All Projects (1372)

Integrated Application of Renewable Energy and Phase Change Energy Storage Apr 1, 2018 - Jan 31, 2019

Going to Chancery: Gender, Family and Law in England, 1550-1750 Feb 1, 2019 - May 31, 2022
'Going to Chancery' will lead to a completely new cultural history of the early-modern equity court of Chancery. The project offers a revised interpretation of the organization of family finances and emotional exchange. The research will form a colla... Read More about Going to Chancery: Gender, Family and Law in England, 1550-1750.

Advanced Carbon and Energy Management and Eco-design Platform for Urban Districts Sep 1, 2018 - Feb 28, 2021

'Invalids', Disability and the Modern Prison May 1, 2018 - Jan 31, 2021
The contemporary prison system has been forced to respond in a more systematic manner to the needs of disabled prisoners due the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and the subsequent Equalities Act 2010, as a group with 'protected characteristics'. T... Read More about 'Invalids', Disability and the Modern Prison.

Assessment of the Functional Development of a Habitat Offset Site on the Humber (PHS) Oct 1, 2008 - Dec 31, 2017
The Paull Holme Strays managed realignment site was created in September, 2003 with the aim of providing 80 ha of new intertidal habitat (Environment Agency, 2005). Since 2003, the site has been subjected to monitoring, designed to determine the rate... Read More about Assessment of the Functional Development of a Habitat Offset Site on the Humber (PHS).

Newton Advanced Fellowship 2016 Oct 1, 2017 - Jun 12, 2022
Ageing populations are putting pressure on the Malaysian eldercare sector as carers are at risk of being pushed out of work due to stress, physical strain or health problems. “Light-touch” healthcare interventions can benefit both carers (by avoiding... Read More about Newton Advanced Fellowship 2016.

Cooperative effects in heterogeneous catalysis Mar 31, 2018 - Mar 30, 2020

Sustainable and industrially scalable ultrasonic liquid phase exfoliation technologies for manufacturing 2D advanced functional materials Oct 1, 2018 - Dec 31, 2022
This project will clarify and establish the fundamental mechanisms of ultrasonic cavitation and streaming in the exfoliation of graphene and other 2D materials at the nanoscale. The outcomes will be the guidelines, protocols, and optimised parameters... Read More about Sustainable and industrially scalable ultrasonic liquid phase exfoliation technologies for manufacturing 2D advanced functional materials.

2017/2018 Waterbird use of Welwick Realignment Site (Humber Estuary) Sep 1, 2017 - May 31, 2018
This project is a continuation of previous monitoring programmes carried out at the APB welwick realignment site (Humber Estuary) on the behalf of ABPmer. The project primarily entailed a series of surveys of waterbirds on the re-created intertidal a... Read More about 2017/2018 Waterbird use of Welwick Realignment Site (Humber Estuary).

Carbon Trust TLM Jan 1, 2018 - Dec 31, 2019
Array Cable Through Life Monitoring is a joint industry-academia project supported by the Carbon Trust. Project Parteners are JDR Cables, University of Hull, Heriott Watt University, the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult and Xero Energy. The project... Read More about Carbon Trust TLM.

Co-Ordinating and Pump-priming International efforts for direct monitoring of active turbidity currents at global "test sites" Jun 1, 2015 - Apr 30, 2019
Turbidity currents are the volumetrically most import process for sediment transport on our planet. A single submarine flow can transport ten times the annual sediment flux from all of the world's rivers, and they form the largest sediment accumulati... Read More about Co-Ordinating and Pump-priming International efforts for direct monitoring of active turbidity currents at global "test sites".

Evaluation of the potential of UAV mounted Imaging FTIR Spectroscopy for Enhanced Detection of Yellow Rust Infection in Winter Wheat Crops in China Jan 1, 2018 - Mar 31, 2020
Yellow rust disease caused by the fungus Puccina striiformis has a severe impact on the production of winter wheat worldwide. The epidemic of yellow rust may result in extremely severe yield loss and deterioration in grain quality. The potential of u... Read More about Evaluation of the potential of UAV mounted Imaging FTIR Spectroscopy for Enhanced Detection of Yellow Rust Infection in Winter Wheat Crops in China.

New field-scale calibration for turbidity current impact modelling Sep 1, 2017 - Oct 31, 2017
Subsea infrastructure networks underpin our daily lives, providing critical global communication links and supporting our demand for energy supplies. These strategically important networks are vulnerable to fast-moving seafloor flows of sediment, kno... Read More about New field-scale calibration for turbidity current impact modelling.

Gendering the commons Jan 1, 2019 - Sep 30, 2022
Interest in the politics of land and property has undergone a recent resurgence with commons celebrated as models for sustainable living and a politics of inclusion. Yet whilst scholars recognise that commons were never public spaces open to all, the... Read More about Gendering the commons.

Co-producing knowledge in transdisciplinary research – From practice to theory Nov 1, 2017 - Dec 31, 2018
Funding for conference travel to the Mistra Urban Futures conference

BATCH: Biomarker-guided duration of Antibiotic Treatment in Children Hospitalised with confirmed or suspected bacterial infection Sep 1, 2017 - Feb 28, 2022

PUMA: Paediatric early warning system (PEWS): Utilisation and Mortality Avoidance. A prospective, mixed methods, before and after study identifying the evidence base for the core components of an effective PEWS and the development of an implementation package for implementation and use in the UK Oct 1, 2017 - Oct 31, 2018
In 2011 a research study compared the child health outcomes and death rate in the UK with other European countries. It was worrying that UK measures of child health were amongst the worst in Europe. It is not clear why that is and further work needs... Read More about PUMA: Paediatric early warning system (PEWS): Utilisation and Mortality Avoidance. A prospective, mixed methods, before and after study identifying the evidence base for the core components of an effective PEWS and the development of an implementation package for implementation and use in the UK.

EC-Asia Research Network on Integration of Global and Local Agri-Food Supply Chains Towards Sustainable Food Security Jan 1, 2018 - Oct 31, 2023
The proposed research will bring together researchers from a number of disciplines to address a global challenge in achieving sustainability and resilience of agri-food supply chains. The research targets solutions to the challenge related to a food... Read More about EC-Asia Research Network on Integration of Global and Local Agri-Food Supply Chains Towards Sustainable Food Security.

Investigation of habitat suitability for estuarine wading birds using high-resolution tracking Nov 1, 2017 - May 31, 2022
The BTO’s Curlew Appeal aims to identify the pressures facing this rapidly declining species as a necessary first step to introducing potential conservation interventions. As part of this work, we would like to understand better how wintering birds m... Read More about Investigation of habitat suitability for estuarine wading birds using high-resolution tracking.

Newton STFC-NARIT: Thai-UK Python+Astronomy Summer Schools (ThaiPASS): A STEM outreach project on Python with applications to data-driven astronomy Feb 1, 2018 - Aug 31, 2019
Project ThaiPASS (Thai-UK Python+Astronomy Summer School) is a human-capacity building STEM outreach project proposed jointly by the E.A. Milne Centre for Astrophysics (University of Hull, UK) and the Institute of Fundamental Study (Naresuan Universi... Read More about Newton STFC-NARIT: Thai-UK Python+Astronomy Summer Schools (ThaiPASS): A STEM outreach project on Python with applications to data-driven astronomy.