Review helps to shape future of midwifery
By evaluating the effectiveness of midwife-led care Professor Hora Soltani, with colleagues from four other universities, has helped to shape policy improvements that promote access to midwifery care for low-risk women nationally and internationally
My Dangerous Loverboy
With funding from the UK Human Trafficking Centre (UKHTC), Professor Virginia Heath and Senior Lecturer Steve Sprung created My Dangerous Loverboy, a film and cross-platform media project about sex trafficking
Democratising social enterprise
Open governance structures prove effective for co-operatives, charities and social enterprise
Helping older people keep warm and well
Identifying the barriers that make older people vulnerable to cold-related illness
Heavyweight investment for lightweight ceramics
A new company which was formed after the underpinning research won a national award is now producing armour ceramics for military and civilian protection
New technologies to maintain bridges and other concrete structures
Over a period of 20 years, Professor Mangat and colleagues in the Materials and Engineering Research Institute have developed significant expertise of concrete materials related to their deterioration, repair and maintenance
Making the case for advanced practice roles in nursing
Research highlights difficulty of evaluating the impact of advanced practice nursing and provides new toolkit to help
Improving maps for the visually impaired
Research, led by Professor Paul Chamberlain, has explored the value of artefacts in developing knowledge and the role of haptic (touch) cues in improving the design and usability of products
Remembering early women activists
Historical research underpins new plans to commemorate nineteenth-century feminists
Revolutionary coatings technology
Research by Professors Ehiasarian and Hovsepian of our Materials and Engineering Research Institute has advanced innovations in High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering (HIPIMS)