Initiator Grant Scheme

Initiator Grants are intended to provide seed funding to promote and develop joint projects. These grants are intended for building collaborative activities that will refine research or education ideas. Examples include research visits or small workshops to formulate joint research projects or larger grant submissions, or development of an innovative shared education programme.

The current call has now closed. Please check back for more information regarding the next call, which will be posted here.

QUEX Initiator Grants

Round	UoE Lead PI	UQ Lead PI	Project	Theme	Status
1	Colin Green	Tracy Comans	Dementia Care - Making the Economic Case	Healthy Ageing	COMPLETE
1	Karen Hudson-Edwards	Talitha Santini	Environmentally Sustainable Mining of Critical Metals for a Clean Energy Future	Environmental Sustainability	COMPLETE
1	Ted Feldpausch	Hamish McGowan	Amazon pyrogenic carbon: soil, peat and Aeolian transport	Environmental Sustainability	COMPLETE
1	Vicki Goodwin	Anna Hatton	Ageing well in retrofit built living environments	Healthy Ageing	COMPLETE
1	C. Peter Winlove	Justin Cooper-White	The Effects of Ageing on the Nutrition and Mechanics of the Intervertebral Disc	Healthy Ageing	COMPLETE
1	Asami Oguro-Ando	Victor Anggono	Uncovering the role of an autism-associated gene in neurodegeneration	Healthy Ageing	COMPLETE
1	Joanne Smith	Nancy Pachana	Change Ambassadors: Positive Environmental , Social and Health Outcomes	Environmental Sustainability, Healthy Ageing	COMPLETE
1	Marisa Lazzari	Ian Lilley	Living pasts, open futures: developing transnational collaboration on cultural heritage, identities and landscape sustainability	Environmental Sustainability	COMPLETE
1	Lucy Hawkes	David Booth	Multi-scale physiological insights and consequences of adaptation to climate change in aquatic vertebrate	Environmental Sustainability	COMPLETE
1	William Gaze	Kevin Thomas	Quantifying human health effects of environmental antimicrobial resistance	Environmental Sustainability	COMPLETE
2	Ben Longdon	Jan Engelstaedter	Insect-pathogen interactions	Environmental Sustainability	ACTIVE
2	Stefano Pagliara	Matthew Cooper	Developing a novel gestalt approach to combat antibiotic resistance	Healthy Aging	ACTIVE
2	Peter Hopkinson	Jacquelyn Humphrey	Redefining the water industry: Developing a circular business model evaluation tool through design thinking for the water industry.	Environmental Sustainability	ACTIVE
2	Diego Panici	Ron Johnstone	AWARE: Adapting Water Abstraction in Rivers for Environmental sustainability	Environmental Sustainability	ACTIVE
2	Nick Stone	Idriss Blakey	Development of disease-related ROS detection probes with reactive Raman reporters	Healthy Aging	ACTIVE
2	Mathew White	Kelly Fielding	Seas, Oceans and Public Health in Australasia (SOPHIA) Project	Environmental Sustainability	ACTIVE
2	Jon Blount	Kevin Thomas	Inter-generational impacts of marine plastic debris in a seabird	Environmental Sustainability	ACTIVE
2	Barbara Tschirren	Marina Fortes	The genetics of aging and fertility in Coturnix japonica (quail) selection lines	Healthy Aging	ACTIVE