Review of the evidence of outcomes and impact of Ruskin Mill Trust’s Practical Skills and Therapeutic Educational Programme

This project aims to review the way Ruskin Mill Trust evidence the effectiveness of their Practical Skills and Therapeutic Education programme and the impact on those involved.


The internal brakes on violent escalation

Why do some ‘extremists’ or ‘extremist groups’ choose not to engage in violence, or only in particular forms of low-level violence? Why, even in deeply violent groups, are there often thresholds of violence that members rarely if ever cross?


Talking Back: Hip Hop through research and practice

This three day event is grounded in feminist and critical theorist Bell Hook’s idea of “Talking Back” and will open up a space to learn more about the five pillars of Hip Hop (Knowledge, Graffiti, break dance, Djing and Emceeing).


Using movement and story telling to enhance motor and cognitive development in preschoolers

This study sought to pilot an innovative intervention for pre-schoolers whereby movement is linked to storytelling in a fun and accessible manner.


Chaplains on Campus: Understanding Chaplaincy in UK Universities

The overall aim of this research is to provide universities, religious bodies and student organisations with an evidence base and recommendations to enhance chaplaincy provision across the university sector.


Evaluation of the Shuttletime Programme

This project examined the effect of engaging in the BWF Shuttle Time programme, compared to traditional Physical Education, on children's current and future engagement in sport and physical activity and health.


Tackling Religion-based Hate Crime on the Multi-Faith Campus

The project aimed to better support students in understanding what religion-based hate crime is and encourage them to report and receive support, and strengthen the existing reporting and case management mechanism.


Schools Linking: Building Bridges of Understanding amongst Schoolchildren

The project developed a detailed analysis of the practice of schools linking within which pupils from different schools are twinned with each other to foster greater dialogue and understanding.


Interdisciplinary Training Network in Multi-Actuated Ground Vehicles (ITEAM)

ITEAM is aimed at establishing and sustainably maintaining the European training network by training strong specialists to research and develop cutting-edge technologies in the field of multi-actuated ground vehicles (MAGV).


Open Flight Deck

This project aims to develop an accessible platform for the flight deck which supports new technologies, new applications such as crew decision aids harnessing big data, and 21st century HMI such as touch, voice and haptics.


BeLEADFREE

BeLEADFREE aims to deliver novel lead‐free bearing materials by adopting innovative design & manufacturing and applying a multidisciplinary approach involving experts with extensive industrial, research and innovation skills.


Intelligent prediction of preterm birth using AI-empowered electrohysterography sensing

NIHR funded project aiming to develop an AI solution to predict preterm birth.


InoCardia: Delivering Improved Cardiac Safety Liabilities for Therapeutic Drugs Using the Contractome-AI

The commercialisation of Professor Maddock's academic research started with a vision that there was a fundamental need within the Pharmaceutical Industry for the development of improved physiological relevant model to assess cardiac contractility.


Trade-off Management between Safety and Cybersecurity (TOMSAC)

This research is aimed at assuring cybersecurity and safety of complex CPS/IoT systems, which arise from convergence of Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) and Internet of Things (IoT).


Citizen Scientists Investigating Cookies and App GDPR compliance (CSI-COP)

CSI-COP involves citizen scientists to co-investigate the extent of online tracking through exploring cookies in websites and apps on mobile devices


Managing My Money for the Just About Managing

Through this project in collaboration with the Open University, we explored the potential for education-based interventions to increase people’s financial motivation and generate more positive financial behaviours. 


VIBES

VIBES is choreographic and audio collective performance, seeking to make hundreds or thousands of people not knowing each other, meet in a shared dance performance, guided through headphones.


Subtle Agroecologies: Farming with the Hidden Half of Nature

This research programme comprises a growing number of research projects, doctoral studies, academic publications and outreach activities. Subtle Agroecologies “is not a farming system in itself, but superimposes a non-material dimension upon existing, materially-based agroecological farming systems. It is grounded in the lived experiences of humans working on, and with, the land, and with nature over thousand of years to the present.” (Wright, 2021)


Enhancing Science and Innovation Capacity of Vietnam for Sustainable Development

Significant and meaningful solutions to real world problems requires researchers that have the necessary knowledge, skills, and innovation on a global level.


CreativeCulture 4.0

The project aims to broaden and extend the impact of experiential learning through play and gamification as a creative, emphatic and inclusive pedagogical practice in Malaysia towards Education 4.0 responding to Industry 4.0.