Academics from the College of Life and Environmental Sciences take the challenge of describing their research in 60 seconds.
Click an image to watch the video and read the transcript
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Measuring environmental stress by studying animals at the molecular level
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Creating a handheld disease detector
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Researching the problems of antibiotic resistant bacteria
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Using Big Data to model the geographical distribution of the
digital economy
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Investigating the environmental pressures affecting woodlands and forests in the UK and across the world
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Finding better vaccines in the fight against tuberculosis
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Researching how the nervous system is formed and how it works
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Determining how the brain converts sensory signals into a perception
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How people use imagination to think about possibilities and solve problems
![60 seconds with Professor David Hannah](/Images/College-LES-only/research-gallery/60s-hannah-play.jpg)
Understanding events such as floods and droughts in their climatic context
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Finding ways to reduce physical inactivity and support healthy
eating behaviours
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Using urban creativity to improve
social, environmental and economic wellbeing
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Studying what makes tiny nanoparticles so reactive
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Using plants as pollution filters to help makes cities cleaner
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Studying how stress and depression affects the immune system
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Training the trainers: enabling sport coaches to promote wellbeing
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Researching the impact of weather and climate on the built environment