The ECR network at the University of Brighton presents the Keep Momentum Podcast. In this podcast we explore our goals in research and knowledge exchange and how to keep momentum to achieve them. The first episode is presented by Dr… Continue Reading →
Dear ECR community, I hope you had a good and smooth start into the new semester and are back in the swing of things. Between busy teaching timetables, assessment prep work and staff meetings, research and knowledge exchange activities for… Continue Reading →
Uschi Klein spent June and July this summer doing archival research in the context of their Visegrad Fellowship at the Blinken Open Society Archive in Budapest working on the broader topic of “Everyday media practices of resistance in Communist Romania… Continue Reading →
Shirin Saberianpour is developing a Novel In Vitro 3D Vascularised Osteoid Model by SAOS-2 Osteoblasts and Human Umbilical Vascular Endothelial Cells co-cultured in 2D conditions on the Synthetic Biomimetic Substrate PhenoDrive.
Lucie Bourne has had a busy summer writing a grant, preparing scientific papers and supporting students on work experience. She’s also spent time in the lab doing some histology – staining tissue samples with special dyes to look at it’s… Continue Reading →
Karen Hanrahan is looking at why and how young women became nuns in the 1950s – my research uses interviews and archival materials from the US and Ireland Image Source: Burns Library, Boston College.
Dear ECR Community, With the kids back to school, it feels the right moment to send a welcome back as well to colleagues across all campuses. I hope you had a good break over the summer period and are ready… Continue Reading →
Book your events now for National Postdoc Appreciation Week (15-19 September 2025). The annual Postdoc Appreciation Week is an opportunity to highlight the contribution our postdocs make, celebrate their achievements and show appreciation and support. What is a postdoc? Postdocs work… Continue Reading →
Rafaella Siagkri works on an interdisciplinary research project investigates the relationship between visual stimuli and thermal comfort perception, establishing a new collaboration with researchers from architecture and engineering. Participants will explore three distinct Virtual Reality (VR) environments using advanced VR… Continue Reading →
As we all know way too well, Marco Bernagozzi is celebrating the joy of coming back from a couple of weeks of leave as the research momentum for 2025
Alex McLoughlin is growing 3D organoids in the lab using tissue samples from cancer patients. These organoids are used as a model to study cancer cell growth, development and potential treatments.
Drug repurposing or repositioning is a strategy for finding new therapeutic uses for existing drugs. Drug repurposing is a promising approach for anticancer drug discovery and is currently being explored globally in the search for efficacious and safe cancer medicines…. Continue Reading →
Dear ECR Community, I hope in soaring temperatures you are able to find some shade and maybe a cool breeze in your labs, offices and libraries. Summer is a time to recharge and reflect, but can also be a time… Continue Reading →
Emma Ward troubleshoots a PCR (polymerase chain reaction) issue by checking whether the DNA primer has degraded, using gel electrophoresis which separates DNA fragments by size to see if the primer is intact or broken down.
Liver failure is a life-threatening condition that occurs when the liver can no longer carry out vital functions like protein production and detoxification. This leads to a dangerous build-up of substances such as ammonia and bilirubin, which can cause severe… Continue Reading →
