All Projects (1229)

Local Governance and Community Resilience: How Internal Drainage Boards (IDBs) and Communities Managed Flooding in England Nov 1, 2017 - Apr 30, 2022
This project examines forms of community flood risk management in the past in the form of IDBs and their precursors, to determine their viability as a model for future policy-making. It develops an approach that views flood as a social construction a... Read More about Local Governance and Community Resilience: How Internal Drainage Boards (IDBs) and Communities Managed Flooding in England.

Learning without borders (Thailand) Mar 1, 2017 - Aug 31, 2018
A workshop that will exploit the proven educational and social benefits of using mobile technologies in settings where access to learning is restricted. It includes fieldwork and the development of basic literacy and numeracy, promoting self-directed... Read More about Learning without borders (Thailand).

Sustainable Intensification of Rice Agriculture in Vulnerable Mega-Deltas: A Global Challenge’ May 1, 2017 - Apr 30, 2019
The world's major river deltas - hotspots of agricultural production that support rural livelihoods and feed much of the global population - are facing a major sustainability crisis. This is because they are under threat from being 'drowned' by risin... Read More about Sustainable Intensification of Rice Agriculture in Vulnerable Mega-Deltas: A Global Challenge’.

Tomorrows Books Today: (Vietnam) Apr 1, 2017 - Mar 31, 2019
The project will bring together teacher educators from the University of Hull and VNU, along with other external stakeholders (e.g. Danang University in Vietnam and VSO, Vietnam), to develop a set of exemplar hybrid digital textbooks and an accompany... Read More about Tomorrows Books Today: (Vietnam).

Daiwa Foundation Small Grant Jul 1, 2017 - Nov 17, 2017
This project promotes interactions between British and Japanese scholars who work on Thomas Hill Green’s British idealist philosophy, with the primary aim of deepening their understandings of Green’s importance in the history of modern Western philos... Read More about Daiwa Foundation Small Grant.

3D Analysis of Maxillofacial Growth Jul 1, 2017 - Aug 31, 2019
The goal of this study is to develop, test and validate three-dimensional analysis methodologies to quantify maxillofacial growth. The methodologies are expected to provide guidance and support to determine the nature and extent of hard-tissue mandib... Read More about 3D Analysis of Maxillofacial Growth.

Development of a next generation, highly efficient, low cost and building integrate-able solar PV/thermal system for building space heating, hot water and power supply Apr 1, 2017 - Jun 30, 2019
Through a close collaboration between the leading UK/Chinese universities and the top Chinese/UK companies, the proposed UK-China collaborative R&I project will develop a novel building integrate-able solar PV/T system for space heating, hot water an... Read More about Development of a next generation, highly efficient, low cost and building integrate-able solar PV/thermal system for building space heating, hot water and power supply.

Royal Society Travel Grant Mar 1, 2017 - Sep 30, 2022
With the development of the studies of biochemistry and molecular biology for biological phenomena in molecular level, protein structure analysis and protein drugs have been developed rapidly and applied widely. At the same time, the requirements of... Read More about Royal Society Travel Grant.

Esperion ETC 1002 Study Nov 1, 2016 - Mar 31, 2019

Survey for Scarborough BC Nov 1, 2016 - Jun 30, 2017
The project entails determining how common seabirds and shorebirds use the harbour area and beaches around the piers in Whitby during late autumn/winter. It is a survey commissioned by Scarborough BC, to be undertaken before any remedial works are c... Read More about Survey for Scarborough BC.

Prosperity Partnerships: EPSRC, Business and Universities Nov 1, 2017 - Mar 31, 2024
The opening of Siemens new £310m offshore wind (OSW) turbine blade factory in Hull is a milestone for the industry. It coincides with increased investment in operations and maintenance activities to service the increasing capacity of OSW farms, espec... Read More about Prosperity Partnerships: EPSRC, Business and Universities.

Crossing Over: New Narratives of Death Feb 1, 2017 - Jul 12, 2017
From 2012-2016 the multi-disciplinary AHRC Research Network "Crossing Over: New Narratives of Death" investigated the
changing face of contemporary death, bereavement and commemoration. The current project seeks to bring the network's
work to wider... Read More about Crossing Over: New Narratives of Death.

Patient acceptability to a novel prosthetic device: A randomised feasibility study in older patients with vascular-related amputations and multimorbidities Apr 1, 2018 - Jun 30, 2023
Background: Almost 6,000 people have a leg amputated in the UK annually. These are mostly patients over 50 years and usually with diabetes and/or blood vessel problems. Older patients are often prescribed standard ankle-foot prostheses, unlike those... Read More about Patient acceptability to a novel prosthetic device: A randomised feasibility study in older patients with vascular-related amputations and multimorbidities.

Assessing the health economics of two home-based exercise programmes in obese adults Jun 1, 2018 - Dec 31, 2021
Obesity is a public health concern of epidemic proportions, increasing in prevalence across most demographics and increasingly younger ages (Ng et al., 2014) and is a risk factor for a myriad of other psychosocial, physiological, and musculoskeletal... Read More about Assessing the health economics of two home-based exercise programmes in obese adults.

Conquest and the ‘Right to Hold’: Territorial Sovereignty and the American Revolution Oct 1, 2017 - Dec 31, 2018
Historians hold these truths to be self-evident: that the ideological origins of the American Revolution lie in arguments about political rights, which were conducted exclusively within English and European frameworks of political ideas. This project... Read More about Conquest and the ‘Right to Hold’: Territorial Sovereignty and the American Revolution.

PIONEER5: Efficacy and safety of oral semaglutide versus placebo in subjects with type 2 diabetes and moderate renal impairment Nov 1, 2016 - Oct 31, 2019
Primary objective:
To compare the effect of once-daily dosing of 14 mg oral semaglutide versus placebo, both in combination with metformin and/or sulfonylurea, basal insulin alone or metformin in combination with basal insulin on glycaemic control i... Read More about PIONEER5: Efficacy and safety of oral semaglutide versus placebo in subjects with type 2 diabetes and moderate renal impairment.

Victoria: A Randomized Parallel-Group, Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blind, Event-Driven, Multi-Centre Pivotal Phase III Clinical Outcome Trial of Efficacy and Safety of the Oral sGC Stimulator Vericiguat in Subjects With Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction (HFrEF) - VerlCiguaT Gloobal Study in Subjects With Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction Jan 11, 2017 - Jan 31, 2022
This is a randomized, placebo-controlled, parallel-group, multi-center, double-blind, event driven trial of MK-1242 (vericiguat) in subjects with heart failure with reduced ejection
fraction (HFrEF).
Approximately 4872 subjects will be randomized g... Read More about Victoria: A Randomized Parallel-Group, Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blind, Event-Driven, Multi-Centre Pivotal Phase III Clinical Outcome Trial of Efficacy and Safety of the Oral sGC Stimulator Vericiguat in Subjects With Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction (HFrEF) - VerlCiguaT Gloobal Study in Subjects With Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction.

Gender, Debt And Family Relations: The Temples Of Stowe Jul 17, 2017 - Sep 16, 2017

NE-IFCA bait-digging MSc. Jan 1, 2017 - Sep 30, 2018
North-East IFCA have applied for funding from Defra to investigate bait-digging pressure in the region. A one-year studentship with IECS supervision has been proposed.

Supporting Transition and Retention of newly registered nurses Jun 5, 2017 - Apr 2, 2021
The project has two main aims; (1) to establish the current state of the art in the UK for nurse retention and transition from student to registered nurse, and (2) to provide UK healthcare organisations, HEI’s and individual nurses with an evidence-b... Read More about Supporting Transition and Retention of newly registered nurses.