Research
Event Concluded: 2024 Research Showcase (Nov 22 – Dec 16)
AIU’s Research Showcase is an event that began in 2017 under the name “Research Week” to allow AIU faculty and students to present the results of their research and share them with the internal and external community. Through the 2019 academic year, the event consisted of in-person poster presentations, but since 2020, we have held it online and in 2022 we started inviting researchers from our international partner universities to present, as well.
This year’s Research Showcase features 8 presentations by AIU faculty members and 11 by researchers from our partner universities overseas.
Presentations were available from 10:00 am, Friday, November 22 until midnight on Monday, December 16, 2024 (Japan time). Many participants have given permission for their presentations to remain in the AIU Research Showcase Archives, so you can view them there.
Thank you to all of the Research Showcase presenters and to everyone who viewed the presentations! We hope this showcase can be the first step toward encouraging connections between researchers and further strengthening our relationships with our international partners.
Academic Year 2024 Presentations
Fall 2024 Research Showcase: AIU Presenters
Further Adventures in the Lab (WN24/SP24): Building Experimental Design Skills using Computer-Aided Design, 3D Printing, Programming, and the Phototrophic Protist Euglena gracilis
Presenters:
- Andy CROFTS, Professor, Global Connectivity Program
- Eriko YAMAMOTO, Undergraduate Student
- Sota MINATO, Undergraduate Student
Aggregate Investment with a Liquidity Trap: A Comparison between Japan and the UK Economies
Presenters:
- Wenti DU, Associate Professor, Global Business Program
- Eric PENTECOST, Professor, Loughborough University, U.K.
Explaining explanation, understanding understanding: Morphisms (should be) everywhere
Presenters:
- Attila EGRI-NAGY, Professor, Global Connectivity Program
- Miklós HOFFMANN, Professor, Eszterhazy Karoly Catholic University and University of Debrecen
Ethnographic Research Project: Language, Culture and Identity
Presenters:
- Chris Carl HALE, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Global Communication and Language, English Language Teaching Practices Program
- June Ha KIM, Graduate Student, Graduate School of Global Communication and Language, English Language Teaching Practices Program
- Queena XU, Graduate Student, Graduate School of Global Communication and Language, English Language Teaching Practices Program
- Wing Yiu LING, Graduate Student, Graduate School of Global Communication and Language, English Language Teaching Practices Program
Does Service Innovation Lead to Perceived Service Luxuriousness?
Presenters:
- Sungkyu LEE, Assistant Professor, Global Business Program
Changes in Socio-ecological Production Landscapes in Akita: a case of Kujukushima, Nikaho: Nature Positive and Public Works
Presenters:
- Yoji NATORI, Associate Professor, Global Studies Program
“Reflection Session”: A documentary film about seminar research
Presenters:
- Noah Keone VIERNES, Associate Professor, Global Studies Program (Interviewing, Filming, and Editing)
- Collaborators: Shogo KUDO, Associate Professor, Global Studies Program, Luke DILLEY, Assistant Professor, Global Studies Program, Florent DOMENACH, Professor/Director, Global Connectivity Program, Sean O’REILLY, Associate Professor, Japan Studies Program, Clinton WATKINS, Professor/Director, Global Business Program, Wenti DU, Associate Professor, Global Business Program, Kaeko CHIBA, Associate Professor, Global Connectivity Program, Ki Deuk HYUN, Professor, Global Studies Program, Suppaleuk SARPPHAITOON, Assistant Professor, Global Business Program,
- Presenters: Mao KOKUBO, Connor KENNEDY, Ikumi MASHIKO, Marisa HOWE, Miyu OKUNO, Ayane MIYASHITA, Aika KOZKI, Kiwamu SATO, Kyoko MIYAKE, Kurumi WATANABE, Yuki YOKOGI, Ikumi MOTOMURA, Keisuke KUDO, Ririko IKUTA, Bumpei NAGAYA, Chiharu SUZUKI, Tetsushi KAJIHARA, Nobuharu OMORI, Honoka HASHIMOTO, Ryuji KOBAYASHI, AIU Undergraduate students,
Multinationality and Cash Holdings: Evidence from Japan
Presenters:
- Clinton WATKINS, Professor/Director, Global Business Program
Fall 2024 Research Showcase: Partner University Presenters
Does exercise with or without manual therapy influence sensory characteriscs in people with elbow tendinopathy? A single-blinded, randomised cross-over trial.
Presenters:
- Leanne BISSET, Associate Professor, Griffith University, Australia
Development and transformation of Eurasianism during the Cold War: Eurasianism in the Soviet intellectual milieu
Presenters:
- Michal RACYN, Postdoc researcher, Masaryk University – Faculty of Arts, Department of Slavonic Studies, Czech Republic
An investigation of the Factors affecting the Users’ Adoption of Social Media Technologies in Public Sector: Case of Egypt
Presenters:
- Safaa HUSSEIN, Assistant Professor, Egypt Japan University for Science and Technology, Egypt
Next Generation Sustainability
Presenters:
- Chng Saun FONG, Senior Lecturer, Institute for Advanced Studies, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia
ESL Teachers’ Learner Autonomy Promoting Strategies in ESL Tertiary Classrooms: Do They Walk the Talk?
Presenters:
- Sharina SAAD, Senior Lecturer, Universiti Teknologi Mara Kedah Branch, Malaysia
The Reclaimed Agency of a Prostituted Identity in Meryem Alaoui’s Straight from the Horse’s Mouth
Presenters:
- Rawae KARMIM, Assistant Professor, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco
Perception of internal auditing and its effectiveness – the results of research to date
Presenters:
- Lena GRZESIAK, Assistant Professor, University of Lodz, Faculty of Management, Department of Human Resources Management, Poland
Universal revolutionary pedagogical principles. The Ferrer Guardia?s Modern School
Presenters:
- Antonio NADAL-MASEGOSA, Doctor in Pedagogy, University of Málaga, Spain
Death Studies at the University of Aberdeen
Presenters:
- Arnar ?RNASON, Senior Lecturer in social anthropology, University of Aberdeen, U.K.
- Vikki ENTWISTLE, Professor, University of Aberdeen, U.K.
Stonehenge and Jomon
Presenters:
- Simon KANER, Director, Centre for Japanese Studies, University of East Anglia, U.K.
Tracing the money trail: Okinawa as a key site of regional economic competition
Presenters:
- Ra MASON, Sasakawa Associate Professor of International Relations and Japanese Foreign Policy, University of East Anglia, U.K.