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| Dr Wael Kafienah | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine |
| Areas of expertise: | Controlled differentiation of adult and embryonic stem cells to generate new replacement tissues with focus on skeletal tissue... |
| Keywords: | embryonic stem cells | adult stem cells | induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells | tissue engineering | cartilage repair | skeletal regeneration |
| Professor Daniel Karlin | |
| Post(s): | Winterstoke Professor of English, Department of English |
| Areas of expertise: | My primary field of research is Victorian poetry, especially the work of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Other strong... |
| Keywords: | Victorian poetry | nineteenth-century American literature | Bob Dylan | Rudyard Kipling | Robert Browning | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Victorian literature | Marcel proust |
| Professor Sergey Kasparov | |
| Post(s): | Professor in Molecular Physiology, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience |
| Areas of expertise: | Physiological Genomics of Central Cardio-Vascular Control We focus on the central mechanisms which control arterial blood... |
| Keywords: | physiological genomics | central cardio-vascular control | arterial blood pressure | hypertension | cells | vasculo-neuronal signalling | the brain | neurones |
| Professor Risto Kauppinen | |
| Post(s): | Chair in Imaging, School of Psychological Science |
| Areas of expertise: | I am interested in the biophysical basis for nuclear magnetic resonance signals in living systems. NMR- based (or MR) imaging... |
| Keywords: | nuclear magnetic resonance signals in living systems | NMR- based imaging techniques | MR imaging (MRI) | MR spectroscopy (MRS) |
| Dr Nina Kazanina | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, School of Psychological Science |
| Areas of expertise: | Language is constantly used by humans for sharing their needs and desires. People produce and comprehend linguistic utterances... |
| Keywords: | first language acquisition | second or foreign language acquisition | speech perception | sentence processing | neurolinguistics | psycholinguistics |
| Dr Stuart Kearns | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, School of Earth Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | Electron Microbeam analysis of geological materials, specialising in the exceptional preservation of fossils. |
| Keywords: | Scanning Electron Microscopy | Electron Probe Microanalysis | Electron Microprobe Analysis | Earth Science materials |
| Professor Patrick Kehoe | |
| Post(s): | Gestetner Professor of Translational Dementia Research, Bristol Medical School (THS) |
| Areas of expertise: | 15 years of working in dementia. Discovered that angiotensin converting enzyme gene (ACE) variation was a risk factor for... |
| Keywords: | Alzheimer's disease | genes | blood pressure and dementia | hypertension and dementia | cognitive decline | degrading enzymes | angiotensin |
| Professor Eamonn Kelly | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Molecular Pharmacology, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience |
| Areas of expertise: | There are more than 800 G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) in the genome and they represent a major target for clinically-prescribed... |
| Keywords: | G protein-coupled receptors | clinically-prescribed drugs | agonist drugs | desensitisation | effectiveness of drug therapy | molecular mechanisms of desensitisation | functional selectivity |
| Professor Elaine Kempson | |
| Post(s): | Emeritus Professor, School of Geographical Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | I have 20 years' experience of research into financial services from a consumer standpoint. This includes major studies... |
| Keywords: | personal financial services | banking | saving | credit | debt | money advice | insurance | financial exclusion |
| Professor Michael Kendall | |
| Post(s): | Professor, School of Earth Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | My research interests cover global, exploration and theoretical seismology, with an emphasis on seismic anisotropy. Current... |
| Keywords: | earthquake seismology | imaging the Earth's interior | plate tectonics | seismic monitoring | waveform modelling | microseismicity | rock-fracture characterization |
| Professor Duncan Kennedy | |
| Post(s): | Emeritus Professor, Department of Classics & Ancient History |
| Areas of expertise: | My primary interests are Latin literature and its reception, literary theory and science studies. As well as books which... |
| Keywords: | Latin literature | literary theory | Roman love elegy | Latin poetry | poetry | Lucretius |
| Dr Helen Kennedy | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in Physiology, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience |
| Areas of expertise: | Auditory hair cells are responsible for our ability to hear, and irreversible damage of these delicate sensory cells is the... |
| Keywords: | auditory hair cells | hair | cells | hearing | deafness | intracellular calcium | mammalian hair cells | hair cells |
| Professor Patricia Kennett | |
| Post(s): | Professor of International and Comparative Public Policy, School for Policy Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | Since joining Bristol University in 1993 I have undertaken research, both nationally and internationally, on issues relating... |
| Keywords: | Governance and public policy | welfare state citizenship | homelessness | social exclusion | home ownership | negative equity | economic insecurity |
| Dr Chris Kent | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, School of Psychological Science |
| Areas of expertise: | My general research interest is in perceptual cognition, with a special interest in the time course of cognition. More specifically,... |
| Keywords: | mathematical modelling | categorisation | time course of cognition | memory | object recognition | absolute identification | inverse base-rate effect | encoding-retrieval interaction |
| Dr Tarnjit Khera | |
| Post(s): | Senior Research Associate (Clinical Research Manager), Bristol Medical School (THS) |
| Areas of expertise: | TNF alpha regulation during ocular inflammatory disease. -Effects of TNF alpha blockade on macrophage trafficking during... |
| Keywords: | TNF alpha regulation during ocular inflammatory disease |
| Professor Pamela King | |
| Post(s): | Research Fellow in Arts Faculty Office, Arts Faculty Office |
| Areas of expertise: | My interests are interdisciplinary and focus chiefly on late medieval English culture, particularly theatre and drama. I... |
| Keywords: | medieval theatre/drama | processions | medieval English literature | mystery plays | medieval manuscripts | civic festivals | medieval culture | medieval religious art |
| Professor Ursula King | |
| Post(s): | Senior Research Fellow in Institute for Advanced Studies, Institute for Advanced Studies Emeritus Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, Department of Religion and Theology |
| Areas of expertise: | gender issues in religions; method and theory; modern Hinduism; interfaith dialogue; spirituality; and on the French thinker;... |
| Keywords: | theology | religious studies | gender in religion | modern hinduism | interfaith dialogue | spirituality |
| Dr Winnie King | |
| Post(s): | Teaching Fellow, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | My principles area of research is in regional and economic cooperation and development in East Asia and Greater China. My... |
| Keywords: | regional and economic cooperation | Greater China | East Asia | political and economic development | policy-making | non-state actor | transnational resources |
| Professor John Kirwan | |
| Post(s): | Emeritus Professor, Bristol Medical School (THS) |
| Areas of expertise: | Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and polymyalgia rheumatica, particularly in relation to the use of glucocorticoids. Evidence... |
| Keywords: | glucocorticoids | rheumatoid arthritis | polymyalgia rheumatica | public participation | OMERACT |
| Dr Sally-Ann Kitts | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | My research interests lie in the field of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Spanish literature and intellectual history... |
| Keywords: | Spanish literature (1700-1844) | Spanish intellectual history (1700-1844) | Leandro Fernández de Moratín | Lady Elizabeth Holland | Caminos a la expresividad |
| Dr Maciej Klemm | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | I am currently a Research Associate in Microwave Imaging. I received an M.Sc. in Microwave Engineering from Gdansk University... |
| Keywords: | microwave imaging | antennas for medical applications | radar beamforming algorithms | textile and body-worn antennas | plasmonic nano-antennas | computational electromagnetic methods |
| Dr Silke Knippschild | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, Department of Classics & Ancient History |
| Areas of expertise: | My main research interests lie in the field of intercultural relations and cross—cultural influences between Ancient Western... |
| Keywords: | intercultural relations | culture | cross—cultural influences | art | ancient art |
| Mrs Helen Knowler | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, School of Education |
| Areas of expertise: | Research Interests The inclusion of children and young people who experience social, emotional and behavioural difficulties... |
| Keywords: | social, emotional and behavioural difficulties | educational settings | teaching | learning | school | social and emotional aspects of learning | writing as a method of inquiry | Special and Inclusive Education |
| Professor Toby Knowles | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Farming and Food Science, Bristol Veterinary School |
| Areas of expertise: | My background is in agriculture and my main research interests are in animal welfare. I specialise in farm animal welfare,... |
| Keywords: | | animal welfare | animals | farm animals | fish | horse | pony |
| Professor Simon Kohn | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Mineral Sciences, School of Earth Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | My research interests are in the physical and chemical properties of materials (minerals, melts and fluids) that control... |
| Keywords: | minerals | melts | fluids | the Earth | magma | volcanology |
| Dr Adriana Korczak | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in Accounting, Department of Accounting and Finance |
| Areas of expertise: | My research interests include corporate governance, market based accounting research and corporate finance. My current research... |
| Keywords: | corporate governance | accounting | Corporate Finance | directors' trades | news announcements | foreign listing | ownership stricture |
| Dr Piotr Korczak | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Finance, Department of Accounting and Finance |
| Areas of expertise: | My research interests include corporate governance mechanisms, as well as corporate finance and investment implications of... |
| Keywords: | corporate governance | Corporate Finance | international cross-listing | insider trading |
| Dr Daphne-Zacharenia Kounali | |
| Post(s): | Research Fellow in Statistical Modelling, Bristol Medical School (PHS) |
| Areas of expertise: | -Development of prognostic models, validation and updating and promote the standardization of advanced and complex analytical... |
| Keywords: | coping with multilevel/complex structures in outcomes with respect to clustering | multiple & composite discrete endpoints | modelling longitudinal bio markers measured with error and/or are missing |
| Dr Arne Kovac | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics |
| Areas of expertise: | I am interested in many kinds of nonparametric problems like regression, density estimation and image analysis. My main... |
| Keywords: | regression | density estimation | image analysis | multiresolution analyses of residuals | taut string method | nonparametric problems |
| Dr Tim Kovacs | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Engineering Maths |
| Areas of expertise: | Artificial Intelligence (AI). I'm interested in ways machines can learn without a teacher, so they can do things which people... |
| Keywords: | bio-inspired computing | artificial intelligence | AI |
| Dr Katja Krebs | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in Performance and Theatre Studies, Department of Theatre |
| Areas of expertise: | My research interests are mainly in areas related to translation studies, theatre history and historiography, and adaptations... |
| Keywords: | translation studies | theatre history | adaptations for performance | dramatic tradition | translation and performative practice | twentieth-century European avant-garde |
| Dr Madhu Krishnan | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Writing, Department of English |
| Areas of expertise: | My expertise is in contemporary African literature and culture, with a significant interest in political and social formations.... |
| Keywords: | African literature | postcolonialism | race | book history | world literature | contemporary literature | prize culture | African cinema |
| Professor Martin Kuball | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Physics (Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award Holder), School of Physics |
| Areas of expertise: | Optical spectroscopy (Raman, photoluminescence, ellipsometry); thermography (temperature measurement) of device technology... |
| Keywords: | Raman | photoluminescence | thermography | temperature | stress | reliability | failure | semiconductor |
| Professor Patricia Kuwabara | |
| Post(s): | William P. Coldrick Chair in Genomics, School of Biochemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | Our research group is taking advantage of the genetic tractability and the availability of the entire genome sequence of... |
| Keywords: | genetic tractability | C. elegans | organismal development | physiology | RNA mediated interference | fluorescent reporters | protein chemistry |
| Professor Jim Kyle | |
| Post(s): | Emeritus Professor, Social Sciences and Law Faculty Office |
| Areas of expertise: | Have worked with Deaf people since 1974. Experience of research projects, locally, nationally and internationally. Particular... |
| Keywords: | Deaf Community | British Sign Language | sign bilingualism | Deaf Learning | technology for Deaf access | legal matters in regard to Deaf people |
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