2024: Students at the Heart Conference

Students at the Heart Conference 12/13 June 2024

The Conference is a space for our staff and students from LJMU and our partners to come together to connect, share ideas, learn from each other and celebrate or many successes. The conference is a place where we exchange information, hear about different perspectives and practices and connect with people from across the University and beyond. To foster the sense of belonging and celebrate LJMU

This year's theme is Community, and we invite you to consider what makes our community thrive, exploring the elements that bind us together and empower us to create positive change both for ourselves and our wider community.

Students at the Heart Conference was organised by Organisational Development and Teaching and Learning Academy, with support from across the whole university.

Scroll down to get access to abstracts, PowerPoint presentations for the keynote lectures and parallel sessions.

Published: 2024-07-18

Programme

Students and the Heart conference programme

Kaylie Fortune
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Keynote

Educating the student of the future, today

Kat Stark
A holistic approach to building community for student engagement and success

Vic Stephenson

Presentations

Session 1: Development of game-based learning resources for teaching chemical literacy using AI Jon Ashley, Faculty

Jon Ashley
Session 2: CampusConnect: building a student

Ellen Coyle, Claire Murphy, Megan Birchall
Session 3: Understanding partnerships in Sport and Exercise Sciences

Craig Twist, Becky Murphy, Zoe Knowles
Session 4: 'Unsung Heroes' - impact and community building with neurodiverse learners

Victoria Brennan, Rory McDonald, Paula McNulty
Session 5: Facilitating future skills using Lego ® Serious Play®

Jane Dowson, Rosemary Capper, Vicky Farrall
Session 6: Designing assessments in higher education: ChatGPT and academic integrity

Susanne Zajitschek
Session 7: Supporting students with quantitative analysis

Tom Goodale
Session 9: More than just obtaining a doctorate: how good practice can transform a student’s life

Jagroop Kaur, Helen Poole
Session 10: LJMU engage - connect, collaborate, captivate to create a third space community for public engagement

Zoe Knowles, Gemma Reed
Session 11: Enhancing the student community: PGR and student experiences of the Critical Academia Mentorship Scheme

Connie Pike, Hilary Currin, Jessica Elia, Paul Doke
Session 12: Criminology students and their sense of community: a student-driven assessment of community-building

Steve Wakeman, Giles Barrett
Session 13: Alternate assessments - what do they look like?

Denise Lee, Sian Dunne
Session 14: The impact of epistemic beliefs and emotions on students' views of research in professional learning

Gillian Peiser
Session 16: Igniting aspirations: hackathons paving the way to incurriculum workbased learning initiatives

Wendy Johnston, Keren Coney, Stuart Philipson, Kaye Richards
Session 17: Education for All - From West Derby to LJMU: using the authentic student voice

Catherine Shillito, John Clark, Cameron Askew
Session 18: The ‘Mistory’ decolonization project: confronting black maternal health disparities with midwifery and history students

Clare Maxwell, Olga Machado-Le Gal, Gina Chapman, Andrea Livesey, Eden Woodcock
Session 19: Enhancement activity to support student continuation in the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences

Ian Sadler, Juliette Strauss, Emma Ball, Becky Murphy
Session 20: Trainee psychological wellbeing practitioners perceptions of wellbeing provision across the training year

Michelle Chatterley, Jody Squirrell, Ella Fitzsimmons
Session 21: JMSU: building communities, a mid point reflection

Paul Chapman, Sarah Latham
Session 24: Beyond accessibility: empowering students through assistive AI

Sara Mursic
Session 25: Working in a wellness community: assessing the benefits to student curators in a creative collaboration

Juliet Carroll
Session 26: Community and collaboration: co-creating resources to promote opportunities for disabled and neurodivergent students

Jennie Tannett, Keren Coney, Refaat Eletr, Jack Mousley, Jasmine Summerville
Session 27: Laboratory efficiency assessment framework “LEAF”, promoting sustainable laboratory practices at LJMU

Emma Fadden
Session 28: Developing a business clinic approach: collaborative work and value creation

Jan Brown, Track Dinning, Fredrick Agboma, Boma Omuso
Session 29: How supported do students with disabilities feel at LJMU?

Stewart Chidlow, Heather Ward, Philippa McCabe
Session 30: What happens to academic integrity when we allow students to use GenAI for their assessment?

Olatunde Durowoju
Session 31: Bringing communities together: The LJMU MA Short Film Festival as an educational, professional, and community-building experience

Lydia Papadimitriou, Martin Jones
Session 32: Community, culture and young people: piloting our first work experience programme

Moni Akinsanya, Rachael Lynch
Session 33: Fostering inclusive and supportive communities of international students on MSc Management programmes though peer mentoring

Amanda Mason
Session 34: The hitchhikers guide to the online timetables

Louise Medlam, Jenny Kay, Erika Raffle
Session 35: Building an LJMU shared assessment and feedback toolkit: resources and strategies

Jim Turner, Charlie Smith, Elizabeth Malone, Phil Denton, David McIlroy
Session 36: Shaping futures - collaborative outreach to support the local region

Kevin Hornblower, Peter Dolan
Session 37: Utilising ‘Feedback fruits’ to enhance counselling and psychotherapy students understanding of contact work

Lesley Dougan
Session 38: HR Resourcing team in the community and promoting inclusion

Oliver Sproston, Natalie McCarthy, Michelle Kayll
Session 39: Curriculum for wellbeing: year 2, growth, findings and reflections

Kalum Bodfield, Aisling Culshaw, Eleanor Hadfield, Andrew Doyle, Mollie Bryde-Evens
Session 40: Students as agents of change: integrating the UN SDGs in Business School curriculum

Konstantina Skritsovali, Sam Davies, Amelia Ingall
Session 41: “Our experience of using weekly assignments with 300 level 4 business students”

Bob Cumiskey, Michelle Spruce
Session 42: Making personal tutoring work: a focus on nonstandard programmes

Jayne Erlam, Ester Ragonese, Bassam Hamadeh, Georgia Marriott-Smith
Session 44: Realising a more human city: engaging students with community social infrastructure in Liverpool

Gerwyn Jones, Liz Edwards, Grace Harrison
Session 45: Making Every Contact Count for mental health at LJMU

Christine Roberts, Andy Keegan, Scott Foster
Session 48: Engaging with the community in Liverpool through civic engagement placements

Raji Thomas, Noeleen Ryan
Session 49: Associate Deans for Diversity and Inclusion: local approaches to embedding inclusion

Phil Bakstad, Komang Ralebitso-Senior, Denise Lee, Olatunde Durowoju, Graham Downes
Session 50: School of Education Little Book of Hope

Elizabeth Malone, Peter Wood, Sophie Bresnahan, Jamie Berry, Aaliyah Owen-McVey
Session 51: Artificial Intelligence in the classroom: insights from realworld experiences

Christos Kontovas
Session 52: Towards an understanding of how students’ express ideas around participation and engagement in their own learning

Phil Carey, Fenna Boerkamp
Session 53: Assessments don’t have to be essays – using live events to demonstrate learning

Andy McNicholl, Valerie Makin
Session 54: First Year Experience Survey: understanding the experiences of various student groups when joining LJMU

Natalie Holland, Fenna Boerkamp
Session 55: Digital forensics and cyber-crime taxonomy

Holly Done, Áine Mac Dermott
Session 56: Providing AI guidance through COMPASS: did students take the right direction?

Phil Denton
Session 57: A case study on level 5 student engagement and participation in a core: new ideas

Sarah Stirk, Fleur Lawrence
Session 58: Decolonising maths for a globalised world

Ivo Siekmann, Sandra Ortega, James Baker
Session: 59 Supporting students from diverse communities

Billie-Gina Thomason
Session 60: The disutility of ‘disabled’ as a category in HE analytics: an LJMU case study

Alex Wilshaw
Session 61: Muslim students and the paradox of in(visibility)

Lila Tamea
Session 62: Person-centred communities of practice: challenging hegemonic notions of education and learning

Freya Wood, Deborah Evans, Peter Blundell
Session 63: The use of VLE assessments in the presence of AI technology

Mohamed Kara-Mohamed
Session 64: “If I only knew then what I know now”. Listening to the voices of departing students

Wayne Turnbull, Steven Altham, Cathy Brady, Janine Melvin, Sara Parker, Janette Porter
Session 65: Counting fears: unravelling the origins of math phobia and its degree-wide impact

Philippa McCabe, Helen Burrell
Session 66: Building community in clinics

Paula Doran, Liz Jones, Abighail Weirdu, Joshi Jariwala
Session: 67 The further education of care leavers: navigating A-levels and the care cliff

Chantelle Lunt
Session 68: United Nations Sustainable Development Goals – pedagogy in practice

Andrea Mallaburn, Linda Seton
Session 69: Building communities of practice through your module

Joshi Jariwala, Danielle Gore, Megan Currall, Brogan Ward
Session 70: The role of Academic Liaison Tutors to support Degree Apprenticeship students

Thomas Dowd, Sian Dunne
Session 72: Development - a community approach supporting individual achievement

Maureen Royce
Session 73: Engagement analytics to support student engagement and continuation

Phil Rothwell, Caroline Robson, Malarvizhi Ram, Sarah Maclennan, Iona Horsburgh
Session 74: Discussing the enhancement of the Degree Apprentice experience through effective tri-partite meetings

Elizabeth Whitfield, Suzanne Gapper Smith, Joanne Fisher, Eleanor Fenney
Session 75: Community at the heart: School Industry Advisory Boards - role, challenges & useful lessons

Beverley Caddick-Kala, Jennifer Dean, Carlo Panara
Session 76: Black in the Ivory Exhibition

Dominique Walker
Session 77: Reflections on how student retention co-ordinators can foster a student’s sense of belonging at LJMU

Amber Pugh, Jennifer Graham
Session 78: White, male and first-in-family: understanding student experience and helping them to succeed

Elena Zaitseva, Matt McLain, Casey Beaumont, Eve Groome
Session 79: All aboard! Please mind the gap - the development journey for technicians

Ollie Manton, John Trantom
Session 80: The who, how, what, and why of participatory research: public engagement practices at LJMU

Gemma Reed, Lucious Ofeni, Jenna Rice, Krisztina Rudolf

Forum

Global Collaborative Partner Forum

Jacqueline Wright

Workshops

Session 23: Workshop: Improving impact reporting: a gameplay approach to understanding theory of change

Emma Smith, Fenna Boerkamp, Natalie Holland, Elena Zaitseva
Session 43: Workshop: Working with survivors of sexual misconduct to improve the LJMU experience

Yvonne Turnbull, Jo Bleasdale, Alexandria Jones, Martha Gaughan

Lightning Talks

Session 8: Lightning talk: Using a 3D visualisation tool to facilitate flipped classroom teaching

Nick Bryan, Sandra Fawcett, Adrian O'Hara
Session 8: Lightning talk: Co-designing a multi professional learning environment for advanced clinical practice programmes

Joanna Lavery, Mark Vann, Jiordan McPherson
Session 8: Lightning talk: Stepping up psychosis: the use of virtual reality in preregistration education

Christine Roberts, Niall McCann
Session 15: Lightning talk: Understanding how autistic students perceive transitions through university and the impact upon their mental health

Harvey Stanway, Lizzie Coen
Session 15: Lightning talk: The co-creation of a university sensory resource hub for neurodiverse students

Ange Garden, Libby Robinson
Session 22: Lightning talk: Using writing groups to strengthen the postgraduate researcher community

Jo McKeon
Session 22: Lightning talk: Understanding the experience of digital learning: a study of LJMU MSc international students

Vivian Adegor
Session 22: Lightning talk: Stupid genius: utilising podcasts to build thriving communities and enhance student experience

Mollie Bryde-Evens, Emily Wharton
Session 46: Lightning talk: Collaborative learning in a multilinguistic and cultural space

Maureen Royce, Amanda Mason, Casey Beaumont
Session 46: Lightning talk: Two minute talks: short vodcasts as a tool for collaboration, cocreation and community learning

Alex Wilshaw
Session 47: Lightning talk: Using social media to increase the community feel

Sylvia Terbeck
Session 47: Lightning talk: Finance training development - finance for non-finance

Phil Murray