TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY BOARD
The Technology Strategy Board, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Economic and Social Research Council have joined forces to back three projects developing identity management systems. Total funding for the projects is £5.5 million.
Award winner: Pete Bramhall
Institution: University of Warwick
Project partners: London School of Economics, University of Oxford, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, HW Communications, QinetiQ
Value: £2.5 million
EnCoRe will focus on providing rigorous means for individuals to grant and revoke their consent for the use, storage and sharing of personal data. See www.encore-project.info
Award winner: Lizzie Coles-Kemp
Institution: Royal Holloway, University of London
Project partners: Cranfield University, University of Salford, Consult Hyperion, Sunderland City Council
Value: £1.8 million
Visualisation and Other Means of Expression (VOME) will reveal and utilise end-users' ideas and concepts of privacy and consent
Award winner: Ian Brown
Institution: University of Oxford
Project partners: University of St Andrews, University College London, University of Bath, Consult Hyperion
Value: not disclosed
Privacy Value Networks (PVNETS) will generate a detailed understanding of individuals' and organisations' conceptions of privacy and identity across a range of contexts and time frames
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
Award winner: B.C. Moore
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £2,067,120
Psychoacoustics of normal and impaired hearing and applications to hearing aid design and fitting
Award winner: P. Neri
Institution: University of Aberdeen
Value: £314,944
Neural mechanisms for visual processing of human agency
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL
Award winner: N. Kljun
Institution: Swansea University
Value: £53,759
Determining on-site variability of CO2 and H2O fluxes using footprint and LiDAR data
Award winner: F.J.F. Van Veen
Institution: Imperial College London
Value: £88,259
Phylogenetic analysis of a highly resolved insect food web
Award winner: P.T. Smiseth
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Value: £83,131
Evolution of parent-offspring communication: who controls resource allocation and is signalling costly?
Award winner: C.M. Bergman
Institution: University of Manchester
Value: £60,804
Testing the impact of host demography on transposable element dynamics in Drosophila
Award winner: P.J. Connolly
Institution: University of Manchester
Value: £89,248
Studying Ice and Mixed Phase clouds using Laboratory EXperiments (SIMPLEX)
Award winner: V. Le Fouest
Institution: Scottish Association for Marine Science
Value: £86,197
Predicting terrestrial CDOM fate and impact on plankton productivity in the rapidly changing Arctic Ocean
Award winner: P.M. Wadke
Institution: Scottish Association for Marine Science
Value: £76,932
Novel Ice Characterisation Experiment, Phase 1 (NICE-1)
Award winner: S. Jung
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Value: £75,256
Indian Ocean intermediate and deep-water variability during the past 150,000 years
Award winner: S.C. Votier
Institution: University of Plymouth
Value: £37,751
Testing for pre-breeding consistency in top marine predators: implications for delayed maturity and buffering of environmental change
Award winner: A.L.D. Densmore
Institution: Durham University
Value: £19,632
Surface rupture in the 12 May 2008 Sichuan earthquake
Award winner: C.J. Horwell
Institution: Durham University
Value: £142,867
Rapid assessment of the potential health hazard of ash from Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii
Award winner: M. Edmonds
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £35,160
Summit eruption of Kilauea Volcano: a unique opportunity to test magma degassing models using new spectroscopic methods
Award winner: J.A.G Cooper
Institution: University of Ulster
Value: £24,024
Morphological signature of the March 2008 swell event on Caribbean beaches.
