Applications funded through the Bridging the Gaps development fund
Round 5: applications received by 27 June 2012
| Title | Investigators | Amount awarded |
|---|---|---|
| Design for Wellbeing: Ageing and Mobility in the Built Environment | Daniel Lash, Craig Knight, Nicholas Osborne, Lora Fleming, Matt Eames, Tristan Kershaw, John Bessant, Roger Maull, Allen Alexander, Richard Everson | £4,444 |
| Towards defining turbulence measurement protocols from ADCP velocity data | Abdessalem Bouferrouk, Trevor Bailey, Peter Challenor | £2,941 |
| Impact of 3D Printing Technology on Traditional Food Production Supply Chain – A case study on chocolate production | Jeff Jia, Liang Hao | £5,200 |
| Developing simulation tools for experimental game theory related to geoengineering | Hywel Williams, Tim Lenton, Miguel Fonseca | £6,600 |
| Mapping ER dynamics | Imogen Sparkes, Pete Ashwin | £8,764 |
Round 4: applications received by 14 March 2012
| Title | Investigators | Amount awarded |
|---|---|---|
| Fully Immersive Virtual Environments, Machine Learning and the Social Psychology of Violence | Mark Levine, Richard Everson | £2,740 |
| Preliminary investigation into the use of auxetic yarns as reinforcement in structural concrete | Prakash Kripakaran, Sudeshna Bhattacharya | £2,920 |
| Towards the automatic measurement of calcium responses in plant cells | John Love, George Littlejohn, Jacqueline Christmas, Richard Everson | £6,626 |
| Contagion | Steve Hinchliffe, Antony Galton, Zena Wood, Clive Sabel, Mark Levine | £5,953 |
| A novel data resource for development of holistic wave energy research | Ian Ashton, Markus Mueller | £5,738 |
| The relationship between 3D printing and intellectual property law | Charlotte Waelde, Liang Hao, James Griffin, Richard Everson | £4,046 |
| Prof. Ni-Bin Chang - Water sustainability and urbanisation | Dragan Savic, Stewart Barr | £1,500 |
| Evolutionary responses to the changing climate: from systems biology to global biogeochemistry | Steven Penfield, Tim Lenton, Nick Smirnoff, Hywel Williams, James Clark, Stuart Daines | £2,850 |
| Exeter Imaging Network – virtual community | Rafael Peña-Miller, George Littlejohn Jacqueline Christmas |
£900 |
For the fourth round of development funding, Research and Knowledge Transfer provided an extra £10k to fund additional applications not related to EPSRC's remit.
Diagnostics
Two projects were funded from the Diagnostics Retreat held on 31st January-1st February 2012.
| Title | Lead Investigator | Amount awarded |
|---|---|---|
| The Challenge: Immediate pathological confirmation during an endoscopic procedure | Julian Moger | £3,000 |
| Identification of novel biomarkers for bladder cancer | Steve Michell | £7,500 |
BioE awards
Bridging the Gaps funded the Exeter contributions to the awards made through the BioE initiative, a joint venture in bioengineering between the Universities of Exeter, Bath, Bristol and Cardiff. (*awarded outside the BioE scheme).
| Title | Investigators | Amount awarded from BTG (total award) |
|---|---|---|
| Magneto optical endotoxin sensing in the diagnosis of sepsis | Chris Allender (Cardiff), Dave Newman (Exeter), Judith Hall (Cardiff) | £15,462 (£30,924) |
| Translational systems biology approach to investigate the mechanism of steroid resistance in nephrotic syndrome | Najl Valeyev (Exeter) and Gavin Welsh (Bristol) | £11,682 (£30,459) |
| Modelling Cortical Responses in Photosensitive Epilepsy | Khalid Hamandi (Cardiff), Krish Singh (Cardiff), John Terry (Exeter), Pete Ashwin (Exeter) | £12,462 (£32,227) |
| *A Prototype, Graphene-Based, Electrochemical Sensor for Sepsis Biomarkers | Toby Jenkins (Bath), Peter Winlove (Exeter), Stephen Green (Exeter), Amber Young (Frenchay NHS trust) | £10,394 (£50,000) |
Round 3: applications received by 14 October 2011
| Title | Investigators | Amount awarded |
|---|---|---|
| Advanced imaging techniques for the ageing brain | David Llewellyn, Phillip E. Gates, Philippe Young, Gavin Tabor, Peter Winlove, Ian Summers, Andrew M. Blamire, Jiabao He, Nitin Purandare, Katarina Kos, Jon Fulford, David Strain, Angela Shore | £8,946 |
| Developing a working group for hazard and risk assessment of mining-related impacts | Nick Osborne, Ben Williamson, Adam Pollard, Eleanor Van-Veen, Ben Wheeler, Frances Wall, Mark Taylor | £4,069 |
| Automated location and tracking of individual living cells in images and videos | Richard Everson, Jacqueline Christmas, Peter Winlove, James Bell, Rafael Peña-Miller | £4,657 |
| Exeter Imaging Network | George Littlejohn, Rafael Peña-Miller, Julian Moger, Jacqueline Christmas, Robert Beardmore, Murray Grant | £1,690
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| Machine learning for the identification of gene expression markers of cognitive decline | David Melzer, Richard Everson | £3,576 |
| Automated detection and classification of collective behaviour in large spatio-temporal datasets | Antony Galton, Darren Croft, Zena Wood | £2,682
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| Stereoscopic Histories | Dan North, Richard Everson, John Plunkett, Phil Wickham | £1,540 |
Climate change and sustainable futures
Three additional projects resulting from the Climate Change and Sustainable Futures Retreat were funded in July 2011.
| Title | Investigators | Amount awarded |
|---|---|---|
| G360: 360 degree assessment of geoengineering | Jim Haywood, Patrick Devine-Wright, Pierre Friedlingstein, Keith Hyams, Duncan Russel, Hywel Williams | £6,680 |
| Developing an interdisciplinary strategy to drastically reduce UK carbon emissions through behaviour change. | Tim Kurz, Duncan Russel, Hugo Lambert, Charles Abraham, Sarah Ward, David Coley, Pierre Friedlingstein, Patrick Devine-Wright, Keith Hyams | £5,000 |
| Climate and land use interaction modelling for ecosystem and societal scenarios (CLIMESS) | Stephen Sitch, Luiz Aragao, Pierre Friedlingstein, Iain Hartley, Keith Hyams, Duncan Russel, Frank Van Veen, Sarah Ward, Hywel Williams. | £7,000 |
Round 2: applications received by 14 June 2011
Round 2 included applications (indicated by * in the list) from the Exeter Synthetic Biology Sandpit. An extra £20k of ring-fenced funding was provided for Synthetic Biology applications (contributed by Research and Knowledge Transfer, the College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, the College of Life and Environmental Sciences and the College of Social Sciences and International Studies).
| Title | Investigators | Amount awarded |
|---|---|---|
| Symmetry breaking during cell division | James Wakefield, Peter Ashwin | £1,760 |
| *Towards Utilising the Light Sensing Ability of Cyanobacteria | Orkun Soyer, Nicholas Smirnoff, Geoffrey Nash | £5,700 |
| *Respecting Complexity: New Methods and Concepts for a More Robust Synthetic Biology | Ken Haynes, John Dupré, Sabina Leonelli | £10,000 |
| *Design and construction of a robust tuneable synthetic amplifier | Declan Bates, Ozgur Akman, Ken Haynes, Steven Porter | £5,200 |
| *Miniaturisation of vegetation based treatment technologies for low carbon impact water recycling in urban areas (MinTTeR) | Fayyaz Memon, Steve Hughes, Nicholas Smirnoff, Naomi Hawkins, James Griffin, Ajit Nayak, Suraje Dessai | £5,000 |
| Piloting a computer game for mental health | Edward Watkins, Richard Everson | £3,650 |
| Establishment of the Exeter Statistical Institute | Steve Brooks, Chris Ferro, Andy Wills, Murray Grant, Sabina Leonelli, Nick Osborne, James Davidson | £2,000 |
| Safe design of next generation nanomaterials: a green chemistry approach | Yanqiu Zhu, Tamara Galloway, Richard Owen | £5,375 |
| Investigating ‘attentional inertia’ in task and attention switching: the case of aircraft inspection | Aureliu Lavric Jonathan Fieldsend | £4,834 |
| Carbon Smart Homes (CaSH) | Fayyaz Memon, David Coley, Patrick Devine-Wright, Ajit Nayak, Yanqiu Zhu, Tim Kurz, Nicholas Osborne | £5,000 |
Round 1: applications received by 14 March 2011
For the first round of development funding, Research and Knowledge Transfer provided an extra £10k to fund additional applications.
| Title | Investigators | Amount awarded |
|---|---|---|
| Confronting the Phytophthoraramorum epidemic by engaging the experts now! | Murray Grant, Trevor Bailey, Michael Winter | £3,900 |
| Brain imaging, developmental neuroscience, and law: in search of rights-based innovative social and health care policies for young offenders. | Atina Krajewska, Huw Williams, Ian Summers, David J. Llewellyn, Karen McAuliffe | £2,677 |
| The relations between creativity in mathematical & biological systems, creativity as a mental process, & creativity in the social world | Robin Durie, Pete Ashwin, Ed Keedwell, Katrina Wyatt, Andy Wills, James Griffin, Kerry Chappell, Varuni Wimalasiri, Anna Craft | £5,500 |
| Critical points in cyst formation for the intestinal parasite Entamoeba | Mark van der Giezen, C. Peter Winlove, Peter G. Petrov | £7,200 |
| Advances in Particle Swarm Optimisation based on Animal Social Behaviour | Ed Keedwell, Darren Croft | £4,000 |
| The Eureka Latin Verse Machine: Reconstruction, Conservation and Modelling of a Victorian Computing Device | Jason Hall, Richard Everson | £1,392 |
| Analysis of Physical Activity and Energy Monitoring – A Feasibility Study | Melvyn Hillsdon, Prathyush P Menon, Ann Rowlands | £4,750 |
| On the twist and writhe of sperm: is there a signature shape for successful fertilization? | Philippe G. Young, Mitchell Berger | £3,000 |
| Imaging muscle function in the spine during exercise: a feasibility study | Judith Meakin, Jonathan Fulford, Alan Barker | £926 |
| Performing and Transforming Pain: an investigation into how religio-spiritual contexts change emotional, psycho-physiological experiences and perceptions of pain. | Sarah Goldingay, Paul Dieppe | £4,033 |
| Valuing Wildness in Animals | Karen Edwards, Fiona Mathews, Henry Buller, Stephen Hinchliffe, Stephen Lea, Stephen Neale, Alan Outram, Esther Reed, Jane Spencer, Julie Whittaker, Michael Winter | £1,440 |
| Balance and Healthcare: Ancient Paradigms and Modern Debates | Nicky Britten, Chris Gill, John Wilkins | £830 |
| When Psychiatry Meets Literature and Culture | Mark Harrison, Marion Gibson | £1,500 |
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