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Integrating Data Science into Undergraduate Psychology Education: A Capacity-Building Workshop for Undergraduate Psychology Students
This project aims to serve the national interest by providing training in data science to undergraduate attendees at the Southwestern Psychological Association (SWPA) Conference. A...
Scalable Synthesis of Ultrathin 2D Covalent Organic Framework Membranes with Sub-1 nm Pores for Molecular Separations
Industrial processes for producing fuels, chemicals, and clean water rely upon separations technologies to isolate one or more chemical species from another. The ability to separat...
Virtual Galápagos: A Novel, Project-Based Approach to Training Pre-Service STEM Teachers in Innovative Pedagogical Design
This project aims to serve the national interest by implementing an alternative approach to STEM teacher preparation that is grounded in a highly collaborative, project-based struc...
Transgene free gene editing in plants via nanoparticles.
CRISPR/CAS9 gene editing, and several closely related technologies, have emerged in the last decade as an extremely powerful tool in the life sciences, allowing precise and targete...
Decoding Mumbai's Art Deco Dwellings (1930s-50s): Modernity, Hybridity, and Postcolonial Identities in late-colonial Architecture of Mumbai
Mumbai's Architecture in the late-colonial period was an active proponent of intense socio-cultural changes by playing a crucial role in forming colonial spatial relations, reflect...
An Integrated Real-Time Approach to the Development of Human Problem Solving
Problem solving is ubiquitous across every age and culture-how to navigate a cluttered environment, use a tool, and so on. As our bodies, skills, and environments change, new probl...
Exploring interventions to maintain and prolong healthy skin function for an ageing population
Life expectancy globally and in the UK has increased and this brings many health-related challenges, including how best to support and maintain health in older people. Ageing affec...
Understanding the molecular mechanisms of organelle communication in the regulation of cellular lipid metabolism and developmental processes
A human cell has to carry out many complex functions to support life. To manage all these processes efficiently, cells are divided into numerous distinct compartments, known as org...
Exploring SME sustainable mobility practices and behavioural spillover effects
Within domestic transport, the current carbon budget delivery plan has overshot the Climate Change Committee's 6th budget by 224 megatons, equivalent to 10 times the reduction obse...
Towards a better understanding of the lifecycle of Pesticides in the Atmosphere
Since pesticides have been measured on regional scales and in the background environment there is a pathway for transport to these remote locations from the area of application. Gi...
Global Nonpotential Models of the Solar Corona
The solar corona is a highly structured environment, where the majority of its structure is due to magnetic fields. A wide variety of mechanisms inject both magnetic energy and hel...
Pride, shame and the civic imaginary: UK cultural festivals and the levelling up agenda
Civic imaginaries are the multiple ways in which individuals and collectives think, feel and dream about the futures of their places and communities. They reveal the potential qual...
Animals, ecology, and the rural social system: pastoralists and their Cistercian neighbours in upland southern France, 1100-1350
Inspired by the innovative fields of medieval animal and environmental history, my research aims to enhance our understanding of how medieval animals could be considered agents tha...
Vocational Dance Training: An opportunity to thrive or a risk factor for young people's mental health?
For talented young dancers, vocational dance programmes are the first step in fulfilling a dream of dancing professionally (Blevins et al., 2020). Once accepted through audition, t...
Abandoned Websites and Entropy on the Internet
The internet is collapsing. A 2013 study by Jason Hennessey and Steven Xijin Ge found only 62% of URLs were still available, and a URL's median lifetime was 9.3 years. Contemporary...
War by Biodegradable Means? An Assessment of the British Military Sector's Green Turn
"Algae, alcohol and household waste will power RAF fighter jets under bold Ministry of Defence plans to slash carbon emissions," reads an announcement launching the UK's...
A Systematic Exploration of when Elements of Episodic Memory Begin to Emerge in Young Children
There have been decades of research into the underlying mechanisms of episodic memory including its' emergence and ontogeny. Much of the early research into the emergence of episod...
Engineering Rhodopseudomonas palustris for enhanced biohydrogen production
Fossil fuels (oil, coal, and natural gas) dominate global energy sources but emit CO2, contributing to climate change. Their extraction harms the environment and is finite. Transit...
OPM-MEG for understanding neurocognitive impairment and neurodevelopmental disorder in young children
When a young child undergoes brain surgery, other invasive brain treatment like radiotherapy; or experiences brain damage for example following a stroke, the brain can adapt. This...
Access to protection, enforcement & redress? Effects of visas for agriculture & care on migrant workers' vulnerabilities in the UK workforce
Using the agricultural and care sectors as paradigmatic case studies, this research project will examine how immigration rules and labour policies, and specifically their interacti...