Health Sciences projects
Collaborative activities across Health Sciences including research, public engagement, and campus projects
Health Sciences projects
Research project
Supporting Human Rights Defenders around the world through temporary relocation in Scotland
Research project
DOLFIN is a research and know-how platform designed to support and strengthen the activities of the two existing natural resources centres (CEPMLP and Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science) and other departments of the University of Dundee.
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The Strategic Dialogue on Sustainable Raw Materials for Europe (STRADE) addresses the long-term security and sustainability of the European raw-material supply from European and non-European countries
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School of Business academics Carlo Morelli and Ruth Bickerton are investigating the impact of funeral costs, while a new charity (Funeral Link) has been set up in the city to help families cope in the aftermath of a bereavement
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Funded by DFID, Youth Transitions in Protracted Crisis focuses on young people who are refugees and highlights the challenges and strategies youth employ to create adult lives in difficult environments. The research took place in urban and camp settlements in Uganda and Jordan working with various refugee groups aged 10 -24.
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'Growing up on the Streets’ worked with hundreds of street children and youth in three African cities, providing insights into their patterns of daily life, struggles, capabilities and coping strategies as they seek to create adult lives to value
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A programme of work, led by Prof. Mark Cutler, that builds on research started over 20 years ago in logged forests around Danum Valley in Sabah, Malaysia. This includes analysis of the impacts of the 2015 El Niño on leaf reflectance and traits, and the effectiveness of restoration measures on carbon accumulation in forests after logging.
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This research, funded by ESRC-DFID, generated evidence regarding how social cash transfers (SCTs) .
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We are creating and testing methods to detect how materials are transferred from places to people, or from people to people and how long materials can last in the environment once they have transferred.
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We have a citizen science approach to developing activities that generate data on the background abundance of materials for use in forensic science research and interpretation.
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We are developing high quality training and online learning resources for students and forensic science professionals.
Citizen science
H-unique is a five year, €2.5m programme of research that will be the first multimodal automated interrogation of visible hand anatomy, through analysis and interpretation of human variation via images
Citizen science
We are offering the opportunity for schools and pupils to get involved with leading forensic science research. The activities are suitable for secondary school age groups (S1-S6) and bring research to life in the classroom
Public engagement project
Zinc House is one of a number of architectural projects guided by ‘Place, Programme & Presence’ as a critical framework for the realisation of new buildings exploring the serial development of types.
Research project
The study, funded by ClimateXChange for Scottish Government was carried out by academics in Architecture and Planning to assess the effectiveness of greenhouse gas emission reduction policies in Local Development Plans in promoting the uptake of low and zero-carbon generating technologies.
Public engagement project
The City is a Thinking Machine is a research exhibition bringing together in a single space, Geddes’ collection of city plans with his thinking and lecture notes.
Research project
MacroMicro Studio is building a body of work situated in the unique sociological and physical contexts of remote rural Scotland.
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With support from the Scottish Government, a specialist research team made up of members from the University of Dundee, Eclipse Research and Kevin Murray Associates has produced a report into the facilitation of participatory placemaking.
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Groundwater resources face increasing pressure from consumption and pollution. This project developed methods and tools for integrated groundwater management and monitoring in Europe.
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Delta communities are particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts. This project looked at the links between ecosystem services, human health and wellbeing and projected how these might evolve over the coming decades in the light of varying policy contexts.
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Small water supplies in Scotland are less likely to meet drinking water quality standards and likely to be managed by communities or individuals who may need support. We looked at how other countries manage small rural water supplies, to guide their governance and management in Scotland.
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DECCMA: assessing the options, limits and potential for adaptation to climate change in deltas
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Climate change is enhancing the intensity and frequency of floods, which further exacerbates many other challenges. This project co-developed and tested a flood resilient home with communities in Bangladesh.
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Rapid economic change and population growth increase the pressure on water resources management to address competing demands across river basins. The key challenge is to give adequate representation to the many local, small-scale water management interventions in larger-scale decision-making.
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The river system of the Ganges holds great physical, social and cultural importance in India, but suffers from poorly regulated pollution and water demand. This project looked at how water pollution affects communities on the Ramganga tributary of the Ganges.
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Soil moisture plays a key role in predicting the extreme weather events that are becoming increasingly common in a changing climate. Our vision is supporting a movement of citizens generating, sharing and using information to improve their soil management, and food production.
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Recent Research Projects Supporting Scotland's climate change adaptation policy In a changing climate, issues of flooding and water resource quality and quantity are becoming increasingly critical. We supported the Scottish Government to develop research-led policy and the monitoring and evaluation framework for climate change adaptation in Scotland.
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Natural flood management (NFM) can help us adapt to climate change, reducing flood risk and conserving habitats, while sustaining farming livelihoods. We are testing this at Eddleston Water, within the Scottish Government’s research programme on the effectiveness of catchment-scale NFM measures.
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We identify and monitor the emergence of new psychoactive substances on illicit drug markets and investigate the risks of emerging drug threats involving these and more traditional drugs of abuse.
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We are working in collaboration with Cambridge University and the Alan Alda Centre for science communication to develop new tools for the communication and understanding of statistics in forensic science
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We are exploring methods for the development of measurement uncertainty associated with the analysis of a wide range of forensic evidence types and how probability is used to understand the meaning of evidence given different alleged activities.
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Forensic Art aids in the identification, apprehension or conviction of offenders and the location of victims or identification of unknown human remains.
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SGHT aims to preserve the island’s natural and historical heritage for future generations
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The Centre for Remote Environments (CRE), previously known as Project Atlantis, was established by the late Brigadier David Nicholls and Prof Elaine Shemilt as a research and consultancy group concerned with environmental protection and education, and to provide environmental educational resources through digital media
Public engagement project
‘GROW Observatory’ by Mel Woods centres around a design framework and operational information system for climate action at scale.
Research project
Design in Action (DiA) is a £5m Knowledge Exchange (KE) Hub for the Creative Economy, funded in 2012 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council to demonstrate design as a key strategy for economic growth and innovation within industry. A further £500k was awarded from Creative Scotland to support Scottish SMEs to apply design innovation and strategy in both the creative and non-creative industries.
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The Museum of Loss and Renewal investigates issues such as the value and significance of objects, life and death, and artist-led curatorial practice
Public engagement project
This comic has been designed with the purpose of raising awareness of fibromyalgia amongst professionals, families, and communities.
Research project
This project explores transfer to the secondary school environment of pupil domain-specific knowledge and skills (particularly in science), and general social, communication and teamwork skills
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Serious social, emotional and behavioural disturbance in adolescents is costly - incurring long-term costs to society in service provision and collateral damage as well as personal costs to the young people themselves
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Our research has influenced national policy developments, implementation, and practice guidelines regarding protecting/supporting vulnerable adults
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Research in the area of digital game-based learning (GBL) in primary schools.
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We generate accessible data sets to aid forensic science research. These include chemical and biological data, physical evidence (such as ballistics and footwear) and biometric samples.
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We are exploring alternative methods of DNA analysis using oxford nanopore and other technologies.
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We are exploring the strengths and weaknesses of algorithms and software programs used to interpret complex DNA mixtures (samples that contain DNA from more than one person).
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We are developing new avenues of research, collaboration, education and training using Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR) tools.
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We are creating new ways to detect illicit drugs, explosives and bodily fluids at crime scenes using cutting edge nanobiosensor, DNA aptamers and quantum dot chemistry.
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We are creating curated ground truth (known source) data sets and applying machine learning algorithms to explore the interpretation of chemical profiles and feature comparison problems.
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Prisoners have been identified as one of the target groups (along with the homeless) for oral health improvement by the Scottish government as offenders' oral health is generally worse than that of the general population
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Investigation of NICE Technologies for enabling risk-variable-adjusted-length dental recalls trial