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Examples of research by Fellows
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Alex Jeffrey — Access has a Sense of Place (Professor Alex Jeffrey)
As Fellows at Emmanuel we often find ourselves dividing our time between different professional activities: teaching, administration and research. Term-time is, as would be expected, a time of frantic teaching and pastoral care; vacations offer an opportunity to research and reflect; across both we plan future research projects and teaching courses. Over the decade that I have been fortunate enough to be part of the college one word has brought these disparate activities together: access.
Amy Orben – Digital Connection
Technologies have become a staple component of twenty-first century social life. Social media platforms connect people around the globe, modern video games stream live events to millions of users and video calls help those experiencing ‘social distancing’ to keep in touch with friends and family.
Alex Archibald – Change is in the Air
The future is uncertain. But we know that if we don’t think now about the legacy of our actions we won’t enjoy the prosperous future we deserve.
Bill Broadhurst – The Answer Lies in the Soil
Writing this article in the middle of the COVID-19 crisis, it might seem churlish to ask readers to focus their attention on another impending healthcare apocalypse. However, my academic research has applications in one such area: the growing worldwide problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Dennis Lo – Messengers of Health
DNA molecules released by tissues deep within our bodies allow doctors to take a non-invasive glimpse into our health. This technology holds promise for early and safer detection of disorders, even from before birth, and throughout life.
Emma Mackinnon – A Promise of Human Rights
Human rights are something we all have simply by virtue of our existence. Natural and universal, they are timeless.
Kate Spence – Ancient Towns on the Nile
The past shapes our lives in so many ways. Identities, habits and responses are forged in relation to it, no matter how much we think our eyes are on the future.
John Miles – Shared Transport
"The hallmark of a developed society is not that even the poor have cars. It is that even the affluent use public transport".
Chris Burgoyne – Concrete and Bone: Life as a Structural Engineer
Structural engineering is sometimes described as the Second Oldest Profession; the human race has been building homes and bridges from time immemorial.
Anurag Agarwal – Aeroacoustics: Melody & Cacophony
Aeroacoustics is the science of sound induced by the flow of air; initial research in the field was motivated by the need to reduce aircraft noise.
Alex Jeffrey – Making States, Drinking Coffee
Buses rumble past the roadside café where our meeting is taking place. The waiter brings over two copper trays of Bosnian coffee: on each an ornate coffee pot (džezva) sits alongside a cup (fildzan) and a cluster of sugar lumps.
Laura Moretti – Japanese Early Modern Texts
Kyoto in the 1660s: here the thriving economy of early modern Japan had become the cradle of a robust consumer society.
Chris Hunter – Programmable Plastics
Self-organisation is an intrinsic property of matter. Take any collection of molecules, and under the right conditions they will form an ordered arrangement.
Spotlights
Emer – Time Travel
In the four years I spent at Emmanuel, I was lucky enough to receive three grants to travel during the summer: once to Athens and the Peloponnese, then to Sicily, and finally to central and northern Greece.
Library Extension & Refurbishment
When the new refurbished Library opened in 2012, the number of reader spaces increased from 60 to 138. The building is very popular and well used, and has grown considerably in size.
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