Results for Environment
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Market analysis and prototype development av inductive charging modules
The wireless charging, based on Inductive Power Transfer (IPT) technology, enables charging through large air gaps between two charging plates.IPT technology creates the opportunit...
Development and integration of an embodied conversational agent for the workplace
We seek to explore how conversational agents can interact with people within the workplace environment. However, we want to move away from the traditional receptionist or service d...
Youth detention in France, 1840-1945: a historical building archaeology of the penal colonies for children
Despite the parallel growth of archaeologies of prisons and of childhood, and contemporary discussions about the welfare of marginalised youth, archaeological studies of incarcerat...
Queer and Environmental Melancholia in American Coming-of-age Fiction: Narratives of Loss and Resistance in the Anthropocene
This project considers the renewed significance of coming-of-age literature in the Anthropocene.What happens to depictions of youthful rebellion and human growth when the environme...
The Decline of Finite Pronominal Enclisis in Fifteenth-century Spanish: The Process and its Structural Implications
My project investigates the process as well as the structural implications of the decline in the rate of occurrence of finite pronominal enclisis in fifteenth-century Spanish. I wi...
Zootropolis: Multi-species archaeological, ecological and historical approaches to animals in Medieval urban Scotland
In northern Europe, the medieval period brought unprecedented urbanization and agricultural intensification, changing the social, ecological, and economic relationships between hum...
Challenges in micro and nano fabrication
This project focuses on developing novel advanced compound semiconductor active and passive devices and intergraded circuits using nanofabrication and microfabrication modules in a...
The Environmental Othering of Outer Space under International Law
Outer space is critical to our daily lives in countless invisible ways - but space is not protected by the same environmental rules that applies on Earth. Space lawyers tend to con...
Flânerie and Flourishing: Impressionism and the New Woman in French Interiors and Exteriors
Today, Impressionism is widely beloved. While artists like Degas and Monet have received due limelight, the French women who championed Impressionism, including Eva Gonzal&egra...
Oceanic Interconnection: Posthuman Feminism and the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) Treaty
This project will critically analyse the new BBNJ treaty and assess whether it will, as intended, provide solutions to the crises facing marine biodiversity in the High Seas.First,...
Studentship in Co-designing a Digital Platform for Sustainable Energy use in Schools
Buildings are responsible of 40% of carbon emissions worldwide. Reducing their energy use is paramount to tackle climate change. Solutions increasingly recognise the importance of...
Diversity Supplement: Targeting chemoresistant prostate cancer with novel EED inhibitors
This Diversity Supplement will train Ms. Skylar Grayson, a highly qualified African American researcher, in cancer research and prepare her for a doctoral program in biological sci...
Development of Multimodal Rumen Monitoring Platform (RuMP) for Cattle to Improve Productivity, Sustainability and Resilience
Achieving net-zero carbon objective by 2040 is a priority requiring novel and innovative solutions to modernise the cattle husbandry sector.Although research has developed dietary...
ShareTrait: a data portal for making trait data interoperable and reusable
More and more data are being collected on species traits, as a means to understand how species respond and interact with their environment.Despite these efforts, effective integrat...
Creating a rationale for personalised spontaneous-preterm-birth risk management -an in vitro model of bacteria-hostinnateimmune interactions in the re
Thecervicovaginalenvironment (microbiome, innate immunesystem,andmetabolome)is an importantcontributor toahealthy pregnancy1.Risk of prematurebirthisassociated withchanges in resid...
'For Everyone, for Ever'? The National Trust and the Construction of Englishness, c.1945-2000
2020 was a year of mass reckoning with the national past and its reflections in the built environment.The backlash against the National Trust's 'Interim Report' on i...
The comorbidity of obsessive-compulsive disorder and schizophrenia: the interplay between psychosocial and genetic risk.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and schizophrenia (SCZ) are highly comorbid; however, the mechanisms underlying this comorbidity are not well researched. Using data from Avon L...
Beat Blocks Fleet
Beat Block is an example of what happens when inclusion is an artistic choice rather than a compromise.Hexagonal Beat Blocks arranged in a flower shape spread across an open public...
The Sounds of Science: a practice-based PhD exploring the use, purpose and potential of music in science centres
In this practise-based PhD, the candidate will explore the use of sound in creating effective learning environments within a science centre.Supervised by an interdisciplinary team...
Financing the green transition in developing countries
The aim of the project is to advance our understanding of how finance can facilitate the adoption of low-carbon and other green technologies by firms in the developing world.The pr...