Many of our academics have recently been successful in securing financial support through the Newton Fund and international grants. It’s great to see them working on interesting international projects with the funding.
Some of these have been a result of seed funding from our International Funding Schemes. Here are some highlights:
- Professor Karen Edler, from the Department of Chemistry, has gained Royal Society funding and run a UK-South Africa workshop called “Smarter Materials for a Sustainable Future - ordered and semi-ordered materials for application in sustainable chemical technologies”, in collaboration with our international strategic partner, Stellenbosch University.
- Professor Anna Gilmore and Dr Karen Evans-Reeves, both from the Department for Health, have received Gates New Venture Funding to collaborate with the Cancer Council Victoria, the Centre for Behavioural Research on Cancer (CBRC) in Melbourne, Australia and the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids in Washington DC. The project is entitled “Establishing a Sustainable Model of Tobacco Industry Monitoring in Sub-Saharan Africa”.
- Dr John Chew, from the Department of Chemical Engineering, has secured funding from the Singapore Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund to work with Nanyang Technological University (another of our international strategic partners).
- Dr Weijia Yuan, from the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, has gained a Royal Society International Grant to work with the Chinese Electric Power Research Institute. The project is called “Applications of Large Scale High Temperature Superconducting Energy Storage Systems in Meshed Renewable Power Grids in the UK and China”.
- Professor Simone Fullagar, from the Department for Health, has gained a Researcher Links Workshop Grant, which was used to run an international ECR workshop in Brazil on sport and transformation in March 2015 with our strategic partner, the University of São Paulo.
- Dr Michael Proulx, from the Department of Psychology, and Dr Alexandra de Sousa, from Department of Biology and Biochemistry, will be making links with the Bandung Institute of Technology (in Bandung, Indonesia) and Universitas Indonesia, using a British Council Indonesia Second City HE Partnerships Travel Grant. They plan to visit this summer.
- Dr Paula Kover, from the Department of Biology and Biochemistry, has won a Newton Mobility Grant with our strategic partner, the National Autonomous University of Mexico. The project is entitled “The influence of genomic and phenotypic differentiation in determining a species’ range”.
- Dr Ana Dinerstein, from the Department of Social and Policy Sciences, has secured a British Academy Newton Mobility Grant to work on “Social Movements and Autonomous Education: New Pedagogical Experiences in Brazil and the UK” with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
- Drs Chris Chuck and Valeska Ting, both from the Department of Chemical Engineering, have won a travel grant from the Newton Research Collaboration Programme. They will be working on applying an algae solution to industrial waste with Hanoi University of Mining and Geology in Vietnam.
- Dr Albert Bolhuis, from the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, has won a Newton Fund Researcher Links Travel Grant to work with the Vietnamese Academy of Sciences Institute of Biotechnology (IBT).
If you are interested in applying for international research funding or have any questions, please get in touch with Dr Caroline Ang and Dr Gillian Overend (Research & Innovation Services). For support for non-research related grants (e.g. travel grants), please contact Katja Nieminen (International Relations Office).
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