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(re)shaping genre: the commercial and social presentation of speculative fiction in the 21st century.

Supervisor: Krishnan, M. (Supervisor) & Tether, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis : Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

[2+2]-Photocycloaddition Reactions in the Synthesis of Novel Scaffolds and Natural Products

Supervisor: Willis, C. (Supervisor) & Booker-Milburn, K. I. (Supervisor)

Supervisor: Ladyman, J. A. C. (Supervisor) & Thebault, K. P. Y. (Supervisor)

3D Bioprinted Engineered Living Materials for Continuous Organophosphorus Compound Detoxification

Supervisor: Perriman, A. W. (Supervisor) & Ting, V. (Supervisor)

3D FE-informed laboratory soil testing for the design of offshore wind turbine monopiles

Supervisor: Ibraim, E. (Supervisor) & Diambra, A. (Supervisor)

3D-printable conjugated microporous polymer electrodes for carbon capture and conversion

Supervisor: Patil, A. (Supervisor) & Faul, C. F. (Supervisor)

Student thesis : Master's Thesis › Master of Science by Research (MScR)

3D-Printing Electrochemical Systems

Supervisor: Faul, C. F. J. (Supervisor) & Lennox, A. J. J. (Supervisor)

3D Printing Enzyme Mediated Interpenetrating-Network Biohybrid Materials with Shape Changing Properties

Supervisor: Perriman, A. W. (Supervisor) & Anderson, J. L. R. (Supervisor)

3D printing shape-changing double-network hydrogels

Supervisor: Seddon, A. M. (Supervisor) & Eichhorn, S. (Supervisor)

5G Communication Framework for Smarter Autonomous Vehicles

Supervisor: Piechocki, R. (Supervisor) & Nix, A. (Supervisor)

A 3D in vitro model of the human subcutaneous tissue

Supervisor: Boussahel, A. (Supervisor)

Ab initio modelling of the spin Hall effect in doped and alloyed systems: With applications in magnetoresistive RAM.

Supervisor: Gradhand, M. (Supervisor) & Dugdale, S. (Supervisor)

Ab initio Study of Spin-Dependent Transport and Magnetism in Heavy and Superconducting Metals

Supervisor: Gradhand, M. (Supervisor)

A biologically-inspired artificial lateral line: Observations of collective behaviour in fish lead to the development of a novel design of simple and low-cost artificial lateral line sensor

Supervisor: Hauert, S. (Supervisor), Ioannou, C. (Supervisor) & Genner, M. J. (Supervisor)

A biophysical investigation into the self-assembly of α-helix - polyproline II helix oligomers

Supervisor: Race, P. R. (Supervisor) & Woolfson, D. N. (Supervisor)

Abstractions for Portable Data Management in Heterogeneous Memory Systems

Supervisor: McIntosh-Smith, S. (Supervisor)

Access and equity in the school’s marketplace: the case for random allocation in secondary school admissions

Supervisor: Watson, D. L. (Supervisor) & Harris, P. R. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis : Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Social Science (DSocSci)

ACCORD – ACCESSING CLINICAL ETHICS COMMITTEES FOR RAPID DISCUSSION: What approach(es) should be adopted by clinical ethics support services (CESS) for advising on urgent decisions in healthcare?

Supervisor: Huxtable, R. (Supervisor), O'Connor, D. (Supervisor), O'Connor, D. (Supervisor) & Huxtable, R. (Supervisor)

Acetylcholine in the Interpositus Cerebellar Nuclei

Supervisor: Apps, R. (Supervisor), Bashir, Z. (Supervisor) & Pickford, J. (Supervisor)

A changing world: how anthropogenic noise and climate impact dwarf mongoose (Helogale parvula) behaviour

Supervisor: Radford, A. (Supervisor) & Cuthill, I. C. (Supervisor)

A characterisation of mononuclear phagocyte dynamics in the healthy and regenerating zebrafish heart

Supervisor: Richardson, B. (Supervisor) & Martin, P. B. (Supervisor)

A Chemical Synthesis Paradigm for in utero Repair of Spina Bifida

Supervisor: Galan, C. (Supervisor), Briscoe, W. (Supervisor) & Cosgrove, T. (Supervisor)

A Child of Two Worlds: Materiality and Landscape of Mushroom-Shaped Bunkers in Albania

Supervisor: Saunders, N. (Supervisor)

A comprehensive screening of the two-component network in Staphylococcus aureus

Supervisor: Massey, R. (Supervisor)

A Computational Framework for the Optimisation of Antivenom Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics

Supervisor: Hauert, S. (Supervisor), Blee, J. A. (Supervisor) & Collinson, I. R. (Supervisor)

Acoustic and Flight Behaviour of Emerging Greater Horseshoe Bats in Paired Flight

Supervisor: Holderied, M. W. (Supervisor)

Acoustic Flow Perception in Bats and Applications in Navigation

Supervisor: Windsor, S. P. (Supervisor) & Holderied, M. W. (Supervisor)

A Critical Evaluation of Indonesia's Special Economic Zones using New Institutional Economics Approach

Supervisor: King, W. (Supervisor) & Hewitt, V. (Supervisor)

A critical investigation into students’ perceptions of the impact of EMI policy on their content learning and social equity in a HEI in Oman

Supervisor: Sharples, R. (Supervisor) & Giampapa, F. (Supervisor)

A critical realist analysis of COVID-19 pandemic policy enactment in English secondary schools

Supervisor: Leckie, G. (Supervisor) & Watermeyer, R. (Supervisor)

Across the waves: Departmental leadership in the field of management and technology studies at a research university

Supervisor: Macfarlane, B. J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis : Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Education (EdD)

Action gradients for motor learning in neuroscience and artificial intelligence

Supervisor: Aitchison, L. (Supervisor), Ludwig, C. (Supervisor) & Lepora, N. (Supervisor)

Active Flow Control Methods for Aerodynamics and Aeroacoustics: Aerofoil Trailing-edge Noise Applications

Supervisor: Gambaruto, A. (Supervisor) & Azarpeyvand, M. (Supervisor)

Active Thermal Management in FRP Composites via Embedded Vascular Networks

Supervisor: Bond, I. P. (Supervisor) & Lawrie, A. G. W. (Supervisor)

Adaptive Optimal Control via Reinforcement Learning: Theory and Its Application to Automotive Engine Systems

Supervisor: Burgess, S. C. (Supervisor), Herrmann, G. (Supervisor) & Brace, C. (External person) (Supervisor)

Adaptive Sampling in Particle Image Velocimetry

Supervisor: Poole, D. (Supervisor) & Allen, C. (Supervisor)

Additive structure in convex sets and related topics

Supervisor: Rudnev, M. (Supervisor)

ADDomer: synthetic multiepitope virus-like particle platform for next-generation vaccines and high-affinity binders

Supervisor: Berger, I. (Supervisor), Mulholland, A. (Supervisor) & Berger-Schaffitzel, C. (Supervisor)

Addressing the challenges of catchment characterisation, model selection and evaluation in large-sample hydrology: application to Great Britain

Supervisor: Rahman, S. (Supervisor) & Coxon, G. (Supervisor)

Addressing the key uncertainties of improving preconception health in the UK

Supervisor: White, J. (Supervisor) & Kipping, R. (Supervisor)

A design approach for super-efficient Wrapped Tow Reinforced Hierarchical Space Frames

Supervisor: Woods, B. K. S. (Supervisor), Macquart, T. (Supervisor), Schenk, M. (Supervisor) & Pirrera, A. (Supervisor)

ADHD and reward processing: a mixed-methods investigation in analogue and clinical samples

Supervisor: Slaney, C. (Supervisor) & Attwood, A. (Supervisor)

A Diamond Gammavoltaic Cell

Supervisor: Scott , T. B. (Supervisor) & Fox, N. A. (Supervisor)

Adjacency spectral embedding beyond unweighted, undirected networks

Supervisor: Babaee, F. (Supervisor) & Rubin-Delanchy, P. (Supervisor)

Advanced Continuous Tow Shearing Utilising Tow Width Control

Supervisor: Kim, B. C. (Supervisor) & Ivanov, D. (Supervisor)

Advanced Extreme Rainfall Simulation Using a Numerical Weather Prediction Model

Supervisor: Han, D. (Supervisor) & Rico-Ramirez, M. (Supervisor)

Advanced numerical modelling of the cyclic/dynamic response of offshore structures in inhomogeneous non-cohesive soils

Supervisor: Karamitros, D. K. (Supervisor) & Diambra, A. (Supervisor)

Advanced quantum communications for next-generation secure optical networks

Supervisor: Kanellos, G. (Supervisor) & Nejabati, R. (Supervisor)

Advanced Ultrasonic Array Processing for Pipeline Inline Inspection

Supervisor: Wilcox, P. D. (Supervisor) & Velichko, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis : Doctoral Thesis › Engineering Doctorate (EngD)

Advance of Big Data in Water Quality Monitoring

Supervisor: Han, D. (Supervisor)

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Bristol v-c defends marking essays during assessment boycott

Historian vice-chancellor evelyn welch has faced criticism for marking final-year dissertations personally.

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The University of Bristol ’s vice-chancellor, Evelyn Welch, has defended her decision to mark art history essays during an assessment boycott – a move that has been criticised as “highly provocative and undignified”.

Professor Welch, a Renaissance history expert, told Times Higher Education that she will be marking the work of final-year students to mitigate the impact of the nationwide marking boycott that began on 16 April. Bristol has confirmed that it will dock 50 per cent of pay for those refusing to grade papers, a policy that has been criticised by hundreds of staff and students.

Confirming reports that she had recently started marking work in her discipline, Professor Welch said the university was “committed to prioritising the marking of final-year students’ work by subject experts, hence why I will be marking some history of art dissertations”.

“Having spoken to our students, I know they want to graduate with a degree classification, and therefore I’m joining with non-striking staff to make this happen,” added Professor Welch.

The award-winning historian, who has led Bristol since September 2022, added that the university “fully respect[s] the rights of staff to take industrial action, and I’m hopeful a resolution can be found at a national level, but in the meantime we must minimise the impact on our students who have worked so hard to complete their degrees.”

The intervention is, however, likely to further strain relations between university management and staff, following months of industrial action over pay and working conditions. Staff at Bristol are due to walk out on 16 June, targeting a university open day, while the local University and College Union (UCU) branch has criticised temporary academic regulations enacted this summer that, they claim, will lead to  “degraded degrees” .

John McTague, co-vice-president at the university’s UCU branch, said Professor Welch’s intervention was “a highly provocative and undignified move” and “a completely unnecessary one”.

“There are many better and more appropriate uses for the vice-chancellor’s very costly time,” added Dr McTague, a reference to Professor Welch’s £285,000 basic salary.

Staff have remarked that they had been “deeply shocked” by Professor Welch’s actions, he continued. “As one member commented to me: ‘It’s no surprise the vice-chancellor isn’t concerned about workloads if she thinks marking dissertations is something she can do in coffee breaks between committee meetings,” said Dr McTague.

“I’m not convinced history of art students will be overjoyed to find that their dissertations have been marked by someone who has not taught on their programme, and who is likely to be a complete newcomer to our various marking and assessment processes,” he added.

Dr McTague also criticised a “palpable lack of substantive engagement” from senior university management related to both national disputes (“refusing point-blank to call for reopening of negotiations”) and “similar inertia in our local dispute over the institution’s punitive pay deductions of 50 per cent for participation in the marking and assessment boycott”.

“So we are sliding apparently inexorably into widespread strike action disrupting one of the busiest university open days of the year on 16 June,” said Dr McTague.

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Taking ‘Animals and Empire’ from the seminar room to the computer screen was a process that taught me a great deal about the nature of public impact and, in the absence of my having previously led a diverse team of scholars, the importance of effective communication and collaborative cohesion within and beyond the academy.

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Arising from a conference hosted by the University of Bristol in June 2013 , it quickly became clear that the array of cutting edge research papers delivered had significant potential to both set the evolving agenda for research into human-animal interactions in the modern world, as well as having the ability to engage the public in an innovative arena of academic endeavour with substantial implications for the contemporary world. In the months before the conference, the Animal History Museum, based in Los Angeles, contacted me to propose a new form of exhibit for their webspace; that which brought an academic perspective on human-animal interactions to the public in an engaging and accessible way.

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