College of Science & Engineering – BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Andrew Millar’s research in Systems Biology uses glowing plants to study the 24-hour clock, which drives daily and seasonal rhythms. Surprisingly, cells from humans to algae may have two biological clocks.
College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine – MRC HUMAN GENETICS UNIT
The Edinburgh Mouse Atlas provides a spatial framework for anatomy, embryogenesis, gene-expression and modeling development.
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 Humanities & Social Science – SOCIAL & POLITICAL SCIENCE
My research interests focus on the relationship between social context, political economy and crime and justice.??My work typically involves quantitative analysis of social surveys and cross-national data on economic and social conditions. ?
College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine – EDINBURGH INFECTIOUS DISEASE
We are interested in understanding the mechanisms and principles of our resilience to infection from early life.
College of Humanities & Social Science – LAW
Eighteenth-century Scots were great colonisers and owners and traders of slaves. As a result enslaved Africans and Indians came to Scotland to work as domestic servante and labourers.
College of Humanities & Social Science – MORAY HOUSE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
As psychologists, we are interested in how we think, feel and act influences whether we are physically active or not, and also how being physically active influences how we think, feel and act.
College of Humanities & Social Science – SOCIAL & POLITICAL SCIENCE
Pete Kingsley explains INZI, a new social science research project exploring African trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness.
College of Humanities & Social Science – BUSINESS SCHOOL
My work focuses on understanding the nature of public services and its implications for reform. To date, public services have often been treated as tangible goods, like manufactured goods. In fact though they are intangible processes. ?
College of Humanities & Social Science – SOCIAL & POLITICAL SCIENCE
Dr Joan Haig is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Centre of African Studies. Her current project is entitled ‘Descending from our Children? Birth and Belonging Among Zambia’s White Settlers’.
College of Science & Engineering – BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Karen Halliday’s research aims to understand how plants respond to changes in the natural environment. Dr Halliday’s lab combines experimental and theoretical approaches to understand the molecular basis of these environment-driven alterations in plant development.??
College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine – VETERINARY STUDIES
A collaborative research project investigating immune correlates of protection in cattle and sheep. The aim is to generate knowledge and reagents for the development of new vaccines for farmed livestock
College of Humanities & Social Science – PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY & ARCHAEOLOGY
Languages change and evolve as they are transmitted in populations. My work shows that languages evolve structure (rules, patterns and regularities) because that structure makes them more learnable, and therefore more transmissible.?
College of Humanities & Social Science – MORAY HOUSE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
My research looks at whether significant others (e.g friends/family) can influence how much physical activity adolescent girls participate in with a view to increasing the physical activity levels of adolescent girls.
College of Science & Engineering – GEOSCIENCES
Industrial society burns fossil carbon for energy and transport. Excess CO2 emissions damage climate and ocean. Geologists inject liquid CO2 through boreholes into porous reservoirs 1-3km below ground, managing this safely for millennia.
College of Humanities & Social Science – SOCIAL & POLITICAL SCIENCE
Working as a sociologist, I study the interface between science and society. I’m particularly interested in public controversies around scientific topics, especially those relating to the environmental and life sciences.
College of Humanities & Social Science – MORAY HOUSE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
A new centre is being established at Edinburgh University to foster research related to physical activity for health. The centre will be led by Professor Nanette Mutrie and will be multidisciplinary. Our focus is on developing and evaluating interventions to promote physical activity and reduce sedentary time.
College of Humanities & Social Science – SOCIAL & POLITICAL SCIENCE
Advances in genetics and genomics are having a profound impact on medicine. Steve Sturdy’s research examines the social implications of this scientific and medical revolution.
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 Humanities & Social Science – MORAY HOUSE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
My name is Graham Baker, I’m a Research Fellow and my main research focus is as coordinator for iConnect; an EPSRC funded project that is examining active travel modes such as walking and cycling.
College of Science & Engineering – ENGINEERING
I develop bespoke mathematical solutions to multiphase flow problems all around us: industry (e.g. oil-gas transport), environment (e.g. industrial cleaning) or the human body (e.g. brain cooling via flow).
College of Humanities & Social Science – SOCIAL & POLITICAL SCIENCE
Interactions between biological sciences and biological arts: enquires into the effects such interdisciplinary encounters may have on science and scientific practice.
College of Humanities & Social Science – SOCIAL & POLITICAL SCIENCE
The Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation (ISSTI) is a focus for interdisciplinary and social science research across various domains of science, engineering and medicine.
College of Humanities & Social Science – PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY & LANGUAGES SCIENCES
In this video, I ask: What kinds of change are possible in pronunciation? How does such change occur? How does it pattern?
College of Science & Engineering – INFORMATICS
I am interested in developing machine learning methodologies to quantify uncertainty in computational models in science, with particular emphasis on biology.
College of Humanities & Social Science – LITERATURES, LANGUAGES & CULTURES
A study on the reception of the new Kabuki-za theatre, future home of Japan’s traditional drama, which opens in April 2013.
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 – CHEMISTRY
Research is focused on the study of the effects of pressure on molecular compounds such as pharmaceuticals, explosives, fuels, and lubricants in order to identify structural changes when these materials are compressed.
College of Humanities & Social Science – DIVINITY
My research focuses on the growing revitalization and internationalization of indigenous African religiosities; and through immigration processes how African religions are contributing to the diversification of European/American religious landscapes.
College of Humanities & Social Science – SOCIAL & POLITICAL SCIENCE
Social aspects of public health in South Asia, especially clinical and public health experiments, and access to pharmaceuticals.
