Research Projects
Our research is connected to outcomes that feedback into industry, culture and the environment. Find out more about our researchers and their projects below.
Researching the experience of families with twins or triplets
Exploring the experiences of mothers and families with twins or triplets to assess their care needs.
Making mothers: feasibility study
The Making Mothers project concerns the analysis and development of novel antenatal care strategies to improve the hea...
Holding children and young people for clinical procedures
Analysing holding techniques (which involve keeping patients still during invasive treatment or examination) within th...
Experimental stability and agglomeration analysis of different nanofluids
Reducing heat-stress and increasing heat dissipation in is a key challenge in industries and processes, from micro/n...
Rebuilding cities after the catastrophe of war and destruction
The research sought to explain the nature and extent of destruction and the processes and products of replanning and r...
Identifying the Offshore Wind Resource in the Philippines
The Philippines has the potential to generate power from offshore wind but a thorough wind resource assessment (WRA) m...
Investigating the development of young children’s social learning: Is ‘overimitation’ related to theory of mind
The aim of the research is to expand our understanding of the cognitive mechanisms underpinning how young children lea...
Aggression, executive function and violent media exposure
The project aims to explore the link between violent media exposure, aggression and executive functioning in greater...
Desecuritising Higher Education
The project seeks to investigate the Prevent Duty within UK Higher Education (UKHE) and establish how it has been enac...
The efficacy of school-based anti-knife crime interventions
Knife crime interventions are an important initiative that aims to increase awareness of the dangers of knife crime. C...
Families: Social Exclusion and Places of Safety
FSEPS is a programme designed to combat social inclusion in mothers who live with their children in refuges or other...
Embrace HE
Embrace HE - Enabling mental health benefits: resilience, achievement, competencies and engagement in improved higher ...
Exploitation: Vulnerabilities and Experiences
This project hopes to increase the general understanding of the underlying perceptions of exploitation in order to det...
Promoting Evidence-Based Practice in Policing Through the Use of Novel Pedagogies
Evidence suggests that police receptivity to research is low, which can potentially lead to knowledge gaps in core pol...
Identifying and Sharing Good Practice in Tackling Domestic Abuse in Military Contexts
The research addresses the root causes of vulnerability to DA in military settings, focusing attention on emerging ris...