Researchers from across the University have continued to secure research funding in a wide range of fields. Here is a selection of recent funding successes:
Niro Siriwardena (HLSS) – with Sheffield University (lead partner) – NIHR Service Delivery and Organisation Programme – £6K
Summary: “Research project will explore the various influences on safe decision making by emergency care staff in order to identify areas where interventions are needed to improve patient safety during transitions, to recommend intervention strategies and to identify areas where further research is needed.”
Jose Gonzalez-Rodriguez (HLSS) :
EMDA Higher Education Innovation Regional Fellowships – £16K
Summary: “The Project deals with the recycling of a rare metal called Rhenium. Rhenium is found in superalloys and its recycling will be studied from an innovative point of view. If successful the outputs of the project will be a process that can be patented and commercialised by the University.”
RSC Analysis and design of a multisensor array for explosive substances based on solid electrodes – 2K
Summary: ‘This research will provide with data and information to build a sensor array based on different types of solid electrodes. In principle we will study the electrochemical behaviour of different explosive substances such as centralite, picric acid and TATP when presented to different solid electrodes (glassy carbon, gold, silver platinum and tungsten electrodes). The responses obtained by these and/or other model explosives will help to identify their electrochemical characteristics. Once we have achieved this we can design and build microelectrodes based on the same materials and couple them to create a single detection device. With aid of multivariate analysis we will proceed to establish electrochemical fingerprints for this compounds to characterise’
Mark O’Thomas (MHT) – with Portgual (lead partner) – EACEA Culture Programme – STORM Project – £74K
Summary: “In the STORM project theatre practitioners, actors, directors, educators and academics from three different parts of Europe: Southern – Tomar (Central Portugal), Northern – Lincoln (East Coast of England) Eastern – Elbląg (Northern Poland) will come together to create an intercultural dialogue, through physical movement of the artists themselves as they move through one another’s countries to create a collaborative performance of Shakespeare’s Tempest.”
Dan Bishop (HLSS) – Lincolnshire Sports Partnership – Play4Life – £4.5K
Summary: “The project aim is to evaluate the Play 4 Life programme which is being implemented by a private training provider on behalf of the Lincolnshire Sports Partnership after a successful application to the Health and Wellbeing Fund. The Play 4 Life programme aims to decrease obesity levels in children aged 0 – 5 in Lincolnshire by providing adult cascade training to parents and practitioners to encourage active play.”
Adele Langlois (HLSS) – Wellcome Trust – UNESCO’s Human Cloning Debate – £5K
Summary: “This project will investigate how UNESCO has garnered views from state representatives, experts (in science and ethics) and civil society on whether and how human cloning should be regulated and the different traditions (‘Western’ and ‘non-Western’, for example) cited in the debate.”
Nicholas Temple (AAD):
Paul Mellon Foundation Education Grant – £3.5K
Summary: “To support a symposium on the theme of Lincoln Cathedral and its 13th century Bishop, Robert Grosseteste. This will form part of the Lincoln Digital Arts Festival, enabling inclusion of a wide body of interest from the local public, academic audience and architectural industry professionals.”
Paul Mellon Rome Fellowship for 2012 – £8.5 K
Summary: A 4 month residency at the British School at Rome to study ‘Sir William Chambers’ Grand Tour: Reconciling Orientalism and Classicism.’
Shigang Yue (MHT) – Marie Curie International Research Staff Exchange Scheme led by Lincoln and involving University of Hamburg, and two Chinese institutions: Tsinghua University and Xi’an Jiaotong University – Eye2E: Building a Visual Brain for Fast Human Machine Interaction – Approx £727K over 4 years
Summary: “Focusing on modelling biological visual neural systems and realizing them in chips for human-machine interaction, the research staff exchange programme will bring opportunities for the four partners to work together and complement each others’ research strengths via research staff secondments, training seminars, joint workshops and jointly organised conferences, to explore the multidisciplinary research area and to build strong connections between the European institutions and partner institutions in a fast growing economy.”
Paul Stewart (Engineering) – FP7 Multi-body Advanced Airship for Transport led by University of Modena, Italy – £322K
Summary: “The MAAT project aims to investigate the possibility of aerial transportation via an airship based cruiser-feeder system. MAAT is composed of three modules:
– the cruiser, named PTAH, (acronym of Photovoltaic Transport Aerial High altitude system);
– the feeder, named ATEN (Aerial Transport Elevator Network feeder), is a VTOL system (Vertical Take Off and
Landing) which ensure the connection between the cruiser and the ground;
– the vertical airport hub, named AHA (Airport Hub for Airship feeders).”