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The Consequences of Non-State Security
States have access to a variety of security- and combat-oriented actors who assert a monopoly over violence. Beyond their own militaries and police forces, they can outsource their...
Sensor-driven process control for Resin Transfer Moulding of large aerostructures
Fibre-reinforced polymer composites (FRPCs), particularly those utilizing carbon fibre and epoxy resin, are increasingly crucial for modern commercial airliners due to their desira...
"I'm a footballer not a salesman": The Politicization of White Sporting Masculinity in British and American Fiction
Challenging the previously parochial and individualistic examinations of sport and masculinity in British and American national cinemas, this project will employ a uniquely cross-c...
What Does It Mean to "Cause" an Action? Exploring Compatibilist Agent-Causation in Light of AI Advancements.
The research intersects with free-will debates and discussions on AI.It will develop a compatibilist theory (the belief that free will and determinism could co-exist) in light of r...
Beyond the Environment as Victim: A More-Than-Human Just War Theory for the Age of the Anthropocene
Ironically, it has taken the near collapse of our planetary systems due to destructive human social formations to begin to speak of the social and the geological in the same breath...
Towards Neurotechnology to mitigate virtual reality motion sickness in susceptible individuals
Vehicle travel is at the beginning of a transformation to increasing levels of automation, which ultimately will involve fully autonomous vehicles where everyone in the vehicle is...
Strategies or Struggles? Unveiling Chinese Queer Immigrants' Cross-Border Cooperative Marriages Upon Returning Home
China's economic growth has increased mobility among queer individuals, prompting many to move to Western LGBTQ-friendly countries.However, mobility does not necessarily resol...
Next-generation long-acting therapeutics for malignant brain tumours
'Glioblastoma', the most common malignant brain cancer, remains incurable despite multimodal standard-of-care treatment (surgery, followed by adjuvant radiotherapy and ch...
Quantum Systems Engineering
The UK has invested significant funding to transition quantum theories into quantum products to create a quantum-enabled economy within the next 10-years,to revolutionise healthcar...
Development of a novel molecular diagnostic approach to address One Health challenges
The proliferation of the global wildlife trade has increased the risk of disease spill-over into human, wildlife, and farmed animal populations, with potentially catastrophic conse...
UK mental health service users' experiences of losing another service user to suicide: a survivor-led qualitative study
People who lose someone to suicide are more likely to die by suicide. People using mental health services together can develop complex relationships of friendship and solidarity, a...
The Nature-Culture-Climate Continuum: Intercultural collaboration to mitigate anthropogenic ecocide in a time of climate crisis
Through an intercultural, eco-acoustic collaboration with Wampis people in the Peruvian Amazon, this project aims to understand and mitigate the acts of ecocide which threaten the...
Fire dynamics of modern large open plan compartments constructed from Cross Laminated Timber (CLT)
Our world faces a pressing challenge: climate change and biodiversity loss. A significant contributor to these problems is the construction industry, responsible for 40% of global...
Investigating the social determinants of suicide among young people in the UK: A mixed methods study
Suicide is a leading cause of death among young people globally (Liu et al., 2022). The UK has seen a steady rise in youth suicide rates over the last decade (ONS, 2021). Suicide a...
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in Wales: Evaluation of Anthropogenic and Avian Risk Factors
This project explores key risk factors - those caused by wild birds and by human activities and/or attitudes - for a highly dangerous disease that affects people, domestic poultry...
Digitalising the Development of Chemoenzymatic Cascades
Chemoenzymatic cascades combine the versatile reactivity of chemocatalysis and the high selectivity of biocatalysis, offering advantages such as reducing the number of separate ste...
Electric HGV traction battery degradation
The SRF will start a new project concerned with developing, testing, and validating a systematic methodology to quantify energy performance of the traction battery system of electr...
Anomaly Detection with the Vera Rubin Observatory
The large, wide-field, multipurpose LSST survey conducted with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will bring unprecedented opportunities for scientific discovery. A census of the solar...
The "World of the Infinitely Small": An Emotional History of Animalcular Germ Theory, c.1660-1840
My project researches the emotional history of animalcular germ theory before Pasteur. It uses textual and visual sources - ranging from medical and philosophical treatises to grap...
An Investigation of the Neural Basis of Changes in Tactile Acuity during Healthy Ageing and its Impact on Emotional Wellbeing
The sense of touch refers to the perception of tactile stimuli through mechanoreceptors in the skin and joints, combining both tactile and proprioceptive input 1,2. During tactile...