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"I bet you can't do it, can you?": Understanding the motivational effect of perceived challenges
Peter is told by his dad that he should forget about applying to top schools given his level. Mary overhears her colleagues saying she does not have what it takes to become a manag...
Understanding and addressing the impact of stressful live events on the mental health of older adults in Colombia
Colombia has suffered political violence since the 1950s notably la violencia, more recently drug cartel and migrant flows linked. These severely impact citizens. Colombians are no...
Using secondary data to examine whether a programme of physical and social interventions in urban forests enhances community health and wellbeing
This research addresses urgent questions faced by Scottish Forestry, alongside forestry agencies across the rest of the UK, Europe and internationally, who want to know how they ca...
An International Collaboration to Implement and Evaluate at Scale the Active Prevention and Treatment of Maternal Sepsis (APT-Sepsis Programme)
MATERNAL SEPSIS - AN URGENT RESEARCH NEED"Maternal sepsis" is a life threatening condition caused by infection during or after pregnancy. It occurs if the body�...
Robert Gordon University (The) and Harris Tweed Hebrides Limited
To develop new innovative textile products and facilitate international market access, providing year-round and sustainable business demand for the brand and the network of 130+ se...
Perovskite photoelectric memristors
Hybrid organic-inorganic lead halide perovskites (APbX, A: organic or inorganic cation, X: halide anion, such as Br, Cl, I) have attracted tremendous interest in photovoltaics and,...
Aviation Innovation in the South West - Development of an operational environment in a representative urban region
Urban Air Mobility is the future of travel, but before this technology is ready for the public to use we need to test the system as a whole in a real life environment. We will crea...
All-Optical Near-Infrared Imaging via Semiconductor Nanocrystals
This project will develop new technology for Near Infrared (NIR) light imaging that is ultra-compact, transparent, and multi-colour. Human eyes only see 0.0035% (visible light) of...
Colonial and Transnational Intimacies: Medical Humanitarianism in the French external Resistance, 1940-1945.
This project offers the first intimate history of international medical cooperation during the Second World War, through an examination of close bodily encounters between medical s...
Simple questions about neurodegenerative disease: Where? When? What?
Alzheimer's disease is largely caused by genetics, rather than lifestyle factors. The probability of an identical twin developing the disease, if their co-twin already has is...
Using ferroelectric domain walls for active control of heat flow at the nanoscale
In order to satisfy societal demand for continual improvements in microelectronic device performance, there is an ongoing drive for transistor miniaturisation so that spatial packi...
Therapeutic targeting of refractory/relapsed diffuse large B-cell lymphoma through systems biology
More than 13,000 people are diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a cancer of immune cells, annually in the UK. The most common non-Hodgkin lymphoma is Diffuse Large B-cell lymphoma...
C-star algebras and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics
This PhD research aims at developing C-star algebra and functional-analytic methods for the study of quantum and classical statistical mechanics out of equilibrium and hydrodynamic...
High Integrity Additive Manufacturing Using Recovered Material Feedstocks
A joint collaboration between Liberty Powder Metals and University of Nottingham motivated by a business case that suggest the powder will see a 10 fold increase in value once it h...
The impacts of COVID-19 on Persons with Disabilities in Ukraine (with a particular focus on internally displaced Persons with Disabilities)
The recent comprehensive assessment of the impact of COVID-19 on the socio-economic situation in Ukraine (September 2020) confirms the 'devastating impact of COVID-19 in Ukrai...
Managing biodiversity and trophic cascades to enhance forest functioning and restoration
How will declining global biodiversity affect the maintenance of self-sustaining ecosystems and quality of human life? There is an urgent need to address this question in order to...
South Wales Industry - A Plan for Clean Growth
The South Wales Industrial Cluster (SWIC) is a diverse mix of critical industry that have come together to collaboratively achieve common objectives for decarbonisation and clean g...
Exploring the wave nature of axion dark matter using cosmological and astrophysical phenomena.
In the axion project, we are interested in constraining the fraction of dark matter that decays, and the redshift of energy injection from CMB anisotropy measurements using CLASS....
University of Essex and Wilkin & Sons Limited
To increase productivity by preventing contagious plant diseases such as botrytis, increasing crop yields.Taking data from drone surveys using novel IoT approaches, a system will b...
Placental chemokine compartmentalisation by atypical chemokine receptors.
When we are bitten by an insect, or wounded, we set up inflammation precisely at the damaged site. This involves the recruitment of cells called white blood cells to the area, whic...