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I am a Senior Research Fellow within the Department of Public Health and Policy and Deputy Director for the CLEAN-Air(Africa) Global Health Research Group funded by the NIHR.

My primary research focus is to asses the potential of clean cooking intervention to reduce exposure to household air pollution (HAP) from biomass fuel use and improve health, gender equality and the environment. I am particularly interested in the design and conduct of evaluations of environmental interventions and programmes in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

I am the Principal Investigator of the Rwanda Centre of the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) trial, an international multi-centre study assessing the health benefits across the lifespan of an LPG stove and fuel intervention.

Before joining the University of Liverpool, I worked in the Environmental Health Group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where I conducted various randomised controlled trial to assess the effectiveness of household water treatment technologies in LMICs..

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I am Research Scientist at the CHIL Lab which brings together experts from the NHS (Merseycare Foundation Trust), University of Liverpool, Local government, Charities and other industry partners to tackle local and global health challenges using civic data and technology. My role provides leadership and hands-on expertise in data science and AI (NLP) on health data Science projects guiding them from ideation, conception and feasibility assessments to proof of concept, design and implementation. Previously, I worked as an NLP Research Scientist at NEC Laboratories Europe (Heidelberg), where I worked on Open Information Extraction in the healthcare space.

Besides biomedical Information extraction, my research interests span applications and topics pertaining to Machine learning and Natural language processing (NLP). I have particularly worked on problems such as information extraction, text generation and others with an objective of simplify the way humans understand and communicate through written text. I’m keen on Representation learning, Few-shot & Zero-shot learning, Multi-task learning, Natural Language Generation, Non-autoregressive language generation, Entity recognition, Prompt based learning, Information retrieval, Multi-label text classification etc.personal site
I am also a member of the the ECR supported by the AIM-RSF under the Alan Turing Institute.

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Dr Abass awarded his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Liverpool in 2011. Since he joined the University of Liverpool in 2007, he worked exclusively for Russell Group universities either in teaching or research (University of Liverpool & Cardiff University). He started his academic career in 1999, just after he graduated with a First-Class BSc Honours degree in Production Engineering and Mechanical Design (top of his class). Dr Abass joined the School of Engineering at the University of Liverpool as a lecturer in Biomedical Engineering in August 2018.

Dr Abass’ research projects contribute to a cohesive research plan focused on ocular topography and multi-scale modelling. In his engagements as a PhD, MSc and MPhil supervisor and examiner, Dr Abass extensively focuses on the link between the research activity and market need. With his experience in working with healthcare business partners in the UK and overseas, Dr Abass aligns his research to apply digital-based technology to ocular applications. Having access to an effective digital twin of a real-life ocular application allows for testing of either new or high-risk existing technologies and treatments on the digital twin in a safe environment at a much lower cost with no risk of infection or damage on the physical twin.

In his teaching, Dr Abass puts the focus on the students’ learning outcomes through intensive use of deep learning techniques and shows his students how to relate new ideas to prior knowledge and everyday experiences. He stresses the need for evidence to support conclusions and examine the logic of his students’ argument. As an academic lead in the School of Engineering Employability Group, Staff-Student Liaison Committee Convener, Chartered Engineer (CEng MIMechE), and as a fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), he has special experience in active learning where students get involved in the learning process in a Student-Centred Learning model.

Dr Abass (ORCID iD) uses his supervision to educate his students on how to be independent learners, develop their research skills quickly and requiring less support gradually towards the end of their work. Several of Dr Abass’ UG students are either first or co-authors in Q1 journal papers benefited from their projects. This success is used to encourage new students to perform at a high standard and achieve an outstanding level of success.
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If you are a student looking for a PhD opportunity in a Russell Group university, you may like to have a look at the following PhD projects: Digital soft contact lenses design and validation , Innovating an anti-tilt human eye topographer .

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I am a qualitative and mixed-methods researcher, currently working on the 'Ways to Wellbeing' study, which is supported by the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration North West Coast (ARC NWC). I am particularly interested in wellbeing, communities and social prescribing.

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My research explores how literature has engaged with science from the nineteenth century to the present, with a particular focus on drama, environmental thought, and North American literary cultures.

My first monograph Endless Forms: Heredity in American Literature, 1890–1931 (2026) draws on extensive archival research to examine how evolutionary science informed literary experimentation across fiction and drama, showing how theatre functioned as a crucial site for thinking through heredity at the turn of the twentieth century. It concentrates on four American writers: Henry James, W. E. B. Du Bois, Edith Wharton, and Elizabeth Robins and situates their lesser-known and canonical works within a transnational theatrical culture shaped by realist and naturalist drama (by figures such as Émile Zola, Henrik Ibsen, and George Bernard Shaw). Research from this project has appeared in journals and edited volumes including Modern Drama, The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Theatre, and Oxford Bibliographies in Victorian Literature.

My current research develops a broader interest in the environment. A major strand of this work, Imagining Alternative Arctics, rethinks literary writing about the Far North by foregrounding the work of Inuit writers, women, and writers of colour, and by examining the scientific and cultural institutions through which Arctic knowledge has circulated. This project has received support from the British Academy and forms the basis of ongoing collaborative research in environmental humanities. Related work extends these questions into other environmental and cultural contexts, including early-twentieth-century American folk drama and Native American cultures. Research in this area has been supported by fellowships at the Huntington Library and the British Library.

Alongside my research, I maintain an active interest in digital and public-facing humanities. Since 2018, I have been a core member and lead curator of LitHits, a digital reading project developed with Oxford University Innovations. LitHits introduces non-specialist readers to short literary works across periods and genres. The project is also the basis of a forthcoming anthology, The Ten Minute Book Club (Bodleian Publishing, 2026). You can sign up for our weekly newsletter by clicking here.

I am Director of the Literature and Science Hub Research Centre at the University of Liverpool, where I have been a Lecturer in English since 2023. I initially joined Liverpool as William Noble Research Fellow in 2021.

I welcome messages from prospective doctoral students interested in literature and science, environmental humanities, drama and performance, or related interdisciplinary approaches.

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I joined the University of Liverpool in September 2023 as a lecturer in World Cinema. I hold a PhD in Film Studies from King's College London. My research interests lie at the intersection of Middle East and North African cinema and socio-political history and culture. My first monograph, Egyptian Male Stars in Nasser's Era: Envisioning a Civic Identity, is currently under commission with the American University in Cairo Press was published in 2026. I am a Co-I on the AHRC project Unhousing Restitution (UNREST): African audiovisual heritage between displacement and return.

I would be happy to supervise students interested in any of the following research areas: North African and Middle Eastern Cinema, Postcolonial Cinemas, Stardom and Performance, Masculinity in Cinema.

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Azmil is a Clinical Senior Lecturer in Cerebrovascular Medicine (Stroke Medicine) at the University of Liverpool, and Honorary Consultant Stroke Neurologist at Whiston Hospital in Merseyside. He provides clinical care for people with stroke and TIA. He has also developed a broad portfolio of skills and experience resulting in scientific outputs of international quality. Particular clinical and research interests include stroke-heart syndrome and big data usage to improve care of people affected by stroke.

As a clinician-researcher, Azmil has published extensively on topics relating to stroke, and has authored original research, opinion pieces and editorials for journals such as Stroke; European Stroke Journal; European Heart Journal and Circulation.

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Working as a PGR Administrator to provide further support to the PGR Programme, specifically supporting our students situated in XJTLU, including supervisory meetings and progress assessments.
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In addition, assisting the PGR Admissions Administrator in processing applications. Providing support for current PGR students at ULMS.

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Prior to joining the University of Liverpool, I taught at University College London, Birkbeck College and Lancaster University. I am also a practising translator and most recently worked as an Arabic translator at the British Library for seven years.
I hold a PhD in Linguistics and MA in Language Studies from Lancaster University, and a BA in English Language from Ain Shams University in Egypt. I am also a Chartered Linguist with a DipTrans from CIOL Qualifications.

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My research interests include Arabic linguistics, sociolinguistics and translation. I am particularly interested in language and (trans)national identity, language and political ideologies, linguistic landscapes, Arabic transliteration and Arabizi, professional translation practices and standards in the UK, and translation in the cultural heritage sector. I welcome enquiries for postgraduate supervision on any of these topics.

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I began my architecture degree in 1998 and was immediately captured by the idea that architectural decisions should be driven by a strong ontological position rather than aesthetic opinion and rules of thumb. In 2001 I studied at the Ecole d’architecture, urbanisme and paysage in Lille where I was introduced to the philosophical texts of Gilles Deleuze. Three years later I qualified as a chartered architect and over the following eleven years I went on to design and run many schemes from inception to completion including a £32m refurbishment of a historic building in the heart of the NOMA estate, Manchester.

But across this period I kept these two worlds apart; practising architect in the day and Deleuzian scholar at night. My academic interest is now directed at bringing these two worlds together to answer a question that has troubled me since 1998 and continues to trouble so many planning and architectural students and practitioners alike: once I have developed a strong theoretical line of enquiry how do I make the transition to a design, a planning decision, a set of robust details, a physical building? In other words, how does one make philosophy useful to practitioners sat at their desks and drawing boards?

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I am a basic scientist with a research interest in Haemostasis & Thrombosis. Our groups main research focus utilizes strong clinical links within the NHS to improve patient care in critically ill patients, particularly in intensive care units (ICU). Our current research utilizes in vitro and in vivo models, along side clinical samples to comprehensively undertake translational research. Our main area of research is understanding the underlying pathological mechanisms which drive poor outcomes in ICU patients, with the aim of developing new diagnostic & prognostic tests, along with therapeutic interventions. Over the past decade, we have investigated the pathological role of circulating histones and neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) in critical illness, particularly in promoting coagulation activation, inflammation and multiple organ dysfunction. Disease areas of interest include sepsis, trauma and severe acute pancreatitis.

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Dr Amal Abu-Bakare is a lecturer in the politics of race and decolonial studies at the University of Liverpool and a Visiting Fellow at the University of South Wales’ International Centre for Policing & Security. She received her PhD in International Politics from Aberystwyth University. As a Saudi-born Nigerian dual citizen of Canada and the United Kingdom, Abu-Bakare is interested in all things international, particularly food and politics. Her current research profile remains centred on using anti-colonial IR theory to explore how North American and European political/security institutions continue to empower racially configured exclusions and terror.

Research Overview
Anti-colonial International Relations
Postcolonial Studies
Abolitionist Thought
Racialisation and Systemic racism in International Politics
Intersectional and Islamic feminist projects
Counterterrorism and CVE
Migration Security
Critical Security Studies
Art as a political medium

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I am a health geographer and data scientist with a PhD in human geography from Newcastle University, awarded in 2021. My doctoral research was funded through the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) Research Excellence Academy Studentship and the Newcastle University Overseas Research Studentship (NUORS). Prior to this, I completed a distinction-level MSc in Geographical Information Systems at the University of Leeds. These academic milestones have equipped me with advanced skills in spatial analysis, statistical modelling, and computational health geography, all of which underpin my evolving academic career.
My substantive research interest is determinants of and inequalities in health. This includes considerations of need for, access to and utilisation of healthcare services.

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My research agenda is grounded in a commitment to health equity and the recognition that biological, social, spatial, political, economic, and environmental forces are core to the production and distribution of health outcomes. I view health geography as not merely the study of disease patterns but as a critical framework to interrogate structural inequalities. My work spans three intersecting themes. First, population data enrichment: I combine various datasets using spatial joins, fuzzy matching, microsimulation, and table linkage. These techniques support the construction of rich population cohorts that can be used to explore spatial and temporal health trends over the life course. Second, statistical and spatial analysis (of big data): I apply cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses to characterise patterns of disease distribution, environmental exposures, and health service utilisation. My recent projects use multi-level modelling and geographically weighted regression to investigate the effects of place-based attributes on multimorbidity and chronic conditions. Third, machine learning for health research: I implement various supervised and unsupervised machine learning approaches to discover non-linear interactions and subtle patterns in large datasets. These methods augment theory-building and inform predictive modelling approaches. I code primarily in R and Python to ensure replicability and efficiency.

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I joined the University of Liverpool Management School as a university teacher in accounting. Prior to joining, I held a full time academic position as a doctoral associate in accounting and financial management at Sheffield University Management School where I was teaching financial accounting and auditing as well as completing my PhD in Management (with specialisation in auditing). Prior to joining academia, my background was in auditing with Ernst and Young. I passed the uniform CPA examination from California board of accountancy in the United States. I also hold a first-class degree in accounting from Ain Shams University in Egypt and a MSc. in Accounting, Organisations and Institutions from The London School of Economics and Political Science which was fully funded by the British Chevening Scholarship and HSBC UK.

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Daniel Acquah is a Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law at the School of Law and Social Justice and an Adjunct Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the University of Turku (UTU), Finland. Before joining the University of Liverpool, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies. He was also a Senior Research Associate at the Brussels School of Governance, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). He has master’s degrees in Criminology and Criminal Justice (Glasgow Graduate School of Law), in Law (UTU), and double doctoral degrees in Law (UTU and VUB).

Daniel’s research interest and teaching lie in the areas of European and international intellectual property law and policy, intellectual property and development issues, Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) (colonialism, decolonisation, postcolonialism), and issues of global justice (such as access to medicines and knowledge). He has collaborated on many Academy of Finland projects, including the eCoherence project (2013-2016), the TranSip project (2013-2016), the Constitutional Hedges of Intellectual Property project (2016-2020), and the Digital Disruption of Industry project funded by the Strategic Research Council at the Academy of Finland (2015-2021).

Daniel was recently awarded a prestigious Academy of Finland grant as an Academy Research Fellow (2022-2027 [Decision number 350302]). The project investigates the central role of technical assistance in the constitutionalizing of intellectual property norms in Africa.

Daniel has taught intellectual property law at universities in Finland and abroad, including the University of Turku, the University of Eastern Finland, the Hanken School of Economics, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and the University of Szeged, Hungary. He has been visiting faculty at leading intellectual property and EU law research sites such as the Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI), the University of Strasbourg, the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute, and the Brussels School of Governance. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences and seminars and has published in respected international and European intellectual property law journals and edited book volumes.

Research Overview
Daniel’s current research center’s on the central role of technical assistance in the constitutionalization of intellectual property norms in the Global South (with a specific focus on Africa at the moment). Broadly, Daniel's research interest lies in the areas of European and international intellectual property law and policy, intellectual property and development issues, Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) (colonialism, decolonization, postcolonialism), issues of global justice (such as access to medicines and knowledge), and state failure.

Concerning intellectual property, he has particular interest in the areas of patents, patents and pharmaceuticals, geographical indications, plant variety protection, traditional knowledge, and copyright.

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Alberto Acuto is part of the Signal Processing group and aligned with the Distributed Algorithms CDT acting as data scientist and research associate. He is involved in a number of projects including data and sensor fusion, artificial intelligence and decision making.

Alberto Acuto has achieved a PhD in Astrophysics and Cosmology at Liverpool John Moores University in 2022

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My scientific career began with my undergraduate degree in Biomedical Science which I completed in 2017. From this, I have worked in both clinical and research laboratories. I joined the University of Liverpool as a Clinical and Molecular Pharmacology Research Technician in 2018 where I also completed my PhD research in Pharmacology. My PhD research focused on investigating the immunogenicity of drug-protein adducts and the role of MHC in drug-induced hypersensitivity reactions. During this time, I worked in a proteomics laboratory where I discovered my enthusiasm for mass spectrometry which has led me to the Centre for Proteome Research.

My current role as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate involves the processing of samples for other research groups as part of the Liverpool Shared Research Facility (LIV-SRF). This includes sample preparation and LC-MS/MS projects such as protein identification and protein quantification. As well as this I am involved in a long-term mass spectrometry-based research project.