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| Professor James Ladyman | |
| Post(s): | Professor, Department of Philosophy |
| Areas of expertise: | My background is in mathematics and theoretical physics, mathematical logic and philosophy. My main area of expertise is... |
| Keywords: | philosophy | philosophy of science | philosophy of physics | metaphysics | philosophy of mathematics | science and religion | epistemology | philosophical logic |
| Professor Judy Laing | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Mental Health Law, Rights and Policy, University of Bristol Law School |
| Areas of expertise: | My main research and teaching interests are in medical & mental health law, tort law and criminal law & justice. My monograph... |
| Keywords: | medical law | mental health law | mental health | tort law | criminal law | criminal justice | mentally disordered offenders |
| Professor Helen Lambert | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Medical Anthropology, Bristol Medical School (PHS) |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a social anthropologist who has lived and done research in India as well as the U.K. I am interested in social and cultural... |
| Keywords: | medical anthropology | India | traditional medicine | health-seeking behaviour | STD/HIV prevention | public understanding of medicine | risk perception | genetic screening |
| Dr Kurt Lampe | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, Department of Classics & Ancient History |
| Areas of expertise: | I like to work at the interface of Greek and Latin literature with modern literature, philosophy, and critical theory. I... |
| Keywords: | Greek literature | Latin literature | modern literature | critical theory | Greek tragedy | psychoanalysis | existentialism | pragmatism |
| Dr Athene Lane | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Trials Research, Bristol Medical School (PHS) |
| Areas of expertise: | Conduct of randomized controlled trials (RCT) in prostate cancer and barriers to recruitment in RCTs, the design and analyses... |
| Keywords: | prostate cancer | randomised controlled trials | Helicobacter pylori |
| Dr Jon Lane | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Cell Biology, School of Biochemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | I am interested in the regulation programmed cell death in health and disease. My key research areas are apoptosis and autophagy,... |
| Keywords: | apoptosis | autophagy | programmed cell death | caspases | secretory pathway | cytoskeleton | microtubules | biochemistry |
| Dr Philip Langton | |
| Post(s): | Senior Teaching Fellow in Physiology, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience |
| Areas of expertise: | Funded by the British Heart Foundation, my laboratory conducts research on the physiology of small arterial blood vessels.... |
| Keywords: | physiology | small arterial blood vessels | muscular walls | small arteries | cardiovascular system | lymphatic drainage | arteries |
| Professor Debbie Lawlor | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Epidemiology, Bristol Medical School (PHS) |
| Areas of expertise: | My main areas of expertise are in the life course and genetic epidemiology of cardiovascular disease, insulin resistance... |
| Keywords: | life course epidemiology | genetic epidemiology | cardiovascular disease | insulin resistance | diabetes | statistical methods |
| Professor Jonathan Lawry | |
| Post(s): | Professor, Department of Engineering Mathematics |
| Areas of expertise: | -Random sets and fuzzy sets -Label Semantics for Modelling Vague Concepts -Foundations of uncertain reasoning in Artificial... |
| Keywords: | Fuzzy Logic | artificial intelligence |
| Dr Daniel Lawson | |
| Post(s): | Sir Henry Dale Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School (PHS) Honorary Research Fellow, School of Mathematics |
| Areas of expertise: | I am interested in the process of evolution, in understanding the patterns that arise from it and how we can learn about... |
| Keywords: | inference | modelling | complex systems | stochastic models | ecology | evolution | markov chain monte carlo |
| Professor Sally Lawson | |
| Post(s): | Emeritus Professor, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience |
| Areas of expertise: | I have studied the sensory nervous system, that is the first nerve cells that carry information towards the brain about non-painful... |
| Keywords: | pain | chronic pain | spontaneous pain | primary afferent neurons | sensory nerve cells | sensory nervous system | electrophysiology | immunocytochemistry |
| Professor Ian Learmonth | |
| Post(s): | Emeritus Professor, Bristol Medical School (THS) |
| Areas of expertise: | Research interests include: factors contributing to stability at impaction grafting; design features influencing mechanical... |
| Keywords: | hip replacement | replacement arthroplasty |
| Dr George Leckie | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Social Statistics, School of Education |
| Areas of expertise: | Research interests Methodological interests in multilevel modelling include: mixture models; variance models; cross-classified... |
| Keywords: | multilevel modelling | models | school league tables | measuring school effectiveness | the quality of marking of educational tests | social and ethnic segregation among schools |
| Dr Ute Leonards | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Neuropsychology, School of Psychological Science |
| Areas of expertise: | My main research interests lie in the Cognitive Neurosciences, in particular the investigation of the neural mechanisms underpinning... |
| Keywords: | visual perception and action | visual attention | joint attention and action | ageing and dementia | eye movements | human-robot interaction | neuropsychology |
| Professor Ruth Levitas | |
| Post(s): | Emeritus Professor, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a social and political theorist with expertise in contemporary politics and the history of social and political thought.... |
| Keywords: | social exclusion | utopianism | William Morris |
| Professor Stephan Lewandowsky | |
| Post(s): | Chair in Cognitive Psychology, School of Psychological Science |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a cognitive scientist with an interest in computational modeling. That is, I try to understand how the mind works by... |
| Keywords: | misinformation and memory updating | acceptance of science | models of memory | skepticism vs. denial | computer simulations | General Election 2017 |
| Dr Cherry Lewis | |
| Post(s): | Research Fellow, School of Earth Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | I have an academic background in geology and geochemistry and worked in the exporation side of the oil industry. My... |
| Keywords: | history of geology | discovery of radioactivity | James Parkinson of Parkinson's disease | public understanding of science | age of the Earth | Arthur Holmes | Lord Kelvin | geology of Leonardo da Vinci |
| Dr Paul Lewis-Smith | |
| Post(s): | Senior Research Fellow in French, Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | My principal interests are fiction, theatre, the works of Cervantes and intellectual history. My publications include research... |
| Keywords: | spanish golden age | Cervantes | fiction | theatre |
| Dr Mei Li | |
| Post(s): | Research Officer (Laboratory Facilitator), School of Chemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | Microemulsion, liquid crystal and block copolymer template-directed morphosynthesis of inorganic-organic hybrid nanoscale... |
| Keywords: | microemulsion | protocells |
| Professor Nicholas Lieven | |
| Post(s): | Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | Research is primarily concerned with aircraft vibration and fatigue. The interest in this area extends to the affect of... |
| Keywords: | aircraft dynamics | aircraft damage and prognostics |
| Professor Stafford Lightman | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Medicine, Bristol Medical School (THS) |
| Areas of expertise: | Stress related disease is a rapidly increasing feature of our society - but the mechanisms through which it causes disease... |
| Keywords: | diurnal and infradian rhythms | stress related disorders | clinical depression | autonomic neuropathy | cushings | addisons | hypothalamic & pituitary disease |
| Professor Noah Linden | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Theoretical Physics, School of Mathematics |
| Areas of expertise: | quantum information, quantum mechanics |
| Keywords: | quantum information | quantum mechanics |
| Professor Astrid Linthorst | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Neuroscience and Deputy Head of School, Bristol Medical School (THS) |
| Areas of expertise: | My research group investigates neurochemical and neuroendocrine mechanisms in the brain that support coping with stress.... |
| Keywords: | serotonin | noradrenaline | GABA | stress | hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis | autonomic nervous system | hippocampus | exercise |
| Professor Richard Little | |
| Post(s): | Emeritus Professor, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | My main research interests are on the historical development of international relations, the historiography of the discipline,... |
| Keywords: | international relations | foreign policy | balance of power | politics |
| Dr Genevieve Liveley | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Classics, Department of Classics & Ancient History |
| Areas of expertise: | My principal research interests are in Augustan literature, critical theory, and the classical tradition. I am co-editor... |
| Keywords: | Augustan literature | literature | critical theory | Ovid |
| Mr Michael Liversidge | |
| Post(s): | Emeritus Dean of Arts, Department of History of Art (Historical Studies) |
| Areas of expertise: | I specialise in British art, principally from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with particular interests in landscape... |
| Keywords: | British art | landscape painting | landscaping | garden history | classical receptions | British architecture | English landscape art |
| Dr Charlotte Lloyd | |
| Post(s): | Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Chemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | My PhD research involved using organic biomarkers in order to trace organic matter through the soil-water system (specifically... |
| Keywords: | soil organic matter (som) | erosion | Water quality | Organic biomarkers and tracers |
| Professor Liz Lloyd | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Social Gerontology, School for Policy Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a gerontologist with particular interests in health and social care policies on ageing and the relationship between... |
| Keywords: | health and social care | health care | social care | social justice and care | care at the end of life | older people | supportive care | dignity in later life |
| Dr Stephen Lolait | |
| Post(s): | Senior Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School (THS) |
| Areas of expertise: | Our group works on investigating the molecular genetics of neuropeptide and other hormone receptors, with particular reference... |
| Keywords: | molecular genetics | neuropeptide receptors | hormone receptors | hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis | oxytocin receptor | apelin receptor | vasopressin receptors | oestrogen receptors |
| Professor Andres Lopez Bernal | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Human Reproductive Biology, Bristol Medical School (THS) |
| Areas of expertise: | My research interests include; molecular aspects of hormone action and signal transduction; the control of uterine contraction/relaxation;... |
| Keywords: | hormone action | signal transduction | uterine contraction | ovarian cells | perinatal mortality | uterine contractility | hormone signalling |
| Dr Natalie Lord | |
| Post(s): | Research Associate in Nuclear Waste Safety, School of Geographical Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | My research focuses on modelling long-term past and future changes in climate that occur over tens to hundreds of thousands... |
| Keywords: | climate change | nuclear waste disposal | glacial-interglacial cycles | environment | carbon cycle | future and palaeo climate modelling |
| Dr Oliver Lord | |
| Post(s): | Royal Society University Research Fellow and Proleptic Lecturer, School of Earth Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | I am an experimental petrologist specialising in the use of the Laser-Heated Diamond Anvil Cell to perform high-pressure,... |
| Keywords: | experimental petrology | Laser-Heated Diamond Anvil Cell | planetary materials | equations of state | the Earth | iron-rich alloys | phase relations |
| Professor Mark Lowenberg | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Flight Dynamics, Department of Aerospace Engineering Warden, Residential and Hospitality Services |
| Areas of expertise: | My principal research interest is the flight dynamics and control of aircraft, and in particular non-linear aircraft behaviour.... |
| Keywords: | aircraft dynamics | aircraft control | wind tunnel testing | aircraft design |
| Dr Lisa Lucas | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in Education, School of Education |
| Areas of expertise: | Research Interests Sociology of Higher Education, International Comparisons of Systems of University Research Evaluation... |
| Keywords: | Sociology of higher education | higher education | university research evaluation and funding | the links between research and teaching in higher education | postgraduate education | research and teaching |
| Dr Patricia Lucas | |
| Post(s): | Reader, Child Health Research, School for Policy Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | My interests have ranged from poor readers, to breast feeding, growth in infancy, nutrition intervention, depression in fathers... |
| Keywords: | early childhood development | child disability | child poverty | child deprivation | inequalities in health | educational interventions | nutritional interventions | social interventions |
| Dr Casimir Ludwig | |
| Post(s): | Reader, School of Psychological Science |
| Areas of expertise: | I am broadly interested in how motor systems deal with incoming sensory information to guide behaviour. My research to date... |
| Keywords: | models of perceptual/saccadic decision-making | visual signals driving saccadic eye movements | visual responses across saccades | learning the statistics of the 'world' | orienting behaviour during self-motion |
| Professor Bridget Lumb | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Systems Neuroscience, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience |
| Areas of expertise: | We combine electrophysiological studies with functional anatomical approaches to investigate the organisation and activation... |
| Keywords: | midbrain | hypothalamus | spinal nociception | autonomic outflow | nociceptive responsiveness | behavioural states | pathophysiological conditions | nociceptive afferents |
| Professor Dan Lunt | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Climate Science, School of Geographical Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | My research interests are broad, but a particular focus is on icesheet-climate interactions, both in the past and in the... |
| Keywords: | icesheet-climate interactions | palaeo record | past climate change | climatic impacts of geoengineering |
| Dr Stephen Lyne | |
| Post(s): | Senior Academic Fellow, Department of Accounting and Finance |
| Areas of expertise: | I am currently Head of the School of Economics, Finance and Management. My main research interests are in organisational... |
| Keywords: | organisational management accounting | Organisation Structure | budgeting | management accounting | activity-based techniques |
| Dr John Lyons | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Religion and History, Department of History (Historical Studies) |
| Areas of expertise: | My main research interests are in the area of Biblical Interpretation, especially in the areas of Biblical Theology and the... |
| Keywords: | biblical interpretation | biblical theology | history of exegesis | exegesis | Hebrew Bible | Dead Sea Scrolls | New Testament |
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