(ELC) Engineering Lecture Corpus

The Engineering Lecture Corpus (ELC) is a growing collection of transcripts of English-medium engineering lectures from around the world. Corpus development has been assisted by a British Council PMI2 Research Cooperation grant.


Early Cancer Detection Consortium

Early Cancer Detection Consortium - Systematic Reviews to Underpin the Development of a Generic Blood Test for Cancer 


Excluded Voices: Democratising Agricultural Research

The aim of the Excluded Voices project is to identify and support processes that can help democratise the governance of food and agricultural research. The project combines participatory methodologies and institutional innovations to make excluded voices count in food and agricultural policy-making. 


EFFECT

The EFFECT project will provide EU policy-makers with a definitive body of knowledge concerning the nature, extent and impact of gun enabled crime (gec), the effectiveness of interventions aimed at combating gec and the cross-border sharing of ballistic intelligence.


The Neurostimulation of Belief

The aim of this project is to examine the cognitive and neural mechanisms that underlie beliefs in the supernatural using non-invasive brain stimulation.


Evaluating Extra Curricular Reading Groups

Professor Clare Wood's project investigating approaches to improving reading for pleasure and reading comprehension in year 7 Chatter Books.


DanceMap: Innovation Pathways and Policies to Promote European Dance Heritage at Home and Abroad

DanceMap is a pioneering heritage initiative funded by Horizon Europe, the European Union’s funding programme for research and innovation.


The transformative power of electric mobility technology in Kenya: Understanding and empowering women entrepreneurs

Electric mobility technology is one transformative technology not only for its environmental but also socio-economic effects on individuals and the society in low-income countries (LICs). 


Development of a Roadmap for Scaling-up Use of Solar Energy for Climate Resilient Water Supply Systems in Rwanda

Given Rwanda’s hilly topography, water supply systems require significant pumping to move water from valleys to hilltops. This leads to high electricity and diesel costs, and in many remote areas, intermittent power supply causes frequent water shortages. Consequently, water provision is often expensive and unreliable.


Youth for a Peaceful Society

The overall aim of the project is to reduce and prevent violence and crime among Palestinian youth in Israel. The project focus on two Arab schools in the city of Umm al-Fahim in Israel through a comprehensive preventative programme that aims to intervene at the individual, school, and community levels of youth engagement. Youth are the most affected group by violence, whether as victims or perpetrators.


Securing UK Subsea Infrastructure: Information-sharing in times of crisis

This project explores the importance of, and barriers to, multi-actor crisis information sharing in UK subsea infrastructure security, developing a prototype crisis information sharing framework in times of significant stress.


Heritage crops for a resilient future

This project supports Sowing Your Seeds by working with Garden Organic to co-create a bespoke process for capturing, evaluating and evidencing outcomes. The evaluation process is embedded within the wide-ranging activities of Sowing Your Seeds.


SCALE-it: upSCALing Efficient alternatives for contentious InpuTs in organic farming

SCALE-it is working to increase the availability, accessibility and adoption of cost-effective alternatives to contentious inputs in organic farming.


Exploring underutilised high-protein crops for small-scale growers and gardeners

Food systems contribute one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions, prompting urgent calls for a radical transformation of diets to include a greater proportion of plant proteins.


Politics of Otherness in Contemporary Concert Dance: (In)visibilities on Stage and the White Gaze

This research addresses the experience of Otherness in Swiss contemporary concert dance, exploring the mechanisms of Othering/exclusion.


TASHREE ” تشريع”: Towards Advancing and Securing Higher education legislation for the Representation of females in Executive leadership in Egypt

The TASHREE project, which translates to "proposing legislation" in Arabic, is a transformative initiative designed to build on the foundational successes of its predecessors: TAMKEEN (empowering) and TASHBEEK (networking).


Strengthening Academic Writing and Publishing Skills for ECRs in Madagascar: Researching the Environment, Peace and Conflict

This two-year programme builds on existing research networks around peacebuilding, conflict transformation, gender, environment, climate change, and sustainability. It draws on expertise from Madagascar, Europe and the UK.


Next Generation Research SuperVision Project (RSVP)

The Next Generation Research SuperVision Project (RSVP) is a £4.6million, Research England funded project designed to transform the culture and practice of research supervision. 


Transcending Borders – Strengthening Coordination, Detection and Management of Migration-Related Transnational Organised Maritime Crime in Indonesia

This research seeks to better understand how the pluralism of threats and actors within the maritime security landscape interact between then and manifest themselves primarily as ‘smuggling and trafficking of persons’ in Indonesia.


BRAID: Responsible use of AI in the creation, archiving, reactivation and conservation of artworks and their archives

This project is part of the new BRAID programme, which generates key new knowledge on responsible innovation and creativity when AI is used to create, document, reactivate and conserve artworks and their archives.