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| Professor Jemma Wadham | |
| Post(s): | Professor in Glaciology/Director of the Cabot Institute, School of Geographical Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | Geochemistry & hydrology of Arctic & Alpine regions. Hydrochemistry of polythermal glaciers and chemical weathering mechanisms... |
| Keywords: | geochemistry | hydrology | Arctic regions | alpine regions | glaciers | subglacial runoff |
| Professor Thorsten Wagener | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Water and Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | Hydrology analyses the movement and storage of water in complex environmental systems in which humans are important actors.... |
| Keywords: | hydrology | water resources management | floods | droughts | climate change impacts | environmental predictions | uncertainty and risk | higher education (in water-subjects especially) |
| Professor Richard Wall | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Zoology, School of Biological Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | My interests largely concern the ecology and control of economically important arthropods (flies, fleas, lice, mites and... |
| Keywords: | flies | lice | mites | maggots | fleas | pests | ectoparasites | cow dung |
| Dr Lynne Walling | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Pure Mathematics, School of Mathematics |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a number theorist, working with quadratic forms and various types of automorphic forms. I use automorphic forms to get... |
| Keywords: | number theory | quadratic forms | automorphic forms | modular forms |
| Professor Xiaojun Wang | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Operations Management, Department of Management |
| Areas of expertise: | My research interests include sustainable supply chain, innovations in operations management, risk assessment, e-business... |
| Keywords: | Supply Chain Management | Operations Management | sustainable development | Eco-design | food traceability | risk assessment | Fuzzy Logic |
| Dr Mohammed Wanous | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in Engineering Management, Department of Civil Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | Research interests include applications of Artificial Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic and Neurofuzzy Logic on various decisions... |
| Keywords: | artificial neural networks | Fuzzy Logic | Neurofuzzy Logic | value systems | sustainable development | competitive tendering practice in civil engineering |
| Professor Clea Warburton | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience Head of School, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience |
| Areas of expertise: | My research is currently focussed on the neural basis of recognition memory, our ability to recognise whether objects are... |
| Keywords: | memory | recognition | recognition memory | episodic memory | objects | ability to learn | neurotransmitter systems |
| Professor Bogdan Warinschi | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science |
| Areas of expertise: | I am interested in security and cryptography; more specifically, the connections between symbolic and computational security... |
| Keywords: | security | cryptography |
| Dr Paul Warr | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | Paul's current research covers the front-end aspects of Software (Reconfigurable) Radio and diversity-exploiting communication... |
| Keywords: | radio frequency | Software-defined radio | cognative radio | Linear amplification | radio receivers | analogue integrated circuits | Cellular Neural Networks | electronics |
| Dr Liz Washbrook | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Methods for Education, School of Education |
| Areas of expertise: | My research interests cover a broad range of topics around the theme of children and families. I am currently working on... |
| Keywords: | beliefs | behaviours and attitudes in educational attainment | children and families | fertility outcomes & housing transitions | children's cognitive & socio-emotional development | effects of policy environment & time periods on social mobility |
| Professor Duncan Wass | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Catalysis, School of Chemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | Our research interests are in the area of homogeneous catalysis using organometallic and coordination compounds. Catalysis... |
| Keywords: | homogeneous catalysis | organometallic compounds | coordination compounds | catalysis | molecules | catalytic activity | clean chemical activity |
| Dr Debbie Watson | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Childhood Studies, School for Policy Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | I am interested in conceptual constructions of social and emotional wellbeing for children and how adult models of wellbeing... |
| Keywords: | Children's wellbeing | sociology of childhood | children | social and emotional wellbeing | performance methodologies | learning support | interprofessional working | creative research methods |
| Dr Matthew Watson | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Natural Hazards, School of Earth Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | My research involves inversion of remotely-sensed data to retrieve physical parameters of volcanic plumes and clouds over... |
| Keywords: | volcanic plumes | volcanoes | volcanic clouds | volcanic ash | volcanic sulphur dioxide | volcanic aerosols | geoengineering |
| Professor Paul Weaver | |
| Post(s): | Professor in Lightweight Structures, Department of Aerospace Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | My expertise lies in design and analysis of lightweight structures, particularly those constructed from composite materials.... |
| Keywords: | composite structures | bicycle frame design | Stiffness tailoring | buckling | lightweight structures | aircraft wing design | rotor blade design | Morphing composites |
| Dr Claire Weeks | |
| Post(s): | Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Companion Animal Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | I have over 30 years experience of poultry welfare, which I evaluate by measuring their environment in house and during transport... |
| Keywords: | poultry | animal welfare | animal behaviour | improving animal transport | husbandry systems | literature reviews |
| Dr Ian Wei | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in Medieval European History, Department of History (Historical Studies) |
| Areas of expertise: | I work on intellectual culture and the social history of ideas in Western Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.... |
| Keywords: | intellectual culture | social history | Western Europe | medieval society | theology | ideas |
| Professor Philip Welch | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Pure Mathematics, School of Mathematics |
| Areas of expertise: | Axiomatic Set Theory: strong axioms of infinity & large cardinals; interactions with the determinacy assumptions on infinite... |
| Keywords: | axiomatic set theory | mathematical logic | set theory | mathematical philosophy | models of computation |
| Professor Jutta Weldes | |
| Post(s): | PGR Education Director, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | My major areas of research are 1) international relations theory, particularly as applied to the critical analysis of cold... |
| Keywords: | international politics | US foreign policy | popular culture and world politics | May 4th 1970 at Kent State |
| Dr Caragh Wells | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | My research interests include: The post-war Spanish novel; Contemporary Urban fiction in post-war Spain and Catalonia; Women’s... |
| Keywords: | post-war Spanish novel | fiction in post-war Spain | women’s writing | narrative theory | European novel | digressive fiction | Catalan literary criticism |
| Professor Celia Wells | |
| Post(s): | Emeritus Professor, University of Bristol Law School |
| Areas of expertise: | I research and write mainly in criminal law with a particular specialism in corporate criminal liability. I am the author... |
| Keywords: | criminal law | corporate criminal liability | organisational theory of corporate criminal liability | corporate criminal responsibility |
| Dr Gavin Welsh | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Renal Cell Biology, Bristol Medical School (THS) |
| Areas of expertise: | I am currently a Reader in Renal Cell Biology in Bristol Renal. My research interests centre on renal cell signalling and... |
| Keywords: | renal cell biology | kidneys | renal cell signalling | disease | renal disease | Nephrotic Syndrome |
| Professor Nicky Welton | |
| Post(s): | Professor in Statistical and Health Economic Modelling, Bristol Medical School (PHS) |
| Areas of expertise: | Research Interests: 1. Bayesian statistical methods for combining evidence from different sources, and assessing evidence... |
| Keywords: | Bayesian statistics | toxoplasmosis | breast cancer screening | genetic testing | smoking | cluster randomised trial | mixed treatment comparison |
| Dr Maximilian Werner | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, School of Earth Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | My research centres on earthquake processes and seismic hazard and risk assessment. My goals are to better understand earthquake... |
| Keywords: | earthquakes | seismic hazard and risk | forecasting and model validation | human induced earthquakes | resilience | natural disasters | natural hazards and risks | uncertainty quantification |
| Dr Colin Western | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Chemistry, School of Chemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | My research work concentrates on applying the very powerful techniques provided by laser spectroscopy to a variety of molecules,... |
| Keywords: | laser spectroscopy | molecules | transient molecules | laser system | nuclei | hyperfine structure | spectroscopy |
| Professor Fiona Whitaker | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Earth Sciences, School of Earth Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | My research focuses on carbonate sedimentology and diagenesis, integrating field studies of modern environments with numerical... |
| Keywords: | carbonate diagenesis | hydrogeology of islands | reactive transport modelling | dolomite | groundwater geochemistry |
| Professor Martin White | |
| Post(s): | Emeritus Professor, Department of Theatre |
| Areas of expertise: | Theatre history, particularly English of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Modern theatre. Theatre policy. |
| Keywords: | theatre | drama | repertoire | theatre history | performance | theatre research | regional theatre | Shakespearean drama |
| Dr Steve White | |
| Post(s): | Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School (THS) |
| Areas of expertise: | When a blockage builds up in an artery (atherosclerosis) the blood moves faster through the restricted portion of the artery.... |
| Keywords: | endothelial erosion | cardiovascular disease | Heart attack | vascular cells | atherosclerosis | Gene thransfer | Functional Genomics | endothelial response to shear stress |
| Professor Andrew Whitelaw | |
| Post(s): | Emeritus Professor, Bristol Medical School (THS) |
| Areas of expertise: | I have 30 years of clinical experience with sick newborn infants and have worked on the mechanisms and treatment of brain... |
| Keywords: | newborn brain injury | newborn intensive care | experimental brain treatment | brain haemorrhage | hydrocephalus |
| Dr Nick Whiteley | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics |
| Areas of expertise: | I am interested in Monte Carlo methods, especially sequential methods and their application to a variety of dynamical inference... |
| Keywords: | Monte Carlo computation | Bayesian modelling and analysis | statistical signal processing | time series |
| Professor Mark Wickham-Jones | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Political Science, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | My expertise is based around Labour party politics over the last fifty or so years. My research concerns the party's economic... |
| Keywords: | British politics | New Labour | economic policy | electoral politics and General Election 2017 | political party organisation | Labour party foreign policy | gender and public policy | women's representation in parliament |
| Dr Karoline Wiesner | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Complexity Sciences, School of Mathematics |
| Areas of expertise: | I like to summarize my research as follows: Nature stores and processes information - it computes. Scientists have successfully... |
| Keywords: | complex systems | quantum information |
| Professor Stephen Wiggins | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Applied Mathematics, School of Mathematics |
| Areas of expertise: | Mathematical methods for detecting and describing chaotic phenomena, local and global bifurcation theory, homoclinic and... |
| Keywords: | chaos | nonlinearity | transport | mixing | dynamics | computation |
| Dr Alastair Wilkins | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Neurology, Bristol Medical School (THS) |
| Areas of expertise: | My current projects are: • Role of the peroxisome in axonal degeneration and progressive MS • Degenerative ataxias... |
| Keywords: | multiple sclerosis | axonal degeneration | degenerative ataxias | stem cell neuroprotection | progressive multiple sclerosis |
| Mr Alistair Williams | |
| Post(s): | Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School (THS) |
| Areas of expertise: | I have worked in diabetes research since 1986, when I joined the group led by Professor Edwin Gale at St. Bartholomew’s hospital.... |
| Keywords: | diabetes | Insulin | insulin antibodies | childhood onset diabetes | autoantibody measurement | pancreatic imaging | pancreas size in diabetes |
| Professor Ann Williams | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Experimental Oncology, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine |
| Areas of expertise: | -Dynamism in transcription factor function in response to microenvironmental stress provides new avenues for selective targeting... |
| Keywords: | key events in early colorectal carcinogenesis | tumour microenvironment for gene expression & function | chemoprevention | Regulation of apoptosis. | NF-kappaB/Bcl-3 regulation in colorectal carcinogenesis, | Bag-1 |
| Dr Caroline Williams | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies, Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a historian of colonial Spanish America, and I have a particular interest in the colonization of indigenous groups on... |
| Keywords: | colonial Spanish America | colonization of indigenous groups | Atlantic World | Portuguese America | indigenous peoples | Spanish colonization | Miskito Coast |
| Dr Beth Williamson | |
| Post(s): | Reader in History of Art, Department of History of Art (Historical Studies) |
| Areas of expertise: | I have published on Italian painting of the fourteenth and fifteenth-centuries, and on Netherlandish painting of the fifteenth-century,... |
| Keywords: | Medieval art | Medieval architecture | Virgin Mary | iconography | Marian liturgy | saints | sanctity | devotional imagery |
| Dr Emma Williamson | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Gender Based Violence, School for Policy Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | I have worked on a range of projects relating to gender and violence over the past 15 years, most notably in relation to... |
| Keywords: | Domestic Abuse Perpetrators | domestic violence | sexual violence | support needs | violence against women | gender inequality | state responses to gendered violence | research ethics |
| Professor Chris Willis | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Organic Chemistry, School of Chemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | Natural products isolated from bacteria, fungi and plants from both marine and terrestrial environments are a rich source... |
| Keywords: | natural products | bacteria | fungi | plants | compounds | biosynthetic pathways | enzyme mechanisms | amino acids |
| Professor Chris Willmore | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Sustainability and Law, University of Bristol Law School |
| Areas of expertise: | Carried out research for the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice looking at the use of expert, notably forensic science,... |
| Keywords: | rights of way | countryside law | common land | environmental law | law and science interface | expert evidence | forensic science evidence |
| Professor Deborah Wilson | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Public Policy and Management and Faculty Research Director, Department of Management |
| Areas of expertise: | I do research within an economics framework on incentives, competition and performance management in the public sector, primarily... |
| Keywords: | performance management | public sector incentives | education outcomes |
| Professor Frank Windmeijer | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Econometrics, Department of Economics |
| Areas of expertise: | My main research interests are microeconometrics, panel data econometrics and economics of health care. Current research... |
| Keywords: | microeconometrics | panel data econometrics | economics of health care | likelihood estimators | health care productivity | technology diffusion |
| Professor Michael Wisnom | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Aerospace Structures, Department of Aerospace Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | I am the Director of the ACCIS research centre. My interests are mainly concerned with failure of composites and the application... |
| Keywords: | failure of composites | composites | finite element analysis | failure mechanisms | fatigue | failure mechanisms | progressive damage modelling | failure criteria |
| Dr Ross Woods | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Water & Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a hydrologist and I study the water cycle. In particular, I have worked extensively on floods, droughts, the effects... |
| Keywords: | water | hydrology | floods | droughts | climate change impacts |
| Dr James Wookey | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Geophysics, School of Earth Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | My research is in theoretical and observational seismology with an emphasis on seismic anisotropy. This property - the variation... |
| Keywords: | seismology | seismic anisotropy | mantle | the Earth | mantle |
| Professor Trevor Wooley | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Pure Mathematics, School of Mathematics |
| Areas of expertise: | My research is centred on the Hardy-Littlewood (circle) method, a method based on the use of Fourier series that delivers... |
| Keywords: | Hardy-Littlewood method | Diophantine equations | arithmetic geometry | arithmetic harmonic analysis | exponential sums | Waring's problem | analytic number theory |
| Professor Dek Woolfson | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Chemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | The primary basic research interest of the group is the informational aspect of the protein-folding problem; that is, how... |
| Keywords: | bionanotechnology | protein design | protein-folding problem | protein | bioinformatics | protein sequence | protein design |
| Professor Diana Worrall | |
| Post(s): | Professor, School of Physics |
| Areas of expertise: | I carry out research in astrophysics and lecture in physics and astronomy. My primary research interests are in extragalactic... |
| Keywords: | extragalactic astrophysics | x-ray astronomy |
| Dr Yvonne Wren | |
| Post(s): | Senior Research Speech & Language Therapist/Senior Research Fellow, Bristol Dental School |
| Areas of expertise: | I am Director of Bristol Speech and Language Therapy Research Unit at North Bristol NHS Trust. Our focus is on carrying out... |
| Keywords: | speech development | language development | speech disorder | language disorder | communication needs | cleft lip and palate |
| Dr Jane Wright | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, Department of English |
| Areas of expertise: | My research interests span the nineteenth century but focus on Victorian literature, and especially poetry. I am currently... |
| Keywords: | Victorian literature | Victorian poetry | literary afterlives | representation of gender | representation of sexuality | literature and visual culture |
| Dr Andrew Wyatt | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | I have researched and written about the resurgence of identity politics in India in the last two decades. The intersection... |
| Keywords: | Indian politics | economic reform | economic globalisation | India elections | caste and politics | BJP |
| Professor Paul Wyatt | |
| Post(s): | Professorial Teaching Fellow, School of Chemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | Asymmetric Synthetic Methods We look at novel ways to prepare single enantiomers. Although the compounds themselves may... |
| Keywords: | asymmetric synthesis | single enantiomers | compounds | symmetry elements | properties of molecules | more exotic symmetry elements | Photoactive Surface Science | detergents |
| Dr Vikki Wylde | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in Musculoskeletal Health Services Research, Bristol Medical School (THS) |
| Areas of expertise: | I am currently a Research Associate working on the 5-year NIHR-funded RESTORE programme, which aims to improve patient’s... |
| Keywords: | patient's experience | health care | joint replacement | post-surgical pain | chronic pain | quantitative sensory testing |
| Professor David Wynick | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Molecular Medicine, Bristol Medical School (THS) |
| Areas of expertise: | Peripheral sensory neuropathy and neuropathic pain |
| Keywords: | galanin | nerve injury | neuropathic pain | neuropeptide | NeuroTargets | pain |
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