All PhD research projects

Maternal mental health, processing of emotion and maternal sensitivity

An investigation on whether maternal mental health difficulties impact a mother’s cognitive processing of infant emotional faces, and in turn her maternal sensitivity when interacting with her infant.

School: School of Health & Psychological Sciences

Department: Department of Midwifery and Radiography

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Status: Completed project

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Mertiocracy and Critical consumption

Prof Jo Littler's current research project concerns meritocracy and social and cultural change; the output of this research is in the form of academic articles.

School: School of Policy & Global Affairs

Department: Department of Sociology and Criminology

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Status: Ongoing project

Midwives’ perspectives on the practice, impact and challenges of delivering respectful maternity care in Malawi

This project used a postcolonial lens to explore Malawian midwives’ perceptions of respectful maternity care, and identify the constraints and enablers they faced in providing it.

School: School of Health & Psychological Sciences

Department: Department of Midwifery and Radiography

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Status: Completed project

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Music-assisted programmes: Developing communication in autism spectrum disorder through music-making (MAP)

The project aims to develop a set of music-assisted intervention programmes to increase spoken language ability in 24-60-month old nonverbal or minimally verbal children with autism spectrum disorder.

School: School of Health & Psychological Sciences

Department: Department of Health Services Research and Management

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Status: Completed project

Non-Invasive Measurement of Cholesterol in Human Blood by Electrical Impedance Technique

This research develops a basis to establish proof of principle and build a technology product demonstrator of a novel instrument sensor for non-invasive measurement of total blood cholesterol.

School: School of Science & Technology

Department: Department of Engineering

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Status: Potential project

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Non-invasive screening of cardiovascular diseases

The main objectives of this project are to develop multi-parameter sensors, and signal processing techniques for the non-invasive and continuous mapping of physiological and haemodynamic parameters.

School: School of Science & Technology

Department: Department of Engineering

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Status: Potential project

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Nonlinear Photonics

New PhD students are sought to extend these works for the development signal generation in mid-infrared and THz frequency regions and development of better distributed SBS sensors.

School: School of Science & Technology

Department: Department of Engineering

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Status: Potential project

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Point-of-care non-invasive blood and tissue biochemistry

The focus of this project is to develop non-invasive optical rapid measurements and/or continuous monitoring of biological variables currently only measurable via blood samples or invasive techniques.

School: School of Science & Technology

Department: Department of Engineering

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Status: Potential project

Promoting exclusive breastfeeding among HIV positive women in rural Malawi

Dr Agatha Kapatuka Bula investigates how community-based interventions help to promote exclusive breastfeeding among HIV positive women in rural Malawi and reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV.

School: School of Health & Psychological Sciences

Department: Department of Midwifery and Radiography

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Status: Completed project

Radiography research mentoring

The Formal Radiography Research Mentoring scheme was created with the overarching aim to increase research capacity and quality in radiography, as well as to offer support future research leaders.

School: School of Health & Psychological Sciences

Department: Department of Midwifery and Radiography

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Status: Ongoing project

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