Check out the programme below for the FHSS PGR Conference, taking place on Tuesday 6 June. Join us for some great presentations, posters and networking with refreshments and lunch provided.

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Check out the programme below for the FHSS PGR Conference, taking place on Tuesday 6 June. Join us for some great presentations, posters and networking with refreshments and lunch provided.
We are two weeks away from our Second Annual Faculty of Media and Communication PGR conference. Below you will find the programme for the conference showcasing the diverse areas of research within our PGR community that will be presented throughout the day.
Official registration for the conference on December 5th is available via Eventbrite. Registration is open for all FMCers, free, and closes November 27th. There are a limited number of tickets for the beer tasting option for Dr Sam Goodman’s Keynote, so if you are interested in securing one of those spots please register as soon as possible. Over half of those tickets have already been claimed: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/second-annual-fmc-postgraduate-researcher-conference-2018-tickets-51544624359
However, if you are not apart of the FMC and interested in these presentations don’t fret! We would love to have your presence, insights and participation on the day. If you are interested in any of our programming and have any questions please contact Alexandra Alberda (she would love to hear from you) at aalberda@bournemouth.ac.uk .
Conference Programme
9:00 – 9:30am: Registration Check-in and Wristband Collection
9:30 – 10:00: Introduction
Prof Iain MacRury, Deputy Dean for Research and Professional Practice
Prof Candida Yates, Professor for Culture and Communication
Jo Tyler, PGR Broadcast Podcast
Welcome from Conference Committee – Alex, Steve and Mel
10:00 – 11:20pm: Panel 1 – Beyond the Image: Animation and Video Games
Chair: TBD
10:00am: Bibi Ayesha Noormah Soobhany – The Machine Brain
10:20am: Nurist S. Ulfa – Revisiting Consumption Play: Digital Virtual Consumption among Child Consumer
10:40am: Alex Tereshin – Automatically Controlled Morphing of 2D Shapes with Textures
11:00am: Valentin Miu – Real-time 3D Smoke Simulation with Convolutional Neural Network-based Projection Method
11:20 – 11:40 am: Tea and Coffee and Comfort Break
11:40 – 1:00pm: Panel 2 – Augmented Reality and the Body
Chair: Jill Nash
11:40am: Miguel Ramos Carretero – Efficient Facial Animation Integrating Euclidean and Geodesic Distance Algorithms into Radial Basis Function Interpolation
12:00pm: Ifigeneia Mavridou – Designing a System Architecture for Emotion Detection in Virtual Reality
12:20pm: Mara Catalina Aguilera Canon – Interactive real-time material removal simulation for acetabular reaming training in Total hip replacement procedures
12:40pm: Farbod Shakouri – Connected Tangible Objects for Augmented Reality Narratives
1:00 – 1:15pm: 3MT Presentations
Chair: TBD
1:00pm: Aaron Demolder – Shared Perceptions: Recording 3D Video to Improve Visual Effects
1:03pm: Sydney Day – 3D Facial Reconstruction from Obscured Faces using Trained Neural Networks
1:06pm: Robert Kosk – Synthesizing Space-Time Features for Ocean Heightfields Enhancement
1:09pm: Jack Brett – Gamification of Musical Learning Experiences
1:12pm: Jo Tyler – The Aurality of the Antihero Adaptation as curation for graphic narratives
1:15 – 2:00 pm: Lunch FG06 (for registered attendees)
2:00 – 3:40pm: Panel 3 – History Repeating Itself: Broadcasting Political Tensions
Chair: TBD
2:00pm: Hua Li – Democracy in the News!
2:20pm: Sara Aly – The Dynamics of Meso-public spheres: Media Usage in Egypt during the Uprisings
2:40pm: Searchmore (Itai) Muridzo – Managing Public Service Broadcasting in Turbulent Times: A Case of Zimbabwe’s 2017 Coup
3:00pm: Ícaro Joathan – The evolution of the permanent campaign: a general review of the criteria to measure this type of strategy
3:20pm: Ian Robertson – With God on Our Side: A Comparative Study of Religious Broadcasting in the US and the UK 1921-1995: The Impact of Personality
3:40 – 3:50pm: Tea and Coffee and Comfort Break
3:50 – 5:10pm: Panel 4 – Environments of Now: Media Perspectives
Chair: Salvatore Scifo
3:50pm: Rehan Zia – Light, Time and Magic
4:10pm: Kenneth Kang – Switching around the Constants and Variables in International Environmental Law
4:30pm: Daniel Hills – Agents’ understandings, procedures and engagements with consumer emotional state as a targeting tool within the advertising industry: A Practice Theory approach
4:50pm: Siobhan Lennon-Patience – Jaywick Fights Back – Poverty Porn or Community Resilience?
5:10 – 5:30pm: Comfort Break and Keynote Set-up
5:30 – 6:30pm: Keynote – Dr. Sam Goodman
Critical Drinking: Approaches to Interdisciplinary research practice through British Beer Culture
Chair: Alexandra Alberda
UK drinking culture is currently at the height of its renaissance. The market in craft beer and spirits is buoyant, with a raft of new independent bottle shops, breweries and distilleries opening each year, whilst supermarket alcohol aisles are heaving with a range of new options as ‘Big Beer’ conglomerates try to ride the wave of this unexpected trend. The high-street pub is likewise transformed; though many rural pubs are closing as stricter legislation on drink-driving comes into force, those in urban centres have been regenerated (for good and ill) into spaces that are increasingly egalitarian when it comes to gender, though conversely exclusive in terms of class, and wealth. However, these developments and the popularity of the drinks they advocate are not as modern as they initially appear, and in fact draw on the iconography, tastes and sensibilities of the British past, especially those of the British Empire. Through focus on the interrelation between history and the present-day, this session asks pertinent questions of a significant contemporary cultural movement. It considers Britain’s various regional, national and international drinking communities past and present, and the questions around gentrification, masculine/gendered and national identities, health, well-being and excess that exist within them, as well as analysing the links between cultural history and representation within a contemporary media context.
This talk will also illustrate how the field of ‘Drink Studies’ offers a means of bridging the fluid boundaries of humanities research across a range of disciplines, and for both scholarly and public audiences. Drawing on research conducted at the British Library India Office Archive and supported by the Wellcome Trust, the talk will draw focus on the advantages of interdisciplinarity through the lens of drinking, arguing that the development of flexible theoretical approaches to traditional subjects offer researchers new ways of working within historical studies, medical humanities, and contemporary media, culture and society. In addition, the talk will be accompanied by three tasters of modern British beers that have been chosen to pair thematically with the subjects under discussion, and to illustrate that how researchers approach a subject can be as impactful as the research itself.
Dr Sam Goodman
Senior Lecturer in English & Communication, JEC (FMC)
@drsamgoodman
6:30 – 7:30pm: Reception in FG06
After the success of last year’s conference, we warmly invite you to the Second Annual FMC Postgraduate Researcher Conference 2018 on the 5th December 2018. This all day conference is open to all Postgraduate Researchers from the Faculty of Media and Communication, so whether this is your very first conference, or you are a seasoned presenter, we want to hear from you.
This year’s conference aims to be more diverse and dynamic than ever before, so whatever your research, there’s never been a better opportunity to share your work with us in a warm and welcoming atmosphere.
We are accepting 15-minute presentations, 30-minute workshops, or if you are a first year postgraduate researcher, a shorter 3-minute introduction to your research topic. The deadline for applications is the 2nd November 2018, now less than two weeks away; so don’t miss this fantastic opportunity to share your research with us.
Please email your presentation or workshop title enclosed with a 250-word abstract to mbrown@bournemouth.ac.uk by no later than the 2nd November 2018.
Can’t make the 5th December? Don’t miss out.
We appreciate that this may be a busy time for researchers across the faculty, so for the first time we will also be accepting the digital submission of papers. We welcome researchers to submit video uploads of papers, or to present remotely. If you would like more information about digital submission, or delivering a paper remotely please do get in contact with a member of the organizing team.
With a fantastic line-up of papers, workshops, and events don’t miss out on your chance to add your voice to this faculty-wide showcase. We look forward to receiving your submissions very soon.
– Steve
on behalf of the
The conference team
Alexandra P. Alberda
Graphic Medicine and Curatorial Practice
T: @ZandraAlberda
Stephen Allard
Socio-digital Poetics
T: @fictiondissy
Melanie Brown
Copyright Law and Cultural Heritage
mbrown@bournemouth.ac.uk
We are delighted to announce the registration for the
10th Annual Postgraduate Research Conference 2018 is now open!
More information about registration and booking are available from our registration page.
More details about the conference can be found at the website.
We look forward to welcoming you all at the conference.
8 MARCH 2017 – only a week away, dont forget to register to attend the BU Annual Postgraduate Conference! Experience a jam packed programme of exciting postgraduate research presentations, addresses from BU key academics, and share experiences with research and masters students from across the whole university…an opportunity not to be missed. Click here for more information and how to register.
The BU 7th Annual Postgraduate Conference is a fantastic opportunity for postgraduate students to present their work via an abstract for oral presentation, poster or photo.
The submission deadline for all abstracts is Monday 10 November 2014. Find out more >>
The Conference will be held on:
Date: Tuesday 20 and Wednesday 21 January 2015
Venue: Allsebrook Lecture Theatre & The Retreat Talbot Campus
Alternatively, if you’d like to just attend please register online >>
We hope to see you there
Best wishes
The Graduate School team