Colt research

Summary:

The Colt Foundation’s annual research day took place on 2 April 2025 in London. The event showcases research in occupational and environmental health, carried out by students and researchers funded by the charity. This review includes five current research projects.

Workplace bullying

Elena Triantafillopoulou, a PhD student at King’s College London, is studying the ‘evolving landscape’ of workplace bullying, defined in research as …

 

Mental health at work

A manager can make or break a workplace,’ says Ben Vaughan, whose research at the University of Nottingham is part of an ongoing evaluation of Managing Minds at Work (MMW), an online training intervention for line managers to promote …

 

Military service and women’s health

Dr Alethea McHardy is a consultant in sport and exercise medicine at the Ministry of Defence. She is also undertaking a PhD at the University of Glasgow, researching the long-term health outcomes of women serving in the UK armed forces, particularly in …

 

Microplastics exposure

Lewis Hodgetts is a PhD researcher at the Manchester University Centre of Nanotechnology in Medicine. He is studying the human health effects of exposure to two types of pollutant …

 

Occupational heat stress

PhD student Shoji Leach from the Centre for Human and Applied Physiological Sciences School of Basic and Medical Biosciences at King’s College London (KCL) is studying the effects of occupational heat exposure on …

 

Information about the Colt Foundation charity and applying for a research grant is available at

www.coltfoundation.org.uk

 

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Occupational Health at Work June/July 2025 (vol. 22/1) pp34-37

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