Innovation and Community: Research for a Sustainable Future
The Great Hall, Holloway Campus
9-10 July 2025
We are excited to invite you to our 6th Student and Staff Research Conference, a vibrant two-day event that showcases the diverse and innovative research taking place across our university community. This year’s theme highlights community interaction, sustainability, and innovation in a variety of powerful and thought-provoking contexts.
The conference opens with a keynote by Dr Torange Lang, Reader in Art, Architecture and Design Activism, on teaching and learning as a research project. This will be followed by a Vice Chancellor's PhD Scholars panel on unexpected encounters leading to a positive turn in their research projects. The morning concludes with an exploration of the PhD research journey of a colleague who now supports others as a supervisor.
It is a feature of the conference that students at the start of their research have the opportunity of giving a taste of their projects in 3-minute lightning presentations, complemented by a poster exhibition. The lightning presentations in particular demonstrate the range of our postgraduate research from large language modules in medical diagnosis and child sexual abuse perpetrated by children to sustainable building materials and teaching biosecurity at school.
The panel AI, Inclusion and Education explores the role of artificial intelligence in relation to assessment, online safety and cultural narratives. It will be followed by talks on low carbon concrete and the case of 'TB Mary'.
The second day focuses on community engagement and cultural narratives, starting off with a keynote from Phoebe Kalungi, Public Health Programme Lead for Children and Adolescents in Tower Hamlets. The focus on community is continued in talks on understanding the marginalisation of black teenagers, on critical intercultural awareness in ESOL teacher education, on decolonising oral history practice, and, later in the day, on the influence of cultural background on the nutritional status of drinks and food.
Our knowledge transfer projects are highlighted in presentations by three London Met Knowledge Transfer Partnership Associates followed by a talk on the Innovate UK ICURe Programme by Dr Edward Cole, Head of ICURe Regional Hub – London & South-East (England), and Dr Matthew Lam, Lecturer in Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery.
The closing lecture is delivered by London Met alumnus Dr Anthony Phipps, Security / Consultancy and Design Lead at Lloyds Banking Group. He will share his experiences with securing our online future.
The final session sees the award of prizes which this year are chosen by a joint student and staff expert panel. The conference is organised by the Postgraduate Research Student-Staff Liaison Forum chaired by Dr Eirini Meimaridou, the Graduate School and the Research and Postgraduate Office.
We hope that this conference offers something for everyone—from inspiration and collaboration to fresh perspectives on research and innovation.
We look forward to seeing you there.
