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The field of senses and the senses over the field Rethinking Lawscapes for Constitutional land-disputes in Brazil
Since colonial times, land expropriation and concentration in Brazil have been the most significant contributors to social inequality and epistemic coloniality.While some marginali...
Sisterhood in the British Army: Investigating Suspended Corporeality and Masculine Melancholy
My project will investigate the corporeality - understood as experiences of the physical body - of service personnel in the British Army to examine how notions of identity and the...
Phosphine Oxides as Rising Stars in Drug Discovery
Phosphine oxides represent a noticeably underrepresented chemotype in drug discovery. However, the clinical validation of Brigatinib, containing dimethyl phosphine oxide, and the d...
MARINEGAPS: Mapping and addressing marine biodiversity knowledge gaps in the global ocean
Species distribution data is a key component of modern ecology.However, the unequal distribution of species records biases our understanding of ecological patterns, distorting impa...
Towards net-zero chocolate: carbon and nutrient budgets for compost use on cocoa farms
Chocolate has one of the highest carbon footprints of all food types because cocoa is associated with deforestation. Cocoa established on recently cleared rainforest is initially p...
Machismo in modernity: An ethnography exploring misogyny in the West Yorkshire Police following the VAWG framework
IntroductionThis proposal occurs amongst an ongoing legitimacy crisis for British policing regarding its failure toeffectively respond to Violence Against Women (VAWG), and is prec...
Developing novel microfluidic platforms for antibiotic discovery.
This project will identify new molecules with antibiotic activity against multi-drug resistant bacterial pathogens. This is important and timely considering that antimicrobial resi...
EPSRC CDT in Inorganic Materials for Advanced Manufacturing
This student is enrolled on the IMAT CDT funded through an EPSRC CDT grant.The research project and department will be chosen at the end of the first year of study and this record...
Communism Responds by Politicising Art'?: The Uses of Beauty in Socialist Literature of the Fin de Siecle
My DPhil project explores the relationship between beauty and socialism in British writing of the fin de siecle. Most pressingly, I am interested in a specific conception of beauty...
Modular Representation Theory of Finite Groups
As part of the representation theory of finite groups, to investigate properties of blocks of finite groups and their relationship to the defect group of the block.In particular de...
Radical polar crossover in the synthesis of complex molecules
Photocatalysis employs visible light as a cheap, abundant and renewable source of photons and offers mild and functional group tolerant pathways to complex scaffolds unattainable b...
Collateral-ID: Mapping the off-target degradome of PROTACs
Essebtial background: Drug discovery has traditionally focused on the development of small molecules that act by binding and inhibiting the enzymatic activity of proteins. Due to t...
"Optimisation of protease feed additives for poultry to increase protein utilisation efficiency from locally produced sources
Global ingredient manufacturer, Kemin, are currently using their industrial fermentation expertise to develop protease enzymes designed increase the rate of protein digestion in no...
Time varying control of multi-material Electro-Active Polymer soft robots
Motivation: Scientists now predict that forty years of conventional hard robot technology will imminently be superseded by a new soft robotics era. Electro Active Polymers (EAPs) h...
Targeting specific brain GLP-1 receptors to treat obesity
Obesity has become one of the key medical and economic challenges because of its impact on health, cardiovascular disease and cancer, and its prevalence in the population. The prim...
Scattering Amplitdes and Celestial Holography
Jeffrey will be exploring new dualities between quantum field theoretic scattering amplitudes in gauge and gravitational theories and 2d CFTs living on the celestial sphere.An init...
Nuclear biomechanics in cancer biology
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Optimising participant recruitment and retention in studies investigating pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain
BackgroundRecruitment and retention in clinical trials in women's health is known to be challenging. Recommendations for improvement include consideration of study burden, wit...
Connected Field Lab - Integrating Data with Diagnostic Testing at the Front Line
This project combines global health and national security, by combining miniaturised medical diagnostic testing with health data science to develop a smart mobile lab that can be d...
Mussel restoration, bioremediation and robots (5024)
Project descriptionMussels are a critical component of coastal communities in temperate regions globally - creating spatially complex habitats which enhance biodiversity, act as a...