RKT News February 2013 - University of Portsmouth

Martin Barwood
Scottish Sea Farms II Immersion Suit and Lifejacket R&D
Scottish Sea Farms Ltd – £5,600
Mike Tipton
The Impact of ‘Riding Up’ on Lifejacket Performance
Royal National Lifeboat Institution – £59,890
Aldert Vrij
Comparing Malevolent and Benevolent Creativity and
Innovation: An Experimental Approach
BAE Systems (Operations) Ltd – £18,830
The effective use of two interviewers to facilitate cooperation
and detect deceit
University of Texas at El Paso – £73,528
The effect of using interpreters on rapport, eliciting information
and cues to deceit
The High Value Detainee Interrogation Group (FBI) – £147,059
Joerg Zinken
Linguistic Relativity of Situated Action
Universitat Konstanz – £56,357
Bridget Waller
Adaptive function of facial displays in crested macaques
(Macaca nigra)
The Leakey Foundation – £12,285
Development and evaluation of interactive exhibits promoting
comparative psychology in a zoo environment
British Psychological Society – £19,340
Geoff Pilkington
Application of a 3D ‘all human’ blood-brain barrier model in
evaluating nanoparticle-facilitated drug delivery system
Dr Hadwen Trust for Humane Research – £151,877
Toronto Medulloblastoma Collaboration
Brain Tumour UK – £12,700
Jan Shute
Reducing inflammation in cystic fibrosis lung disease by
targeting expression of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane
conductance regulator in the endothelium with a coppertobramycin
complex
The Dunhill Medical Trust – £74,593
Faculty of Technology
Ivan Jordanov
Development of adjoint states for geometrical modelling routines
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council/
Technology Strategy Board (managed by: The Smith Institute for
Industrial Mathematics & System Engineering) – £11,800
Professor and Reader
appointments
Successful PhD and Doctoral students
The following appointments
were made between 15
September 2012 and 14
January 2013:
Dr Mark Button of the
Institute of Criminal Justice.
Appointed to the position of
Professor of Criminology.
Dr Valerie Anderson of the
University of Portsmouth
Graduate School. Appointed
to the position of Reader in
Human Resources.
Dr Alex Ford of the Institute
of Marine Sciences. Appointed
to the position of Reader in
Biology.
Dr Sue Bruley of the School
of Social, Historical and
Literary Studies. Appointed to
the position of Reader in
Modern History.
Between 2 October 2012 and 9 January
2013 the following students completed
their research degrees:
Faculty of Creative and Cultural
Industries
Marina Hauer - A Game-Based Learning
Approach to Building Conservation
Education in UK Undergraduate Built
Environment Degrees
Faculty of Humanities and Social
Sciences
Maren Kleiven - ‘From Mission Idealism
to Operational Realism’: A Study of the
Norwegian Contribution to International
Police Reform Missions
Faculty of Science
Aderemi Adelugba - The Assessment of
Reticulocyte and Erythrocyte
Haemoglobin Contents, and their use in
the Evaluation of Iron Status in
Hospitalised Patients
Katherine Brown - Utility of the
Calliphora vicina (Diptera: Calliphoridae)
Pupal Stage for Providing Temporal
Information for Death Investigations
Penelope Delf - A Research Project to
Design, Implement and Assess the
Effectiveness of a Sole eLearning module
to Prepare Non-medical Healthcare
Practitioners to Report Nuclear Medicine
Bone Scans
Sharon Glaysher - Molecular Basis for
Sequential Chemotherapy: the Effect of
Chemotheraphy on Survival Pathways
Clare-Louise Sandell - A Study of
Self-reported Surgical Site Infection Post
Total Hip or Total Knee Replacement
Faculty of Technology
Colm Mulhern - Collective Induced
Phenomena in Systems of Coupled
Oscillators
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