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Expertise: construction management, reedbed management.

Research: management and use of reedbeds within the UK.

Expertise: sustainable architectural design, maximising building efficiency through design, life-cycle assessment of buildings and energy performance.

Research: CO2 reduction, low and zero carbon buildings, human centred architecture.

Expertise: impact of social, economic and political factors on the development of housing standards in the UK.

Research: widening access to higher education and embedding professional practice in the curriculum.

Expertise: photography, contemporary art, visual culture

Research: landscape, modernity, cultural history, and the image of landscape in the locale of Kurt Schwitters’ Merz constructions in England and Norway.

Expertise: Organisational strategy, organisational collaborations, structuration theory, managing people, leadership practices.

Research: Informal organising, strategy in practice, collaborative work, and research methodologies.

Expertise: semiotic analysis, storytelling and narratives in business and politics, the history of Ordnance Survey.

Research: strategy and business planning, semiotic anthropology, knowledge management. 

Expertise: music and national identity, music and climate change, music reunions, Britpop, music PR and media, record companies, social media.

Research: music videos, photography, Elvis Presley, David Bowie, Velvet Underground, soul music, reggae.

Expertise: retailing, second-hand fashion, creative SMEs, entrepreneurship.

Research: retail histories in the 20^th and 21^st centuries. 

Expertise: Magazines, social media, marketing, slow journalism, celebrity, fashion and beauty media/promotion.

Research: Building student communities; real world learning, and students as co-creators.

Expertise: Entrepreneurship, female entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship in education.

Research:  Female entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education, strategy in small and medium-sized companies.

Expertise: User experience/interface design, human computer interaction, augmented reality/virtual reality, mixed reality, interactive and immersive webinar design, educational use of AI.

Research: Immersive webinar design using augmented reality, computer simulations for learning and assessment, professional social networked learning models and technology.

Expertise: science and engineering, electronic engineering and automation systems, computer science, computing applications in manufacturing, automation and industry, embedded systems programming.

Research: non-destructive testing, numerical modelling of multi-physics systems, industrial system solutions and development, implementation and testing, application of artificial intelligence.

Expertise: computer games and virtual reality, health and wellbeing games, videogame theory.

Research: mixed realities, games, health and wellbeing.

Expertise: User experience/interface design, human computer interaction, augmented reality/virtual reality, mixed reality, interactive and immersive webinar design, educational use of AI.

Research: Immersive webinar design using augmented reality, computer simulations for learning and assessment, professional social networked learning models and technology.

Expertise: computer games and virtual reality, health and wellbeing games, videogame theory.

Research: mixed realities, games, health and wellbeing.

Expertise: mechanical engineering, CAD systems development.   

Research: design of tactile products and surfaces, innovation process and adoption, packaging and product design. consumer behaviour and retail analysis. 

Expertise: science and engineering, electronic engineering and automation systems, computer science, computing applications in manufacturing, automation and industry, embedded systems programming.

Research: non-destructive testing, numerical modelling of multi-physics systems, industrial system solutions and development, implementation and testing, application of artificial intelligence.

Expertise: Mechatronics, embedded systems e.g. microcontrollers/Arduino, Raspberry Pi, FPGA, home automation.

Research: Smart homes (Residential), intelligent sensor systems, Internet of Things (IoT), MCDMA.

Expertise: impact of social, economic and political factors on the development of housing standards in the UK.

Research: widening access to higher education and embedding professional practice in the curriculum.

Expertise: wireless systems, electronic circuits, data and computer networks, solar systems, energy storage and energy recovery systems, decolonisation and equality in higher education.

Research: cellular networks including radio planning and system optimisation, management of heterogeneous networks, MIMO, and network architecture.

Expertise: Magazines, social media, marketing, slow journalism, celebrity, fashion and beauty media/promotion.

Research: Building student communities; real world learning, and students as co-creators.

Expertise: luxury fashion, fashion buying and merchandising, luxury brands, UK Fashion market.

Expertise: retailing, second-hand fashion, creative SMEs, entrepreneurship.

Research: retail histories in the 20^th and 21^st centuries. 

Expertise: Magazines, social media, marketing, slow journalism, celebrity, fashion and beauty media/promotion.

Research: Building student communities; real world learning, and students as co-creators.

Expertise: Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), documentary film, LGBTQIA+ cinema.

Research: Equity, diversity and inclusion in the MCU, identity representation in film and TV, performance and performativity, sex in documentary film, Global LGBTQIA+ cinema.

Expertise: sex on screen, representations of sexual violence, masculinity and gender in contemporary film, TV and culture, acting and performance.

Research: British Academy-funded project 'Screening Sexual Violence', short film as a tool for activism and awareness-raising, female filmmakers, gender-based violence, #MeToo. 

Expertise: Visual communication, production, postproduction, video editing.

Research: Egyptian animated TV and its effect on Egyptian children's social values, social media studies.

Expertise: Hollywood, British, and Australian films, television, media practice, gender, and the representation of intersex people.

Research: Intersection of media, society and storytelling alongside underrepresented narratives.

Expertise: Television, documentary filmmaking, real-world learning, creative industries.

Expertise: Technical media, broadcast, acoustics, audio engineering, computing.

Research: Acoustics.

Expertise: Film and TV history, the work of Agatha Christie.

Research: Archival research into the development of Agatha Christie’s career and the impact of her work.

Expertise: film, television, trauma, time, grief, gender.

Research: contemporary film theory and practice, media and cultural theory, film history, the work of Christopher Nolan, gender representation in film and television.

Expertise: biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology.

Research: micro RNAs as biomarkers for difficult-to-diagnose diseases (allergy and asthma), novel biomarkers for lung disease, novel interventions for difficult-to-treat diseases (asthma and lung cancer). 

Expertise: microbiology, virology, immunology, antibiotic resistance.

Research: respiratory viral infections, pathogen interactions in the lung, MRSA, microbiome dynamics.

Expertise: nutrition in healthcare professionals, nutrition, workplace nutrition, public health nutrition, dietary behaviours.

Research: healthcare professionals' workplace health, nutrition and dietary behaviours during shift work. EDI in higher education, academic literacies, educational/ learning development, student engagement and partnerships.

Expertise: university governance, quality assurance, commercial law - e-commerce, data protection.

Expertise: marine electricals and electronic engineering, instrumentation and control systems, modelling and simulation of electrical control systems.

Research: AI for autonomous control systems, marine decarbonisation. 

Expertise: naval architecture, yacht and superyacht design, commercial vessel design, electric hydro-foiling vessels.

Research: developing an electric hydro-foiling passenger craft, high performance sailing craft. 

Expertise: seafarer occupational health and safety, organisation of work and employment.

Research: seafarer safety, inequalities among seafarer workforce.

Expertise: low-carbon shipping, sustainable marine fuels, vessel efficiency, and life cycle assessment.

Research: energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions, the impact of future fuels on the sustainability of the maritime sector.

Expertise: shipping operations and supply chain, salvage law and practice.

Research: ship salvage, commercial law and practice, maritime law. 

Expertise: architecture and marine engineering.

Research: hybrid propulsion and hull resistance to reduce the environmental impact of shipping, renewable composite material and their application in the marine industry.

Expertise: maritime operations, pedagogy and simulation, ship handling, autonomous shipping.

Research: marine autonomous systems, sea traffic management, maritime simulators, modern navigational equipment.

Expertise: theatre, directing, producing, acting technique, voice and vocal coaching, singing, community participation, co-creation, collaboration.

Research: applied theatre, community voice, audiences, directing.

Expertise: Music festivals, live music, music business.

Research: Cultural economy, history and heritage; and the future of music industries.

Expertise: music business, music education and arts funding. 

Research: music business, music education, arts funding, music management and copyright.

Expertise: music and national identity, music and climate change, music reunions, Britpop, music PR and media, record companies, social media.

Research: music videos, photography, Elvis Presley, David Bowie, Velvet Underground, soul music, reggae.

Expertise: Sound design, popular music, film sound.

Research: Music, sound.

Expertise: marketing and communications, PR strategies, partnerships (national and international), university strategy, internationalisation, civic engagement.

Expertise: mechanical engineering, CAD systems development.   

Research: design of tactile products and surfaces, innovation process and adoption, packaging and product design. consumer behaviour and retail analysis. 

Expertise: corporate finance, endowment management, investments, pensions, strategy and innovation.

Expertise: wellbeing, equality, diversity and inclusion, reward and recognition, organisational development, trade unions.

Expertise: student experience, corporate governance, regulation and administration of higher education, higher education.

Expertise: naval architecture, ship and small craft design, hydrodynamics, maritime simulation and sailing.

Research: small craft hydrodynamics, hydrofoils, wind assisted propulsion in ships.

Expertise: university governance, quality assurance, commercial law - e-commerce, data protection.

Expertise: teaching and learning support, evaluating course performances and metrics, innovation in learning and teaching, community building in HE.

Research: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), human problem solving and decision making, design thinking and prototyping in HE.

Expertise: future thinking of education, media and technology, immersive media, emerging forms of technology, virtual reality.

Research: understanding narrative forms of virtual reality, application of new technologies in education.

Expertise: psychology of elite sport, applied sport psychology, stress and sport performance.

Research: regulation of stress and emotion.

Expertise: working with vulnerable adults in mental health, medical social work, regional HIV services.

Research: qualitative research, social work, education, teaching, gender, human development and the life course.

Expertise: mental health and wellbeing of veterans,  the role of archaeology and cultural heritage to support mental health and wellbeing, positive ageing - including life story work and reminiscence, and peer support.

Research: UKRI-MARCH Network AMPHORA Project - supporting safe practice and evaluation in the heritage for wellbeing sector, the impact of archaeology on veterans' mental health and wellbeing, and the role of peer support for older veterans. 

Expertise: mental health among marginalised communities including refugees and asylum seekers, athlete mental health.

Research: the experiences of women athletes in male-dominated sports, human rights violations in sport.

Expertise: performance psychology in football and golf, attributions, motivation, social identity.

Research: attribution retraining in sport.

Expertise: working with vulnerable adults in mental health, medical social work, regional HIV services.

Research: qualitative research, social work, education, teaching, gender, human development and the life course.

Expertise: advanced interviewing of child abuse suspects and victims, inter-familial child homicide in Cambodia.

Research: forensic behavioural psychology.

Expertise: LGBT inclusion in sport, sports media representation, anti-discrimination policy, head trauma in sport, sport and sexuality, sports fandom, sport and gender.

Research: gender and sexuality, masculinities, non-exclusive sexualities, sports policy.

Expertise: lower limb biomechanical investigation in sport and health.

Research: injury identification and mitigation in active populations.

Expertise: psychology of elite sport, applied sport psychology, stress and sport performance.

Research: regulation of stress and emotion.

Expertise: child development, sports coaching, leadership and management in education, pedagogic practice.

Research: child development within the classroom including, individual, personalised and lifelong learning.

Expertise: nutrition in healthcare professionals, nutrition, workplace nutrition, public health nutrition, dietary behaviours.

Research: healthcare professionals' workplace health, nutrition and dietary behaviours during shift work. EDI in higher education, academic literacies, educational/ learning development, student engagement and partnerships.

Expertise: rugby, physiology, endurance training, strength and conditioning, eccentric training, altitude training, heat training, blood flow restriction. 

Research: rugby union, post activation potentiation, blood flow restriction, eccentric training, technology (GPS, force plates).

Expertise: LGBT inclusion in sport, sports media representation, anti-discrimination policy, head trauma in sport, sport and sexuality, sports fandom, sport and gender.

Research: gender and sexuality, masculinities, non-exclusive sexualities, sports policy.

Expertise: performance psychology in football and golf, attributions, motivation, social identity.

Research: attribution retraining in sport.