Research video gallery - College of Life and Environmental Sciences

Academics from the College of Life and Environmental Sciences take the challenge of describing their research in 60 seconds.

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Measuring environmental stress by studying animals at the molecular level
 
Creating a handheld disease detector
 
Researching the problems of antibiotic resistant bacteria
 


Using Big Data to model the geographical distribution of the
digital economy
 
Investigating the environmental pressures affecting woodlands and forests in the UK and across the world
 
Finding better vaccines in the fight against tuberculosis
 

Researching how the nervous system is formed and how it works
 
Determining how the brain converts sensory signals into a perception
 
How people use imagination to think about possibilities and solve problems
 

60 seconds with Professor David HannahUnderstanding events such as floods and droughts in their climatic context
 
Finding ways to reduce physical inactivity and support healthy
eating behaviours
 
Using urban creativity to improve 
social, environmental and economic wellbeing
 

Studying what makes tiny nanoparticles so reactive
 
Using plants as pollution filters to help makes cities cleaner
 
Studying how stress and depression affects the immune system
 

Training the trainers: enabling sport coaches to promote wellbeing 
 
Researching the impact of weather and climate on the built environment