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Scalable, Plug & Play and Modular DC Power Systems for low-emission Large Vessels
The use of fossil fuels and emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) from waterborne must be minimised as fast as possible to reach a climate-neutral society by 2050. A vital prerequisit...
Risk Assuring Future Structure Critical Systems: Combining 21st Century Science with Engineering Intuition - Renewal
As you read this you are probably sitting down. When you sat down, were you concerned that the chair would fail? You likely did not even consider it as you may have sat in this sam...
Data2Action: Learning Network for AI and Data-Powered Social Innovation and Co-Creation of Transformative Change
Data2Action will train 10 doctoral Fellows as the next generation of transdisciplinary social innovation leaders who are capable of ethically and responsibly developing state-of-th...
Teaching Accessibility in the Digital Skill Set
This research focusses on digital accessibility education in technical disciplines and the digital workforce, to ensure an inclusive digital society that meets the requirements of...
A Pathway to the Confirmation and Characterisation of Habitable Alien Worlds
Are we alone in the Universe? Since the confirmation of the first planets outside our solar system in the 1990s, we have made tremendous progress towards answering this question. Y...
Responding to complex public contracting failures: alternative models for coordinating and stewarding public service delivery
Public-private partnerships and contracted delivery arrangements for public services are ubiquitous across developed economies and yet their performance and value are increasingly...
The earliest exploration of land by animals: from trace fossils to numerical analyses
This proposal aims to address an important long-standing palaeontological question concerning the timing and nature of the animals who undertook the earliest explorations on land i...
Complexity and outcomes among children and young people with life-limiting/life threatening conditions: establishing a multisectoral collaborative and conceptual framework to advance evidence and practice
Background Children and young people with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions have highly complex needs to be met across health, education and social care. Their parent...
A cluster randomized controlled trial of online Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) training to improve mental wellbeing in staff caring for terminally ill people and their caregivers.
Background: Whilst healthcare workers are known to be at risk of poor wellbeing, those that work in palliative care have worse wellbeing and face exposure to unique stressors. Acce...
World Hip Trauma Evaluation - DELPHIC: An external pilot randomised trial of Delirium Prevention in Fragility Hip Fractures with Corticosteroids.
Background Older patients with a hip fracture are at a particularly high risk of developing post-operative delirium due to the injury, pain, analgesia and the surgery required to t...
Strengthening Counter Fraud Provision across the NHS in England
AIM To identify where approaches to counter fraud across the NHS in England can be improved and to generate evidence and resources that will (re)shape the focus, organisation and...
OpenPREGnosis: Developing an Open Algorithm to Identify Pregnancy Episodes and Outcomes in National Electronic Health Records (EHRs): A Comprehensive Methodological Approach
Research Questions: Can an open-source algorithm be developed to identify unique pregnancy episodes in de-identified health records? Can we integrate this algorithm as a tool w...
Understanding why junior doctors leave the NHS and what can be done to retain them: A realist synthesis
Junior doctors, particularly those outside of formal training programmes, are choosing to leave the NHS. Previous research identified several causative factors including: feeling u...
Evaluation of a pilot for use of obesity medications outside hospital settings
Background: New weight loss drugs such as Semaglutide (Wegovy) and Tirzepatide (Mounjaro) offer more effective obesity treatment when combined with behavioural interventions. These...
Identifying innovative models of urgent and emergency care in rural and coastal areas in England: a mixed methods study
Background: In 2023, NHS England launched a 2-year delivery plan to recover Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) services in England. This plan aims to roll-out demand-based initiatives...
Safety of medications in pregnancy - a novel approach to improving shared decision making
Background: Medication use in pregnancy is common, yet current knowledge of the clinical risk/benefit and safety profiles of these medications remains very limited. As a result, m...
Developing inclusive co-design tools for health-related co-design in partnership with minority ethnic communities.
Background: Working in partnership with people from minority ethnic groups to develop healthcare services that suit their needs is a recommended approach to address health inequali...
Exploring attitudes and thinking on Health and Social Care Provision for Older South Asian (SA) Communities of access and increased care needs
Exploring attitudes and thinking on Health and Social Care Provision for Older South Asian (SA) Communities of access and increased care needs
Human Agency & Leveraging Technology (HALT) to prevent diabetes complications
Preventing and delaying diabetes complications require tight glycaemic control, but current screening methods detect microvascular changes only after they have developed, limiting...
A randomised controlled efficacy trial of trauma-focused cognitive behaviour therapyfor posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in young children aged 3-8 years
Background: Traumatic events (e.g., serious accidents) are experienced by up to 2/3 of children by age 16. A significant degree of this exposure occurs in pre-school and early scho...