Collaboration in research: lessons learnt from the 7th International XR Conference
“If you want to run fast, run alone. But if you want to run far, run together”. This well-known proverb pretty much summarises my experience of doing a research degree at Manchester Met so far, as well as clearly…
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Tackling racial and gender bias in medical and fitness devices
Optical pulse detection ‘photoplethysmography’ (PPG) provides a means of low cost, unobtrusive and continuous cardiovascular monitoring that is used ubiquitously for decades in medical settings for blood oxygen monitoring and more recently popular in many wearable devices to monitor…
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Women Farmers and Public Policy
In the development of human history, women have played a fundamental role. In hunter-gatherer societies, women provided 60-80% of food, mainly through their gathering activities. Since the invention of agriculture, women have experimented with seed hybridisation, crop association, selection…
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Re-design of PPE for clinical use during the pandemic: sharing our research through the 2021 Images of Research Competition
This image was entered into Manchester Met’s Images of Research competition in 2021. It was taken in April 2021 at the height of the pandemic. The small photographs along the top of the shot show the technical services team…
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Collaged Hybrids Under Analysis
When I heard about the Images of Research 2021 competition, I was at the very start of my PhD journey. I had engaged with some of the training programme sessions about disseminating and communicating your research and I decided that…
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The leafcutters
Leafcutter ants are an iconic image of the rainforest, with their large leaf trails making the forest floor come alive. They mimic a busy highway, moving to the sound of nature. But why all the leaves? Leaf fragments are cut…
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Documenting Demolition: A Community Evidencing Project at Manchester’s LGBT+ Centre
This image was entered into Manchester Met’s Images of Research competition in 2020. It was taken in summer 2019 and it always makes me smile, not only because of the subjects’ happy faces, but as I distinctly remember taking the photo stood on a chair, wearing a sparkly dress having just run down Oxford Road from an industry awards night! All because I…
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The long trail ahead in stroke recovery
Rebecca’s image was named the Judge’s Choice in the postgraduate research category in the 2020 Images of Research competition.
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Research Profile: Helen Reynolds
Research Project Title: “Indicators of pack cohesiveness and degree of social integration in the African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) and its relevance to population management and recovery” The African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) also known as the painted dog,…
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