ShowCASE Seminar Series

Are you a CASE student looking to promote your research and the work of your partner organisation? Do you want to gain confidence in presenting? Are you interested in networking with other CASE students across the Northwest? If yes, then we need you!

We launched the ‘ShowCASE Seminar Series’ to open up a space for CASE students and partners to present their work and research, and reach new audiences in terms of support, promotion and education.

What does it involve?

  • Each seminar provides the opportunity for one CASE student to invite along their partner organisation (and academic supervisor if they wish) in order to:
    • 1) deliver a joint presentation about the collaborative research project they are working on
    • 2) allow the CASE partner to talk about (and promote) their organisation
    • 3) highlight the experience of working together and the benefits of collaboration
  • The format is very flexible and relaxed, and various academic staff, students (both PGRs and prospective PGRs), and partner organisations are invited to attend
  • The admin is taken care of – all you have to do is show up and talk about your work!
  • There will be an end of series ‘social’ where students and CASE partners can come together for in-person networking, as well as food and drinks

What are the benefits?

There are so many benefits to participating, for everyone involved…

  • Benefits to you:
    • Opportunity to ‘give back’ to your partner organisation through promoting their work
    • Connecting with other CASE students to share experiences and make new friends across institutions in the North West
    • Learning about other organisations and their work
    • Getting your research ‘out there’ to a mixed academic and practitioner audience, with the potential to build your networks
    • Developing skills in presenting and collaborating (great for your CV!)
  • Benefits to your CASE partner:
    • Promotion of their work to a wide range of individuals
    • Finding and encouraging future CASE students to conduct research in their organisation
    • Building networks with other academics to initiate future ideas and collaborations
  • Benefits for academic staff:
    • Informing about the role/activities of CASE studentships to encourage more collaborations in the future
    • Learning about organisations which may be relevant to their research area
    • Highlighting the benefits of working alongside partner organisations to enable continued progression and development
    • Finding out the current nature of partnerships and building new networks

If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, please get in touch at nwssdtp@liverpool.ac.uk.

Previous ShowCASE Seminar Events

The first seminar of the ShowCASE series kicked off with a presentation from Laura Briody (Keele University) and Di Malkin (Staffordshire Police). Laura’s project “Operationalising Vulnerability” investigated how the police are informed about, identify and respond to individuals categorised as ‘vulnerable’. Di Malkin was Laura’s police liaison during the project. She has twenty years of experience in policing and vulnerability, and helped win the funding for the CASE studentship.

The seminar took place on March 20th, 12:00-13:00.

The second seminar of the ShowCASE series was held by Nat Taylor (University of Liverpool) and Robbie Davison (Can Cook /Well-Fed). Nat is a second year PhD student. Her PhD project is focused around psychological aspects of food insecurity, with specific interest in stigma relating to food insecurity and food bank access. Robbie Davison is the Managing Director of Can Cook/Well-Fed (the CASE partner organisation), which work towards tackling local food insecurity using a social business model, and aiming to provide GOOD food to everyone, regardless of income. They spoke about their experiences of the CASE partnership so far…

The third in the ShowCASE seminar series was presented by Poppy Budworth (University of Manchester) and Victoria Marie (Founder of GetYourBellyOut)

The event started with an introduction to Poppy’s ongoing PhD research on the everyday lives of young people living with an ileostomy or colostomy in the UK. Following this, Victoria succinctly outlined the brilliant and vital community-orientated work carried out by GetYourBellyOut, a patient-led non-profit organisation which supports, educates, and advocates for people living with Inflammatory Bowel Disease. 

Please see the link for the slides that were presented and the link to the short documentary on GetYourBellyOut’s website.

This session was presented by Rosalia Paniagua who is a PhD student at the University of Liverpool. Her ongoing research focuses on the eating behaviours, oral health and psychological factors of those with diabetes. Rosalia’s CASE partner, Haleon, are a world-leading consumer health company who are able to share their industrial insight, expertise and facilities to aid with the dental aspects of this project. In this seminar Rosalia discussed her work so far, as well as the input experienced from collaborating with an industrial partner.

Andrew Palmer is a PhD Student at the University of Liverpool, who collaborates with Natural England on his CASE PhD studentship. His research focuses on inclusivity and engagement with natural spaces and the experiences and perceptions of people from ethnic minority backgrounds in the UK. His supervisor, Beth Brockett (formerly Natural England, now Forest Research) spoke about her work and described some of the benefits for an organisation such as Natural England or Forest Research engaging in a CASE partnership.

Our final ShowCASE seminar of 2023 was an informal panel discussion with two CASE students who had presented during the year. We discussed some key themes that had arisen within these seminars and answered questions that attendees had regarding their studentships.

Charlotte Evans’ research concerns the historical geographies of water in South India, focusing on the Kaveri river catchment. Her approach combines the study of colonial cartography with digital mapping tools and contemporary research in water management in the context of climate change. Along with her CASE partner, the National Library of Scotland, her interdisciplinary PhD project is also affiliated with the French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP). Charlotte is based in the Geography department at the University of Manchester.

Hannah Charles’ research is examining a social housing provider to look at how a large scale retrofit project is affecting social resident’s access to energy justice. She discussed how a residualised and underfunded social housing sector is being pushed to undertake large scale decarbonisation works, and how the net zero policy context of the UK is playing out in the housing sector.

Rita Newton’s PhD takes a contemporary ethnographic approach to explore how people living with dementia access and use their garden at home. This presentation briefly contextualised the study and findings before reflecting on the 5 year PhD journey as a part-time CASE student with Care & Repair England, including the highs and lows, and the importance of resilience in (hopefully) getting to the end!

April’s ShowCASE Seminar featured Sneha Chotaliya and Haleon. Sneha’s PhD research focuses on accurately measuring erosive tooth wear at the micron level using an intra-oral scanner, which can provide quantitative erosion measures in clinical settings. She is enrolled in the MRC Doctoral Training Programme at King’s College London and is also sponsored by Haleon, the CASE partner.

The May ShowCASE Seminar highlighted the research of Pamela Forster. Pam’s research explores the impact of large social changes on local dialect and speech. She is drawing on archival and contemporary to study, promote, and curate the rich intangible heritage of the city of Lancaster in north Lancashire. This part-time collaborative doctoral award is supported by the North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership (NWCDTP) and is being carried out in partnership with Lancashire Archives.