by admin | 23rd September 2021
The world is a complex place that cannot be simply understood through the study of one system or working within one sector. In 2015, the United Nations released the Sustainable Development Goals, a set of 17 inter-related global goals that provide a blueprint for...
by admin | 23rd September 2021
A recent large-scale international study identified that 31% of students screened positive for at least one common mental health disorder in the past year (Auerbach et al., 2018). As the number of students reporting mental distress and seeking support from University...
by admin | 23rd September 2021
by admin | 23rd September 2021
The future power system will be characterised by increasing amounts of intermittent renewables, distributed resources and consumer participation. As a result, market agents and operators will face a more complex, volatile and unpredictable electricity market....
by admin | 23rd September 2021
The CASE PhD studentship project will develop a measurement system for evaluating return on investment (ROI) of quality improvement projects in mental health services of the South London and Maudsley (SLaM) NHS Foundation Trust. Quality improvement in healthcare has...
by admin | 23rd September 2021
This project is concerned with the impact of technological changes on trade governance. Multilateral trade rules were originally designed to facilitate trade in goods in the 1940s and last updated to cover trade in services in the early 1990s. New digital technologies...
by admin | 23rd September 2021
The freshness of packaged foods is estimated by the “use-by” date that appears on the packaging. This date, however, does not reflect the actual state of freshness of the consumable, because it is dependent on, in addition to formulation and packaging, the storage and...
by admin | 23rd September 2021
Protected areas (PAs) are a key tool for combating extreme rates of biodiversity loss. We have almost reached the 17% of terrestrial and inland water areas which Target 11 of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) mandates should be conserved in ‘effectively and...
by admin | 23rd September 2021
The Settlement Movement in England began in the early 1880s to provide a space where an active partnership could be developed, where the university educated ‘well-to-do’ could live within poor communities to develop a social solidarity in order to build a better...
by admin | 23rd September 2021
In spite of a wide range of diversity and inclusion reviews, women remain systematically under-represented in academia, with fewer progressing from PhD to Professor than their (overwhelmingly white) male colleagues. Even in the absence of a moral case for tackling...
by admin | 23rd September 2021
Mental distress in adolescence (aged 10-19) is a growing concern worldwide, with up to 20% of young people experiencing mental health problems within a given year. Globally, the burden of poor mental health is greatest for low and middle-income countries (LMICs) where...
by admin | 23rd September 2021
In the UK, approximately 1.18 million people are accessing secondary mental health services, of which 136,00 have a serious mental health condition, such as psychosis or bipolar disorder. These mental health disorders are some of the most commonly reported working-age...