Economic and Social Research Council
A total of £1.5 million is to be provided to nine projects that will conduct research into innovative services, products, processes and business models with the aim of bringing the UK out of recession. In this latest phase of the Innovation Research Initiative, funding will go to substantive research projects, based on longer-term research using established methods, and to shorter exploratory research projects designed to investigate new research methods and exploration. Funding has been provided jointly by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts and the Technology Strategy Board. Below are details of the seven winners based at UK universities.
Award winner: Paul Nightingale
Institution: University of Sussex
Development and exploitation of financial innovation
Award winner: Sara Davies
Institution: University of Strathclyde
Innovation in peripheral areas
Award winner: Simcha Jong
Institution: University College London
New modes of innovation
Award winner: Joe Nandhakumar
Institution: University of Warwick
Valuing innovation: an exploratory study of developing business models for "serious" computer games
Award winner: Kamalini Ramdas
Institution: London Business School
Innovation in service delivery
Award winner: Jakob Elder and Luke Georghiou
Institution: University of Manchester
Understanding public procurement of innovation
Award winner: Martin Sexton
Institution: University of Reading
The impact of environmental regulation on innovation in the housing sector: the case of the Code for Sustainable Homes
ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
Award winner: D.H. Coyle
Institution: University of Ulster
Value: £101,963
Intelligent pre- and post-processing algorithms for autonomous multiclass brain-computer interfaces
Award winner: D.E. Clark
Institution: Heriot-Watt University
Value: £101,622
Sequential Monte Carlo smoothing with finite set statistics
Award winner: N. Krasnogor
Institution: University of Nottingham
Value: £950,600
Evolutionary optimisation of self-assembling nano-designs (ExIStENcE)
Award winner: S. Scheel
Institution: Imperial College London
Value: £8,587
Macroscopic bodies - a novel ingredient in the quantum engineering toolbox
Award winner: J.E. Gough
Institution: Aberystwyth University
Value: £16,285
Quantum control: feedback mediated by channels in non-classical states
Award winner: M.P. Halsall
Institution: University of Manchester
Value: £609,229
Silicon emission technologies based on nanocrystals
Award winner: P. Oliva
Institution: Queen Mary, University of London
Value: £101,310
Computation-sensitive proofs
Science and technology facilities council
Award winners: Phil Dawson and Colin Humphreys
Institutions: University of Manchester and University of Cambridge
Value: £346,698 (Manchester) and £826,111 (Cambridge) Nitrides for the 21st century
Award winner: Stephen Billings
Institution: University of Sheffield
Value: £1,205,632
System identification and information processing for complex systems
Award winner: David Barton
Institution: University of Bristol
Value: £7,186
Modelling and testing of nonlinear energy harvesters
Award winner: Ian Sinclair
Institution: University of Southampton
Value: £1,922,453
CeM-CATS: A Centre for Multi-disciplinary Computer Assisted Tomography at Southampton
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Award winner: Zsolt Podolyak
Institution: University of Surrey, in collaboration with the universities of Brighton, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Manchester, York, West of Scotland and Daresbury Laboratory
Value: £10 million
FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research)
Funding will go towards designing and building equipment for FAIR - a EUR1 billion nuclear physics facility which will be built in Darmstadt, Germany. The experiments carried out are intended to further understanding of atomic nuclei and other common forms of matter in the Universe, and will provide data on where and when the chemical elements are made. The project forms part of NuSTAR (Nuclear Structure Astrophysics and Reactions), an international collaboration that will provide research at FAIR and become a training ground for the construction of nuclear power stations, design and man medical facilities for imaging and therapy and devise security measures to thwart terrorist activities.