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Meta-fibres: Optical fibres with meta-surfaces for advanced optical biopsy through needles
Cancers that occur deep within the body are difficult to detect and treat due to their inaccessibility via natural orifices. For example, ovarian cancer has a 50% 5-year survival r...
Public policy in food markets: understanding advertising and choice inter-dependencies
Across the OECD, more than one in two adults and one in six children are overweight or obese, with obesity rates predicted to rise in the coming years. Obesity and poor diet contri...
A study of work in relation to refugees and asylum seekers in Northern Ireland
The commitment from the Home Office in 2015 to host refugees in Northern Ireland as part of the Syrian Vulnerable Person Relocation Scheme has heightened attention towards refugee...
A CO-produced Psychosocial INtervention delivered by GPs for young people who self-harm (COPING): an intervention development and feasibility study
Background Self-harm significantly affects patients, families, the public and the NHS. There is a 20% lifetime prevalence of self-harm in young people, and nearly 50%, in young peo...
HEE/NIHR ICA Pre-doctoral Clinical Academic Fellowship 2020
Training Award
NIHR Development and Skills Enhancement Award
Training Award
HEE/NIHR ICA Pre-doctoral Clinical Academic Fellowship 2020
Training Award
Understanding the factors that shape care homes’ responses to Government COVID-19 guidance on visiting arrangements
Background While effective in limiting Covid-19 transmission, restrictions on family visits to care homes for older people can negatively impact residents emotional, cognitive and...
Local-to-global principles for random Diophantine equations
The proposed research concerns integral and rational solutions of polynomial equations. In geometric terms this means studying integral and rational points on algebraic varieties.W...
Improving women's lifelong health after high-risk pregnancy
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), such as strokes and heart attacks, are the leading causes of death amongst women globally. A particular group of women at high risk of cardiovascula...
Police Accountability - towards international standards (POLARCS)
Against the backdrop of increased powers and resources granted to police agencies for combating terrorism and other newly perceived threats in many mature democracies, the POLACS p...
Dynamic regulation of chromatin loops by cohesins and CTCF in real time: physiology and pathology
The human genome is spatially organised at multiple levels. In the range of tens to hundreds kilobases of DNA, two distant chromosome sites are brought together to form a chromatin...
Household behavioural responses to changing rainfall patterns in rural Gambia and the risks for human health
Increasingly climate change is affecting the health of rural populations in West Africa. Annual rainfall has declined by 25-30% in The Gambia. This is likely to have an impact on h...
Reducing plastic packaging and food waste through product innovation simulation.
THE PROBLEMPlastic packaging waste is a major issue that has recently entered public consciousness, with the British government committing to a 25-year plan that would phase out di...
UK participation in the pre-production phase of CTA extension 2021
The Universe is full of particles with energies so great that they are travelling at very close to the speed of light. They affect the Universe in many ways, influencing the life c...
Stratification of MRC funded scientific technologies and reagents for rapid and simple dissemination to the wider scientific community
Reagents and technologies will be accessed via a web-based resource similar to PPU’s current model (https://mrcppureagents.dundee.ac.uk/) or (https://dub-screen.mrc.ac.uk/). Reagen...
BOSCO-Connect: Online Advertising Artificial Intelligence Tool for SMEs
Modo25 believe in putting the power back into the hands of both our clients and our people. Our best of both worlds approach to digital marketing means our clients can count on us...
Chlorophyll-f-containing Photosystem I
In 2018 we discovered a new type of photosynthesis that does photochemistry using chlorophyll-f, which absorbs infra-red light. Photosynthesis uses sunlight to provide the energy f...
Gender Equalities at Work: an Interdisciplinary History of 50 Years of Legislation
This project will produce the first comprehensive interdisciplinary history of the creation, trajectories, legacies and lived experiences of the Equal Pay Act 1970 and Sex Discrimi...
HyStYRIAA 2.0 - Hydrogen Storage to Energise Robotics in Air Applications 2.0
This project aims to develop a novel energy system that extracts clean electrical energy from low-pressure hydrogen carriers along with automation to realise the benefits of extend...