Research Projects

Are personal budgets always the best way of delivering personalised social care services to older people?

Completed Projects

Health and Life Sciences

This NIHR/School for Social Care Research funded project aimed to examine whether personal budgets are always the best way of delivering personalised social care services to older people. 

Deprivation and Inequalities in Children's Services Interventions

Completed Projects

Centre for Innovative Research Across the Life Course

The aim of this study was to examine the role of deprivation in explaining differences in key children’s services’ outcomes between and within local authorities (LAs).

Multi-disciplinary evaluation of sexual assault referral centres for better health (MESARCH)

Current Projects

Centre for Advances in Behavioural Science

This research project will evaluate Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs) across England in terms of benefits and costs to service users and survivors of sexual assault and rape.

Reality Remix

Current Projects

Centre for Dance Research

The 'Reality Remix' project brings together an interdisciplinary team of experts - a fashion designer, artists, researchers, an interactive designer, a software engineer, computer scientist, and a choreographer to address challenges and opportunities that emergent technologies bring to content creation and interaction methods in Mixed, Augmented and Virtual Reality.

Social Choreography network

Current Projects

Centre for Dance Research

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?
Violent military conflict, environmental crises, breakdown of social, racial or ethnic integration, are some of the many reasons why millions of peoples are being displaced across the world. Immigration is regarded today as arguably one of the most pressing political issues by voters and the wider public, and not only in a post-Brexit UK. Whilst the problem of forced migration is typically addressed from within the social sciences (e.g. migration and diaspora studies, sociology, political science, or development studies), little is known about the way in which the movement arts and bodily perspectives are responding to such crises. The gap in knowledge that the network is aiming to address concerns a lack of understanding of embodied socio-choreographic practice at a regional and cross-national level. 

Somatic practice, chronic pain and self-care technology

Current Projects

Centre for Dance Research

This network brings together experts from dance and somatic practices, health and digital design to explore the living, sensate and subjectively experienced body in context as a means of understanding chronic pain and self-care strategies. 

Prosody, Morphology, Phonology and Multisyllabic Word Reading

Current Projects

Centre for Advances in Behavioural Science

We hope that this project will provide us with further insight of a newly emerging side of literacy research as it incorporates the metalinguistic skill of prosody.

Morphology, phonology and literacy in primary years: Evidence from eye-movements and dynamic assessments.

Current Projects

Centre for Advances in Behavioural Science

My PhD research investigates the role of morphological awareness in the literacy development of budding readers. The project will take a closer look at the developmental trajectory of morphological awareness development, as it relates to other literacy skills by testing three different age groups within primary years.

Influences on and Impact of Mathematical Resilience in Year 1 Children

Current Projects

Centre for Advances in Behavioural Science

How does diagnosis of dyslexia impact on identity, self-belief and reading progress in children and adults?

Current Projects

Centre for Advances in Behavioural Science

This study aims to contribute towards a better understanding of the impact of identifying dyslexia in children and adults.  Of specific interest is the effect on identity, self-belief and reading progress in light of the age at which a learner is identified as dyslexic.

Kaleidoscope - The 1950s in Europe

Current Projects

Centre for Dance Research

The project aims at leveraging photographic content in Europeana depicting the 1950s in Europe, connecting today’s citizens with the post-war generation whose dreams of a better life led to the establishment of the European Union. Kaleidoscope wants to increase engagement with Europeana content, by heightening user interaction through crowdsourcing and co-curation. 

Flood Ultra-cognitive Dendrite (FLUD)

Current Projects

Institute for Future Transport & Cities

The main aim of FLUD is to develop an intelligent and cost-effective automatic monitoring, and forecasting platform for flooding in urban environments.

A new spelling test for primary school children

Current Projects

Centre for Advances in Behavioural Science

Small Group Reading Support

Current Projects

Centre for Advances in Behavioural Science

BiLex: A Psycholinguistic Database for Bilingual Children

Current Projects

Centre for Advances in Behavioural Science

Curious Stories

Current Projects

Centre for Advances in Behavioural Science

Training in Social Impact Management for Social Enterprise Mentors and Policy Makers

Current Projects

International Centre for Transformational Entrepreneurship

Workshop in response to the Mexican Government’s belief to tackle the economic and social development challenges that the country faces requiring innovative and financially sustainable initiatives which intentionally look to solve social or environmental problems.

REcovery the CRisis through Entrepreneurial ATtitudE - RECREATE

Current Projects

International Centre for Transformational Entrepreneurship

REcovery the CRisis through Entrepreneurial ATtitudE - RECREATE - aims to foster:

• the creation of links between higher education, research and business especially at regional level, and
• the acquisition of transversal and entrepreneurial attitude among young researchers and students, in order to contribute to recovery of the current economic crisis.

Furthermore, RECREATE aims to stimulate the acquisition of key competences, such as creativity and digital skills through innovative learning environments such as, open educational resources and flexible learning approaches.

Le@d3.0 Academy

Current Projects

International Centre for Transformational Entrepreneurship

Lead3.0 Academy mission is to establish a long lasting Knowledge Alliance between academy and industry by creating a digital online platform that offers strategic e-Leadership skills’ training programmes based on OERs (Open Educational Resources).

Culture Moves

Current Projects

Centre for Dance Research

CultureMoves is a user-oriented project that aims to develop a series of digital tools and services that will enable new forms of touristic engagement and educational resources by leveraging the re-use of Europeana content. The project stands on 3 pillars: technology for content re-use adaptation and sharing, real-life use cases for tourism and education, intangible cultural heritage and more specifically dance.