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1. MEMARC staff

   Find out more about the staff from the Mechanical Engnineering and Materials Research Centre. Read the MEMARC researchers profiles, publications and contact details.

2. About MEMARC

   The Mechanical Engineering and Materials Research Centre (MEMARC) specialises in fracture and contact mechanics, wave propagation in lattices and microstructures, thermal fatigue and thermal striping, materials development and processing, as well as dynamics and control systems. You can find out more about these research areas and the projects MEMARC are working on here.

3. Dynamics and control systems

   Researchers from MEMARC specialise in the area of dynamics and control systems.

4. Studying for your PhD at MEMARC

   The Mechanical Engineering and Materials Research Centre (MEMARC) have a number of PhD research opportunities. Find out more about postgraduate study within MEMARC.

5. PhD studies within the Research Centre for Brain and Behaviour

   PhD students within the Research Centre for Brain and Behaviour are working on interesting projects including: investigating pain in autism, the impact of taste, and pain mechanisms.

6. The Multisensory Mouth: An investigation into the Motivational, Cognitive and Emotional mechanisms, driving Oral behaviours

   This project focuses on the role olfactory and oral perception plays in shaping our consummatory experiences, preferences, and food seeking behaviours. Research into this area is important to health research, shaping understanding of individual differences in food selection, consumption, and other dietary behaviours.

7. Exploring the impact of creative transpersonal psychology practices in person-centred coaching

   Exploring the impact of creative transpersonal psychology practices in person-centred coaching

8. Ethnic mental health inequalities: Understanding whether discrimination causes psychosis among people from ethnic minority backgrounds

   This study aims to understand the causal relationship between discrimination and psychosis in ethnic minority populations in the UK.

9. Suicide crisis and self-harm attendance at A&E in autistic CYP

   Research suggests that autistic people are at a higher risk of suicide than non-autistic people. Figures show that up to 66% of autistic adults had thought about suicide during their lifetime (compared to 20% of non-autistic adults), and up to 35% had planned or attempted suicide.

10. Research Topics within the Research Centre for Brain and Behaviour

    Find out more about the specific areas of expertise within the Research Centre for Brain and Behaviour, including: applied psychology, cognitive psychology, sports psychology, affective neuroscience, psychopharmacology, animal behaviour, health psychology and mindfulness.