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Applied Sciences

The School of Applied Sciences invites applications in the following broad areas:

Natural Environment

The School of Applied Sciences brings together research scientists working across a broad and collaborative range of Natural Environment-based research projects. Please see individual supervisors’ interests in the links below. Projects in this area include, but are not limited to, those related to geology and geomorphology; glacial geomorphology; palaeolithic archaeology; human evolution; ecology and conservation; climate change; environmental governance; environmental microbiology; water quality; microplastics; coastal management; flood management; sedimentology; land-use management; plant-soil processes; sustainable waste management; sustainable development; biofuel production; systems biology and nature-based solutions.

Supervisors
Prof Martin Smith
Dr Laura Evenstar
Dr James Cole
Dr Neil Crooks
Dr Matthew Brolly
Dr Dipak Sarker
Dr Corina Ciocan
Dr Lorna Linch
Prof Rameen Shakur
Dr Marcus Dymond
Dr Rachel White
Dr Anja Rott
Dr Stuart Smith
Prof David Nash
Dr Maureen Berg
Dr Ian Cooper
Dr Heidi Burgess
Prof Rebecca Elmhirst
Dr Mary Gearey

Equality and Inclusivity

The School of Applied Sciences brings together research scientists working across a broad and collaborative range of Equality and Inclusivity-based research projects. Please see individual supervisors’ interests in the links below. Projects in this area include, but are not limited to, those related to embodied relationships with digital technologies and spaces; everyday and embodied LGBTQ+ experiences of inclusion politics, urban spaces and institutions; the relationship between masculinity and emotion, vulnerability and violence; feminist political ecology; social and environmental justice; decolonial thinking and critical approaches to sustainable development; and the gendered ecological politics of displacement, resettlement and dispossession in forest and flood contexts in Indonesia and Thailand.

Supervisors
Dr Carl Bonner-Thompson
Prof Rebecca Elmhirst

Emerging Technologies

The School of Applied Sciences brings together research scientists working across a broad and collaborative range of Emerging Technology-based research projects. Please see individual supervisors’ interests in the links below. Projects in this area include, but are not limited to, those related to emerging technologies in diabetes management; imaging of the musculoskeletal system; materials science and nanotechnology; environmental contaminant markers and bioanalytical monitoring; biomedical materials and tissue engineering; mathematical modelling and simulation of real-world events; genome editing technology; lipidomics; vaccine production; 3D printed biosensors; digital media for conservation promotion; targeted drug delivery technology; eye tracking technology; computational technology to understand controlled drug release; quorum sensing; infection prevention; cardiovascular devices; tissue regeneration; clinically-reflective models for the testing of biomaterials, drugs and tissue engineering constructs; and risk stratification tools to predict medicine related harm.

Supervisors
Dr Wendy Macfarlane
Dr Katherine Staines
Dr Dipak Sarker
Dr Corina Ciocan
Dr Carl Bonner-Thompson
Prof Bhavik Patel
Dr Susan Sandeman
Prof Rameen Shakur
Dr Marcus Dymond
Dr Rachel White
Dr Ananth Pannala
Dr Greg Scutt
Prof Peter Cragg
Dr Ian Cooper
Prof Matteo Santin
Prof Graham Davies
Dr Annamaria Gal
Dr Mary Gearey

Global Security

The School of Applied Sciences brings together research scientists working across a broad and collaborative range of Global Security-based research projects. Please see individual supervisors’ interests in the links below. Projects in this area include, but are not limited to, those related to environmental impacts of mining; hydrogeology and the behaviour of nutrient and heavy metals (rural and urban environments); environmental controls on material corrosion; fluvial sedimentology; tectonics geomorphology; fluvial landscape development in tectonically active regions; large scale uplift of mountain ranges; the impact of changing weather patterns on intertidal environments; environmental advocacy-activism around resource extraction; strategies for increasing lipid-based biofuel production; systems biology in health and disease; rare disease mechanisms of action; lipid-related projects investigating the mechanism of action of chemicals that target membranes e.g. alcohols, drug or other chemical toxins; antioxidant compounds that protect against oxidative stress for health, disease or food security applications; interactions between chemical nerve agents and cyclic compounds.

Supervisors
Prof Martin Smith
Dr Laura Evenstar
Prof Rameen Shakur
Dr Marcus Dymond
Prof Peter Cragg
Dr Heidi Burgess
Prof Rebecca Elmhirst

Health & Wellbeing

The School of Applied Sciences brings together research scientists working across a broad and collaborative range of Health & Wellbeing -based research projects. Please see individual supervisors’ interests in the links below. Projects in this area include, but are not limited to, those related to the prevention, diagnosis, intervention, management, control and potential cure of bowel and bladder diseases; a broad range of cancers; cardiovascular disease; Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes; lung conditions; kidney and liver disease; diseases of the central nervous system; cognitive decline; neurodegenerative diseases; microbe-induced diseases; zoonotic diseases; as well as projects relating to mental health and wellbeing, access to support networks and connections with nature; and a broad range of research projects focussed on healthy ageing and senescence.

Supervisors
Dr Wendy Macfarlane
Dr Mel Flint
Dr Katherine Staines
Dr Dipak Sarker
Dr Corina Ciocan
Dr Carl Bonner-Thompson
Prof Bhavik Patel
Dr Alison Lansley
Dr Susan Sandeman
Prof Rameen Shakur
Dr Marcus Dymond
Dr Rachel White
Dr Anja Rott
Dr Ananth Pannala
Dr Maureen Berg
Dr Nicolas Stewart
Dr Greg Scutt
Prof Peter Cragg
Dr Ian Cooper
Prof Matteo Santin
Dr Heidi Burgess
Prof Rebecca Elmhirst
Prof Graham Davies
Prof Richard Faragher
Dr Annamaria Gal
Dr Mary Gearey

See also: Health studentships in the School of Sport and Health Sciences

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