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Investigation of a cellular chloroplast compartment's regulator using genetics and advanced imaging, seeking improved agronomic performance.
The project is fully within the remit of BBSRC, its priority area "Bioscience for sustainable agriculture and food". It aims to eventually translate Arabidopsis g...
Godlessness on an Island of God: Anti-communism in 1930s Ireland
Godlessness on an Island of God: Anti-communism in 1930s Ireland
The Impact of UK Asylum Policy on Albanian Asylum-Seekers: Mental Health Challenges and Human Rights Protection
Recently, there has been a surge in the numbers of Albanians coming to the UK.This has been accompanied by unprecedented hostile political and media rhetoric towards Albanian arriv...
Rooted Journeys: Maroon Ecologies and Cultural Keystone Species in Transatlantic Contexts
This project investigates the significance of Maroon ecologies for diasporic identity, health, and the environment. Jamaican Maroons are the descendants of enslaved Africans who fr...
Revolutionising Sustainable Fashion: GoodHalo's Comprehensive Tech-Driven Initiative
Transforming fashion sustainability through tech-driven conscious consumerism. Our innovative app empowers users to make eco-conscious clothing choices during online purchases.
"Development of a Novel Structural Health Monitoring system using Machine Learning Approaches"
"This PhD project will involve working with the Structures Test Department at Airbus, which is interested in the development of novel structural health monitoring (SHM)app...
Engineering new biosurfactants by harnessing the power of CRISPR and AlphaFold
This proposal is naturally aligned with Theme 1 "Advancing the frontiers of bioscience discovery" of the BBSRC's Forward Look for UK Bioscience report, being...
Conceiving the future and labouring in the present: the 'real' work of IVF in the wake of infertility
This project researches the ways self and personhood are negotiated and experienced by women and families facing infertility, focusing on IVF treatment and other interventions. The...
Extending the chemical space of mAb based cancer treatment with DNA nanostructures
The overall aim of this project is to produce potent, targeted anti-cancer immunotherapy drugs with limited toxicity in patients. There are 3 objectives: 1) Design and synthesis of...
Transformative pedagogy for sustainability: Building the capacity for embedding education for sustainable development into training teachers
The UN Education 2030 Framework (2015) stated that teacher-training should be enhanced for education for sustainable development (ESD). Equipping teachers with knowledge of ESD pos...
Modelling soil-machine interaction for advances in civil construction and terrestrial robotics
Simulation tools are only as useful as the accuracy of the data and results that they produce. Particularly in robotics, when using machine learning techniques, there exists a real...
Causal inference for ecological observational data
This project will develop new methodology in the field of causal inference for applications with ecological observational data.Applications may include discovering causal influence...
Identity as a Pathway to Wellbeing for Young People.
Identity as a Pathway to Wellbeing for Young People: Unlocking the Potential of Museums and Archaeological Collections to Facilitate Conversations About Identity.One in five young...
A Woman's Work: Photographic histories of Northeast England through the lens of Daisy Edis and the J.R. Edis Studio (Staff-led CDA)
A Woman's Work uses the J.R.Edis Studio (1895-1964) to interrogate histories of photography in Durham, a cathedral, university, and mining town in Northeast England.Based on a...
Uncovering the neural mechanisms of predictive processing in language
Project Description for Find-A-PhD Advert (max 400 words). This will be the text that will be advertised to prospective students.This project uses advanced analyses of electrical b...
AQUAROAD: Advancing Groundwater Quality in the Global South: Geochemical Processes, Remediation, Optimisation & Co-Designed Decision-Making Frameworks
Access to safe drinking water is centrally linked to public health, well-being and economic prosperity. Although water quality is strongly linked to many of the UN Sustainable Deve...
Who are the humans behind Human Rights? A Sociology of Human Rights in Eastern Europe and Russia
This project begins with a puzzling statistic: over 50% of all cases before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) come from only a handful of East European countries. Yet a gr...
Accelerating phosphorus and nutrient cycling in the Greenland Arctic ecosystem Soils
The fragile Arctic ecosystems are changing rapidly due to global warming, as glaciers retreat, they are revealing arctic soils under the process called 'greening'. These...
Dating and analysing the complete tree of life
The tree of life is a fundamental object revealing the evolutionary history of all life on earth and finding practical uses in ecology, evolution and conservation. The complete tre...
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