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.
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...
Aggression, executive function and violent media exposure
The project aims to explore the link between violent media exposure, aggression and executive functioning in greater...
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...
Desecuritising Higher Education
The project seeks to investigate the Prevent Duty within UK Higher Education (UKHE) and establish how it has been enac...
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...
Exploitation: Vulnerabilities and Experiences
This project hopes to increase the general understanding of the underlying perceptions of exploitation in order to det...
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...
Work-Related Pressures for Delivery Drivers in the Digital Age of the “Gig Economy"
The central premise of this project is the question as to whether current manslaughter laws are sufficient when we con...
Embrace HE
Embrace HE - Enabling mental health benefits: resilience, achievement, competencies and engagement in improved higher ...
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...
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...
Youth perceptions and experiences of knife crime
This project aims to identify the reason for the rise in youth perpetrated knife crime based on a number of factors. ...
Designing a Microalgae Cultivation System for the production of animal feed supplements
Traditional foods used for livestock rearing, such as maize and soybeans, are suffering from increasing environmental p...
Engine heat waste recovery for greener vehicles
Road vehicles are one of the main contributors to increasing CO2 emissions. In order to reduce the reliance on the c...