What are young peoples views on the constructions of gender within the school environment? How do these manifest themselves in everyday interactions with teachers and peers? This research seeks to explore the construction of gender within schools and its implications for forming healthy relationships and gender-based violence among young people in England and Ghana. (read more)

Can soft-bodied robots help us to combat isolation and loneliness? (read more)

What would be needed to live on Mars? (read more)

In the Including the Excluded project, this meant looking at the experiences of pupils who had been excluded from school during the pandemic. How are these young people experiencing education now? How has expulsion impacted their mental health, social connectedness, and emotional wellbeing? And crucially, what are excluded pupils’ educational and wellbeing needs now we’re returning to face-to-face learning? (read more)

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How much do the sounds around you affect your mood? How much do you need to alter a city’s soundscape to benefit its citizens? (read more)

How can an supportive and informative conversation about menopause be started without embarrassing or putting off people? This research seeks to create an intervention that helps to aid open conversations about menopause. (read more)

How can we talk about trans lives by examining the life of a gender non-conforming woman from the past? This research explores the life of Jenny Moore from the early twentieth century, and focuses on how living outside the law shaped their identity and experience. (read more)

How do we negotiate the politics of environmentalism - which can draw on ideas of invasive vs indigenous - and the politics of migration? How and why does language matter in policy debates over environment and migration? (read more)