Example Projects
Below is a brief list of projects that Research IT have assisted with, showcasing the range of development solutions that they can offer across digital humanities, health sciences, visualisations, interactive games, and more.
Digital Humanities
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Building shared futures from photographic remains: Kenyan visual heritage and urban life
Building Shared Futures is a collaboration between the University of Bristol, Bristol Archives, University of Nairobi, Technical University of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology and National Museums of Kenya. British and Kenyan colleagues are working together to explore the role that photographic archives can play in conversations about the history and future of Nairobi.
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Historical Photographs of China
Historical Photographs of China, led by Professor Robert Bickers, is a project dedicated to collecting and digitising largely unseen historical photographs of China and publishing them on a specialised web platform.
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Manuscript Pamphleteering in Early Stuart England
Manuscript Pamphleteering in Early Stuart England (MPESE) brings together bibliographical data, texts (transcriptions) and manuscript images to help students and scholars access the rich world of early Stuart handwritten political discourse.
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The First Century of the Irish Exchequer
A Jean Golding Institute funded project that used data science tools and techniques to analyse an English-language translation of a medieval Latin document
Health Sciences
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FITNET-NHS
Development of a system that delivers online CBT for the FITNET-NHS study.
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OpenGWAS
Development of a complex website for the OpenGWAS database.
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Ebola Virus Modelling
Programming support to aid the rapid development of tools to sequence and follow the genetic development of the Ebola virus.
Visualisations
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Climate Archive
The Climate Archive project aimed to develop a completely new, open-source application to visualise climate model data.
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Map Your Bristol
Development of an online mapping tool and mobile app for Bristol’s history, heritage, and cultural sector.
Interactive Games / Education Tools
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Eagle Inspired Engineering
The Eagle Inspired Engineering project revolved around the creation of an online platform and accompanying web game showcasing the work of the Bio-Inspired Flight Lab.
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Eyetrain iPad App
Development of an eye control game/therapy for children with visual field loss.
Other Bespoke Applications / Web Tools
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SAFER
Development of an easy-to-use smartphone app that can be used by field engineers to capture information about a school building whilst they are carrying out assessments on-site.
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TeMMPo
TeMMPo (Text Mining for Mechanism Prioritisation) is a web-based tool to enable researchers to identify the quantity of literature suggesting specific mechanisms between an exposure and outcome.
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Charlemagne: A European Icon
Charlemagne: A European Icon is a network project examining the ways in which the different linguistic cultures of medieval Europe appropriated Charlemagne material from chronicle and epic.
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Irish Self-Harm Register
IT consultancy to support a contracted review of the National Self-Harm Registry Ireland. In 2017, Ireland’s Health Service Executive (HSE) tendered for an external review of the National Self-Harm Registry Ireland.
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Sensing Spaces
Collecting sensory memories from NHS hospitals.