Alumni and Graduate events

In this inaugural lecture, Professor Hakeem Yusuf will discuss what happens to the judicial institution, and the rule of law in societies where there has been no accountability for the judiciary's role in an authoritarian past.

The Creative Parent Symposium is a free event for artistic parents and caregivers, seamlessly blending the joys and challenges of parenting with a passion for creativity taking place at Deda in Derby.

The Further Education (FE) Showcase provides an opportunity for delegates to engage in research and evidence relevant to teaching in the post-14 Further Education and Skills sector.

Join academics from the Discipline of Humanities to hear them present cutting-edge and innovative research they have conducted on a wide range of themes. 

The MA three-minute dissertation competition provides an opportunity for our postgraduate students on the MA English, MA Global Affairs and Politics and MA History programmes to deliver research presentations in just three minutes and with one slide. 

The Postgraduate Researcher Showcase has speakers from across the humanities presenting an overview or one aspect in detail of their in-progress PhD projects.

As a part of their degree, second-year Literature and History students take part in an annual public conference, where they present a series of papers based around the theme of Power, Authority and Subversion.

This week long Research Methods Summer School offers workshop sessions covering topics from non-traditional data collection, Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), reflexive Thematic Analysis, scale development and validation, moderation and mediation, and systematic review and meta-analysis. 

Learners will be introduced to scale development approaches and processes including item generation and review. Learners will then cover the purpose and methods of factor analysis. Finally, methods of validity and reliability checking will be reviewed.

Learners will be introduced to PROCESS mediation and the single mediator model. In addition to parallel mediators and direct, indirect, and total effects. Learners will also be guided in the interpretations and fundamentals of moderation. Finally, learners will review the testing, interpreting, and visualising of interactions.