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Epigenetic regulation of microglial gene expression in Alzheimer's disease
Neuroinflammation is emerging as a key pathogenetic event in risk and progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD). GWAS have identified single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) at g...
Imaging-based analysis of signaling pathways triggered by immune checkpoint receptors
Adverse immunological reactions to self and foreign antigens and other situations of abnormal lymphocyte growth are the cause of autoimmune disease, hypersensitivity and asthma, an...
Genomic surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in UK cattle
Currently, UK cattle are not routinely monitored for AMR and foodborne pathogens, hence the risk to consumers of AMR pathogens acquired from cattle is difficult to assess.As part o...
Optimising remote handling telepresence systems through studying how users adapt to altered sensory motor contingencies.
We are constantly adapting to and learning about the environment we live in. This can occur over different time spans for everyone for example, a child learning to walk can take an...
Analysis of the Implementation and Use of Various Renewable Energy Technologies in the Turks and Caicos Islands
With the increasing effects of climate change and the unique physical characteristics of the Caribbean islands, transitioning to renewable technologies for energy production can po...
'Disability' and Stuart Seafarers, 1600-1750: 'For the releife of hurt and maymed seamen.'
This project focuses on how impaired Stuart seafarers became identified as 'disabled'. Engaging with critical disabilities studies where 'disability' is underst...
The prevalence inflation hypothesis and the effects of mental health awareness efforts on the mental health outcomes of children and young people.
Rates of mental health problems in children and young people have increased in recent years.Efforts to raise awareness about these problems, such as public health campaigns, aim to...
Promoting the health of our commercial drivers: a vehicle to improve road safety?
BackgroundThe UK logistics sector contributes over £13 billion to the economy and employs more than 500,000 HGV and van drivers. However, the occupational environment of...
Spin dependent dark matter searches in liquid noble detectors
The nature of dark matter is one of the fundamental questions about the universe today, at the forefront of physics research. Direct detection experiments seek to observe interacti...
Health Literacy as a Modifiable Determinant of Health in Early Childhood: A Mixed-Method Programme
Early childhood has been identified as a critical time for the development of key aspects of health literacy, such as preventative health attitudes and positive health habits and b...
Understanding the changing fortunes of Britain's rarest breeding birds using 50 years of ecological data
In a period of rapid environmental change, impacting both natural habitats and climate, it is imperative to monitor key species, both to better understand their ecology and to dire...
How Risk Attitudes are Affected by Paper and Realised Outcomes in Skill-Influenced Versus Pure-Luck Settings
How do investors and gamblers respond after incurring losses? Do they cut their losses and take more cautious actions, or do they take on additional risk in an attempt to break eve...
Exploration, Imperial Discourse & Romantic Landscape Aesthetics: British Travel Accounts of the Indian-Himalaya, Hudson's Bay Company Territory & West
This project proposes an analysis of British travel accounts from the late eighteenth to mid nineteenth century concerning three eventual sites of British imperial occupation: the...
Time for Utopian Realism? Basic income and transnational citizenship in Europe
My research project will examine the feasibility of implementing Basic Income (BI) into the European Union (EU) from the theoretical perspective of Utopian Realism (UR), with the a...
Avalanche photodiodes for detecting weak infrared optical signals
The PhD project focuses on avalanche photodiodes, which are high-performance optical detectors of near-infrared optical signals. The project builds on the research group's act...
EPSRC CDT in Future Fluid Dynamics
This project will look at Future Fluid Dynamics which is a crucial discipline for the UK and globally, with significant applications across diverse industries and research domains....
Post-Occupancy Evaluation of Healthcare Facilities A Digital Twin-Enabled Approach for Functionality,Health and Energy
Healthcare facilities have unique requirements and high standards for safety, functionality, and comfort.Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) is a key method for assessing the actual pe...
A Misbegotten Race': Monstrous Reproduction in the Long Nineteenth-Century Gothic
My research focuses on emerging representations of reproduction as a monstrous process in the long 19th-century British Gothic. Analysing selected texts from 1768 to 1897, I will e...
Designing social security around climate risks: an exploration of speculative futures
What if the government paid you because of climate change?Climate change poses significant challenges to communities worldwide, leading to various socio-economic impacts (Arnell et...
Economic Downturn, Danger, and Disillusionment in Late Victorian Literature: The novels of George Gissing, Thomas Hardy, and Margaret Oliphant
It is unique within both New Economic Criticism and Victorian Studies.It broadens the fields by examining a mutation in the realist literary aesthetic which shifted its outlook on...