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| Professor Martin Gainsborough | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Development Politics, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | I am an expert on Vietnam, its politics and development. My research focuses on the changing nature of the state in that... |
| Keywords: | Vietnam | Vietnamese politics | Vietnam political economy | Vietnam reform | Vietnam development |
| Dr Ann Gaitonde | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in Aerodynamics, Department of Aerospace Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a member of the Aerodynamics and Fluid Dynamics Research Group. My research concerns the development of numerical methods... |
| Keywords: | aerodynamics | fluid dynamics | unsteady fluid flows | fluid | rotors | wings | incompressible flows | free surface flows |
| Professor Edwin Gale | |
| Post(s): | Emeritus Professor, School of Clinical Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | Work with Franco Bottazzo on the Bart’s-Windsor Family Study founded by Andrew Cudworth, led to the establishment of the... |
| Keywords: | diabetes | type 1 diabetes | future onset of diabetes | childhood onset diabetes | human brain |
| Ms Marina Gall | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, Graduate School of Education |
| Areas of expertise: | Teaching and learning in Music, ICT and Musical Learning, creativity, comparative professional education and development. Between... |
| Keywords: | teaching | learning | teaching music | learning music | musical learning | comparative professional education | music education |
| Professor Tim Gallagher | |
| Post(s): | Dean of the Faculty of Science and Professor of Organic Chemistry, Science Faculty Office |
| Areas of expertise: | The stereocontrolled synthesis of functionalised N- and O-containing heterocycles is a central theme which has involved... |
| Keywords: | heterocyclic chemistry | synthetic methodology | natural product synthesis | neurotransmission | carbohydrate chemistry | carbohydrate based interactions |
| Dr Alexandra Gampel | |
| Post(s): | Research Fellow, School of Biochemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | Elaborate networks of tubes carry essential nutrients, waste and other materials throughout all metazoan organisms. I am... |
| Keywords: | metazoan organisms | vascular system | blood vessels | epithekial cells | endothelium | tube formation | angiogenesis | pathological angiogenesis |
| Dr Ganesh Ganesh | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Complexity Sciences, School of Mathematics |
| Areas of expertise: | I am interested in the mathematical modelling of communication and computer networks, and in decentralised algorithms for... |
| Keywords: | probabilistic modelling | communication networks | large deviations | queuing theory | random graphs | decentralised algorithms | complex networks |
| Dr Geetanjali Gangoli | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, School for Policy Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | I work on different aspects of violence against women including domestic violence and forced marriage in the UK among South... |
| Keywords: | forced marriage | domestic violence | trafficking for prostitution | sex work | ethnic minority communities | violence against women | Indian women |
| Dr Paula Gardiner | |
| Post(s): | Research Fellow, School of Arts |
| Areas of expertise: | Research interests include the Mesolithic in Britain and Europe. My field research has been based in south west England and... |
| Keywords: | Mesolithic | late Mesolithic activity | Mesolithic sites | dendrochronology | submerged forests | sea level changes | environmental reconstruction |
| Mrs Ludivine Garside | |
| Post(s): | Research Associate, Centre for Market and Public Organisation |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a part-time research assistant and part-time research student. My main research interests lie in the fields of committees... |
| Keywords: | committees of experts | law and economics | regulation |
| Dr Kevin Gaston | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Biochemistry, School of Biochemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the causative agent of cervical cancer, a disease responsible for 200,000 to 300,000 deaths... |
| Keywords: | cancer | gene regulation | papillomavirus | cervical cancer | HPV | protein-DNA interactions | genital warts | biochemistry |
| Dr Paul Gates | |
| Post(s): | Research Fellow, School of Chemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | My speciality and area of research is the analysis of natural products and complex organic molecules by tandem and sequential... |
| Keywords: | mass spectrometry | ion fragmentation | natural products | complex organic molecules | gas-phase chemistry | inorganic mass spectrometry |
| Dr Tom Gaunt | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, School of Social and Community Medicine |
| Areas of expertise: | Molecular Genetics and Genetic Epidemiology of cardiovascular disease and obesity: I am funded by the British Heart Foundation... |
| Keywords: | molecular genetics | cardiovascular disease | obesity | genes | bioinformatics | genome-wide association |
| Dr Patricia Gaya | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in Management, Department of Management |
| Areas of expertise: | Action research and participative inquiry methods; critical management studies; the intersections between management learning,... |
| Keywords: | action research | sustainability | eco-philosophy | eco-feminism |
| Dr Martin Genner | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | I am interested in the ecological and evolutionary processes have shaped spatial and temporal patterns of biological diversity,... |
| Keywords: | population genetics | aquatic environments | European marine fishes | fishes of the East African great lakes | climate change | conservation genetics | pelagic fishes |
| Professor Sarah George | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Cardiovascular Signalling, School of Clinical Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | We are currently examining a relatively unstudied area; the role of cadherin mediated cell-cell contacts and Wnts in the... |
| Keywords: | cells | cadherins | smooth muscle cells | cardiovascular disease | proliferation | migration | apoptosis | plaque rupture |
| Dr Henkjan Gersen | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, School of Physics |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a member of the Nanophysics and Soft Matter Group. My research in the field of nano-optics is directed towards actively... |
| Keywords: | nanophysics | nano-optics |
| Professor Rupert Gethin | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Buddhist Studies, Department of Religion and Theology |
| Areas of expertise: | My main research interest is the history and development of Buddhist thought in the Nikayas and Abhidhamma. I am currently... |
| Keywords: | Buddhist thought | Buddhism | Nikayas | Abhidhamma | Buddhist path | Pali Nikayas |
| Dr Mohamed Ghorbel | |
| Post(s): | Research Fellow, School of Clinical Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | We are using genomics and proteomics to study the molecular processes underlying reoxygenation injury in children undergoing... |
| Keywords: | genomics | proteomics | reoxygenation | heart disease | myocardial protection | cardiac myocytes |
| Dr Frances Giampapa | |
| Post(s): | Lecturer in Education - TESOL/Applied Linguistics, Graduate School of Education |
| Areas of expertise: | Research Interests Negotiation of identities in multilingual contexts; Critical ethnography; Issues of methodology in... |
| Keywords: | identity | multilingual contexts | critical ethnography | language research | multiliteracies | equity in education | language contact | linguistic ideologies |
| Dr David Gibson | |
| Post(s): | Research Associate, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a member of the Visual Information Laboratory research group and have worked on projects that involve 3D model generation,... |
| Keywords: | computer vision | 3D models generation | High speed image capture | XMOS systems development | Imaging systems | Filming of difficult subjects such as ants, flies, etc. | Hardware designs and solutions | Windows programming |
| Dr Mhairi Gibson | |
| Post(s): | University Research Fellow in Archaeology and Anthropology, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology Senior Lecturer in Biological Anthropology, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology |
| Areas of expertise: | My research interests lie in the field of human behavioural ecology: using concepts from evolutionary biology to explain... |
| Keywords: | human behavioural ecology | evolutionary biology | ecology | evolution | natural selection | child health | population changes |
| Professor Wendy Gibson | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Protozoology, School of Biological Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | My general area of research is Molecular Parasitology, specifically the African trypanosomes. Research interests include... |
| Keywords: | molecular parasitology | African trypanosomes | sexual reproduction in trypanosomes | molecular evolution of trypanosomes | sleeping sickness | protozoa | animal trypanosomiasis |
| Professor Iain Gilchrist | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Neuropsychology, School of Experimental Psychology |
| Areas of expertise: | I am interested in human visual perception and cognition. My research combines what we see, how we see and the process of... |
| Keywords: | human vision | perception | eye movements | visual attention |
| Professor Paula Giliker | |
| Post(s): | Professor in Comparative Law, University of Bristol Law School |
| Areas of expertise: | I teach and research in the law of contract and tort, in particular the comparative law of obligations and I have published... |
| Keywords: | contract law | tort law | contracts | comparative law of obligations | comparative tort law | comparative law | vicarious liability | contractual remedies |
| Dr Kathleen Gillespie | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, School of Clinical Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a molecular biologist with a long term interest in the genetic mechanisms underlying autoimmunity. I joined the Diabetes... |
| Keywords: | autoimmunity | genetic mechanisms | maternal cells | functional pancreatic beta cells | NK cells | autoimmune diabetes | diabetes | Down's syndrome |
| Dr Francesco Giovannoni | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Economics, Department of Economics |
| Areas of expertise: | I am an applied microeconomic theorist. I work on political issues such as lobbying and corruption, and the study of political... |
| Keywords: | lobbying | corruption | auctions | game theory | microeconomics | politics | institutions |
| Dr Luca Giuggioli | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in Complexity Sciences, School of Biological Sciences Senior Lecturer, Department of Engineering Mathematics |
| Areas of expertise: | My general interest is the construction of spatially explicit theoretical models, validated through experimental observations,... |
| Keywords: | animal movement | animal interactions and territoriality | anomalous diffusion | complexity sciences | spatio-temporal ecological patterns | non-equilibrium statistical physics | foraging and search strategies | disease spread |
| Dr Paul Glennie | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in Geography, School of Geographical Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | I am interested in historical geography, especially of late-medieval and early modern England; demography; consumption, urbanism... |
| Keywords: | historical geography | demography | geographies of times & timing | geographies of wages & work in early modern England | consumption | urbanism & development of modern consumer societies |
| Dr Susan Glew | |
| Post(s): | Consultant Senior Teaching Fellow, School of Clinical Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | For the early part of my career I worked and trained in Manchester before spending two years at the University Hospital,... |
| Keywords: | gynaecology | obstetrics | cervical carcinoma | reproductive health | cervical dyskariosis | HPV infection | menstrual disorders |
| Dr David Glowacki | |
| Post(s): | Research Assistant, School of Chemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a theoretical scientist with a range of interest. At the University of Bristol, I use tools from classical and quantum... |
| Keywords: | computational chemistry | classical and quantum mechanics | microscopic molecular physics | interaces between science and art |
| Dr Ruth Glynn | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in Italian, Department of Italian |
| Areas of expertise: | My research interests lie in late twentieth-century Italian culture and include representations of the anni di piombo; postmodernism;... |
| Keywords: | Italian culture | anni di piombo | poatmodernism | historical novel | philosophy of history | Italy | political violence | film |
| Professor Patrick Godfrey | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Systems Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | My area of expertise is systems thinking applied to complex engineering topics such as: infrastructure design, operations... |
| Keywords: | design | engineering | infrastructure design | operations & management | systems |
| Dr Natalia Gogolitsyna | |
| Post(s): | Language Teaching Assistant, Department of Russian |
| Areas of expertise: | I have a scholarly interest in the field of lexis and phraseology, with particular emphasis on non-equivalence, and I have... |
| Keywords: | lexis | phraseology | non-equivalence | Russian | culture | cultural concepts | language usage |
| Dr Arthur Goldsmith | |
| Post(s): | Honorary Reader in Biological Sciences, School of Biological Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a member of the Behaviour, Sensory and Neurobiology research group which is interested in understanding the adaptive... |
| Keywords: | social learning in animals | reproduction in birds | sexual selection and signalling | stress and welfare in birds |
| Professor Harvey Goldstein | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Social Statistics, Graduate School of Education |
| Areas of expertise: | My principal research activity is in the Methodology of multilevel modelling where I have been one of the leaders in the... |
| Keywords: | statistical modelling | assessment models | educational effectiveness | value added indicators | multilevel modelling |
| Dr Joel Goldstein | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Physics, School of Physics |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a particle physicist, primarily involved in the analysis of data taken by the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) experiment... |
| Keywords: | particle physics | CERN | Fermilab | Large Hadron Collider (LHC) | CMS experiment | Higgs boson | top quark | detectors |
| Dr Yinyan Gong | |
| Post(s): | Research Fellow, School of Physics |
| Areas of expertise: | Boron Arsenides, thermoelectrics. |
| Keywords: | applied spectroscopy | boron arsenides | thermoelectrics |
| Dr Rachael Gooberman-Hill | |
| Post(s): | Senior Research Fellow, School of Clinical Sciences Research Fellow, School of Social and Community Medicine |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a social anthropologist by background, who applies the techniques of anthropology and other qualitative methods in applied... |
| Keywords: | social anthropology | health research | long-term pain | osteoarthritis | disability in later life | clinical decision-making | arthritis |
| Professor David Gordon | |
| Post(s): | Professorial Research Fellow in Social Justice, School for Policy Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | I am an expert on poverty and poverty related research. I am director of the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research... |
| Keywords: | poverty and deprivation | health inequalities | social inclusion | disability | social justice | Third World | resource allocation | census |
| Professor Alexander Gorodnik | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Pure Mathematics, School of Mathematics |
| Areas of expertise: | My research interests are in the theory of dynamical systems and and its connections with other branches of mathematics such... |
| Keywords: | ergodic theory & dynamical systems | number theory |
| Dr Joachim Gottsmann | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Research, School of Earth Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | My research concerns the dynamics of volcanic activity. I apply geophysical methods to investigate how and why volcanoes... |
| Keywords: | volcano | hydrothermal systems |
| Professor Julian Gough | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Bioinformatics, Department of Computer Science |
| Areas of expertise: | I have a background in protein structure which I use to study molecular evolution by developing bioinformatics tools and... |
| Keywords: | bioinformatics | genomics | computational biology | evolution |
| Dr Aoife Grant | |
| Post(s): | Research Assistant, School of Chemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | I specialise in the measurement of atmospheric trace gases and greenhouse gases. I am also experienecd in the analysis and... |
| Keywords: | atmosphere | atmospheric chemistry | greenhouse gases | trace gas measurement | air pollution | climate change |
| Dr David Grant | |
| Post(s): | Research Fellow, School of Clinical Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | Cardiac Intensive Care; Renal Support; Fluids and Electrolyte. I have been the Director of the Bristol Paediatric Simulation... |
| Keywords: | paediatric intensive care | paediatrics | simulation | renal support | fluids & electrolyte |
| Dr Duncan Grant | |
| Post(s): | Visiting Fellow, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | The management of electrical energy at all power levels by means of power electronics. This includes battery-powered... |
| Keywords: | battery-powered products | radio | human-powered products | power semiconductor devices | power electronics | batteries | photovoltaic energy |
| Ms Lyndsay Grant | |
| Post(s): | Research Associate, Graduate School of Education |
| Areas of expertise: | My current research interests include critical digital literacies, issues of social justice in education, connections between... |
| Keywords: | digital literacies | digital participation | social justice | home-school connections | partnerships |
| Dr Oliver Gray | |
| Post(s): | Heilbronn Research Fellow, School of Mathematics |
| Areas of expertise: | My research interests are primarily in conformal field theory, which combines algebra, geometry and theoretical physics to... |
| Keywords: | conformal field theory | geometry | algebra | quantum algorithms |
| Mr Stephen Gray | |
| Post(s): | Senior Research Data Librarian, Library Services |
| Areas of expertise: | I have published around the conservation and the digital preservation of our cultural heritage. My special interests are... |
| Keywords: | digital art | installation art | digital preservation | digital media | digitisation | conservation | film and television archives | video |
| Professor Peter Green | |
| Post(s): | Professorial Research Fellow, School of Mathematics |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a statistical scientist, principally interested in modelling complex stochastic systems - I work both with specific... |
| Keywords: | mathematical modelling | stochastic systems | statistical methodology | Bayesian modelling | graphical models |
| Dr Alexander Greenhough | |
| Post(s): | Research Associate, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine |
| Areas of expertise: | Tumour cell survival mechanisms and colorectal cancer chemoprevention. Context-dependent roles for beta-catenin, HIF-1... |
| Keywords: | tumour cell survival | colorectal cancer cell biology and chemoprevention | hypoxia and the tumour microenvironment | beta-catenin | transcription factors | apoptosis and autophagy | HIF-1 | COX-2, prostaglandins, NSAID and aspirin |
| Dr Pamela Greenhough | |
| Post(s): | Research Fellow, Graduate School of Education |
| Areas of expertise: | Since 1987, I have worked as a principle researcher on a series of research projects. Initially, I was based at the University... |
| Keywords: | social interaction | home culture | parents | popular culture | gender | literacy learning | numeracy learning | transfer |
| Professor Steven Greer | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Human Rights, University of Bristol Law School |
| Areas of expertise: | Human rights generally but particularly institutional issues and the European Convention on Human Rights. |
| Keywords: | human rights | human rights in Europe | European Convention on Human Rights |
| Professor Paul Gregg | |
| Post(s): | Honorary Professor, Department of Economics |
| Areas of expertise: | My research interests include welfare reform, Labour markets, poverty, education and child development and neighbourhood... |
| Keywords: | welfare reform | Labour markets | poverty | education | child development | neighbourhood effects |
| Mrs Alison Gregory | |
| Post(s): | Research Associate, School of Social and Community Medicine |
| Areas of expertise: | Since joining the Academic Unit of Primary Healthcare in 2007, I have been working alongside Professor Gene Feder on the... |
| Keywords: | training | domestic violence | primary healthcare |
| Dr Steve Gregory | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science |
| Areas of expertise: | My research on networks focuses on community detection. I have written the following papers on the subject: -'An algorithm... |
| Keywords: | networks | workflow prolog |
| Dr Celia Gregson | |
| Post(s): | Consultant Senior Lecturer in Musculoskeletal Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences Research Fellow, School of Social and Community Medicine |
| Areas of expertise: | I run a UK-wide study intended to characterise patients with very dense bones, and to identify genetic abnormalities which... |
| Keywords: | bones | dense bones | genetic abnormalities | high bone mass | reduced bone mass | osteoporosis | osteoarthritis |
| Professor Claire Grierson | |
| Post(s): | Professor, School of Biological Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | We know that life is the product of complicated physical and chemical interactions between molecules, but how do these produce... |
| Keywords: | development | differentiation | root hair development | cell growth | plants | interdisciplinary research |
| Dr Elinor Griffiths | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, School of Biochemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | I research the basic mechanisms of energy production in the heart, how these enable the heart to beat, and what goes wrong... |
| Keywords: | heart | metabolism | hormones | energy | calcium | ischaemia | heart disease | mitochondria |
| Dr Rosemary Grogono-Thomas | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in Farm Animal Science, Farm Animal Science |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a veterinary surgeon specialising in infectious diseases of small ruminants, primarily sheep. I have an active research... |
| Keywords: | Sheep Health and production | Footrot | infectious diseases | small ruminants | sheep | lameness | disease | farming |
| Dr Jonathan Grose | |
| Post(s): | Teaching Fellow, Department of Philosophy |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a Postdoctoral Researcher on the AHRC Research Project 'Evolution, Co-operation and Rationality'. |
| Keywords: | evolution, cooperation & rationality |
| Professor Paul Grout | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Political Economy, Department of Economics |
| Areas of expertise: | I am Professor of Political Economy at the Centre for Market and Public Organisation. I am mainly interested in public organisation,... |
| Keywords: | public organisation | law and economics | finance |
| Dr Mike Gulliver | |
| Post(s): | Visiting Fellow, Centre for Deaf Studies Senior Client Support Officer, IT Services |
| Areas of expertise: | My background is in languages and linguistic nationhood. More specifically in the history, cultural and identity politics... |
| Keywords: | Deaf | Deafhood | Deaf space | sign language | nationhood | geography | translation | history |
| Professor Stephen Gundry | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a Professor of Environmental Engineering and the Director of the Water and Health Research Centre at the University... |
| Keywords: | environmental engineering | water resources |
| Professor David Gunnell | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Epidemiology, School of Social and Community Medicine |
| Areas of expertise: | I have a longstanding interest in suicide epidemiology and prevention and am part of the National Suicide Prevention Advisory... |
| Keywords: | suicide epidemiology | mental health | lifecourse epidemiology | insulin-like growth factors | height and health | schizophrenia epidemiology |
| Dr Will Guy | |
| Post(s): | Research Fellow, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | Research Interests • Social cohesion in Central & Eastern Europe • Ethnic relations in Central & Eastern Europe • Qualitative... |
| Keywords: | Central Europe | Eastern Europe | ethnic relations | health inequalities | integration | Roma | Roma migration | Romani studies |
| Dr Jessica Gwyther | |
| Post(s): | Research Assistant, School of Chemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a member of the University of Bristol's Manners' Group. My PhD was on the synthesis, characterisation and self-assembly... |
| Keywords: | Polyferrocenylsilanes | block copolymers | Self-assembly | Metallopolymer | Ring-opening polymerisation |
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