On Gesture

Opening research avenues around the topic of gesture and gesturality, in order to explore their role in the emerging postdigital landscape.


PEGASO: Personalised Guidance Services for Optimising Lifestyle in Teenagers

Challenging teenagers in their own fields and areas of interest, PEGASO aims at promoting a sustainable change towards healthy lifestyles, with a holistic and multidisciplinary approach.


Identifying Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Associated with Clinical Features of FXS

This study is the first sufficiently powered examination of the relationship between genetic variation and behaviour in Fragile X Syndrome. 


Collective Emotions and the 2014 World Cup: Understanding Collective Shame and the Emotional Dynamics of Group-Related Failure

This project is lead by Dr. Gavin Sullivan and looks at Collective Emotions and the 2014 World Cup.


METRIC

METRIC maps regional transport innovation capacity and identifies the competitive advantage of regions. 


Climate Change and P/CVE (Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism) Policy: Strengthening Knowledge Systems in Kenya and Beyond

In Kenya, as in many ODA countries, climate change and violent extremism (VE) are pressing societal challenges.   


Drawing Conversations

Whilst both collective and collaborative drawing is being widely explored internationally, both within and beyond educational institutions, there is surprisingly little serious research published on the topic. This realisation led to the first international Drawing Conversations Symposium, accompanied by the Drawn Conversations Exhibition at Coventry University, UK, in December 2015, and a series of publications.


Transition state analysis to guide drug discovery

Professor Mark Wheatley and collaborators from Aston University, Dr John Simms and Professor David Poyner, have been awarded a grant of £177,497 from the BBSRC Follow-on Fund to develop new technology that will potentially revolutionise the drug discovery process.


Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM)

COPIM is an international partnership of researchers, universities, librarians, open access book publishers and infrastructure providers. It is building community-owned, open systems and infrastructures to enable open access book publishing to flourish.


Urban Village: The Roma's Allotment Project

Urban Villages aims to bring together Roma and non-Roma to co-create a short film, images and a digital scrapbook exhibition that focuses on the experiences, identity and voices of the Roma people told by the Roma people.


Investigating stakeholder perspectives on the role of the semi-wild pony in maintaining biodiversity and agricultural sustainability in the uplands of Wales

The mountains, hills and valleys of Wales play a central role in the culture, recreation, economy and environment of the Welsh nation and yet they are declining. The semi-wild (or semi-feral pony) is native to Wales and can play a critical role in reversing that decline.


A Record Of Undying

In 2013, Saxon commenced development on the central work for A Record of Undying in collaboration with his late partner John Briscoe (1949-2013). With Briscoe as subject, he developed intimate photographs and films shot during the period leading up to and including his partner’s death.


Collaborative research on Women’s Communal Land Rights (WCLR) in Africa

The overarching objective of this project is to draw lessons from and scale up efforts to advance Women’s Communal Land Rights in East and West Africa.


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.


Enabling Students with Neurodiversity (ENTENDER)

The project aims to promote inclusion and support for students with neurodiversity in higher education in Argentina and Mexico.


Why are pregnant women in prison?

The aim of our study is to find out why pregnant women spend time in prison, on remand, on recall from licence conditions and on sentence.


Social Choreography network

What does social choreography mean today, and to what extent can this field provide new frameworks to help address the issue of cultural stereotyping of refugees?


BioRich: Feeding Biochar to Ruminants

Agriculture now finds itself in a changing landscape where old methods and expectations are now being questioned. It is critical that new, holistic, methods are found to improve animal and soil health whilst benefiting the environment and financially supporting farmers.


Nonlinear flow states and turbulence produced by helical magnetorotational-type instabilities (Solar Studies)

 To investigate the origin of turbulence in hydrodynamically stable astrophysical flows by developing a nonlinear stability theory of helical magnetorotational instability (HMRI)