• Advanced manufacturing & materials
• Energy
• Health & wellbeing
• Measurement science & enabling technologies
• Society & policy

Porous materials and metal-organic frameworks; polymeric materials; the nucleation, growth and separation of crystals; the applications of electrochemistry to coatings, metal ion recovery, water clean-up; alternative energy sources, such as biomass; engineering education and designing effective safety systems.

• Development of procedures to accurately and rapidly characterise thermodynamic phase behaviour for novel pharmaceutical products
• Investigating the relationship between human responses and major safety incidents in the process industries
• Novel approach to control pharmaceutical crystallisation using heterogeneous nucleation
• Nano-porous materials for removal of pollutants from water
• Development of a novel electrochemical supercapacitor for energy devices
• Design of Functional Chitosan Films: Antimicrobial and Heavy Metal Capture Applications

Students are enrolled in the Postgraduate Certificate in Researcher Professional Development Programme (PgCert RPD)