ECR Research Cafe - Cardiff Special (CARDIFF ECRs ONLY)

The British Academy Early Career Researcher Network brings together ECRs across the humanities and social sciences disciplines, regardless of their funding source or background.

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Event Organiser: BA ECRN Team and University of Cardiff 

The British Academy Early Career Researcher Network team and our at colleagues at Cardiff University are planning an in person ECR Research Café session- Cardiff Special on Thursday 14th September 11:00 – 14:30 at Sbarc|Spark.

The aim of the session is to bring Cardiff based BA ECRN together to network with each other, meet with the University of Cardiff colleagues who are working with the Academy to deliver the ECRN and share knowledge and learning and to Network.

ECR Presentations

Dr April-Louise Pennant is a sociologist and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Cardiff University’s School of Social Sciences . Her research interests focus on education and social justice, and have recently expanded to include history, heritage and memory. At the centre of her work is an ethics of care while uncovering and documenting the narratives and experiential knowledge of Black girls, women, enslaved Africans and their descendants. Her research provides the tools to critically engage with and decentre whiteness.

Dr Josie Henly, is a lecturer in social psychology in the social sciences department, Cardiff University. Their current research explores the experiences of Autistic people from a critical disability perspective. Josie is interested in the role that diagnosis plays in the lives of people with stigmatised conditions, especially those that sit on the cusp between ‘mental health’ and ‘physical health’ such as dementia, autism and ADHD. They are keen to collaborate with scholars and stakeholders on interdisciplinary projects that explore the psychological and social impact of these conditions, particularly in the diagnostic period.

Dr Sofia Vougioukalou is a British Academy Innovation Fellow researching the creative ageing and social prescribing with a view to contributing to policy recommendations for the development of a national framework for social prescribing in Wales. Her work has a particular focus on health inequalities and seeks to understand the specific engagement requirements of older members of under-represented groups in relation to ethnicity, sexuality and disability.

The programme of the day will be as follows;

For the ECR presentation section we are looking for three ECRs who would be willing to take part and present in this session. If you would be interested in presenting your research, please can you let us know by Friday 28th July 2023.

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