School of Social Sciences Student Conference and Degree Show

09:15–09:30

Welcome

09:30–10:35

Panel one: Emotion and appearance

1. Luke Grasso (Psychology) – The role of personality in both happy and sad music’s ability to induce mood and emotion
2. T. R. Williamson, Sonia Mariotti, and Hajira Mumtaz (Psychology) – The State of Affairs in Neurosurgical Language Testing
3. Kieran Moulton (Psychology/CAR) – ‘It’s all person specific’ decorative tattooist’s understanding and engagement of tattooing to camouflage and/or decorate scarring
4. Dean-Luke Kearle, Hannah Stoddern, Lewys Wigmore (Psychology), with Xuli Wang (Research Associate, Centre for Machine Vision) – Eye movements and cognitive performance on a Gamified version of the Simon Task
5. Abbi Mathews (Psychology/CAR) – Can social media reduce stigma towards people with visible differences?

10:35–10:45

Break

Panel two: Crime and violence

1. Toya Chavez Heredia (Politics & International Relations) – To what extent is the use of violence against irregular migrants morally justified?
2. Poppy Wooddissee (Politics & International Relations) – Does the Ticking Time Bomb show that torture can be justified? (With reference to the arguments of Alhoff and Wisnewski)
3. Dylan Hughes (Criminology) – The effect of peer influence on young offenders and re-offending
4. Emma Badger (Criminology with Law) – How effectively do forensic experts communicate complex linguistic concepts to jurors, and how does this impact the jurors' ability to consider and weigh the evidence?

11:50–11:55

Short break

11:55–13:00

Panel three: Insights into technology

1. Honor Fulton (Philosophy) – How do new technologies impact ethical conceptions of pornography?
2. Henry Scott (Policing) – A Help or Hinderance: Does Live Facial Recognition (LFR) have a place in modern day policing?
3. Louis Jones (Philosophy) – The Human Condition in the Epoch of Absence: Artificial Thought and Thoughtful Action
4. Daisy Everton-Whittard (Sociology) – Exploring UWE female student and staff attitudes to the use of generative AI in assessment: a comparative study

13:00–13:45

Lunch

Panel four: Health and society

1. Caitlin Hayton (Health Psychology) – Understanding the model of Social Prescribing through interviewing Link Workers
2. Nicole Skidmore (Psychology) – Joyful Utopias: Non-Binary Representation in Fanfiction
3. Ethan Elgar (Philosophy) – The Application of Philosophy In a Contemporary Context
4. Imogen Campbell (Sociology) – “Just deal with it”: Young Women’s Experiences of NHS Menstrual Health Care

15:00–15:05

Short break

15:05–16:10

Panel five: Aspects of community

1. Manpreet Dhuffar-Pottiwal (Counselling Psychology) – Multigenerational cohabitation - Economic necessity or a cultural obligation?
2. Susan Cooper (Business Psychology) – Exploring Decision-Making and Expertise in UK Charity Boards - a qualitative study
3. Mahira Budhraja (Health Psychology) – “Change Needs to Start at Home”: A Thematic Analysis of Girl Athletes’ and Coaches’ Experiences of Body Image in New Delhi, India
4. Ross Clatworthy (Psychology) – The Mediatory Role of Sense of Belonging Between Community Participation and psychological wellbeing in students
5. Marina Ulanova (Counselling Psychology) – A retrospective evaluation of depression outcomes following Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing versus Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in a UK primary care psychological service

16:10

Reception and prizes