The School of Communication & Creativity (SCC) at City St George’s brings together the Departments of Journalism; Media, Culture and Creative Industries (including the Journalism and Democracy Centre); and Performing Arts (including SPARC, our centre for Sound Practice and Research at City St George’s). This interdisciplinary postgraduate conference showcases the diverse and creative work of postgraduate researchers based in SCC.

This event coincides with the SPARC Symposium, 27-31 May 2026. For full details of symposium events, please visit the decidated overview page.

Attendance

The 27th May conference is free to attend and advance booking is not required. Please note, other events in the SPARC Symposium require tickets.

Schedule:  Wednesday 27 May, 2026

Venue: Rooms AG09 and AG10, College Building

10:30-10:45 Arrival & Welcome (refreshments provided)

10:45-12:00 Session 1

• Thanh Giang Nguyen, ‘British soft power through media: The case of BBC Vietnamese from the Cold War to Digital Age’
• Marianne Brown, ‘Participatory musicking and arts activities for women and children living in refuge: Impact, process, outcomes and mechanisms of change’
• William Stokes, ‘Harnessing the Arithmaphonic: Volume as a Compositional Tool’
• Emilie Gambade, ‘In what ways do communicative strategies of humanisation in digital video foster a sense of interdependence and trust between the journalist and the viewer?’

12:00-12:15 Break

12:15-13:30 Session 2

• Ahmed Younes, ‘Accessibility in Journalism: Challenges and Opportunities for Visually Impaired Journalists and Audiences’
• Laila Mohammed Alnajar, ‘Creative tourism VS culture tourism’
• Yasmine Feital Calcado Barbosa, ‘When the manosphere intersects with journalism: how traditional and independent Brazilian media outlets tackle the harmful effects of masculinism’
• Carô Gervay, ‘Sensitive Encouters, Drawings made of Light and (Re)appearing Acts: Family Photographs from the Vietnamese Diaspora set in Motion’

13:30-14:15 Lunch (provided)

14:15-15:30 Session 3

• Bea Hebron, ‘An intimate relationship between songwriting and verbal scoring’
• Fred Scott, ‘Ferruccio Busoni’s 'Doktor Faust' and the Great Architect’
• Günseli Naz Ferel, ‘Exploring Sonic-Methodologies for Ethnographic Research: Soundwalking and Composition’
• Hung Nguyen, ‘Gender, Repression and Digital Activism: The Social Media Practices of Formerly Imprisoned Vietnamese Women in Exile’

15:30-15:45 Break

15:45-17:00 Session 4

• Pantea Armanfar, ‘Maram-Nameh: Letters of Ethical Attunement and Collective Resonance’
• Queeni Lindsay, "Songverstions: Exploring the Impact of Group Singing for Women's Wellbeing and Social Cohesion"
• Kristian Skarbrevik, ‘Performing Ecologies: Listening, Presence, and Wellbeing in Ecological Sound Art Practice’

17:00-18:00 Reception