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Haunting the nation-state: Eastern Europe in 20th Century Francophone Jewish Literature
My PhD thesis will seek to explore the tension between concepts of national literature and Jewish 'minor' literature (Deleuze and Guattari, 1983) within France.With natio...
Tracing the Glass Road: Complex network analysis of plant ash glass trade in Early Islamic Central Asia
Glass, as both material and object, has a demonstrated capacity for revealing socioeconomic structures wherever it is found. Its relative archaeological ubiquity across the Silk Ro...
Why are rural breast cancer patients not surviving? Inequalities and intersectionality within breast cancer treatment for rural patients.
Rural breast cancer patients experience worse survival outcomes than their urban counterparts.Rural communities are made up of a diverse range of people with differing, intertwinin...
Housing injustice and children's outcomes: how does growing up in rented accommodation affect children's health, wellbeing and cognitive development?
Housing issues have taken centre stage in public and academic discourse for over two decades, with an emphasis on the challenges of home-ownership affordability and the inadequacy...
Evaluating the ecological impact of mining for electric vehicle and stationary storage battery minerals
Lithium-ion batteries are key for eliminating global fossil fuel consumption, as they are a core technology powering electric vehicles and can be used to balance intermittent renew...
Integration of a Skin Inspired Self-cooling System in Natural Fire-prone Regions: Passive Fire Protection and Post-fire Restoration
This PhD programme is focused on creating a unique self-cooling system that mirrors the human body's sweat mechanism.This system is designed to effectively fight wildfires and...
Developing Digital Twins for Health Facilities in Developing Countries towards Increasing Resilience and Business Continuity
The research will tackle the issue of accurately predicting the performance of a typical health facility within a Global South country in the case of emergencies. Such emergencies,...
Chemical precision tools for N-linked glycans of viruses, microalgae and archea
Protein N-glycosylation, or the attachment of oligo- and polysaccharides at specific asparagine residues, is conserved throughout life, and is now observed even in the viral world....
Reshaping Narratives: Art, Mythology and Feminism in 1970s Italy.
This project will explore three female artistic groups practising in 1970s Italy: Cooperativa Beato Angelico, Donne/Immagine/Creatività and Le Nemesiache. The study is g...
Traditions, Canons, and Contacts: European Rewritings of Chinese Texts from Voltaire to Goethe
The 18th century marked a crucial moment of an "identified China" distinct from "the Orient" that emerged in European literary works.My project...
Grasspea: feed and field feasibility
This project will evaluate the suitability of a resilient legume currently not cultivated in the UK as an alternative protein source in animal feeds and as a field crop. Field tria...
Computational Studies of Gas Adsorption in Special Nuclear Materials (SNMs).
In this project, atomistic simulations will be used to examine the adsorption and desorption in SNMs. There are already extensive modelling studies of bulk PuO2, UO2, U3O8. Thus, t...
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Primary cilium mediated interpretation of signalling during neuronal differentiation in the developing vertebrate embryo
This project will investigate cell biological phenomena taking place in a physiologically relevant context (spinal cord development) and is therefore at the critical interface betw...
Practical satellite to ground quantum communications
This project aims to experimentally demonstrate satellite to ground quantum communications. The research will leverage the availability of quantum communications hub in-orbit-demon...
"They have hazarded lives and fortunes to serve his majesty": Royalist ideology and identity in Cromwellian Scotland 1652 -1660
The project will investigate the largely unexplored history of Scotland's Royalist partisans during the British Commonwealth (1652-1660). This project aims to explain, for the...
Physics-enhanced velocimetry of Flow-MRI
Over the past decade, 4D-Flow MRI has become a routine diagnostic for cardiovascular disorders. This non-invasive imaging technique provides highly detailed, time-resolved visualis...
Mechanical and structural characteristics of oral extracellular matrix
This project aims to quantify the mechanical and structural characteristics of oral extracellular matrix. We will quantify tissueresponse at multiple post-injury time points using...
Assessing the Impact of Creative Translation in the Classroom
Evidence suggests that Creative Translation in the Classroom (CTiC) positively and significantly impacts both modern foreign language (MFL) students and students with English as an...
The emerging fungal order Mucorales: species-specific pathogenic strategies and new diagnostics
Mucormycoses are emerging lethal fungal infections, with striking mortality rates of 50-90% depending on the clinical presentation, infection site and underlying host immune status...