Mayor of Barnet, Councillor Caroline Stock, visited our campus to present the award and celebrate our hard work and achievement in supporting the borough’s communities throughout a difficult year. Our COVID-19 response also won us a Gold Award in the HEIST Awards’ Best Community/ Business Engagement Campaign or Initiative, with judges praising our commitment, innovation and agility as we embraced the various challenges thrown at us. HEIST Awards, organised by Havas Education, celebrate excellence and innovation in higher education and education marketing. Middlesex University was also nominated in the UK Business Heroes 2020 campaign run by the British Chambers of Commerce for the inspiring efforts of staff and students to help the NHS and local community during the pandemic. The London Chamber of Commerce and Industry chose the University as one of its three nominations in the capital from nearly 2,000 members in recognition of the outstanding work that had taken place at Middlesex since the outbreak of the pandemic.
RESEARCH AND KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE
Our research aims to create knowledge to address global problems, and this year we provided valuable insights to help tackle the pandemic in the UK and abroad.
Work across all of our Faculties has made a real impact on addressing COVID-19. From our Science and Technology Faculty, traces of SARS-CoV-2 virus (the virus that causes COVID-19) are being investigated to find out if they could give an ‘early warning’ of infection. Middlesex’s Professor of Population Studies and Global Health Mariachiara Di Cesare is leading the School wastewater-based epidemiological surveillance system study, run by universities and others, a £2.4 million project funded by the NHS Test and Trace Surveillance Testing Team. A lung monitoring device being researched by Middlesex in a large NHS trust could have a major impact on recovery from COVID-19. Professor of Biophysics and Engineering Richard Bayford is leading research into bedside lung imaging to monitor patients with COVID-19. The CorRLEIT device – COVID Regional Lung Electrical Impedance Tomography – shows changes in lung volume. The research, which builds on the Middlesex-led CRADL project for premature babies, was awarded £671,332 from the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Fund. The team includes Dr Andy Bardill, Director of redLoop, the University’s Design and Innovation Centre, and Dr Andrew Tizzard, Associate Professor, as well as academics from other universities and a consultant NHS respiratory physician.
Lockdown sparked panic buying, and people to stock up as they feared shortages in the same way that animals in danger hoard food, according to Tom Dickies, a Professor of Behavioural Science, and PhD candidate Sabrina Schulz. People under lockdown could feel more hopeless and
were “significantly less” engaged in daily activities than first-time prisoners, according to a study led by Professor Mandeep Dhami of the Department of Psychology. Thousands of hospital patients with COVID-19, including those who were dying, did not receive bedside spiritual support from chaplains and relatives because of strict isolating conditions and a lack of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), the Research Centre for Transcultural Studies in Health reported.
Responding to NHS research that suggested children’s mental health was getting worse, Research Psychologist Dr Ruth Spence wrote Charlie and the Dog who Came to Stay, a picture book published by the University. Musicians were hit hard financially, and a project to monetise streamed performances is being carried out by Senior Lecturer in Music Business and Arts Management Julia Cockchafer, Popular Music Lecturer Sam Leak and Brian Cavanagh of King’s College London. The two Middlesex academics also researched online concerts (page 24).
A House of Lords inquiry into COVID-19 emergency powers was told by Senior Lecturer in Law Dr Joelle Grogan that the government should be “clear, consistent, and transparent” regarding lockdown law. The UK could follow Hungary and Poland with the rule of law breaking down, Professor Laurent Pech, the Head of the Law and Politics Department, has warned, with ruling parties attacking the legal system and rewriting rules for their own benefit. A law academic advised the ACT-Accelerator Partnership, a global initiative tackling COVID-19, on the use of personal data. Dr Ciara Staunton, a Senior Lecturer in Law, led on the data governance framework, with support from Dr Joelle Grogan. Millions of stateless people cannot get COVID-19 vaccines, including Palestinian and Rohingya communities, according to a report by the Global COVID-19 Consortium, a body set up by the University-backed Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion.
Looking ahead, a Middlesex-backed report warned the government that the NHS could be pushed to “breaking point” by a combination of COVID-19 and winter viruses. The Academy of Medical Sciences report was supported by Mariachiara Di Cesare. Effects of the pandemic include businesses planning major investment in IT, according to research by Dr Suman Lodh, a Senior Lecturer in Finance, with Brunel University and consultancy Continuous Improvements. Changes to the research world were evident at the Research Students’ Summer Conference. This online event, with technology that allowed spontaneous conversations, featured papers, videos, posters and performance by researchers from Middlesex’s campuses and partners.
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