Research blogs

Our research blogs feature articles and profiles from across our three research themes, with new content added regularly.

See the list below, organised by category.

Biology

• Dr Gisela Helfer - naked mole rats and why it’s time to stop putting the clocks back

Chemistry

• Academic profile: Dr Stephen Hickey

Climate change

• Academic Profile - Dr Sara Rye: Managing natural disasters
• Dr Rhys Kelly and Dr Ute Kelly - Community engagement and climate adaptation

Computer science

• Deep face recognition technology effective in criminal investigations
• Deep face recognition continued
• Using digital technology to increase trust in politics
• Dr Dhaval Thakker - AI, smart objects and the internet of things
• Academic Profile - Dr Kulvinder Panesar

Dementia studies

• Academic profile: Dr Catherine Quinn
• The Caregiving HOPE study
• Dr Andrea Capstick - Coronavirus and dementia in care homes
• Using research to help train the dementia workforce

Peace studies

• Prof Fiona Macaulay - Peace is the bigger picture
• Changing police attitudes and practices around violence against women and girls in Brazil

Space

• Academic profile: Professor Ifiok Otung - Space research can bring a feelgood factor to Bradford
• Professor Rami Qahwaji - "We need to forecast space weather better"
• Automated Solar Activity Prediction (ASAP) system used by NASA

Vision science

• Anna de Korte secondment at Bradford's National Science and Media Museum
• Prof Marina Bloj - From cave paintings to CGI - the undiscovered universe of how we see the world and learn from it
• Dr Ghorbani Mojarrad - How does a curved screen effect the eye?