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2024/25 Research Development Projects

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'Gaming' History?

Initiating collaboration between academia and the games industry, fostering engagement between games studies and the humanities.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
IAS RDP Leadership identity processing