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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.
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 →
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.
Angela Gurney is looking at a summer concentrating on refocusing her research. Making the most of the opportunity to be out of the office, with a note book, taking inspiration from nature as she works on some research proposals potentially… Continue Reading →
Avick Sinha is making medicine in space possible – in form of a pocket-sized “lab-on-a-chip”. Inside its hair-thin channels, two liquids meet and break the mixture into perfectly even droplets. The droplets are then turned into tiny, shelf-stable beads that… Continue Reading →
Warren Stuart, Veena Raigangar and Michelle Tant are working through stage one of a research project on death anxiety amongst nursing and allied health students and enjoy their lit review work over the summer.
As the campus quietens down and the summer sun rolls in, research at the University of Brighton is just heating up! Whether you’re deep in the lab, presenting at a conference, or out in the field, we know exciting things… Continue Reading →
The Peer Review section of the AHRC website contains useful information and resources which ECRs will find valuable in learning how to develop their research, and their professional profile, both within the academy and beyond.
