LISS DTP Summer Symposium 2025

The Third Annual LISS DTP Summer Research Symposium, was held on 30th May 2025 at King’s College London (Strand Campus).

Here is the Booklet of the days events!

We hosted two great keynote speakers!

Dr Stephen Webster

Dr Alanah Mortlake

Followed by a panel event on Research in Practice,

Check out below for the presentation list!

 

Research Presentations

11:15 Carmel Cardona – Remaking the self after cancer: pleasure, embodiment, creativity.

11:25 Filip Marzecki (Kaleta) – Interpersonal Violence and Common Mental Health Difficulties: A Genetically Informed Approach

11:35 Anna Caltabiano – Detecting Contamination Anxiety Using Physiological Markers Measured by a Wrist-Worn Wearable.

11:45 Maxmin Lange – Investigating the ways 6-11 year old children connect to nature at the Natural History Museum

11:55 Matteo Nebbiai – When Firms Want Data Regulation: Regulatory Protectionism in the Digital Age

12:05 Hafiza Sultana – Female and Male Social Entrepreneurs’ Networking in an Emerging Economy.

12:15 Kolbrun Kristinsdottir – The role of extreme overvalued beliefs as a cognitive-affective driver of fixation in lone-actor grievance-fuelled violence.

12:25 Mariana Steffen – Exploring the Active Ingredients and Contextual Factors of Social Prescribing for Children and Young People with Mental Health Difficulties|?

12:35 Melissa Matar – Examining the Policy Network in Higher Education in Emergencies: The Case of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon.

Lightning Presentations

Tamara Obradovic – Investigating the prevalence and impact of Military Sexual Trauma (MST) on UK women service personnel: implications for mental health, help-seeking and future support service design

Fabio Serrato Radigonda – HIV prevention among migrants: Experiences of Brazilian gay men in Lisbon with PrEP

Achmad Amin – Government by the People and Numbers: Assembling the Government of Rural Development through Commensuration Techniques and Participatory Budgeting.

Mohammad Zaheer – Young Muslims’ Experiences of Islamophobia, Education and Social Mobility

Erin Grace Lawrence – Understanding the psychosocial risk factors for multimorbidity in psychosis: A mixed methods approach

Rendan Liu – Gendered labour in social media self-branding practices: An ethnography of women influencers on Xiaohongshu

Dewi Delf – Preventing vaccine nationalism during a pandemic: lessons from collective security

Hannah Wood – Embedding physical activity into the educational experience to boost student mental health and wellbeing: Getting moving at University.

Bianca Nicklen – enhancing the psychological management of concerns about falling in older adults

Quentin Wight – Bioeconomy politics, discourse and storylines in sustainable development transition in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest

Charan Bijlani – Understanding and addressing food insecurity in the council of Westminster: a community-based system dynamics approach

Irene Gonzalez Calvo – Childhood trauma and subclinical hypomania in early adulthood: a genetically informative study.