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| Professor Angie Page | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Physical Activity and Public Health, School for Policy Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | My research interests focus on the behaviours linked to childhood obesity and the determinants of children’s physical activity... |
| Keywords: | childhood obesity | obesity | physical activity | eating behaviour | mobility | children |
| Dr Daniel Page | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science |
| Areas of expertise: | I am interested mainly in practical aspects of cryptography; roughly speaking this covers implementation of cryptographic... |
| Keywords: | cryptography | cryptographic primitives | physical security | novel processors | processors | compilers | programming languages |
| Dr Jennifer Palmer | |
| Post(s): | Research Associate in Evidence Synthesis, Bristol Medical School (PHS) |
| Areas of expertise: | I studied for a Degree in Biochemistry at Southampton University. Following my graduation in 2005, I moved to Bristol to... |
| Keywords: | dementia | endothelin converting enzymes in Alzheimer’s disease |
| Professor Rich Pancost | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Biogeochemistry, School of Chemistry Head of School, School of Earth Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a member of the Organic Geochemistry Unit (OGU), based in the School of Chemistry. My research interests include molecular... |
| Keywords: | organic geochemistry | molecular proxies | isotopic proxies | biogeochemical processes | sediments | geomicrobiology |
| Professor Christina Pantazis | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Zemiology, School for Policy Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | My current work focuses on social harm and also gendered poverty. |
| Keywords: | social harm | gender and poverty |
| Dr Angeliki Papadaki | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in Nutrition, School for Policy Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | My research focuses on understanding the factors that influence dietary behaviour and developing strategies to change dietary... |
| Keywords: | Mediterranean diet | dietary behaviours | mHealth | ehealth | obesity | heart disease |
| Professor Christos Paraskeva | |
| Post(s): | Emeritus Professor, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine |
| Areas of expertise: | -Regulation of cell growth, differentiation and cell death; how this is deregulated during carcinogenesis; genes promoting... |
| Keywords: | experimental oncology |
| Professor In-Uck Park | |
| Post(s): | Professor, Department of Economics |
| Areas of expertise: | My main research interests are in the areas of contract theory; industrial organisation (theoretical approach); game theory... |
| Keywords: | contract theory | industrial organisation | game theory | information | dynamic formation of networks | communication | corporate organisations |
| Dr Justin Park | |
| Post(s): | Senior Teaching Fellow, School of Psychological Science |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a social psychologist interested in how people think and feel about others, and how these processes are influenced by... |
| Keywords: | evolutionary social psychology |
| Dr Richard Parker | |
| Post(s): | Senior Research Associate in Medical Statistics/Epidemiology - MRC IEU, Bristol Medical School (PHS) |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a member of the Animal Welfare and Behaviour research group. I am interested in the welfare of working horses and donkeys... |
| Keywords: | animal behaviour |
| Professor John Parkin | |
| Post(s): | Emeritus Professor, Department of French |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a Professor of French Literary Studies. I lecture on various aspects of literature and culture especially, sixteenth-century... |
| Keywords: | humour | aggressive humour | satiric incongruity | unreality | comradely glee | French literature |
| Professor Mair Parry | |
| Post(s): | Senior Research Fellow in Italian, Department of Italian Emeritus Professor, Department of Italian |
| Areas of expertise: | The main focus of my research is on the syntax of the dialects of Italy, both early and modern, but I also publish on the... |
| Keywords: | dialects | Italy | syntax of dialects | sociolinguistics | minority languages | linguistics |
| Professor Julian Paton | |
| Post(s): | Professorial Research Fellow in Physiology, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience |
| Areas of expertise: | Using a multidisciplinary approach we are studying the central nervous system control of cardiovascular and respiratory systems.... |
| Keywords: | central nervous system | cardiovascular system | respiratory system | central nervous circuits | autonomic dysfunction | hypertension | sleep apnoea | neuronal mechanisms |
| Dr Demi Patsios | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, School for Policy Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Health and Social Care. I have maintained a primary interest in the effects... |
| Keywords: | health and social care | ageing population | policy development | health and social systems | older people | poorer pensioners |
| Dr Liz Paul | |
| Post(s): | Senior Research Fellow, Bristol Veterinary School |
| Areas of expertise: | My research concerns the relationship between information processing and emotion in humans and animals, and the use that... |
| Keywords: | cognition-emotion interactions in human and non-human animals. | the structure, functions and evolution of subjective emotion in human and non-human animals. | empathy with and attitudes towards the welfare of animals. | the psychology of human-animal interactions. |
| Professor Martyn Pavier | |
| Post(s): | Professor in Mechanics of Materials, Department of Mechanical Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | Composite materials; fracture and fatigue; residual stress; the finite element method. |
| Keywords: | composite materials | fracture & fatigue | residual stress | finite element method |
| Dr Rupert Payne | |
| Post(s): | Consultant Senior Lecturer in Primary Health Care, Bristol Medical School (PHS) |
| Areas of expertise: | Academic GP and Clinical Pharmacologist, with research and teaching interests in safe and rational prescribing in the primary... |
| Keywords: | primary care | general practice | Medication Safety | Clinical Pharmacology | Prescribing | Polypharmacy |
| Professor Tony Payne | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Glaciology & Head of School in Geographical Sciences, School of Geographical Sciences Head of School, School of Geographical Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | I am interested in the flow and dynamics of ice sheets, in particular those of Antarctica and Greenland. My early work was... |
| Keywords: | glaciology | Greenland | Antarctica | ice sheets | glaciers | numerical modelling | climate change | sea level rise |
| Dr Giles Pearson | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy |
| Areas of expertise: | I work on ancient philosophy (especially Plato and Aristotle), metaethics, ethics, and the philosophy of mind. My published... |
| Keywords: | ancient philosophy | metaethics | philosophical psychology | Aristotle | ethics | aesthetics | metaphysics | desire |
| Dr Matthew Peel | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | Metallurgy; thermo-mechanical processing; synchroton x-ray & neutron diffraction; residual stress. |
| Keywords: | metallurgy | thermo-mechanical processing | synchroton x-ray and neutron diffraction | residual stress |
| Professor Hugh Pemberton | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Contemporary British History, Department of History (Historical Studies) |
| Areas of expertise: | I am an expert in British political history since 1945. Current projects include the history of pension reform under Margaret... |
| Keywords: | General Election 2017 | British political history | pensions and pensions crisis | contemporary British history | history of economic policy | post-war social policy | history of the UK Civil Service | history of the Labour Party |
| Professor Hua-Xin Peng | |
| Post(s): | Visiting Professor, School of Civil, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | My research lies in the engineering of composite/multiphase materials by tailoring their structures at the nano-, micro-... |
| Keywords: | multifunctional composite materials | aerospace materials and composites | magnetic microwire composites | nanocomposites coatings | microstructural design | metal-ceramic composites |
| Professor Ian Penton-Voak | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Evolutionary Psychology, School of Psychological Science |
| Areas of expertise: | I study human behaviour in the context of our evolutionary history. My work has concentrates on perception of social properties... |
| Keywords: | human behaviour | evolutionary history | social properties of faces | attractiveness | sexual selection | perception of emotion | social perception of personality |
| Dr Columba Peoples | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in International Relations, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | My primary research interests are in Critical Security Studies, Critical Theory and International Relations. Within this... |
| Keywords: | critical security studies | critical theory | technology and international relations | missile defence | space security | international relations | nuclear security |
| Dr Nieves Perez-Solorzano Borragan | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in European Politics, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | I am working on the regulation of conflicts of interest by analysing whether it is conceptualised by international regulatory... |
| Keywords: | European Union and Brexit | General Election 2017 | lobbying | Enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe | transparency | conflict of interests | Spain | democracy and democratization |
| Dr Claire Perks | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Tumour Cell Biology, Bristol Medical School (THS) |
| Areas of expertise: | I am currently a Senior Research Fellow in the University of Bristol IGF & Metabolic Endocrinology group based at Southmead... |
| Keywords: | IGF axis | breast cancer | prostate cancer | cancer | epithelial cancers | western diet | cancer progression |
| Dr Maud Perrier | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | My main research field is located in the Sociology of Gender and Families. My research interests also include feminist activism,... |
| Keywords: | gender | families | feminist activism | motherhood | parenting |
| Professor Tim Peters | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Primary Care Health Services Research, Bristol Medical School (PHS) |
| Areas of expertise: | My research interests involve applied health services research, principally in a primary care setting, over a variety of... |
| Keywords: | healthcare | primary care | mental health | obstetrics | cardiovascular disease | urology | randomised trials |
| Professor Richard Pettigrew | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy |
| Areas of expertise: | My background is in philosophy and mathematics. I studied both subjects both as an undergraduate and as a postgraduate.... |
| Keywords: | philosophy of mathematics | epistemology | Kant | logic | philosophy of science | set theory | category theory | arithmetic |
| Professor Steven Phillipps | |
| Post(s): | Professor, School of Physics |
| Areas of expertise: | My research is centred around large surveys, both of extra-galactic and of Galactic objects, carried out using large optical... |
| Keywords: | Galactic objects | extra-galactic objects | optical telescopes | dwarf galaxies | stellar systems | Ultra-Compact Dwarfs | hydrogen alpha emission line |
| Dr Jeremy Phillips | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Physical Volcanology, School of Earth Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | My research focuses on the fluid dynamics of volcanological processes and hazardous volcanic and natural flows. Using the... |
| Keywords: | fluid dynamics of volcanological processes | hazardous volcanic and natural flows | dynamics of gravity currents | pyroclastic flows | dynamics of bubbly magmatic flows | magma chamber dynamics | shallow magmatic plumbing systems | conduit convection |
| Dr Mary Phillips | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Organisation Studies, Department of Management |
| Areas of expertise: | My current research interests are eclectic but fall into 3 main areas: • The application of critical and cultural theory... |
| Keywords: | organisation | organisation studies | post-structural feminist theory | management history | women in organisation | entrepreneurs | social enterprise |
| Dr Angela Piccini | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Screen Media, Department of Film and Television |
| Areas of expertise: | I am Lecturer in Screen Studies and Head of Education in Drama. I co-direct the MA in Archaeology for Screen Media. My work... |
| Keywords: | archaeology and the media | television audiences and users | performativity, place, space | E-Science |
| Professor John Pickard | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Composition & Applied Musicology, Department of Music |
| Areas of expertise: | Edward Elgar: I am the General Editor of the Elgar Complete Edition - the authoritative critical edition of the composer's... |
| Keywords: | composition | Elgar | twentieth century music | British music | Havergal Brian |
| Professor Tony Pickering | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Neuroscience and Anaesthesia, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience Honorary Professor of Bristol Medical School (THS), Bristol Medical School (THS) |
| Areas of expertise: | As an anaesthetist and pain clinician I am naturally interested in integrative sensory and autonomic neuroscience. The nervous... |
| Keywords: | autonomic neuroscience | integrative neuroscience | sensory neuroscience | nervous system | interoceptive stimuli | exteroceptive stimuli | pathological conditions | neural dysfunctions |
| Professor Robert Piechocki | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Wireless Systems, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | I conduct research in signal processing, coding, information and communication theory. I am also interested in reduced complexity... |
| Keywords: | Wireless Communication Systems | Networking | Signal Processing and Coding |
| Dr Debbie Pinfold | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in German, Department of German |
| Areas of expertise: | My doctoral thesis and first book focused on the ways German authors have used the child's perspective to write about the... |
| Keywords: | East Germany | GDR | Cultural memory of the GDR | Cutlural memory of the Third Reich | Representations of childhood in the GDR | Representations of childhood in the Third Reich |
| Dr Helen Piper | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, Department of Film and Television |
| Areas of expertise: | My current research interests include various aspects of British broadcasting and television drama, representations of class/gender,... |
| Keywords: | British broadcasting | television drama | representations of gender | representations of class | dramatic performativity | factual television | entertainment | small screen aesthetics |
| Professor Ralph Pite | |
| Post(s): | Professor of English, Department of English |
| Areas of expertise: | My research focuses on: the Romantic period (particularly on the impact of Dante’s writing at the time and on the lives and... |
| Keywords: | Romantic period | Victorian literature | Dante | post-war British poetry | writing and the environment | the Simple Life |
| Professor Kit Pleydell-Pearce | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology Education, School of Psychological Science |
| Areas of expertise: | My research is primarily concerned with neurophysiological correlates of human cognition, and issues associated with localisation... |
| Keywords: | slow cortical potentials | cognitive workload | autobiographical memory | attention | consciousness | neurophysiological signals | human cognition |
| Dr James Pomeroy | |
| Post(s): | Research Fellow in Thermal Materials and Device Research, School of Physics |
| Areas of expertise: | My main research interest is the application of optical spectroscopy to study the properties of III-nitride and boron-rich... |
| Keywords: | optical spectroscopy | III-nitride & boron-rich semiconductors |
| Professor Alastair Poole | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Pharmacology and Cell Biology, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience |
| Areas of expertise: | Platelets are the smallest cellular component of the blood and are an essential element in the primary haemostatic system.... |
| Keywords: | Platelets | primary haemostatic system | pathological development of thrombosis | cell biology of platelets | protein kinases | platelet function | thrombus formation |
| Professor Geoff Poole | |
| Post(s): | Emeritus Professor, Department of Music |
| Areas of expertise: | I compose contemporary classical music for live performance e.g. orchestra, voices, chamber music and solo. Experience and... |
| Keywords: | musical composition | contemporary classical music | creativity | African music | Asian music | Postmodernism |
| Dr Caroline Pope | |
| Post(s): | Clinical Trials Coordinator, Bristol Medical School (THS) |
| Areas of expertise: | Mucosal immunity to Streptococcus Pneumoniae. Mucosal immune responses to candidate pneumococcal vaccines in children. T... |
| Keywords: | mucosal immunity | autoimmunity |
| Professor Sandu Popescu | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Physics, School of Physics |
| Areas of expertise: | My main research interest is in fundamental aspects of quantum physics; basically I am interested in getting a better understanding... |
| Keywords: | quantum physics | quantum behaviour | quantum non-locality | quantum information | quantum theory |
| Dr Richard Porter | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, School of Mathematics |
| Areas of expertise: | Developing and implementing sophisticated analytic techniques for solving boundary-value problems arising from problems in... |
| Keywords: | boundary-value problems | wave theory | acoustics | electromagnetics |
| Professor Kevin Potter | |
| Post(s): | Professor in Composites Manufacture, Department of Aerospace Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | Since joining the University of Bristol I have been responsible for developing and running a number of research programmes... |
| Keywords: | advanced materials | composites | product design | manufacturing | enterprise |
| Professor Simon Potter | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Modern History, Department of History (Historical Studies) |
| Areas of expertise: | I have written extensively on the history of the mass media in Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.... |
| Keywords: | modern British history | British empire | media history | twentieth century Britain | nineteenth century Britain | Canada | Australia | New Zealand |
| Professor Dhiraj Pradhan | |
| Post(s): | Emeritus Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science |
| Areas of expertise: | I am an expert in trends in the micro chip industry. I have contributed to Very Large Scale Integrated Computer-Aided design... |
| Keywords: | micro-chip industry | computer architecture | fault-tolerant computing |
| Professor Alan Preece | |
| Post(s): | Emeritus Professor, Bristol Medical School (THS) |
| Areas of expertise: | Experimental studies on EM fields radiofrequency and microwave and health interactions with humans |
| Keywords: | mobile phones and health | electromagnetic fields and health | power-lines |
| Dr Dorothy Price | |
| Post(s): | Reader in History of Art, Department of History of Art (Historical Studies) |
| Areas of expertise: | I have expertise in the areas of German art in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, particularly German Expressionism... |
| Keywords: | German expressionism | Weimar Culture | Realism, Magic Realism and New Objectivity in Painting | Women Artists | Race and Ethnicity in Art | Sexuality and Gender in Art | Contemporary Art in Britain | Photography in 1920s and 1930s Germany |
| Professor Paul Pringle | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, School of Chemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | Catalysis offers the prospect of low energy, low waste synthetic routes to chemical products, i.e. clean chemical technology.... |
| Keywords: | catalysis | energy | waste | chemical products | clean chemical technology | homogeneous catalysis | transition metal chemistry |
| Dr Stuart Prior | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Archaeological Practice, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology |
| Areas of expertise: | I am an Archaeologist, with specialisms in Landscape Archaeology; Early Medieval (i.e. Saxon, Viking & Norman)(AD410-1066)... |
| Keywords: | archaeology and heritage | landscape archaeology | medieval archaeology | warfare & weaponry | castles | The Anarchy | Saxon, Viking & Norman archaeology | ancient technology & experimental archaeology |
| Professor Tony Prosser | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Public Law, University of Bristol Law School |
| Areas of expertise: | My main research interests are in Public Law relating to privatisation and regulation, especially regulation of public utilities... |
| Keywords: | public law | privatisation | regulation | public utilities | broadcasting | competition law | reflexive governance |
| Dr Steven Proud | |
| Post(s): | Reader of Economics Education, Department of Economics |
| Areas of expertise: | My research builds upon my teaching interests, with expertise in education, in particular higher education, assessment, and... |
| Keywords: | education | pedagogy | higher education | Funding of Social Care |
| Dr Jon Pugh | |
| Post(s): | Senior Research Associate, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | My work is focused on electromagnetic modelling and focused ion beam fabrication of nano-scale photonic crystal devices emitting... |
| Keywords: | electromagnetic modelling | nano-scale photonic crystal devices | indium phosphide | indium antimonide |
| Professor David Punter | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Poetry, Department of English |
| Areas of expertise: | I have research interests in modern and contemporary writing; in romantic and Gothic writing; in literary theory and psychoanalysis;... |
| Keywords: | contemporary literature | ghost stories | literature and psychology | the uncanny | postcolonialism | higher education and the arts | horror stories |
| Professor Sarah Purdy | |
| Post(s): | Head of School, Bristol Medical School Head of School, Bristol Medical School, Bristol Medical School |
| Areas of expertise: | I run a research programme looking at urgent care use including emergency hospital admissions and how to reduce these using... |
| Keywords: | predictors of primary care sensitive hospital admissions | primary care | unplanned hospital admission | urgent care |
| Professor Ad Putter | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Medieval English Literature, Department of English |
| Areas of expertise: | Areas of research expertise include Arthurian literature and legend, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Middle English Language,... |
| Keywords: | middle english language | medieval romance | Arthurian legend | medieval literature | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | editing |
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