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| Dr Eldin Fahmy | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, School for Policy Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | My research concerns the extent of poverty and social exclusion in the UK and the EU and the policies needed to tackle it.... |
| Keywords: | poverty | social exclusion | youth disadvantage | rural poverty |
| Dr Malcolm Fairbrother | |
| Post(s): | Lecturer in Global Policy and Politics, School of Geographical Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | My expertise is in political economy, nature-society relationships, and social science research methods. I have done research... |
| Keywords: | political economy | economic development | globalisation | environmental policy and politics | NAFTA | public opinion |
| Dr Pauline Fairclough | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in Music, Department of Music |
| Areas of expertise: | My research focuses on Soviet musical culture, especially during the Stalin period, with special emphasis on Shostakovich... |
| Keywords: | Shostakovich | Soviet music | music |
| Dr Maria Fannin | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, School of Geographical Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | Before joining the School of Geographical Sciences in July 2006, Dr. Fannin conducted research on the adoption and popularity... |
| Keywords: | feminist theory | reproduction | health care | midwifery | migration |
| Professor Elaine Farmer | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Child and Family Studies, School for Policy Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | My research interests include foster and residential care, the reunification of separated children with their families, kinship... |
| Keywords: | Child protection | Neglect | fostering | kinship care | adoption | Reunification of children in care with their parents | sexual abuse and substitute care |
| Professor Simon Farrell | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Cognitive Psychology, School of Experimental Psychology |
| Areas of expertise: | My research involves the use of quantitative models to guide investigation of the processes of learning, retrieval, and performance... |
| Keywords: | short-term memory | long-term memory | computational modelling | fractal psychology | connectionist models | saccadic decision-making |
| Dr Ian Farrow | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in Aerospace Structural Design, Department of Aerospace Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a member of the Aerospace Composites research group. My interests include:- design and analysis of aerospace composite... |
| Keywords: | aerospace composites | design methods | design toold | aerospace composites | acoustic emission monitoring | fatigue damage |
| Dr Neal Farwell | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, Department of Music |
| Areas of expertise: | My compositional output includes work for acoustic ensemble, tape alone, live electronics and installation. I have collaborated... |
| Keywords: | music composition | acoustic ensemble | tape alone | live electronics | installation | semiotics | Charles Sanders Peirce |
| Dr Charl FJ Faul | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Materials Chemistry, School of Chemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | Efforts are focussed on exploring the design principles and applications of functional hierarchical soft materials utilising... |
| Keywords: | electroactive nanostructures | conducting organics | molecular electronics | oligo(aniline)s | liquid crystals | functional nanomaterials |
| Dr Tim Fawcett | |
| Post(s): | Research Fellow, School of Biological Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a biologist studying the evolution of animal behaviour, using a combination of theory and simple experiments on birds... |
| Keywords: | mate choice | decision making | sex ratios | aggression | flexible behaviour | learning | behavioural ecology |
| Professor Gene Feder | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Primary Care, School of Social and Community Medicine Professor of Primary Care, School of Social and Community Medicine |
| Areas of expertise: | Cardiovascular health - in particular the diagnosis and management of angina and using cardiovascular risk as a basis of... |
| Keywords: | cardiovascular health | angina | domestic violence | clinical guidelines | primary care | general practice |
| Dr Alan Feest | |
| Post(s): | Senior Research Fellow in Civil Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a world leader in the measurement of biodiversity. I have created a computer programme that can be adapted to a... |
| Keywords: | biodiversity | slime moulds |
| Dr Anthony Feiler | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Education, Special Educational Needs, Graduate School of Education |
| Areas of expertise: | Research Interests Special educational needs and inclusive education, disabled children (enhancing communication and friendships),... |
| Keywords: | special educational needs | inclusive education | children with disabilities | early literacy intervention | collaborative links between schools and families | 14-19 curriculum reforms |
| Dr Magnus Feldmann | |
| Post(s): | Lecturer in Politics, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | My research focuses on comparative and international political economy and on comparative politics (with a special emphasis... |
| Keywords: | international political economy | comparative political economy | comparative politics | Central Europe | Eastern Europe | communism | international trade |
| Professor David Fermin | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Electrochemistry, School of Chemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | I am the coordinator of the Electrochemistry Group. Our research goals are associated with materials and interfaces for solar... |
| Keywords: | Solar Energy Conversion and Storage | Semiconductor Materials and Photo-Electroactive Systems | Electrocatalysis for Fuel Cell Applications |
| Mr George Ferzoco | |
| Post(s): | Research Fellow, School of Humanities |
| Areas of expertise: | Most of my research deals with the media of medieval propaganda, and how positive and negatives images of good and bad people... |
| Keywords: | medieval propaganda | sermons / preaching | canonization / canonisation | Pope Celestine V / medieval papacy | genitalia in medieval art | Italian football ('calcio') | Fellini | Tuscany (esp. Massa Marittima & Florence) / Abruzzo (esp. L'Aquila, Sulmona & Corfinio |
| Dr Natalie Fey | |
| Post(s): | Research Associate, School of Chemistry Visiting Fellow, School of Chemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | Transition metal complexes catalyse many reactions important in synthetic organic and organometallic chemistry. However,... |
| Keywords: | transition metal complexes | organometallic chemistry | synthetic organic chemistry | catalytic reactions | catalysts | synthetically relevant organometallic chemistry | quantum chemistry |
| Professor Adam Finn | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Paediatrics, School of Clinical Sciences Professor of Paediatrics, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine |
| Areas of expertise: | Research work focusing on the evaluation of childhood vaccines against infectious diseases, mucosal immune responses to vaccines... |
| Keywords: | paediatrics | vaccines | infectious diseases | immunology | child health |
| Professor Peter Flach | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Department of Computer Science |
| Areas of expertise: | My main expertise is in mining highly structured data, as found in many scientific disciplines; and in data-intensive computing,... |
| Keywords: | machine learning | data mining | structured data | exabyte informatics | scientific discovery | data-intensive computing | networks |
| Dr Kieran Flanagan | |
| Post(s): | Senior Research Fellow in Sociology, Politics and International Studies, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | My research interests are in historical sociology and the relationship between sociology and theology (Catholicism), which... |
| Keywords: | historical sociology | theology | A Secular Age | Sociology at Prayer | religious rituals | theology and sociology |
| Dr Rachel Flecker | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, School of Geographical Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | I extract information about past climates from rocks and fossils that were deposited in semi-enclosed marine systems like... |
| Keywords: | Sakhalin | Mediterranean palaeoclimate | Messinian Salinity Crisis |
| Professor Peter Fleming | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Infant Health & Developmental Physiology, School of Social and Community Medicine |
| Areas of expertise: | My clinical practice is in the fields of newborn intensive care, developmental assessment and investigation and care of children... |
| Keywords: | infants | Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) | infant development | sleep | newborn intensive care |
| Dr Jordan Fletcher | |
| Post(s): | Research Assistant, School of Chemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | As part of a collaboration between the laboratories of Dek Woolfson and Paula Booth, my current work is on the development... |
| Keywords: | synthetic cytoskeletons | peptides |
| Dr Adrian Flint | |
| Post(s): | Lecturer in Development Politics, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | My main research interests lie within the field of North-South relations and include issues such as poverty alleviation,... |
| Keywords: | North-South relations | poverty alleviation | sustainable development | HIV/AIDs | European Union development policy | development policy | international political economy |
| Professor Karen Forbes | |
| Post(s): | Professorial Teaching Fellow in Palliative Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a consultant in Palliative Medicine. Half of my sessions are clinical and half are devoted to teaching and research.... |
| Keywords: | palliative care | end-of-life care | medical education | undergraduate medical education | postgraduate medical education |
| Dr Edward Forman | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in French, Department of French |
| Areas of expertise: | Theatre history and drama with particular reference to drama and ethics, music on the stage, theories of tragedy, comic drama |
| Keywords: | French literature | French culture | French drama | music and drama |
| Dr Gaston Fornes | |
| Post(s): | Senior Teaching Fellow, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | Before starting my doctoral studies, I worked in industry for around ten years in the USA, Argentina, and Chile. My main... |
| Keywords: | emerging economies | China - Latin America Relations | foreign exchange exposure in emerging economies | SMEs in Emerging Economies |
| Dr Elizabeth Fortin | |
| Post(s): | Research Associate, University of Bristol Law School |
| Areas of expertise: | My British Academy postdoctoral Research Fellowship examines multi-stakeholder efforts to formulate supranational consensual... |
| Keywords: | knowledge formation in participatory policy processes | theorisation of the formulation of supranational consensual regulation | global sustainability standards | biofuels | roundtable on sustainable biofuels | land reform in post-apartheid South Africa |
| Dr Becky Foster | |
| Post(s): | Research Fellow, School of Clinical Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | I completed my BSc in Zoology at the University of Wales, Swansea in 1999. In 2001 I undertook a PhD in the Microvascular... |
| Keywords: | vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)-A | podocyte biology | renal physiology | academic renal unit | proteins involved in glomerular physiology & pathology |
| Professor Gary Foster | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Molecular Plant Pathology, School of Biological Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | My research is focused on investigating a range of interconnecting themes that include plant virology, plant pathology, plant... |
| Keywords: | plant pathology | plant virology | plant molecular biology | molecular virology | molecular mycology | biotechnology | GM plants | GMOs |
| Dr Pru Foster | |
| Post(s): | Research Fellow, School of Earth Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | I am interested in the links between climate and vegetation. This includes both the impact of climate change on vegetation... |
| Keywords: | climate | vegetation | climate and vegetation | ecosystems | climate change | cloud forests |
| Professor Robert Fowler | |
| Post(s): | Henry Overton Wills Professor of Greek, Department of Classics & Ancient History |
| Areas of expertise: | My field of study is early Greek literature. I have become involved in the campaign to complete the excavation of the Villa... |
| Keywords: | Herculaneum | Homer | Herodotus | papyri |
| Dr Jon Fox | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in Sociology, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | My expertise is in ethnicity, nationalism, and migration. I am interested in the everyday ways ordinary people understand,... |
| Keywords: | ethnicity | migration | nationalism | East Europe | ethnic return migration | Hungary | Romania | European nationalism |
| Professor Ken Fox | |
| Post(s): | Emeritus Professor, Centre for Exercise, Nutrition and Health Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | Spokesperson for the field of physical activity/exercise and public health. Senior scientific editor of the CMO report (2004)and... |
| Keywords: | physical activity | exercise | psychology | obesity | public health | mental health | ageing | self-esteem |
| Dr Neil Fox | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, School of Chemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a member of the CVD Diamond Lab based in the School of Chemistry at the University of Bristol, UK. In this lab we study... |
| Keywords: | folms of diamond | diamond-like carbon | amorphous carbon | chemical vapour deposition techniques | gas phase diagnostics | optical emission spectroscopy | cavity ring-down laser spectroscopy | spectrometry |
| Dr Clive Frankish | |
| Post(s): | Senior Research Fellow in Experimental Psychology, School of Experimental Psychology |
| Areas of expertise: | My primary research interest is the way verbal short-term memory is supported by speech and language processing skills. In... |
| Keywords: | short-term memory | language | speech perception | reading |
| Professor Nigel Franks | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Animal Behaviour and Ecology, School of Biological Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | My research is on collective problem-solving in ants. Ant colonies embody all of the most important aspects of biological... |
| Keywords: | ants | problem-solving | biological organization | ant colonies | collective intelligence |
| Dr Abigail Fraser | |
| Post(s): | Senior Research Fellow in Epidemiology, School of Social and Community Medicine |
| Areas of expertise: | Cardiovascular and metabolic epidemiology with a special interest in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and women's reproductive... |
| Keywords: | epidemiology | public health | pregnancy | nonalcoholic fatty liver disease |
| Professor Mike Fraser | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Human-Computer Interaction, Department of Computer Science |
| Areas of expertise: | I lead a number of initiatives on public deployments of computer science research. I study the practical use of technologies... |
| Keywords: | use of technology in public | public engagement with computing research | social interaction | human-computer interaction | human-robot interaction | haptics and force feedback |
| Dr Jan Frayne | |
| Post(s): | Senior Teaching Fellow, School of Biochemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | Mammalian fertility: sperm function (& stem cell biology: erythropoiesis) At present our research is focused on two distinct... |
| Keywords: | mammalian fertility | sperm function | stemcell biology | erythropoiesis | sperm maturation | male fertility | contraceptive strategies | erythroid differentiation |
| Professor Norman Freeman | |
| Post(s): | Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Development, School of Experimental Psychology Senior Research Fellow in Experimental Psychology, School of Experimental Psychology |
| Areas of expertise: | I work in cognition, mostly trying to model and test hypotheses about representational development, where I have invented... |
| Keywords: | cognition | development | preschool | theory of mind | number | drawing | domain specific learning |
| Professor Jim Freer | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Hydrology, School of Geographical Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | Uncertainty analysis in environmental modelling; field experiments and computer model simulations to understand process mechanisms... |
| Keywords: | hydrology | catchment scale hydrological model development | uncertainty analysis | environmental modelling | phosphorous modelling |
| Dr Sylvain Friederich | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in Finance, Department of Accounting and Finance |
| Areas of expertise: | My main research interests are in the area of financial market microstructure, the area of financial economics that examines... |
| Keywords: | financial market microstructure | stock exchanges | stock markets | high-frequency trading | MiFID | trading systems | market fragmentation | trading transparency |
| Professor Andrew Friedman | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Management and Economics, Department of Management |
| Areas of expertise: | I am the managing director of the Professional Associations Research Network (PARN); a research and development network which... |
| Keywords: | Professional Associations Research Network | PARN | management | information systems | professions | environment |
| Dr Allison Fulford | |
| Post(s): | Teaching Fellow, Centre for Comparative and Clinical Anatomy |
| Areas of expertise: | My research interests lie with the body's response to stress. I study features of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis... |
| Keywords: | stress | hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis | stress axis | endocrine | nervous systems | stress response | mood disorders |
| Dr Juliane Furst | |
| Post(s): | Lecturer, Department of History (Historical Studies) |
| Areas of expertise: | I am interested in all aspects of the social and cultural history of the Soviet Union. In particular I am engaged in several... |
| Keywords: | Soviet Union | social history | Soviet youth | youth cultures | Soviet train travel |
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