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| Dr Christie Cabral | |
| Post(s): | Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School (PHS) |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a social anthropologist conducting qualitative and mixed methods research and systematic reviews of qualitative and... |
| Keywords: | primary care | antibiotics | evidence based approach | poverty and social exclusion | international development |
| Professor David Cahill | |
| Post(s): | Professor in Medical Education and Reproductive Medicine, Bristol Medical School (THS) |
| Areas of expertise: | Through my research, I have developed interests in endometriosis, ovarian endocrinology and ovulation induction, as well... |
| Keywords: | endometriosis | ovarian endocrinology | ovulation induction | infertility | reproductive medicine | miscarriage | psychosexual problems | hormonal disorders |
| Dr Deborah Caldwell | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in Public Health Research, Bristol Medical School (PHS) |
| Areas of expertise: | My current research interests are the application of network meta-analyses within the areas of obstetrics and psychiatric... |
| Keywords: | mixed treatment comparisons | comparing multiple interventions | network meta-analysis | indirect comparisons | meta-analysis | evidence synthesis | health techonology assessment | Cochrane Collaboration |
| Dr Mihai Caleap | |
| Post(s): | Research Fellow & RAEng Enterprise Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | Scattering; Diffraction and propagation of waves; Multiple scattering problems in elastodynamics; Wave propagation and... |
| Keywords: | acoustics | mechanics | geophysics | applied mathematics |
| Dr Andrew Calway | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science |
| Areas of expertise: | I carry out research in computer vision and image processing: designing algorithms to automatically extract information from... |
| Keywords: | computer vision | image processing | motion and tracking | image and video compression |
| Ms Ailsa Cameron | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in School for Policy Studies, School for Policy Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | I am primarily a qualitative researcher working in the areas of health and social care. I am currently working with colleagues... |
| Keywords: | health and social care | community foundation trusts | dignity in later life | health care | social care | health of Travellers |
| Dr Vyllinniskii Cameron | |
| Post(s): | Research Fellow, School of Earth Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | My research interests lie within the interdisciplinary fields of astrobiology, geochemistry and biogeochemistry. The focus... |
| Keywords: | astrobiology | biogeochemistry | geochemistry | trace metals | microorganisms | biosignatures | extreme environments | origin of life |
| Dr Colin Campbell | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Mathematics for Information Technology, Department of Engineering Mathematics |
| Areas of expertise: | Bioinformatics, machine learning |
| Keywords: | bioinformatics | machine learning | Bayesian | kernel methods |
| Dr Neill Campbell | |
| Post(s): | Reader, Department of Computer Science |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a member of the Visual Information Laboratory and BRL Bristol Robotics Laboratory research groups. |
| Keywords: | computer animation | computer vision |
| Professor Nishan Canagarajah | |
| Post(s): | Pro Vice-Chancellor, Senior Team |
| Areas of expertise: | My research expertise include image and video coding, content-based multimedia processing and the application of signal processing... |
| Keywords: | signal processing | image and video compression | multimedia processing | signal separation |
| Professor Edmund Cannon | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Economics, Department of Economics |
| Areas of expertise: | My research interests lie broadly in the area of macroeconomics, especially in long-run economic development. More specifically... |
| Keywords: | macroeconomics | financial markets | agricultural history | demographic change | pensions | annuity market |
| Professor Patrick Capps | |
| Post(s): | Professor of International Law, University of Bristol Law School |
| Areas of expertise: | I conduct research on the philosophy, history and sociology of public international law. My substantive focus is on state... |
| Keywords: | Public International Law | History of International Law | sociology of international law | Philosophy of International Law | Jurisprudence |
| Professor Massimo Caputo | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Congenital Heart Surgery, Bristol Medical School (THS) |
| Areas of expertise: | My scientific research focuses on the development of techniques of myocardial protection in adult and paediatric surgery.... |
| Keywords: | myocardial protection | ischaemia | reperfusion injury | heart surgery | pump coronary surgery |
| Professor John Carpenter | |
| Post(s): | Emeritus Professor, School for Policy Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | Over the last eight years I have carried out research for the Department of Health and the NHS on de-institutionalisation,... |
| Keywords: | de-institutionalisation | community mental health services | mental health | interprofessional education | family support services | disabled children | Sure Start |
| Professor Antony Carrington | |
| Post(s): | Professor, School of Physics |
| Areas of expertise: | My research is concerned with several aspects of superconductivity in novel materials. Superconductivity is an area of physics... |
| Keywords: | superconductivity | condensed matter | novel superconductors | electronic structure |
| Mr Jamie Carstairs | |
| Post(s): | Project Manager/co-ordinator, Department of History (Historical Studies) Digitisation Officer, Library Services |
| Areas of expertise: | Photography, especially documentary photography, photojournalism and the history of photography. Chinese photography is... |
| Keywords: | documentary | photography | China | Chinese |
| Professor Terrell Carver | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Political Theory, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a scholar of political ideas and philosophies, particularly Marx/Engels/Marxism and more recent studies within feminist... |
| Keywords: | Marx | Engels | Marxism | gender | masculinity | Postmodernism | opera and politics | political philosophy |
| Dr Kirsten Cater | |
| Post(s): | Academic Director, Centre for Innovation Reader in Human Computer Interaction, Department of Computer Science |
| Areas of expertise: | I have worked, managed and published internationally in a broad range of research areas including human computer interaction,... |
| Keywords: | human computer interaction | mobile and ubiquitous computing | computer graphics | context aware applications | pervasive computing |
| Dr Fernando Cervantes | |
| Post(s): | Reader in History, Department of History (Historical Studies) |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a historian of early modern Europe specialising in the intellectual and religious history of early modern Spain and... |
| Keywords: | Spain | Spanish America | Hispanic world | literary imagination | Montaigne | Cervantes | Shakespeare | humanism |
| Dr Katy Chalmers | |
| Post(s): | Senior Research Associate in Outcome Methods for Randomised Controlled Trials, Bristol Medical School (PHS) |
| Areas of expertise: | I have been working within the dementia research group for 7 years. Our main focus is looking at several mechanisms by which... |
| Keywords: | Alzheimer's disease | dementia | brain | amyloid | cerebral amyloid angiopathy | neurofibrillary tangles | tau | plaque |
| Professor Alan Champneys | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Applied Non-linear Mathematics, Department of Engineering Mathematics |
| Areas of expertise: | Nonlinear dynamics and chaos and its application, particularly to engineering systems. Bifurcation theory, i.e. understanding... |
| Keywords: | chaos | resonance | localisation | nonlinear dynamics | solitary wave | dynamics of impact | engineering instability | buckling |
| Professor Andrew Charlesworth | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Law, Innovation and Society, University of Bristol Law School |
| Areas of expertise: | Researcher in the areas of Intellectual Property law (e.g., copyright, trademark, patent), Information Technology law (e.g.... |
| Keywords: | data protection | privacy law | intellectual property | internet law | computer misuse |
| Dr Jonathan Charmant | |
| Post(s): | Senior Teaching Fellow, School of Chemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | My research group studies molecular geometry in compounds by analysing solid state structure using X-rays or computational... |
| Keywords: | x-ray crystallography | structural chemistry | Crystal Engineering | structural systematics | computational chemistry |
| Dr Katharine Charsley | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Sociology, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | My principle research interests are in gender, the family, and migration, particularly in the field of cross-border marriages.... |
| Keywords: | gender | the family | migration | graduate migration | transnational marriages | ethnicity | transnationalism |
| Dr Stephen Cheeke | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in English, Department of English |
| Areas of expertise: | My principle interest is in nineteenth century literature, and my publications in that field have previously been on Shelley... |
| Keywords: | nineteenth century literature | relations between literature and art (painting, sculpture & photography) | coleridge, robert browning | keats, shelley | hazlitt, byron | de quincey | d. g. rossetti | pre-raphaelitism |
| Dr Isaac Chenchiah | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics |
| Areas of expertise: | Multi-phase solids have long been a research interest of mine. I have studied their evolution (in superalloys), equilibrium... |
| Keywords: | molecular and tissue biomechanics | bistable structures | microstructures in solids | phase transitions | elasticity | damage in solids | partial differential equations | calculus of variations |
| Professor David Cherns | |
| Post(s): | Emeritus Professor, School of Physics Senior Research Fellow in Physics, School of Physics |
| Areas of expertise: | My interests lie in the application of novel electron microscopy techniques to the analysis of defects and interfaces, particularly... |
| Keywords: | electron microscopy techniques | semiconductors | convergent beam electron diffraction | electron holography | piezoelectric fields | cathodoluminescence | GaN | ZnO |
| Dr Rajendra Chitnis | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, Department of Russian |
| Areas of expertise: | I write on Russian, Czech and Slovak literature, with a particular focus on post-Soviet Russian fiction and twentieth-century... |
| Keywords: | Czech literature | Post-Soviet Russian literature | Russian literature since the 1960s | Czech history and culture | Czech current affairs | Slovak literature |
| Dr Ryerson Christie | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in East Asian Studies, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | My main research interests focus on the application of critical security studies to the analysis of human security and peacebuilding,... |
| Keywords: | critical security studies | human security | peacebuilding | NGOs | Cambodia | state-civil society interaction | Cambodian politics |
| Professor Michelle Cini | |
| Post(s): | Head of School, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies Professor of European Politics and Head of School, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | Politics, European Union Politics, European Commission, Malta-EU relations, European Competition Policy |
| Keywords: | politics | European Union | Malta | competition policy | European Commission |
| Professor Gillian Clark | |
| Post(s): | Emeritus Professor of Classics & Ancient History, Department of Classics & Ancient History |
| Areas of expertise: | My research field is the relationship of inherited classical culture and late antique Christianity. I work especially on... |
| Keywords: | classical culture | Christianity | Augustine | Porphyry | Iamblichus | gender | Augustine City of God |
| Dr Paul Clarke | |
| Post(s): | Lecturer in Performance Studies, Department of Theatre |
| Areas of expertise: | There are two strands to my research, which take place in parallel and in ongoing communication; thinking through performance... |
| Keywords: | thinking through performance | discursive publication | Uninvited Guests | performance | memories of movies | archives |
| Dr Alex Clayton | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in Film and Television, Department of Film and Television |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a Lecturer in Screen Studies. I received my doctorate in Film Studies from the University of Kent in 2006. My recently... |
| Keywords: | Hollywood | physical comedy | film music | writing about film | aesthetics | history of screen comedy | narrative cinema | film criticism |
| Professor Dick Clements | |
| Post(s): | Emeritus Professor, Department of Engineering Mathematics |
| Areas of expertise: | I have 20 years experience teaching, analysing and researching real knots. The study of real knots is concerned with knots... |
| Keywords: | knots and ropework |
| Professor Dave Cliff | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Computer Science/Academic Director for TQC, Department of Computer Science |
| Areas of expertise: | My primary area of expertise is computer systems for trading in financial markets. In 1996 I designed an automated trading... |
| Keywords: | large-scale complex IT systems | financial markets | automated trading | complex systems | evolutionary systems | cognitive systems | artificial intelligence |
| Professor Peter Coates | |
| Post(s): | Professor of American and Environmental History, Department of History (Historical Studies) |
| Areas of expertise: | I specialise in nineteenth and twentieth-century American (U.S.) history, especially environmental history (the study of... |
| Keywords: | American history | United States history | environmental history | rivers | militarized landscapes |
| Dr Ruth Coates | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, Department of Russian |
| Areas of expertise: | I specialise in nineteenth-century Russian literature and intellectual history. My research interests are in the work of... |
| Keywords: | Russian literature | intellectual history | Russia | Russian thought | Orthodox culture | Christianity | Russian Christianity |
| Dr Christopher Coath | |
| Post(s): | Senior Research Fellow, School of Earth Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | I study the evolution of the early solar system. Isotopic characterisation of primitive meteorites provides insights into... |
| Keywords: | evolution | early solar system | solar system | meteorites | proto-solar nebula |
| Dr Tristan Cogan | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in Infectious Diseases, Veterinary Pathology and Infection and Immunity |
| Areas of expertise: | My career prior to working at the University of Bristol was in Public Health researching bacterial infections, particularly... |
| Keywords: | Campylobacter | Salmonella | infection | microbiology | zoonotic disease | food poisoning | diagnostics |
| Professor Tim Cole | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Social History and Director of Brigstow Institute, Department of History (Historical Studies) |
| Areas of expertise: | Historian of the Holocaust, with specific expertise on the Holocaust in Hungary, and the ways in which the Holocaust has... |
| Keywords: | Holocaust | Hungary |
| Dr Alf Coles | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Mathematics Education, School of Education |
| Areas of expertise: | Research Interests Listening and hearing in the mathematics classroom; the development of classroom cultures; teacher... |
| Keywords: | mathematics | listening and hearing | classroom cultures | teacher development | competency-based curriculum innovation | curriculum innovation | teaching | mathematics teaching |
| Miss Tracey Collard | |
| Post(s): | Senior Research Associate, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine |
| Areas of expertise: | Colorectal tumour cell survival mechanisms and chemoprevention. -BAG-1 as a regulator of transcription in colorectal carcinogenesis. -The... |
| Keywords: | colorectal tumour cell survival mechanisms | chemoprevention |
| Professor Graham Collingridge | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Neuroscience in Anatomy, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience Professor of Neuroscience in Anatomy, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience |
| Areas of expertise: | The laboratory is interested in synaptic mechanisms and, in particular, synaptic plasticity in the mammalian central nervous... |
| Keywords: | synaptic mechanisms | synaptic plasticity | mammals | central nervous system | synapses |
| Professor Sean Collins | |
| Post(s): | Emeritus Professor, School of Mathematics |
| Areas of expertise: | My research interests cover a variety of themes in the area of stochastic optimisation, including the theory of Markov decision... |
| Keywords: | optimisation under uncertainty | behavioural biology | applied probability | stochastic optimisation | game theory | reinforcement learning | behavioural ecology |
| Professor Ian Collinson | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Biochemistry, School of Biochemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | The theme of the research group I lead, concerns the underlying mechanisms of protein secretion and membrane protein insertion.... |
| Keywords: | protein | protein secretion | membrane protein insertion | protein translocation reaction | membrane proteins | biophysics |
| Professor Ashley Cooper | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Physical Activity & Public Health, School for Policy Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | My specialist area of research is the objective measurement of physical activity and I have a particular interest in the... |
| Keywords: | physical activity | active travel | children's fitness |
| Dr Tony Corfield | |
| Post(s): | Honorary Senior Lecturer, Bristol Medical School (THS) |
| Areas of expertise: | We are studying the defensive functions of the mucosal barrier in the gastrointestinal and female reproductive tracts and... |
| Keywords: | mucosal barrier | mucosal surfaces | diseases | microflora | glycobiology |
| Dr David Cottrell | |
| Post(s): | Senior Clinical Lecturer in Clinical Sciences, Bristol Medical School (THS) |
| Areas of expertise: | My private interest is in general neurology and in particular headaches. I attend the American Academy Neurology meeting... |
| Keywords: | neurology | multiple sclerosis | headache | epilepsy |
| Professor David Cowan | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Law and Policy, University of Bristol Law School |
| Areas of expertise: | My research is mostly socio-legal, and focuses on social theory and the housing system(s). My books include Homelessness:... |
| Keywords: | homelessness | housing law | social housing | private rented sector | judging | human rights |
| Professor Richard Coward | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Renal Medicine, Bristol Medical School (THS) |
| Areas of expertise: | I am currently an MRC Clinician Scientist and Honorary Consultant Paediatric Nephrologist in Bristol Royal Hospital for Sick... |
| Keywords: | nephrology | paediatrics | children | molecular biology | human podocyte | Insulin | kidneys | glomerular cells |
| Professor Ian Craddock | |
| Post(s): | Professor, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering University Lead on Digital Health, Senior Team |
| Areas of expertise: | -Member of the Computational Electromagnetics Group within the Centre of Communication Research. -Planar microwave antenna... |
| Keywords: | computational electromagnetics group | centre of communication research | fdtd | conformal antenna arrays | radar | buried plastic landmines |
| Dr Helen Cramer | |
| Post(s): | Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School (PHS) |
| Areas of expertise: | Since joining the Academic Unit of Primary Health Care, I have been working on a pilot study for a randomised controlled... |
| Keywords: | | pharmacies | medicines | cognitive behavioural therapy | depression | respite care | body image |
| Dr Edward Crane | |
| Post(s): | Senior Research Fellow, School of Mathematics |
| Areas of expertise: | Complex analysis (specifically geometric function theory), probability, dynamical systems. |
| Keywords: | analysis & partial differential equations | ergodic theory & dynamical systems | geometric function theory | circle parkings | holomorphic dynamics | discrete probability | two-dimensional statistical mechanics |
| Professor Esther Crawley | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Child Health, Bristol Medical School (PHS) |
| Areas of expertise: | My main research interests are: The Epidemiology of CFS/ME in children - Children who miss school have been screened each... |
| Keywords: | epidemiology | children | fatigue | CFS | ME | concentration | anxiety |
| Dr Sam Creavin | |
| Post(s): | Wellcome Trust Research Training Fellow, Bristol Medical School (PHS) |
| Areas of expertise: | I investigate ways to support GPs to make patient-centred decisions about diagnosis and what to do next when a patient presents... |
| Keywords: | dementia | general practice | diagnosis |
| Dr Adam Crewe | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Earthquake Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | Earthquake engineering and structural dynamics of civil engineering structures, especially buildings and long span bridges.... |
| Keywords: | earthquake engineering | long span bridges | vibrations and dynamics | full scale testing | shaking table modelling | shaking table control systems | vibration resistant design | large scale laboratory testing |
| Dr John Crosby | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, School of Chemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | Research in our group involves the use of a broad range of techniques including protein expression and purification, enzyme... |
| Keywords: | protein structure | Protein mass spectrometry | enzymes | secondary metabolism | proteins | enzyme kinetics | polyketide biosynthesis |
| Professor Michael Crossley | |
| Post(s): | Emeritus Professor, School of Education |
| Areas of expertise: | Major research interests relate to: theoretical and methodological scholarship on the future of the field of comparative... |
| Keywords: | theoretical scholarship | methodological scholarship | comparative education | international education | international development co-operation | educational development | specialist education in small states |
| Dr Jo Crow | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | My research interests include Chilean cultural history, nationalism and nation building, and Mapuche history, intellectuality... |
| Keywords: | chilean cultural history | chilean nationalism | Peruvian nationalism | nation building | mapuche history | intellectuality & politics | indigenous history |
| Professor Anthony Croxford | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Ultrasonics and Dynamics, Department of Mechanical Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | Guided wave structural health monitoring; defect classification and quantification using ultrasound; dynamics and control... |
| Keywords: | structures | dynamics |
| Professor Matthew Crump | |
| Post(s): | Professor of NMR and Structural Biology, School of Chemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | I am currently studying protein structure and function using principally NMR spectroscopy. My main interest is the study... |
| Keywords: | proteins | protein structure | protein function | NMR spectroscopy | cancer | cancer related proteins | polyketide synthase enzymes |
| Professor Martin Cryan | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Applied Electromagnetics and Photonics, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | I am interested in the fabrication, modelling and measurement of nanophotonic devices for applications ranging from biochemical... |
| Keywords: | Nanophotonics | electromagnetics | Nanofabrication | Radio-over-fibre |
| Professor Pete Cullen | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Biochemistry (Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award Holder), School of Biochemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | My main research interest is in phosphoinositides - dynamic and spatial control of cell signalling. The membrane phospholipid... |
| Keywords: | phosphoinositides | cell signalling | lipids | endosome | retromer | cancer |
| Dr David Cussans | |
| Post(s): | Research Fellow, School of Physics |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a research fellow in the High Energy Physics research group. My job is to support the research activities of the group,... |
| Keywords: | high energy particle physics |
| Professor Innes Cuthill | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Behavioural Ecology, School of Biological Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | Whilst my core research is in behavioural ecology, my research interests span physiology to population ecology. This is inevitable,... |
| Keywords: | behavioural ecology | sensory ecology | animal behaviour | camouflage | animal vision | animal coloration |
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