Posts by Michael Jennings
Men, masculinity and early labour – can you help?
May 12, 2015
Dr Julie Roberts, Research Fellow in Maternity Care and lead of ‘Men, masculinity and early labour’, discusses the aims of the research and what you can do to help. Men, masculinity and early labour is a research project exploring fathers’ experiences of being with their partner during labour and birth, with a focus on ‘early labour’. What …
Popular Culture Lecture Series review and final public event
May 8, 2015
Mathieu Donner, PhD research student, PG Teaching Fellow in the School of English and organiser of the Popular Culture Lecture Series, reflects on the programme. “Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Opening a blog post on popular culture with …
Planet Four: Craters – take part in a citizen science project
April 2, 2015
James Sprinks, PhD candidate at the Horizon Centre for Doctoral Training and Lead of the Planet Four: Craters Project, explains how members of the public can change our understanding of the planet Mars. Planet Four: Craters is a citizen science project designed to help planetary scientists identify and measure craters on the surface of Mars. …
Multidisciplinary Aerospace Research Challenge
April 1, 2015
Prof Hervé Morvan, Director of the Institute for Aerospace Technology, gives some background on the Aerospace Research Challenge, an opportunity for researchers across all faculties to receive project funding up to £50,000. The Institute for Aerospace Technology (IAT) is running a multidisciplinary Aerospace Research Challenge (MARCh) aiming to seed new ideas for research with applicability …