Projects (89)

THYME: CCF BIO ECONOMY Apr 1, 2018 - Mar 31, 2021
The THYME Project is a new collaboration between the Universities of York, Hull and Teesside to build the bioeconomy sector across Yorkshire, Humberside and the Tees Valley. In collaboration with regional industry, LEPs and the wider community, the... Read More about THYME: CCF BIO ECONOMY.

Heritage Oriented Mega Events in Europe Oct 1, 2018 - Aug 31, 2022
In the past, many cities used mega-events to support capital and revenue investments and boost tourism while harnessing their competitiveness on a global scale. Until recently, the emphasis has been placed by and large on the creation of new infrastr... Read More about Heritage Oriented Mega Events in Europe.

Rutherford Fellowship Aug 1, 2018 - Apr 30, 2019
The Rutherford Fund Strategic Partner (RFSP) Grant is to strengthen, enhance and develop, existing Hull Japanese research partnerships in themed areas across energy and the marine environment. Building from existing collaborations, two eligible early... Read More about Rutherford Fellowship.

GCRF- PPF 20 Forecasting Ebola Spillovers Feb 1, 2018 - Jul 31, 2018
Since the 1970s, the Ebola virus recurrently emerges from the Afrotropics. The 2014 epidemic alone
affected around 40,000 people and cost over $5bn. As viruses cannot survive outside their host species, the transfer
from species that naturally harb... Read More about GCRF- PPF 20 Forecasting Ebola Spillovers.

Citizen-led pre-concentration and analysis of water pollution at the point-of-need Jun 4, 2018 - Jul 27, 2018
ACTF summer studentship (eight weeks, £200 stipend per week).

Ensuring everyone across the globe has access to clean water and sanitation is one of UN Sustainable Development Goals. The contamination of water by toxic metals (such as As, Pb, Cu, C... Read More about Citizen-led pre-concentration and analysis of water pollution at the point-of-need.

Quantifying sediment fluxes from acoustic Doppler current profilers Mar 1, 2018 - Apr 30, 2021
Calibration of the Environment Agency's ADCP units and back calculation of historical suspended sediment loads for selected sites.

LoSSGO: Local Sea-State for Stop-Go offshore Operations May 1, 2018 - Dec 31, 2020

The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training on Offshore Wind Energy and the Environment Apr 1, 2019 - Sep 30, 2027
The move to cleaner economic growth is one of the greatest industrial opportunities of our time; a key industrial challenge for the 21st Century is to secure a resilient renewable energy supply. The offshore wind (OSW) industry underpins UK solutions... Read More about The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training on Offshore Wind Energy and the Environment.

Seed Funding: UK-US Early Career Collaboration Workshop on Violence - Dr Inall Apr 1, 2018 - Nov 30, 2018
Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games are a huge international industry and form of entertainment in the lives of millions of players in the United States, United Kingdom and the wider international context. Players interact in a virtual spac... Read More about Seed Funding: UK-US Early Career Collaboration Workshop on Violence - Dr Inall.

River of Plastic: The Journey of plastics along the Mekong and it ultimate fate in the world's oceans Oct 5, 2018 - Oct 31, 2021
Over 95% of marine plastic originates from mega-rivers. The
Mekong is one of the most polluted in the world, transporting an
estimated 40 thousand tonnes of plastic into the world’s oceans. By 2050 the regional population will grow by >110 million... Read More about River of Plastic: The Journey of plastics along the Mekong and it ultimate fate in the world's oceans.

New models of sediment suspensions Oct 1, 2018 - Jun 30, 2021

FRRAN: Flood Risk, Resilience and Adaptation Network Apr 1, 2018 - Mar 31, 2020
Flooding is a first-order risk facing people and infrastructure globally. It is both costly – the floods of the 2015/16 winter cost the UK £1.6bn - and a major threat to life. Such is its importance, understanding the drivers and impacts of flooding... Read More about FRRAN: Flood Risk, Resilience and Adaptation Network.

Formative conditions of plane bed and antidune in turbidity currents Aug 20, 2018 - Mar 20, 2019
This study aims to compare the formative conditions of upper-plane bed and antidunes between in open-channel flows and turbidity currents. There are the quantitative boundaries between these two types of bedforms, so we can quantitatively compare the... Read More about Formative conditions of plane bed and antidune in turbidity currents.

NERC DTP Oct 1, 2019 - Sep 30, 2027

Evolving a Circular Plastics Economy Jan 1, 2019 - Dec 31, 2020
Project website: http://circularplastics.hull.ac.uk/

PEGASUS: Producing EnerGy and preventing hAzards from SUrface water Storage in Peru Feb 1, 2019 - Nov 30, 2021
The Peruvian Andes is home to 71% of the world's tropical glaciers, and the meltwater they supply is an essential resource for people downstream who depend on it for irrigation and sanitation. Further, hydropower plants driven by glacial meltwater pr... Read More about PEGASUS: Producing EnerGy and preventing hAzards from SUrface water Storage in Peru.

Cities of Culture Research Network: Turning Evaluation into Policy Jun 1, 2019 - Mar 31, 2022
The project aims to build a network of UK universities and a small number of our European counterparts engaged in City/Capital of Culture research. The theme is turning evaluation into policy and the network would engage with key cultural policy mak... Read More about Cities of Culture Research Network: Turning Evaluation into Policy.

The, statistically-Unsteady, Next Generation Sediment Transport model for ENvironmental flows Jan 1, 2020 - Sep 30, 2025

Spaces of nineteenth-century congregational faith: James Smetham (1821-1889) and Methodism in Stoke Newington Jul 1, 2019 - Jun 30, 2020
This one-year project will explore the art, visual culture and poetry of the Pre-Raphaelite artist and Methodist James Smetham (1821-1889). It will use these cultural productions to consider the geographies of nineteenth-century Methodism and how the... Read More about Spaces of nineteenth-century congregational faith: James Smetham (1821-1889) and Methodism in Stoke Newington.

CAMS PostDoc Nov 1, 2019 - Jan 31, 2022
Pollution of freshwaters from industry, agriculture and urban settings is a major pressure on human and ecological health. Effective and robust monitoring of water quality is vital to safeguard supplies but traditional monitoring has relied on expens... Read More about CAMS PostDoc.