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  Professor Jemma Wadham
Post(s): Professor in Glaciology/Director of the Cabot Institute, School of Geographical Sciences
Areas of expertise: Geochemistry & hydrology of Arctic & Alpine regions. Hydrochemistry of polythermal glaciers and chemical weathering mechanisms...
Keywords: geochemistry | hydrology | Arctic regions | alpine regions | glaciers | subglacial runoff
 
  Professor Thorsten Wagener
Post(s): Professor of Water and Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering
Areas of expertise: Hydrology analyses the movement and storage of water in complex environmental systems in which humans are important actors....
Keywords: hydrology | water resources management | floods | droughts | climate change impacts | environmental predictions | uncertainty and risk | higher education (in water-subjects especially)
 
  Professor Richard Wall
Post(s): Professor of Zoology, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of expertise: My interests largely concern the ecology and control of economically important arthropods (flies, fleas, lice, mites and...
Keywords: flies | lice | mites | maggots | fleas | pests | ectoparasites | cow dung
 
  Dr Lynne Walling
Post(s): Reader in Pure Mathematics, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: I am a number theorist, working with quadratic forms and various types of automorphic forms. I use automorphic forms to get...
Keywords: number theory | quadratic forms | automorphic forms | modular forms
 
  Professor Xiaojun Wang
Post(s): Professor of Operations Management, Department of Management
Areas of expertise: My research interests include sustainable supply chain, innovations in operations management, risk assessment, e-business...
Keywords: Supply Chain Management | Operations Management | sustainable development | Eco-design | food traceability | risk assessment | Fuzzy Logic
 
  Dr Mohammed Wanous
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Engineering Management, Department of Civil Engineering
Areas of expertise: Research interests include applications of Artificial Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic and Neurofuzzy Logic on various decisions...
Keywords: artificial neural networks | Fuzzy Logic | Neurofuzzy Logic | value systems | sustainable development | competitive tendering practice in civil engineering
 
  Professor Clea Warburton
Post(s): Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Head of School, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: My research is currently focussed on the neural basis of recognition memory, our ability to recognise whether objects are...
Keywords: memory | recognition | recognition memory | episodic memory | objects | ability to learn | neurotransmitter systems
 
  Professor Bogdan Warinschi
Post(s): Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science
Areas of expertise: I am interested in security and cryptography; more specifically, the connections between symbolic and computational security...
Keywords: security | cryptography
 
  Dr Paul Warr
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Areas of expertise: Paul's current research covers the front-end aspects of Software (Reconfigurable) Radio and diversity-exploiting communication...
Keywords: radio frequency | Software-defined radio | cognative radio | Linear amplification | radio receivers | analogue integrated circuits | Cellular Neural Networks | electronics
 
  Dr Liz Washbrook
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Methods for Education, School of Education
Areas of expertise: My research interests cover a broad range of topics around the theme of children and families. I am currently working on...
Keywords: beliefs | behaviours and attitudes in educational attainment | children and families | fertility outcomes & housing transitions | children's cognitive & socio-emotional development | effects of policy environment & time periods on social mobility
 
  Professor Duncan Wass
Post(s): Professor of Catalysis, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: Our research interests are in the area of homogeneous catalysis using organometallic and coordination compounds. Catalysis...
Keywords: homogeneous catalysis | organometallic compounds | coordination compounds | catalysis | molecules | catalytic activity | clean chemical activity
 
  Dr Debbie Watson
Post(s): Reader in Childhood Studies, School for Policy Studies
Areas of expertise: I am interested in conceptual constructions of social and emotional wellbeing for children and how adult models of wellbeing...
Keywords: Children's wellbeing | sociology of childhood | children | social and emotional wellbeing | performance methodologies | learning support | interprofessional working | creative research methods
 
  Dr Matthew Watson
Post(s): Reader in Natural Hazards, School of Earth Sciences
Areas of expertise: My research involves inversion of remotely-sensed data to retrieve physical parameters of volcanic plumes and clouds over...
Keywords: volcanic plumes | volcanoes | volcanic clouds | volcanic ash | volcanic sulphur dioxide | volcanic aerosols | geoengineering
 
  Professor Paul Weaver
Post(s): Professor in Lightweight Structures, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Areas of expertise: My expertise lies in design and analysis of lightweight structures, particularly those constructed from composite materials....
Keywords: composite structures | bicycle frame design | Stiffness tailoring | buckling | lightweight structures | aircraft wing design | rotor blade design | Morphing composites
 
  Dr Claire Weeks
Post(s): Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Companion Animal Studies
Areas of expertise: I have over 30 years experience of poultry welfare, which I evaluate by measuring their environment in house and during transport...
Keywords: poultry | animal welfare | animal behaviour | improving animal transport | husbandry systems | literature reviews
 
  Dr Ian Wei
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Medieval European History, Department of History (Historical Studies)
Areas of expertise: I work on intellectual culture and the social history of ideas in Western Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries....
Keywords: intellectual culture | social history | Western Europe | medieval society | theology | ideas
 
  Professor Philip Welch
Post(s): Professor of Pure Mathematics, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: Axiomatic Set Theory: strong axioms of infinity & large cardinals; interactions with the determinacy assumptions on infinite...
Keywords: axiomatic set theory | mathematical logic | set theory | mathematical philosophy | models of computation
 
  Professor Jutta Weldes
Post(s): PGR Education Director, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: My major areas of research are 1) international relations theory, particularly as applied to the critical analysis of cold...
Keywords: international politics | US foreign policy | popular culture and world politics | May 4th 1970 at Kent State
 
  Dr Caragh Wells
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
Areas of expertise: My research interests include: The post-war Spanish novel; Contemporary Urban fiction in post-war Spain and Catalonia; Women’s...
Keywords: post-war Spanish novel | fiction in post-war Spain | women’s writing | narrative theory | European novel | digressive fiction | Catalan literary criticism
 
  Professor Celia Wells
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, University of Bristol Law School
Areas of expertise: I research and write mainly in criminal law with a particular specialism in corporate criminal liability. I am the author...
Keywords: criminal law | corporate criminal liability | organisational theory of corporate criminal liability | corporate criminal responsibility
 
  Dr Gavin Welsh
Post(s): Reader in Renal Cell Biology, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: I am currently a Reader in Renal Cell Biology in Bristol Renal. My research interests centre on renal cell signalling and...
Keywords: renal cell biology | kidneys | renal cell signalling | disease | renal disease | Nephrotic Syndrome
 
  Professor Nicky Welton
Post(s): Professor in Statistical and Health Economic Modelling, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: Research Interests: 1. Bayesian statistical methods for combining evidence from different sources, and assessing evidence...
Keywords: Bayesian statistics | toxoplasmosis | breast cancer screening | genetic testing | smoking | cluster randomised trial | mixed treatment comparison
 
  Dr Maximilian Werner
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, School of Earth Sciences
Areas of expertise: My research centres on earthquake processes and seismic hazard and risk assessment. My goals are to better understand earthquake...
Keywords: earthquakes | seismic hazard and risk | forecasting and model validation | human induced earthquakes | resilience | natural disasters | natural hazards and risks | uncertainty quantification
 
  Dr Colin Western
Post(s): Reader in Chemistry, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: My research work concentrates on applying the very powerful techniques provided by laser spectroscopy to a variety of molecules,...
Keywords: laser spectroscopy | molecules | transient molecules | laser system | nuclei | hyperfine structure | spectroscopy
 
  Professor Fiona Whitaker
Post(s): Professor of Earth Sciences, School of Earth Sciences
Areas of expertise: My research focuses on carbonate sedimentology and diagenesis, integrating field studies of modern environments with numerical...
Keywords: carbonate diagenesis | hydrogeology of islands | reactive transport modelling | dolomite | groundwater geochemistry
 
  Professor Martin White
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, Department of Theatre
Areas of expertise: Theatre history, particularly English of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Modern theatre. Theatre policy.
Keywords: theatre | drama | repertoire | theatre history | performance | theatre research | regional theatre | Shakespearean drama
 
  Dr Steve White
Post(s): Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: When a blockage builds up in an artery (atherosclerosis) the blood moves faster through the restricted portion of the artery....
Keywords: endothelial erosion | cardiovascular disease | Heart attack | vascular cells | atherosclerosis | Gene thransfer | Functional Genomics | endothelial response to shear stress
 
  Professor Andrew Whitelaw
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: I have 30 years of clinical experience with sick newborn infants and have worked on the mechanisms and treatment of brain...
Keywords: newborn brain injury | newborn intensive care | experimental brain treatment | brain haemorrhage | hydrocephalus
 
  Dr Nick Whiteley
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: I am interested in Monte Carlo methods, especially sequential methods and their application to a variety of dynamical inference...
Keywords: Monte Carlo computation | Bayesian modelling and analysis | statistical signal processing | time series
 
  Professor Mark Wickham-Jones
Post(s): Professor of Political Science, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: My expertise is based around Labour party politics over the last fifty or so years. My research concerns the party's economic...
Keywords: British politics | New Labour | economic policy | electoral politics and General Election 2017 | political party organisation | Labour party foreign policy | gender and public policy | women's representation in parliament
 
  Dr Karoline Wiesner
Post(s): Reader in Complexity Sciences, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: I like to summarize my research as follows: Nature stores and processes information - it computes. Scientists have successfully...
Keywords: complex systems | quantum information
 
  Professor Stephen Wiggins
Post(s): Professor of Applied Mathematics, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: Mathematical methods for detecting and describing chaotic phenomena, local and global bifurcation theory, homoclinic and...
Keywords: chaos | nonlinearity | transport | mixing | dynamics | computation
 
  Dr Alastair Wilkins
Post(s): Reader in Neurology, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: My current projects are: • Role of the peroxisome in axonal degeneration and progressive MS • Degenerative ataxias...
Keywords: multiple sclerosis | axonal degeneration | degenerative ataxias | stem cell neuroprotection | progressive multiple sclerosis
 
  Mr Alistair Williams
Post(s): Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: I have worked in diabetes research since 1986, when I joined the group led by Professor Edwin Gale at St. Bartholomew’s hospital....
Keywords: diabetes | Insulin | insulin antibodies | childhood onset diabetes | autoantibody measurement | pancreatic imaging | pancreas size in diabetes
 
  Professor Ann Williams
Post(s): Professor of Experimental Oncology, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Areas of expertise: -Dynamism in transcription factor function in response to microenvironmental stress provides new avenues for selective targeting...
Keywords: key events in early colorectal carcinogenesis | tumour microenvironment for gene expression & function | chemoprevention | Regulation of apoptosis. | NF-kappaB/Bcl-3 regulation in colorectal carcinogenesis, | Bag-1
 
  Dr Caroline Williams
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies, Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
Areas of expertise: I am a historian of colonial Spanish America, and I have a particular interest in the colonization of indigenous groups on...
Keywords: colonial Spanish America | colonization of indigenous groups | Atlantic World | Portuguese America | indigenous peoples | Spanish colonization | Miskito Coast
 
  Dr Beth Williamson
Post(s): Reader in History of Art, Department of History of Art (Historical Studies)
Areas of expertise: I have published on Italian painting of the fourteenth and fifteenth-centuries, and on Netherlandish painting of the fifteenth-century,...
Keywords: Medieval art | Medieval architecture | Virgin Mary | iconography | Marian liturgy | saints | sanctity | devotional imagery
 
  Dr Emma Williamson
Post(s): Reader in Gender Based Violence, School for Policy Studies
Areas of expertise: I have worked on a range of projects relating to gender and violence over the past 15 years, most notably in relation to...
Keywords: Domestic Abuse Perpetrators | domestic violence | sexual violence | support needs | violence against women | gender inequality | state responses to gendered violence | research ethics
 
  Professor Chris Willis
Post(s): Professor of Organic Chemistry, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: Natural products isolated from bacteria, fungi and plants from both marine and terrestrial environments are a rich source...
Keywords: natural products | bacteria | fungi | plants | compounds | biosynthetic pathways | enzyme mechanisms | amino acids
 
  Professor Chris Willmore
Post(s): Professor of Sustainability and Law, University of Bristol Law School
Areas of expertise: Carried out research for the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice looking at the use of expert, notably forensic science,...
Keywords: rights of way | countryside law | common land | environmental law | law and science interface | expert evidence | forensic science evidence
 
  Professor Deborah Wilson
Post(s): Professor of Public Policy and Management and Faculty Research Director, Department of Management
Areas of expertise: I do research within an economics framework on incentives, competition and performance management in the public sector, primarily...
Keywords: performance management | public sector incentives | education outcomes
 
  Professor Frank Windmeijer
Post(s): Professor of Econometrics, Department of Economics
Areas of expertise: My main research interests are microeconometrics, panel data econometrics and economics of health care. Current research...
Keywords: microeconometrics | panel data econometrics | economics of health care | likelihood estimators | health care productivity | technology diffusion
 
  Professor Michael Wisnom
Post(s): Professor of Aerospace Structures, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Areas of expertise: I am the Director of the ACCIS research centre. My interests are mainly concerned with failure of composites and the application...
Keywords: failure of composites | composites | finite element analysis | failure mechanisms | fatigue | failure mechanisms | progressive damage modelling | failure criteria
 
  Dr Ross Woods
Post(s): Reader in Water & Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering
Areas of expertise: I am a hydrologist and I study the water cycle. In particular, I have worked extensively on floods, droughts, the effects...
Keywords: water | hydrology | floods | droughts | climate change impacts
 
  Dr James Wookey
Post(s): Reader in Geophysics, School of Earth Sciences
Areas of expertise: My research is in theoretical and observational seismology with an emphasis on seismic anisotropy. This property - the variation...
Keywords: seismology | seismic anisotropy | mantle | the Earth | mantle
 
  Professor Trevor Wooley
Post(s): Professor of Pure Mathematics, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: My research is centred on the Hardy-Littlewood (circle) method, a method based on the use of Fourier series that delivers...
Keywords: Hardy-Littlewood method | Diophantine equations | arithmetic geometry | arithmetic harmonic analysis | exponential sums | Waring's problem | analytic number theory
 
  Professor Dek Woolfson
Post(s): Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: The primary basic research interest of the group is the informational aspect of the protein-folding problem; that is, how...
Keywords: bionanotechnology | protein design | protein-folding problem | protein | bioinformatics | protein sequence | protein design
 
  Professor Diana Worrall
Post(s): Professor, School of Physics
Areas of expertise: I carry out research in astrophysics and lecture in physics and astronomy. My primary research interests are in extragalactic...
Keywords: extragalactic astrophysics | x-ray astronomy
 
  Dr Yvonne Wren
Post(s): Senior Research Speech & Language Therapist/Senior Research Fellow, Bristol Dental School
Areas of expertise: I am Director of Bristol Speech and Language Therapy Research Unit at North Bristol NHS Trust. Our focus is on carrying out...
Keywords: speech development | language development | speech disorder | language disorder | communication needs | cleft lip and palate
 
  Dr Jane Wright
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, Department of English
Areas of expertise: My research interests span the nineteenth century but focus on Victorian literature, and especially poetry. I am currently...
Keywords: Victorian literature | Victorian poetry | literary afterlives | representation of gender | representation of sexuality | literature and visual culture
 
  Dr Andrew Wyatt
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: I have researched and written about the resurgence of identity politics in India in the last two decades. The intersection...
Keywords: Indian politics | economic reform | economic globalisation | India elections | caste and politics | BJP
 
  Professor Paul Wyatt
Post(s): Professorial Teaching Fellow, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: Asymmetric Synthetic Methods We look at novel ways to prepare single enantiomers. Although the compounds themselves may...
Keywords: asymmetric synthesis | single enantiomers | compounds | symmetry elements | properties of molecules | more exotic symmetry elements | Photoactive Surface Science | detergents
 
  Dr Vikki Wylde
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Musculoskeletal Health Services Research, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: I am currently a Research Associate working on the 5-year NIHR-funded RESTORE programme, which aims to improve patient’s...
Keywords: patient's experience | health care | joint replacement | post-surgical pain | chronic pain | quantitative sensory testing
 
  Professor David Wynick
Post(s): Professor of Molecular Medicine, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: Peripheral sensory neuropathy and neuropathic pain
Keywords: galanin | nerve injury | neuropathic pain | neuropeptide | NeuroTargets | pain