Nurolight helps people living with dementia and their carers to sleep better at home through a smart home lighting system which improves their natural sleep/week cycle throughout the day by providing bright light therapy, set to evidence-based lighting specifications. Nurolight meets three of the seven themes of the Healthy Ageing challenge as further described below, and will: - Maximise independence of those living with dementia and minimise hospital or care admissions - Mitigate the impacts of poor housing design on those with dementia - Increase quality of life, lower mortality and reduce incidents of dementia over time.

The realisation of child agency: to what extent do curriculum policy and practice in Scottish schools foster the agency of young people as active participants in the world?

Understanding the health and wellbeing of people involved with Community Justice in Scotland.

As natural habitats are confronted with substantial environmental change, we urgently need more information on the resilience of at-risk populations in the face of disturbance. How will species react to the decreased resources levels and increased uncertainty in resources that future environments promise? Will populations adjust their usage of space to compensate for local reductions in environmental quality, or will they adjust their diet to make the best of what is available in altered habitats? Historically, our efforts to predict how organisms will respond to environmental stress has been hampered because of challenges in studying both how wild animals exploit space and what they eat. This PhD studentship will contribute to an ongoing project that brings movement ecology and nutritional ecology together in one coherent framework to study animal resilience in the face of environmental change. Sexually dimorphic species can shed light on factors affecting resilience. Although habitat and dietary choices differ substantially across species, drawing inferences on how these factors affect resilience to change is quite difficult because different taxa vary in many characters in addition to habitat and diet. Intraspecific sexual differences in functional traits also have dramatic effects on how individuals acquire and use environmental resources. Species with strong dimorphism are therefore ideal for studying how functional traits affect resilience to disturbance. The extreme sexual dimorphism of Mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) presents an opportunity to study plasticity in diet and habitat use within the same species, a sharp contrast that isolates spatial and dietary differences from other variables including differences due to phylogenetic background.Mandrills are the most sexually dimorphic primates(Fig. 1). In addition to the remarkable ornaments that are important for sexual signalling, males weigh three times as much as females and take much longer to reach sexual maturity. Both ornamental traits and size have strong links with resource availability, and may at least partly explain observations of sexual differences in space use within Lopé NP in Gabon, where members of our team have been observing mandrills for many years (Fig. 2). Whatever the proximate cause of differences in space use, females exploit a wider range of habitats, and travel within very large groups, while mature males range less and spend much of the year outside of the group.

The theme this project addresses is "Challenged ecosystems: climate, pollution, resilience, resource management, societal wellbeing". Today, more than 1000 emerging pollutants (e.g. nanomaterial, microplastics, surfactants, pharmaceuticals and PCBs, pesticides, amongst many others) have been reported in the European aquatic environment (http://www.norman-network.net). The InTO project will address the combined effects of two emerging pollutants, UV-filters and nanoplastics, on marine bacteria, the most abundant organisms on Earth that are key players of the biogeochemical balances of our planet and are at the heart of bioremediation processes. Similarly as with micro and nanoplastics pollution, organic UV-filters, which are used in a wide range of cosmetics and personal care products (PCPs), have also been recently identified as ubiquitous contaminants in coastal waters. Such chemicals are recognised of emerging concern to our oceans due to their persistence, as related to their chemical properties, large production volumes, and their bioaccumulation and toxic effects on marine organisms. Cosmetics represent a huge market of 10 billion euros in the UK (European Commission 2015), offering a significant incentive, and indeed opportunity here, for Scottish Universities to be leading the way in assessing the effects and impacts of these types of emerging pollutants in our oceans. Waste or discarded plastics can be mechanically degraded into micro, and eventually over time, nanoplastics. Nanoplastics not only directly affect aquatic organisms but also adsorb other organic contaminants, such as UV-filters, producing a 'combined' pollution with potentially synergistic toxic effects. The InTO project aims to unravel, for the first time, the combined toxicity effects of these types of emerging anthropogenic pollutants on microbial communities. The project is well aligned to the aims of the Scottish Marine Science Strategy in delivering 'clean, healthy, safe, productive, biologically diverse marine and coastal environments, managed to meet the long-term needs of people and nature', as the knowledge gained from this project could impact policy makers.