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.
Waiting for diagnosis: an artistic exploration
This project aim ed to explore the impacts of waiting on patients undergoing clinical treatment, as well as ways to...
Investigating burnout in nursing home nurses
With a worldwide shortage of nurses and a large proportion of dementia sufferers based in nursing homes, this project e...
Exploring experiences of online peer support for newly qualified nurses
With newly-qualified nurses often succumbing to stress and questioning their choice of career, this research project ai...
How do registered health and social care practitioners change their practice post Mental Capacity Act training?
Identifying training strategies and determining how registered health and social care practitioners change their pract...
Recognising dementia
This research explored family carers’ and professional carers’ experiences of pre-clinical dementia in the people they...
Communicating the Impacts of Austerity and Inequality
Austerity is a prevalent theme of current socio-political and economical culture but the impact on public health, thou...
Nursing support for South Asian carers of dementia patients
This qualitative study explores the experiences and perspectives of nurses who provide support to South Asian carers of...
Public Perceptions of Inequalities in Health and Income
This project aims to assess and critically inform the public's perception of health inequalities in the UK, thus infor...
PrisDem: Enhancing dementia care and support in prison populations
Critically analysing the dementia care provision in the UK prison service.
Understanding cultural beliefs and dementia
Increasing our understanding of the spiritual and cultural beliefs around dementia to develop a nursing curriculum tha...
Supporting multiple birth families
This study aims to provide contemporary evidence to support the development of policy, HV education and service pro...
Reducing tool replacement and downtime
This knowledge transfer partnership (KTP) with Birmingham-based company C Brandauer & Co Ltd investigates tool wear,...
Evolution of nanocrystallised, highly-reactive multi-layered metal structures
Funded by the National Science Centre, this project looks to understand the complex relationships of the formation of ...
Next generation technologies for networked Europe
Putting in place a cross-sectoral and cross-technological initiative at European level to increase integration between...
Sustainable infrastructure through structural health monitoring
This project has helped to establish long-term UK-Indonesia collaboration on Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) wh...