Above: Photo: David Holbrook Photography
NEW COURSES AND PRACTICE AT OUR HEART
The Faculty continues to expand its offer, with new programmes validated in the areas of digital forensics, user experience design, and cognitive and clinical neuroscience, and with a number of programmes being reviewed and strengthened. With laboratory-based teaching proving difficult, simulated environments and home kits have been used for experimental work. Examples include remote control of robots, the Multisim online circuit simulator for engineering programmes, and virtual labs to support natural sciences teaching built using Labster, Learning Science from McGraw Hill, and PowerLab. Students could access the University’s specialist software on their own devices using Splashtop software. Other new tools include Gorilla, which allows students to host behavioural experiments online. Students could also develop hands-on, practice-based science skills in Biology, Design Engineering and Mathematics and Computer Science after receiving kits to help them develop these skills from their homes.
A mentorship scheme for MSc in Sport Performance Analysis students from ethnically diverse backgrounds was set up in conjunction with England Rugby, England Football, Lawn Tennis Association, England and Wales Cricket Board and the English Institute of Sport.
Students from all years across our Sports undergraduate degrees benefitted from our Annual Student Research Conference.
SUCCESS AND RECOGNITION FOR OUR WORK
Alumni successes from this year include Middlesex Mental Health Nursing graduate Cyrille Tchatchet being one of 29 athletes who competed in the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Refugee Team at the Tokyo Olympics. The weightlifter’s coach is programme leader in Middlesex
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MSc in Strength and Conditioning (Distance Education) and London Sports Institute Technical Tutor Shyam Chavda.
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) recently recognised Professor Richard Bayford, Professor of Biophysics and Engineering, for his significant contribution to peer review activities during the last academic year (2019/20) and achieving a top 6% ranking among EPSRC college members.
RESEARCH AND KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE
Research from the Faculty helps both people and the planet. Senior Lecturer in Psychology Dr Fabia Franco has continued to research how musical games that use robotic assisted technologies could be integrated into older people’s care. This year Dr Lisa Marzano, Associate Professor of Psychology, has continued to explore the factors leading to suicide in several settings. With funding from Highways England Dr Marzano is researching how to reduce the number of suicides on England’s roads, while another project, funded by Public Health England, is exploring coastal suicide.
An analysis of how climate change adaptation policy affects social justice is being carried out by Dr Sally Priest, Associate Professor and Head of the Flood Hazard Research Centre. She is one of the academics working on the SOLARIS project, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council/JPI. The Flood Hazard Research Centre undertook work for Collingwood Environmental Planning under an Environment Agency Communities and Flood and Coastal Risk Management research and development framework, and published a report on Working with Communities. This year the University also established a contract research lab that will generate income in the areas of proteomics and environmental sampling.
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