Postgraduate Prospectus

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Leading lights
Just some of our renowned academic
staff with international reputations include:
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Professor Huosheng Hu, School of
Computer Science and Electronic
Engineering, who leads the research
team developing ground-breaking
robotic fish that will analyse and monitor
pollution in a port;
Professor Anthony King, Department
of Government, who is one of the UK’s
foremost commentators on British
politics and was recently elected a
Fellow of the British Academy in
recognition of his contribution to
humanities and social sciences;
Professor Jules Pretty OBE,
Department of Biological Sciences,
who regularly advises the Government
on social and environmental issues and
is lead author of new research on how
to feed an expected population of nine
billion by 2050;
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Professor Sir Nigel Rodley, Human
Rights Centre, who was invited to the
Advisory Group for Human Rights
established by Foreign Secretary,
William Hague; and
Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott,
Professor of Poetry in the Department
of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies,
who won the Poetry Book Society’s
TS Eliot Prize for his latest work
White Egrets.
Rising stars
Some of our younger staff and students
who have been hitting the headlines
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PhD student Mohamed Al-Mulla, School
of Computer Science and Electronic
Engineering, who designed a special
wireless device, iSense, capable of
predicting and detecting the status
of muscles during training and can
be adapted for any sport;
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Dr Aaron Balick, Centre for
Psychoanalytic Studies, who helps
BBC Radio 1 listeners by giving advice
on the Sunday Surgery programme;
Dr Chris Marsden, School of
Law, who was the only academic
invited to address the European
Parliament-Commission joint summit
on the open internet and net neutrality
in Europe;
PhD student Gerard Moate, Department
of History, who spoke at the Institute
of Historical Research about the lost
library of William Burkitt;
Dr Dave Smith and Dr Dave Suggett,
Department of Biological Sciences,
whose Coral Reef Research Unit now
has a £50,000 aquarium to address key
research questions under controlled
laboratory conditions; and
Dr Ayse Uskul, Department of
Psychology, whose ESRC-funded
project looks at how cultural differences
in visual imagery can make a different
to attempts to change future behaviour.
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