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  Professor James Ladyman
Post(s): Professor, Department of Philosophy
Areas of expertise: My background is in mathematics and theoretical physics, mathematical logic and philosophy. My main area of expertise is...
Keywords: philosophy | philosophy of science | philosophy of physics | metaphysics | philosophy of mathematics | science and religion | epistemology | philosophical logic
 
  Professor Judy Laing
Post(s): Professor of Mental Health Law, Rights and Policy, University of Bristol Law School
Areas of expertise: My main research and teaching interests are in medical & mental health law, tort law and criminal law & justice. My monograph...
Keywords: medical law | mental health law | mental health | tort law | criminal law | criminal justice | mentally disordered offenders
 
  Professor Helen Lambert
Post(s): Professor of Medical Anthropology, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: I am a social anthropologist who has lived and done research in India as well as the U.K. I am interested in social and cultural...
Keywords: medical anthropology | India | traditional medicine | health-seeking behaviour | STD/HIV prevention | public understanding of medicine | risk perception | genetic screening
 
  Dr Kurt Lampe
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, Department of Classics & Ancient History
Areas of expertise: I like to work at the interface of Greek and Latin literature with modern literature, philosophy, and critical theory. I...
Keywords: Greek literature | Latin literature | modern literature | critical theory | Greek tragedy | psychoanalysis | existentialism | pragmatism
 
  Dr Athene Lane
Post(s): Reader in Trials Research, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: Conduct of randomized controlled trials (RCT) in prostate cancer and barriers to recruitment in RCTs, the design and analyses...
Keywords: prostate cancer | randomised controlled trials | Helicobacter pylori
 
  Dr Jon Lane
Post(s): Reader in Cell Biology, School of Biochemistry
Areas of expertise: I am interested in the regulation programmed cell death in health and disease. My key research areas are apoptosis and autophagy,...
Keywords: apoptosis | autophagy | programmed cell death | caspases | secretory pathway | cytoskeleton | microtubules | biochemistry
 
  Dr Philip Langton
Post(s): Senior Teaching Fellow in Physiology, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: Funded by the British Heart Foundation, my laboratory conducts research on the physiology of small arterial blood vessels....
Keywords: physiology | small arterial blood vessels | muscular walls | small arteries | cardiovascular system | lymphatic drainage | arteries
 
  Professor Debbie Lawlor
Post(s): Professor of Epidemiology, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: My main areas of expertise are in the life course and genetic epidemiology of cardiovascular disease, insulin resistance...
Keywords: life course epidemiology | genetic epidemiology | cardiovascular disease | insulin resistance | diabetes | statistical methods
 
  Professor Jonathan Lawry
Post(s): Professor, Department of Engineering Mathematics
Areas of expertise: -Random sets and fuzzy sets -Label Semantics for Modelling Vague Concepts -Foundations of uncertain reasoning in Artificial...
Keywords: Fuzzy Logic | artificial intelligence
 
  Dr Daniel Lawson
Post(s): Sir Henry Dale Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Honorary Research Fellow, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: I am interested in the process of evolution, in understanding the patterns that arise from it and how we can learn about...
Keywords: inference | modelling | complex systems | stochastic models | ecology | evolution | markov chain monte carlo
 
  Professor Sally Lawson
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: I have studied the sensory nervous system, that is the first nerve cells that carry information towards the brain about non-painful...
Keywords: pain | chronic pain | spontaneous pain | primary afferent neurons | sensory nerve cells | sensory nervous system | electrophysiology | immunocytochemistry
 
  Professor Ian Learmonth
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: Research interests include: factors contributing to stability at impaction grafting; design features influencing mechanical...
Keywords: hip replacement | replacement arthroplasty
 
  Dr George Leckie
Post(s): Reader in Social Statistics, School of Education
Areas of expertise: Research interests Methodological interests in multilevel modelling include: mixture models; variance models; cross-classified...
Keywords: multilevel modelling | models | school league tables | measuring school effectiveness | the quality of marking of educational tests | social and ethnic segregation among schools
 
  Dr Ute Leonards
Post(s): Reader in Neuropsychology, School of Psychological Science
Areas of expertise: My main research interests lie in the Cognitive Neurosciences, in particular the investigation of the neural mechanisms underpinning...
Keywords: visual perception and action | visual attention | joint attention and action | ageing and dementia | eye movements | human-robot interaction | neuropsychology
 
  Professor Ruth Levitas
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: I am a social and political theorist with expertise in contemporary politics and the history of social and political thought....
Keywords: social exclusion | utopianism | William Morris
 
  Professor Stephan Lewandowsky
Post(s): Chair in Cognitive Psychology, School of Psychological Science
Areas of expertise: I am a cognitive scientist with an interest in computational modeling. That is, I try to understand how the mind works by...
Keywords: misinformation and memory updating | acceptance of science | models of memory | skepticism vs. denial | computer simulations | General Election 2017
 
  Dr Cherry Lewis
Post(s): Research Fellow, School of Earth Sciences
Areas of expertise: I have an academic background in geology and geochemistry and worked in the exporation side of the oil industry. My...
Keywords: history of geology | discovery of radioactivity | James Parkinson of Parkinson's disease | public understanding of science | age of the Earth | Arthur Holmes | Lord Kelvin | geology of Leonardo da Vinci
 
  Dr Paul Lewis-Smith
Post(s): Senior Research Fellow in French, Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
Areas of expertise: My principal interests are fiction, theatre, the works of Cervantes and intellectual history. My publications include research...
Keywords: spanish golden age | Cervantes | fiction | theatre
 
  Dr Mei Li
Post(s): Research Officer (Laboratory Facilitator), School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: Microemulsion, liquid crystal and block copolymer template-directed morphosynthesis of inorganic-organic hybrid nanoscale...
Keywords: microemulsion | protocells
 
  Professor Nicholas Lieven
Post(s): Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Areas of expertise: Research is primarily concerned with aircraft vibration and fatigue. The interest in this area extends to the affect of...
Keywords: aircraft dynamics | aircraft damage and prognostics
 
  Professor Stafford Lightman
Post(s): Professor of Medicine, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: Stress related disease is a rapidly increasing feature of our society - but the mechanisms through which it causes disease...
Keywords: diurnal and infradian rhythms | stress related disorders | clinical depression | autonomic neuropathy | cushings | addisons | hypothalamic & pituitary disease
 
  Professor Noah Linden
Post(s): Professor of Theoretical Physics, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: quantum information, quantum mechanics
Keywords: quantum information | quantum mechanics
 
  Professor Astrid Linthorst
Post(s): Professor of Neuroscience and Deputy Head of School, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: My research group investigates neurochemical and neuroendocrine mechanisms in the brain that support coping with stress....
Keywords: serotonin | noradrenaline | GABA | stress | hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis | autonomic nervous system | hippocampus | exercise
 
  Professor Richard Little
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: My main research interests are on the historical development of international relations, the historiography of the discipline,...
Keywords: international relations | foreign policy | balance of power | politics
 
  Dr Genevieve Liveley
Post(s): Reader in Classics, Department of Classics & Ancient History
Areas of expertise: My principal research interests are in Augustan literature, critical theory, and the classical tradition. I am co-editor...
Keywords: Augustan literature | literature | critical theory | Ovid
 
  Mr Michael Liversidge
Post(s): Emeritus Dean of Arts, Department of History of Art (Historical Studies)
Areas of expertise: I specialise in British art, principally from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with particular interests in landscape...
Keywords: British art | landscape painting | landscaping | garden history | classical receptions | British architecture | English landscape art
 
  Dr Charlotte Lloyd
Post(s): Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: My PhD research involved using organic biomarkers in order to trace organic matter through the soil-water system (specifically...
Keywords: soil organic matter (som) | erosion | Water quality | Organic biomarkers and tracers
 
  Professor Liz Lloyd
Post(s): Professor of Social Gerontology, School for Policy Studies
Areas of expertise: I am a gerontologist with particular interests in health and social care policies on ageing and the relationship between...
Keywords: health and social care | health care | social care | social justice and care | care at the end of life | older people | supportive care | dignity in later life
 
  Dr Stephen Lolait
Post(s): Senior Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: Our group works on investigating the molecular genetics of neuropeptide and other hormone receptors, with particular reference...
Keywords: molecular genetics | neuropeptide receptors | hormone receptors | hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis | oxytocin receptor | apelin receptor | vasopressin receptors | oestrogen receptors
 
  Professor Andres Lopez Bernal
Post(s): Professor of Human Reproductive Biology, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: My research interests include; molecular aspects of hormone action and signal transduction; the control of uterine contraction/relaxation;...
Keywords: hormone action | signal transduction | uterine contraction | ovarian cells | perinatal mortality | uterine contractility | hormone signalling
 
  Dr Natalie Lord
Post(s): Research Associate in Nuclear Waste Safety, School of Geographical Sciences
Areas of expertise: My research focuses on modelling long-term past and future changes in climate that occur over tens to hundreds of thousands...
Keywords: climate change | nuclear waste disposal | glacial-interglacial cycles | environment | carbon cycle | future and palaeo climate modelling
 
  Dr Oliver Lord
Post(s): Royal Society University Research Fellow and Proleptic Lecturer, School of Earth Sciences
Areas of expertise: I am an experimental petrologist specialising in the use of the Laser-Heated Diamond Anvil Cell to perform high-pressure,...
Keywords: experimental petrology | Laser-Heated Diamond Anvil Cell | planetary materials | equations of state | the Earth | iron-rich alloys | phase relations
 
  Professor Mark Lowenberg
Post(s): Professor of Flight Dynamics, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Warden, Residential and Hospitality Services
Areas of expertise: My principal research interest is the flight dynamics and control of aircraft, and in particular non-linear aircraft behaviour....
Keywords: aircraft dynamics | aircraft control | wind tunnel testing | aircraft design
 
  Dr Lisa Lucas
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Education, School of Education
Areas of expertise: Research Interests Sociology of Higher Education, International Comparisons of Systems of University Research Evaluation...
Keywords: Sociology of higher education | higher education | university research evaluation and funding | the links between research and teaching in higher education | postgraduate education | research and teaching
 
  Dr Patricia Lucas
Post(s): Reader, Child Health Research, School for Policy Studies
Areas of expertise: My interests have ranged from poor readers, to breast feeding, growth in infancy, nutrition intervention, depression in fathers...
Keywords: early childhood development | child disability | child poverty | child deprivation | inequalities in health | educational interventions | nutritional interventions | social interventions
 
  Dr Casimir Ludwig
Post(s): Reader, School of Psychological Science
Areas of expertise: I am broadly interested in how motor systems deal with incoming sensory information to guide behaviour. My research to date...
Keywords: models of perceptual/saccadic decision-making | visual signals driving saccadic eye movements | visual responses across saccades | learning the statistics of the 'world' | orienting behaviour during self-motion
 
  Professor Bridget Lumb
Post(s): Professor of Systems Neuroscience, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: We combine electrophysiological studies with functional anatomical approaches to investigate the organisation and activation...
Keywords: midbrain | hypothalamus | spinal nociception | autonomic outflow | nociceptive responsiveness | behavioural states | pathophysiological conditions | nociceptive afferents
 
  Professor Dan Lunt
Post(s): Professor of Climate Science, School of Geographical Sciences
Areas of expertise: My research interests are broad, but a particular focus is on icesheet-climate interactions, both in the past and in the...
Keywords: icesheet-climate interactions | palaeo record | past climate change | climatic impacts of geoengineering
 
  Dr Stephen Lyne
Post(s): Senior Academic Fellow, Department of Accounting and Finance
Areas of expertise: I am currently Head of the School of Economics, Finance and Management. My main research interests are in organisational...
Keywords: organisational management accounting | Organisation Structure | budgeting | management accounting | activity-based techniques
 
  Dr John Lyons
Post(s): Reader in Religion and History, Department of History (Historical Studies)
Areas of expertise: My main research interests are in the area of Biblical Interpretation, especially in the areas of Biblical Theology and the...
Keywords: biblical interpretation | biblical theology | history of exegesis | exegesis | Hebrew Bible | Dead Sea Scrolls | New Testament