Research projects

The expertise of our staff is recognised by a wide range of external funders. Following you will find details of some of the research projects in our Schools.

School of Arts

• Department of English and Humanities
• The Perpendicular Imaginary in the Later Middle Ages (Funded by the Leverhulme Trust)
• Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire
• The Nyangwe Diary of David Livingstone: Restoring the Text (Funded by the British Academy)
• Egypt in London, A Cultural History 1821-1924
• Voiceworks Digital Song / Text Project
• Department of History of Art and Screen Media
• The Corporeal Territories of War: Representing Disfigurement and Death in World War One Britain (Funded by the Wellcome Trust)
• Managing Heritage, Building Peace (Funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council)
• Political and Sexual Deviance and Images of Martyrdom in Modern Britain (Funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council)
• Terrorist transgressions: network on gendered representations of the terrorist (Funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council)
• Department of Media and Cultural Studies
• Knowledge Transfer Partnership: A New Direction (Funded by the Technology Strategy Board & A New Direction London Ltd)
• The Development of Japanese Studies in the UK (Funded by the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation)
• Department of Iberian and Latin American Studies
• Entranced earth: modernity and the landscape in Latin America (Funded by the British Academy)
• The 'Andean' in Argentina (Funded by the British Academy)
• Weaving communities of practice. Textiles, culture and identity in the Andes: a semiotic and ontological approach (Funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council)

School of Business, Economics and Informatics

• Department of Computer Science and Information Systems
• A Learning Design Support Environment (LDSE) for Teachers and Lecturer (Funded by the Economic & Social Research Council)
• Intelligent Support for Mathematical Generalisation (Funded by the Economic & Social Research Council)
• CASAGRAS2: Coordination and Support Action for Global RFID-related Activities and Standardisation-2 (Funded by the European Union)
• Geo-Sci: a teacher-based geo-spatial application for orchestrating scientific fieldwork activity (Funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee - JISC)
• ExODA: Integrating Description Logics and Database Technologies for Expressive Ontology-Based Data Access (Funded by the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council
• Department of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics
• Producing Robust Density Forecast: applications to monetary policy (Funded by the Economic & Social Research Council)
• Department of Management
• Integrated model for the management of the complexity, risk and resilience of secure information infrastructure (Funded by the Technology Strategy Board)
• Heuristic Creative Decision-Making (Funded by the British Academy)
• Department of Organizational Psychology
• Vulnerable Selves, Disciplining Others: new approaches to bullying and conflict at work (Funded by the Economic & Social Research Council)

School of Law

• Between Cosmopolitanism and Empire (Funded by the Leverhulme Trust)
• An evaluation of the development and impact of one-stop shops for women diverted from the criminal justice system (Funded by the Nuffield Foundation)
• The public's experiences of court (Funded by the Economic & Social Research Council)
• Copyrighting Creativity: Creative Values, Cultural Heritage Institutions and Systems of Intellectual Property. CULTIVATE (Funded by the HERA, Humanities in the European Research Area)
• Writing Will / dealing with intestacy: gay and lesbian perspectives (Funded by the Socio-Legal Studies Association)

School of Science

• Department of Biological Sciences
• 4(1H)-Quniolones as new antimycobacterial drug lead (Funded by the Der Wissenschaftsfonds (FWF))
• A hybrid approach to revealing intermediate structures of Herpes Simplex infection (Funded by the International Human Frontier Science Program)
• A new look at an essential mitotic motor for novel routes to cancer therapies (Funded by the Association for International Cancer Research)
• A Structural Investigation of Dephosphorylation in an Hsp90 Regulatory Complex (Funded by the Medical Research Council)
• Assembly and Interactions of Human Small Heat Shock Proteins (Funded by the Medical Research Council)
• ATP-dependent Mur ligases in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: search for potential therapeutic targets against Tuberculosis (Funded by the Medical Research Council)
• B2 microglobulin amyloid: Native-like assembly or conformational conversion? (Funded by the Wellcome Trust)
• Cellular Microbiology of Chlamydia Infection (Funded by the Royal Society)
• Collaborative Sino-UK synchrotron radiation circular dichroism spectroscopy studies and international SRCD workshop (Funded by the Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council)
• CRT Drug Development (Funded by the Cancer Research Technology Ltd)
• Cryo-electron microscopy equpment for structure determination of macromolecular and cellular assemblies (Funded by the Wellcome Trust)
• Crystal structure analysis of a voltage-gated sodium channel (Funded by the Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council)
• Developing Oriented Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy as a Methodological Tool for Characterising Membrane Proteins (Funded by the Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council)
• Developing Synchrotron Radiation Circular Dichroism (SRCD) Spectroscopy Methods and Applications for Structural Biology (Funded by the Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council)
• Elucidating the on-off switch for an essential mitotic motor (Funded by the Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council)
• Exploiting a new antibiotic treatment to study Chlamydia-host interactions (Funded by the Royal Society)
• Highthroughput, conformational mimic, peptide array analysis of inhibitor specificity in haemophilia A (Funded by the Bayer USA)
• Insights into pore-formation from studies of Clostridium perfringens Epsilon-toxin (Funded by the Wellcome Trust)
• Investigating the molecular mechanisms underlying ks-vFLIP and endogenous activation of the NF-kB pathway (Funded by the Medical Research Council)
• Kinesin motor proteins in malaria (Funded by the Wellcome Trust)
• Male Factor Infertility: Effects of Chlamydial Urethritis on Semen Quality (Funded by the Infertility Research Trust)
• Mechanisms of membrane pore formation (Funded by the Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council)
• MEMORI: Measurement, Effect Assessment & Mitigation of Pollutant Impact on Movable Cultural Assets - Innovation Research for Market Transfer (Funded by the European Union)
• Open Access Publishing Costs Awards, 3 (Funded by the Wellcome Trust)
• Parallel electrophysiological characterization of sodium channels (Funded by the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council)
• Peptide partitioning: Experimental measurement of the direct partitioning of peptides into lipid bilayers (Funded by the European Union)
• Protein quality control: Chaperone substrate interactions and cellular aggregates (Funded by the Wellcome Trust)
• Protein quality control: Chaperone substrate interactions and cellular aggregates (Funded by the Wellcome Trust)
• P-usher: Structural analysis of the newly described hybrid secretion system of the pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa involving the outer membrane transporter CupB3 (P-usher) and the adhesion CupB5 (Funded by the European Union)
• Quality control of gene expression - RNA surveillance (Funded by the Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council)
• Self-assembled nanoparticles as green chemistry catalysers (Funded by the British Council)
• Structural basis of SPP1 bacteriophage infectivity (Funded by the Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council)
• Structural biology of bacterial type IV secretion (Funded by the Wellcome Trust)
• Structural characterisation of macromolecular assemblies at the atomic level (Funded by the Medical Research Council)
• Structural studies of pilus biogenesis and bacterial adhesion (Funded by the Medical Research Council)
• Structure of Proteins Involved in Bacterial pathogensis (Funded by the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases)
• Subversion of mammalian host cell function by chlamydia (Funded by the Royal Society)
• Support for the Protein Circular Dichroism Bank and the Dichroweb Analysis Server (Funded by the Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council)
• The Gas-Gangrene Causing Alpha-Toxin (Funded by the Medical Research Council & Ministry of Defence (DERA))
• Tuberculosis drug discovery-UK (TBD-UK) (Funded by the Medical Research Council)
• Unravelling the molecular basis of subunit specificity in bacterial pilus assembly mechanisms (Funded by the Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council)
• Value in people Award, 3 (Funded by the Wellcome Trust)
• Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
• Astrobiological studies of volcano-ice interactions on Earth and Mars (Funded by the Leverhulme Trust)
• Development of Chronology of High Magnitude Storm Events and Sea Level Rise for NW Wales (Funded by the Countryside Council for Wales)
• Dust storms and Chinese loess sources over the last 22 million years (Funded by the Natural Environment Research Council)
• Hominins, Climate Change and Thermoregulation (Funded by the Leakey Foundation, USA)
• Igneous and metamorphic petrology and high temperature geochemistry (Funded by the Royal Society)
• Testing Theoretical Models for Earthquake Clustering using CI-36 Cosmogenic Exposure Dating of Active Normal Faults in Central Italy (Funded by the Natural Environment Research Council)
• The environmental and chronological context of the Taung Child, South Africa (Funded by the National Geographic Society, USA)
• Department of Psychological Sciences
• An investigation into the role of genetic variants on attention in infancy (Funded by the Royal Society)
• Baby Siblings at risk for Autism Research Network (Funded by Autistica, Autism Speaks)
• Bridging the gap between lab measures and biomarkers (Funded by the Leverhulme Trust)
• British Autism Study of Infant Siblings (BASIS) (Funded by Autism Speaks)
• Data Analysis and Dissemination of the Families, Children and Child Care (FCCC) Study (Funded by the Tedworth Charitable Trust and  Glass-House Trust)
• Differential Susceptibilty to School-based Resilience-Promotion Intervention (Funded by the British Academy)
• Extension of the Effective Pre-School and Primary Education (EPPE) Project to End of Key Stage 3 (KS3) (Funded by the Department for Education & Skills)
• Finding the signal in the noise (Funded by British Academy)
• Grounding Early Time Perception in Infant Motor Activity (Funded by Economic & Social Research Council)
• Group-Based Care Evaluation (Funded by Department of Health)
• Health of Children born to Older Mothers (Funded by Wellcome Trust)
• HEMSDEV: Human Embodied MultiSensory Development (Funded by European Union)
• High-resolution cross-subject visual area maps and their cognitive functions (Funded by the Royal Society)
• Intervention within the British Autism Study of Infant Siblings (I-BASIS) (Funded by Autistica, Autism Speaks)
• Is eye contact the key to the social brain? (Funded by Economic & Social Research Council)
  Hemispheric asymmetries in facial information processing (Funded by the British Academy)
• Learning to combine sense and experience for optimal perceptual judgements (Funded by Economic & Social Research Council)
• Lexicon retrieval difficulties in children (Funded by Economic & Social Research Council)
• Physiological and Cognitive Mediators of Gene x Environment Interaction Effects on Children's Antisocial Behaviour (Funded by the Economic & Social Research Council)
• Promoting evidence-based practice for autism in the Arb World (Funded by the Wellcome Trust)
• Sure Start National Evaluation (Funded by the Department for Education)
• The Architecture of Human Face Processing in Typical and Atypical Populations: Combining Behavioural and Electrophysiological Measures (Funded by the Economic & Social Research Council
• The development and interfacing of neuropsychological testing in mice and humans to advance gene investigations into WBS (Funded by Medical Research Council)
• The development of executive functions from infancy to middle childhood: Longitudinal trajectories in relation to social and school outcomes (Funded by the British Academy)
• The Impact of interval cancers in FOBt screening on adjustment to a cancer diagnosis and attitudes towards screening (Funded by the Bowel Disease Research Foundation)
• The Neutral Bases of Action Interpretation in Human Infants (Funded by Wellcome Trust)
• The role of CNTNAP2 in autism: an integrated analysis of common genetic variation and allele-specific methylation (Funded by the British Academy)
• The role of the prefrontal cortex in the development of uniquely human social cognition (Funded by the Wellcome Trust)
• The Temporal Dynamics of Hypothesis Generation and Maintenance (Funded by the National Science Foundation)
• The Typical and Atypical Development of the Social Brain During Infancy (Funded by the Medical Research Council)
• TRACKDEV - Tracking Early Development (Funded by European Union)

School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy

• Department of Applied Linguistics and Communications
• Multilingual London English / Multilingual Paris France (Funded by Economic & Social Research Council)
• Neuroscience by Caricature (Funded by Federation of European Neuroscience Societies)
• Department of Geography, Environment and Development Studies
• The Socio-Politics of Biosecurity (Funded by Economic & Social Research Council)
• Violence and Childhood: International Perspectives (Funded by Economic & Social Research Council
• Department of History, Classics and Archaeology
• Communities of Belief in Medieval Languedoc (Funded by Leverhulme Trust)
• Benedict of Alignan's Tractatus Fidei (Funded by the British Academy)
• A History of Pain from the eighteenth century to the present (Funded by the Wellcome Trust)
• Ancient Numeracy (Funded by the Leverhulme Trust)
• European Knowledge of Distant Peoples, 1550-1700 (Funded by the Leverhulme Trust)
• Organised Crime in Germany, 1918-1948 (Funded by the Leverhulme Trust)
• Life in the Suburbs: Health, Domesticity and Status in Early Modern London (Funded by Economic & Social Research Council)
• Rubicon Fellowship (Funded by Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk)
• The Sloane printed books project (Funded by the Wellcome Trust)
• In Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: The Deployment and Development of Psycholoanalysis in the Allied Struggle against Germany (Funded by the Wellcome Trust)
• Bronte: An Anglo-Italian Conflict (1799-1940) (Funded by Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies)
• Diplomacy as Theatre: The Bandung Conference of 1955 and the Rise of Asia in the Twentieth Century (Funded by the British Academy)
• The Nazi Concentration Camps (Funded by Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation)
• Department of Philosophy
• Plurals, Predicates, and Paradox (Funded by the European Union)
• Department of Politics
• Too Many Bodies? (Funded by the Leverhulme Trust)
• Gendered Ceremony and Ritual in Parliaments (Funded by the Leverhulme Trust)
• Political Man, Political Woman (Funded by the British Academy)
• Department of Psychosocial Studies
• Regulating Migrant Prostitution: Gender, Sexuality and Migration in Policy and Practice (Funded by the Economic & Social Research Council)
• Jewish Leaders in Conversation (Funded by the Bridging Trust)
• Being Together - Remaking public Intimacies (Funded by the Norwegian Research Council)
• Additional work for FEMCIT (Funded by Rokkansenteret (Stein Rokkan Centre))
• Living Apart Together: a multi-method analysis (Funded by Economic & Social Research Council)
• Mediated humanitarian knowledge, audiences' responses and moral actions (Funded by the Leverhulme Trust)
• Department of Social Policy and Education
• Career Decision-making and Career Development of Part-time Higher Education Students (Funded by the Higher Education Careers Services Unit)