Good news!

On this page we will try and keep an up-to-date list of all the achievements made by HLS post-graduates. From PRP passes and competition wins, to publications and press releases, we will collate a list here for you all.

Even if you have some non-research based good news (Passed a test? Competed in a music or sport event?), let us know and people can see what else our post-graduates have been up to! Email Jenny Mackay to add any good news to the list.

Updates from 1st February 2019

Publications

  • James Bartlett co-wrote a chapter for the PsyPAG Guide which was published in January. (Article pages 85-90)

Awards

  • Laura Wilde won 2 awards at the Post-Graduate Winter Ball. Post-Graduate Research Rep of the Year and HLS Faculty Associate Deans’ Award.
  • Sarah Charles won the award for Contribution to the Coventry University Research Community Jenny Mackay Presented against all other faculties for PGR of the year!

Thank you

After the release of this month’s Newsletter, 2 members of the team will be stepping down. Here we thank you for a great year of helping us found and release the PGR newsletter

Laura Wilde has been our REP and socials organiser for the Newsletter. As well as being a REP (Senior REP 2017-2018; Research REP 2018-2019), she has helped organise the HLS coffee mornings, the PGR Christmas party and the upcoming HLS board games night. Her work and contribution has been invaluable, and she will be missed.

Similarly Jenny Mackay has been our Good News and Opportunities collator for the Newsletter. She has managed to do this while driving up and down the country for her research. Without her the good news that you have been getting each month, and lists of opportunities would not have been made available.

Thank you to both of you from the rest of us at the PGR Newsletter.

Updates from 3rd December 2018

Viva passes!

  • Congratulations to Danielle Ladhardt for passing her viva with minor corrections!
  • Congratulations to Philippa Carr for passing her viva with minor corrections!
  • Congratulations to Anne Turner for passing her viva with minor corrections!
  • Congratulations to Jo Parsons for passing her viva with minor corrections!
  • Congratulations to Nicola Yaylor (CIRAL) for passing her MRes!

Publications

Updates from 1st November 2018

Thesis submissions

  • Congratulations to Danielle Ladhardt for submitting her thesis!
  • Congratulations to Philippa Carr for submitting her thesis!
  • Congratulations to Sanne Velthuis for submitting her thesis!

Conferences

Public Appearances

  • Danielle Labhardt gave a well-attended and great talk at the Coventry ‘Psychologist in the Pub’ event, that took place at The Phoenix in October
  • Diane Menage spoke at the Professional Midwifery Advocates event that took place in October
  • Jenny Mackay gave a PsyPAG-funded workshop called ‘Conducting systematic reviews in psychology’ in Coventry

Jobs

  • Philippa Carr got a job at Leeds Beckett University!

Updates from 1st October 2018

Jobs

  • Well done to James Bartlett for securing a post as Psychology Experimental Officer at Arden University

Publications

Conferences

  • Coventry University was well represented at the inaugural BPS Midlands conference on 3rd September. Well done to everyone who took part!

Updates from 3rd September 2018

Whilst we did say there would be no issue of the PGR Newsletter in August or September, we decided that releasing a news-only issue in September would be a good idea to keep people up to date.

Plus, who doesn’t enjoy some good news?

The next full issue will be released Monday 1st October as planned.

Academic Success

  • Sarah Durnam passed her Viva with minor corrections in July.
  • Sulman Siddique, a Ph.D. student, has just graduated with his MSc from UCL.

Publications

  • James Bartlett has had a chapter accepted for the Psychology Postgraduate Survival Guide (2nd ed)
  • Laura Wilde will be appearing in the Autumn issue of The Sport and Exercise Scientist

Conferences

  • Congratualtions to those who have been accepted for presenting at the BPS Midlands conference on 3rd September in Birmingham. We have been told about:
    • Jenny Mackay
    • Laura Wilde
    • Rachael Molitor
    • However, if you are presenting, we want to congratulate you, too!
  • Well done to Sahar Shahid, who presented at the ISRA World Conference in Paris in July.
  • Also to Jenny Mackay and Mirabel Pelton, who both presented at the PsyPAG conference at the University of Huddersfield in July
  • Felicitations to James Bartlett, who gave a successful and well-received workshop on ‘Open Science’ at the PsyPAG conference.

Research

  • Congratulations to those who took part in, and had research conducted at Coventry Young Researchers in August – HLS PGRs include Parminder Khela, Jodie Enderby and Sarah Charles

REPS

  • Well done to all postgraduate research reps at Coventry, for winning the Postgraduate Research Student Forum 2018 award
  • Thanks to Laura Wilde for her role as Senior Rep for HLS for the last year
  • Sarah Charles and Danii Chippett will be the new co-Senior Reps for HLS in 2018-2019.

Updates from 2nd July 2018

This month’s news is a bit shorter, as we haven’t heard from many people.

Also, a quick note that there will be no issue of the PGR Newsletter in August or September, but we will prepare for an extended issue for the new academic year on Monday 1st October

General News

  • Congratulations to Tommy Coleman on getting married. We wish you all the best with your new partner in life.

Publications

Conferences

Updates from 1st June 2018

Publications

Conferences

Updates from 1st May 2018

Publications

Congratulations to:

Laura Wilde for getting her systematic review protocol accepted for publication (currently In Press).

Conferences

James Bartlett, is running a workshop at PsyPAG 2018 called “An introduction and practical guide to Open Science practices in psychology”

Mairi Mulvenna has had an abstract accepted to present at the 23rd Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science

Katie Baker for presenting at the British Congress of Mathematics Education In April

Sahar Shahid has had a poster accepted to present the preliminary findings of her systematic review at the International Society for Research on Aggression conference in July in Paris.

Also, Well done to all those who presented at the Doctoral Capability and Development Conference .

Funding

Jenny Mackay was awarded funding from PsyPag to run a workshop on how to conduct a systematic review in psychology.

Thesis submission

Diane Ménage has now successfully submitted her thesis. BEST OF LUCK!

Updates from 3rd April 2018

Publications

Scott McGuire has published a review article titled: “Hemodynamic Instability during Dialysis: The potential role of intradialytic exercise”.

Conferences

Laura Wilde has had a poster accepted for the International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity conference in Hong Kong (June 2018).

Sports

Congratulations to Mairi Mulvenna and Maria Charalampous who are All-British Champions in their Gaelic football team.

Updates from 1st March 2018

Competitions

Congratulations to our HLS representatives in the Coventry University Three Minute Thesis competition:

  • Sahar Shahid 1st Place.
  • Scott McGuire 3rd Place.
  • Jenny Mackay won the ‘people’s choice award’.

Jed Jerwood represented HLS in the first edition of ‘Post Graduate of the Year’ at Coventry University.

Conferences

Well done to everyone who has been accepted to present at the Doctoral Capability and Development conference held at Coventry University in April 2018:

  • Laura Wilde
  • Philippa Carr
  • Katie Baker
  • Danielle Labhardt
  • Jenny Mackay
  • Sarah Charles