Event 

Joint online conference with Ukraine

Tuesday 8 April, 2025 – Wednesday 9 April, 2025

Virtual 

Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary European Integration: Postdigital innovations in Science, Education, Technology, Arts, and Culture


All staff and students are invited to join  Bath Spa University colleagues in collaboration with our partners at the International University of Economics and Humanities in Ukraine, for a conference that promotes European integration through the exploration of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary collaboration.  
  
The transition from the material to the digital has significant implications for Higher Education as we currently know it. The way we think, behave, learn and create are forever changed by human-technology relationships and need to be considered carefully in relation to the challenges that currently face the sector.  
  
This international conference will consider how interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary collaboration, in combination with the use of a critical pedagogy, has the potential to generate new fields of knowledge, partnerships, networks and innovative practices. It will consider collaboration within this context and as a generator of innovation for societal good and as part of sustained cultural and educational development.   

Register for the conference  

Registration is now open

Register for Day One: 8 April

Register for Day Two: 9 April

Conference programme

 

TIMING EVENT DESCRIPTION
9:00 – 9:30 am (UK)
10 :00 – 10:30 (UA)
Welcome and Opening Addresses:
  • Professor John Strachan (Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research & Enterprise) - Bath Spa University (BSU)
  • Dr Vitali Demianchuk, Rector, Private Higher Education Establishment ‘Academician Stepan Demianchuk International University of Economics and Humanities (IUEH)
A History of Collaboration between BSU and IUEH
  • Professor Ian Gadd, BSU
  • Alina Kruhliak - Head of the International Project Department, IUEH
09:30-10:15 am (UK)
10:30 - 11:15 (UA)

The Postdigital Researcher: Positionality and Method

10:15 – 10:30 am (UK)
11:15 - 11:30 (UA)
BREAK

10:30 – 12:00 pm (UK)
11:30 - 13:00 (UA)

PARALLEL SESSIONS
 – please choose only one 
session to attend

 

SESSION 1: Education: Postdigital Methodology and Practice (BSU)

Session in English – translated summary slides will be made available, and questions will be moderated in both English and Ukrainian

  1. Amber Lamonby-Pennie: Postdigital pedagogy for creative higher education: the relevance of individual internet usage behaviours and transdisciplinary collaboration to postgraduate curriculum design.
  2. Sarah Hayes, Sara Tolbert, Michael Jopling, Petar Jandrić: Postdigital innovations from ‘double below’: Exploring citizen sciences and citizen humanities at/from the margins to address complex societal challenges
  3. Edward Longford: Modelling and prediction of group behaviour in educational settings
  4. Madison Webb: How are education apps potentially changing the format the adult learning and what are the implications for higher education institutions?
  5. Li Li et al: The Agential causes of business management students in the implementation of the full virtual teaching

SESSION 2: Culture: Historical and Cultural Transformations in the Digital Age  (IUEH)

Session in Ukrainian – translated summary slides will be made available, and questions will be moderated in both English and Ukrainian

  1. Viktoriia Palchevska: Barrier-free tourist space (the example of the Rivne region)
  2. Olesia Krasovska: Preserving cultural heritage in times of conflict: a case study of the Kharkiv Art Museum
  3. Uliana Shevchenko: The phenomenon of Ukrainian cultural identity in the context of the confessional war
  4. Nataliya Rumyantseva: Reshaping UK-Ukraine academic collaborations through a trauma-informed  lens
  5. Myroslava Kovalets: Innovative methods of forming patriotism of senior preschoolers by means of museum pedagogy

 

 

 

12:00 – 12:45 pm (UK)
13:00 - 13:45 (UA)
LUNCH BREAK

12:45 – 1:45 pm (UK)
13:45 - 14:45 (UA) 

PARALLEL SESSIONS
 – please choose only one 
session to attend

SESSION 3: Modern IT: Innovation and 
Security in the Digital Space (IUEH)

Session in Ukrainian – translated summary slides will be made available, and questions will be moderated in both English and Ukrainian

  1. Valentn Vodyanitskyi: Analysis of artificial intelligence models
  2. Oleksandr Panchuk: Optimization of algorithms for determining the overlay of graphic primitives
  3. Filip Kkhater: Google Cloud Run: innovation in cloud solutions

 

SESSION 4: Science and Society: Socio-Psychological, Legal, Economic and Environmental Challenges (IUEH)

Session in Ukrainian – translated summary slides will be made available, and questions will be moderated in both English and 
Ukrainian

  1. Yevheniia Artiushok: Colour economy: choose the colour of your future 
  2. Eduard Hreben: State and prospects of Internet banking development in Ukraine
  3. Andrii Pelekh: Principles of the post-war period of economic development of Ukraine
1:45 – 2:00 pm (UK)
14:45 - 15:00 (UA)
BREAK

2:00 – 3:15 pm (UK)
15:00 - 16:15 (UA) 

PARALLEL SESSIONS
 – please choose only one 
session to attend

SESSION 5: Technology: Countering Propaganda, Disinformation and Threats to Security in the Digital Space (IUEH and BSU)

Session in Ukrainian and English – translated summary slides will be made available, and questions will be 
moderated in both English and Ukrainian

  1. Yaroslava Motrynets: Modern security challenges on the Web, and how AI can help to solve them
  2. Serhii Bernadskyi: Security of using Internet resources based on PON technology during military operations
  3. Khrystyna Usyk: Analysis of effective measures for countering disinformation: international experience and Ukrainian realities
  4. Kateryna Maistrenko: How can Ukrainian 
    audiences detect the use of AI in propaganda? (BSU) 
  5. Karyna Mishchuk: Russian disinformation as a 
    propaganda tool

SESSION 6: Science and Society: Socio-Psychological, Legal, Economic and Environmental Challenges (IUEH)

Session in Ukrainian – translated summary slides will be made available, and questions will be moderated in both English and Ukrainian

  1. Oleksandr Kinashuk: Administrative and legal regulation of insurance activities: challenges and prospects in Ukraine
  2. Andrii Vostrikov: Specific features of human resource management under martial law
  3. Daryna Cherveniak: Prospects for sustainable development of Ukrainian regions under martial law and post-war transformation

 

 

 

 

3:15 – 3:30 pm (UK)
16:15 - 16:30 (UA)

Closing Remarks

  • Natalia Medynska - Vice-Rector for Research, Private Higher Education Establishment ‘Academician Stepan Demianchuk international University of Economics and Humanities
  • Professor Ian Gadd – Professor of English Literature, Bath Spa University

 

TIMING EVENT DESCRIPTION
9:15 – 9:30 am (UK)
10:15 – 10:30 (UA)
Welcome and Introduction:
09:30-10:15 am (UK)
10:30 - 11:15 (UA)

Keynote Speech

Professor Nataliia Medynska, Okana Yaromenko

Education: Integration of Peace Issues in the Context of the European Space

10:15 – 10:30 am (UK)
11:15 - 11:30 (UA)
BREAK

10:30 – 11:45 am (UK)
11:30 - 12:45 (UA)

PARALLEL SESSIONS
 – please choose only one 
session to attend

 

SESSION 7: Education: Postdigital Methodology and Practice (BSU)

Session in Ukrainian – translated summary slides will be made available, and questions will be moderated in both English and Ukrainian

  1. Viktoriia Lankina: Postdigital technologies in forming research competence in English lessons 
  2. Mariia Borodiienko: Artificial intelligence in English lessons: an innovative technology for personalised learning 
  3. Aliona Churylovych: Technologies of forming civic competence of primary schoolchildren in the educational environment of the New Ukrainian School 
  4. Nadiia Maksymchuk: Peculiarities of forming mathematical competence of primary schoolchildren through the use of lego constructors in the educational environment of the New Ukrainian School 

SESSION 8: Education: Embedding Peace, Post-Conflict Resolution and Human Rights in Education    

Session in Ukrainian – translated summary slides will be made available, and questions will be moderated in both English and Ukrainian

  1. Iryna Levchenko: Normalisation of children's psycho-emotional and physical health of children in preschool education institutions under martial law 
  2. Anastasiia Bondar: Creative educational technologies for the development of emotional intelligence of primary school children 
  3. Tetiana Kolodych: Fairytale therapy as a means of forming moral feelings of primary schoolchildren 
  4. Mariia Muliarchuk: The role of plast in national and patriotic education of youth in Ukraine 

 

11:45 – 12:30pm (UK)
13:00 - 13:45 (UA)
LUNCH BREAK

12:45 – 1:45 pm (UK)
13:45 - 14:45 (UA) 

PARALLEL SESSIONS
 – please choose only one 
session to attend

SESSION 9: Technology: Postdigital Self-Determinism, Human Authority and Authorship   
 
Session in English – translated summary slides will be made available, and questions will be moderated in both English and Ukrainian 

  1. Francis N. Nwbonyi, Ian Willis: Securing the research infrastructure in Smart Cities
  2. Rachel Hamilton: Exploring Human-AI relationships in postdigital era: an interdisciplinary study of fiction and co-creation.
  3. Eri Mountbatten-O'Malley: On educational malaise and flourishing  

 

SESSION 10: Intercultural Communication in the Context of European Integration  
 
Session in Ukrainian – translated summary slides will be made available, and questions will be moderated in both English and Ukrainian 

  1. Ruslan Melnyk: Sport and diplomacy: in search of common ground 
  2. Oksana Kotynska: Importance of adaptive sports games in the process of adaptation and psychophysical development of internally displaced persons 
  3. Iryna  Husieva: The mechanism of assessing adaptive reserves of elite wrestlers in conditions of anaerobic regimes of energy supply of loads 

 

1.30 – 1:45 pm (UK)

14:30 - 14:45  (UA)

Closing Remarks

  • Professor John Strachan (Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research & Enterprise) - Bath Spa University (BSU)
  • Dr Vitali Demianchuk, Rector, Private Higher Education Establishment ‘Academician Stepan Demianchuk International University of Economics and Humanities (IUEH)

Conference Proceedings 

All of the conference papers will be published in a digital on-line edition translated into both English and Ukrainian. 

UK - Ukraine Twinning Partnership 

In June 2022, BSU twinned with the Academician Stepan Demianchuk International University of Economics and Humanities (IUEH) in Rivne, as part of UUK’s 'Twin for Hope' initiative. 
  
The two universities have held online lectures, training, and solidarity events, and secured funding from Research England and UKRI to strengthen IUEH’s research and innovation capacity through joint papers and publications, BSU-led leadership and resilience training, and the purchase of equipment to support IUEH’s Museum of Peace. 
  
More details of the partnership can be found  on the Partnerships with Ukraine page.