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SPARC 2013 Draft Programme

Chapman Building

9:00-9:30 Registration (refreshments provided)
9:30-9:40 Welcome address: Professor Martin Hall
Chapman LT 3
9:40-11:00 Salford Impact
Case studies of impactful research at Salford, plus Q&As. Mark James (Law); Dr Tracey Williamson (Nursing); Dr Ursula Hurley (Humanities); and Dr Richard Haigh (Built Environment). Chaired by Dr Victoria Moody (Chapman LT 3)
11:00-11:15
 Refreshment break
11:15-12:30 Parallel sessions 1: PGR presentations
1a Music
 1b Arts, Languages and Education
 1c Engineering
 1d Built Environment 1e Environment and Life Sciences
12:30-1:30 Lunch and poster session (Chapman Canteen)
1:30-2:30 Parallel sessions 2
2a Engineering 2b Business and Social Science 2c Social Work and Environment
 2d Science
 2e Built Environment
2:30-3:45 PechaKucha  
Group 1: Health, Computing and Technology
 Group 2: Built Environment and Business
 Group 3: Arts and Social Sciences
3:45-4:00
 Refreshment break
4:00-5:00 Parallel sessions 3 and workshop
Reearch Paradigms: interpretive Field Studies (TBC)
Prof Andrew Basden, Business (seminar  room 1/2)
 3a Engineering 3b Science 3c Law and Social Sciences
9:45-10:00 Registration (refreshments provided)
10:00-11:00 Employability panel
Former Salford PhD students discuss their career paths, in academia and outside HE. Chaired by Fiona Christie, Careers and Employability (Chapman LT 3)
11:15-12:15 Three minute thesis presentations
Chapman LT1
12:15-1:15
 Lunch and CV clinics
Tahira Majothi, Careers and Employability
1:15-2:15 Parallel sessions 4
Workshop on Digital and Social Media in Health, Prof Paula Ormandy, Cristina Vasilica and others. (venue tbc)
 4a Business
 4b Engineering
 4c Computing
2:15-2:30 Refreshment break
2:30-3:30 Parallel sessions 5 and discussion
Round table discussion: practice-based research in the arts and humanities, TBC; Prof Paul Haywood, Jo Clements, and others (Chapman Seminar 1/2)
 5a Social Sciences and Computing
 5b Health Sciences 5c Business 5d Built Environment
3:30-4:45 Parallel sessions 6
6a Nursing
 6b Business 6c Media
 6d Social Sciences and Economics
4:45-5:00 Close and Prizes