ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
The ESRC has announced funding for five public heath centres. Each will receive £4 million over the next five years. Funding is in conjunction with the Department of Health, the UK Clinical Research Collaboration and the Medical Research Council.
- Award winner: M. White
- Institution: Newcastle University
North East Centre of Excellence for Translational Research in Public Health.
- Award winner: L. A. R. Moore
- Institution: Cardiff University
Centre for the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement
- Award winner: F. Kee
- Institution: Queen's University Belfast
UKCRC Public Health Research Centre of Excellence
- Award winner: N. Wareham
- Institution: University of Cambridge
Diet and Physical Activity Public Health Research Centre
- Award winner: K. Britten
- Institution: University of Nottingham
UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
- Award winner: Timothy J. Cole
- Institution: MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health/ UCL Institute of Child Health
- Value: £349,155
Mathematical methods in the assessment of human growth
- Award winner: Paul Elliott
- Institution: Imperial College London
- Value: £405,772
Effects of early-life exposure to particulates on respiratory health in childhood and adolescence
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
- Award winner: Denis Burdakov
- Institution: University of Cambridge
- Value: £284,000
NOVEL ENERGY-SENSING PATHWAYS IN THE BRAIN
TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY BOARD
As part of its spring 2007 collaborative research and development competition, the TSB has awarded grants to 35 university projects. A selection of winners is published here. All have industrial partners.
- Institution: University College London
- Value: £196,754 Lighting technology for next-generation games and CGI
- Institution: University of Bristol
- Value: £487,041
Closing the Loop for Everybody's Energy Resources (Clever)
- Institution: Imperial College London
- Value: £93,352
Optimisation of oxyfuel PF power plant for transient behaviour
- Institutions: Durham University; North East Wales Institute of Higher Education; University College London
- Value: £239,112 (Durham), £282,887 (Newi), £291,457 (UCL)
New improved muds from environmental sources (Nimes)
- Institution: University of Southampton
- Value: £301,750
Deepwater permanent reservoir monitoring using fibre optic seismic arrays (Fosar Deep)
- Institution: University of Manchester
- Value: £605,7
Quantifying wet-gas liquid production to improve productivity and reservoir management
- Institution: Swansea University
- Value: £9,341
High-resolution R2R flexo printing for volume production of flexible plastic electronics
- Institution: University of Manchester
- Value: £313,185
Ultra-fast inorganic nanoelectronics on flexible substrates (Ultrafine)
- Institution: Brunel University
- Value: £296,252
Addressable, conductive tracks in vehicles for ACEL flexible displays (Activel)
- Institution: University of Manchester
- Value: £183,631
Customised adhesion of interlayers for plastic electronics
- Institutions: Queen Mary, University of London; University of Sheffield
- Value: £245,454 (Queen Mary), £47,522 (Sheffield)
Prototype sensor for periodontal disease monitoring
- Institution: University of Sheffield
- Value: £556,657
Nanoscale polymer-ceramic composites for biomedical applications
- Institution: Cranfield University
- Value: £140,747
Sealing and surface engineering technologies for USC steam turbine plant
- Institution: University of Leeds
- Value: £250,239
Enhanced capture with oxygen critical operating parameters post-combustion scrubbing
- Institution: University of Nottingham
- Value: £170,704
Integrated biomass-fuelled CHP/cooling system.
