The College Record 2022
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Reports and <strong>College</strong> Activities<br />
Humanities (TORCH). A Knowledge Exchange Fellowship is enabling me to work<br />
with Menagerie <strong>The</strong>atre Company on a project about the theatre critic Huntly Carter<br />
and his involvement in the workers’ theatre movement, and TORCH Network funding<br />
is supporting a series of interdisciplinary events about the history and legacy of the<br />
cultural relationship between Britain and the nations that made up the Soviet Union.<br />
Both these projects develop research undertaken for my monograph, Russomania<br />
(OUP, 2020), which was awarded the British Association for Slavonic and East<br />
European Studies Women’s Forum Prize earlier this year.<br />
Credit: John Cairns<br />
John Blair (History, Emeritus)<br />
Professor John Blair was awarded a Leverhulme Emeritus<br />
Fellowship for travel in Germany, Scandinavia, and the<br />
Low Countries. <strong>The</strong> purpose of his travel will be to gather<br />
material for a projected book on medieval regional cultures.<br />
<strong>The</strong> book will be about regional identity, buildings, and<br />
material culture in medieval England. It will question<br />
whether, in cultural terms, the concept of 'England' necessarily makes sense, and<br />
will take the different approach of looking at regions in relation to their Continental<br />
neighbours: east Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and East Anglia as part of a North Sea<br />
Region; the south as part of a Channel region; the west midlands as part of an<br />
Atlantic region.<br />
Credit: John Cairns<br />
Jose Carrillo (Mathematics)<br />
My research in the year 2021-<strong>2022</strong> has been marked by<br />
the launching of most of the topics of my ERC Advanced<br />
Grant in its second year, some of them postponed due<br />
to the pandemic. I have hired four new Post-Doctoral<br />
Research Assistants (PDRAs) to explore novel aspects of<br />
my research in nonlocal partial differential equations for<br />
complex particle dynamics such as phase transitions,<br />
patterns and synchronization. More precisely, we have worked in understanding the<br />
concentration and properties of local and global minimizers of anisotropic potentials,<br />
phase transitions in neuroscience models, parameter estimation in collective<br />
migration models for cell sorting via adhesive forces, concentration phenomena<br />
in the evolution of aggregation-diffusion models, numerical schemes for collisional<br />
plasma physics, and non-local approximations of nonlinear diffusions among others.<br />
<strong>The</strong> common point of these research topics is the description of the collective motion<br />
of large ensembles of interacting particles.<br />
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