Event series

Cross University Research Event

STEM Centre

An event where research expertise is shared across the University in the format of TED style talks based on a theme.

Join us for an hour of three-minute presentations from our leading researchers across all three faculties, followed by networking.

Upcoming events

  • Climate Recovery - Wednesday 26 February 2025

Previous events

2025

2024

Commercialisation of Research - 20 November 2024

Science and Health:
  • Bioengineering synthetic blood substitutes and oxygen therapeutics - Dr Brandon Reeder, School of Life Sciences
  • Device Authentication with ICMetrics - Professor Gareth Howells, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering
  • Intrabodies for everybody - Dr Gareth Wright, School of Life Sciences
Arts and Humanities: 
  • Somatic Voices: Commercial Paths for Somatic Performance Research - Dr Christina Kapadocha, East 15 Acting School
  • Prospect Theory in Tourism Decision-Making Research - Dr Gabrielle Lin, Edge Hotel School
  • Driving Hospitality Forward: Balancing Innovation and Experience - Dr Jennifer Chang, Edge Hotel School
  • Reading Robots - Professor Katharine Cockin, Literature, Film and Theatre Studies
Social Sciences:
  • Local Government financial resilience toolkit - Dr Andre Lino and Professor Ileana Steccolini, Essex Business School
  • Change agent learning and development toolkit - Dr Danielle Tucker, Essex Business School
  • Multimotion: AI-based emotion detection for neurorehabilitation and neuromarketing -Dr Erik Jacobi, Essex Business School
  • Transforming Banking Data Governance with Data Governance Insight App - Dr Joshua Obeng-Nyarko, Essex Business School
  • Bringing cybersecurity to small businesses - Dr Marta Fernandez De Arroyabe Arranz, Essex Business School and Institute for Analytics and Data Science
  • Professor Peter Bloom, Essex Business School

Place - 18 October 2024

Science and Health:
  • Hacking the heft (helping Bo-Peep find her sheep) - Professor Edd Codling, Faculty Dean Research (Science and Health)
  • Place and Acculturation - Dr Nicolas Geeraert, Department of Psychology
  • Automobility and social work: A history of the present - Dr Aaron Wyllie, School of Health and Social Care
  • The dance of commodities - Dr Spyros Samothrakis, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering
Arts and Humanities: 
  • Replace: Rebuilding a Sense of PLACE - Dr Paola Di Giuseppantonio Di Franco, School of Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies
  • Deciphering Destination Dubai: The Strategy and Philosophy of Place Making - Professor Marcus Stephenson, Edge Hotel School
Social Sciences:
  • Space, Place and Violence: Power and inequality in Pakistani cities - Dr Sobia Ahmad Kaker, Department of Sociology and Criminology
  • Members only: In and out of place in the City of London - Dr Louise Nash, Essex Business School
  • Wealthy Neighbourhoods: The Repercussions of Concentrated Affluence - Dr Jason Sumich, Department of Sociology and Criminology
  • Place-Based Policies - Dr Catherine Van Der List, Department of Economics 

Digital Technologies in an Uncertain World - 12 June 2024

Science and Health:
  • Eye movements in video and deepfakes - Dr Tom Foulsham, Department of Psychology
  • SRES Virtual Reality - Dr Mike Rogerson, School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences
  • Digital Health Technologies - Professor Andrew Bateman, School of Health and Social Care
  • The Impact of Gamification on Health Behaviour Change and Risk Reduction: A KTP Collaboration with YuLife - Dr Abbas Salami, Institute for Public Health and Wellbeing
Arts and Humanities: 
  • Artificial Law, the Digital State and the Human Constitution - Dr Giulia Gentile, Essex Law School
  • Exploring inequalities - Dr Mary Mazzilli, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
  • Mixed Reality Heritage Performance - Professor Holly Maples, East 15 Acting School
  • Time-Loop as a form of Systemic Racism - Dr Daniel O'Brien, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
  • When do we need to legislate: AI and the Law - Professor Stavroula Karapapa, Essex Law School
  • Is Law Computable: AI and its legal foundations - Zhenbin Zuo, Essex Law School
  • Open Access Texts: Public use of academic research - Professor Katharine Cockin, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Social Sciences:
  • The Datafication of Social Cash Programmes in Times of Crisis: Inclusion or Exclusion? - Dr Atika Kemal, Essex Business School
  • Marketing in the Age of AI - Dr Muhammad Shakaib Akram, Essex Business School
  • Online Romance Fraud - Professor Roisin Ryan-Flood, Department of Sociology
  • Cultural co-productions: Documentary film as research - Dr Phoebe Kisubi Mbasalaki, Department of Sociology
  • Three Digital Change Views: Digital Impact, Social Impact & Socio-Digital Entanglement. Which are you? - Dr Paul Kelly, Essex Business School
  • Governing 'ordinary' uncertainty - Dr Sobia Ahmad Kaker, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Data Science - Present and Future - 7 February 2024

Science and Health:
  • Data Science for Industry in the Digital Society - Professor Berthold Lausen, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science
  • The Era of Human Ethomics & Digital Biomarkers - Dr Bernard Liew, School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Science
  • Dr David Clark, School of Life Sciences
  • Dr Eirina Bourtsoulatze, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering
  • Dr Kareemah Chopra, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science
  • Dr Jennifer Hoyal Cuthill, School of Life Sciences
  • Professor Mariachiara Di Cesare, Institute of Public Health and Wellbeing
  • Data Science for Medical and Industrial Applications - Dr Osama Mahmoud, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science
  • Abject failure in the real, questionable results in the virtual: why achieving anything worthwhile with data is still a challenge - Dr Spyros Samothrakis, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering
Arts and Humanities:
  • Professor Audry Guinchard, Essex Law School
  • Making sense of text: artificial intelligence-enabled content analysis - Dr Linda Lee, Edge Hotel School
Social Sciences:
  • Dr Katerina Hadjimatheou, Department of Sociology
  • Nina Markl, Department of Language and Linguistics
  • Dr Paulo Serodio, Institute for Social and Economic Research

2023

Coastal Communities - 22 November 2023

Science and Health:
  • Alexandra Power-Mason, School of Health and Social Care
  • Dr Elia Valentini, Department of Psychology 
  • Professor Reza Majdzadeh, School of Health and Social Care
  • Dr Milagros Ruiz, School of Health and Social Care
  • Dr Yanchun Bao, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)
  • Dr Louis Clift, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
  • Professor Corinne Whitby, School of Life Sciences
Arts and Humanities:
  • Dr Koldo Casla, Essex Law School
  • Dynamic development of Community Based Ecotourism in Bulon Island, Thailand - Dr Banthita Hunt, Edge Hotel School
  • Professor Karen Hulme, Essex Law School
Social Sciences:
  • Speaking Mersea: Celebrating the Mersea Island dialect - Dr Amanda Cole and Dr Teresa Poeta, Department of Language and Linguistics 
  • Dr Jason Sumich, Department of Sociology

Business and Industry Collaboration - 18 October 2023

Science and Health:
  • Cybersecurity for Networks - Professor Martin Reed, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
  • Computational models of visual foraging - Dr Alasdair Clarke, Department of Psychology
  • Modelling and promotion of healthier lifestyle choices through gamification, in the Health Insurance sector - Dr Tasos Papastylianou, Institute of Public Health and Wellbeing
  • Dr Vishwanathan Mohan, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
  • AI for Finance - Dr Michael Kampouridis, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
  • EPIC and links with Industry - Professor Tracy Lawson, School of Life Sciences
  • Dr Jamie Tallent, School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences
Arts and Humanities:
  • Dr Andrea Fejos, Essex Law School
  • Mixed Reality experiences for the heritage industry - Dr Holly Maples, East 15 Acting School
  • Deconstructing gender in aviation - Dr Whitney Vernes Smith, Edge Hotel School
  • Nic Blower, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)
  • Professor Christopher Willett, Essex Law School
Social Sciences:
  • Where old meets new: Innovating in the oil and gas industry - Dr Erik Jacobi, EBS - Management and Marketing
  • Dr Rebecca Warren and Dr Lewis Smith, EBS - Accounting
  • Dr Amit Singh and Dr Somdip Dey,  School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
  • Professor Philip Hancock and Professor Melissa Tyler, EBS - Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management 

Public and Policy Engagement - 21 June 2023

Science and Health:
  • Dr Jon Chamberlain, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering
  • Monika Steinke, Department of Psychology
 Arts and Humanities:
  • Justice begins in the archives. Why it matters whose records we keep, how we organise them and who gets access - Dr Alix Green, Department of History
 Social Sciences:
  • Fake news in a post-truth world - Professor John Bartle, Department of Government Dr Laura Fumagalli, ISER
  • The Mobilization of Noncooperative Spaces: Reflections from Rohingya Refugee Camps - Professor Rashedur Chowdhury, Essex Business School
Public Voice Scholars:
  • Raising Awareness and Challenging Accentism Through Public Engagement - Dr Amanda Cole, Department of Language and Linguistics 
  • Telling the stories of our un-furry friends: Voices from the sea - Dr Anna Sturrock, School of Life Sciences
  • The Essex BioBlitz - Photographing the Fingerprints of Climate Change in Essex - Dr David Clark, Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Institute for Analytics and Data Science), School of Life Sciences
  • Neuromarketing at Essex: Interdisciplinary Research from the Circular Economy to Dementia Treatments - Dr Erik Jacobi, Essex Business School
  • Professor Gina Yannitell Reinhardt, Department of Government 
  • Decolonising Heritage Sites: Engaging the Public in Hidden Histories Through Story Driven Experiences - Dr Holly Maples, East 15 Acting School
  • Dr Katerina Hadjimatheou, Department of Sociology 
  • Postdigital Performances of Care - Dr Liam Jarvis, Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies
  • Tattooing the World: Engagement, Outreach, Impact and Exhibitions arising from Recent Research - Dr Matt Lodder, School of Philosophy and Art History
  • Sex, Sheds and Rock 'n' Roll: Reflections on Co-Produced Research - Dr Ruth Lowry, School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences 

Environment and Society - 8 March 2023

Science and Health:
  • Yes, we can (No, you can't): Weight stigma, self-efficacy, and the development of active-fat identity - Dr Angela Meadows, Department of Psychology
  • Going along together: Exploring inequalities in physical activity participation and knowledge production with people living with enduring health conditions - Dr Anna Pettican, School of Health and Social Care
  • The Ocean in Motion: Understanding ecological connectivity and why it matters - Dr Anna Sturrock, School of Life Sciences
  • Dr Carly Wood, School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences
  • Sensor Technology and big data analysis for Health and Agriculture - Dr Delaram Jarchi, Department of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering
  • Analysis of Local Positioning Data Reveals Bunching in Housed Dairy Cows is Associated with Higher Temperatures - Kareemah Chopra, Department of Mathematical Sciences
  • Dr Pallavi Singh, Department of Life Sciences
 Arts and Humanities:
  • Grounded: A Journey into the Landscapes of Our Ancestors - Dr James Canton, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)
  • Litter and Plastics - Professor Karen Hulme, Essex Law School
  • Dr Owen Robinson, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS) Professor Susan Oliver, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)
 Social Sciences:
  • Policing Environmental Protest - Dr Anna Di Ronco, Department of Sociology
  • People Participation in Climate Programs - Dr Bedanand Upadhaya, Essex Business School
  • Dr Debashree De, Essex Business School
  • Creating Climate Coalitions: Mass Preferences for Compensating Climate Vulnerability - Dr Federica Genovese, Department of Government
  • Moral Economies of the Environment - Dr Katy Wheeler, Department of Sociology
  • Climate Disasters and Green Labour Demand - Dr Michel Serafinelli, Department of Economics

Security and Resilience - 8 February 2023

Science and Health:
  • POISED - Improving Quality of Life - Professor Nelson Cortes, School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences
  • Dr Robert Ferguson, School of Life Sciences Relationship
  • Resilience as a Personal and Societal Resource - Dr Veronica Lamarche, Department of Psychology
  • Rethinking Data Security - Professor Haris Mouratidis, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
  • Professor Spyridon Vrontos, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science

 Arts and Humanities:
  • REbuilding a sense of PLACE (REPLACE): The socio-cultural role of 3D technologies in increasing community resilience after natural disasters - Dr Paola Di Guiseppantino Di Franco, School of Philosophy and Art History
  • The Importance of Humiliation: Why do Chinese and Vietnamese care about the South China Sea? - Dr Bill Hayton, Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)
  • Armed Conflict: Building environmental resilience - Professor Karen Hulme, Essex Law School
  • Dr Esin Kucuk, Essex Law School
  • Victims at the International Criminal Court: The missing legal framework - Dr Marina Lostal, Essex Law School
  • Emotional Resilience in Wartime: the Case of Second World War Britain - Professor Lucy Noakes, Department of History

 Social Sciences:
  • How Do Conflict Dynamics Affect Post-Conflict Stability? - Dr Zorzeta Bakaki, Department of Government
  • Peace Dividends and Post-Conflict Reconstruction - Professor Ismene Gizelis, Department of Government
  • Resilience and Adversity-Activated Development in Involuntary Dislocation - Professor Renos Papadopoulos, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

2022

Race and Decolonisation - 9 November 2022

Science and Health:
  • Professor Winifred Eboh, School of Health and Social Care
  • Dr Paul Hanel, Department of Psychology
  • Professor Abdellah Salhi, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science
  • Professor Maria Fasli, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Arts and Humanities:
  • Dr Tara MacAllister, East 15 Acting School
  • Professor Jeremy Krikler, Department of History
  • Dr Marija Jovanovic, Essex Law School
  • Professor Ahmed Shaheed, Essex Law School
  • Dr Jak Peake, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS) 
Social Sciences:
  • Dr Alita Nandi, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
  • Dr Phoebe Kisubi Mbasalaki, Department of Sociology
  • Dr Zibiah Loakthar, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
  • Professor Kevin Lu, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
  • Dr Colin Reilly, Department of Language and Linguistics
  • Dr Hannah Gibson, Department of Language and Linguistics

Health Inequalities - 12 October 2022

Science and Health:
  • Dr Nestor Asiamah, School of Health and Social Care
  • Dr Yanchun Bao, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science
  • Professor Anuj Kapilashrami, School of Health and Social Care
  • Professor Ewen Speed, School of Health and Social Care
  • Dr Honor Bixby, Institute of Public Health and Wellbeing
  • Dr Charalampos (Babis) Rallis, School of Life Sciences
  • Dr Robert Stawski, School of Health and Social Care
Social Sciences:
  • Professor Emily Grundy, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
  • Professor Raluca Soreanu, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
  • Professor Meena Kumari, Institute for and Economic Research (ISER)
  • Professor Birgitta Rabe, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
  • Professor Faten Ghosn, Department of Government
Arts and Humanities:
  • Professor Katharine Cockin, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)
  • Dr Daniel O'Brien, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)
  • Dr Nikhil Gokani, Essex Law School
  • Dr Xun Zhou, Department of History
  • Dr Owen Robinson, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)
  • Dr Mary Mazzilli, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Climate, Ecology and Sustainability - 11 May 2022

Science and Health:
  • Dr Amanda Cavanagh - School of Life Sciences
  • Dr Natalie Hicks - School of Life Sciences
  • Dr Anna Hughes - Department of Psychology
Social Sciences:
  • Dr Zorzeta Bakaki - Department of Government
  • Professor Peter Lynn - Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
  • Professor Sean Nixon - Department of Sociology
Arts and Humanities:
  • Ms Brontie Ansell - Essex Law School
  • Professor Susan Oliver - Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies
  • Dr Giulia Champion - Interdisciplinary Studies Centre
  • Dr Jude Bueno de Mesquita - Essex Law School
Find out more about the University's research in Climate, Ecology and Sustainability

Application of AI - 20 April 2022

Faculty of Science and Health:
  • Dr Jennifer Hoyal Cuthill - School of Life Sciences
  • Dr Felipe Maldonado - School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science
  • Dr Dongjiao Ge - School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science
Faculty of Arts & Humanities:
  • Lewis Smith - Department of History
  • Yasmina Afina - Essex Law School
Faculty of Social Sciences:
  • Professor Paul Clarke - Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
  • Professor Katerina Panopoulou - Essex Business School
  • Professor Juan Carlos Fernandez de Arroyabe - Essex Business School and IADS
  • Dr Federica Genovese - Department of Government

2021

STEM-SHAPE Collaboration - 14 December 2021

Faculty of Arts and Humanities:
  • Dr Emily Jones, Human Rights Centre - Essex Law School
  • Professor Noam Lubell, Human Rights Centre - Essex Law School
Faculty of Science and Health:
  • Dr Paul Freeman, School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences
  • Dr Tom Cameron, School of Life Sciences
Faculty of Social Sciences:
  • Dr Amanda Cole, Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Institute for Analytics and Data Science) and Department of Language and Linguistics
  • Professor John Preston, Faculty Dean Research (Social Sciences) and Department of Sociology
  • Professor Matteo Richiardi, Department of Economics and Director of CeMPA (Centre for Microsimulation and Policy Analysis) based at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)

Childhood and Ageing - 16 November 2021

Faculty of Science and Health:
  • Dr Charalampos Rallis - School of Life Sciences
  • Dr Junhua Li - School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
  • Dr Jackie Wong Siaw Tze - School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science
  • Dr Camille Cronin - School of Health and Social Care
Faculty of Arts and Humanities:
  • Dr Nic Blower - Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)
  • Dr Nora Williams - Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)
  • Dr Samantha Davey - Essex Law School
  • Professor David O’Mahony - Essex Law School
Faculty of Social Sciences:
  • Dr Norman Gabriel - Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
  • Dr Jun Li, EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE)
  • Dr Boroka Bo - Department of Sociology
  • Dr Shaul Bar Haim - Department of Sociology
  • Professor Tim Hatton - Department of Economics

Global Challenges (GCRF) - 13 October 2021

Faculty of Science and Health:
  • Dr Stathis Giotis - School of Life Sciences
  • Professor Leonard Schalkwyk - School of Life Sciences
  • Dr Sefki Kolozali - School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
  • Professor Gill Green - School of Health and Social Care
  • Dr Osama Mahmoud - School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science
  • Dr Shoaib Jameel - School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Faculty of Arts and Humanities:
  • Professor Sabine Michalowski - Essex Law School
  • Dr Stephen Turner - Essex Law School
  • Professor Wayne Martin - School of Philosophy and Art History
  • Dr Lisa Blackmore - School of Philosophy and Art History
  • Professor Shohini Chaudhuri - Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)
  • Dr Annecy Lax - Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)
Faculty of Social Sciences:
  • Professor Thankom Arun - Essex Business School – Accounting
  • Professor Han Dorussen - Department of Government
  • Dr Florian Kern - Department of Government
  • Dr Sarah Shair-Rosenfield - Department of Government
  • Dr Tracey Costley - Department of Language and Linguistics
  • Dr Lisa Spantig - Department of Ecomonics

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion - 26 May 2021

Professor Anuj Kapilashrami - School of Health and Social Care
Intersectionality

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Dr Mary Mazzilli - Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)
Human Side of Migration


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Dr Isabel Crowhurst - Department of Sociology
How Norms Operate To Limit Or Exclude People From The Full Enjoyment Of Citizenship


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Dr Helge Gillmeister - Department of Psychology
How Does The Brain Give Rise To our Unique Sense of Self / Identity?


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Dr Maria Hudson - EBS - Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management
Addressing Racial Inequalities ; The Role of Staff Race Networks (SRNs)


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Dr Niall O'Connor - Essex Law School
Brexit, Fundamental Right and The Employment Relationship


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Caroline Bald - School of Health and Social Care
Constructing Suitability


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Karen Bush - People and Culture - Inclusion
YUFE


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Dr Alita Nandi - Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
The Prevalence and Persistence of Ethnic and Racial Harassment and its Impact on Health


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Professor Sheina Orbell - Department of Psychology
The Psychology of Health Inequality


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Dr Ella Jeffries - Department of Language and Linguistics
Accent : An Unprotected Characteristic


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Dr Eirini Kartsaki - East 15 Acting School
Weird Undercommons


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Professor Melissa Tyler - EBS - Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management
All Together Now? The “Crisis Within a Crisis” in in Live Performance


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Sally Burrows - School of Health and Social Care
Health Inequalities in Travelling Communities


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Natural and Manmade Disasters - 27 April 2021

Professor Maria Cristina Fumagalli  - Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Covid 19 and Statelessness in Hispaniola


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Dr Michael Steinke  - School of Life Sciences
The Release of Gases from Disastrous Green Tide Events


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Dr Konstantinos Baltas - Essex Business School - Finance
Alternative Finance After Natural Disasters


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Dr Paola di Giuseppantonio di Franco - School of Philosophy and Art History
How Can We Use The Socio-Cultural Role of 3D Technologies in Sustaining Communities and Heritage Through Disasters?


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Professor Huosheng Hu - School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering
Monitoring-Prediction Operations & Saerch-Rescue Operations


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Dr Alejandro Quiroz Flores - Department of Government
Dynamic Topic Modelling of C-19 Messages from UK Univesrities


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Dr Joanna Rzepa - Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
The Holocaust and The Politics of Translation


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Professor Edward Codling - School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science
Human Crowd Behaviour in Emergency Evacuations


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Professor Kelum Jayasinghe - Essex Business School - Accounting
Disasters, Displacement and Vulnerable Communities


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Professor Gina Reinhardt - Department of Government
Disasters


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Dr Sean Seeger - Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Speculative Fiction and Social Theory


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Rachel Marrow  - School of Health and Social Care

Reconnection Through Nature : How Military Veterans With Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Benefit From Green Activities


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Professor John Preston - Department of Sociology
Interdisciplinary Research Projects


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Emerging Technologies - 10 March 2021

Professor Klaus McDonald-Maier - School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering

The Embedded and Intelligent Systems Laboratory


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Dr Tara Mahfoud - Department of Sociology

The Social, Political and Ethical Dimensions of New and Emerging Technologies


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Matthew de Abaitua - Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies

The Artificial Imagination


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Dr Anna Caute - School of Health and Social Care

The Use of Technology in Stroke Rehabillitation


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Dr Valentin Danchev - Department of Sociology


Dr Corinne Whitby - School of Life Sciences

Solution to Pullution


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Professor William Kennedy - Department of Economics

The Importance of Technological Progress in Raising Living Standards


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Professor Vicky Joffe - School of Health and Social Care

Enhancing Pragmatic Language Skills in Children with Social Communication Difficulty (E-PLAYS)


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Professor Noam Lubell - Essex Law School

Regulating Military Use of Human Enhancement Technologies


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Dr Katerina Hadjimatheou - Department of Sociology

The Ethical and Societal Implications of Different Technologies including AI, Surveillance Technologies, Digital Policing, Risk Assessment and Predictive Techniques in a Security & Policing Context


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Professor Martin Reed - School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering

Communicating at Scale with Computer Networks


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Dr Adela Ganem Gutierrez - Department of Language and Linguistics

The Use of Emerging Technologies to Improve Second Language Learning & Teaching


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Dr Nikolaos Thomos - School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering

Learning to Adapt : Empowering Communications Systems with Learning Capabilities


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Lifelong Health - 23 February 2021

Dr Andrew Bateman - School of Health and Social Care
Improving the lives of people with neurological conditions


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Professor Emily Grundy - Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
The Demography of Ageing


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Dr Christina Kapadocha - East 15 Acting School
Lifelong Health and Physical Contact


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Dr Yanchun Bao - School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science
Mandelian Randomization and Survival Analysis


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Francisco Sepulveda - School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering
Interfacing with the Nervous System


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Dr Ralf Zwacka - School of Life Sciences
Using Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs) as a Delivery Vehicle for Therapeutic Payloads to Tumours


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Dr Koldo Casla - Essex Law School of Law
Addressing the impact of Covid-19 on Social Rights and Inequality


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Dr Ruth Lowry - School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences
Step by Step Project


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Professor Reinhard Pekrun- Department of Psychology
Effects of Perception of Personal Control over our Health on Survival and Mortality in Old People


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Dr Megan Klabunde - Department of Psychology

Professor Meena Kumari - Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
Biological Pathways that Link the Social Environment and Health

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Professor David O Mahony - Essex Law School
The Pan-University Institute for Public Health and Wellbeing

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Collective Systems - 28 January 2021

Professor Iain Couzin - YERUN - University of of Konstanz, Germany
Collective Behaviour


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Professor Edward Codling - School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science
When Many Wrongs Make Right!


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Professor Peter Bloom - Essex Business School
Collective Behaviours, Collective Systems and Commons Value Creation


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Professor Sanja Bahun - Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)
"How Birds of a Feather Laugh Together" : Literature and Collective Systems


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Dr Thomas Cameron - School of Life Sciences
The Causes and Consequences of a Collective System


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Dr Daragh Murray - Essex Law School
Examining the Link between the Individual and the Collective


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Sandra Moog - Organisational Studies and Human Resources
Collective Action 


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Dr Gillian Sandstrom - Department of Psychology
Micro Friendships

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Dr Miranda Simon - Department of Government
Migration, Policy and Collective Systems

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2020 - 2018

Human Rights, the Environment and Climate Change - 16 December 2020

Dr Carly Wood - School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences
Green Exercise


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Dr David Clark - School of Life Sciences
Microbiology at the Macro Scale


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Wijnand A.P. van Tilburg - Department of Psychology
Citizen Vain? Exposure to the UK Citizenship Test Predicts Milder Demands from Immigrants Across the political Spectrum


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Dr Eoin O'Gorman - School of Life Sciences
Impacts of Global Warming on Ecological Systems


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Dr Fanlin Meng - School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science
Data and Market-Driven Smart Energy and Mobility


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Professor Vasilios Ioakimidis - School of Health and Social Care
Social Work in Extremis


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Dr Birsha Ohdedar - Essex Law School
Water and Climate Change Law


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Professor Kelum Jayasinghe - Essex Business School (Accounting)
The Centre for Environment and Society


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Dr Chaminda Wijethilake - Essex Business School (Accounting)
Strategic Responses to Sustainability Challenges and the Use of Sustainable Control Systems

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Dr Osamuyimen Egbon - Essex Business School (Accounting)

Dr Stephen Turner - Essex Law School
Human Rights and Climate Change

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Dr Andrew Fagan - Essex Law School
Human Rights and the Environment and The Human Rights Centre

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Professor Karen Hulme - Essex Law School
Environmental Human Rights

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Dr Eliana Cusata - Essex Law School
International Law, Peace and Conflict Studies, Critical Theory and the Environment

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Food: Production, Sustainability and Consumption - 18 November 2020

Professor Tracy Lawson - School of Life Sciences
Plant Physiology and Food : Production, Sustainability and Consumption


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Dr Birgitta Rabe and Dr Angus Holford - Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
The Impact of the Universal Infant Free School Meals (UIFSM) Policy


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Professor Susan Oliver - Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)
Food Sustainability in 19th Century Fiction. Scottish Fare as Fact and Fantasy


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Dr Hossein Anisi - School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Internet of Things


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Dr Katy Wheeler - Department of Sociology
Sustainable and Ethical Consumption


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Nikhil Gokani - Essex Law School
Food : A Product We Eat, Buy & Sell


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Dr Anna Sturrock - School of Life Sciences
Sustainable Fisheries in a Rapidly Changing World


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Professor Niraj Kumar - Essex Business School
Sustainable Issues and Problems across the Food Supply Chain 


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Dawn Liu Holford - Department of Psychology
Understanding Food Information


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Professor Neil Kellard - Essex Business School

Food and Commodity Price Research

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COVID-19 - 26 October 2020

Professor Wayne Martin - School of Philosophy and Art History
The Essex Autonomy Project's Work During Covid


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Dr Marie Juanchich - Department of Psychology
How Can We Help People To Stay Safe in a Pandemic


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Dr Thanos Verousis - Essex Business School
What is the Effect of Pandemics on Innovation Output?


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Dr Ewen Speed - School of Health and Social Care
Sociology in Covid and Sociology on Covid


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Professor Michaela Benzeval - Institute for Social, and Economic Research
Unique Contribution of Understanding Society to Science and Policy


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Dr Filippo Prischi - School of Life Sciences
Drug Repurposing


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Dr Xun Zhou - Department of History
Pandemics as Social Phenomenom


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Dr Chris Antonopoulos - School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science
Mathematical Modelling of the Spread of Covid-19 in Communities


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Dr Mollie Gerver - Department of Government
Proportional and Necessary Immigration During Covid-19


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Dr Javier Andreu-Perez - School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering

Professor Friederike Mengel - Department of Economics
Modelling Interventions in the First Phase of the Covid-19 Pandemic


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Dr Greg Brooke - School of Life Sciences
Inhibition of Androgen Action as a Treatment Option for Covid-19


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Judith Bueno De Mesquita - Essex Law School
The Human Rights Impact of Covid-19

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Professor John Preston - Department of Sociology
Coronavirus, Class, and Value in the First Wave of the Covid-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom

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Brain and Mind - 23 June 2020

Professor Wayne Martin - School of Philosophy and Art History
The Essex Autonomy Project's Work During Covid


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Dr Marie Juanchich - Department of Psychology
How Can We Help People To Stay Safe in a Pandemic


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Dr Thanos Verousis - Essex Business School
What is the Effect of Pandemics on Innovation Output?


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Dr Ewen Speed - School of Health and Social Care
Sociology in Covid and Sociology on Covid


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Professor Michaela Benzeval - Institute for Social, and Economic Research
Unique Contribution of Understanding Society to Science and Policy


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Dr Filippo Prischi - School of Life Sciences
Drug Repurposing


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Dr Xun Zhou - Department of History
Pandemics as Social Phenomenom


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Dr Chris Antonopoulos - School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science
Mathematical Modelling of the Spread of Covid-19 in Communities


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Dr Mollie Gerver - Department of Government
Proportional and Necessary Immigration During Covid-19


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Dr Javier Andreu-Perez - School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering

Professor Friederike Mengel - Department of Economics
Modelling Interventions in the First Phase of the Covid-19 Pandemic


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Dr Greg Brooke - School of Life Sciences
Inhibition of Androgen Action as a Treatment Option for Covid-19


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Judith Bueno De Mesquita - Essex Law School
The Human Rights Impact of Covid-19

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Professor John Preston - Department of Sociology
Coronavirus, Class, and Value in the First Wave of the Covid-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom

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Behavioural Social Sciences - 20 May 2020

Annecy Lax - Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)
Research using theatre methodologies to examine behaviours, to perform behaviours, to adjust behaviours


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Professor Leonard Schalkwyk - School of Life Sciences
Epigenomic brain studies of AD


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Professor Silke Paulmann - Department of Psychology
How do we communicate emotional, motivational, or attitudinal intentions through our voice


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Dr Mike Rogerson - School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences
Green Exercise


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Dr Veronica Lamarche - Department of Psychology
Uncertainty & Vulnerability Regulation in Romantic Relationships


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Shaaba Lotun - Department of Psychology
Social media for social good


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Dr Ahrash Dianat - Department of Economics
Experimental Economics

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Dr Patrick Nolen - Department of Economics
Gender and Labour Markets

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Academic Year 2018-2019

The Environment - 18 November 2018

The Digital World - 6 June 2019

Health and Wellbeing - 28 March 2019