Research Projects

Research in FAHS is funded by a large number of external bodies including the UK Research Councils, the EU, governmental organisations, the NHS and major charities such as the Leverhulme Trust and the Nuffield Foundation

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

Contexts, culture and creativity: enriching e-learning in dance (CCC: EED)
Melissa Blanco Borelli, Jennifer Jackson, Efrosini Protopapa, Jean Johnson-Jones, Anne Irving, John Collomosse (CVSSP), Helen Roberts (NRCD)

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)

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

Cross-border videoconferencing research project
Sabine Braun, Margaret Rogers

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

ARCTIC: Assessing and reviewing cultural transaction in international companies
Doris Dippold

Surrey Morphology Group

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

From competing theories to fieldwork: the challenge of an extreme agreement system
Greville 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 Corbett, Alexander Krasovitsky

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

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

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

Identi-Scope: multiple identities as a resource for understanding and impacting behaviours in the digital world
Ilka Gleibs

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
The project examines the impact on food purchasing decisions of front of pack (FOP) labelling

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)

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

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

Further Information

Details on each Research Project can be found here:

Current Funded Research