| St Edmund Hall Research Expo 2015: Introduction |
A brief overview of the event |
Keith Gull |
12 June, 2015 |
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| Promoting nutrition through schools in a lower middle income country, Sri Lanka |
Investigating how schools may help improve diet, particularly in low- and middle-income countries |
Julianne Williams |
11 June, 2015 |
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| Past and Future Earthquake Hazard in Asia |
This lecture illustrates the ways in which the landscape in Central Asia has been influenced by active faults and earthquakes and will examine the hazard faced at the present-day. |
Richard Walker |
11 June, 2015 |
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| Rethinking the American Revolution and the US Founding Myth |
The importance of looking at the American colonial period not as the ‘Thirteen Colonies’ but as a British America consisting of twenty-six colonies and provinces. |
Trent Taylor |
11 June, 2015 |
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| The stimulated brain |
How non-invasive brain stimulation techniques might work, and how we have started to use them in stroke survivors. |
Charlotte Stagg |
11 June, 2015 |
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| Can we predict the structure of matter? |
From predicting the properties of nanotechnological devices to the structural stability of small proteins and dynamics of water. |
Mariana Rossi |
11 June, 2015 |
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| Current practice in preventing and handling missing data alongside clinical trials: are we doing well? |
Reviewing the methodology surrounding missing data in research and statistical analysis, clarifying why it can contribute to misleading results. |
Ines Rombach |
11 June, 2015 |
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| The Eternity Puzzle |
How mathematicians think about the puzzle that Christopher Monckton launched in 1999. |
Oliver Riordan |
11 June, 2015 |
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| What debt management strategies do OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries follow? |
How do debt managers decide about the maturity of new public debt? |
Ilona Mostipan |
11 June, 2015 |
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| Shakespeare's Animals |
Why animals are everywhere in Shakespeare's language. |
Tom MacFaul |
11 June, 2015 |
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| Looking at atoms to understand mega-structures' structural integritySome components of nuclear reactors, such as steam generators, can weigh over 300 tonnes (4m diameter and 20m tall) and are expected to be safely in service for over 20 years. However, it |
How we need to characterize materials at atomic level in order to understand their macroscopic behaviour. |
Sergio Lozano-Perez |
11 June, 2015 |
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| How to spot a liar in literature |
An introduction to the theory of unreliable narration and outlines two critical approaches: the cognitivist and the rhetorical. |
Alex Lloyd |
11 June, 2015 |
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| Who killed "Dead Meat" Thompson? |
Using a scenario from the Hollywood film "Hot Shots", how should a compensation payment have been divided up between all those involved in the circumstances of "Dead Meat" Thompson's death? |
Dominik Karos |
11 June, 2015 |
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| A digital database of the correspondence of Catherine the Great of Russia |
Demonstrating the pilot and explaining the significance of this digital database. |
Andrew Kahn |
11 June, 2015 |
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| Watching the Brain Change |
Our research uses brain imaging techniques such as MRI, to assess changes in brain activity or brain structure. We then try to use this information to design new interventions to improve healthy ageing or boost recovery from stroke. |
Heidi Johansen-Berg |
11 June, 2015 |
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| Seeing the Invisible in Health and Disease |
How our ability to now see the invisible is central to research in biology – from infectious disease to cancer and Alzheimers. |
Keith Gull |
11 June, 2015 |
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| Cancer: why it's bad to the bone |
Why is cancer metastasis to bone so devastating, what are the challenges, and what are we trying to do about it. |
Claire Edwards |
11 June, 2015 |
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| Climate Change and the fall of the Pyramid Age of Egypt |
Is Climate Change responsible for the downfall of the Pyramid Age of Egypt |
Michael Dee |
11 June, 2015 |
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| Earth’s earliest super predators |
Anomalocaridids: their ecology & their diversity. |
Allison Daley |
11 June, 2015 |
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| The ethics of rail travel; or, what George Eliot can teach us about HS2 |
An analysis of George Eliot's 'Middlemarch' and how the writer's critique of railroads might inform an ethically sensitive approach to HS2 |
Philip Chadwick |
11 June, 2015 |
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| Trade Unions and North Africa's Arab Spring |
What role did trade unions play in the Egyptian and Tunisian uprisings of 2010/2011? |
Dina Bishara |
11 June, 2015 |
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| What can dinosaurs tell us about evolution? |
Fossil records tell us a lot about evolution around the time of dinosaurs |
Roger Benson |
11 June, 2015 |
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| Lost in Translation? Experiencing the body on stage and screen |
How audiences respond to the body on stage and on screen. |
Alexandra Greenfield, Vanessa Lee |
11 June, 2015 |
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| Colouring-in for Adults |
How flow cytometry can help investigations into immune-mediated diseases. |
Hussein Al-Mossowi |
11 June, 2015 |
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