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College of Humanities & Social Science – HEALTH IN SOCIAL SCIENCE
My research focusses on dementia care and in particular on risk management. It highlights how, sometimes, our efforts to maintain physical safety can compromise other aspects of wellbeing, causing ‘silent harms’ for people living with dementia.
College of Humanities & Social Science – HEALTH IN SOCIAL SCIENCE
Matthias Schwannauer: Applied Developmental and Clinical Psychology
College of Humanities & Social Science – HEALTH IN SOCIAL SCIENCE
This study research explores the intertwining of psychotherapy, Christianity and new expressions of spirituality in Scotland since the middle of the twentieth century.
College of Humanities & Social Science – HISTORY, CLASSICS & ARCHAEOLOGY
Since 2011 I have been working on a British Academy funded project compiling a database of texts about jews and Judaism by scholars, often called humanists, who lived in Italy during the years 1400 to 1550.
College of Science & Engineering – GEOSCIENCES
I analyse data from satellite instruments in order to study the chemistry of the atmosphere. The Black Saturday fires caused a very unusual pollution event which we were able to observe in this way.
College of Humanities & Social Science – EDINBURGH COLLEGE OF ART
The Naked Craft Network is an AHRC funded collaborative project which aims to develop a greater understanding of the evolution of practices of craft in Scotland and Canada.
College of Science & Engineering – INFORMATICS
We study autonomous learning and decision making under uncertainty by long-lived agents interacting with a changing world, typically involving strategic objectives and incomplete information.
College of Humanities & Social Science – LAW
Professor Susan McVie describes key findings from the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime which warn against the dangers of labelling young people who get involved in offending.? ?
College of Science & Engineering – BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Every mammalian cell carries about 30 000 individual genes, but only some of these genes are active in specialized cell types. Stancheva lab studies the molecular mechanisms that generate stable patterns of gene expression in mammalian cells and what goes wrong with gene regulation when the cells become cancerous.
College of Humanities & Social Science – SOCIAL & POLITICAL SCIENCE
This ESRC funded project explores the institutionalisation of Dalit movements in South India. Key questions include: What have Dalit parties achieved; how have caste relations changed; and have Dalits gained political recognition?
College of Science & Engineering – PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY
Outer space is an extreme environment. Only the most resistant microorganisms can survive there. By studying how they fare in space we can learn about how life prospers in extreme environments.
College of Science & Engineering – INFORMATICS
Our research is along two distinct themes: expanding the reach of Internet access via wireless technologies; and mobile sensing. Low cost and ease of deployability are common design goals across both these themes.
College of Humanities & Social Science – ECONOMICS
How to make innovation happen in companies and countries.
College of Science & Engineering – BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
The Earnshaw lab studies how chromosomes are packaged from nuclear chromatin and segregated accurately when cells divide, thereby avoiding aneuploidy and cancer.
College of Science & Engineering – INFORMATICS
One way to understand how brains control behaviour is to look at animals with small brains, such as insects. We can then try to build robots that behave the same way.
College of Science & Engineering – ENGINEERING
My research aims to computationally simulate the mechanical behaviour of complex materials and structures using a technique called the finite element method.
College of Science & Engineering – BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Meiosis is the cell division that produces eggs and sperm. Errors in meiosis cause birth defects and infertility.
College of Science & Engineering – CHEMISTRY
We are studying the use of new, Pacman-shaped molecules as catalysts for the reactions of molecules such as oxygen and carbon dioxide in sustainable energy applications.
