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'Gaming' History?
Initiating collaboration between academia and the games industry, fostering engagement between games studies and the humanities.
Pasts in the Present
Drawing on arts & humanities, social sciences, and other fields, this project explored ideas of how the past shape contemporary academic and public discourse
Mater-morphosis: Transformations of motherhood through matrescence
This project mobilises matrescence to explore motherhood, pregnancy, and childbirth as transformative life events with radical/ long-lasting changes to the body and brain
Resolving Disputes in the Space Industry
As space investment and activity increase, so too will space disputes. This project aims to establish a specialist centre for resolving such disputes.
Molecular Windscreen Wipers to Mechanically Disrupt Bacterial Biofilms
This project aims to develop and test a novel design of compound which seeks to destroy biofilms by mechanical disruption, rather than chemical inhibition or degradation.
Legal Criteria for an Equitable Fossil Fuel Phaseout
This interdisciplinary project draws on climate science, law, and legal theory to identify the legal principles needed for an equitable global fossil fuel phaseout.
Uncovering Leaders’ Identity Processes Through the Use of Natural Language Processing
This interdisciplinary project examines leader identity and how it is shaped during critical career transitions.