Volume 12 • Issue 1 • 2026 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2025
Editor's note
The 2025 Annual Doctoral Students’ Conference at the University of West London
- Prof. Caroline Lafarge
- Maria Pennells
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Articles
Wearable devices can improve physical activity and reduce pain in middle-aged adult with musculoskeletal chronic pain
- Kereaseen Oluwatobiloba Eboreime
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A qualitative exploration of positive body image during pregnancy
- Hannah Griffin
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Unmaking a ‘Jewish Vampire’: An attempt to reframe Joseph Süss Oppenheim
- Hanna Heimann
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Exploring factors impacting the self-management of Type 2 Diabetes in older adults of Black African and Afro-Caribbean ancestry living in London: A qualitative approach.
- Dionne Henry
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Reflections on initial findings during the research project: How does the Ludic Space of Applied Theatre influence the possibility of re-experiencing/connecting with childhood and its space in adult participants of the activities?
- Jolanta Janson
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A musical interpretation of contraction and release.
- Konstantina Kapsouli
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Development of an integrated multiplatform electromagnetic sensing system: Advanced visualization for environmental diagnostics and urban regeneration
- Francesco Mercogliano
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The challenges to create a legislative framework that regulates the expansion of mining in the Brazilian Amazon, observing the country’s relevant national interest and the rights of the indigenous peoples
- Anna Desiree Oliveira
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Feasibility study: Effect of virgin coconut oil in older adults diagnosed with mild to moderate dementia
- Kirti Paik-Inkar
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GPR attribute analysis for tree trunk assessment: An advanced imaging approach.
- Saeed Parnow
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From theory to sound: Applying research skills to develop cross-genre fusions.
- Kirill Polyanskiy
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Green Human Resource Management: How it started and how it’s going.
- Abdul Qayyum
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We Do Not Pay Reparations: Oh Yes You Do
- Priscellia Robinson
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Poster: Investigating soft skills in diverse teams within the UK ICT sector: A mixed methods approach
- Saman Abbaszadeh
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Poster: Pre-training of U-Net encoder for improved keypoint detection in transmitral Doppler imaging.
- Abas Abdi
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Poster: Design and evaluation of a clinician-centred intelligent interface for echocardiographic image quality feedback.
- Sara Adibzadeh
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Poster: Visualising and communicating data from non?destructive testing using extended reality technology for infrastructure and environmental asset monitoring.
- Elikem Doe Atsakpo
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Poster: Do psychological risk factors affect the relationship between impulsivity and nicotine addiction?
- Marisha David
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Poster: AI-aided design of 3D printed micro implant for an optimized drug release in ocular media
- Arian Farokh
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Poster: Subjective time dilation in optic flow: effects of visual gravity and motion speed on duration estimation
- Gergely Gerstmayer
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Poster: Intelligent user interfaces for spatial audio
- Jack Hoggard
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Poster: Machine learning applications for drug discover
- Mariya Ivanova
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Poster: The knowledge, health beliefs and lifestyle choices among adults to maintain a healthy gut microbiome: a scoping review.
- Rita Kmeid
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Poster: Green infrastructure monitoring using remote sensing
- Suman Kumar
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Poster: Historical heritage assessment and monitoring using remote sensing: the case study of Wolvesey Castle
- Moein Motavallizadeh Naeini
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Poster: Development of an antibiotic susceptibility test using Raman spectroscopy
- Giang Nguyen
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Poster: Online social networks/chat groups for smoking cessation among young adults aged 18-29 years: a systematic review
- Oluwakemi Odukoya
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Poster: An investigation into the embodied carbon and associated costs in office buildings utilizing different slab systems
- Chia Paknahad
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Poster: The relationship between executive function and athlete burnout
- William Poulter
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Poster: Impact of tall fescue roots and their symbiosis with mycorrhizal fungi on slope stabilisation
- Amara Rahim
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Poster: Adaptive AI tutors in extended reality environments: enhancing cognitive engagement through neurofeedback
- Peter Varga
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Poster: Analyses of hospital microbiomes revealed a diverse range of critical pathogens associated with HAIs
- Julio Cesar Ortega Cambara
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Biochar-enhanced carbon-negative concrete: Decarbonising the construction industry
- Shah Room
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Healthcare seeking behaviour among hypertensive adults (18+ years) in Africa: A scoping review
- Mustapha Sanyang
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Addressing class imbalance in VeReMi dataset: A CGAN-driven approach
- Fatim Sbai
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Developing a data-driven tool for building energy retrofit planning
- Hamidreza Seraj
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The ethical calculus in the hotel industry: Stakeholder perceptions of surveillance in the UK and Nigeria
- Jennifer Shankyula
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What is the influence of humour style and sense of humour on health anxiety and physical symptoms?
- Daniel Sleiman
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How can deep learning technique be leveraged to enhance ASR systems for dysarthric speech recognition?
- Leon Starr
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Use of audio, bioimpedance signals, and multimodal deep learning in classification of laryngeal pathologies
- Julia Zofia Tomaszewska
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Improving mispronunciation detection and diagnosis using deep learning
- Daniel Tweddle
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A neonatal antibiotic resistant polymicrobial skin infection: a case report and laboratory investigation
- Filippos Vaskoudis
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Silenced trauma, unresolved loss: The art of bearing witness in families of the missing in healthcare
- Pascale Waschnig
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