This project focuses on the vulnerabilities in the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) eco-system (which is part of the larger IoT landscape) which may enable unauthorised access to data on BLE devices. It aims to identify such vulnerabilities, to quantify or determine the extent of the vulnerabilities (where possible), to generate a suite of tools for automated vulnerability identification, and to propose mitigation strategies. Analysis will be achieved by studying the devices themselves, as well as firmware and partner applications

Recent scholarship on the cultural dimension of social movements has demonstrated growing interest in the role of music in representing, defining, and transforming group identity. In the context of both a European and global history of music, the labour movement has offered an unparalleled foundation for examining these cultural functions. It is thus surprising that few musicological studies since the 1980s have been devoted to labour music culture, especially in view of the recent resurgence of comparable lines of inquiry in historical research. Focusing on the musical activities that took place in connection with the labour movement in Austria during the period of Red Vienna (1919-1934), the project aims to broaden the perspective and increase theoretical clarity regarding the function of music in social movements through dialogue with a variety of other disciplines, in particular sociology, aesthetics, and cultural studies.

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The bumblebee Bombus terrestris is a key UK pollinator that relies upon sophisticated cognitive abilities to efficiently exploit a complex floral landscape. Impairment of cognitive function has been put forward as a mechanism that may underlie well-documented negative effects of pesticides on bees, but the key supporting data are currently missing. This is because we know almost nothing about how cognitive abilities impact upon fitness in bees. Current work in my research group aims to close this knowledge gap, and this project will contribute by assaying the mechanistic costs of cognitive investment. The brain of an adult bee is developmentally plastic, and it has recently become apparent that repeated exposure to complex learning tasks brings about increased neural density in the mushroom bodies (a neural region associated with learning and memory in insects). Thus, it is possible to manipulate cognitive investment by manipulating learning experience across individuals. We have developed a radial arm maze (RAM) protocol, whereby individuals must remember which of the multiple maze arms available have already been visited within a trial, for use in bees.