Institution as Praxis

Institution as Praxis is a research project initiated by Carolina Rito that examines new modes of knowledge production and research in the field of visual culture, art, and the curatorial.


Remanufacturing Pathways (REMANPATH)

Remanufacturing Pathways, helps small manufactures to grow their business, taking back the products and remanufacture them.


3D Printed Cooling channels for extended tooling life

The objective of the project is to develop a full thermal and optimization model to design cooling channels in a direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) steel tool for high pressure aluminium die-casting (HPADC).


Transition state analysis to guide drug discovery

Professor Mark Wheatley and collaborators from Aston University, Dr John Simms and Professor David Poyner, have been awarded a grant of £177,497 from the BBSRC Follow-on Fund to develop new technology that will potentially revolutionise the drug discovery process.


Clinical Academic Research Development (CARD)

The main focus of CARD is to support allied health professionals working in the NHS undertake translational research, particularly in the field of nursing.


Collaborative Working for the Sustainable Management of Natural Resources in Wales

This PhD project investigates the ways in which collaborative practices of natural resource planning, management and ownership are currently being pursued in Wales and with what effect.


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.


True - TRansition paths to sUstainable legume based systems in Europe

True project aims to identify the best routes, or “transition paths” to increase sustainable legume cultivation and consumption across Europe.


On Gesture

Opening research avenues around the topic of gesture and gesturality, in order to explore their role in the emerging postdigital landscape.


Religious Health Interventions in Behavioural Sciences (RHIBS)

Investigators aim to create a foundational, shared language for researchers and practitioners to rigorously develop and evaluate religiously integrated health interventions.


PostUraL tachycardia Syndrome Exercise (PulSE) study

A lifestyle intervention designed by people with POTS, for people with POTS.


ATTER Agroecological Transitions for Territorial Food Systems

The ATTER project develops an interdisciplinary and multi-sectoral exchange program for scaling up agroecological transitions for territorial food systems.


Design and evaluation of peat-free blocking media

The production of field vegetables and salad crops is highly dependent on transplanted seedlings that are grown in media often containing peat.


Uncovering the legacy of Black British Social Workers: Between the personal, the professional and the political

This project collects oral histories of Black Social Workers in Britain to uncover the history of racialised identities and inequalities in the children’s care system in Britain.


Austerity Retail in Britain

This project from the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) aims to critically examine the emergence of what we call ‘austerity retail’ initiatives amidst rising food poverty in Britain. These include ‘social supermarkets’ and other forms of ‘community shop’ offering highly discounted products, and often making use of ‘surplus’ or ‘rejected’ foods which would otherwise be thrown away. 


Urban Village: The Roma's Allotment Project

Urban Villages aims to bring together Roma and non-Roma to co-create a short film, images and a digital scrapbook exhibition that focuses on the experiences, identity and voices of the Roma people told by the Roma people.


Healing Bat

The Centre for E-Mobility Research (CECG) is one of 10 organisations from six European countries to have joined forces and secured the significant funding under the umbrella of the Horizon Europe Programme. 


Multidisciplinary Evaluation of Sexual Assault Referral Centres for better Health (MESARCH)

A groundbreaking long-term prospective study into the health and wellbeing of survivors of sexual assault, rape and abuse. It will be the UK’s most comprehensive evaluation of Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs) to date.


Support to Traditional Cultural Practices in Northern Iraq

This project foregrounds the linkages between cultural meaning and agricultural landscapes to examine the compounded social, cultural, agricultural, and economic effects of the IS occupation on ethnic and religious minority communities in Northern Iraq.


Reducing plastic and packaging and waste in the flower industry

This project supports collaborative work between academic researchers, industry bodies and UK-based cut-flower firms to tackle these problems resulting in reductions in usage of plastics and packaging and better management of waste products.