Research Features

Research focuses on artefacts from the Amazon and will digitise heritage materials and curate content to reach the region's Indigenous people.

Research looks at how the UK museum sector has changed since 1960 and what factors prompted its growth.

Exploring the limited visual representation of enslaved and freed people in Imperial Spain and the links to contemporary racism in the Hispanic world.

Analysing the links between political communication and ideology with a deeper look into its impact on conservative, right-wing groups.

A look into ethical arguments in Gendered Toy Marketing (GTM) debates and efforts to address and resist GTM.

Research focuses on supporting business in the digital transition.

Research examines how healthcare practitioners experience, manage and seek support for mental wellbeing.

Research looks at solutions to addressing global financial losses arising from the current pandemic.

Research addresses regional inequalities in innovation opportunities for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people and disabled groups.

An examination of the legal process, its decisions and the impact on sibling relationships.

Research looks at developing practices to respond better to a changing youth court.

'Understanding and reducing the use of imprisonment in ten countries’ is an international research and policy project being conducted under the Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research’s World Prison Research Programme.

Research reflects on UK drug policy, its impact on marginalised communities and considers ways to empower those most affected by drug criminalisation.

New insights help the development of therapeutic and vaccine strategies to treat the millions of malaria patients worldwide.

Examining the link between air pollution, noise, cognition, behaviour and academic attainment in children.

Research looks at the evolution and development of shark teeth and considers a point in time when their teeth were used as taste buds as well as for the consumption of food.

Research looks at factors which inform patient preferences for different treatment outcomes.

A project to examine the cognitive effects produced by works of fiction and to identify the underlying mechanisms.

Research project looks at the vital significance of waiting that is part of healthcare.

Research considers the history of 500 years of non-conformist religious groups and how they have thrived in both secular and non-secular environments.

Research considers the community response to COVID-19 within the context of sociolinguistics- the visual display of signs in urban settings.