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Rural youth identities in India: Exploring intersections of nation, gender and technology in areas of civil unrest
I aim to build on my PhD research and policy work on education, identities and rights of marginalised groups (Wadhwa et al., 2010; NCPCR, 2011, 2012b, 2013; Wadhwa, 2019). I aim to...
Preparing College Students who Enter from High School or Transfer from Community Colleges for STEM Careers and Graduate School
This project will contribute to the national need for well-educated scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians by supporting the retention and graduation of high-achiev...
Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure: Experimental Facility with Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel 2021-2025
The Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as a distributed, multi-user national facility to provide the...
H2-Heat: Thermal energy transport for heating and cooling with innovative hydrogen(H2) technologies
In the UK, heat accounts for over a third of the nation's greenhouse gas emissions. Most of the heating and cooling in our industries and buildings are delivered directly or indire...
MICA: Dementias Platform UK 2 - Integrated Dementia Experimental Medicine
DPUK is a public-private partnership to accelerate the development of new treatments for dementia. Since inception (2014) DPUK has increased the UK capacity for dementia research t...
"I bet you can't do it, can you?": Understanding the motivational effect of perceived challenges
Peter is told by his dad that he should forget about applying to top schools given his level. Mary overhears her colleagues saying she does not have what it takes to become a manag...
DIFFERENCE: DIFFusion magnetic resonance imaging with Enhanced Resolution ENCoding - Precision Imaging in Cancer
Cancer causes a third of all UK deaths and its management remains a challenge. For example, 1 in 7 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime; 8 in 10 men will su...
Co-design of a sustainable and acceptable implementation intervention to maximise the impact of whole school approaches to food within primary schools
Background: Children consume a third of their food at school, providing an opportunity to promote healthy diets and reduce levels of obesity. The World Health Organisation and UK g...
CAREER: Integro-differential and Transport Problems in Partial Differential Equations
This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). This award supports an integrated research program on partial differential e...
Integrated biological approaches for high-grade biomethane vehicle fuel production from food waste
The world is currently in a state of climate change crisis, due to the release of gases that harm the environment, known as greenhouse gases (GHG), primarily carbon dioxide (CO2) a...
UK-Australia Centre in a Secure Internet of Energy: Supporting Electric Vehicle Infrastructure at the "Edge" of the Grid
The Internet of Energy (IoE) is a paradigm towards achieving a "zero-carbon" society by optimising electrical energy usage, especially for emerging loads such as Electric...
Post-translation regulation of antibiotic production in Streptomyces: the loaded gun hypothesis.
Around three quarters of the antibiotics we use in human medicine are derived from the natural products of soil bacteria and fungi. We call these natural products specialised metab...
Variational Questions in Mathematics and Physics
In an overwhelming number of questions in mathematics, physics, engineering and economics and other disciplines one seeks solutions that satisfy certain demands or constraints and...
Development of New Tools for the Chemical Analysis of the Internal Surfaces of Porous Materials using Annihilation Gamma Spectroscopy
With support from the Chemical Measurement and Imaging (CMI) Program in the Division of Chemistry, the research team led by Professors Alexander Weiss, Varghese Chirayath, and Ali...
Investigating Mixotrophic Algal Contribution to Copepod Diet and Reproduction
A primary topic of interest within biological oceanography is the role of algal productivity in the global carbon cycle. Over the past few decades, the traditional planktonic food...
Interdisciplinary Training in Data Driven Soft Materials Research and Science Policy
Soft materials are those which at room temperature are easily deformed by changes to the temperature of the material. Examples include foams, gels, and many biological materials. D...
OCE-PRF: Constraints on sea-level change over four glacial cycles through uranium-series dating of submerged Bahamian cave deposits
In recent geologic history, the Earth’s climate has fluctuated between ice ages and warm periods such as the present. These ice age cycles occur on roughly 100,000 year timescales...
Map portal on geodata on health, safety, and risk of accidents for spatial planning
Today´s spatial planning often focuses on densification, transformation, and mixing between housing and businesses. In addition to the benefits of a living urban environment and ef...
CAREER: Establishing a Knowledge Base for Use and Discharge of Poly- and Perfluoroalkyl Substances
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are fluorinated organic chemicals that have been used in numerous consumer products and industrial applications since the 1940s. PFAS are...
Collaborative Research: ERASE-PFAS: Hydrothermal Treatment as a Strategy for Simultaneous PFAS Destruction and Recovery of Energy and Nutrients from Wastewater Residual Solids
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are fluorinated organic chemicals that are used in numerous consumer products and industrial applications. During the last decade, PFAS h...