
Advancing healthcare research
We take an interdisciplinary user-centred design approach to discover and develop technologies to help improve the quality of life for people with disabilities and mobility disorders.
Much of our bioengineering research is organised through a number of proactive, interdisciplinary research centres. The Network for Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Prevention (NAMRIP) works to combat the increasing resistance that microbes display to countermeasures like antibiotics. Our Human Factors Research Unit (HFRU) conducts research related to human responses to vibration and our Hearing and Balance Centre (HABC) works to improve the quality of life of patients with hearing and/or balance disorders. We are researching biomechanics related to prostheses and orthotics, where the combination of theoretical modelling, sensors and innovative manufacturing promises higher quality of life.
We take an interdisciplinary user-centred design approach to discover and develop technologies to help improve the quality of life for people with disabilities and mobility disorders.
We have been using vibration (haptic stimulation) on wrists to deliver sound information to hearing-impaired listeners and provide large improvements in their ability to understand speech or locate sounds.
Our team in Southampton is providing the next-generation 3D imaging tools to augment and surpass 2D microscopic histology routinely by developing a new technology called 3D X-ray histology.
We are developing the next-generation of mathematical and computational biophysical models of skin to tackle some of the current and future grand societal challenges.
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