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A Nature-Based Intervention to Improve Mental Health: Efficacy of An Angling Intervention for Military Veterans and Emergency Service Personnel with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Research question This study investigates the impact of nature-based interventions (NBIs), specifically angling in a natural and social setting, on the mental health of individuals...
WAVE
Water constitutes the foundation of all life and is a prerequisite for well-functioning societies. Lakes, rivers, and wetlands are teeming with biodiversity and provide us with eco...
CAREER: Engineering Extracellular Matrix Ligands for Macrophage Control
Macrophages are immune cells that can direct wound healing by adopting functional states that range from pro-inflammatory (bad) to pro-tissue healing (good). To change their functi...
CAREER: Towards a complete picture of communication in anthropogenic noise - Auditory processing among urban and rural soundscapes.
This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).Noise generated by human activity has increased dramatically over the past de...
Handbrake on hysterectomy: Developing a personalised and fertility sparing pharmacological therapy for uterine fibroid-induced symptoms
Fibroids are common non-cancerous tumours of the uterine wall affecting millions of women of childbearing age around the world. They cause heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB), subfertil...
Reward Design for Safe Reinforcement Learning
In my DPhil, I intend to focus on the safe development of autonomous systems: algorithms that will be deployed in ways that change their environment and have to make sequences of d...
Splitting STAT Dimers to Understand Interferon Balance: A Strategy to Dissociate Beneficial and Detrimental Interferon Effects in Infection?
Background: Interferon signalling is critical for health, but knowledge of key aspects remains opaque. Interferons (IFNs) constitute a large family of proteins that alter the behav...
Improving sustainable parasite control in British dairy cattle
The development of tools to inform and promote sustainable parasite control is a priority from a One Health perspective.This study aims to improve the understanding of parasitic di...
Nationality and Shared Identities in Maritime Communities, 1707-1797
This project will offer a novel interpretation of shared and national identities within maritime communities during the eighteenth century. In the light of ongoing public discussio...
Algorithmic Justice and Hostile Solidarity: An interdisciplinary examination of Parole Board decisions mediated by automated decision-making systems
Algorithmic Justice and Hostile Solidarity: An interdisciplinary examination of Parole Board decisions mediated by automated decision-making systems in the UKThe dominant positivis...
New methods to quantify axonal magnetic properties and myelin integrity using MRI
Myelin is a key component of brain function and structure, specifically in white matter (WM). It is an insulating layer of lipids and proteins covering many of the brain's axo...
Resonant Frequencies: Radio, Race, and Diasporic Listening in Britain, 1945 - 1981
ContextThis project will deliver the first historical examination of the listening practices - the socially and historically instituted ways of listening and engaging with sound -...
Microphthalmia, anophthalmia and coloboma (MAC) and retinoic acid pathway genes
SUMMARY Microphthalmia, anophthalmia and coloboma (MAC) are a group of clinically and genetically related eye defects that cause significant visual impairment. MAC can be caused by...
A Molecular Magnifying Glass to Dissect the Interaction Between Cancer and Host
Every cell in our body displays on the surface sugars, so-called glycans, that are linked to other biomolecules such as proteins. When a cell turns into a cancer cell, it displays...
The dynamics of feature binding and retrieval in the visual brain
BBSRC strategic theme: Biosciences for an integrated understanding of healthVisual perception refers to the system of processes by which the brain organises and interprets visual i...
Climate Emergency and Healthcare in the NHS (CLEANER NHS)
Healthcare settings, encompassing hospitals and medical facilities, play a substantial role in carbon emissions. The imperative to decarbonize this sector arises from the significa...
Household Health Shocks and Criminal Activity: Evidence from Brazil
The causal effect of health condition on economic household indicators has been thoroughly studied within academic literature, finding a multitude of different, sometimes contradic...
What can AI Language Models tell us about how textual information influences understanding of environmental issues?
In order to address and mitigate the potentially catastrophic impact of climate change, humans will need to make drastic changes to their behaviour. Such changes will require wides...
Brain-to-brain neurofeedback during naturalistic dynamic stimuli to reduce craving in heroin addiction
The opioid epidemic remains a major public health crisis in the US, with relapse rates and overdose-related fatalities continuing to rise. However, the mechanistic explorations of...
Resurrecting Root Hairs in Duckweed - a trait lost for millions of years
Context: In both plants and animals, organ loss has occurred frequently during evolution. There are several examples in animal systems, such as the loss of limbs in snakes and visi...