Sustainable Practices make Sustainable Businesses
Dr David Bek led a project exploring how the implementation of sustainable practices helps businesses to be more resilient, productive and profitable. The project focused upon the horticultural sector in South Africa.
Coffee Ingestion: Interaction Between Sex and Cycling Performance
The aim of this study was to investigate whether sex differences exist with regard to 5 km cycling time trial performance and affective responses following the ingestion of 300 ml caffeinated coffee, a placebo (coffee flavoured solution) and a control (no fluid).
The Effectiveness of a Primary School Based Badminton Intervention on Children’s Fundamental Movement Skills
This project examined if a badminton based intervention is effective in enhancing fundamental movement skills, physical activity, motivation to undertake physical activity, fitness and health in children aged 7-9 years.
Gothic Modern, 1880s-1930s
Gothic Modern, 1880s-1930s is the first in-depth study (comprising a scholarly, multi-author book, articles, an international touring exhibition with linked research publication and a series of international symposia) to explore the pivotal importance of medieval, in particular Gothic art for the artistic modernisms of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries.
Managing the Impacts of Mega-Events: Towards Sustainable Legacies (CARNIVAL)
Investigating the factors that impact upon the planned and unplanned legacy outcomes of sporting and non-sporting mega-events and their implications for stakeholders.
Connecting delayed pre-commitment with cyber awareness to address the perception gap and present bias
Working with the Home Office, National Cyber Security Centre, regional law enforcement and other partners, aiming to inform current policy towards cyber-security in small organizations.
Designing communication for Newborn Screening
In 2008/9 our research aimed to inform a proposed UK pilot of an expanded newborn screening service.
An ASEAN interdisciplinary network to promote access and inclusion of disabled students in higher education
Establishing an interdisciplinary network in higher education in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries addresses Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) number 4, advocating “inclusive and quality education for all”.
Decolonising Education: Fostering Conversations
This project aims to develop and pilot an approach to promoting conversations around decolonisation in higher education (HE).
Investigating GPCR:RAMP interactions using nanobodies
Professor Mark Wheatley and collaborators have been awarded a grant from the BBSRC to investigate the G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) family of proteins.
Trusting Technology with Your Life: Research and Interventions on Trust in Autonomous Vehicles
Trust is central to the acceptance and adoption of Autonomous Vehicles (AV), but it also poses a significant challenge: reservations and distrust of this new technology are widespread.
Fish for Export: working in the wild capture seafood industry in Indonesia
This project aimed to produce robust evidence-driven recommendations to help brand-owners, buyers and suppliers based in the EU and US to better understand where and how they can address any labour abuse risks within their supply chains in Indonesia.
On Our Land – Protecting Bedouin Cultural Heritage in the occupied Palestinian territories
The aim of this project is for the Bedouin communities in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) to be able to use inter-generational knowledge and cultural practices related to their land in order to flourish.
Support, Development and Engagement Services for the Tower Hamlets Inter-Faith Forum (THIFF) 2017-2020
Staff from the Faith and Peaceful Relations Research Group are working in collaboration with colleagues from Lifeline Community Projects and members of the Tower Hamlets Inter-Faith Forum to support the Forum’s further development.
Transport Innovation Gender Observatory (TInnGO)
TInnGO, the Transport Research Observatory, is a pan European observatory for gender smart transport innovation, that provides a nexus for data collection, analysis, dissemination of gender mainstreaming tools and open innovation, encouraging smart mobility.
Co-developing a Social Impact Toolkit for Community Food Businesses
This work builds upon research funded by Just Growth (2016) & Power To Change (2017) to create a toolkit that Community Food Businesses can use to understand their social impact.
Nourishing Life -Territories of Life & Food Sovereignty
This Policy Brief focuses on the contributions that the territories and areas governed, managed and conserved by custodian indigenous peoples and local communities.
FEVR: the virtual reality field experience
An international, interdisciplinary collaboration, which will develop a virtual reality field experience (FEVR) of various geological sites in South Africa’s Eastern Cape region.
Petroleum Reservoir Engineering Simulation Models
Over the years key models have become unavailable as the websites that supported them have been decommissioned. The objective is to make them available to the research community at a single location.
Helping Hands Project
To design, deliver, and evaluate a home-school program of inclusion/early intervention for children with ADHD-like behaviours in Slovakia, Hungry, and Romania.
