Research projects showcase Institute All Energy Futures Environment, Health and Societies Materials and Manufacturing College All Business, Arts and Social Sciences Engineering, Design and Physical Sciences Health and Life Sciences Status All Ongoing Completed Improving services for electrically powered indoor/outdoor chair (EPIOC) users Completed Preclinical studies of the inherited disease Friedreich ataxia Ongoing Enhancing usability of raw media materials Completed Live Immersive Video-Audio Interactive Multimedia Completed Respiratory responses to exercise in athletes with spinal cord injury Completed When reading misfires: the case for letter confusability Ongoing Effects of creatine supplementation on the airways of youth elite football players Completed Medicines and diagnostics in Mozambique and Fiji: Completed Physical activity and McArdle disease Ongoing Handwriting difficulties in children Completed Effects of dehydration and hyperthermia on brain and muscle blood flow Completed Injury Risk in Mixed Gender Football Completed Development of efficient and scalable ultrasound-assisted solidification technologies Completed Increasing excellence on advanced additive manufacturing (INEX-ADAM) Ongoing Fundamental Study of Cavitation Melt Processing Completed Accounting for the Past: The Neoliberal Logics of Transitional Justice Ongoing PortForward: Towards a green and sustainable ecosystem for the EU Port of the Future Ongoing Use of Liquid Biopsies as Cancer Biomarkers Ongoing Photographing Everyday Life: Ageing, Lived Experiences, Time and Space Completed Low-cost Portable Molecular Diagnostic Platform Ongoing HYDROUSA - Development of innovative water cycles and value chains Ongoing Multi-sensory processing of faces and voices Ongoing Local Inertia – Understanding the impact of the distribution of inertial response Ongoing Multi-sensor condition monitoring for predictive maintenance of rail infrastructure using optical fibre sensors Ongoing An ultrasonic system for anti-fouling and condition monitoring of offshore wind turbines Ongoing International Sexuality Description Project Ongoing RHOMBUS: Rehabilitation via HOMe Based gaming exercise for the Upper-limb post Stroke Ongoing MOLAY-STRUDEL Completed F2P - Investigation & Modelling of Fast Frequency Phenomena Ongoing The global lives of the orangutan Ongoing Fabrication and characterization of Mg matrix nanocomposites for biomedical applications Ongoing Integrated cast-extrusion of light alloys Completed The development of next generation antibacterial Ti implants Ongoing STORM- Specialised Thimbles for Offshore Renewable Marine energy Completed Basalt Fibre Reinforced HDPE for Wave Energy Converters Ongoing EM-ReSt Ongoing Bloodwise Ongoing Well-being care maps Ongoing New Developments in the Delivery of Occupational Health Services to Small Firms Completed Semantic Credit Risk Assessment of Business Ecosystems Completed Railway overhead line behaviour Completed Safeguarding Quality or Papering over the cracks? Completed Built in a Day? Completed Over the top? Completed The Model Driven Hospitals Completed The Empty Taxi Completed Developing a Process Model of Corporate Hubris Ongoing 'Placing' the Experiences of White Working Class Men in Elementary Occupations Ongoing Integrating Highly-Qualified Migrants Completed Knowledge Exchange Processes in Multicultural Teams Completed Flow boiling and condensation of mixtures in microscale Completed The role of planned and improvisational knowledge implementation processes in teams Ongoing Country Report Germany: The state of diversity policies in Germany Completed Enhanced Artificial Intelligence Breast MRI Scanning System (IntelliScan) Ongoing CHAMAELEON - vehicle lightweighting Ongoing RoboTest Ongoing Educational Intervention To Improve Uptake Of Hepatitis B And C Testing In South East Asians Ongoing Low-cost Diagnostic Platform for Detection of Poultry Infectious Pathogens Ongoing British International Lawyers and the Rise and Fall of the Second Spanish Republic (1931-1939) Completed The Financial Markets Law Committee (FMLC) Ongoing Consumer over-indebtedness Completed Knowing our Rights Ongoing Britain in Europe Ongoing MEnS - meeting of energy professional skills Completed Development of a constitutive model to simulate unbounded flexible composite riser pipe elements Completed Developing new model organisms Completed Adaptive Automated Scientific Laboratory (AdaLab) Completed New landscapes of training for work: the extended role of housing associations Completed Plastic Oceans Completed Boiling Heat Transfer with Controlled Arrays of Nucleation Sites on Silicon Surfaces Completed Non-Linear Finite Element Analysis of Flexible Pipes for Deep-Water Applications Completed Heat Pipe Technology for Thermal Energy Recovery in Industrial Applications (ETEKINA) Ongoing Smart Grids Completed Evaluating the payback or impact from expenditure on research Completed The economics of public health Completed European-study on Quantifying Utility of Investment in Protection from Tobacco (EQUIPT) Completed Innovative techniques for precise, atraumatic placement of cochlear implant (CI) Ongoing Numerical Simulations of Turbulent Combustion and Combustion Engines Completed Minimising disasters - can supply chain management help? Completed Respiratory physiology, human performance and health Ongoing The ultimate heritage brand: the British Monarchy Completed The clinical and cost-effectiveness of different treatment pathways for neuropathic pain Completed MESOVATS trial Completed Screening Women for Aneurysms (SWAN) Completed Economic Evaluation of the UK Liver Transplantation Programme Completed Economic and Psychological Evaluation of the Multi-Centre Aneurysm Screening study (MASS) Completed Economic issues associated with operation and Evaluation of Telemedicine Services Completed The growth and rupture rate of small abdominal aortic aneurysms- implication for screening Completed Does therapeutic writing help people with long term conditions? Systematic review, realist synthesis and economic modelling Completed The cost effectiveness of genetic markers for antibiotic resistance in tuberculosis Completed An Economic Evaluation of Telemedicine to Provide Specialist Advice in Paediatric Cardiology (The TelePaed Project) Completed Economic Evaluation of Small Bowel Transplantation in Paediatrics Completed Collaboration with Papworth Hospital Completed Evaluation of the national strain typing service for tuberculosis Completed Assessment Evaluation of the Health Economics of Anti- Depressants (AHEAD) Completed Economic evaluation of non-invasive tests of fibrosis and cirrhosis Completed Improving Patient Choice in Treating Low Back Pain (IMPACT - LBP) Completed Evaluation and service implementation of molecular diagnostic and minimal residual disease monitoring Completed National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Medical Technologies Evaluation Programme (MedTEP) Completed Sport and Employability Completed Revisiting oestrogenic effects in wild fish: assessing and comparing contemporary and historical impacts Completed EURASIA-Net Completed ICT&ART Connect: Connecting ICT & Art Communities Completed CRe-AM: Creativity REsearch Adaptive roadMap Completed CHOICE: Strengthening China Collboration on ICT research with Europe Completed TDX-ASSIST Ongoing An integrated computational-experimental method to redesign protein dynamics Ongoing Shadows of the Dawn: Migration and the Indeterminacy of Community and Immunity Ongoing Preventing Inter-faith relations in Israel through social services and the media Ongoing The Health and Sport Engagement (HASE) Project Ongoing Culture, Sport and Wellbeing: Social Diversity and Context Matters Ongoing Exploratory Study ICT-enabled innovation in social services in the EU Completed Physical Activity in the Workplace Ongoing OASIS - Openly Accessible Services and Interacting Society Completed Cancer and Physical Activity Ongoing Muscle response to exercise in cerebral palsy Completed SHEQuIP - Sudan Higher Education Quality Improvement Project Completed Innovation at work: Psychological well-being, processes and outcomes Completed LiveCity - Live Video-to-Video Supporting Interactive City Infrastructure Completed Daiwa Foundation sponsored project with Tokyo University Completed BIOPOOL: Services associated to digitalised contents of tissues in biobanks across Europe Completed DAREED Completed Enhancing Doctoral Supervision and Quality Completed ACCA / ESRC Business Case for Diversity Ongoing SMPs' role in the internationalisation efforts of UK SMEs Completed Patent use, Technology Licensing and IP management in UK firms Completed Policy Compass Completed MINI-CHIP Completed Drug rescue of frataxin-dependent neural and cardiac pathophysiology in FA Completed Robotic surgery and society Completed Suicide, youth and farmers in South India Completed Education, Childhood and Social Mobility in India Completed Neglected Tropical Diseases Completed The Politics of Alterity and Values of Symmetry in Fuyuge Myths and Ritual (Papua New Guinea) Completed HIV/AIDS in the UK Completed Anthropology and Emotion Completed The Social Life of the Orangutan Completed Down to the Road: Landscape, Morality and Politics in Bidayuh Experiences of Resettlement Completed Holy Cows and Chicken Manchuria Completed Disabled lives: understanding disability through ethnographic biography Completed Masculinity and De-Industrialisation in the South African lowveld Completed Remembering Absence Completed Urban Development, Youth and the Future in Kigali, Rwanda Completed Caspian climatic cycles for improved petroleum exploration Completed GAP WORK: Improving gender-related violence intervention and referral through youth practitioner training Completed Universities Supporting Victims of Sexual Violence Completed DoReMi - LDR-OPTI-GEN - Low dose radiation-induced optical changes and genetic factors Completed Microfluidics in Diagnosis Completed Surgical robotics for therapy and diagnosis Completed Orkney: Beside the Ocean of Time Completed Can roach, Rutilus rutilus, adapt to the harmful effects of oestrogen exposure from waste water treatment work effluents? Completed A Decoy Artificial Snail Host to Control Schistosoma mansoni Completed Investigation of Health Effects Associated with Exposure to Indirect Potable Reuse Drinking Water Completed Protex 2 Completed Investigating the effects of low-dose mixtures of EDCs on breast cancer initiation Completed PRIDE Drivers of Pontocaspian biodiversity Rise and Demise Completed Impacts of palaeoenvironmental changes on Meso-Neolithic innovation and adaptation in the Caspian coast Completed Modelling the t(7;12) Infant Leukaemia using Gene Editing Technology Ongoing Strength Training for Adolescents with cerebral palsy (STAR) Completed Protein Phosphatase 1 (PP1) in the Regulation of Mitotic Exit and Nuclear Organisation Completed Posidonia as environmental archive: long-term ecology and conservation views Completed A Data-Oriented Predictive Ecology Approach to Modelling Fish Communities during Regime Shifts Completed Developing the International Safeguards for Children in Sport Completed Muscle heat shock proteins with passive heating Ongoing Singing and Social Bonding: Creating connections between practitioners and researchers Completed Having Little, Having Less: Toward a Psychology of Low Socioeconomic Status Completed Ageing, Communication, Technologies (ACT): experiencing a digital world in later life Ongoing Exploring the Potential of Disabled Comedians in Improving the Lives and Experiences of Disabled People Completed From Plastic Pollution to Solutions: Public Communication of Environmental and Health Risks Completed Capacitively Coupled Cables for Transmission and Distribution of Electrical Power Ongoing Photographing Everyday Life: Ageing, Lived Experiences, Time and Space Completed Stem cell mitotic response to damage in old and young Drosophila melanogaster Completed Tackling Ageing Continence through Theory, Tools and Technology (TACT3) Completed Dare to Age Well Completed The wellbeing needs of older people living with sight loss Completed Living Well with Dementia (IDEAL) Ongoing What Works Wellbeing: Culture, Sport and Wellbeing Evidence Review: Social Diversity and Context Matters Completed Why aren't all old people lonely? A comparative analysis of European Union Completed Image Analysis for Complex Data in Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) Completed Automotive crashworthiness Completed Development of a web-based decision aid to assist occupational therapists to make optimal fitness-to-drive decisions for disabled and older drivers Completed Scoping our future research priorities Completed New perspectives on loneliness: developing theory, methodology and evidence practice Completed Pelvic floor exercise device for prevention and cure of Stress Urinary Incontinence in women Completed Give and Take Care Completed Biologically inspired and self-powered dynamic systems Completed Ambidexterous robot hand Completed Holoscopic 3D Vision Completed Hydration and human cardiovascular function Completed KTP - ESG Completed Chromosome dynamics and Nuclear Motors – Chromobility Completed Cytogenetic Assessment of British Nuclear Test Veterans and their Offspring Ongoing Modelling internal bone marrow dose from Radium-223 Completed Active refrigeration shelf with thermal storage Completed Design Assistant for Semantic Comparison of Intellectual Property Completed Powerweave Completed Host:Pathogen interactions through the host genome Completed Drug treatments lead to Correction of Aberrant Genome Behaviour in Cancer and Immortalised Cells Completed Understanding and Treatment of Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome Completed Optimising Energy Management in Industry - OPTEMIN Completed Low Temperature Waste Heat to Power Generation Completed Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage through 3D Imaging Ongoing GELCLAD - Highly efficient cladding eco-panels with improved Nano-insulation properties Completed Evaluation of oligonucleotides for therapy of Friedreich ataxia Completed Industrial Thermal Energy Recovery Conversion and Management Completed RCUK National Centre for Sustainable Energy Use in Food Chains (CSEF) Completed Design for Resource and Energy efficiency in cerAMic kilns Completed Performance and design optimisation of the HERU waste treatment system Completed Thermal design characterization of the HERU waste treatment chamber Completed Education systems, aspiration and learning in remote rural settings Ongoing Erva Mate Drying Completed Thermo storage of biomedical materials and products under low temperature cryogenic conditions Completed Social cash transfers, generational relations and youth poverty trajectories in rural Lesotho and Malawi Ongoing Smart GEMS Completed SolHy- Experimental, computational and environmental impact study of a solar powered hydrogen production system for domestic cooking applications in developing economies Completed Cool Materials – High Tech / Low Cost solution for energy efficiency and thermal comfort in low rise buildings in high solar radiation countries Completed Robust Automated Servicing of Passenger Trains-Fluids (RASPT-F) Completed Adapting Waste Heat Recovery Technologies for Low Carbon Off- Highway Vehicles Completed Variable Geometry Turbine Design for Advanced Turbocharger Application Part 2 Completed Optimisation of LESsCOAL for large-scale high-fidelity simulation of coal pyrolysis and combustion Completed UK Consortium on Turbulent Reacting Flows Completed Modelling alkali metal pollutant formation in LES of pulverised-coal combustion Completed Evaluation of the effect of injector deposits on diesel combustion Completed Miniaturised solar concentrators for water desalination/purification Completed Cost Effective Maximum Performance Core Composite for VIPs Completed Joint research on advanced diesel engine combustion and regenerative high efficiency diesel engine Completed Development of low temperature partially premixed compression ignition combustion engine technologies for commercial vehicles Completed Advanced Downsized SI Engine Operation Completed Ultra Efficient Engines and Fuel Completed Integrally Bladed Rotor (IBR) – Abrasive Flow Machining Completed Development of Smart Drilling Spindle Systems Completed Development of the functional surface u-texturing module with application to micromilling Ongoing SPH as nonlocal regularisation method Completed Material behaviour Completed Bird strike Completed Aircraft seating Completed Water impact Completed Fragmentation Completed Tablet impact protection Completed Non Destructive Testing of defects in oil and gas pipelines Completed Identifying the bulk acoustic properties of a viscoelastic coating Completed Scattering from defects in buried pipes Completed Continuous advanced structural health monitoring system for crane inspection applications Completed Enabling a More Reliable Smart Grid with Big Data Completed Sponsored Studentship Thames Water Utilities Ongoing Design and Development of International Electricity Highway Systems Completed Scalable Smart Grid Infrastructure Completed e-Highway2050 – Modular Development Plan of the Pan-European Transmission System 2050 Completed