Projects (60)

Vital Knowledge Exchange Visits: Bolstering Ongoing Collaborative Responsible AI Projects at IIT-M and UoH Feb 1, 2024 - Jul 31, 2024

HEIF: Development of a novel low-cost orthotic intervention to reduce rates of haemarthropathy in people with haemophilia in the global south Aug 1, 2023 - Jul 31, 2024

Help 4 Health MSc studentships Nov 1, 2022 - Feb 29, 2024
Help 4 Health, through a competitive review process agreed to fund 3 MSc students (covering fees, a stipend of £16,062, and approximately £4k towards consumables).

National Edge AI Hub for Real Data: Edge Intelligence for Cyber-disturbances and Data Quality Feb 1, 2024 - Jan 31, 2029
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has grown more pervasive with the advent of Edge Computing (EC) and the proliferation of
gateways and base stations at the network edge and the sensors and actuators needed to run algorithms close to
where data is gener... Read More about National Edge AI Hub for Real Data: Edge Intelligence for Cyber-disturbances and Data Quality.

Carbon mapping of an e-commerce purchase May 1, 2021 - Apr 30, 2022
There is increased interest in the e-commerce parcel industry to reduce carbon-based energy consumption as well as the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the purchase. However, there has been a general lack of holistic frameworks that integrate... Read More about Carbon mapping of an e-commerce purchase.

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.

Using rough particles to structure multiphase liquid systems into functional nanomaterials Mar 31, 2024 - Mar 30, 2026

HIKE: Arts-based intervention for children's PSE Mar 1, 2023 - Feb 29, 2024
Early childhood education is foundational for life-time success in many profound ways. During the Covid pandemic, the support of young children’s developmental milestones, normally occurring in nursery settings, was patchy, at best, due to lockdown d... Read More about HIKE: Arts-based intervention for children's PSE.

HIKE: M3D-BIO: Microfluidics-Enabled 3D Printing for Biofabrication May 26, 2024 - May 31, 2024
The primary aim of this funding request is to support attending as a speaker for the “World Biomaterials Congress” as one of the most important international conferences in the field of tissue engineering.

The key objective of this activity is to... Read More about HIKE: M3D-BIO: Microfluidics-Enabled 3D Printing for Biofabrication.

EMO-GP: Emission Mechanisms of Giant Pulses Apr 1, 2024 - Mar 31, 2027
The goal of this project is to understand the emission mechanism of ‘giant pulses’ (GPs) from radio pulsars and its connection to the origins of fast radio bursts (FRBs) and radio magnetar outbursts; phenomena for which recent evidence hints at an un... Read More about EMO-GP: Emission Mechanisms of Giant Pulses.

HEIF: PyPlay: Fun with Python for Junior Coders Nov 1, 2023 - Apr 30, 2024
‘PyPlay: Fun with Python for Junior Coders’ (hereafter ‘PyPlay’) is an educational programme aimed at teaching primary school children (Year 6’s, 10-11 year olds) Python* programming skills through the highly engaging process of creating simple and f... Read More about HEIF: PyPlay: Fun with Python for Junior Coders.

HEIF - Developing an Advanced Generation of Eco-Friendly Biodegradable Polymers as a Replacement for Polyacrylic Plastics Aug 1, 2023 - Jul 31, 2024
This project aims to develop an advanced generation of eco-friendly biodegradable polymers that can replace polyacrylic plastics in various applications without compromising their properties. Polyacrylic plastics are widely used in packaging, consume... Read More about HEIF - Developing an Advanced Generation of Eco-Friendly Biodegradable Polymers as a Replacement for Polyacrylic Plastics.

Supporting parents of children with trauma and attachment issues Mar 31, 2022 - Mar 30, 2023
The research aims to explore the challenges parents face in supporting their children who are experiencing trauma or attachment issues. By exploring the lived experiences of these parents, we will help them understand how these issues impact their ch... Read More about Supporting parents of children with trauma and attachment issues.

Spin-wave implementation within the VAMPIRE software package Jun 1, 2024 - May 31, 2025
Overview: Vampire [1,3] is a UK-based spin dynamics software package, that provides state-of-the-art atomistic spin dynamics (ASD) simulations and can model complex magnetic materials (ferromagnetic, ferrimagnetic, antiferromagnetic and frustrated sp... Read More about Spin-wave implementation within the VAMPIRE software package.

Diffuse H-Alpha Emission in Galaxy Simulations Jul 1, 2024 - Aug 23, 2024
H-alpha is an emission line that is produced by ionised hydrogen in the interstellar medium. In galaxies, it mostly comes from hot, ionised bubbles around young, massive stars, and as such it is often used to measure how quickly a galaxy is convertin... Read More about Diffuse H-Alpha Emission in Galaxy Simulations.

Tertiary Education Trust Fund Postdoctoral Fellowship Scholarship Award Sep 1, 2022 - Aug 31, 2023

James Leadbetter - Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund Sep 1, 2024 - Feb 29, 2028

Echoes of the Past: Scarborough's Lost Aquarium Feb 1, 2024 - Jan 31, 2025
Scarborough’s underground aquarium, demolished in 1968, was a once-spectacular building that has now been lost to residents and visitors of the town, but remains a haunting example of intangible cultural heritage, surviving through local newspaper ar... Read More about Echoes of the Past: Scarborough's Lost Aquarium.

Coffee rings and ridges: predicting late-time deposit profiles in drying droplets Apr 1, 2023 - Mar 31, 2024
A spilled droplet of coffee that evaporates from a surface leaves behind a stain that is significantly stronger towards the edge of the deposit --- the famous `coffee-ring effect'. This phenomenon is not restricted to coffee and is in fact ubiquitous... Read More about Coffee rings and ridges: predicting late-time deposit profiles in drying droplets.

Decolonising UK Earth Science pedagogy - from the hidden histories of our geological institutions to inclusive curricula Jan 4, 2022 - Oct 3, 2023
The dominance of western Earth Sciences (i.e. geology and geosciences) discourses continues to (re)appropriate the contributions of the 'Other-indigenous' populations. At the end of the 18th century rocks, minerals and ores were considered part of th... Read More about Decolonising UK Earth Science pedagogy - from the hidden histories of our geological institutions to inclusive curricula.