Research

ALADDIN - evaluating change with technology

An award-winning, collaborative project led by the University of Southampton has been using technologies ranging from computer modelling to automated robots to investigate ways to improve the understanding of constantly changing scenarios.

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UCL Constitution Unit

The UCL Constitution Unit has undertaken research which has helped to involve legislation and policy on the Human Rights Act, devolution, reform of the House of Lords, referendums, new voting systems, the creation of the Supreme Court, Church and State, constitutional watchdogs, freedom of information, and parliamentary reform.

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Improving management within a local SME

The skills and expertise developed by one student at the University of Warwick business school have helped to rejuvenate the management techniques and company culture within a local manufacturing SME.

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Global People project

The Centre for Applied Linguistics Research at the University of Warwick is leading the ‘Global People’ project which explores how to promote intercultural effectiveness in wider international contexts.

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The economics of healthcare

Researchers at the University of York have developed cost-effectiveness analysis methods that are used worldwide to determine how best to use resources in healthcare systems.

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A new technology to support deep-sea oil exploration from University of Edinburgh

MTEM (Multi-transient Electromagnetic Technology), a spin-out company from the University of Edinburgh, markets a technology which allows the detection of hydrocarbons in deep underground reservoirs.

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Community policing in Los Angeles via the University of Leeds

The research expertise of a University of Leeds academic has helped to advise and inform new approaches to community policing within the second largest city in the US.

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A new technology to help drug delivery in vulnerable patients from the University of Nottingham

In 1999, Professor Steve Howdle, a researcher in the University of Nottingham’s Department of Chemistry, was conducting basic research into the properties of ‘supercritical’ fluids; these are gases which, at a defined temperature, take on unique physical properties.

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Lighter, faster and greener aircraft from Universities of Bristol and Exeter

A collaboration between the Universities of Bristol, Exeter, Bath, and manufacturer Airbus has led to pioneering aerospace technology

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Breakthrough digital display technology from the University of Cambridge

In 1989 fundamental research at the University of Cambridge led to the unexpected discovery that luminescence could be generated by conducting electricity through plastic polymers.

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