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| Dr Roland Baddeley | |
| Post(s): | Reader, School of Experimental Psychology |
| Areas of expertise: | My first degree was in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science from Sussex, and after various computer related jobs... |
| Keywords: | animal communication | Bayesian modelling | computer models in psychology | statistics of natural images | eye movements | memory | forgetting | motor learning |
| Dr Shabnam Baig | |
| Post(s): | Research Assistant, School of Clinical Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | My PhD focused on how certain specialised regions of the extracellular matrix, a delicate framework of material that acts... |
| Keywords: | Alzheimer's disease | extracellular matrix | perineuronal net | amyloid | tau | picalm |
| Dr Andy Bailey | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | General fungal biology Specific interests in: Fungi that cause plant/insect diseases. Molecular biology of mushrooms and... |
| Keywords: | plant disease | fungi | biotechnology | mushrooms | crop protection |
| Dr Jayne Bailey | |
| Post(s): | Path Trial Manager, School of Social and Community Medicine Translational Research Operations Manager, School of Clinical Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | Current primary area of interest is the development of a human experimental model for use in the discovery of novel agents... |
| Keywords: | anxiety | mental health | experimental models |
| Dr Katherine Baldock | |
| Post(s): | Research Assistant, School of Biological Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a community ecologist, interested in plant-animal interactions. My research focuses primarily on plant-pollinator interactions... |
| Keywords: | pollination | bees | urban | food webs | networks | pollinators | flowers |
| Dr Jon Balserak | |
| Post(s): | Lecturer, Department of Religion and Theology |
| Areas of expertise: | My research interests cover the exegesis, theology and history of the Middle Ages and Reformation. I am interested in individuals... |
| Keywords: | middle ages | exegesis | Reformation | biblical exegesis | medieval thought | biblical manuscripts |
| Dr Nina Balthasar | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, School of Physiology and Pharmacology |
| Areas of expertise: | Obesity and its related metabolic disorders are among the most pressing of today’s health-care concerns. The epidemic proportions... |
| Keywords: | obesity | metabolic disorders | health | central nervous system | body energy homeostasis | body weight | weight |
| Professor Jonathan Bamber | |
| Post(s): | Professor, School of Geographical Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | My area of expertise is in satellite remote sensing of the polar regions and, in particular, the great ice sheets of Antarctica... |
| Keywords: | glaciology | climate change | satellite remote sensing | ice sheets | Antarctica | Greenland | Arctic |
| Professor Stephen Banfield | |
| Post(s): | Emeritus Professor of Music, Department of Music |
| Areas of expertise: | Popular American and British musical theatre; Jerome Kern; Gerald Finzi; Stephen Sondheim; English music; Elgar, Vaughan... |
| Keywords: | music | musicology | musicals | song | Englishness | American music | empire | Sondheim |
| Dr Jonathan Banks | |
| Post(s): | Research Programme Manager, School of Social and Community Medicine |
| Areas of expertise: | Since starting at the Division of Primary Care I have completed a research project investigating the role of the pharmacy... |
| Keywords: | pharmacy counter assistants | pharmacy | medicines | doctor appointments | Advanced Access | health | chronic fatigue syndrome |
| Professor Stephen Bann | |
| Post(s): | Emeritus Professor of History of Art, Department of History of Art (Historical Studies) Senior Research Fellow in Historical Studies (History of Arts), Department of History of Art (Historical Studies) |
| Areas of expertise: | Museum history and theory (especially curiosity and antiquarianism); Historical representation in painting and other visual... |
| Keywords: | museum history | curiosity | antiquarianism | historical representation | print culture | art criticism | avant-garde movements | land art |
| Professor George Banting | |
| Post(s): | Dean of the Faculty of Medical and Veterinary Sciences, School of Biochemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | Each mammalian cell produces about 50,000 different proteins. For each cell (and therefore the whole organism) to function... |
| Keywords: | membrane traffic | protein targeting | cell biology | molecular biology | molecular genetics | live cell imaging | microscopy | biochemistry |
| Dr Michele Barbour | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in Dental Materials Science and Biomaterials, School of Oral & Dental Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | I head the Oral Nanoscience Group at the School of Oral and Dental Sciences. The Group's primary research interests are the... |
| Keywords: | nanomaterials | nanoparticles | implants | biomaterials | teeth | nanotherapeutics | surface science | nanotechnology |
| Professor Peter Barham | |
| Post(s): | Professorial Teaching Fellow in Physics, School of Physics |
| Areas of expertise: | I am actively involved with attempts to understand how plastics (polymers) change from the liquid state to the solid state... |
| Keywords: | food science | molecular gastronomy | penguins | plastics | polymers | polymer science |
| Dr Gary Barker | |
| Post(s): | Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | My main research interest is Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) discovery and gene expression analysis in hexaploid bread... |
| Keywords: | single nucleotide polymorphism (snp) | gene expression analysis in triticum eastivum | uk wheat genome sequencing consortium | ergot resistance in wheat | metagenomics | glacial ecosystems |
| Dr Adrian Barnes | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Physics, School of Physics |
| Areas of expertise: | My research interests concerns the structure of disordered materials, such as liquids and glasses and how it is related to... |
| Keywords: | neutron and X-ray scattering | Glasses and liquids | levitation | Monte Carlo simulation | isotopic substitution | structure calculation | modelling | molecular dynamics |
| Professor Sally Barnes | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Doctoral Education, Graduate School of Education |
| Areas of expertise: | Biography I am a quantitative researcher with an interest in how appropriate technology can be used to enhance the learning... |
| Keywords: | learning process | technology | child language | language acquisition | impact of technology on the classroom | teaching process | computer supported collaborative learning | distance education |
| Dr Michael Barry | |
| Post(s): | Special Lecturer in Engineering Mathematics, Department of Engineering Mathematics |
| Areas of expertise: | Engineering Mathematics Education (EME), notably curriculum design, development and evolution at the interface between school... |
| Keywords: | engineering mathematics education (eme) | reporting | computer aided learning, simulation & assessment |
| Ms Christine Barter | |
| Post(s): | Senior Research Fellow, School for Policy Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | I was the Senior NSPCC Research Fellow with the University of Luton for nine years until the fellowship transferred to Bristol... |
| Keywords: | children who run away | children | young people | racial abuse | racism | institutional child abuse | peer violence |
| Dr Gail Bartlett | |
| Post(s): | Research Assistant, School of Chemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | I study the relationships between protein sequence, structure and function, particularly in coiled-coil proteins. |
| Keywords: | bioinformatics | protein structure |
| Dr Paul Bartlett | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Physical Chemistry, School of Chemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | My research group studies the design, synthesis and analysis of soft matter systems, focusing in particular on the structure... |
| Keywords: | soft matter chemistry | soft condensed matter science of colloids and nanoparticles |
| Dr David Barton | |
| Post(s): | Lecturer, Department of Engineering Mathematics |
| Areas of expertise: | I have a broad range of research interests across the field of applied mathematics, but I focus particularly on engineering... |
| Keywords: | mathematical modelling | dynamics of nonlinear systems | systems with delay | numerical methods for dynamical systems |
| Professor Zafar Bashir | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Cellular Neuroscience, School of Physiology and Pharmacology |
| Areas of expertise: | Neurones of the brain communicate with one another at specialised junctions, called synapses, through the process of synaptic... |
| Keywords: | Alzheimer's disease | learning & memory | cellular neuroscience | recognition memory |
| Professor Michael Basker | |
| Post(s): | Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Arts Faculty Office |
| Areas of expertise: | My main research interests are in Silver Age literature, Pushkin, and nineteenth-century poetry. My many publications on... |
| Keywords: | Silver Age literature | poetry | Pushkin | Gumilev | Russian symbolism | Russian poetry |
| Dr Mark Bass | |
| Post(s): | Research Fellow, School of Biochemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | In healthy adults, cell adhesion is tightly regulated and migration of most cell types is limited, unless stimulated by infection... |
| Keywords: | cell migration | skin fibroblasts | healing processes | cytoskeleton | endocytosis | Rho-family GTPases | Extracellular matrix receptors |
| Professor Dave Bates | |
| Post(s): | Research Fellow, School of Physiology and Pharmacology |
| Areas of expertise: | Understanding the mechanisms of microvessel function in health and disease. My research focusses on the role of VEGF in regulating... |
| Keywords: | microcirculation | capillaries | angiogenesis | vascular permeability | VEGF | capillary permeability | oedema | blood vessel growth |
| Professor Paul Bates | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Hydrology, School of Geographical Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | My expertise lies in the development of hydraulic models for flood prediction, and the use of Remotely Sensed data to parameterise,... |
| Keywords: | floods | flood prediction | hydraulic modelling | hydrology modelling | uncertainty and risk | river basin management | environmental management | Cabot Institute |
| Dr Sarah Batterbury | |
| Post(s): | Visiting Fellow, Graduate School of Education |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a lecturer in Deaf Studies. My research and publications span a variety of areas including policy evaluation, social... |
| Keywords: | Deaf Studies | Deaf culture and ethnicity | Policy evaluation | participatory evaluation | the evaluation profession | Recognition of British Sign Language | social justice |
| Professor Mark Beach | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Radio Systems Engineering, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | My research activities are focused on system design and optimisation of wireless communication networks, with particular... |
| Keywords: | system design | wireless communication networks | 3G | 4G | smart antennas | dual array architectures |
| Dr Keith Bean | |
| Post(s): | Visiting Fellow in Chemistry, School of Chemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | My main area of expertise is colloid and surface chemistry, and some areas of nanotechnology. I work as part of the Bristol... |
| Keywords: | colloid science | surface chemistry | industrial consultancy | pharmaceuticals | personal care products | agrochemicals | paints inks and coatings | nanotechnology |
| Professor Mark Beaumont | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Statistics, School of Mathematics Professor of Statistics, School of Biological Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a biologist by background, and I am interested in general problems of statistical inference in population genetics,... |
| Keywords: | statistical inference in population genetics | statistical inference in evolutionary biology | statistical inference in conservation genetics | monte carlo statistical methods | detecting evidence of selection in the genome | modelling demographic history of populations; modelling temporally sampled genetic data | inference in structured populations | inference in agent-based models |
| Mr Colin Bedford | |
| Post(s): | Visiting Fellow, Graduate School of Education |
| Areas of expertise: | Research Interests Learning, Knowing & Interactive Technologies (L-KIT) Biography I have taught Science in West... |
| Keywords: | learning | interactive technologies | integrated science | teaching | schools | National Curriculum | able pupils |
| Professor Robin Bedford | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Catalysis, School of Chemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | Our research centres on the development of new catalysts and the catalysis of novel organic reactions. This research lies... |
| Keywords: | new catalysts | the catalysis of novel organic reactions | novel organic reactions | organic chemistry | inorganic chemistry | catalyst development | organic reactions |
| Dr Souheil Ben Smida | |
| Post(s): | Research Associate in Electronics and Wireless Communications, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a Research Associate in the Communication Systems & Networks Group of the Centre for Communications Research at the... |
| Keywords: | RF passive and active circuits | power amplifiers | microwave instrumentation |
| Dr Kristina Bennert | |
| Post(s): | Qualitative Research Associate for the ESKIMO Study, School of Social and Community Medicine Research Associate, School of Social and Community Medicine |
| Areas of expertise: | I have been involved in a series of projects in Health Communication and Health Services research including genetic counselling... |
| Keywords: | health communication | health services | genetic counselling | health | welfare services | disabilities | diabetes |
| Professor Andrew Bennett | |
| Post(s): | Professor of English, Department of English |
| Areas of expertise: | My research focuses on Romanticism, on twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing, and on literary theory. I have published... |
| Keywords: | Romanticism | twentieth-century and contemporary literature | literary theory |
| Dr Peter Bennett | |
| Post(s): | Research Assistant - Wearable Human Computer Interaction, Department of Computer Science |
| Areas of expertise: | My PhD research investigated the uses of interaction design in the development of new digital musical instruments. I am... |
| Keywords: | human computer interaction | Interaction Design | Musical Instrument Design | augmented reality | design |
| Dr Luke Bennetto | |
| Post(s): | Senior Clinical Lecturer, School of Clinical Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | Research interests: Multiple Sclerosis; Optic Neuritis; Idiopathic intracranial hypertension; Trigeminal neuralgia. Special... |
| Keywords: | neurology | headache | neuro-ophthalmology | multiple sclerosis | epilepsy |
| Dr Christopher Benton | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, School of Experimental Psychology |
| Areas of expertise: | I am interested in visual perception, in particular motion perception and face perception. I’ve also recently developed... |
| Keywords: | visual perception | motion perception | face perception | motion processing mechanism | local motion | global motion | facial identity |
| Professor Mike Benton | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology, School of Earth Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | My interests include the diversification of life through time, quality of the fossil record, shapes of phylogenies, age-clade... |
| Keywords: | diversification of life | Triassic ecosystem evolution | basal diapsid phylogeny | basal archosaurs | end-Permian mass extinction | tree of life | fossil records | vertebrate palaeontology |
| Dr Mark Beresford | |
| Post(s): | Senior Clinical Lecturer, School of Clinical Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | I received a Doctorate of Medicine from Oxford University for research into predicting response to chemotherapy in breast... |
| Keywords: | clinical oncology (breast & urology) |
| Dr Gunter Berghaus | |
| Post(s): | Senior Research Fellow in Drama: Theatre, Film, Television, Department of Drama: Theatre, Film, Television |
| Areas of expertise: | I was, for many years, a Reader in Theatre History and Performance Studies and I am now a Senior Research Fellow at the University... |
| Keywords: | theater history | performance studies | futurism | italian futurism | Avant-Garde |
| Professor Sir John Beringer | |
| Post(s): | Emeritus Professor, Vice-Chancellor's Office |
| Areas of expertise: | Microbiology, microbial and molecular genetics, agricultural biotechnology, biosafety regulations, public reaction to scientific... |
| Keywords: | genetically modified organisms (GMOs) | agricultural microbiology | microbial ecology | John Innes Centre | GMO regulations |
| Professor David Berridge | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Child & Family Welfare, School for Policy Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | I am currently the head of the Centre for Family Policy and Child Welfare (FPCW), which is a focus for research and consultancy... |
| Keywords: | child welfare | children in care | adolescence | residential care | foster care | institutional child abuse |
| Dr Monica Berry | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, School of Physics |
| Areas of expertise: | I am fascinated by the complex interactions that occur in the tears and at the ocular surface. The preocular fluid is organised... |
| Keywords: | mucins | ocular surface | tears | in vitro toxicology |
| Professor Christopher Bertram | |
| Post(s): | Professor in Social and Political Philosophy, Department of Philosophy |
| Areas of expertise: | I'm a political philosopher who has published on liberal theories of justice, on the history of political thought (especially... |
| Keywords: | political philosophy | Rousseau | history of political thought | inequality | global justice | migration | immigration | territorial rights |
| Ms Bruna Bezerra | |
| Post(s): | Research Associate in Biological Sciences, School of Biological Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | I am currently an Honorary Research Associate at the University of Bristol and a Research Scholar at the University of Louisville... |
| Keywords: | behavioural ecology | marmosets | golden-backed uakaris | capuchin monkeys |
| Professor Sonia Bhalotra | |
| Post(s): | Research Fellow in Economics, Finance and Management, School of Economics, Finance and Management |
| Areas of expertise: | My current research interests are motivated by welfare issues in low-income economies. My recent work is concerned with child... |
| Keywords: | development economics | applied microeconomics | economics of the family | child health | child labour | gender | labour economics |
| Professor Suby Bhattacharya | |
| Post(s): | Visiting Fellow, Department of Civil Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | My current projects can be classified into following groups: - Offshore Geotechnics - Kinematic bending moments in... |
| Keywords: | offshore geotechnics | kinematic bending moments | layered soils | earthquakes | pile-soil interaction | liquefiable soils | seismic loading |
| Ms Lois Bibbings | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Bristol Law School |
| Areas of expertise: | I have written about violence and non-violence, the military, crime, sexuality, the body, cosmetic surgery, female genital... |
| Keywords: | gender | (non)violence | sexuality | military | widening participation | history | masculinities | crime |
| Professor Robert Bickers | |
| Post(s): | Professor of History, Department of History (Historical Studies) |
| Areas of expertise: | My field is the modern history of China, and of the British empire. I have a particular interest in the social history of... |
| Keywords: | Shanghai | China | British empire | colonial history | imperial history | Sino-British relations |
| Dr Juliet Biggs | |
| Post(s): | Lecturer, School of Earth Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | My research primarily uses Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) to understand the physics of the processes that... |
| Keywords: | continental rifts | volcanoes | earthquake cycle | east african rift | active tectonic processes |
| Professor Polly Bingley | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Diabetes, School of Clinical Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | My main research focus is the epidemiology, aetiology and pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes and related autoimmune conditions,... |
| Keywords: | type 1 diabetes | diabetes prevention | diabetes autoantibodies |
| Professor Kenneth Binmore | |
| Post(s): | Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy |
| Areas of expertise: | My research interests cover evolutionary game theory, bargaining theory, experimental economics, political philosophy, mathematics... |
| Keywords: | evolutionary game theory | game theory | experimental economics | political philosophy | statistics | 3G spectrum auction |
| Professor Alexander Bird | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy |
| Areas of expertise: | My work concerns metaphysics and the theory of knowledge as applied to science. It thus concerns the laws of nature, physical... |
| Keywords: | metaphysics | laws of nature | scientific progress | scientific knowledge | scientific revolutions |
| Professor Mark Birkinshaw | |
| Post(s): | William P. Coldrick Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics, School of Physics |
| Areas of expertise: | I work on the large-scale structure of the Universe and the properties of the massive objects contained within it, using... |
| Keywords: | astronomy | cosmology | space science | quasars | universe | galaxies | relativity | plasma physics |
| Dr Emily-Jayne Blackwell | |
| Post(s): | Dogs Trust Lecturer in Canine Behaviour and Welfare, School of Veterinary Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | I am the Dogs Trust lecturer in canine behaviour and welfare, and director of the behaviour clinic at the Vet School. I am... |
| Keywords: | dog behaviour |
| Dr Pete Blair | |
| Post(s): | Senior Research Fellow, School of Social and Community Medicine |
| Areas of expertise: | My research expertise is in the field of SIDS. In particular the investigation of background characteristics and risk factors... |
| Keywords: | Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) | cot death | epidemiology of SIDS | risk factors associated with SIDS |
| Professor Jane Blazeby | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Surgery, School of Social and Community Medicine |
| Areas of expertise: | Randomised controlled trials in surgery Surgical oncology and measuring outcomes Patient reported outcomes Oesophageal... |
| Keywords: | randomised controlled trials | surgery | surgical oncology | patient reported outcomes |
| Dr Ariel Blocker | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Microbiology, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine |
| Areas of expertise: | My laboratory studies tiny injection-type devices, which are the principle means of the interaction of many microbes, called... |
| Keywords: | infectious diseases | microbes | novel antibacterial drugs | vaccines |
| Professor David Blockley | |
| Post(s): | Senior Research Fellow in Civil Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | My work is developing and using systems thinking to help manage the inevitable uncertainty in any engineering project. There... |
| Keywords: | systems thinking | engineering projects | hard systems | soft system | organisational 'silos' |
| Professor Ashley Blom | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Clinical Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | I studied Medicine in Cape Town graduating in 1991. In 1994 I emigrated to the UK and undertook postgraduate training as... |
| Keywords: | outcomes of arthroplasty | the safety of Orthopaedic implants | restitution of bone stock loss |
| Professor Jon Blundy | |
| Post(s): | Professorial Research Fellow in Petrology, School of Earth Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | My research concerns the generation, movement and evolution of magma within the Earth. I use a combination of igneous petrology,... |
| Keywords: | magma | igneous petrology | geochemistry | volcanoes | magmatism | subduction zones | destructive plate boundaries |
| Dr Kostyantyn Blyuss | |
| Post(s): | Visiting Fellow, Department of Engineering Mathematics |
| Areas of expertise: | The main area of my research is mathematical biology and epidemiology. I am particularly interested in various aspects of... |
| Keywords: | mathematical biology | epidemiology | phase-change processes | stability of solitary waves | population dynamics | infectious diseases | physical properties of materials |
| Ms Nina Boeger | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Bristol Law School |
| Areas of expertise: | Before joining the School of Law in September 2004, I worked as a solicitor in international commercial law firms. I have... |
| Keywords: | comparative law | european union law | international commercial law | european union economic law |
| Dr Rafal Bogacz | |
| Post(s): | Visiting Fellow, Department of Computer Science |
| Areas of expertise: | My research focuses on computational neuroscience, and in particular on computational models of decision making in the mamalian... |
| Keywords: | computational neuroscience | computational models of decision making | mamalian brain | choice processes | Parkinson's disease | reinforcement learning | familiarity discrimination |
| Mrs Allison Bolster | |
| Post(s): | Visiting Fellow, Graduate School of Education |
| Areas of expertise: | Research Interests SLA, sociolinguistic theory, developmental psychology and counselling, motivation in MFL, transition... |
| Keywords: | primary foreign languages | sociolinguistic theory | developmental psychology | modern foreign languages | French methodology | languages | mentoring | learner motivation |
| Professor Ian Bond | |
| Post(s): | Professor and Head of the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Department of Aerospace Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | Development of Novel Fibres And Their Composites which includes; - Self-Repair - Shaped Fibres, ... |
| Keywords: | smart materials | novel fibres | novel composites | fatigue of composites | recycling of composites |
| Dr Mark Bond | |
| Post(s): | Senior Research Fellow, School of Clinical Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | My research focuses on the molecular mechanisms regulating vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation. In particular, we... |
| Keywords: | molecular mechanisms | muscle cell proliferation | extracellular proteases | ECM remodelling | cell cycle regulator |
| Professor Tim Bond | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Counselling and Professional Ethics, Graduate School of Education |
| Areas of expertise: | Over twenty years experience as a practitioner and academic with a specific interest in professional ethics for counselling... |
| Keywords: | counselling ethics | counselling legal issues | professional ethics | relational ethics | ethics | narrative approaches to research | limitations of ethical rules | qualitative research methods |
| Dr Andrew Booker | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in Pure Mathematics, School of Mathematics |
| Areas of expertise: | I work in algorithmic and analytic number theory, more specifically on problems related to Galois representations and the... |
| Keywords: | algorithmic number theory | analytic number theory | galois representations | spectral theory of automorphic forms |
| Dr Julian Booker | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Design and Manufacture, Department of Mechanical Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | Design for X Product development process Probabilistic and robust design Design of novel electro-mechanical systems Experimental... |
| Keywords: | design methods | engineering education | fatigue and fracture | renewable energy | actuation |
| Professor Kevin Booker-Milburn | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Organic Chemistry, School of Chemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | -Palladium (II) catalysed alkene functionalisation: Work in our group concerns the use of Pd (II) mediated oxidative chemistry... |
| Keywords: | palladium (ii) catalysed alkene functionalisation | synthetic organic photochemistry | total synthesis of natural products | laser mediated photochemistry |
| Professor Paula Booth | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Physical Biochemistry, School of Biochemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | Proteins are the worker molecules in all life forms. An understanding of how proteins work is essential in the fight against... |
| Keywords: | biochemistry | biophysics | biological membranes | membrane proteins | multidrug resistance | receptor proteins | protein folding | molecular basis of disease |
| Dr Humphrey Bourne | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, Department of Management |
| Areas of expertise: | My research interests focus on values in organisations and include: organisational values, their development and change;... |
| Keywords: | values in organisations | organisational values | personal values | organisation values | role of values | decision-making | organisations |
| Dr John Bower | |
| Post(s): | Royal Society University Research Fellow, School of Chemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | Organic chemistry, asymmetric synthesis, catalysis |
| Keywords: | organic chemistry | asymmetric synthesis | catalysis |
| Professor Jeffrey Bowers | |
| Post(s): | Professor, School of Experimental Psychology |
| Areas of expertise: | One line of research addresses a phenomenon called long-term priming, which refers to a facilitation (or cost) in responding... |
| Keywords: | visual word recognition | speech production | connectionist modelling | word learning | word priming | visual word identification | psycholinguistics |
| Dr Clive Bowsher | |
| Post(s): | Lecturer in Statistics, School of Mathematics |
| Areas of expertise: | Statistics of dynamic systems; theoretical systems biology; mathematics in molecular and cell biology. Dynamics of biomolecular... |
| Keywords: | statistics of dynamic systems | theoretical systems biology | mathematical biololgy | marked point processes | information theory | graphical modelling | applied probability |
| Professor Harriet Bradley | |
| Post(s): | Emeritus Professor of Sociology, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | I am an expert in the area of women's work, covering employment but also domestic work. At a more general level, I am concerned... |
| Keywords: | women's employment | young people | class inequalities | gender inequalities | minority ethnic women | trade unions | transitions from school to work | work-life balance |
| Dr Karin Bradley | |
| Post(s): | Senior Clinical Lecturer, School of Clinical Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | -Neuroendocrine service for childhood cancer survivors -Medical obstetrics -Pituitary disease -Parathyroid disease Specialist... |
| Keywords: | adult endocrinology | neuroendocrinology | adrenal disorders | carcinoid |
| Professor Leo Brady | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Biochemistry and Head of School, School of Biochemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | My main research interest is Biomolecular Structures: The vast majority of life processes result from the binding of a... |
| Keywords: | biomolecular structures | protein structure | molecules | disease | protein crystallography | biomolecular interactions | molecular modelling |
| Professor Malcolm Bremer | |
| Post(s): | Professor, School of Physics |
| Areas of expertise: | As an observational cosmologist, I study how structure forms in the Universe. As part of this, I have pioneered techniques... |
| Keywords: | observational cosmology | universe | astronomy | galaxies | galaxy clusters |
| Dr Peter Brennan | |
| Post(s): | Reader, School of Physiology and Pharmacology |
| Areas of expertise: | My research interests are focused on the vomeronasal system. This chemosensory system is found in a wide variety of vertebrates... |
| Keywords: | vomeronasal system | chemosensory systems | non-volatile chemical signals | olfactory learning | smell | mammalian pheromones | mate recognition | accessory olfactory bulb |
| Dr Michael Bresalier | |
| Post(s): | Visiting Fellow, School of Arts |
| Areas of expertise: | I work primarily in the social history and epistemology of biomedicine, with general interests in concepts of disease, the... |
| Keywords: | social history | epistemology | biomedicine | concepts of disease | disease | biomedical knowledge | flu |
| Professor Gary Bridge | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Urban Studies, School for Policy Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | My research interests include work in social/urban theory and class, gentrification and urban social change. Recent work... |
| Keywords: | social theory and the city | gentrification | neighbourhood dynamics | philosophy of social science | theories of social welfare | urban society | class |
| Dr Jon Bridle | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in Biological Sciences, School of Biological Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | My research interests focus on population and evolutionary genetics, particularly how maximum rates of adaptation relate... |
| Keywords: | evolutionary genetics | population genetics | adaptation | quantitative traits | climate change | adaptive divergence | assortative mating |
| Dr Steve Brierley | |
| Post(s): | Heilbronn Research Fellow, School of Mathematics |
| Areas of expertise: | Quantum Information is concerned both with the fundamental science of quantum systems and with how one can use quantum resources... |
| Keywords: | quantum information |
| Dr Josie Briscoe | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, School of Experimental Psychology |
| Areas of expertise: | One line of research addresses the locus and range of memory-related deficits observed in children at risk of developmental... |
| Keywords: | developmental disorders | language impairment | working memory | episodic memory | event memory | memory | children with communication deficits |
| Dr Wuge Briscoe | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in Physical Chemistry, School of Chemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | Soft matter, such as polymers and surfactants, can be anchored on solid surfaces to form various molecular structures, readily... |
| Keywords: | soft matter | polymers | surfactants | solid surfaces | molecular structures | surface properties | surface forces |
| Professor Patricia Broadfoot | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education |
| Areas of expertise: | As an educationist, I work in the field of assessment and its impact on teaching and learning arguing the need for more attention... |
| Keywords: | education | assessment | social science infrastructure and resources | education for sustainability | Cabot Institute |
| Dr Grace Brockington | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in History of Art, Department of History of Art (Historical Studies) |
| Areas of expertise: | My approach is interdisciplinary. My doctoral research into peace movements in the First World War developed into a study... |
| Keywords: | art | pacifism | war art | British art | peace movements | internationalism | culture | education |
| Professor Nick Brook | |
| Post(s): | Professor and Head of School, School of Physics |
| Areas of expertise: | I work on the LHCb experiment at CERN. LHCb is looking for small differences between matter and anti-matter. I was the computing... |
| Keywords: | particle physics | Matter-Antimatter asymmetry | Structure of the proton | quantum chromodynamics | Large Hadron Collider | grid computing |
| Dr Jim Brooke | |
| Post(s): | Research Associate, School of Physics |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a particle physicist working on the CMS experiment. My research interests include searches for new physics, specifically... |
| Keywords: | particle physics | Compact Muon Solenoid | Higgs | SUSY |
| Professor David Brookshaw | |
| Post(s): | Emeritus Professor, Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | My main research interests lie in the area of migrant, colonial and postcolonial literary discourses. Within this broad framework,... |
| Keywords: | literary discourses | diasporic condition | Literatures in Portuguese | Lusophone African literatures | literary translation | postcolonial literary discourses |
| Dr Jon Brown | |
| Post(s): | Visiting Fellow, School of Physiology and Pharmacology |
| Areas of expertise: | Prefrontal and hippocampal neurophysiology in models of schizophrenia. Subtle changes in neurodevelopment, which result... |
| Keywords: | electrophysiology | synapse | excitability | networks | hippocampus | prefrontal cortex | schizophrenia | Alzheimer's disease |
| Dr Keith Brown | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Molecular Pathology, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine |
| Areas of expertise: | My research interests are in the molecular genetics of children's cancers, concentrating in particular on two common cancers;... |
| Keywords: | molecular genetics | cancer | Wilms' tumour | neuroblastoma | epigenetics |
| Ms Laurinda Brown | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in Education (Mathematics), Graduate School of Education |
| Areas of expertise: | Research Interests Mathematics education, effective mathematics teaching and learning, complex decision-making and intuition,... |
| Keywords: | mathematics education | mathematics | teaching | learning | complex decision-making | intuition | cognition | mathematics teaching |
| Professor Malcolm Brown | |
| Post(s): | Emeritus Professor of Anatomy, School of Physiology and Pharmacology |
| Areas of expertise: | My research focuses on the neural processes that lie behind memory and learning. I am particularly interested in the neural... |
| Keywords: | neural processes | memory | learning | neural substrates | recognition memory | neuronal activity |
| Dr Matthew Brown | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Latin American Studies, Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | I have published widely on Latin American history and culture: on foreign intervention in Latin America, on military conflict,... |
| Keywords: | Colombia | Venezuela | military | Latin America | politics | history |
| Professor William Browne | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Biostatistics, Farm Animal Science |
| Areas of expertise: | My research is in Bayesian statistics, multilevel modelling, complex random effect modelling, applied statistics including... |
| Keywords: | Bayesian statistics | multilevel modelling | complex random effect modelling | applied statistics | veterinary epidemiology | public health | bird ecology |
| Professor Tim Browning | |
| Post(s): | Professor in Number Theory, School of Mathematics |
| Areas of expertise: | Interface of analytic number theory and Diophantine geometry |
| Keywords: | number theory | Diophantine equations |
| Professor Jeff Brunstrom | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Experimental Psychology, School of Experimental Psychology |
| Areas of expertise: | I am an experimental psychologist with an interest in ‘behavioural nutrition.’ Broadly, this incorporates decisions and behaviours... |
| Keywords: | diet | food choice | obesity | overeating | nutrition | dietary learning | appetite | portion size |
| Professor Judith Bryce | |
| Post(s): | Senior Research Fellow in Italian, Department of Italian Emeritus Professor, Department of Italian |
| Areas of expertise: | My early research interests focused on mid-sixteenth-century Florentine cultural history, but I have also published on modern... |
| Keywords: | culture | Florentine cultural history | Italian literature | Florence | gender | women |
| Professor George Bulkley | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Financial Economics, Department of Accounting and Finance |
| Areas of expertise: | I work in the area of the performance of asset markets. I am particularly interested in behavioural finance and distinguishing... |
| Keywords: | asset markets | behavioural finance | interest rates |
| Professor David Bull | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Signal Processing, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | I am Head of the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department at the University of Bristol. I lead the Signal Processing... |
| Keywords: | image and video coding | image analysis | signal processing | image and video communications |
| Dr Ian Bull | |
| Post(s): | Research Fellow in Analytical Chemistry, School of Chemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | My current research interests concern key aspects of the terrestrial environment and, in particular, soil organic matter... |
| Keywords: | soil organic matter | soil environment | pollution | analytical methodologies | stable isotope ratio mass spectrometry | soil |
| Dr Martin Bunnage | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, School of Experimental Psychology |
| Areas of expertise: | Clinical Neuropsychology Brain Injury Head Injury Medicolegal Court |
| Keywords: | clinical neuropsychology | human neuropsychology | brain injury | head injury | neuropsychology of functional neurosurgery | neuropsychology |
| Professor Simon Burgess | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Economics, Department of Economics |
| Areas of expertise: | I do research within an economics framework on poverty, unemployment, education, incentives in the public sector, and local... |
| Keywords: | poverty | unemployment | public sector incentives | area effects | education outcomes |
| Professor Stuart Burgess | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Engineering Design, Department of Mechanical Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | Efficiency modelling of structures and mechanisms; design and nature; structural efficiency of trees; insect flight mechanisms;... |
| Keywords: | design & nature |
| Professor Jonathan Burnside | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Biblical Law, University of Bristol Law School |
| Areas of expertise: | I have conducted research into religious-based therapeutic communities in prison including Kainos Community (Christian-centred... |
| Keywords: | Kainos community | religious-based therapeutic communities in prison | restorative justice | relational justice |
| Dr Christine Burren | |
| Post(s): | Senior Clinical Lecturer, School of Clinical Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | Paediatric Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolic Bone Disease. |
| Keywords: | paediatric endocrinology | diabetes & metabolic bone disease | growth disorders | pituitary disorders | thyroid disorders | adrenal disorders | unduly early or late puberty |
| Dr Steve Burrow | |
| Post(s): | RAEng Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow, Department of Aerospace Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | As a member of the Electrical Energy Management Group and of the Aerospace Dynamics and Systems research-group, my current... |
| Keywords: | energy management | coupled mechanical / electrical systems | power electronics | electrical machines | energy harvesting | renewable energy | sensing systems |
| Dr Steven Burston | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, School of Biochemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | Proteins are the workforce of every cell and are synthesised by assembling amino acids in a particular sequence which is... |
| Keywords: | protein folding | molecular chaperones | molecular motors |
| Dr Andrew Butterworth | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in Animal Sciences, School of Veterinary Sciences Senior Research Fellow, Farm Animal Science |
| Areas of expertise: | First, I was a veterinary surgeon in mixed practice in Scotland and in Berkshire where I carried out farm and companion animal... |
| Keywords: | welfare assessment methods | broiler chicken pathology, disease and welfare | wild mammal management | veterinary ethics and law |
| Dr Craig Butts | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Mechanistic & Structural Chemistry, School of Chemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | We tackle challenges based around elucidating organic molecular structure and reaction mechanism, principally using NMR spectroscopy... |
| Keywords: | NMR spectroscopy | molecular structure | molecules | physical organic chemistry |
| Professor Richard Buxton | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Greek Language and Literature, Department of Classics & Ancient History |
| Areas of expertise: | I work on ancient Greek literature (especially tragedy), and ancient mythology and religion. One of my main aims is to explore... |
| Keywords: | ancient Greek literature | literature | ancient mythology | religion | myths | mythology |
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