The Faculty of Business and Law proudly presents - The Festival of Research 2024

The Festival of Research will allow us to showcase both the quality and breadth of research that is taking place in the Faculty of Business and Law.

Festival schedule

Opening Remarks - Professor Sara Spear, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Business and Law.

Interdisciplinary policies and practices 10am -11.30am

• Exploring the Views of Practitioners on the Introduction of Deathbed Etiquette in End of Life Care Settings: A Qualitative Study - Professor Karen Sanders and Maggie Doherty 
• Sustainability Reporting and Spirituality - Dr Gherardo Girardi
• Determinants of Business Performance in IT Companies in the UK - Does High-Reliability Matter? - John Kouraklis
• Research into Best Practises: A Work in Progress - Dr Antonia Alafouzo.

Globalization and its complexities (part 1) - 11.30am -12.40pm

• Two intersecting challenges of research – funding and engagement with participants - Dr Carole Murphy
• The unifying role of food for migrants’ integration in London - Dr Diem-Tu Tran
• Education As a Pathway to Liberation and Empowerment for Survivors of Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking (MSHT) - Dr Anta Brachou
• Undertaking research aimed at improving services for survivors of modern slavery and human trafficking - Dr Ruth Van Dyke.

Lunch will take place between 12.45 and 2pm.

Globalization and its complexities (part 2) - 2pm - 2.45pm

• The Commonwealth and International Relations - a relic from Empire, irrelevant talking shop, or proto neo-nonaligned regime? - Professor The Lord Syed Kamall and Dr Christopher Wylde
• Hegemony and Crisis - An Analysis of Habit and Ideology as Mechanisms for Establishing 'consent' - Dr Andrea Sau.

Bodies and the Digital - 2.45pm - 4pm

• AI and Firm Competitive Advantage - A Review - Marios Konstantinidis
• Cuties - A Contemporary Looking-Glass of Sexuality as a Space of Agency - Summer Gamble
• Embodied Masculinities - A Psychoanalysis of Masculine Performativity in Contemporary Fitness Culture - Nahiyan Rashid
• Platform Mobility and Hybridity in True Crime -Audience engagement and digital investigation within the true crime genre - Farhana Irshad.

Any questions, please contact Dr Jacob Johanssen, Associate Professor in Communications or Dr Christopher Wylde, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations.

Email: jacob.johanssen@stmarys.ac.uk

Email: Christopher.wylde@stmarys.ac.uk