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 RHOMBUS: Rehabilitation via HOMe Based gaming exercise for the Upper-limb post Stroke Ongoing MOLAY-STRUDEL 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 TDX-ASSIST 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 Empty Taxi Completed The Model Driven Hospitals Completed Developing a Process Model of Corporate Hubris Ongoing 'Placing' the Experiences of White Working Class Men in Elementary Occupations Ongoing Knowledge Exchange Processes in Multicultural Teams Completed Integrating Highly-Qualified Migrants 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 New landscapes of training for work: the extended role of housing associations Completed Adaptive Automated Scientific Laboratory (AdaLab) Completed Developing new model organisms Completed Plastic Oceans Completed Social cash transfers, generational relations and youth poverty trajectories in rural Lesotho and Malawi Completed Development of a constitutive model to simulate unbounded flexible composite riser pipe elements Completed Non-Linear Finite Element Analysis of Flexible Pipes for Deep-Water Applications Completed Boiling Heat Transfer with Controlled Arrays of Nucleation Sites on Silicon Surfaces Completed Heat Pipe Technology for Thermal Energy Recovery in Industrial Applications (ETEKINA) Ongoing Smart Grids Completed The economics of public health Completed Evaluating the payback or impact from expenditure on research 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:Prospective radomised controlled trial of video-assested thoracpscopic (VAT) cytoreductive pleurectomy compared to talc pleurodesis in patients with suspected or proven malignant mesothelioma Completed Economic and Psychological Evaluation of the Multi-Centre Aneurysm Screening study (MASS) Completed Economic Evaluation of the UK Liver Transplantation Programme Completed Screening Women for Aneurysms (SWAN) 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 Assessment Evaluation of the Health Economics of Anti- Depressants (AHEAD) Completed Evaluation of the national strain typing service for tuberculosis Completed Economic Evaluation of Small Bowel Transplantation in Paediatrics Completed Collaboration with Papworth Hospital 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: Moving Young People into Employment, Training and Education and Made Outside the Classroom Completed Revisiting oestrogenic effects in wild fish: assessing and comparing contemporary and historical impacts Ongoing EURASIA-Net Completed CHOICE: Strengthening China Collboration on ICT research with Europe Ongoing CRe-AM: Creativity REsearch Adaptive roadMap Ongoing ICT&ART Connect: Connecting ICT & Art Communities Completed Shadows of the Dawn: Migration and the Indeterminacy of Community and Immunity Ongoing An integrated computational-experimental method to redesign protein dynamics Ongoing Preventing Inter-faith relations in Israel through social services and the media Ongoing Exploratory Study ICT-enabled innovation in social services in the EU Completed The Health and Sport Engagement (HASE) Project Ongoing Culture, Sport and Wellbeing: Social Diversity and Context Matters Ongoing 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 LiveCity - Live Video-to-Video Supporting Interactive City Infrastructure Completed Innovation at work: Psychological well-being, processes and outcomes Completed SHEQuIP - Sudan Higher Education Quality Improvement Project Completed Daiwa Foundation sponsored project with Tokyo University Completed BIOPOOL: Services associated to digitalised contents of tissues in biobanks across Europe Completed SMPs' role in the internationalisation efforts of UK SMEs Completed Patent use, Technology Licensing and IP management in UK firms Completed Enhancing Doctoral Supervision and Quality Completed Policy Compass Completed DAREED Completed ACCA / ESRC Business Case for Diversity Ongoing MINI-CHIP Completed Drug rescue of frataxin-dependent neural and cardiac pathophysiology in FA Ongoing Robotic surgery and society Ongoing Suicide, youth and farmers in South India Ongoing Education, Childhood and Social Mobility in India Ongoing The Politics of Alterity and Values of Symmetry in Fuyuge Myths and Ritual (Papua New Guinea) Ongoing Neglected Tropical Diseases Ongoing HIV/AIDS in the UK Ongoing Anthropology and Emotion Ongoing The Social Life of the Orangutan Ongoing Disabled lives: understanding disability through ethnographic biography Ongoing Masculinity and De-Industrialisation in the South African lowveld Ongoing Holy Cows and Chicken Manchuria Ongoing Down to the Road: Landscape, Morality and Politics in Bidayuh Experiences of Resettlement Ongoing Remembering Absence Ongoing Urban Development, Youth and the Future in Kigali, Rwanda Ongoing Caspian climatic cycles for improved petroleum exploration Ongoing GAP WORK: Improving gender-related violence intervention and referral through youth practitioner training Completed DoReMi - LDR-OPTI-GEN - Low dose radiation-induced optical changes and genetic factors Ongoing Universities Supporting Victims of Sexual Violence Ongoing Surgical robotics for therapy and diagnosis Ongoing Microfluidics in Diagnosis Ongoing Orkney: Beside the Ocean of Time Completed Investigation of Health Effects Associated with Exposure to Indirect Potable Reuse Drinking Water Completed A Decoy Artificial Snail Host to Control Schistosoma mansoni Completed Can roach, Rutilus rutilus, adapt to the harmful effects of oestrogen exposure from waste water treatment work effluents? Ongoing Protex 2 Completed Investigating the effects of low-dose mixtures of EDCs on breast cancer initiation Ongoing Impacts of palaeoenvironmental changes on Meso-Neolithic innovation and adaptation in the Caspian coast Completed PRIDE Drivers of Pontocaspian biodiversity Rise and Demise Ongoing 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 Ongoing Developing the International Safeguards for Children in Sport Completed Muscle heat shock proteins with passive heating Completed Singing and Social Bonding: Creating connections between practitioners and researchers Ongoing Having Little, Having Less: Toward a Psychology of Low Socioeconomic Status Completed Education systems, aspiration and learning in remote rural settings Ongoing Ageing, Communication, Technologies (ACT): experiencing a digital world in later life Ongoing From Plastic Pollution to Solutions: Public Communication of Environmental and Health Risks Completed Exploring the Potential of Disabled Comedians in Improving the Lives and Experiences of Disabled People Completed Stem cell mitotic response to damage in old and young Drosophila melanogaster Completed Photographing Everyday Life: Ageing, Lived Experiences, Time and Space Completed The wellbeing needs of older people living with sight loss Completed Why aren't all old people lonely? A comparative analysis of European Union Completed Living Well with Dementia (IDEAL) Ongoing What Works Wellbeing: Culture, Sport and Wellbeing Evidence Review: Social Diversity and Context Matters Ongoing Tackling Ageing Continence through Theory, Tools and Technology (TACT3) Completed Dare to Age Well Completed Image Analysis for Complex Data in Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) Ongoing Automotive crashworthiness Ongoing Development of a web-based decision aid to assist occupational therapists to make optimal fitness-to-drive decisions for disabled and older drivers Ongoing Give and Take Care Ongoing Pelvic floor exercise device for prevention and cure of Stress Urinary Incontinence in women Completed New perspectives on loneliness: developing theory, methodology and evidence practice Completed Scoping our future research priorities Completed Biologically inspired and self-powered dynamic systems Ongoing Ambidexterous robot hand Ongoing Holoscopic 3D Vision Completed Hydration and human cardiovascular function Completed KTP - ESG Ongoing Chromosome dynamics and Nuclear Motors – Chromobility Ongoing Cytogenetic Assessment of British Nuclear Test Veterans and their Offspring Ongoing Modelling internal bone marrow dose from Radium-223 Ongoing Active refrigeration shelf with thermal storage Ongoing Design Assistant for Semantic Comparison of Intellectual Property Ongoing Powerweave Ongoing Host:Pathogen interactions through the host genome Completed Understanding and Treatment of Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome Completed Drug treatments lead to Correction of Aberrant Genome Behaviour in Cancer and Immortalised Cells Completed Optimising Energy Management in Industry - OPTEMIN Ongoing Low Temperature Waste Heat to Power Generation Ongoing Cost-effective High-Quality Preservation and Restoration of Qatar Cultural Heritage through Advanced Holoscopic 3D Imaging (CEPROQHA) Completed GELCLAD - Highly efficient cladding eco-panels with improved Nano-insulation properties Ongoing Evaluation of oligonucleotides for therapy of Friedreich ataxia Ongoing Industrial Thermal Energy Recovery Conversion and Management Ongoing RCUK National Centre for Sustainable Energy Use in Food Chains (CSEF) Ongoing Design for Resource and Energy efficiency in cerAMic kilns Ongoing Performance and design optimisation of the HERU waste treatment system Ongoing Thermal design characterization of the HERU waste treatment chamber Ongoing Education systems, aspiration and learning in remote rural settings Completed Erva Mate Drying Ongoing Thermo storage of biomedical materials and products under low temperature cryogenic conditions Ongoing Social cash transfers, generational relations and youth poverty trajectories in rural Lesotho and Malawi Ongoing Smart GEMS Ongoing SolHy- Experimental, computational and environmental impact study of a solar powered hydrogen production system for domestic cooking applications in developing economies Ongoing Cool Materials – High Tech / Low Cost solution for energy efficiency and thermal comfort in low rise buildings in high solar radiation countries Ongoing Robust Automated Servicing of Passenger Trains-Fluids (RASPT-F) Ongoing Developing Scalable Smart Grid Infrastructure to Enable Secure Transmission System Control Completed Design and Development of International Electricity Highway Systems Completed e-Highway2050 – Modular Development Plan of the Pan-European Transmission System 2050 Completed Adapting Waste Heat Recovery Technologies for Low Carbon Off- Highway Vehicles Ongoing Variable Geometry Turbine Design for Advanced Turbocharger Application Part 2 Ongoing Enabling a More Reliable Smart Grid with Big Data Completed Optimisation of LESsCOAL for large-scale high-fidelity simulation of coal pyrolysis and combustion Ongoing UK Consortium on Turbulent Reacting Flows Ongoing Modelling alkali metal pollutant formation in LES of pulverised-coal combustion Ongoing Sponsored studentship Thames Water Utilities Ongoing Evaluation of the effect of injector deposits on diesel combustion Ongoing Miniaturised solar concentrators for water desalination/purification Ongoing Cost Effective Maximum Performance Core Composite for VIPs Ongoing Joint research on advanced diesel engine combustion and regenerative high efficiency diesel engine Ongoing Development of low temperature partially premixed compression ignition combustion engine technologies for commercial vehicles Ongoing Advanced Downsized SI Engine Operation Ongoing Ultra Efficient Engines and Fuel Ongoing Integrally Bladed Rotor (IBR) – Abrasive Flow Machining Ongoing Development of Smart Drilling Spindle Systems Ongoing Development of the functional surface u-texturing module with application to micromilling Ongoing SPH as nonlocal regularisation method Ongoing Material behaviour Ongoing Bird strike Ongoing Aircraft seating Ongoing Water impact Ongoing Fragmentation Ongoing Tablet impact protection Completed Non Destructive Testing of defects in oil and gas pipelines Ongoing Identifying the bulk acoustic properties of a viscoelastic coating Completed Scattering from defects in buried pipes Ongoing Continuous advanced structural health monitoring system for crane inspection applications Completed