Building research networks in Europe

  • Dr Maria Cubel, Department of Economics

    • Partner institution 1: University of Heidelberg (Germany): Economics
    • Gender differences in the willingness to compete against a standard
    • Partner institution 2: University of Innsbruck (Austria): Economics
    • Sunk costs and conflict escalation

  • Dr Ana Dinerstein, Department of Social & Policy Sciences

    • Partner institutions: University of Nottingham (UK) Erasmus University of Rotterdam (The Hague, Netherlands) University of Ghent (Belgium), Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), Università Iuav di Venezia (Italy), University of Lleida (Spain), Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona (Spain)
    • WOVNet: A Feminist Network for the world to come
    • Theme: Theoretical and methodological innovation in social sciences and/with artistic intervention by female scholar/artists/activists

  • Dr Catherine Hamilton-Giachritsis, Department of Psychology

    • Partner institutions: Linkoping University (Sweden), University of New Hampshire (USA), University of Gothenburg (Sweden), and University of Edinburgh (UK)
    • International research network for the prevention of Child Abuse with Technology (netCAT)

  • Dr Katharina Lenner, Department of Social & Policy Sciences

    • Partner institution: Fafo Institute for Labor and Social Research (Norway)
    • Understanding refugee livelihoods in protracted displacement: towards establishing a multi-methods network of expertise
    • Theme: Refugee livelihoods and self-reliance, especially of female refugees

  • Prof Gregory Maio, Department of Psychology

    • Partner institutions: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), ISPA - Institute of Applied Psychology (Portugal), University of Cologne (Germany), Cardiff University (UK), Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands), and Ohio State University (USA)
    • Social Processes in Evaluation

  • Dr Shona McIntosh, Department of Education

    • Partner institutions: Aalborg University (Denmark): Department of Communication and Psychology and University of Aarhus (Denmark): Department of Education
    • Time for teachers: professional response-ability in an accelerated society

  • Dr Andres Sandoval-Hernandez, Department of Education

    • Partner institutions: UNAM (Mexico), Italian National Institute for the Evaluation of Education and Training (INVALSI, Italy), KU Leuven (Belgium), Universidad Catolica de Chile (Chile), and the Mexican Ministry of Education in Mexico
    • Is democracy overrated? Lower-secondary students’ support for authoritarian governments in Europe and Latin America
    • Theme: Democracy, Civic Education, Comparative Education

  • Dr Salman Shahid, Department of Chemical Engineering

    • Partner institutions: University of Leuven (Belgium): Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems (M²S), and Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e, Netherlands): Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry
    • Development of electroactive microporous polymer membranes for challenging gas separation applications
    • Theme: Chemical Engineering

  • Dr Vasanta Subramanian, Department of Biology & Biochemistry

    • Partner institution: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel): Silberman Life Sciences Institute
    • Developing the African Turquoise killifish as a model for neurodegenerative diseases
    • Theme: Late onset Neurodegenerative disease models

  • Dr Thomas Kjeldsen, Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering

    • Partner institution: Università Ca' Foscari Venezia (Italy): Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Informatica e Statistica
    • Non-stationary flood frequency analysis using peaks-over-threshold models
    • Theme: Risk analysis, extreme events, flooding

PhD mobility - outgoing

  • Ms Joanne Davies, Department of Education

    • Supervisors: Dr Michael Donnelly, Dr Andres Sandoval Hernandez
    • Partner institution: KU Leuven (Belgium): Centre for Political Research, CePo
    • Measuring Civic and Intercultural Competencies (CIC) amongst young people using data from the International Civic and Citizenship Study (ICCS) 2016
    • Theme: Civic and Intercultural Competencies at School

  • Ms Holly Dempsey, Department of Social & Policy Sciences

    • Supervisors: Prof Yvonne Jewkes, Dr Kate Gooch
    • Partner institution: University of Oslo (Norway): Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law
    • Shades of Grey and Green: Exploring Carceral Experiences of Biophilia and Biophobia in England and Denmark
    • Theme: Prison design, access to nature, and the sensory experience of imprisonment

  • Stephanie Hall, Department of Mechanical Engineering

    • Supervisor: Dr Alborz Shokrani
    • Partner institutions: Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden): Centre for Metal Cutting Research; and TU Dortmund (Germany): Institute of Machining Technology
    • Developing advanced models for machining specialist alloys
    • Theme: Manufacturing/Mechanical Engineering

PhD mobility - incoming

  • Dremova Oksana Viktorovna

    • Home institution: Higher School of Economics (Russia): Institute of Education
    • Bath Supervisor: Dr Andres Sandoval Hernandez (Education)
    • National Differences in Students’ Justification of Cheating Behaviour at two Universities in the UK and Russia
    • Theme: Educational measurement

Building research networks in North America

  • Dr Matthew Cole, Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering

    • Partner institution: The University of Texas at Austin (USA): Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Microelectronics Research Center, and Texas Materials Institute
    • Growth and integration of advanced 2D materials towards the development of imperceptible on-body e-health biosensors
    • Theme: Biosensors, Bioelectronics, Applied Materials, 2D Materials, Nanomaterials

PhD mobility - outgoing

  • Ms Anna Roessing, PoLIS

    • Supervisors: Dr Brett Edwards, Dr Andre Barrinha
    • Partner institution: Harvard University (USA): Kennedy School of Government
    • Socio-technical imaginaries of biological engineering –Do-it-yourself (DIY) science, biohacking, and the cyborg: New innovation and research models for the Life Sciences
    • Theme: Science and Technology Studies, history of science and technology, innovation studies, democratic and governance theory

  • Mr Connor Gascoigne, Department of Mathematical Sciences

    • Supervisor: Dr Theresa Smith
    • Partner institution: University of Washington (USA): Statistics and Biostatistics
    • Estimating under-five mortality rates in space and time in a developing world context using age-period-cohort models
    • Theme: Under-five mortality rates (U5MRs), age-period-cohort (APC) models, complex surveys, space-time smoothing.

  • Mr Joshua Tyler, Department of Biology & Biochemistry, Milner Centre for Evolution

    • Supervisors: Dr Jane Younger, Prof. Matt Wills
    • Partner institutions: Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago and American Museum of Natural History, New York
    • Morphological Diversification of Southern Ocean Penguins
    • Theme: Evolutionary Biology & Climate