Project Title: “Preventing wide-area blackouts through adaptive islanding of transmission networks” Description: Commercial pressures towards better utilisation of power networks and increased penetration of distributed generation are likely to reduce power system security margins leading to a higher probability of blackouts. This project will investigate an idea of preventing an imminent wide-area blackout by intentional [...]
Project Outline: China’s emerging role in global health governance: Navigating between access to medicines and economic development This study aims to investigate Chinese contributions to global health governance (GHG) with a particular focus on the global governance of access to medicines. The country’s rapid economic growth since the 1980s has led to growing debates about [...]
PhD Studentships Science and Technology Research Institute University of Hertfordshire Applications are invited from candidates with good first degrees in computer science, information technology, electronic engineering, physics, biology or other relevant disciplines to join projects as research students for a three year period in the following areas (click on the links for project descriptions):
