Professor Norman Ratcliffe

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Role:

• Professor of Material and Sensor Sciences

Department staff:

• Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences (HAS)

Collaborations:

• INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS:
• - Dhaka Bangladesh International Centre for Diarrhoea Research (Dr Pradip Kumar Bardhan): infectious diarrhoea vectors
• - Dublin University Veterinary College (Prof. Steve Carrington): cow oestrus detection)
• - Dr Ilona Pascual (Spain) and Prof. John Duffield: decontamination methods for water purification
• - Innsbruck University (Dr Anton Amann): technology for volatile analyses for disease diagnoses
• - Consultancy with US Nuclear Industry
• - Board member of the International Association for Breath Research.
• - many EU universities and companies: in multi-partner 3 year EU funded projects
• NATIONAL COLLABORATIONS:
• - Bristol Urological Institute (Dr Marcus Gillat - Medical Director and chairman of BUI management board): collaboration on urinary tract infections
• - Liverpool Medical School (Prof C. Probert): GI disease research
• - Consultant urological surgeon (Dr Rajandra Persad): improved prostate cancer detection methods
• - Brunel University - Brunel Institute for Bioengineering (Drs Eleanor van den Heuvel and Felicity Jowitt): incontinence research
• - Children’s Hospital Bristol: diabetes markers in the breath of children
• - Birmingham Hospital (Dr Andy Ewer) collaborative research on neonates
• - Liverpool University: analyses of stool samples
• - Airbus Bristol (Dr Joseph Lam): fuel management systems
• - The Welding Institute (Dr Helen Goddin): micro welding of sensors
• - Design Works (Jeremy Gardner): prototyping and design of medical devices
• - Gas Analysis and Sensing Group: Knowledge transfer to industry in gas analysis and sensing as board member organising talks etc.
• Collaborations Within UWE:
• - Professor J. Greenman and Dr S. Saad: bacterial metabolite analyses.
• - Dr Ben deLacy Costello: self-assembly of complex patterns by reaction diffusion and volatile analyses
• - Dr Rick Ewen: neural network analyses and electronic hardware of electronic noses
• - Dr Myra Conway: on kidney stone analyses
• - Dr Peter Spencer-Phillips: agri-food particularly food quality in storage
• - Prof. Tony Pipe (Deputy Director of the Bristol Robotics Laboratory): software techniques particularly decision making software
• - Dr Paul White: statistical methods for multivariate data analysis

Research staff:

• Volatile analysis of stool / urine / saliva / breath
• Sensor technology - particularly detection of trace volatiles
• Biomarker prospecting - particularly volatile analyses for disease diagnosis
• Volatile analysis to monitor food quality
• Electronic nose technologies
• Synthesis of materials for environmental clean-up
• Jet fuel additives and analysis