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| Reverend Martin Gainsborough | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Development Politics, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | My research is in the politics of development and the intersection between politics and theology. I am interested in bringing... |
| Keywords: | Politics and development | Theology and politics | Church of England | Public theology |
| Dr Ann Gaitonde | |
| Post(s): | Reader 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 Carmen Galan | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Organic and Biological Chemistry, School of Chemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | Development of novel synthetic tools such as oligosaccharides, glycoconjugates and functional glyco-nanomaterials for biology... |
| Keywords: | carbohydrate chemistry | glycobiology | oligosaccharide synthesis | glycopeptides | ionic liquids | enzymology | functional nanomaterials |
| Professor Edwin Gale | |
| Post(s): | Emeritus Professor, Bristol Medical School (THS) |
| 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 |
| Dr Marina Gall | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, 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): | Professor of Organic Chemistry, School of Chemistry |
| 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 Ayalvadi 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 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 |
| Professor Tom Gaunt | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Health and Biomedical Informatics, Bristol Medical School (PHS) |
| Areas of expertise: | My team apply cutting edge data science approaches to investigate the mechanisms of disease by integrating diverse biomedical... |
| Keywords: | molecular genetics | molecular epidemiology | health data science | bioinformatics | literature mining | research software |
| Professor Martin Genner | |
| Post(s): | Professor in Evolutionary Ecology, 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, Bristol Medical School (THS) |
| 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): | Senior Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School (THS) |
| 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): | Senior Lecturer in Education, 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 Mhairi Gibson | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Anthropology, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology |
| 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 Psychological Science |
| 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): | Reader in Molecular Medicine, Bristol Medical School (THS) |
| 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, 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 Ruth Glynn | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Modern Italian Culture, 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): | Emeritus Professor, 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 |
| Professor Harvey Goldstein | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Social Statistics, 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 |
| Professor Joel Goldstein | |
| Post(s): | Professor of 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 |
| Professor Rachael Gooberman-Hill | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Health and Anthropology, Bristol Medical School (THS) |
| 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 |
| Professor Joachim Gottsmann | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Volcanology, 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): | Visiting Professor, 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 David Grant | |
| Post(s): | Simulation and Inter-professional Learning Lead for Medicine, Centre for Medical Education Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School (THS) |
| 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 |
| Mr Stephen Gray | |
| Post(s): | Head of the Research Data Service, 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): | Senior 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 |
| 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 |
| Dr Alison Gregory | |
| Post(s): | Research Fellow (Traumatised and Vulnerable Populations), Bristol Medical School (PHS) |
| Areas of expertise: | Domestic violence and abuse - including impacts on the health and wellbeing of survivors, their children and their surrounding... |
| Keywords: | domestic violence and abuse | trauma | informal support | community responses |
| Dr Celia Gregson | |
| Post(s): | Consultant Senior Lecturer in Musculoskeletal Medicine, Bristol Medical School (THS) |
| 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 Head of School, 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 |
| 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): | Senior Research Associate, Department of History (Historical Studies) Staff Development Officer (Research Fellows), Human Resources |
| 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 David Gunnell | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Epidemiology, Bristol Medical School (PHS) |
| Areas of expertise: | I have a long-standing research and policy interest in the epidemiology and prevention of suicide in the UK and internationally.... |
| Keywords: | suicide epidemiology | mental health | lifecourse epidemiology | insulin-like growth factors | height and health | schizophrenia epidemiology |
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