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- Research profiles: Professor Jose Torero - Fire Safety Engineering
- Professor Jose L. Torero talks about the University of Edinburgh's world-leading and influential fire safety research, postgraduate programmes and international collaborations.
Watch on YouTube - Research profiles: Dr Lara Ryazanova-Clarke - Russian language
- Dr Lara Ryazanova-Clarke discusses the changing nature of the Russian language and Edinburgh's continuing links with Russia.
Watch on YouTube - Research profiles: Prof Scott Murray - Palliative care in Africa
- Professor Scott Murray discusses the challenges of providing end of life care in Africa.
Watch on YouTube - Research profiles: Dr Thomas Molony & Prof James Smith - Global development
- Dr Thomas Molony, Senior Research Fellow in African Studies, and Professor James Smith, Director of the Global Development Academy, talk about the future of Africa and the University's role in promoting development in the Global South.
Watch on YouTube - Research profiles: Donald Bloxham - Genocide studies
- Professor Donald Bloxham explains why it is important to study genocide in the 21st Century, and discusses his experience of working in America as a University of Edinburgh academic.
Watch on YouTube - Research profiles: Nigel Topham
- The first in a series of videos where some of our top researchers talk about their work.
Professor Nigel Topham is the Director of the Institute for Computing Systems Architecture in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.
College of Science and Engineering researchers describe, in video clips of around five minutes each, their current work and the impact it could have on British industry, commerce, healthcare and society as a whole.
This series of videos is funded by the EPSRC Pathways to Impact Award to increase the awareness and understanding in the general population of publicly funded research.
Watch on YouTube - Research profiles: Sethu Vijayakumar
- The second in a series of videos where some of our top researchers talk about their work.
Prof Vijayakumar describes his work, funded by the EPSRC, on developing new ways of thinking about, representing and planning motion in robotics.
Inspired in part by the School of Informatics' leading animation research and employing thinking from machine learning and graph theory, Prof Vijayakumar and his colleagues in the Institute of Perception Action and Behaviour hope that this research will enable software for more complex robots and other machines, and for operating robots in more unpredictable environments.
It could enable more efficient manufacturing and packaging robotics, a greater use of robots in healthcare home care and rehabilitation, and even shape new thinking in synthetic biology.
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This article was published on May 30, 2012