The aim of this project is to provide biodiversity researchers with a facility analogous to word sketches, but based upon taxonomic and trophic relationships between species. Using evidence- based lexicographic techniques and exploiting the implicit taxonomic structure of the biodiversity data, the project will create 'life sketches', offering researchers a statistical snapshot of how, how often, when and where a particular species occurs in the literature, and what kinds of trophic interactions with other species it engages in. With such a tool, researchers will be able to address key questions in biodiversity sciences, such as the evolution of trophic interactions across the tree of life with focus on different geographic and time scales, with a much enhanced statistical power that may challenge long held but not robustly tested hypotheses describing key processes of the co- diversification of unrelated organisms through time and in place.

The project will investigate the history of exhibition design practice in UK museums. Focusing on the British Museum's renowned Design Office (est. 1964), the student will examine the events and shifts that have taken place in museum exhibition design, as well as their influence today. The project investigates how exhibition design at the British Museum both shaped and has been influenced by shifts in professionalisation, design technologies and government regulation, and the changing role of museums across the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The successful applicant will benefit from training and a placement with the Exhibitions department at the British Museum.

Increasing age is frequently associated with a build-up of faeces in the large bowel due to difficult, infrequent and incomplete emptying of the bowel (chronic constipation) as well as leaking of bowel contents (feacal incontinence). These are known as age-related bowel disorders. Over one third of the over 65-year olds in the community and more than half of those in care homes will suffer these age-related bowel disorders. To the sufferer the symptoms can cause significant embarrassment, loss of dignity and quality of life. To the health service the cost of treating such conditions reached £1 billion in 2010. This age group is predicted to increase, where the number of people aged 65 and over will increase by more than 40 % within 20 years, making this a major social and economic problem. Therefore, there needs to be an approach that allows for the early detection of predictive markers of age-related bowel disorders so that effective treatment can commence at an early stage, delaying/preventing the onset of the disorder and extending healthspan. The movement of faeces through the large bowel requires the coordinated activity of the nerves and muscles that control this region. The outer most layer of the bowel known as the mucosa, has cells that can detect the contents present within our bowels and they release chemicals to communicate to the nerves to coordinate muscle contractions. We have shown that this communication process is altered with age as there are changes in the release of these chemicals. This in turn impairs the function of the muscles and results in a loss in the movement of faecal matter. Therefore, if we can measure the chemicals and the function of the muscle over time, we will be able to detect these changes very early before the patient gets symptoms and start treatments to delay/prevent the onset of these disorders. To meet these challenges, the first step will make an electrochemical probe that can be inserted into the lower bowel to track the changes in the chemicals released from the mucosa and the muscle activity. This will require optimising the design and the electronics to allow us to conduct the required measurements, Additionally, we would like our probe to be able to release drugs locally into the bowel so the device will be constructed with a tube within the probe to allow for this. To make these probes we will utilise 3D printing, which provides a platform for the efficient manufacturing of the parts of the probe. Additionally, this approach will allow us to scale this device, from the small probe developed as part of this study in rodents to a larger probe for use in future human studies. Once these probes have been made, we will explore how modifications to the materials used to construct the probe and the shape of the probe affect its performance. The best prototype will be used for investigations in animal models. Initially our probe will be inserted into the lower bowel of an anaesthetised mouse. These studies will allow us to map how chemicals are released in the lower bowel and how muscle activity varies in the regions measured. Additionally, we can explore the effects of different drugs in the lower bowel. These important studies will allow us to establish key protocols for our ageing studies. Using a mouse model which has similar age-related bowel dysfunction to that experienced in humans and where the bowel is regulated by many of the same chemicals used by humans provides us with an ideal model to carry out a longitudinal exploration of how mucosal chemicals and muscle activity change during the lifespan of an individual animal whilst simultaneously monitoring its faecal output as a marker of dysfunction. This will allow us to showcase how our probe can be an attractive tool for tracking and predicting the likelihood of age-related bowel disorders. Such findings will allow us to rapidly conduct clinical trials of our device in humans.

This proposal follows on from the project 'The Immobilities of gender-based violence in the Covid 19 pandemic' in generating impact and engagement by communicating and its findings and creating opportunities to deliberate them for new and international audiences. The original project demonstrated that GBV occurs in a 'continuum of mobile space' in which women are im/mobilised in different ways. This was highlighted by the isolations and intensifications of spaces as a result of constrained movement during the Covid 19 pandemic. We showed that storying reveals new knowledge of GBV that has relevance beyond the pandemic. We found that the im/mobilities of the Covid 19 pandemic and lockdowns created spaces for reflection on GBV throughout lifetimes. Stories that conveyed the 'felt' experience of GBV engaged readers in the apparently 'mundane' as well as 'more serious' aspects of GBV. Nevertheless, policy and public engagement tends to be informed primarily by the quantitative analysis of crime statistics, which are fundamentally flawed in representing a genuine picture of the felt/lived experiences of GBV. There is an urgent need to acknowledge the value of qualitative accounts of GBV - both by the general public and policymakers and practitioners (e.g. police and transport providers) in seeking to transform the landscape of GBV. This includes accounts that are often absent from the public domain - of minoritised communities within which GBV may be more commonplace. In tandem, discussions of GBV often take place within, rather than across, national borders, despite GBV being a global issue shared (predominantly) by women and girls (including trans women and girls) across the world. Thus, the project will span national borders, sharing stories across continents and building new international partnerships. We seek to engage new audiences in both the UK and Mexico, a country that has both faced high levels of GBV and where GBV is collectively challenged through policy interventions and highly visible campaigning. Trans-national deliberations, supported with engaging multi-sensory storying, can unlock the pervading cultural conditions that facilitate GBV. By adopting a trans-national approach we can begin transform the landscapes of GBV, challenging cultures rooted in misogyny. We do so by focusing on trans-sensory storying, which we propose here as a new concept in framing GBV storying and as a new and method of engagement that provides a pathway to impact. The trans-sensory stories of GBV will be translated into diverse and connected sensory outputs and used to elicit dialogue. We invite artists and creative writers in the UK and Mexico to translate stories of GBV into original creative outputs - sound art, comic stories, short stories, poems, dioramas - for interactive exhibitions in Brighton and Mexico City. We will engage new audiences - purposefully focusing on groups who might normally disengage from this topic - including members of the general public, but also academics, community groups, policymakers and practitioners whose primary interest is not GBV, with the trans-sensory stories and invite them to take part in Roundtables - facilitated discussion groups with a clear purpose and intended outcomes. The trans-sensory outputs of the project will be brought together in an edited collection, which will be made accessible to the general public by avoiding complex academic language and using illustrations. The exhibition will be made available as a physical and digital resource for future display.

The DEEP FILM Access Project (DFAP) aims to unlock latent opportunities that exist within big and complex data sets generated by industrial digital film production. Filmmaking as a process recently reached a scale and complexity where a new on-set 'data wrangling' role has emerged to manage the data generated by the camera(s) alone - further complicated by inter-relating Computer Generated Imagery and shooting in Stereoscopic 3D. Even small independent productions film on multiple cameras, increasing linearly the volume of raw material and exponentially the inter-relations between data items. Furthermore, data generated by the creative process, such as director and crew notations on quality, on the logistics and organisation of each shot, on props information and more, is recorded separately from camera data. Currently, the archival conventions for all this data contains duplication and opportunities for error; it also makes it impossible to search different kinds of data in an integrated way. As film completes its transition from photo-chemical to digital, new archival methods and processes are needed to cope with the data which also offers the potential for novel in-depth analysis of the film making process and results. DFAP will develop an integrated process and framework for the management of all of the assets created by digital feature film production. First, we will design classifications and definitions that will standardise the description, layering and interlinking of data assets and enable them to be openly accessible online. Then, we will define a way in which this information can be integrated with the records made by all those who work on the making of the film (actors, crew, etc). Consequently, it will be possible to jointly interrogate the data generated by the cameras and the data generated by the creative process. DFAP will explore the range of questions that this joint interrogation opens up, and how these questions might lead to film production data being used in new ways, across academic disciplines and industry professions, to challenge and expand existing knowledge and practices. The new approach developed by DFAP will be tested and evaluated using British film director Sally Potter's latest release, Ginger & Rosa (2012), as a pilot. A period feature shot entirely on location in the UK, with a 3.5 million pound budget and a crew of over 155 members, it is almost entirely digital in all aspects. It provides an emblematic example of an industrial digital feature film production in contemporary Britain. DFAP will use the pilot to gain a sense scale and to define what its integrated system would require to be applied to other projects and materials. The findings and outcomes of DFAP will be presented in peer reviewed journals and conferences. A project website will document the project as it develops, as well as its findings. In addition, the integrated dataset created as a result of the Ginger & Rosa pilot will be made openly accessible via Sally Potter's online archive.