Translational Funding IAA Projects Showcase 2025

The Translational Funding team hosted their showcase event on 11th November 2025 at Reed Hall, celebrating a range of outstanding and impactful projects supported through the Impact Accelerator Accounts (IAA) at the University of Exeter.

The event attracted an audience of internal and external colleagues, who heard from researchers whose projects were funded across all four UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) councils supporting the University of Exeter: the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), and the Medical Research Council (MRC).

The showcase featured a programme of live presentations alongside an impressive collection of interactive poster stands, highlighting the breadth and diversity of IAA-funded projects and the significant societal and economic impacts they have achieved.

Building on the success of this event, the Translational Funding team are pleased to announce that the showcase will become an annual fixture. A huge thank you to everyone who attended and contributed their time and expertise to make the event such a success. All projects and colleagues recognised on the day are listed below.

AHRC IAA 

Professor Stewart Barr & Dr Lewis Winks - Art and Agency: Eco-anxiety and creative responses to the climate and ecological emergency.

Professor Richard Toye - Mindflip: Topics of Rhetoric & AI.

Professor Naomi Sykes - Fair Game: wild fallow deer venison as a solution to food security, sustainable woodlands and biodiversity.

Professor Jerri Daboo - Unveiling Archives: new approaches to the public accessibility of British South Asian theatre history and practice, and the production of a toolkit on archives.

Professor Fabrizio Nevola - Hidden Landscapes of the National Trust.

ESRC IAA 

Dr Chris Sandal-Wilson - Section 28's digital afterlives in the South-west.

Dr Darren Moore - Implementation for schools – Sharing evidence-informed best practice with schools and educators.

Dr Julian Dyer - Partnership Building for Climate Forecasting and Adaptation: Experimental Evidence from Kenya.

Professor Kubo Macak - The Handbook on Developing a National Position on International Law in Cyberspace: A Practical Guide for States.

Professor Ilke Inceoglu & Professor Leroy White - Sunday Night Blues: Public Engagement & Policy Development.

EPSRC IAA

Dr William Michael Short - Senseful AI: MVP development.

Dr Charlie Kirkwood & Emily Paremain - Conference: Artificial Intelligence for Geological Modelling and Mapping.

Professor Nick Stone, Dr. Ryan Edginton & Dr. Benjamin Gardner - A Public RaNT: User Acceptance Analysis for a Future Healthcare Technology.

Professor Emma Bland, Professor Catherine Leyshon & Tim Walker - Sensor systems for healthier social housing: a social return on investment toolkit. 

MRC IAA

Dr Alexander Corbett - Improving reliability in PCR testing. 

Dr Lianne Wood - Raising the awareness of degenerative cervical myelopathy.

Dr William Young, Professor Mark Wilson & Yuri Russo - Developing a new low-cost device to measure distorted sensory weighting during standing.

Professor Yang Liu - Preclinical assessment of a vibrational device for early bowel cancer diagnosis.

Dr Chris Scotton, Dr Anna Duckworth & Dr Anne-Marie Russell - Diagnosis and disease monitoring of chronic lung disease with novel digital acoustic technologies.