca e da CECAFEB. A certificação do café como biológico, é um atributo valorizado na compra e consumo.
description: Revista de Ciências Agrárias, vol. 43 n.º spe1 (2020)
Cooperativismo e acesso aos serviços agrícolas na província do Huambo: O caso de cooperativas apoiadas pela ADRA
Creators: name: Chivala, Antonino Abel
name: Henriques, Pedro Damião
name: Lucas, Maria Raquel
Publisher: name: Revista de Ciências Agrárias
Year: 2020

description: O principal problema que os agricultores familiares na província do Huambo enfrentam na realização das actividades agrícolas está relacionado, sobretudo, com o acesso aos serviços agrícolas. O presente estudo visou analisar a contribuição das cooperativas na promoção do acesso aos serviços agrícolas. O estudo foi desenvolvido em duas fases, na primeira etapa, foi realizada uma pesquisa exploratória sobre o tema do cooperativismo para a qual foram consultadas várias fontes de informação secundária. A segunda fase, consistiu numa recolha de dados suportada em fontes directas de informação primária, através do método de sondagem, tendo sido construídos e aplicados dois questionários, um a lideranças das cooperativas e outro aos agricultores cooperantes. Os resultados do estudo mostram que os principais serviços dinamizados pelas cooperativas são o acesso ao crédito monetário, a insumos e equipamentos agrícolas e a formação. De forma global, os agricultores não estão satisfeitos com os serviços prestados pelas cooperativas.
description: Revista de Ciências Agrárias, vol. 43 n.º spe1 (2020)
Sliding mode-based learning control for complex systems with dynamic fuzzy models
Creators: name: Tay, Fei Siang
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Complex systems are composed of interconnected heterogeneous components. The interconnections between these components may be nonlinear and unknown. In order to achieve precise control and control over wide operating ranges in the complex system, this thesis is concerned with the control design strategies via Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy models. In this thesis, sliding mode learning control has been developed to address the issues of fuzzy dynamic modelling and various types of robust controller designs. The proposed learning control algorithms have three major advantages: (i) the information of the parameter variations and disturbances is no longer required in the proposed learning controller design, (ii) the control input is chattering-free, and (iii) the sliding mode learning control system possesses a strong robust property against parameter variations and disturbances.
Session 22: Lightning talk: Stupid genius: utilising podcasts to build thriving communities and enhance student experience
Creators: name: Bryde-Evens, Mollie
name: Wharton, Emily
Publisher: name: Student Experience Proceedings
Year: 2024

description: With digitalisation transforming the way we work in academia technological advancements can be used to nurture communities and engage staff and students both on and off campus. Podcasting, as a means to building community and enhancing student experience, is one creative means of digitalisation that is increasing in popularity. Stupid Genius is a fast-growing academia-related podcast with global reach that strives to disseminate research in interesting and engaging ways, build a thriving academic community and enhance the student experience. With 50 episodes released and over 7000 downloads as of January 2022, Stupid Genius discusses a range of interesting academia-related topics with a focus on enhancing the postgraduate student experience through sharing informal advice and lived experiences. Some of the topics covered include preparing to pass the VIVA, navigating networking, managing conflict with supervisors and becoming a lecturer. Stupid Genius has developed a flourishing online community with approximately 5000 members. The podcast also gives a platform to and promotes the inclusion of underrepresented groups and issues. For instance, it has welcomed guest speakers to discuss their work on dwarfism awareness, LGBT+ equalities, the marginalisation of black women in academia and men’s mental health. The session will include an overview of the benefits of utilising podcasts to build community and to enhance student experience, for those both within and outside of the institution. We will also share qualitative feedback from members of the Stupid Genius community, demonstrating the positive impact podcasting can have in both of these areas. Delegates will take away practical advice on how to begin and sustain a successful podcast that can support their academic endeavours whilst fostering and promoting LJMU’s values.


Stupid genius: utilising podcasts to build thriving communities and enhance student experience PowerPoint. Only LJMU staff and students have access to this resource.
description: Student Experience Proceedings, 2024: Students at the Heart Conference
Session 22: Lightning talk: Understanding the experience of digital learning: a study of LJMU MSc international students
Creators: name: Adegor, Vivian
Publisher: name: Student Experience Proceedings
Year: 2024

description: The rise of digital learning has revolutionized education, providing new avenues for academic growth. This transformation is especially notable for international MSc students in the UK. As technology shapes the learning landscape, it's crucial to understand its impact on students' mental health. This study centers on LJMU's international MSc community, exploring how digital learning influences their mental well-being within the blended learning environment.


Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) has a strategy to challenge itself toward students’ life transformation as evidenced by excellent engagement in teaching and learning experiences, a practical support system, and advocacy for fostering excellent student experience. Subject to this strategy and drive, this proposal explores the digital learning experience and its impact on the mental health of tertiary international students at LJMU, specifically focusing on MSc students.


As an international student, my role as a course representative provided me the opportunity to experience firsthand the struggles international students face engaging with the digital learning experience, the impact, and the LJMU community support. This motivated me to write on this topic. I will be delivering this presentation as an MSc Management and Digital business student, and this proposal is part of my dissertation (The Digital Learning Experience and its Effects on the Mental Health of Tertiary International Students in the UK; A Study on LJMU MSc Students).


The study aims to investigate these effects, identify coping strategies, and enhance support mechanisms. Methodologically, semi-structured interviews will be employed, focusing on students' experiences with digital learning and its mental health implications within the LJMU community.


The findings will not only inform LJMU lecturers on supporting international students but also contribute to fostering an exceptional student experience and supporting communities beyond the curriculum.


Understanding the experience of digital learning: a study of LJMU MSc international students PowerPoint.  Only LJMU staff and students have access to this resource.
description: Student Experience Proceedings, 2024: Students at the Heart Conference
Lateral Pressure Profile Calculations of Lipid Membranes from Atomic Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Creators: name: Ollila, Samuli
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Computational Chemistry
Computational Physics
Biophysics

description: Master thesis by O. H. S. Ollila made in Helsinki University of Technology (currently Aalto University) in the year 2006.
Fundamental understanding of polylactic acid - lignocellulose composites
Creators: name: Way, Cameron
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Biocomposites are biodegradable composites containing a polymer matrix and a natural reinforcing component. They are either directly extracted from nature or derived from it. As such, they can be sustainably produced (minimising the need for oil-based polymers) and safely discarded though biodegradation in compost or other natural environments. However, their difficulty becomes a balance between maximising the biocomposite physical performance and working life without drastically compromising its biodegradation. This holistic study investigated the complex compositional effects of biocomposites containing polylactic acid with varying weight loadings of natural fibres (such as wood fibres and cotton linters; some with surface treatments to improve the fibre-polymer interface) and the effect on both physical performance of the composite as well as the ultimate biodegradation in a compost environment.
Session 22: Lightning talk: Using writing groups to strengthen the postgraduate researcher community
Creators: name: McKeon, Jo
Publisher: name: Student Experience Proceedings
Year: 2024

description: The benefits of writing retreats for improving motivation, accountability and productivity, are now well established. Research has highlighted their role in improving academic writing output and developing valuable communities of practice (eg. Tremblay-Wragg, 2021; Atchison and Guerin, 2014; Murray, 2009).


Since 2017, LJMU’s Doctoral Academy has coordinated a wide range of writing retreat formats for Postgraduate Research (PGR) students. These have included 2- and 3-day writing residentials, monthly writing days, online, and now hybrid, weekly writing groups. Our experience over the last seven years has convinced us that regular, structured opportunities to write alongside others are a powerful way of enhancing the PGR student experience. Through regular peer interaction, the writing group environment can provide a sense of belonging, something that PGRs often miss out on in comparison to taught students. As some of our participants have described it, a PhD can be ‘a very insular and lonely experience’, but the ‘collegiate atmosphere’ of a group or retreat can provide ‘a renewed sense of why I am doing this research’ or simply ‘remind you that you’re in it with other people’.


Experimenting with the format and frequency of writing retreats in recent years, particularly during and after Covid lockdowns, has shown what an agile and responsive mode of support they can be. This short talk will demonstrate how retreats and groups have enhanced the student experience by providing a sense of cohort for PGRs. It will also show how participants have taken ownership of the format and helped it to evolve over time in response to their needs.


Using writing groups to strengthen the postgraduate researcher community PowerPoint.  Only LJMU staff and students have access to this resource.
description: Student Experience Proceedings, 2024: Students at the Heart Conference
Global Collaborative Partner Forum
Creators: name: Wright, Jacqueline
Publisher: name: Student Experience Proceedings
Year: 2024

description: Building a Global Community through our International Collaborative Partnerships.


Come and hear from our Global Partners about the innovative ways they ensure student experience is at the heart of what they deliver. Through presentations and a panel discussion we will explore opportunities to work together to build a truly global LJMU student community.
description: Student Experience Proceedings, 2024: Students at the Heart Conference
Session 20: Trainee psychological wellbeing practitioners perceptions of wellbeing provision across the training year
Creators: name: Chatterley, Michelle
name: Squirrell, Jody
name: Fitzsimmons, Ella
Publisher: name: Student Experience Proceedings
Year: 2024

description: The presentation will focus on sharing our small curriculum enhancement project that is currently being undertaken to explore trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners (tPWP) perceptions of wellbeing support across their training year. It will consider views of stressors in relation to their academic studies and consider what impact this may have upon wellbeing and resilience. We aim to gain an understanding of the skills students feel they already possess, in relation to managing their wellbeing, and where they feel they could benefit from further support.


It is hoped the data gathered from the project will inform the development of a wellbeing and resilience training programme that could be delivered within the training year.


The presentation will reflect on existing research in this area, share any possible findings from the project and how this could inform future programme content. We will also share expert and specialist knowledge from other teaching staff within the school of Psychology for potential collaboration in the development of such a programme.


We hope delegates will take away from the presentation an awareness of tPWP perceptions of specific stressors to their wellbeing as well as how this knowledge could inform potential content for a wellbeing programme.


Our presentation relates to LJMU's health and wellbeing strategy. We hope that the project would work towards the vision of self-care and resilience by considering ways we could complement existing wellbeing provisions at LJMU to support students to manage their own health and wellbeing decisions. We are also aware that LJMU is an HEI that has signed up to the University Health Charter Framework in making mental health a priority. We feel the focus of our project is also in line with this.


Our project will also consider how a wellbeing and resilience programme could benefit the wider student population.


Trainee psychological wellbeing practitioners perceptions of wellbeing provision across the training year PowerPoint.  Only LJMU staff and students have access to this resource.
description: Student Experience Proceedings, 2024: Students at the Heart Conference
Session 21: JMSU: building communities, a mid point reflection
Creators: name: Chapman, Paul
name: Latham, Sarah
Publisher: name: Student Experience Proceedings
Year: 2024

description: Introduction
JMSU is halfway through a three-year growth project centred around an increase in Block Grant to build capacity within our staffing and activity programmes. Our two primary strategic goals are ‘Expert Representation’ and ‘Building Connections’ both of which underpin our approach to creating a sense of community. We feel we have made significant inroads in expanding our activity and impact within the remit of Student Experience and would like to share this with
This session will:


• Re-state JMSU’s strategic intentions

• Provide an overview of our journey within the three-year growth plan

• Offer an insight into our work and relationship with the University

• Provide current statistics and data that demonstrate our activity

• Highlight future plans for 2024/25 and 2025/26

• Offer an opportunity for participants to feedback and input into JMSU’s plans – in particular supporting wider Faculty and Campus engagement



Outcomes


Participants will:


• Gain an understanding of the work of JMSU

• Identify areas of potential collaboration with JMSU

• Be able to signpost current opportunities through JMSU to students

• Input thoughts and ideas into JMSU’s work

• [Hopefully!] Become ambassadors of the Students’ Union



 
description: Student Experience Proceedings, 2024: Students at the Heart Conference
On the algebraizability of the implicational fragment of Abelian logic
Creators: name: Butchart, Sam
name: Rogerson, Susan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this paper we consider the implicational fragment of Abelian logic A→. We show that although the Abelian groups provide an semantics for the set of theorems of A→ they do not for the associated consequence relation. We then show that the consequence relation is not algebraizable in the sense of Blok and Pigozzi (Mem Am Math Soc 77, 1989). In the second part of the paper, we investigate an extension of A→ in the same language and having the same set of theorems and show that this new consequence relation is algebraizable with the Abelian groups as its equivalent algebraic semantics. Finally, we show that although A→ is not algebraizable, it is order-algebraizable in the sense of Raftery (Ann Pure Appl Log 164:251-283, 2013).
Session 19: Enhancement activity to support student continuation in the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences
Creators: name: Sadler, Ian
name: Strauss, Juliette
name: Ball, Emma
name: Murphy, Becky
Publisher: name: Student Experience Proceedings
Year: 2024

description: Student continuation in higher education is a significant issue in the sector. Defined as a student still being in their studies 1 year and 15 days after they started, continuation is a key metric in OfS requirements for institutions to maintain registration. We must also not lose sight of the importance of continuation for the individual student who has made a significant commitment to continued education and personal development. Conceptually, continuation is complex and reasons for non-continuation are multifaceted. Within the School of Sport and Exercise Science continuation has been below benchmark and the subject area seems to be suppressed relative to other subject areas in the sector. This paper identifies a range of approaches that aim to increase a sense of community and belonging, alongside more targeted support for individuals that are relevant across subject areas. Three specific projects are brought together including: 1) a high-intensity peer mentor facilitated induction; 2) an enhanced personal tutor system; and 3) a system for identifying ‘at risk’ students. The impact of these strategies will be evaluated and colleagues will be asked to consider their application and implications for other academic and professional departments in the university.


Enhancement activity to support student continuation in the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences PowerPoint. Only LJMU staff and students have access to this resource.
description: Student Experience Proceedings, 2024: Students at the Heart Conference
Data and Code for Reproducible Research: Lessons Learned from the NLM Reproducibility Workshop
Creators: name: Zaringhalam, Maryam
name: Federer, Lisa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: reproducibility
data science training
open science
open code
open data

description: The National Library of Medicine held two workshops in 2019 in which National Institutes of Health researchers attempted to reproduce the results of published bioinformatics paper that stated they made their data and code publicly available. Not a single one of the ten teams over two workshops could fully reproduce the results of the paper. Despite the teams’ inability to reproduce the results, the workshops provided valuable insights into where researchers are falling short in sharing and documenting their data and code. This presentation, prepared for csv,conf,v5, discusses some of the issues that contributed to the irreproducibility of these papers to provide a better understanding of how researchers can ensure that their science is transparent and reproducible.
Session 18: The ‘Mistory’ decolonization project: confronting black maternal health disparities with midwifery and history students
Creators: name: Maxwell, Clare
name: Machado-Le Gal, Olga
name: Chapman, Gina
name: Livesey, Andrea
name: Woodcock, Eden
Publisher: name: Student Experience Proceedings
Year: 2024

description: Recent studies show that Black women are nearly 4 times more likely to die in pregnancy and childbirth in the UK when compared to white women. Reasons for this transcend physical, psychological and socio-economic aspects, but racial bias is a contributory factor. Nineteenth century teachings on race told physicians that Black women were less susceptible to pain in labour, breastfed easily, and had less emotional connection to their children. This racialized knowledge, developed under slavery, was repeated in medical literature throughout most of the twentieth century, and subsequently still impacts understandings of ‘racial difference’ today.


LJMU History and Midwifery departments are leading a curriculum enhancement internship project, facilitating students across disciplines to work together using historical research to decolonize the midwifery curriculum. This implicitly recognises the value of working across LJMU’s community in addressing all three of the aims in LJMU Strategy 2030 in, first, providing excellent education beyond the curriculum (Education and Student Experience); second, including students in cutting-edge interdisciplinary research (Research and Knowledge Exchange), and finally, including students in a parallel multi-institutional project on Black maternal health (with International Slavery Museum/local artists) in which both History and Midwifery staff play lead roles (Place and Partnership).


In summary, this project provides historical context to racialised ideas around Black women and reproduction, explores how these ideas link to outcomes of Black women in UK maternity services and produce historically informed teaching interventions/resources to help decolonize the curriculum. In this SAH presentation the midwifery and history leads, with the student interns, will discuss 1. The methodology used and applicability for other disciplines 2. Challenges/benefits of working across two very different subject areas, and 3. the value of embracing LJMU’s community and the value of both student, as well as staff, skills and knowledge (key takeaway message).
description: Student Experience Proceedings, 2024: Students at the Heart Conference
National libraries as a «reservoir» of national memory in circs of the spread of electronic technology
Creators: name: Granchak, Tetiana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: The article is devoted to the disclosure of the significance of the national libraries in the formation of a national information resource, covering the specifics of the evolution of national libraries’ collections as a knowledge base in the national promotion in circs of the spread of electronic technology.
Session 17: Education for All - From West Derby to LJMU: using the authentic student voice
Creators: name: Shillito, Catherine
name: Clark, John
name: Askew, Cameron
Publisher: name: Student Experience Proceedings
Year: 2024

description: The Outreach Team has worked with West Derby School for over 15 years, through delivery of sustained widening access programmes - such as the current Access All Areas initiative, targeted at young males from under-represented backgrounds. The presentation will focus on a case study from Cameron Askew, a current LJMU Student in the Liverpool Business School and past pupil of West Derby School. Cameron engaged with multiple widening access programmes delivered by the Outreach Team and will explore the benefits of these interactions and how they prepared him to apply and subsequently succeed at LJMU.


Cameron currently works as a third year placement student within the Outreach Team and will outline how he is actively delivering inspirational sessions to the next generation of West Derby students and beyond. The session will demonstrate the impact of using representative students in delivering outreach to support the university's widening access and student recruitment targets. Evaluation will be covered highlighting how this work links to the university's access and participation plan strategy in line with OFS and TASO guidance.


As widening access programmes seek to encourage broader participation in higher education, the established constructs around human capital and models of inclusivity are increasingly challenged. The session also demonstrates how subject specific widening access initiatives can be tailored to support under-represented groups in Liverpool’s high-school communities evaluate their post-18 options by constructing bespoke experiences built around the individual needs of pupil groups. In celebrating the personal reference points of high-school pupils and linking to elements of popular-culture, the individual needs of marginalised groups are considered in equitable quantity to strategy targets of the university.


The session will further cover how the outreach strategy is informed by Liverpool City Region data that identifies schools with the highest percentage of disadvantaged learners. Through partnership with local school and college contacts, the university directly contributes to the institutional Place and Partnership Strategy, and through its use of the authentic student voice positively promotes the LJMU student experience.


Education for All - From West Derby to LJMU: using the authentic student voice PowerPoint.  Only LJMU staff and students have access to this resource.
description: Student Experience Proceedings, 2024: Students at the Heart Conference