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1. City Lab

   The Uses of Art Lab, based within ART LABS, asks how we can use art more effectively in society. Discover the themes and projects based within the Lab.

2. Design for Dementia

   Can architecture and design help people with dementia? Design for Dementia is an ongoing integrated research, design and build project undertaken by Art Labs.

3. Libraries in a Digital World

   The Libraries in a Digital World project explores how and in what ways digitisation is changing the role of libraries and how their design might evolve in the future in response.

4. Teaching Informed Research

   The Teaching Informed Research project aims to develop a new collaborative alignment between teaching and research in creative disciplines, in which teaching informs research.

5. Shot Under the Volcano

   Shot Under the Volcano is a new multimedia installation by John Hyatt and the design agency, Uniform, at the Bluecoat and Sensor City inspired by Malcolm Lowry's 'Under the Volcano'.

6. The Heterosis Projects

   Embracing hybridity and promoting heterosis across and between the Labs, cultures, disciplines and forms of knowledge within ART LABS.

7. 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.

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. Forensic Psychology Research Theme

    Within the subject of forensic psychology, our areas of expertise include criminal behaviour, suicide risk, child abuse and harassment. Take a look at our current projects, people working in the group, and publications.