cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The exploration of sensitive topics in higher education
Creators: name: Thomson, Jade
Publisher: name: Student Experience Proceedings
Year: 2023

description: Through my research, 35.5% of students surveyed felt unsafe whilst exploring sexual violence in theatre and whilst some of the stories that have come to light are positive, many are about distress, pressure, mental health issues, and students being put in very vulnerable positions. This research has implications for other areas of HE practice, where sexual violence, and other potentially distressing topics, are an important part of student exploration through their studies. Many students who study the topic do so out of a need to challenge self, educate others or raise awareness. It is our job as educators to allow them to explore topics such as these in a safe environment. The research has been led by the application of the student voice through the collection of data from drama students across the UK to enhance student experiences in better understanding their experience of learning and educational material covering sexual violence. Interviews and surveys have been carried out to understand the perspective of students who have explored through their practically taught sessions sexual violence, up to and including rape, whilst at in higher education. This data, alongside interviews with intimacy coordinators and tutors from other institutions, has been analysed to understand the key aspects of teaching sensitive topics such as sexual violence. My presentation will give a short overview of the themes that have emerged through thematic analysis of data collected. From this analysis I will then present several thoughts on how to mitigate distress and enhance safety when exploring sensitive topics within the humanities. This will include the use of content warnings, communication with students and the creation of safe spaces. I will then close by discussing the implications beyond theatre to other areas of HE practice to develop and enhance good practice. The exploration of sensitive topics in higher education, PowerPoint. Only LJMU staff and students have access to this resource.
description: Student Experience Proceedings, 2023: Students at the Heart Conference
Bibliotherapy: reading and writing for wellbeing – a story of collaboration and supportive spaces
Creators: name: Smith, Anne-Marie
name: Burns, Debbie
name: Ryell, Michelle
name: Asensio, Maggie
name: Powell Russell, Winsome
Publisher: name: Student Experience Proceedings
Year: 2023

description: Our interactive workshop will introduce staff and students to Bibliotherapy and the use of reading and expressive writing as a way of enhancing wellbeing and positive self-awareness. We will share books and writing activities to inspire and equip you with creative tools for your own personal development practice. Aligned with LJMU’s strategic aim of providing experiences ‘beyond the curriculum and supporting communities’, our workshop will offer insights from research as well as personal experience about the benefits of reading and writing the self and invites participants to take part in some short writing activities (no skills necessary, just a willingness to see where your pen/pencil might take you!). Bibliotherapy: reading and writing for wellbeing – a story of collaboration and supportive spaces, PowerPoint. Only LJMU staff and students have access to this resource.
description: Student Experience Proceedings, 2023: Students at the Heart Conference
Synthesis of hydrogen- and methyl-capped long-chain polyynes by intense ultrashort laser pulse irradiation of toluene
Creators: name: Ramadhan, Ali
name: Wesolowski, Michal
name: Wakabayashi, Tomonari
name: Shiromaru, Haruo
name: Fujino, Tatsuya
name: Kodama, Takeshi
name: Duley, Walter
name: Sanderson, Joseph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hydrogen- and methyl-capped polyynes were synthesized by irradiating pure liquid toluene with 35 femtosecond, 300 μJ laser pulses having a central wavelength of 800 nm, generated by a regeneratively amplified Ti:sapphire tabletop laser at a repetition rate of 1 kHz. Raman spectroscopy was used to confirm the presence of polyynes in the irradiated samples while high-performance liquid chromatography was used to separate hydrogen-capped polyynes up to C18H2 and methyl-capped polyynes up to HC14CH3. These represent the first such methyl-capped polyynes and the longest hydrogen capped chains synthesized to date by the ultrafast laser based method. Furthermore our results show that choice of the starting solvent molecule directly influences the end caps of the polyynes which can be produced.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures, 31 references
title: Intentions and imaginations of migration among minority group members in the pre-migration phase A study of migration imaginations in Estonia and Italy
Creators: name: Tasser, Carmen
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation investigates the intentions and imaginations of migration of minority groups in the pre-migration phase and their identification and self-categorization during this time. The data was collected prior the actual move and the study aims to look beyond the scope of ethnic return migration literature and explore minority migration in its multiple shapes. A multiple case study with a mixed model design and grounded theory was conducted using two cases: Estonia and Italy. Estonia is a country with a significant minority group of Russophones which is the first group of interest in this thesis. Italy on the other hand has a region in the north, namely South Tyrol, with a considerable German speaking population; which will serve as a second case study. The quantitative and qualitative questionnaire was distributed among last year High School students in 2020 in Estonia and 2021 in Italy which led to a total of (N=151) participants in Estonia and (N=90) participants in South Tyrol. The analysis shows a higher probability of minority group members to migrate in both case studies, however not connected to ethnic return migration intentions. The main reasons for migration intentions are the divisions of societies and the lack of feeling of belonging of minority group members, as well as the imagination of a good community in the destination country. Looking at the self-identification of the participants, minority group members prefer a combined identity of their ethnic, national and the European identity, while majority group members favour solely the national identity. However, the European identity can function as an umbrella category and combine both groups. Future studies could explore the relationship between the imagination of migration and actual migration behaviours, as well as the long-term outcomes of migration for minority groups.
Jet observables and stops at 100 TeV collider
Creators: name: Fan, JiJi
name: Jaiswal, Prerit
name: Leung, John Shing Chau
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A future proton-proton collider with center of mass energy around 100 TeV will have a remarkable capacity to discover massive new particles and continue exploring weak scale naturalness. In this work we will study its sensitivity to two stop simplified models as further examples of its potential power: pair production of stops that decay to tops or bottoms and higgsinos; and stops that are either pair produced or produced together with a gluino and then cascade down through gluinos to the lightest superpartner (LSP). In both simplified models, super-boosted tops or bottoms with transverse momentum of order TeV will be produced abundantly and call for new strategies to identify them. We will apply a set of simple jet observables, including track-based jet mass, N-subjettiness and mass drop, to tag the boosted hadronic or leptonic decaying objects and suppress the Standard Model as well as possible SUSY backgrounds. Assuming 10% systematic uncertainties, the future 100 TeV collider can discover (exclude) stops with masses up to 6 (7) TeV with 3 inverse attobarns of integrated luminosity if the stops decay to higgsinos. If the stops decay through gluinos to LSPs, due to additional SUSY backgrounds from gluino pair production, a higher luminosity of about 30 inverse attobarns is needed to discover stops up to 6 TeV. We will also discuss how to use jet observables to distinguish simplified models with different types of LSPs. The boosted top or bottom tagging strategies developed in this paper could also be used in other searches at a 100 TeV collider. For example, the strategy could help discover gluino pair production with gluino mass close to 11 TeV with 3 inverse attobarns of integrated luminosity.
description: 20 pages, 14 figures
LJMU History: Tales from the Archive
Creators: name: Olive, Christopher
name: Parsons, Emily
Publisher: name: Student Experience Proceedings
Year: 2023

description: Explore hidden records and artefacts from the University’s past with Archivists Emily Parsons and Christopher Olive. View, handle, and learn about LJMU’s historic collections from the Archive, to be catalogued in celebration of 200 years of history.
description: Student Experience Proceedings, 2023: Students at the Heart Conference
Follow up questionnaire Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy, an explorative case-control study with viral metagenomic analysis of Onchocerca volvulus.
Creators: name: Colebunders Robert
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Onchocerciasis; epilepsy; nodulectomy; metagenomics; questionnaire

description: Follow-up questionnaire Onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy: an explorative case-control study with viral metagenomic analysis of Onchocerca volvulus
Outlook for U.S. Agricultural Trade: August 2022
Creators: name: Kenner, Bart
name: Jiang, Hui
name: Russell, Dylan
name: Kenner, Bart
name: Jiang, Hui
name: Russell, Dylan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Financial Economics
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Political Economy
subject: USDA
subject: United States
subject: agriculture
subject: U.S. exports
subject: U.S. imports
subject: economics
subject: outlook
subject: forecast
subject: U.S. trade
subject: trade outlook
subject: agricultural trade
subject: soybeans
subject: wheat
subject: horticulture
subject: livestock
subject: dairy
subject: poultry
subject: Mexico
subject: Canada
subject: China
subject: European Union
subject: quarterly

description: The August 2022 quarterly USDA forecasts for agricultural trade in the United States for fiscal years 2022 and 2023 are presented and discussed in this report.
Search for associated production of a Z boson with a single top quark and for tZ flavour-changing interactions in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A search for the production of a single top quark in association with a Z boson is presented, both to identify the expected standard model process and to search for flavour-changing neutral current interactions. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 inverse femtobarns recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV. Final states with three leptons (electrons or muons) and at least one jet are investigated. An events yield compatible with tZq standard model production is observed, and the corresponding cross section is measured to be sigma( p p -> t Z q -> l nu b l+ l- q ) = 10 +8/-7 fb with a significance of 2.4 standard deviations. No presence of flavour-changing neutral current production of tZq is observed. Exclusion limits at 95% confidence level on the branching fractions of a top quark decaying to a Z boson and an up or a charm quark are found to be B( t -> Z u ) < 0.022% and B( t -> Z c ) < 0.049%.
description: Replaced with the published version. Added the journal reference and DOI. All the figures and tables can be found at http://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/TOP-12-039
Taking seminars outdoors in nature: alternative learning spaces in LJMU
Creators: name: Garden, Ange
Publisher: name: Student Experience Proceedings
Year: 2023

description: Objectives: This research draws on constructivist ways of thinking about learning where the learner is an active participant rather than a passive recipient and engages with the growing area of research on geographies of education and the increasing use of outdoor spaces in education. The objectives of the research are around an exploration of the concept of space where different behaviours are permitted, and the spaces given within modules. Design: The research is formed around conducting university seminar groups outdoors in the on-campus outdoor learning area and provides a starting point for understanding the potential value of outdoor classrooms and engagement with nature within higher education contexts. Methods: A convenience group of 25 participants were selected for the focus group as they sat around the campfire following seminar discussions. Conversations lasted one hour in length. Results: Thematic analysis of the data identified the themes of collaboration, risk, and creativity. Participants reported that conversations were more relaxed and interactive due to the less structured environment, and they felt ‘more awake’ due to extraneous conditions such as the fresh air, the experiences of nature and the positioning of the seating. The tutor similarly felt more able to engage the students in the discussions due to the circular format of the seating. Conclusions: The conclusions focus on providing an excellent student experience beyond the potential constraints of the indoor classroom. The research explores the ways in which new educational spaces can be formed, contested, and colonised and the benefits of nature for learning environments, whilst making no claims to the learning efficacy of such spaces per se. Taking seminars outdoors in nature: alternative learning spaces in LJMU, PowerPoint, Only LJMU staff and students have access to this resource.
description: Student Experience Proceedings, 2023: Students at the Heart Conference
Modification of Higgs Couplings in Minimal Composite Models
Creators: name: Liu, Da
name: Low, Ian
name: Wagner, Carlos E. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a comprehensive study of the modifications of Higgs couplings in the SO(5)/SO(4) minimal composite model. We focus on three couplings of central importance to Higgs phenomenology at the LHC: the couplings to top and bottom quarks and the coupling to two gluons. We consider three possible embeddings of the fermionic partners in 5, 10 and 14 of SO(5) and find tth and bbh couplings to be always suppressed in 5 and 10, while in 14 they can be either enhanced or suppressed. Assuming partial compositeness, we analyze the interplay between the tth coupling and the top sector contribution to the Coleman-Weinberg potential for the Higgs boson, and the correlation between tth and ggh couplings. In particular, if the electroweak symmetry breaking is triggered radiatively by the top sector, we demonstrate that the ratio of the tth coupling in composite Higgs models over the Standard Model expectation is preferred to be less than the corresponding ratio of the ggh coupling.
description: 42 pages, 14 figures; Added references
Rayleigh-Bènard convection in the generalized Oberbeck-Boussinesq system
Creators: name: Barna, Imre Feren
name: Pocsai, Mihály András
name: Lökös, Sándor
name: Mátyás, László
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The original Oberbeck-Boussinesq (OB) equations which are the coupled two dimensional Navier-Stokes(NS) and heat conduction equations have been investigated by E.N. Lorenz half a century ago with Fourier series and opened the way to the paradigm of chaos. In our former study-Chaos, Solitons and Fractals78, 249 (2015)-we presented fully analytic solutions for the velocity, pressure and temperature fields with the aim of the self-similar Ansatz and gave a possible explanation of the Rayleigh--Bènard convection cells. Now we generalize the Oberbeck-Boussinesq hydrodynamical system, going beyond the first order Boussinesq approximation and consider a non-linear temperature coupling. We investigate more general, power law dependent fluid viscosity or heat conduction material equations as well. Our analytic results obtained via the self-similar Ansatz may attract the interest of various fields like meteorology, oceanography or climate studies.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
Privacy, digital security wellness and awareness – a collaborative project with Screen, Business and Law students
Creators: name: Baines, Paula
name: Haynes, Sarah
name: Forrester, Tina
name: Dinning, Track
Publisher: name: Student Experience Proceedings
Year: 2023

description: This paper presents the results of a collaborative project that brought together legal and governance services with student futures, academic staff, students from screen, business, and law to better understand the issue of Privacy, Digital Security Wellness and Awareness and offer interesting and effective uses of digital content to promote safe digital behaviours to all students. This curriculum enhancement project breaks new ground by engaging students to produce important central services information for the LJMU student community, working with the student voice to enhance the student experience. It tackles a recently occurring set of issues that stems from the ubiquity of our increasingly digital lives. The project is innovative in its collaborative pedagogical approach, bringing together staff and students from three discipline areas with colleagues from central services, to deliver an excellent student experience, tackling a real-world issue. The paper will provide valuable insights about student attitudes to privacy and cyber security, gathered through student research. This innovative approach to student-led research and solution generation is applied to this issue, faced by our students not just in their life at LJMU but beyond the university in their personal and ongoing professional lives. Students researched their own cohorts’ attitudes to cyber security and exchanged results to arrive at solutions appropriate for the diverse community of LJMU students. To realise this project law students initially explored the issues around cyber security, students in the business school picked up the baton and, as part of the curriculum through the business clinic, further researched student attitudes and developed concepts for a campaign, finally screen school students will take these concepts and produce video and digital content to deliver the campaign for all students during the Study for Success induction course in September 2023. Staff and students will present the challenges and opportunities they encountered. Privacy, digital security wellness and awareness – a collaborative project with Screen, Business and Law students, PowerPoint. Only LJMU staff and students have access to this resource.
description: Student Experience Proceedings, 2023: Students at the Heart Conference
Clustering Hierarchies via a Semi-Parametric Generalized Linear Mixed Model: a statistical significance-based approach
Creators: name: Ragni, Alessandra
name: Masci, Chiara
name: Ieva, Francesca
name: Paganoni, Anna Maria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We introduce a novel statistical significance-based approach for clustering hierarchical data using semi-parametric linear mixed-effects models designed for responses with laws in the exponential family (e.g., Poisson and Bernoulli). Within the family of semi-parametric mixed-effects models, a latent clustering structure of the highest-level units can be identified by assuming the random effects to follow a discrete distribution with an unknown number of support points. We achieve this by computing α-level confidence regions of the estimated support point and identifying statistically different clusters. At each iteration of a tailored Expectation Maximization algorithm, the two closest estimated support points for which the confidence regions overlap collapse. Unlike the related state-of-the-art methods that rely on arbitrary thresholds to determine the merging of close discrete masses, the proposed approach relies on conventional statistical confidence levels, thereby avoiding the use of discretionary tuning parameters. To demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach, we apply it to data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA - OECD) to cluster countries based on the rate of innumeracy levels in schools. Additionally, a simulation study and comparison with classical parametric and state-of-the-art models are provided and discussed.
title: Anliegen und Probleme der Arbeitsumweltgestaltung bei der Durchsetzung des Ministerratsbeschlusses vom 11. Oktober 1984
Creators: name: Fuchs, Joachim
Publisher: name: Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Arbeitsplatzgestaltung
subject: Design
subject: 720

description: Wissenschaftliches Kolloquium vom 24. bis 26. Juni 1986 in Weimar an der Hochschule für Architektur und Bauwesen zum Thema: 'Der wissenschaftlich-technische Fortschritt und die sozial-kulturellen Funktionen von Architektur und industrieller Formgestaltung in unserer Epoche'
description: Der wissenschaftlich-technische Fortschritt und die sozial-kulturelle Funktion von Architektur und industrieller Formgestaltung in unserer Epoche: 4. Internationales Bauhaus-Kolloquium Weimar 1986, vol. 33, 1987, no. 4-6, p. 204
description: Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Hochschule für Architektur und Bauwesen Weimar, vol. 33, 1987, no. 4-6, p. 204
Alpha Cluster Formation and Decay in Quartetting Wave Function Approach
Creators: name: Xu, Chang
name: Ropke, G.
name: Schuck, P.
name: Ren, Zhongzhou
name: Funaki, Y.
name: Horiuchi, H.
name: Tohsaki, A.
name: Yamada, T.
name: Zhou, Bo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a microscopic calculation of alpha-cluster formation in heavy nuclei by using the quartetting wave function approach. The interaction of the quartet with the core nucleus is taken in local density approximation. The alpha-cluster formation is found to be particularly sensitive to the interplay of the mean field felt by the alpha-cluster and the Pauli blocking as a consequence of antisymmetrization. The striking feature of alpha-cluster formation probability across the major shell closures of 82 protons and 126 neutrons is reproduced. The shell (or subshell) effects on the alpha-cluster formation in superheavy nuclei are also analyzed.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, discussion added, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. C
title: Konzeption und Rolle des Designs in den Entwicklungsländern in Bezug auf die wissenschaftlich-technische Revolution
Creators: name: Guillois, Ivan Espin
Publisher: name: Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Entwicklungsländer
subject: Design
subject: 720

description: Wissenschaftliches Kolloquium vom 24. bis 26. Juni 1986 in Weimar an der Hochschule für Architektur und Bauwesen zum Thema: 'Der wissenschaftlich-technische Fortschritt und die sozial-kulturellen Funktionen von Architektur und industrieller Formgestaltung in unserer Epoche'
description: Der wissenschaftlich-technische Fortschritt und die sozial-kulturelle Funktion von Architektur und industrieller Formgestaltung in unserer Epoche: 4. Internationales Bauhaus-Kolloquium Weimar 1986, vol. 33, 1987, no. 4-6, p. 206
description: Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Hochschule für Architektur und Bauwesen Weimar, vol. 33, 1987, no. 4-6, p. 206
The power of “We” in an “I” world
Creators: name: Royce, Maureen
Publisher: name: Student Experience Proceedings
Year: 2023

description: In Higher Education students and their tutors are primarily measured by individual performance metrics although we have seen an increasing interest in collaborative work in student assessment. However, the student experience is shaped predominantly by collective behaviours shaping modules with multiple tutor involvement, levels where modules connect and programmes where holistic support learning and employability interventions rely on teams of people rather than individual approaches. It is interesting that while we discuss and consider the marking and structure of collaborative work for students less attention is paid to the way in which collaborative work within and between programme teams and service teams is designed, valued and rewarded. The 5 minute slot will consider how the student and staff experience could benefit from a more considered approach to the power of "We". The power of “We” in an “I” world, PowerPoint. Only LJMU staff and students have access to this resource.
description: Student Experience Proceedings, 2023: Students at the Heart Conference
Low-Frequency Radio Recombination Lines Away From the Inner Galactic Plane
Creators: name: Vydula, Akshatha K.
name: Bowman, Judd D.
name: Lewis, David
name: Crawford, Kelsie
name: Kolopanis, Matthew
name: Rogers, Alan E. E.
name: Murray, Steven G.
name: Mahesh, Nivedita
name: Monsalve, Raul A.
name: Sims, Peter
name: Samson, Titu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Diffuse radio recombination lines (RRLs) in the Galaxy are possible foregrounds for redshifted 21~cm experiments. We use EDGES drift scans centered at $-26.7^o$~declination to characterize diffuse RRLs across the southern sky. We find RRLs averaged over the large antenna beam ($ 72^o \times 110^o $) reach minimum amplitudes between right ascensions~2-6~h. In this region, the C$α$ absorption amplitude is $33\pm11$~mK (1$σ$) averaged over 50-87~MHz ($27\gtrsim z \gtrsim15$ for the 21~cm line) and increases strongly as frequency decreases. C$β$ and H$α$ lines are consistent with no detection with amplitudes of $13\pm14$ and $12\pm10$~mK (1$σ$), respectively. At 108-124.5~MHz ($z\approx11$) in the same region, we find no evidence for carbon or hydrogen lines at the noise level of 3.4~mK (1$σ$). Conservatively assuming observed lines come broadly from the diffuse interstellar medium, as opposed to a few compact regions, these amplitudes provide upper limits on the intrinsic diffuse lines. The observations support expectations that Galactic RRLs can be neglected as significant foregrounds for a large region of sky until redshifted 21~cm experiments, particularly those targeting Cosmic Dawn, move beyond the detection phase. We fit models of the spectral dependence of the lines averaged over the large beam of EDGES, which may contain multiple line sources with possible line blending, and find that including degrees of freedom for expected smooth, frequency-dependent deviations from local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) is preferred over simple LTE assumptions for C$α$ and H$α$ lines. For C$α$ we estimate departure coefficients $0.79
description: 25 pages, 14 figures, 3 tables, Accepted in Astronomical Journal
The lecture is dead -v- long live the lecture
Creators: name: Royce, Maureen
name: Walsh, Linda
Publisher: name: Student Experience Proceedings
Year: 2023

description: The session will take the form of a debate with two experienced academics taking different perspectives about the value of the lecture and its place in student learning. Those attending will be asked to take part in polling about their own behaviours when in a lecture style environment and we will look to consider how learning continues post lecture and how this might be shaped. Given the emphasis on retention and concerns about attendance, an open debate about a frequently used learning tool can help to unpick some of the ways in which we can increase our capacity to engage students in lectures all the way through a semester. The lecture is dead -v- long live the lecture, PowerPoint. Only LJMU staff and students have access to this resource.
description: Student Experience Proceedings, 2023: Students at the Heart Conference
ITV30 – innovative three-way partnership between LJMU (LSS, Student Futures), ITV and Liverpool Film Office
Creators: name: Haynes, Sarah
name: McLean, Rachel
name: Baines, Paula
Publisher: name: Student Experience Proceedings
Year: 2023

description: This paper reflects on the experience of staff and students involved in ITV30. An innovative approach to placements, bringing together the Liverpool Film Office, ITV Studios and the Screen School to deliver a package of work-based learning to thirty students during the summer of 2022. Lynn Saunders, of the LFO, said: “I’ve never known so many students on a big set ever!” It was a first, for all three partners. The Screen School worked closely with LFO and ITV to ensure that students were selected and placed appropriately. Planning not only selection, but preparation for the placements and crucially follow-on support from LFO, particularly for graduating students, to use these placements as a transformative experience, enhancing graduate employment prospects. Once selected, through a rigorous application and interview process, students completed an online course, Set, Ready, preparing them to work on set, before embarking on two-week placements on, Maternal, a six-part ITV drama currently on ITVX. This preparation paid off, “They did brilliantly, really got stuck in and felt like part of the team,” said Faiza Tovey, Head of Production at ITV Studios. Several students were retained on this production in paid roles and moved on to more paid work on other projects filming in the north-west. This innovative three-way partnership between LJMU, ITV and the Liverpool Film Office, proved not only valuable to the students, in creating a network of contacts for them in the northwest, but also to ITV in identifying future talent and employees, and for the Liverpool Film Office by furthering the offer of the regional skills base in film and TV, with a talent pipeline into entry level roles. This paper explores the challenges and opportunities of this new approach to employability, how the screen school can build upon this success and lessons learned from it. ITV30 – innovative three-way partnership between LJMU (LSS, Student Futures), ITV and Liverpool Film Office, PowerPoint. Only LJMU staff and students have access to this resource.
description: Student Experience Proceedings, 2023: Students at the Heart Conference
Queer communities – student-led approaches to LGBT+ experiences in HSS
Creators: name: Hughes, Bee
Publisher: name: Student Experience Proceedings
Year: 2023

description: This paper will share some of the rationale for, experience of producing, and findings of the School of Humanities & Social Sciences Queer Communities Project. This work aims to improve the school's learning environment and to support LGBTQIA+ students’ wellbeing and success, promoting the development of their academic skills and self-esteem, and explore how we might better meet the needs of LGBTQ+ students by putting their needs at the heart of developing an inclusive co-created resource. The project employs 3 student interns through LJMU's Teaching & Learning Academy Curriculum Enhancement Internship funding, to research and produce materials and events that will help academic and academic related staff to better support our LGBT+ students. Existing research has consistently shown that there is work to be done to develop and maintain inclusive and supportive experiences for LGBT+ students in Higher Education settings. For example, the EHRC’s report (2009) found that LGB students reported negative interactions with fellow students (49.5%), academic staff (10.4%), with almost 25% of trans students reporting negative treatment. UCAS (2021) underscore the intersections issues such as of socio-economic (dis)advantage, mental health and disability, all of which are more likely to impact LGBT+ students. This project aims to build on the wider work undertaken at LJMU, e.g. Understanding Pronouns and JMSU LGBTQA+ Community & LGBTQ+ Society by developing student-led, school specific spaces for developing LGBT+ community and visibility. This project runs alongside an allied project at Liverpool School of Art & Design, enabling staff to exchange knowledge, and students to benefit from potential cross-school collaboration and knowledge exchange, while maintaining a distinct identity tailored to each school. The paper will outline the development of the project, the experiences of the students, the reception of the project, and the resources produced.
description: Student Experience Proceedings, 2023: Students at the Heart Conference
Born Level Bound States
Creators: name: Hoyer, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bound state poles in the $S$-matrix of perturbative QED are generated by the {\em divergence} of the expansion in $α$. The perturbative corrections are necessarily singular when expanding around free, \order{α^0} $in$ and $out$ states that have no overlap with finite-sized atomic wave functions. Nevertheless, measurables such as binding energies do have well-behaved expansions in powers of $α$ (and $\logα$). It is desirable to formulate the concept of "lowest order" for gauge theory bound states such that higher order corrections vanish in the $α\to 0$ limit. This may allow to determine a lowest order term for QCD hadrons which incorporates essential features such as confinement and chiral symmetry breaking, and thus can serve as the starting point of a useful perturbative expansion. I discuss a "Born" (no loop, lowest order in $\hbar$) approximation. Born level states are bound by gauge fields which satisfy the classical field equations. Gauss' law determines a distinct field $A^0(\xv)$ for each instantaneous position of the charges. A Poincaré covariant boundary condition for the gluon field leads to a confining potential for $q\bar q$ and $qqq$ states. In frames where the bound state is in motion the classical gauge field is obtained by a Lorentz boost of the rest frame field.
description: 6 pages. Talk presented at the Light Cone 2016 Conference, 5-8 September 2016 in Lisbon, Portugal. Minor changes. Version to be published in Few-Body Systems
An introduction to Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT)
Creators: name: Cumiskey, Bob
Publisher: name: Student Experience Proceedings
Year: 2023

description: This proposal will address the LJMU strategy, Education, and student experience: transforming lives and futures. I introduced the TILT framework to students in September 2022 and the success and feedback has been very encouraging. Working on big modules with 300+ students and utilising TILT has allowed me to engage with and reach students who have been unable to attend LJMU for a variety of different reasons. This session will introduce the delegate to the Transparency in Teaching and Learning (TILT) Framework. The TILT framework was developed to support students to deliver their very best work by setting up assignments in a way that could be understood by all. Our students today are more diverse than ever and increasingly arriving from underrepresented groups from disadvantaged backgrounds, with large numbers being the first in their family to attend University. Additionally, today’s students often display higher levels of anxiety and stress. With the above in mind, I believe that our pedagogies and approach must change to meet our student’s ever changing needs. The TILT framework provides a valuable tool to foster equity throughout the module for all students. The framework involves breaking the assessment down into 3 elements, which will be presented on the day. Purpose Define the learning objectives What skills will they demonstrate as well as learn How will studying this module support them throughout LJMU as well as in their career What knowledge will they gain Task Clearly define the task that student should perform in plain English Break the assignment down into smaller parts and explain the requirement/s for each section Identify any areas of support. For example, the library resources Criteria Define the characteristics of the finished product. What differs from excellent work to adequate work. Outline any common mistakes to avoid. An introduction to Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT), PowerPoint. Only LJMU staff and students have access to this resource.
description: Student Experience Proceedings, 2023: Students at the Heart Conference
Boundary conformal field theory and symmetry protected topological phases in $2+1$ dimensions
Creators: name: Han, Bo
name: Tiwari, Apoorv
name: Hsieh, Chang-Tse
name: Ryu, Shinsei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a diagnostic tool for detecting non-trivial symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases protected by a symmetry group $G$ in 2+1 dimensions. Our method is based on directly studying the 1+1-dimensional anomalous edge conformal field theory (CFT) of SPT phases. We claim that if the CFT is the edge theory of an SPT phase, then there must be an obstruction to cutting it open. This obstruction manifests in the in-existence of boundary states that preserves both the conformal symmetry and the global symmetry $G$. We discuss the relation between edgeability, the ability to find a consistent boundary state, and gappability, the ability to gap out a CFT, in the presence of $G$. We study several cases including time-reversal symmetric topological insulators, $\mathbb{Z}_N$ symmetric bosonic SPTs, and $\mathbb{Z}_2 \times \mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetric topological superconductors.
description: 17 pages, 3 figures, Published version
Strengthening bonds with Alumni before and after graduation: Using LJMU Connect to foster lifelong connections
Creators: name: Humphreys, Michael
Publisher: name: Student Experience Proceedings
Year: 2023

description: LJMU Connect is the university’s Alumni community platform, helping create relationships between Alumni, students and staff. With close to 14k registered users all of whom have either attended LJMU, the Poly or one of the founding institutions. We ask, how can we foster this association into an ongoing community for the benefit and betterment of all connected? Over the last 6 years our LJMU Connect community has grown, there is a desire within the university to build these relationships and not say goodbye after graduation, but to keep students engaged with LJMU. We do this by staying connected and providing a service to our Alumni, we partner with people and teams throughout the university. We have ongoing career support, gym membership, library access, Graduate Futures, Start-up Hub, etc. LJMU Connect gives these teams a voice, reaching students whether they graduated last year or in the 60's. This year already we have grown new groups within Maritime, Business, Sports & Exercise Science each with its own common and unique needs but with the overwhelming desire to stay connected, share experience, knowledge and opportunities which benefits the whole LJMU community. The next big step is a digital mentoring programme which allows the community to share in that knowledge, whether that be to give help toward an internship, guidance on getting your CV right for the company or industry you wish to work in, or even helping with interview techniques, Working with Organisational Development to help guide mentors to get the best out of this programme, and develop a supportive network for future career development. The bicentenary gives us the perfect opportunity to share the stories of our Alumni, to get them to come 'home' and to reconnect. As a member of the LJMU community signup to LJMUConnect and participate in a bigger and wider community. Strengthening bonds with Alumni before and after graduation: Using LJMU Connect to foster lifelong connections, PowerPoint. Only LJMU staff and students have access to this resource.
description: Student Experience Proceedings, 2023: Students at the Heart Conference
On a covariance structure of some subset of self-similar Gaussian processes
Creators: name: Skorniakov, Viktor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We introduce a class of self-similar Gaussian processes and provide sufficient and necessary conditions for a member of the class to admit a unique small scale limit in the Skorokhod space. The class includes several well known processes. An example of application to the problem of estimation is given.
Graduate readiness – a kaleidoscopic view. Co-creating and supporting student projects using a multi stakeholder approach
Creators: name: Brown, Jan
name: Sexton, Anna
Publisher: name: Student Experience Proceedings
Year: 2023

description: This study presents findings from an innovative approach within the Liverpool Business School to developing the understanding of graduate readiness using a multi stakeholder approach. Based on primary research undertaken with student teams, the module leader and professional business consultants, all who collaborate to create real life value on unique projects for a real life business client from the Liverpool City Region in the Level 6 Business Consultancy module, a kaleidoscopic model of graduate readiness is proposed. A combination of Clarke’s (2018) six dimensions of graduate employability (human capital, social capital, individual attributes, individual behaviours, perceived employability, labour market forces) and LJMU’s nine key employability skills (LJMU Skills Checker, 2023) is used to explore graduate readiness from the three actors perspectives. That is, the student, the business consultant and the module leader. Using individual semi-structured in-depth interviews and focus groups (Bell, Harley & Bryman, 2022) the concept of graduate readiness in students in semester 2 of Level 6 is explored with a number of key themes emerged. These themes will be presented at the conference with each actor (student, business consultant and module leader) presenting their view separately which will then be combined to present a kaleidoscopic model and perspective. Currently this research is in progress. It is proposed that this bricolage approach (Gordon, 1999) not only develops the theoretical understanding of graduate readiness but also allows the Liverpool Business School to work with industry partners (business consultants and project clients) to collaboratively understand and developed graduate readiness to ensure that this is aligned to the needs of the regional skills based. Graduate readiness – a kaleidoscopic view. Co-creating and supporting student projects using a multi stakeholder approach, PowerPoint. Only LJMU staff and students have access to this resource.
description: Student Experience Proceedings, 2023: Students at the Heart Conference
Quantum Brownian motion in an analog Friedmann-Robertson-Walker geometry
Creators: name: Bessa, C. H. G.
name: Bezerra, V. B.
name: de Mello, E. R. Bezerra
name: Mota, H. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we study the effects of quantum scalar field vacuum fluctuations on scalar test particles in an analog model for the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker spatially flat geometry. In this scenario, the cases with one and two perfectly reflecting plane boundaries are considered as well the case without boundary. We find that the particles can undergo Brownian motion with a nonzero mean squared velocity induced by the quantum vacuum fluctuations due to the time dependent background and the presence of the boundaries. Typical singularities which appears due to the presence of the boundaries in flat spacetime can be naturally regularized for an asymptotically bounded expanding scale function. Thus, shifts in the velocity could be, at least in principle, detectable experimentally. The possibility to implement this observation in an analog cosmological model by the use of a Bose-Einstein condensate is also discussed.
description: 26 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for Publication in Phys. Rev. D
The pedagogical benefits of using High Fidelity Simulation Competition to enhance the technical and non-technical skills of undergraduates in the clinical setting
Creators: name: Vasey, Jennifer
name: Selley, Stuart
Publisher: name: Student Experience Proceedings
Year: 2023

description: I wish to discuss experiences as a paramedic who has competed internationally in high fidelity competition and reaped the immeasurable benefits of experiential learning. I want to outline why we bring the idea of competition and simulation to students at LJMU. I have worked with our students to bring this concept to life, and we successfully ran the inaugural Paramedic Games in summer 2022 and there are plans ongoing to bring the competition to our students again on 8th and 9th June 2023. The competition comprises of groups of paramedic students (year 1, 2 and 3), working together to attend to simulated casualties/patients across the Byrom Street Campus and in the modular houses, to add to authenticity. Our patients and partners come from our local service user and carer organisations that are affiliated to the university, building bonds, and learning from their lived experiences. Students are scored by academic staff, and we also have judges who are paramedics from one of our key stakeholders, The North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust. Their support is invaluable, and students spend the 2 days building strong foundations with future colleagues from our profession. We have a large-scale discussion at the end of the event, followed by a prizegiving where we have the highest scoring teams for technical skills (e.g., clinical interventions) and also a Service User and Carer Award, given by our affiliated organisations to the team who demonstrate exemplary non-technical skills (e.g., empathy, compassion). I am a firm believer that to be a good paramedic, the two go hand in hand. This competition is a lot of fun, student led with my support and encourages curiosity, creativity, and impact. Learning through experience results in better management of patients in our communities, quite literally saving lives. All whilst having a student experience that is unparalleled.
description: Student Experience Proceedings, 2023: Students at the Heart Conference
title: Entwicklungsprobleme und Möglichkeiten des Designs unter den wissenschaftlich-technischen und sozial-kulturellen Bedingungen
Creators: name: Ernyey, Gyula
Publisher: name: Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Design
subject: 720

description: Wissenschaftliches Kolloquium vom 24. bis 26. Juni 1986 in Weimar an der Hochschule für Architektur und Bauwesen zum Thema: 'Der wissenschaftlich-technische Fortschritt und die sozial-kulturellen Funktionen von Architektur und industrieller Formgestaltung in unserer Epoche'
description: Der wissenschaftlich-technische Fortschritt und die sozial-kulturelle Funktion von Architektur und industrieller Formgestaltung in unserer Epoche: 4. Internationales Bauhaus-Kolloquium Weimar 1986, vol. 33, 1987, no. 4-6, p. 207
description: Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Hochschule für Architektur und Bauwesen Weimar, vol. 33, 1987, no. 4-6, p. 207