Results for Environment
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Landscapes of Dispersed Settlement: Understanding People and Place in the Severn Valley, 1066-1500
This project will focus on post-Conquest (AD1066 - 1500) landscapes of dispersed settlement in the middle Severn valley (from Ombersley and Shrawley, Worcestershire to Morville and...
how digitised identities connected to hidden homelessness impacts security and privacy risks, goals and practices
This aims to explore: (1) how people with lived experiences of homelessness self-define their security or privacy goals online and what practices they use to promote security a...
Modelling Collective Cell Migration
Collective cell motility is a widely observed phenomenon in many areas of biology, particularly in developmental biology and medicine. There have been a number of modelling approac...
Composite structural housing with integrated thermal management
As modern rotorcraft design shifts away from conventional power and towards more electrical systems, the need for efficient thermal regulation has never been higher. Systems are cu...
In Defence of Lives and Livelihoods: Co-creating Pathways towards Peace and Prosperity for the Lake Chad Region [DEFENCE]
Peace and prosperity underpin the success of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): from reducing extreme poverty and violent conflicts to ensuring peaceful and inclusive societ...
Investigation of materials and devices for organic photovoltaics by EPR and EDMR
This research project will study fundamental processes in materials and devices for organic photovoltaic systems through investigation by EPR (Electron Paramagnetic Resonance) and...
Innovations in 'therapeutic landscapes': implications for social prescribing
In my PhD I provided new insight into experiences of 'therapeutic landscapes', spaces (and the activities that take place within them), that are associated with being good for ment...
Mixed Victoriana: Mixed-Race Identity in Victorian Literature, 1850-1914
This project examines how the idea of mixed-race identity found fictional form across a range of literary genres from the mid to late-Victorian era. By reading this fiction in conj...
Crafting a Healthier Internet: People, Things and our Digital Society
The aim for this project is to explore how we can define and foster a healthy relationship between people, the internet and things using the ethos and practices of craft, informed...
Nutritional programming in replacement dairy heifers: Future-proofing herd performance, health and behaviour
Background and justification: Dairy calf lifetime performance is heavily influenced by early life health, nutrition and environment. If these factors are sub optimal they will hav...
Understanding the cracking behaviour of reinforced concrete elements subjected to the restraint of imposed strains
The overall aim of the project is to provide practising engineers with the ability to correctly design RC elements for the restraint of short and long-term imposed strains. Crack...
Microbial transitions in soil ecosystems under land use and climate change
Background: The soil microbiome, which encompasses a vast diversity of microbial life, plays a crucial role in regulating biogeochemical cycles and plant growth. Yet, our understan...
Effect of Changing Plastic Work on Macroscopic Properties
Introduction 'Support fluids' are commonly used for the construction of piles and diaphragm walls to prevent instability and collapse of soil layers into the excavation or to prev...
Learning to trust our senses
To effectively interact with the environment we must estimate the reliability or precision of what we can perceive. For example, if we are looking for our dog in the park on a dark...
Can a liquid bandage be used as a new treatment for infectious causes of lameness in sheep and reduce antibiotic treatment?
Lameness in sheep is a major welfare concern with a prevalence of 10.6% in England from 2004 figures, and footrot identified as the primary cause. The pathogenesis of footrot is co...
Research-based 3D modelling of Renaissance built environments: workflow, uncertainty and standards
We seek to recruit and train a PhD student that will work in the field of 3D digital reconstruction, and its associated methods and standards. The project will develop and apply in...
Trans-generational Transmission of Obesity and Obesity-induced Liver Disease -a Role for Maternal Microbiota and Toll-like receptors
It is now widely recognised that diet and nutrition in pregnancy are modifiable risk factors for the future metabolic health of the offspring. The 'developmental programming of hea...
Neuropsychiatric outcomes of traumatic brain injury: incidence, nature and risk factors
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a global health problem and a leading cause of death and disability worldwide (Maas et al., 2022). It has been demonstrated that TBI impacts on cogn...
Consumer Experience (CX) Digital Tools for Dematerialisation for the Circular Economy
Consumer Experience (CX) Digital Tools for Dematerialisation for the Circular Economy - for the design of a new generation of 'Product Cultures' that promote human wellbeing and p...
FMSG: Cyber: Does Nature Invoke the Optimum? A Bioinspired Hierarchical Manufacturing Process
This Future of Manufacturing grant aims to support advances in the manufacturing of innovative designs through biomimetic and bioinspired methodologies, setting the framework for t...