2025 IACR Pre-conference

📅 Pre-Conference

Monday 28 July 2025
08:30	Registration
09:00	Welcome Catherine Hastings and Caroline Kuhn
09:15	Lecture: Roy Bhaskar’s First Phase Critical Realism (50-minute lecture and Q&A) Doug Porpora (online presenter, US)
10:45	BREAK (30 mins) – Catered for in-person
11:15	Lecture: Roy Bhaskar’s Dialectical Critical Realism (50-minute lecture and Q&A) Priscilla Alderson (online presenter, UK)
12:45	LUNCH (60 mins) – Catered for in-person
13:45	Lecture: Applied Critical Realism (40-minute lecture and Q&A) Catherine Hastings (in-person presenter)
14:45	Short BREAK (15 mins) – Catered for in-person
15:00	Work in Progress Session 1 (75 mins) Group 1a (online) Brendan Pearl – Critical Realist Review: Literature Reviews that Dig Beneath the Surface to Discover Actionable Insights Teresa Munguazi – Symbolic Sustainability and Sustainable Consumers Interest in Hemp Based Products Bernadette Durcan – Using Critical Realism to explore Catholic studenthood in the UK Group 1b (in-person) Jane Drapkin – Tuzla and the containment of ethno-nationalism Yan Wang – Understanding Teacher Education Through a Critical Realist Lens: Comparative Case Studies of Culture, Structure, and Teacher-Educator Agency
16:15	Short break (approximately 15 mins). A chance to stand up and move.
16:30	Work in Progress Session 2 (75 mins) Group 2 (hybrid) Caroline Hollows (online) – The use of dialectical critical realism and the four-planar social being to understand the student physiotherapist learning experience Jennifer Perkins (online) – Discourse Literature Review of Insulin Access and Rationing Rhys Mantell – Designing and user-evaluating a game-based cognitive assessment for older people involved in the Australian justice system
17:45	Day ends

MONDAY MENTORS
In-Person	Online
Host: Catherine Hastings	Host: Caroline Kuhn
Mentors: Karin Zotzmann Robyn Yucel	Mentors: Onur Ozmen Steve Ash Amber Fletcher Priscilla Alderson

Tuesday 29 July 2025
08:45	Arrival and welcome
09:00	Lecture: Roy Bhaskar’s Philosophy of metaReality (50-minute lecture and Q&A) Onur Ozmen (online presenter)
10:30	BREAK (30 mins) Catered for in-person
11:00	Lecture: An introduction to Margaret Archer (40-minute lecture and Q&A) Robyn Yucel (in-person presenter)
12:00	LUNCH (60 mins) Catered for in-person
13:00	Lecture: Critical realist writing approaches (40-minute lecture and Q&A) Karin Zotzmann (in-person presenter)
14:00	Short BREAK (15 mins) Catered for in-person
14:15	Work in Progress Session: 3 (90 mins) Group 3 (hybrid) • Don Claro P. Abutal (with Angelo Julian E. Perez) (online) ‘From Underlaboring to Emancipation: A Critical Realist Perspective on Philippine Education Reform’ • Justin Bareham (online) ‘Platform power and reflexive teacher agency: A critical realist study of digital control and resistance in English secondary schools’ • Rick Payne (online) ‘Facilitating the diffusion of data science in the charity sector’ • Grzegorz Sadowski (online) ‘The Social Conditions of the Teacher Preparation Process from the Perspective of Critical Realist Relational Sociology’
15:45	Short break (approximately 15 minutes). A chance to stand up and move.
16:00	Work in Progress Session: 4 (90 mins) Group 4 (hybrid) • Freedman Delali Woledzi (online) ‘Smallholder farmers’ climate im/mobility decisions on household food security in Ghana’ • Hammal Aslam (online) ‘Investigating the Intersections of water and power: Agrarian Change in contemporary Balochistan’ • Erica Koopmans ‘A massive web of compassion: Applying a critical realist case study to examine care coordination for early childhood development in a Canadian primary health care context’ • Stephanie Payne (online) ‘Don’t Move, Improve: A Case Study of Black American Agency in Building Communities of Belonging through a Critical Realism Lens’
17:30	Workshop finishes
18:00	Meet for drinks/dinner at a pub or restaurant nearby (self-funded)

TUESDAY MENTORS
In-Person	Online
Host: Catherine Hastings	Host: Caroline Kuhn
Mentors: Karin Zotzmann Robyn Yucel	Mentors: Onur Ozmen Doug Porpora Amber Fletcher (TBC) Priscilla Alderson