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The international relations of tropical storms in the Caribbean
The project context: The World Meteorological Organisation is an understudied specialised agency of the United Nations which exists to foster international cooperation at a global...
Ophthalmic Artery and Retinal Vascular Metrics as Predictive Biomarkers for Placental Insufficiency
During pregnancy, there are dramatic changes within a women's cardiovascular system (heart and blood vessels), including a large increase in her total blood volume and redistr...
DATAMIND: The Data Hub for Mental Health Informatics Research and Development
What is the problem?Poor mental health affects everyone at some point in their lives. It is the biggest cause of ill-health and the links, both ways, between physical and mental il...
High performance supercapacitors based on novel hybrid MXene electrodes
Sustainable and high-performance energy storage devices are an immediate need in today's world to achieve the UN's sustainabilitygoal of affordable and clean energy. One...
International Dimensions and Effects of Populism
The doctoral training network IDEoPOP (International Dimensions and Effects of Populism) aims to study how the phenomenon of populism is related to world politics.While the global...
Greece Writes Back: Anti-Fascist Receptions of Antiquity in the Literature of Occupied Greece, 1941-1945
When we think of the weaponisation of cultural heritage, far-right nationalist regimes come to mind, from Mussolini's Italy to Ceaucescu's Romania - yet the axe swings bo...
The role of gesture in spoken communication
This project will examine the role of gesture in spoken communication. Gesture plays a significant role in communication. It complements spoken language, enabling a speaker to conv...
Lingering Health Violence: Bridging micro and macro levels of support to communities in realising their right to health in post-conflict contexts
This research represents the first multi-disciplinary exploration of the right to health in postconflict settings. Using a post-apartheid South African case study, this project uti...
Synergizing Bio- and (electro)-chemical conversion for advanced BiO-alkanes production from biOwaSTes (BioBOOST)
The transportation sector represents a significant and rapidly expanding energy consumer, and it stands out as one of the most difficult sectors in decarbonization. Although promis...
Street-based sex workers as agents in the policy-making process: An exploration of participatory regulation in sex industry policy in the Midlands, UK
Inspired by policy-making practices in Victoria, Australia where sex work was decriminalised, this project will develop new practice and regulation around street-based sex work pla...
Co-designing Optimal Strategies for the Prevention, Detection and Management of Insulin Mediated Lipohypertrophy in People with Type 1 Diabetes.
Background Lipohypertrophy related to insulin exposure in people with Type 1 diabetes (T1DM) affects 50% of people with T1DM. Lipohypertrophy attenuates insulin absorption causing...
Acutely Sick Kid Digital Interventions for Parents in under-represented Communities: a modified grounded theory study (ASK DIPaC)
Background Increasingly we are expected to use digital health interventions (DHIs) (websites, mobile apps) to access health information and services.Yet parents do not always know...
Examining the normalisation of trauma-informed care in children's social care
Background There are currently over 80,000 children in England who are in the care of the state.Many of these children have been exposed to multiple traumatic events and whilst som...
Tackling the Repercussions of UK-based Stigma towards Tuberculosis (TRUST): a participatory study to co-design a stigma reduction intervention
Background Despite being preventable and curable, tuberculosis (TB) rates in the UK remain unacceptably high, falling short of national and international targets.TB is a major thre...
In2Air - The impact of ‘net-zero’ household energy interventions on indoor air quality, health and wellbeing.
Research question: Can fabric-first energy retrofit interventions bring co-benefits for residents in social housing (tackling climate change whilst maximising health and wellbeing...
Evaluating the Public Health Impact of Interventions for the Prevention of Drug-related Deaths in the Population: in Scotland [EPHESUS]
BackgroundDrug-related mortality is a public health crisis in the UK; drug-related deaths (DRD) in Scotland have doubled in last decade. Opioid agonist therapy (OAT) reduces DRD ri...
Combining treatment effects from clinical trial data and routinely collected healthcare data to answer important research questions
Background Randomised clinical trials (RCTs) can provide an unbiased estimate of the average treatment effect for the population represented by the study participants.However, they...
Assessing the effect of continuity of care on patient outcomes and hospital resourcing to improve efficiency and effectiveness of patient care
Background “Continuity of care” is defined as a patient seeing the same doctor or team of doctors throughout their stay. This is widely believed to affect both...
Target trial emulation in cystic fibrosis: optimising methods for evaluating antibiotic treatment using registry data
Research question This project address two key research questions: what are the optimal methodological practices for target trial emulation using UK Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Registry d...
DAMPen-D II: Improving the Detection, Assessment, Management, and Prevention of Delirium in Palliative Care Units: a Cluster Randomised-Controlled Trial, Economic Analysis and Process Evaluation
BACKGROUNDDelirium is highly distressing for patients and families, increases health professionals’ anxiety and stress, and leads to poor clinical outcomes and higher care costs. O...