Research achievements
Research developments at Brookes in the last few years include:
- The Wellcome Trust awarded Brookes historians £675,000 to explore private and public funding in the development of health care, the largest of a number of successful funding bids
- Researchers in English will recreate dramas in Hampton Court Palace as last performed for Henry VIII 480 years ago, through an Arts and Humanities Research Council grant award
- Health and social care research is growing, including a new Chair of Cancer Care and ESRC-funded research into recovering heroin users
- £1.86m in government funding for Brookes engineers to develop innovative joining technology to support a new generation of light-weight structures
- A new institute for child development was established
- £420,000 is awarded to architecture to investigate how the design of outdoor spaces can improve the quality of life for older people
- The production of the largest Glycemic Index (GI) of foods, which classifies food according to its effect on blood glucose levels. This work is being used by leading supermarkets and food producers to improve the nutritional quality of food
- The launch of a new centre for research into sustainable vehicles. This has seen the release of the first study to quantify the major recycling challenge the world faces from cars. The focus is on the waste produced by a vehicle over its whole lifetime - from manufacture, routine servicing and end of life.