UGP25 WEB 3 - Flipbook - Side 11
Ranked joint
13for research
IN THE
UK
intensity
ROCKSTARS
OF RESEARCH
TH
(Complete University Guide 2024)
We’re proud of our reputation for innovative,
impactful, and world-leading research.
DR. KEREN TURTON
School of Medicine, Dentistry
and Biomedical Sciences
PROF. ALAN FITZSIMONS
NASA Planetary Defender,
Astrophysics Research Centre
“Lecturers do a lot more than stand up
in a lecture theatre! These academics
are so passionate about their subjects
and specialities that they want the
honour of being able to work for a
research-intensive university. This
means that the experts in your field,
doing ground-breaking research,
will be the ones teaching you.”
Peter Moor,
BA English with Linguistics
Queen’s University Belfast – Undergraduate Prospectus 2025
CLARA WILSON
Dog Psychology Expert,
School of Psychology
Bacteria are incredible at surviving
as they constantly devise new ways
to resist antibiotics. They can turn
their outer layer into armour, pump
antibiotics out of their cell wall, and
change their protein to disguise
themselves. They’re also very good
at sharing survival tactics with each
other. Dr. Keren Turton researches
these survival strategies, which can
help us tweak existing antibiotics
so bacteria can’t recognise them.
How do we stop asteroids from
hitting the earth, so we don’t
experience the same fate as the
dinosaurs? Prof. Alan Fitzsimons
is part of the NASA DART
investigation team, which surveys
the night sky to spot dangerous
space rocks that could be heading
our way. They have just tested the
NASA DART spacecraft, which
is designed to hit an asteroid and
deflect it away from earth’s path.
Dogs have an amazing sense of smell
and can detect changes within the
human body, from blood sugar levels
and epileptic seizures to Parkinson’s
disease and cancer. Clara is training
pet dogs to become sniffer dogs to
determine if psychological stress
has a smell they can detect.
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