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ROLI is developing a roadmap towards a vision of promoting the joy in the making of music, by reducing the entry barriers to music creation and empowering everyone to express themselves through music creation. Current music related digital entertainment products are mostly outdated; the "Guitar Hero" and "Singstar" style of interactions still dominate the music games market. Existing music games have yet to take advantage of human-machine interface technologies or mediums such as virtual reality and augmented reality. More importantly the current entertainment experience contributes little to learning actual musical skills and music creation. This EngD project will investigate new ways to make the experience of learning and creating music more fun and engaging through technology-driven gamification; and also explore specific creative solutions to the above challenges.

This is a project that seeks to draw upon recent developments in archaeological theory and the digital humanities in order to engage in a more creative, ambitious (and therefore productive) fashion with the vast quantities of archaeological data that are generated by the most ambitious of current commercial fieldwork projects; those focused upon large-scale linear infrastructure, such as HS2 and the A14. The aim is to develop wholly news ways of approaching, interpreting, presenting and archiving the wealth of archaeological information generated by such projects, and through this, new interpretations of the past. Looking in detail, the specific aims are: 1. Challenge and unsettle existing commercial approaches to the post-excavation, publication and archiving of large-scale infrastructure projects by revealing, critically evaluating and challenging the core assumptions and frameworks that underpin them. In this case ideas of linearity and progression coupled with notions of tracing as an interpretative activity. 2. Explore the ways in which new, and potentially radical, developments in archaeological theory, critical cartography and digital story-telling can be used to reveal different pathways into and through the datasets generated and create a different kind of interpretative scaffolding. 3. To step back and examine the ways in which emerging trends in archaeological theory and critical thought can be brought into productive dialogue with the realities and exigencies of large-scale commercial fieldwork to the benefit of both. 4. To develop new ways of engaging with the datasets yielded by large-scale infrastructural work; approaches that can help shape future post-excavation and publication practice as well as allow wholly new archaeological narratives and interpretations to emerge.

This MaGPIE proposal was successful under the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant 2022. Mass graves exist across the globe and on a shocking scale. They contain evidence that is essential to the realisation of justice and accountability goals at multiple levels: for victims, affected communities, States in transition and the international community. Yet the scale and nature of the problem is not well understood: there are no global records for mass graves, nor is there a universal human rights framework to govern all facets and ramifications of mass graves, thereby resulting in a policy gap. This project urgently responds to this significant knowledge and policy gap in the international human rights landscape. It asks: how can a comprehensive and universally applicable human rights framework for the protection and investigation of mass graves be achieved? To answer this complex question, three overarching objectives have been derived: O1 To produce a global quantitative and qualitative assessment of the scale of the phenomena that are mass graves; O2 To remedy associated blindspots within the existing human rights framework; and O3 To create policies that innovate, consolidate and implement a coherent human rights approach to mass grave engagement. The scale of human loss and the societal significance require a pioneering, multidisciplinary approach that is rooted in law to safeguard sites, human remains as well as the rights and interests of survivors. Led by the author of the international standard-setting Bournemouth Protocol on Mass Grave Protection and Investigation, this project is premised on the belief that mass graves, regardless of where situated, are deserving of a comprehensive human rights framework to secure their protection, investigation and stakeholder engagement. Whilst firmly grounded in legal methodology, it employs multidisciplinary approaches to drive the research excellence needed to generate invaluable, fact-based knowledge, theory development and policy guidance for the benefit of victims, families and communities.

Europe's rivers are highly fragmented by human constructed barriers that block the movement of fish, with this fragmentation driving substantial declines in freshwater fish diversity and abundance. The EU Biodiversity Strategy aims to remove riverine barriers wherever possible so that 25000 km more river will be free-flowing in Europe by 2030. However, barrier removal is only occasionally feasible and so engineered fish passes provide alternative re-connection tools. The passes provide an easier route for fish to use to bypass the barrier. Although these fish passes are frequently on rivers with a diverse fish assemblage, they tend to be constructed to primarily facilitate the passage of diadromous fishes, especially anadromous salmonid fishes, despite most fish species being impacted by the fragmentation. This inter-specific selectivity of fish passes is potentially compounded by their intra-specific selectivity, where only specific phenotype groupings are able to use the pass successfully. Thus, while fish passes are used frequently to provide river reconnection in Europe, the extent to which they impose new selection pressures on fish communities - and the associated consequences - remain high uncertain. Our project overcomes this high uncertainty in fish passage selectivity by bringing together an outstanding European researcher with potential to develop into a global science leader with a research group with strong competencies in fish tracking technologies and fish behaviour assessment. Together, we generate new knowledge on the performance of fish populations and communities using fish passes on the lower River Severn in western Britain through application of the latest biotelemetry methods. We use these data to then build novel agent based models that predict the ecological consequences of barriers and fish passes. These results provide river managers with the knowledge to better resolve river fragmentation that works for all species.