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Anglophone diasporic crime fiction - written by authors of Indian descent who are based in the Global North - offers a double lens: firstly, it allows us to investigate how the uneven terrain of the nation-state, race, class, gender and caste in this contemporary global form is negotiated transnationally; and secondly, it pushes for a reassessment of the relationship of diasporic fiction with the shifting terrain of postcolonial Indian culture and society. I examine how this fiction challenges the paradigmatic frame of the nation and nationhood, and responds to questions of diasporic belonging and representation.

Building better batteries is one of the major scientific and societal challenges of the 21st century. However, incremental improvements to current batteries cannot meet the requirements necessary for Europe to reach its net-zero goals by 2050. Next-generation batteries are therefore essential for the transformational improvements in performance required for the electrification of transport and grid-scale storage of energy from renewable resources. Nevertheless, the full potential of such batteries is severely hindered by numerous underlying challenges, many of which centre on the ion transport and interfaces in their constituent materials. Building upon my expertise and proven track record in the atomistic simulation of materials and connecting such simulations to the macroscale, AMPed will revolutionise the understanding and design of the ion transport and interfaces within solid-state battery architectures. AMPed will utilise state-of-the-art classical, quantum mechanical, structure prediction and machine learning approaches to develop battery materials with improved performance, stability and sustainability by achieving the following four key objectives: (1) Establish a new time-domain paradigm for understanding ion transport in solid electrolytes (2) Explore nanostructured solid electrolytes for optimised performance (3) Mitigate resistance and instability at heterointerfaces in solid-state batteries (4) Drive transition to sustainable solid-state sodium batteries These novel and exploratory models will be experimentally validated in partnership with my close network of interdisciplinary experts in battery materials and devices. AMPed will provide transformative opportunities for the design of energy materials and push the boundaries of computational energy materials design, thereby advancing the excellence of energy research in Europe and further consolidating my research at the frontier of computational materials science.

The Palestinian health system relies on cross-border referrals of patients whose care is not available locally. Referral destinations are within theoccupied Palestinian territories (oPt, including East Jerusalem), as well as Israel, Egypt, and Jordan. The current war in the oPt has caused the collapse of the health system in Gaza and severe disruptions of health services in the West Bank, as well as the cessation of all referral pathways to Israel. The war has also caused a staggering number of wounded (estimated at 5,300 patients by end of 2023) who urgently require referral abroad. The ongoing war has changed the regional geographies of referral with Egypt and Jordan now the primary destinations. The proposed PhD will use the 'therapeutic geographies' theoretical framework and deepen its understanding in the Palestinian context. The PhD aims to quantitatively analyse the scope and health outcomes of the Palestinian referrals to Egypt and Jordan and to qualitatively explore the lived experiences of patients and healthcare workers (HCWs). This will be done by analysing data from referral databases kept by the Palestinian Ministry of Health and the WHO oPt country office and conducting interviews and focus groups with patients referred to Egypt and Jordan. Also, Palestinian HCWs and policymakers will be interviewed online to understand how they manage the referral system. The project will produce academic journal articles, conference presentations, and policy briefs, which will be disseminated to policy- and decisionmakers to communicate the policy implications of the findings to them.

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