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Researchers in the Volcano Dynamics Group are interested in understanding how volcanoes work and how they affect the environment, wherever they occur, even on other planets. We are therefore an interdisciplinary group of academics, research staff, and PhD students within CEPSAR drawn from the Earth Sciences, Ecosystems and Biodiversity, and Planetary and Space Sciences Disciplines.

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We have a wide range of research in theoretical and computational physics, including condensed matter theory, modelling of electron scattering from molecules and molecular clusters, theory of cold atom quantum simulators and finally biophysics. Our team of PhD students is carrying out research at the forefront of these fields.

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Using theoretical ideas from Science and Technology Studies (STS), the anthropology of expert knowledge, Foucauldian genealogical approaches, political economy, and Bourdieusian field analysis, the work on The Social Life of Methods (SLOM) poses a series of key interdisciplinary questions such as: How are social science methods implicated in the constitution of the individual and the organisation, and the administration and transformation of social and economic life? How/why do different kinds of method succeed and fail?

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This broad topic encompasses work in several distinct disciplines; ethnomusicology; sociology; social history; social psychology; human geography; education; and marketing. We particularly encourage work that combines approaches and crosses the boundaries between disciplines.We welcome applications in areas which correspond to current staff research interests.

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Our research into tectonics and mountain building research covers the processes and mechanisms relating to how mountains form on the surface of our planet and how the continental crust deforms from the macroscale to the microscale. In particular our research focuses on mountain belts that form during continent-continent collision, such as the modern Himalayas and Caucasus and the ancient Caledonides.

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Research into information, surveillance and privacy encompasses a range of work covering individual responses to privacy and data protection, to the organisational and governmental dynamics of surveillance practices, as well as theoretical and methodological developments in the study of these phenomena. Surveillance research in the Open University Business School focuses on surveillance as it is co-constituted by organisations, employees and consumers.Principal research themes currently include the within-firm dynamics of data protection and privacy, the rise of ?big data?, the role of the private sector in government surveillance regimes, consumer surveillance, surveillance and the embodied subject and surveillance, democracy and resilience.

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The majority of stars reside in binaries or higher multiples, and the most exotic and the most energetic phenomena in the Universe often have a binary origin. Binary stars are the keystones of stellar astrophysics, offering the chance to directly measure physical parameters of stars and so understand the evolution of the contents of the Universe.

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This observationally-focussed topic examines the formation of massive stars in our galaxy. The formation of massive young stars is often triggered by ionised gas regions that expand into their surrounding gas and molecular clouds, ?triggering?

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The study of sedimentary rocks and the fossils contained within them is critical to our understanding of the Earth system and the evolution of life, and consequently this research area forms an integral part of the work undertaken in the Department of Environment, Earth and Ecosystems. Research in this area covers a range of topics, and includes palaeontological studies into evolutionary change through Earth history, as well as the use of sedimentary records of orbital forcing to develop geological timescales.

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The Centre for Research in Computing's research in software engineering is concerned with how software is specified and developed in the real world. We have a large, active research group looking at requirement elicitation, analysis and specification, software architectures, and design.

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