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UNITY

UNITY May 1, 2015 - Apr 30, 2018
Unity is a EU Horizon 2020 funded project under the Secure Societies theme of the Fight against Crime and Terrorism on Community Policing in Europe. The vision of Unity is to strengthen the connection between the police and the diverse communities th... Read More about UNITY.

Sex-specific disease aetiology from developmental steroid insults: mechanistic understanding and biomarker development towards disease prevention Jun 1, 2017 - Oct 1, 2021
Risks of developing many adult illnesses are set down as we develop in the womb, hence the environment we experience during fetal life needs to be ‘just right’. Understanding how the fetal environment colours development helps decision making during... Read More about Sex-specific disease aetiology from developmental steroid insults: mechanistic understanding and biomarker development towards disease prevention.

Building and evaluating recorders for seabird vocalisations at nesting sites with differing degrees of human disturbance Apr 1, 2016 - Aug 31, 2017
Long-duration recorders are commercially available for week-scale terrestrial sound monitoring, but expensive and large, thus difficult to disguise in colonies. We have an active collaboration with the Soundtags group at St Andrews who have co-develo... Read More about Building and evaluating recorders for seabird vocalisations at nesting sites with differing degrees of human disturbance.

Electrolysed Water for Post-Harvest Washing (JadooJal) Mar 1, 2017 - Aug 31, 2019
assist the development of a novel electrolysed water based application to reduce spoilage and microbial contamination of a variety of fresh produce types of importance to Indian commerce.

PhD ENU/Arsenal FC

PhD ENU/Arsenal FC Sep 1, 2016 - Aug 31, 2019
Phd Scholarship to identify technological medical enhancement product(s) that supports the enhancement of physical performance related to professional football players

The juvenile fish fauna of a Kenyan mangrove forest: exploring new tools to understand growth and condition. Aug 1, 2016 - Dec 31, 2019
The project will work with a new PhD student who is collecting regular samples of juvenile fish from the Vanga mangrove forest in southern Kenya. The work will focus on two areas:
1) Describing the metazoan parasite fauna of the mangrove fish commun... Read More about The juvenile fish fauna of a Kenyan mangrove forest: exploring new tools to understand growth and condition..

IBioIC CORE- Fermentation of waste derived sugars to produce butanol, ethanol, succinic acid and protein Mar 27, 2017 - Apr 26, 2018
This project aims to investigate the first phase to manufacture chemicals from starch waste, namely acetone, butanol, ethanol, succinic acid and/or D-amino acid oxidase. Edinburgh Napier University (ENU) will test the use of waste derived glucose fee... Read More about IBioIC CORE- Fermentation of waste derived sugars to produce butanol, ethanol, succinic acid and protein.

Elite level surfers Mar 1, 2012 - Aug 31, 2012
As professionalism within surfing has attracted increasing sponsorship money, conditioning and decreased injury risk is of a high priority to the individual surfer. The project will endeavour to look at the impact shock on elite/world class level su... Read More about Elite level surfers.