All Projects (147)

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’.

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.

How do deep-ocean turbidity currents behave that form the largest sediment accumulations on Earth? Apr 1, 2019 - Sep 30, 2025
Seafloor flows called turbidity currents form the largest sediment accumulations on Earth (submarine fans). They flushglobally significant amounts of sediment, organic carbon, nutrients and fresher-water into the deep ocean, and affect itsoxygen leve... Read More about How do deep-ocean turbidity currents behave that form the largest sediment accumulations on Earth?.

Understanding floods from catchment to coast Jan 1, 2017 - Dec 31, 2017
Runner-Up Award as part of the favourite exhibit at Into the Blue held in Manchester 2016

Low Energy Dew Point Cooling for Computing Data Centres Jan 1, 2017 - Oct 31, 2022
Cooling systems for Computing & Data Centres consume 30% to 40% of energy delivered into the centre spaces, while electricity use in CDCs represents 1.3% of the world total energy consumption. The traditional vapour compression cooling systems for CD... Read More about Low Energy Dew Point Cooling for Computing Data Centres.

Morphodynamic Stickiness: the influence of physical and biological cohesion in sedimentary systems May 1, 2017 - Jan 31, 2023
Our coasts, estuaries, & low-land river environments are some of the most sensitive systems to sea-level rise & environmental change. In order to manage these systems, & adapt to future changes, we desperately need to be able to predict how they will... Read More about Morphodynamic Stickiness: the influence of physical and biological cohesion in sedimentary systems.

Project Aura: Visiting Appointments and Post-Graduate Placements Jan 11, 2017 - Mar 31, 2019
Project Aura: Visiting Appointments and Post-Graduate Placements

Green Port Growth Programme funding, matched by University and other public/private funds, to engage internationally leading experts in offshore wind to bring their knowl... Read More about Project Aura: Visiting Appointments and Post-Graduate Placements.

Energy from Waste and Biomass Dec 1, 2016 - Dec 31, 2024

Innovative Building Renewable Energy and Latent Heat Thermal Energy Storage Technologies Apr 1, 2017 - Jan 31, 2018
The workshop will address a few innovative building renewable energy and thermal storage technologies, namely (1) characterization and optimisation of novel PCM heat storage systems, (2) characterisation and optimisation of solar PV/T systems, and (3... Read More about Innovative Building Renewable Energy and Latent Heat Thermal Energy Storage Technologies.

A novel Hybrid Photovoltaic-Thermoelectric Power Generation System Employing the Flat-plate Micro-channel Heat Pipe Oct 1, 2017 - Sep 30, 2019
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship 745614

A Passive, Zero-Carbon Data Centre Heat Removal and Recovery System Employing a Novel Micro-Channel Loop Heat Pipe Heat Exchanger Oct 1, 2017 - Sep 30, 2019

The resilience and sustainability of the Mekong delta to changes in water and sediment fluxes Jun 15, 2017 - Dec 14, 2019
The Mekong Delta is home to ~18M inhabitants and its ecosystem services provide >50% of the food (primarily rice and fish) and ~28% of the GDP for Vietnam’s ~92M people. Moreover, this productivity underpins food security across SE Asia, with Vietnam... Read More about The resilience and sustainability of the Mekong delta to changes in water and sediment fluxes.

Hubert Nicholson: Lost and Found Jun 1, 2017 - Mar 31, 2020
A guided walk around the area associated with Hubert Nicholson’s East Coast novel Sunk Island (1956) focusing on specific geographical features and including readings from the novel, followed by a ‘Yorkshire Tea’ in Holy Trinity Church and a rehears... Read More about Hubert Nicholson: Lost and Found.

Combination Hazard of Extreme rainfall, storm Surge & high Tide on estuarine infrastructure Nov 1, 2017 - Aug 31, 2018
UK estuaries are at risk from combination flooding. Sea-level rise and predicted changes to UK storm patterns (affecting both surge and river flows) will alter the joint probability of multiple hazard events, making previous understanding of risk, an... Read More about Combination Hazard of Extreme rainfall, storm Surge & high Tide on estuarine infrastructure.

Identifying sediment transport pathways to assess the response of delta formation to changes in fluvial inputs. Feb 28, 2018 - Nov 27, 2020
My research focuses on understanding the controls and processes which transfer sediment and water through fluvial systems. I have approached this through a combination of both high-resolution process observation and numerical modelling. My research h... Read More about Identifying sediment transport pathways to assess the response of delta formation to changes in fluvial inputs..

Deciphering the dominant drivers of contemporary relative sea-level change: Analysing sediment deposition and subsidence in a vulnerable mega-delta Jan 2, 2017 - Jun 30, 2018
The overall aim of this project to establish an international collaboration (between Southampton, Hull, Utrecht, Potsdam and Can Tho) that draws together interdisciplinary expertise pertaining to the estimation of: (i) fluvial sediment loads supplied... Read More about Deciphering the dominant drivers of contemporary relative sea-level change: Analysing sediment deposition and subsidence in a vulnerable mega-delta.

Experiencing the landscape: popular geographical imaginations in the English Midlands, 1450-1650 Sep 1, 2014 - Aug 31, 2017
This project explores popular geographical imaginations, asking how ordinary people in medieval and early modern England thought about, experienced and themselves sought to shape the world around them. Drawing on recent work in cultural geography, ar... Read More about Experiencing the landscape: popular geographical imaginations in the English Midlands, 1450-1650.

E2VENT (H2020 LEIT) Jan 1, 2015 - Dec 31, 2018
EVENT will develop, demonstrate and validate a cost effective, high energy efficient, low CO2 emissions, replicable, low intrusive, systemic approach for retrofitting of residential and commercial buildings, able to achieve NZEB retrofit standard lev... Read More about E2VENT (H2020 LEIT).

First detailed synchronous sediment-concentration and velocity data for submarine turbidity currents Apr 1, 2014 - May 8, 2018
Submarine sediment density flows ("turbidity currents") and rivers on land are volumetrically the most important processesfor moving sediment across our planet. However, submarine flows are more episodic and are typically more violent (withspeeds of... Read More about First detailed synchronous sediment-concentration and velocity data for submarine turbidity currents.

Modelling how sediment suspension controls the morphology and evolution of sand-bed rivers Jun 1, 2014 - Dec 31, 2017
Sand-bed rivers dominate the drainage of the Earth's surface. For example, the world's 10 largest rivers, that drain almost 20% of global continental land & deliver 33% of the terrestrial sediment supplied to the oceans, are all sand-bed channels. Ma... Read More about Modelling how sediment suspension controls the morphology and evolution of sand-bed rivers.