First Recordings of the Soundscape of Pristine European Flat Oyster Reefs Jan 1, 2022 - Aug 31, 2022
European flat oyster reefs (EFORs) are ecologically and economically important as they improve water quality, increase overall biodiversity, store carbon and are a much valued food source. Over fishing in the early 1900’s vastly reduced number and ex...
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MRes - Player Profiling in professional male football (project 2) Mar 1, 2022 - Feb 29, 2024
The aim of this project will be to bring objectivity and scientific rigor to an existing, in-house, physical profiling protocol encompassing a series of football-specific outcome measures.
Neonatal Nurse Education Phu San Hospital Hanoi Jul 1, 2022 - Dec 31, 2022
Development and delivery of an online neonatal education programme for nurses working in Phu San Hospital Hanoi. This is anon credit bearing course with ongoing student assessment and exit award with a certificate of completion
Recovery from Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection Jan 1, 2023 - Apr 1, 2025
Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) is increasingly recognised as an important cause of myocardial infarction (MI). Despite this, there are no recovery programmes tailored for SCAD survivors, who are mainly female, and typically younger tha...
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Development of a scale-up process for production of Kombucha Aug 1, 2022 - May 1, 2023
Gut Feelings main commercial product is Kombucha, a fermented tea produced by natural microbial fermentation and assumed to contain a variety of microbes that link to health benefits. It is produced using a two-stage process in which a SCOBY (a symbi...
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Music and Communication for Mothers and Young Children in Prison Dec 6, 2021 - Dec 6, 2022
The objectives of the research workshops for the project, ‘Music and Communication for Mothers and Young Children in Prison’ are threefold;
1) to investigate current music practice in prisons between mothers and their young children that is not a...
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Learn @ Lunch - The occupation of drinking alcohol in later life Mar 1, 2022 - Dec 20, 2022
Health effects of drinking in later life
Mapping inequalities in smart places Apr 1, 2022 - Jul 31, 2023
The proposed collaboration aims to explore how digital and socio-economic inequalities are conceived and tackled in the implementation of smart places, addressing three research questions:
1.to what extent are local administrators aware and percepti...
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Exploring judgement and decision making noise in arboricultural risk assessment: What information do people use when making risk judgements, how does this influence decisions, and is this consistent across practitioners? Aug 1, 2022 - Jul 31, 2023
Aim: To explore the effect of “noise” on judgements that underpin tree risk assessment and how these affect decisions, to inform the development of a holistic tree risk assessment tool/measure/guideline (format will be dependent on the findings of th...
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Software-Hardware Ecosystems for AI Edge Devices (SHE) Oct 1, 2022 - Sep 30, 2023
AI hardware solutions are only useful if they’re compatible with all other layers of the technology stack, including the solutions and use cases in the services layer. Researchers in AI hardware can take two paths to achieve this goal. First, they co...
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Smart Composite Material for Advanced Building Fenestration to Enhance Energy Efficiency Jan 5, 2022 - Aug 31, 2024
Energy consumed by buildings for heating, cooling, and lighting needs, accounts for more than 40% CO2 emissions. However, while keeping the thermal and visual comfort, a substantial portion of energy is lost due to our inability to control the ingres...
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An easier route for strength grading UK hardwoods Mar 1, 2023 - Aug 31, 2026
The project aims to improve grading options for home-grown hardwoods, with a more cost-effective route to establishing grading and easier to apply visual grading rules for producers. Properties of three home-grown hardwood species are characterised b...
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Care Homes Appreciative Inquiry into Retention Jun 1, 2022 - Feb 28, 2025
This proposal is for a programme of work that will involve both research and collaborative appreciative inquiry led quality improvement in Lothian care homes, targeted at improving the retention of high-quality frontline care home workers and enhanci...
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Cloud based distribution system to tackle food poverty Mar 14, 2022 - Dec 15, 2023
Local food sectors, e.g. Foodbanks, still rely on paper-based referral systems whilst continuing to see increasing demand. In addition, the model of direct hand-outs of food parcels and electricity vouchers is unsustainable, lacks dignity for clients...
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Digital Transformation of the Building Standards System Aug 1, 2022 - Dec 31, 2023
This project will support the digital transformation of the building standards system in Scotland by supporting a strengthened compliance system and putting in place the tools to develop a digital golden thread. Other work is being taken forward ar...
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TrueDeploy - CyberASAP Phase 1 Apr 1, 2022 - Jul 31, 2022
The way in which we develop and supply secure, trusted software is broken. The dominance of open-source software and the interconnectedness of software between organisations has raised cybersecurity risks in the software supply chain.
The Solar...
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Qualitative study to explore the acceptability of an accelerated syncope strategy to patients and staff involved in the ASPIRED trial Jun 1, 2022 - Jan 14, 2024
The BHF funded ASPIRED study aims to determine whether immediate, enhanced (14-day) ambulatory ECG monitoring decreases the number of episodes of syncope at one year compared to standard care monitoring in ED patients presenting acutely with unexplai...
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Expert reviews to support Scotlands response to, and recovery from, Covid-19 Mar 23, 2022 - Dec 31, 2022
Project Aims
i)To review evidence from Scotland and beyond on experiences of covid19 in prisons and identify transferable learning to inform Scotland’s Covid Recovery Strategy.
ii)To focus on innovations in prison policy and practice that may prove...
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Virulence of diverse Listeria monocytogenes strains in an invertebrate infection model Jun 1, 2022 - Jul 27, 2022
Listeria monocytogenes (L. monocytogenes) is a bacterium which is found throughout the environment and is the cause of listeriosis, a major food-borne disease. While annual case numbers are relatively low listeriosis has a high rate of fatality of 20...
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Exploiting micofluidic devices for physiologically relavent drug screening against human pathogens Jun 1, 2022 - Jul 27, 2022
Undergraduate student summer project (8 weeks)