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Public Health Impacts of UK's Clean Air Zones.
Air pollution is the greatest environmental threat to health in the UK. Each year it contributes to 30,000 deaths in people under the age of 75 and costs our economy £20...
Effect of urban vs rural context on effectiveness of a community intervention to prevent diarrhoea and stunting in young children in Mali
The ProblemGlobally 1.7 billion diarrhoea episodes result in approximately 2 million deaths in 2010.1 Regionally, Africa has the greatest burden. Alongside poor infant feeding, dia...
Improving maternal mental health in South East Asia through assets based approaches.
Perinatal mental illness (mainly depression and anxiety during pregnancy and the first year after childbirth) is a major global health problem. Without the right kind of support an...
Museums, Empire and Northern Irish Identity
Museums, Empire and Northern Irish Identity will disseminate my PhD research on Colonial Objects in Northern Ireland and is based on twenty-five years of working in museums and her...
Are metastable polymorphs stable solid solutions?
Polymorphism is the ability of a compound to crystallise in more than one crystal structure. Since most drug compounds are crystalline, discovery and control of polymorphism is a k...
Understanding barriers to accurate early laboratory diagnosis and patient centric control of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a condition characterised by high blood glucose levels, with first onset during pregnancy. GDM increases the risk of complications for both m...
[SurgeryNet] Epilepsy surgery induced brain network changes: relation to patient outcomes
Epilepsy is a serious neurological condition affecting over 600,000 patients in the UK. Patients have seizures which can result in loss of consciousness, convulsions, and even incr...
Enabling UK Inter-site Medical Delivery Drone Operations: Meeting the logistical and operational challenges presented by SARS-CoV-2
Covid-19 crisis highlighted the potential benefits of using drones as an alternative, resilient, fast, flexible transport mode for inter-sites medical logistics. This recognition c...
Genomic epidemiology of Plasmodium falciparum and Anopheles vectors in the context of malaria control on the Bijagós Archipelago of Guinea Bissau
Malaria is a disease caused by the protozoan organism Plasmodium, which kills over 400,000 people annually, with the majority of deaths occurring in children under 5-years old. The...
Is the exercise-regulated myokine-like small molecule beta-aminoisobutyric acid a paracrine signal and exercise mimetic?
Exercise is an important part of maintaining a healthy lifestyle across an individual's lifespan. Just how the body turns the efforts of exercise into improvements in health,...
How can cultural norms affect women's access to justice for gender-based violence? Women's rights abuses and impunity in Guatemala
While some indigenous cultural norms and practices concerning gender roles in society can empower indigenous women in pursuing their rights and equality, the utmost majority is sti...
University of Strathclyde and Peak NDT Limited
To embed expertise in focal law calculator development in order to create an innovative and sophisticated non-destructive testing capability.
The impact of microbial and inflammatory exposures on birth outcomes in rural Zimbabwe
One in seven babies in Africa are born with low birthweight, either because they are born too small (small-for-gestational age; SGA) or born too soon (preterm). Babies born SGA or...
A Country Divided? Polarisation and identity after Brexit
The EU referendum left Britain a politically divided country: 'Leavers' and 'Remainers' became new political and social identities that still shape how people v...
MICA - Developing novel single-cell multiplexing methods to identify drug targets for the treatment of multiple myeloma
Multiple Myeloma is a bone marrow cancer that affects over 5,700 new patients a year in the UK. Current response rates to treatment are varied and there is a mean survival age of o...
Towards ending HIV in Zimbabwe through focusing on improving targeting of HIV testing and uptake of HIV prevention in adolescent girls and young women
In Zimbabwe HIV remains the leading cause of death. In 2016, 1 in 7 adults were living with HIV.In order to end the HIV epidemic as a public health threat by 2030, the Joint United...
CellMine
Lithium batteries are notoriously difficult to recycle. Impact have identified a process (CellMine) which will allow the Cathode metals to be suitable for recycling. As a result a...
Governance for 'a place between': the multilevel dynamics of implementing the Protocol on Northern Ireland
Brexit means that Northern Ireland (NI) is located at the interface of the UK and the EU. This is not just in geographical terms; the Withdrawal Agreement (WA) and its Protocol on...
STOP fibrous microplastic pollution from textiles by elucidating fibre damage and manufacturing novel textiles
Microplastics have been detected in all aquatic habitats, from deep oceans to polar icemelt and can be found in the guts and tissues of aquatic animals. More than one third of the...
Assessing the Behaviour of Endotoxin in Biopharmaceutical Formulations: Lowering the Likelihood of Drug-Induced Toxic Shock in Patients
Biopharmaceuticals are the fastest-growing type of treatments for wide range of diseases, with enormous potential for personalised medicine. Preparations of biopharmaceuticals for...