JISC
Digitisation and creation of Open Educational Resources (OER)
• Award winner: David Male
• Institution: The Open University
• Value: £101,078
Histology and histopathology: virtual microscopy online
• Award winner: Alison Dickens
• Institution: University of Southampton
• Value: £124,931
OpenLIVES (learning insights from the voices of emigres from Spain)
• Award winner: Ben Wynne
• Institution: University of Leicester
• Value: £102,740
Manufacturing pasts: industrial change in 20th-century Britain
• Award winner: Simon Peter Kelly
• Institution: The Open University
• Value: £114,912
UKVM (United Kingdom virtual microscope)
• Award winner: Helen Roberts
• Institution: University of Surrey
• Value: £122,391
Context, culture and creativity: Enriching e-learning in dance (CCC-EED)
• Award winner: Jane Harvell
• Institution: University of Sussex
• Value: £94,654
Observing the 1980s
• Award winner: Kerstin Mey
• Institution: University for the Creative Arts
• Value: £110,000
Zandra Rhodes digital study collection
• Award winner: Helen Chatterjee
• Institution: University College London
• Value: £123,231
OBL4HE (object-based learning for higher education)
• Award winner: Stuart Brand
• Institution: Birmingham City University
• Value: £125,000
Architect US (architecturally useful scholarly) resources
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
Innovation Research Initiative
• Award winner: Paul Nightingale
• Institution: University of Sussex
• Value: £1,016
Skills, knowledge, innovation, policy and practice
• Award winner: Philip Shapira
• Institution: University of Manchester
• Value: £260,541
Sustaining growth for innovative new enterprises
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCH
Health Services Research (NIHR HSR) programme
• Award winner: David Evans
• Institution: University of the West of England
• Value: £187,793
Public involvement in research: assessing impact through a realist evaluation
• Award winner: Carrol Gamble
• Institution: University of Liverpool
• Value: £243,308
An evidence base to optimise methods for involving patient and public representatives in clinical trials: a systematic investigation of a cohort of health technology assessment-funded clinical trials
IN DETAIL
• Award winner: Fergus Lyon
• Institution: Middlesex University
• Value: £224,7
The role of mutuals in public service innovation
The agenda to increase the involvement of mutual organisations and employee ownership in public service delivery has been of growing policy importance over the past five years, but increasingly so for the current government which has raised expectations of the potential of mutuals as organisational vehicles for innovation and improved productivity. This study aims to provide a rigorous evidence base concerning the role of spin-off mutual (ie, employee-owned) organisational forms in promoting innovation in public services in the UK. It will examine the types of innovations involved and their effectiveness.