Research Projects

Multidisciplinary

Sustainable Lifestyles Research Group
Tim Jackson (CES), Birgitta Gatersleben, Kate Burningham

Arts

Pre-existent music in the scoring of pre-Nazi Weimar Republic sound film1930-33
Jeremy Barham

Thomas Ostermeier and the Berlin Schaubühne: Reinventing Directors Theatre
Peter M. Boenisch

The Professor Steve Goss Sabbatical Project
Steve Goss

Landscape quartet: creative practice and philosophical reflexion in natural environments
Matthew Sansom and Bennet Hogg (Newcastle University)

EPSRC Small Equipment Award
Tommy Ashbee (IoSR) and Philip Coleman (CVSSP)

Human Movement Capture: Mapping and Modelling for Digital/Corporeal Motion Representation in Performance
Andy Lavender (Arts), John Collomosse (CVSSP), Nicolas Salazar (Arts)

Corporeal Computing
Nicolas Salazar (School of Arts), Mirela Dumic (Institute of Advanced Studies), Paul Krause (Computing), David Frohlich (DWRC), Peter Boenisch (School of Arts), Melissa Blanco-Borelli (School of Arts)

Com-Note:The composer's notebook
David Frohlich, Tom Armstrong, Janko Calic, CVSSP, Simon Desbruslais, Trumpet player, Ligeti Quartet

Effects of ageing and ballet practice on postural stability and movement control
Aliah Shaheen, FEPS, Jennifer Jackson and Dr Khim Horton, FHMS

BloodLines: the dramaturgy of leukaemia treatment
Milton Mermikides, Alex Mermikides (Kingston)

Digital World Research Centre

Interactive newsprint: a new platform for community news display
David Frohlich, Clare Sumpner, Paul Egglestone (University of Central Lancashire), John Rogers (Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design)

English and Languages

Transnationalizing French anarchism, c.1870-c.1940
Constance Bantman

Interpreting in Virtual Reality
Sabine Braun, Margaret Rogers and Catharine Slater

AVIDICUS II
Sabine Braun, Margaret Rogers and Judith Taylor

eVIVA Evaluating the Education of Interpreters and their Clients Through Virtual Learning Activities
Sabine Braun, Margaret Rogers

QUALITAS: Ensuring Legal Interpreter Quality through Testing and Certification
Sabine Braun

TRANS: Transnationalism, Translation and Travel in Literary and Cultural Studies
Sandra Vasconcelos, University of São Paulo, Justin Edwards, Margaret Rogers, Ana Claudia Suriani da Silva

Surrey Morphology Group

Morphological Complexity:  Typology as a Tool for Delineating Cognitive Organization
Greville G. Corbett Matthew Baerman, Dunstan Brown

Endangered complexity: inflectional classes in Oto-Manguean languages
Greville G. Corbett, Matthew Baerman, Dunstan Brown
Researcher: Enrique Palancar

From competing theories to fieldwork: the challenge of an extreme agreement system
Greville G. Corbett, Bob Borsley (Essex), Dunstan Brown (York), Maria Polinsky (Harvard), Louisa Sadler (Essex). Researcher: Marina Chumakina

The corpus of Russian regional dialects – acoustic database with discourse annotation
Greville G. Corbett, Alexander Krasovitsky

Verb classification in Gújjolaay Eegimaa (Atlantic; Niger-Congo)
Research Fellow: Serge Sagna (ESRC Future Research Leaders Fellowship)
Mentors: Greville G. Corbett, Matthew Baerman, Oliver Bond, Dunstan Brown

Combining gender and classifiers in natural language
Greville G. Corbett, Matthew Baerman, Sebastian Fedden (postdoc) and Dunstan Brown (York)

Politics

Collaborative Research Network on Euroscepticism
Simon Usherwood

On the receiving end: towards more critical and inclusive perspectives on international intervention
Marie Breen-Smyth

Common Security and Defence Policy Strategy
Laura Chappell

Unintended gender consequences: EU politics and politics in practice
Roberta Guerrina

Psychology

Grounding Models of Cognition through Perception-Action Learning  
Adrian Banks (Psycology), David Windridge (CVSSP)

The role of the temporoparietal junction in representing self and other
Caroline Catmur

From action to interaction: mechanisms underlying the acquisition and control of shared action representations, and their social effects
Caroline Catmur

Audio-visual cues based attention switching for machine listening
Wenwu Wang (CVSSP), Anthony TS Ho (Computing), Shujun Li (Computing), Mandeep K Dhami (Psychology)

Forensic Vehicle Convoy Analysis for Investigating Organised Crime
Shujun Li (Computing), Anthony Ho (Computing), Mandeep Dhami (Psychology), Graham Head (Surrey Police), Paul Palmer (Surrey Police)

Comparing Models of Reinforcement Learning in the Laboratory and in Real World Settings
Johann A. Briffa (Computing), Ellen Seiss (Psychology), Adam McNamara (Psychology)

Monitoring water-related diseases in Africa with remote sensing data and local information
Raffaella Guida (Surrey Space Centre), Johann Briffa (Computing), Thoko Kaime (Law), Adam McNamara (Psychology)

Exploring memory exit latency as a potential index of deception
Rob Nash

The impact of bariatric rehabilitation service on weight loss and psychological adjustment
Jane Ogden

FLABEL
Monique Raats, Richard Shepherd, Julie Barnett, Charo Hodgkins

NUTRIMENTHE (Effect of diet on the mental performance of children)
Heather Gage, Monique Raats, Richard Shepherd,  Emma Williams, Bernadette Egan, Peter Williams, Matthew Peacock and Naomi Winstone

FoodRisC
Monique Raats, Richard Shepherd

PlantLIBRA
Monique Raats, Richard Shepherd, Bernadette Egan, Lada Timotijevic, Charo Hodgkins

FLICC (Front of pack food Labelling: Impact on Consumer Choice)
Monque Raats, Richard Shepherd, Lada Timotijevic, Charo Hodgkins, Naomi Winstone and Israel Berger

CLYMBOL (Role of health related symbols and claims in consumer behaviour)
Monque Raats, Rob Nash, Adrian Banks, Chris Fife-Schaw, Lada Timotijevic, Ellen Seiss
Bernadette Egan, Charo Hodgkins and Kerry Brown

CATEGORIES
Paul Sowden, Alexandra Clifford

INPROFOOD
Lada Timotijevic, Monique Raats, Richard Shepherd

EuroDISH (Study on the need for food and health research infrastructures in Europe)
Lada Timotijevic, Monique Raats, Bernadette Egan, Charo Hodgkins and Kerry Brown

REDUCE: reshaping energy demand of users by communication technology and economic incentives
David Uzzell, Birgitta Gatersleben, Muhammad Imran (CCSR), Barry Evans (CCSR), Rahim Tafazolli (CCSR) Matthew Leach (CES), Jacopo Torriti (CES), Niamh Murtagh

Low Carbon at Work
David Uzzell, Markieta Domecka

Moments of danger, moments of opportunity: the role of individuals as change agents in organisations. A qualitative and quantitative study of national and international unions
David Uzzell

Sociology

The changing role of student union leadership and its impact on "the student experience"
Rachel Brooks

Curriculum Innovation: Integrating Quantative Methods and Substantive Teaching for HE Level One Students
Karen Bullock, Ian Brunton-Smith, Rob Meadows, Lynn Prince-Cooke, Sarah Earthy

The Impact of Injuries Study
Sarah Earthy*, Judith Sleney   ( *Note: until Sept 2011 the University of Surrey PI  on this project was Nicola Christie, PGMS)

Understanding Experiences of Hate Crime Victimisation and Expectations of Criminal Justice Responses
Jon Garland

Quality Collectives: Socially Intelligent Systems for Quality (QLectives)
Nigel Gilbert, Terhi Nokkala

Evolution and resilience of industrial ecosystems (ERIE)
Nigel Gilbert, Rebecca Hoyle (Mathematics), Anne Skeldon (Mathematics), Paul Krause (Computing), Sotiris Moschoyiannis (Computing), David Lloyd (Mathematics),Lauren Basson (CES)

Models and Mathematics in Life and Social Sciences (MILES)
Nigel Gilbert, Rebecca Hoyle (Maths), Paul Krause (Computing), Johnjoe McFadden (Microbial Sciences)

The complexity science for the real world network
Nigel Gilbert

e-Policy: Engineering the policy life-cycle
Nigel Gilbert

TELL-ME: Transparent communication in Epidemics: Learning Lessons from experience, delivering effective Messages, providing Evidence
Nigel Gilbert

GLODERS The Global Dynamics of Extortion Racket Systems
Nigel Gilbert. Karen Bullock, Nigel Fielding

Complexity of social construction: bridging contemporary meta-theories in social sciences.
Nigel Gilbert

Performance evaluation of co-operative, smart, self deploying sensor probes using multi-agent modelling
Yang Gao (Surrey Space Centre), Nigel Gilbert (Sociology)

Whole Systems Energy Modelling Consortium (WHOLE-SEM)
Nigel Gilbert

Older Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans People: Minding the Knowledge Gap
Andrew King

Living Multiculture: the new geographies of ethnicity and the changing formations of multiculture in England
Sarah Neal with Hannah Jones, Kieran Connell, Allan Cochrane, Giles Mohan (all Open University) and Katy Bennett (Leicester University)

Children’s and adults’ friendships across social and ethnic difference
Sarah Neal with Carol Vincent and Humera Iqbal (Institute of Education, University of London)