LISS DTP Student Achievements
Our PhD community are involved in outstanding research with impact at local, national, and international levels. Click the drop down options below to view some of their activities:
Publications
2024 publications
Karl Patrick Norberg: Estonia’s “Return to Europe”: The relationship between neoliberalism, statelessness, and Westward integration in post-independence Estonia, Political Geography, 2024
Jessica Atkinson: Comparing the Symptom Presentation Similarities and Differences of Complex PTSD and Borderline Personality Disorder; a Systematic Review, Personality Disorders, 2024
Natalya Kovaleva: Lost Our Cool: Can Jazz Teach Us to Be Cool?, NATO’s Defence Strategic Communications, 2024
Tisha Dasgupta: Women’s experiences of maternity care in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic: A follow-up systematic review and qualitative evidence synthesis, Women and Birth, 2024
Saffron Powell: Not ‘Another Version of the Same Thing’: Problematising and Reworking English Initial Teacher Education in Ethnically Diverse Times, Innovative School Reforms. Education, Equity, Economy, vol 11. Springer, Cham, 2024
Daniel Stanyon: Investigating the Differential Impact of Short- and Long-Term Informal Caregiving on Mental Health Across Adolescence: Data From the Tokyo Teen Cohort, Journal of Adolescent Health, 2024
Sophie Perry: Heartwood Volume 2: More voices from environmental education: Academic research meets head, heart and hands. Published July 2024
2023 publications
Julia Pointon-Haas: Defining the Types, Challenges and Lessons Learnt of University Peer Support for Student Mental Health and Wellbeing, Education Sciences, 2023
Julia Pointon-Haas: A systematic review of peer support interventions for student mental health and well-being in higher education, BJPsych Open, 2023
Sophie Perry: Heartwood Volume 1. Voices from environmental education: Where academic research meets head, heart and hands. Published July 2023
Elizabeth Brown: War Crimes, Cover-ups, and Britain’s Special Forces: Notes from the Afghanistan Inquiry, OpinioJuris, 2023
Matilda Nottage: Impact of E-liquid Packaging on Vaping Product Perceptions Among Youth in England, Canada, and the United States: A Randomized Online Experiment, Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 2023
Matilda Nottage: Marketing claims on the websites of leading e-cigarette brands in England, Tobacco Control, 2023
Sarah Rabin: Moral injuries in healthcare workers: What causes them and what to do about them?, Journal of Healthcare Leadership, 2023
Samuel Yosef: Improving Feedback in the Context of Differential Attainment, General Medical Council, 2023
Nicholas Anakwue: Re-centering Africa in the study of ancient philosophy: The legacy of ancient Egyptian philosophy, Routledge Publishers, 2023
Constance Schéré: Un-muddying the waters: Using benthic and shorebird population data to assess intertidal mudflat conditions and inform management strategies in two Irish Sea marine protected areas, Ecological Indicators, 2023
Iveta Tsenkova: Belief updating in psychosis, depression and anxiety disorders: A systematic review across computational modelling approaches, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2023
Maxime Roche: Comparing taxes on alcoholic beverages in the Region of the Americas, Addiction, 2023
Maxime Roche: Lessons learned from fostering tobacco taxes in the Americas and implications for other health taxes, Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2023
Dulce Alarcón-Yaquetto: Accuracy of HemoCue301 portable hemoglobin analyzer for anemia screening in capillary blood from women of reproductive age in a deprived region of Northern Peru: An on-field study, PLOS ONE, 2023
Bethany Croak: Evaluating a Smartphone App (MeT4VeT) to Support the Mental Health of UK Armed Forces Veterans: Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial, JMIR Mental Health, 2023
Bethany Croak: Evaluation of Community Reinforcement and Family Therapy in the UK military community, European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2023
Oskar Filip Kaleta: Cognitive mechanisms and resilience in UK-based general practitioners: cross-sectional findings, Occupational Medicine, 2023
Ratha Perumal: Effective Teachers of Multilingual Learners: A Mixed-Method Study of UK and US Critical Sociocultural Teaching Practices, TESOL Quarterly, 2023
Katherine Sabin: Patient and therapist experiences of exposure therapy for anxiety-related disorders in pregnancy: qualitative analysis of a feasibility trial of intensive versus weekly CBT, BJPsych Open, 2023
2022 publications
Sophie Perry: Doctoral Research as a Team Enterprise: The continuing legacy of Professor Rosalind Driver, Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2022
Katrina Kiss: Multiagency safeguarding arrangements during and beyond the Covid-19 pandemic: Identifying shared learning, Child Abuse Review, 2022
Katrina Kiss: Child Marriage in Humanitarian Settings: Integrating the Response to Child Marriage, Womens Refugee Commission, 2022
Matilda Nottage: Loneliness mediates the association between insecure attachment and mental health among university students, Personality and Individual Differences, 2022
Maria Camila Garcia Duran: ENDS consumption in students of higher education: Phenomenon on the rise during the COVID-19 pandemic, Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2022
Sarah Rabin: Primary Care and Mental Health Staff Perspectives on Universal Suicide Risk Screening and Care Coordination, Psychiatric Services, 2022
Natasha Lock: 2022 China Focus Essay Contest Winner, Friend to the State or Foe to the System: China, America, and the Disinformation Wave,
Alexander Martin: The protective role of father behaviour in the relationship between maternal postnatal depression and child mental health, JCPPadvances, 2022
Ilias Ioannou: Blockchain and supply chain finance: a critical literature review at the intersection of operations, finance and law, Journal of Banking and Financial Technology, 2022
Rahinatu Sidiki Alare: Farmers’ perspectives and context are key for the success and sustainability of farmer-managed natural regeneration (FMNR) in northeastern Ghana, World Development, 2022
Rahinatu Sidiki Alare: Assessing nuanced social networks and its implication for climate change adaptation in northwestern Ghana, World Development Perspectives, 2022
Hafiza Sultana: Network exploration and exploitation capabilities and foreign market knowledge: The enabling and disenabling boundary conditions for international performance, Industrial Marketing Management, 2022
Maxime Roche: Comparing taxes as a percentage of sugar-sweetened beverage prices in Latin America and the Caribbean, The Lancet Regional Health–Americas, 2022
Maxime Roche: The case for investment in tobacco control: lessons from four countries in the Americas, Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2022
Sarah O’Brien: ‘The key to this is not so much the technology. It’s the individual who is using the technology’: Perspectives on telehealth delivery for autistic adults during the COVID-19 pandemic, Autism, 2022
Bethany Croak: Adjustment disorder in the Armed Forces: a systematic review, Journal of Mental Health, 2022
Ratha Perumal: Quality content teaching for multilingual students: An international examination of excellence in instructional practices in four countries, Teaching and Teacher Education, 2022
2021 publications
Katrina Kiss: Hearing the Voice of the Child through the Storm of the Pandemic: The Impact of covid-19 Measures on the Detection of and Response to Child Protection Concerns, The International Journal of Children’s Rights, 2021
Maria Camila Garcia Duran: Family functioning but not social capital is associated with better mental health in adolescents affected by violence and displacement by armed conflict in Colombia, The International journal of social psychiatry, 2021
Elara Kyffin Shurety: Securing the city, making the city: Property guardianship and dispersed policing in urban space, Radical Housing Journal, 2021
Sarah Rabin: Development and Evaluation of a Novel Collaborative Care Rotation for Psychiatry Residents, Academic Psychiatry, 2021
Sarah Rabin: Veterans Health Administration staff experiences with suicidal ideation screening and risk assessment in the context of COVID-19, PLoS One, 2021
2020 Publications
Sarah Rabin: Clinical Off-Label Use of Deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Psychiatric Conditions, Curr Treat Options Psych, 2020
Conferences
2024
Sophie Perry: Ecsite Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 2024:
Presentation: Appreciation not appropriation: making space for myriad ways of knowing
Workshop: Rest as a form of resistance to injustice and burn out.
Neil Rickus, Computing at School conference, London, July 2024:
Presentation: Using commercial video games to support children’s learning of programming concepts
Elizabeth Brown, Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law Conference, July 2024
Presentation: International Investigations into War Crimes Allegations: British and Australian Special Forces in Afghanistan
Rose Veitch, The FE Literacy Movement conference, University of Derby, June 2024
Presentation: Embedding literacy in post-16 vocational education: Undressing the L word.
Christopher Reid, BERA (British Educational Research Association) ECR conferenece, June 2024
Presentation: ‘Why are you outin’ me like this?’ How teenagers explain their scientific curiosity in front of their peers
Saffron Powell, BERA (British Educational Research Association) ECR conferenece, June 2024
Presentation: We are Children Too: The Effects of Race, Society and Schooling on young Black people in the UK
Chana Rose Rabinovitz, BISA 2024 Conference, Birmingham, June 2024
Presentation: Political Diasporism: Examining the Praxis of Radical Imaginaries on Jewish Community Farms
Yixin Xu, Joint East Asian Studies Conference (JEASC) 2024, UCLan, June 2024
Presentation: Political Participation and Women’s Access to Land in Rural China: An Empirical Analysis
Tobechukwu Nneli, ASAUK Conference, Oxford Brookes University, August 2024
Presentation: Re-Invented Abroad: Agitation for Self-Determination by the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) Movement in South-Eastern Nigeria
Katherine Sabin, Neoleap Vision into Action: Neonatal Psychological Practice Conference, Birmingham, June 2024
Presentation: Neonatal Follow Up: The EXPAND study
2023
Sophie Perry, BERA, Birmingham, UK, September 2023
Individual presentation: Are we making space for change? How an expansive approach to environmental and sustainability education is limited by its context.
Constance Schéré, United States Earth Science Organization Leadership in Earth and Environmental Sciences (LEES) Program (Virtual), 15-22 July 2023
Talk: Cases of Successful Ocean Protection: A Brief Introduction to Marine Protected Areas.
Robert Hellyer, BAAL Language and New Media SIG Research Seminar 10, University of Edinburgh, 2023
Presentation: The ‘folx’ of TikTok: Orthographic [x] variation in gender-inclusive and exclusionary language
Robert Hellyer, Lavender Languages and Linguistics 29, Boise State University, 2023
Presentation: Children of the revolution: boundaries and bridge-building in the speech of queer kids.
2022
Ilias Ioannou, 12th Annual Maritime Law and Policy Postgraduate Research Conference at City Law School, University of London, May 2022
Presentation: Governance of Digital Platforms in Seaborne Trade: Platform Rulebooks as Relational Contracts
Sophie Perry, ESERA, Netherlands, September 2022
Individual presentation: Researching the Climate Crisis in Educational Settings.
Sophie Perry, King’s College London ECS Conference, London, March 2022
Individual presentation: poststructuralism in environmental and sustainability scholarship
Podcasts
Katherine Sabin
Exploring NICU Parental Support: Insights from the EXPAND Study with Katie Sabin, Miracle Moon Podcast, 2023
Constance Schéré
Talking Biodiversity with Laura Kor & Constance Schere, The Green Blob, 2022
Pint of Science mini-series: Untold Stories. Episode 3: Speakers Constance Schéré & Dr Stephen Fay, Pint of Science, 2023
Constance Schéré talks about marine protected areas, policy regarding our oceans, and citizen science, Women in Environmental Engineering & Science, 2023
Kalina Damianova
Facing up to the energy crisis, WORLD: we got this podcast, 2022
Putin’s invasion: What, Why, and Where Next?, Politics JaM, 2022
Vas Papageorgiou
Peer Research across the pond: a fascinating UK study exposes barriers and bias bolstered by the pandemic, The Positive Effect, 2022
Blogs
Mohamad El Kari,
The International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR):
– The rise of Soldiers of God: is Beirut back to the time of the militias?, 2024
– Four years on from Lebanon’s 17 October revolution, 2023
– Translation in conflict: An instrument of power or a place of neutrality?, 2023
Christopher Reid
What makes students curious about science?, British Educational Research Association (BERA), 2023
Constance Schéré
Seven islands, one seabird, Marine Biological Association, 2023
Bryher Bowness
Impact in Qualitative Research: Bryher Bowness on co-producing guidance for researchers and the public on involving carers in research, QUAHRC Qualitative Applied Health Research Centre
Aida Hassan
There is no global in global health security, PLOS BLOGS, 2022
Other activities
Katherine Sabin
Submitted evidence to the House of Lords Preterm Birth Committee inquiry: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/701/preterm-birth-committee/publications/written-evidence/
Julia Pointon-Haas
Board Member UK Healthy Universities Network: https://healthyuniversities.ac.uk/network-structure-governance/
Rendan Liu
– Social Media Influencer Culture Workshop, KCL, November 2023
Workshop offered participants an engaging platform to share their interests in influencers and discuss their use of social media. The focus extended to exploring intricate aspects such as algorithms, authenticity, and labour within this phenomenon.
– Panel talk titled “Investigating Influencer Culture: Life Behind the Screen,”, KCL, March 2024
Part of the influencer culture series funded by LISS DTP. The two-hour panel talk and Q&A session offered insights into the contemporary influencer industry from both academic and industry influencers’ perspectives.
Saffron Powell
Produced a video for BERA: Black History Month 2024: What progress has been made to celebrate and support Black colleagues’ excellence in Educational Research?
Bryher Bowness
Coproduction of a National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHCR) Learning for Involvement resource for researchers and carers interested in PPI: Tips for researchers involving unpaid carers in health and care research
Sarah O’Brian
Book published: So, I’m Autistic
An Introduction to Autism for Young Adults and Late Teens