Creating cheaper, flexible and sustainable solar cells
Our researchers are developing new, more sustainable materials that could make solar power a more viable technology worldwide.
Case studies
Exploring our research and other stories from the University community.
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Creating environmentally friendly plastics using HPC
Megan uses the University's HPC facilities to experiment with sustainable plastics that could change the way we live everyday
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Creating fast, accurate tests for disease
Attaching electrochemical tags to DNA could allow GPs to diagnose and treat patients in just one visit.
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Creating immersive virtual reality experiences using human emotion
With the rapid evolution of virtual reality technology, the race is on to create effective, and affordable, VR experiences for a commercial market.
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Creating meaningful and purposeful products: Compact Cane
Nia Simpson is taking her final-year mechanical engineering project, the Compact Cane, to the commercial market.
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Creating spaces for people: Heba’s placement story
Civil Engineering student, Heba Tabidi, spent a year working as a Civil Structures Industrial Trainee at Arup.
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Crocodile evolution through fossils
Polly is in the third year of her PhD in Evolutionary Biology. She studies fossils to understand why crocodiles are how they are today.
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Crossing Boundaries: The 2023 Business and Modern Slavery Research conference
Hosted in September 2023, this two-day conference offered an opportunity for researchers of forced labour to come together.
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CSR Communications Conference 2024 (CSRCom)
In September 2024, the School of Management hosted the 7th international CSRCom conference.
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Cultivating change: charting a future with sustainable meat production
Winning the Doctoral Recognition Award in 2023, Tom Davies is offering new perspectives in the field with his PhD research in cultured meat.