Story Choices

All Early Years settings know about the value of storybooks to their day-to-day practice, and most already use some of the principles of interactive book reading. This project will investigate how much planning these storybook activities makes a difference to outcomes.


Exploring ‘Disfluency Pride’ across Contexts and Communities

This project is looking at ways to creatively explore marginalised communication styles with communicators who may be considered dysfluent by dominant Western societal norms.


Dance Educator’s Network - Critical Dance Pedagogy Network through Discourse and Practice

The AHRC-funded Dance Educator’s Critical Dance Pedagogy Network challenges biases in dance education.


Data Literacy for Citizenship (DaLI)

The pervasive presence of data in the daily lives of European citizens underscores the necessity of acquiring the skills to adeptly navigate this emerging data-centric society.


Developing a Needs Assessment Plan for Self-Management of Adult ADHD

New research and awareness of ADHD symptoms outside of the socially recognised ‘physical hyperactivity’ presentations of the condition, has led to adults being ‘missed’ in childhood or misdiagnosed with anxiety and depression throughout life.


Veiled Cities – Haunted Urban Realities in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

This project on ‘Veiled Cities – Haunted Urban Realities’ is addressed to art, cultural and memory historians of urban spaces between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as well as of the art, literature, music that solemnized the city.


Polish Émigrés in London

The project seeks to establish the ways in which Polish émigrés contributed to debates concerning empire and how race and racial identity shaped engagement with discussions of imperial issues.


Gothic Modern, 1870s-1920s — From Munch to Kollwitz

Gothic Modern, 1870s-1920s is the first in-depth study to explore the pivotal importance of late medieval Gothic art for the artistic modernisms of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries.


'Strictly' Inclusive: Policy Brief

This project expands on the outcomes of the ‘Strictly’ Inclusive: Co-creating the Past, Present and Future project.


Consent, Coercive Control and Technologically-facilitated abuse: Co-building policy and digital toolkits for the elimination on digital violence against women and girls

This project has produced a digital toolkit co-design, built to enhance digital literacy and influence public pedagogy and policy around consent and coercive control in gender-based technology-facilitated abuse.


Frugal Artist-in-Residence Programme for Playful and Co-Creative Community Engagement in Environmental Awareness and Impact (FAiR)

FAiR will promote environmental awareness and practice in coastal fishing communities in Malaysia, utilising community-centred playful art-based approaches to embed scientific research in environmental conservation.


‘Procurement for Good’ - Place-based approaches to sustainable food supply chains: scaling socio-technical innovations as enablers for enhancing public sector food procurement

To critically evaluate the conditions in which place-based public food procurement networks, utilising open-source socio-technical innovations can scale to deliver the transformative changes needed for socially just transitions in food systems.


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.


Evaluating peat-free propagation media suitable for production of high-quality ornamental transplants

The project aims to fill the scientific knowledge gap in peat-free plant production in ornamental horticulture. 


In-Situ Mobile Application for the Triage of Pedestrians in Vehicle Collision (Sentinel)

In the UK, in 2022, 376 pedestrians were killed and 19318 were injured, highlighting the important societal impact and a notable economical loss of £2.2M per death and £261,498 for each seriously injured victim. 


AFCAD (Advanced Fuel Cells for Aviation Decarbonisation)

The AFCAD (Advanced Fuel Cells for Aviation Decarbonisation) Project will bring zero-emission, hydrogen-electric propulsion to large, 2-5MW aircraft applications


Modular laser sources for sustainable production of short personalized production series (WAVETAILOR)

WAVETAILOR focuses on two industrial scenarios related to the complex multi-material component and assembly. 


TASHBEEK

EsTAbliSHing female academic networks: a pathway for Better addressing and managing womEn undEr-representation in senior leadership ranKs in Egyptian universities (TASHBEEK, تشبيك )


Nexeon Faraday Challenge R5: NewBATSEED- New Biomass Anode Technology and Silicon Electrodes with high Energy Density

The New BATSEED (New Biomass Anode Technology and Silicon Electrodes with High Energy Density) project supports two innovative development strands for the next generation of automotive EV battery cells and anode materials, delivering a significant boost in energy density.