All Projects (1093)

AHRC-RLUK Professional Practice Fellowship Scheme for academic and research libraries Jul 1, 2022 - Jul 31, 2023

Visiting Professor of Systemic Innovation at Malardalens University, Sweden Apr 1, 2015 - Mar 31, 2016
The purpose of this proposal is to enable an international visiting Professorship at the research environment Innovation and Product Realisiation (IPR), one of two research profiles in the School of Innovation, design and Engineering, Malardalen Univ... Read More about Visiting Professor of Systemic Innovation at Malardalens University, Sweden.

Differentiating between hedgerows gaps: Natural or for access? Dec 1, 2021 - Mar 31, 2022
Following on from the Hedgerows: Mapping the Gap project, this element of work will utilise existing datasets and collect primary data to create methods able to differentiate between natural gaps and access gaps within hedgerows. Three methods are pr... Read More about Differentiating between hedgerows gaps: Natural or for access?.

Towards enabling sustainable expansion of offshore wind while protecting marine benthic biodiversity and functioning (BEcoWIND) Apr 1, 2023 - Mar 31, 2027
Meeting energy demands in the most sustainable way is a major challenge for society. Offshore wind farms - groupings of wind turbines on submerged sediments - offers part of the solution for the energy transition that is needed to mitigate climate ch... Read More about Towards enabling sustainable expansion of offshore wind while protecting marine benthic biodiversity and functioning (BEcoWIND).

Ideas Fund: The Boothferry we want Oct 1, 2021 - Sep 30, 2022
This research is part of the Ideas Fund. I am a researcher supporting a local community group: Hu4 – the Boothferry we Want. The project is aiming to: 1) reduce isolation for older and vulnerable people; 2) understand residents perspectives on the lo... Read More about Ideas Fund: The Boothferry we want.

UKRI Covid 19 Extension Pot - Microwave assisted Pre-treatment of lignocellulosic residues for better performance as solid fuels in fluidised bed technologies Jul 1, 2020 - Sep 30, 2021

UKRI Covid 19 Extension Pot - Global analysis of molecular changes in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) tissue maintained and treated on microfluidic devices Jul 1, 2020 - Sep 30, 2021
The technician employed (0.5 FTE) on the grant started work at the Daisy Laboratories, Castle Hill Hospital, on 2nd March 2020 and was trained on all of the techniques necessary. However, due to the onset of Covid-19 only one tumour sample was obtai... Read More about UKRI Covid 19 Extension Pot - Global analysis of molecular changes in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) tissue maintained and treated on microfluidic devices.

UKRI Covid 19 Extension Pot -EVOFLOOD Jul 1, 2020 - Sep 30, 2021
This UKRI project, held jointly with Durham University and National Oceanographic Centre, deployed ocean moorings with flow monitoring instruments in the Congo Canyon, offshore Africa, in 2019 but the recovery of the instruments was delayed due to th... Read More about UKRI Covid 19 Extension Pot -EVOFLOOD.

UKRI Covid 19 Extension Pot - Sustainable and industrially scalable ultrasonic liquid phase exfoliation technologies for manufacturing 2D advanced functional materials Jul 1, 2020 - Sep 30, 2021

nutrient analysis on Winestead Drain (EA partnership) Jan 25, 2022 - Mar 31, 2022
Analysis sediment core samples nutrient levels, particularly focusing on phosphate levels to understand nutrient sources. Excess phosphates lead to eutrophication, to inform mitigation of this sources of phosphates need to be determined. Historic ph... Read More about nutrient analysis on Winestead Drain (EA partnership).

Dragons Voice: Addressing worklessness in the older migrant community Mar 1, 2022 - Aug 31, 2022
This project explores how participation in radio broadcasting can support older unemployed and underemployed migrants into work which is sustainable up to and beyond State Pension Age and promote good mental health. It builds on the Manchester based... Read More about Dragons Voice: Addressing worklessness in the older migrant community.

EARLY DIAPAC: EARLY DIAgnosis of PAncreatic Cancer by combined proteomics and genomics testing of pancreatic cyst fluid. Dec 1, 2022 - Aug 31, 2024
This is part of a total project cost of £98,508.70.

NERC Discipline Hopping for Environmental Solutions Dec 1, 2021 - Mar 31, 2022
NERC Discipline Hopping for Environmental Solutions grant
to fund activities that will support academics within your organisation to build expertise and agility to work across disciplinary boundaries.

Pump Priming Collaboration for Next-Generation Biofuel Production Jan 23, 2021 - Mar 17, 2022
The project will bridge the gap between academic research and commercial process for biofuel production crossing EU and UK, corresponding to the associated demands of carbon recycling. Using the current lab-scale process equipment and analytic instru... Read More about Pump Priming Collaboration for Next-Generation Biofuel Production.

BREATHE-INDIA: BREATHlEssness in INDIA - Development of a breathlessness beliefs and behaviour education intervention for use in the community-setting Oct 1, 2022 - Mar 31, 2024
PUBLIC HEALTH CHALLENGE: Chronic (persistent) breathlessness despite treatment of causal disease(s) 1 is associated with disability and a vicious cycle of avoiding physical activity-related breathlessness,2 deconditioning and increasing breathlessnes... Read More about BREATHE-INDIA: BREATHlEssness in INDIA - Development of a breathlessness beliefs and behaviour education intervention for use in the community-setting.

Catch up HPV screening project Apr 1, 2022 - Mar 31, 2027
In 2019, HPV testing replaced cytology (a smear) as the first (primary) cervical screening test. This project will offer a catch-up HPV test to women now aged 65-79 who exited the screening programme before ever having a primary HPV test. This will i... Read More about Catch up HPV screening project.

Updating (Reviewing and Printing) the Patient's Guide to Pulmonary Fibrosis. Nov 1, 2022 - Oct 31, 2023
This is an annual follow up/annual review for the Project 3632727: Development And Publication Of The Booklet For The Pulmonary Fibrosis (disease With A Degree Of Similarity To Coronavirus Disease).


Chronic diseases associated... Read More about Updating (Reviewing and Printing) the Patient's Guide to Pulmonary Fibrosis..

Using computer vision to recover Indigenous presence and knowledge via a genealogy of colonial maps of America Mar 1, 2022 - Oct 1, 2022
I propose an exploratory analysis on how we can use machines to extract and compare text from 50 pre-modern colonial maps, to create a genealogy that will help historians quantify and visualise how Indigenous knowledge played an essential role in Eur... Read More about Using computer vision to recover Indigenous presence and knowledge via a genealogy of colonial maps of America.

Programme of Research for Alcohol Care Teams: Impact, Value and Effectiveness (ProACTIVE -2) Oct 1, 2022 - Sep 30, 2025
Alcohol-related hospital admissions continue to rise, with estimates that 10% of patients admitted to acute hospitals may be alcohol dependent (AD). Yet, there remains considerable variation in provision of Alcohol Care Teams (ACTs) in England, and a... Read More about Programme of Research for Alcohol Care Teams: Impact, Value and Effectiveness (ProACTIVE -2).

Living well with chronic breathlessness: Improving the sustainable use of supported self-management strategies Mar 1, 2023 - May 31, 2024
Chronic (persistent) breathlessness restricts social lives and day-to-day tasks. Breathlessness services can support people to self-manage, but there is often a gap between knowing what to do and doing it - true for patients, carers and clinicians al... Read More about Living well with chronic breathlessness: Improving the sustainable use of supported self-management strategies.