Departmental research projects
- Economics
- Education
- Health
- Politics, Languages & International Studies
- Psychology
- Social & Policy Sciences
Economics
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| Examining the Variation in Recycling Rates Across the UK | Reducing the frequency of waste collection, from weekly to fortnightly, improves recycling rates. |
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Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) |
| Security of Energy Considering its Uncertainty, Risk and Economic Implications | Aims to evaluate the vulnerability of the European Union (EU) to the different risks which affect energy supplies in order to help optimise the Union’s energy insecurity mitigation strategies, including infrastructure investment, demand side management and dialogue with producing countries. | European Commission Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) |
Education
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| Semiotics as Philosophy for Education | Brings together academics with shared interests in the application of the work of C.S.Peirce and of language theorists in the Continental tradition (including Saussure and Derrida) to study education and related aspects of society and culture. | Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain | |
| Education, Wellbeing and the Emergent Economies of Brazil, Russia and South Africa | The aim of the network is to explore the likely futures for education, wellbeing and human security as new economic conditions emerge in Brazil, Russia and South Africa. This Network will focus on the reciprocal, and as yet not fully understood, relationships, between economic growth, education and wellbeing, which may well be understood differently in different economic and cultural contexts. |
Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) |
Health
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| FRIENDS - Effectiveness of School Based CBT in Reducing Anxiety and Improving Mood | Aims to investigate whether a school based cognitive behaviour therapy programme (FRIENDS) can help children aged 9-11 develop skills that will help them to cope with their worries and anxious feelings and to stay happy and positive in their mood. | National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) | |
| Extended Daily Fasting (Omission of Breakfast) and the Regulation of Energy Balance To volunteer contact: j.d.richardson@bath.ac.uk |
A combined cross-over experiment and randomised group comparison to investigate the causal mechanisms through which daily breakfast consumption may be related to appetite, physical activity, glycaemic control, tissue-specific insulin signalling and chronic low-grade systemic inflammation. |
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Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| PPACTE - Pricing Policies and Control of NRACCO in Europe as representative of our influence on Europe | A major collaborative project involving eight research partners. Bath leads the work package examining tobacco industry pricing strategies and influence on policy in Europe. | European Commission Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) | |
| Can Exercise Overcome the Effects of Short-Term Overfeeding and Restricted Physical Activity on Inflammatory Markers and Metabolic Function? To volunteer contact: j.walhin@bath.ac.uk |
A randomised group comparison to determine whether a structured exercise program can overcome the negative metabolic and inflammatory consequences of 7 days excessive dietary energy intake and restricted energy expenditure with a matched energy surplus between treatments. |
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| The Effect of Mixed Macronutrient Ingestion on Systemic Inflammation and the Expression of Metabolic Genes in Skeletal Muscle | A randomised cross-over experiment into the effect of ingesting carbohydrate with added amino acids on the inflammatory response to repeated exercise bouts and alterations in metabolic signalling within skeletal muscle during recovery. | Glaxosmithkline | |
| Macronutrient Ingestion, Muscle Glycogen & Post-Exercise Recovery To volunteer contact: a.f.alghannam@bath.ac.uk |
A randomised cross-over experiment to examine the inter-relationships between ingesting various quantities of carbohydrate with and without added amino acids, muscle glycogen availability and the capacity to perform repeated bouts of exercise with limited recovery. |
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Saudi Arabian HE Authority |
Politics, Languages & International Studies
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| Support and Opposition to Migration | Aims to increase knowledge about migration-related political dynamics. It will also provide policy-relevant information. |
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European Commission Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) |
| The Dual-Use Dilemma of the Life Sciences | Part of an interdisciplinary project on building a sustainable capacity in dual-use bioethics. The Bath stream of the project focuses on dual-use issues and governance strategies for synthetic biology. This work builds on a previous project called SYNBIOSAFE and is also linked to two BBSRC funded networks in synthetic biology. |
The Wellcome Trust (2009-14) | |
| Fellowship - Ending Terrorism as Told by Former Italian Terrorists | Drawing on the case of Italy, which in the 1970s witnessed an escalation of political violence but in the 1980s successfully overcame it, the research analyses the factors that motivate people to disengage from terrorism and also deals with the perspectives of the victims and their relatives. This will lead to a book entitled ‘The End of Terrorism and its Legacy in Italy’. | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Research Fellowship Scheme |
Further politics and languages research »
Psychology
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| Developing educational software to assess if autistic children can benefit from access to open learner models and emotional feedback on learning | Research aims to design, construct and evaluate educational software to investigate if children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) can benefit from access to their open learner models (OLMs), and emotional feedback on their learning achievements. | Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) | |
| Habit Discontinuity | It is extremely difficult to persuade people to adopt more sustainable lifestyles. This project tests the hypothesis that such interventions are more successful if these are delivered in the context of a life-course change, in this case moving house. The project involves a field experiment in Peterborough. | Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) |
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| SID: An exploration of Super-Identity | The project aims to create an identification process that combines the identities of individuals on line and in the real world. The project will bring together experts in psychology, forensic anthropology, human computer interaction, mathematical modelling, complex data visualisation, and automated biometrics to address the reliability and robustness of identification within modern and future societies. |
Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Social & Policy Sciences
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| Lone Parent's Mental Health and Employment | Explores crucial issues around lone parents' participation in paid employment and mental health. Does employment alleviate depression among lone parents, to what extent does job quality matter and how does current employment policy affect mental health outcomes? This research will be followed up exploration of the findings on the relationship between work and depression. |
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Nuffield Foundation |
| Wellbeing and Poverty Pathways | With data collection from rural communities in Zambia and India, research will provide systematic new evidence on the factors that promote wellbeing at personal and community level, how these relate to poverty, and what drives change over time. | Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) Department for International Development (DIFD) |
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| Dynamic and Complex Social Systems | The research draws on two principal literatures. One is complexity science, applying to the social sciences insights and methods that have been developed largely in relation to physical and biological processes. The second is institutionalism. This project brings these together, in a conceptually coherent and methodologically novel synthesis. |
Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) | |
| The Future Cemetery Project | The project is an immersive, multi-media audience experience that engages heritage site cemetery visitors with the UK's dynamic postmortem past. This entire project builds a future cemetery model, where both the Victorian past and the digital present are woven together in order to create a new kind of postmortem space. The key outcome will be the development of a prototype technology which other Heritage site cemeteries (and Heritage sites, writ large) can also use. The REACT Sandbox funding focuses on R&D and then bringing new technologies to market. |
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Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
