Thursday, February 15, 2007

PostGrad Café Conference

27th February 2007
Glamorgan Building
Cardiff University


If you plan on attending the conference could you please contact Andrew Bartlett (BartlettA[at]cf.ac.uk) or Jamie Lewis (LewisJT1[at]cf.ac.uk). Thankyou.

Provisional Conference Schedule

Welcome and Coffee (12:30 – 13:00) (Committee Room 1)

Session A (13:00 – 14:30)

A1 Contested Knowledges (Commitee Room 2)

Butler, Catherine
The Taming Of The Future

Eady, Dennis
The Llanharry Murder Mystery: Fishing in a shoal of red herrings

Weinel, Martin
Primary Source Knowledge And Technical Decision-Making: Thabo Mbeki and the AZT controversy

A2 Locating Research Participants (room 0.86)

Smith, Robin
An Empty Stage?: The strange absence of the social actor in the landscape of regeneration

Foley, Anne
"Caravandetta: Problems in researching the victimization of Gypsies and Travellers

Eaton, Vicki
‘Stonewalling’?: Difficulties encountered in research with disengaged pupils

Session B (14:45 – 16:15)

B1 Learning for Labour (Committee Room 2)

Tholen, Gerbrand
Skill Acquisition In Knowledge Economies

Ryan, Jane
Uncovering The Hidden Voice: The articulation of learning styles by male undergraduate nursing students

B2 Technology and Association (room -1.62)

Needs, Jackie
Insurance Experiences Of People At Risk Of Genetic Illness

Elderfield, Alison
Getting A Good Reception: Maintaining social networks and mobile phone use

Buffet (16:15-17:30) (Coffee Shop)

Session C (17:30 – 19:00)

C1 Children, Gender and the Media (room 0.86)

Buckley, Kelly
The “Curvy Girls Vs. The Lollypop Brigade”: The disciplined and undisciplined celebrity female bodies in Heat magazine

Miteff, Corbett
Digital Eyes – Digital Television: Who is watching our kids?

Luce, Ann
The Press As Perpetrators Of Childhood Bullying And Suicide

C2 Work Experience (room -1.62)

Ehrenstein, Amanda
Precarity And Everyday Politics In The UK: The experience of precarious workers in the visual arts in Cardiff

Robinson, Pam
Snakes And Ladders: Labour conditions in the banana fields of Costa Rica
Smith, Merryn
The Fertile Subject: Narratives of professional women

PostGrad Café (19:00 – 20:30)

PGC Completing a Thesis (Senior Common Room)

Geesink, Ingrid
Two Hundred Thousand Words, One Job, and the Whooshing Sound of a Deadline Flying By

Mellor, David James
Waiting For The Tap On The Shoulder: The emotional labour of the PhD

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