Aligned to the University’s Corporate Plan and International Research Strategy, these investment and funding schemes provide an opportunity for CU researchers to undertake transformative, cross-disciplinary, cross-national, and cross-sector research. They are aligned to the University’s Research Strategy, the Global Challenges Research Fund, the Industrial Strategy, Stern and Dowling Reviews, and UK Research and Innovation’s Strategic Prospectus.
Below is a list of successful awards for the schemes 2019-20
| Early Career Researcher Networking and Skills Development | ||
| Ania Sadkowska | Fashion, Ageing and Sustainability | £3,140 |
| International and Interdisciplinary Pilot Projects | ||
| Jesper Christensen | Environmentally Sustainable Bio-composites for Energy Absorbing Structures (E-BEAS) | £9,340 |
| Bianca Wright | FEVR (Field Experience in Virtual Reality): the virtual reality field experience | £9,860 |
| Mahsa Baniasadi | Enhancement of Gold extraction from electronic waste using modified bacteria (bacterial mutagenesis). | £9,930 |
| Gordon Crawford | The Shrinking Civic Space in Cameroon and the Role of Civil Society Organisations in Resolution of the ongoing ‘Anglophone’ Conflict | £12,000 |
| Martin Wilkes | Social-ecological ALGORIthms for the COmmon good (ALGORICO) | £11,600 |
| Luca Morini | Reviewing the reforms associated with decolonisation: the curricula, institutional structures and processes | £11,240 |
| Trailblazers: The Early-Career Researcher and Doctoral Studentship Partnering Scheme | |
| Francis Rayns | Novel fertility management in vegan organic cropping systems |
| Jana Fried | Dangerous beauty? Environmental risk perceptions and public policy preferences for ornamental horticulture in Botswana, Namibia and South Africa |
| Janneke Adema | Post-Publishing (Post-Pub): Towards Openness, Diversity, and Experimentation |
| Iain MacKinnon | Dùthchas: locating and nourishing cultural roots of Scotland’s land reform revolution |
| Karen Wood | Moving Towards Hybrid Art Practice: The Influence of Choreographic Practice |
| Emma Meehan | Collaborative Theatre with Local Communities in Coventry: Models for Sustainable Practice |
| Rong Lan | New Membrane Electrolyte for Flexible Aqueous Zn-ion Batteries |
| Chris Shannahan | Theology, poverty and the common good in ‘breadline Britain’: An analysis of Christian activism since the 2008 financial crash |
| Bastien Dieppois | Hydrological Extreme Risks and Management in sub-Saharan Africa: bridging the gap between historical data and future climate scenarios |
| Charis Rice | Making sense of post-Brexit governance: Communication, Inclusion and Trust in Northern Ireland. |
| Seyed RMousavi | Data Science approach to exploiting domain structures in heuristic algorithms for the set covering problem |
| Mauro Innocente | Autonomous Artificial Intelligence Enabled Drones to Inform Predictive Maintenance Actions in the Railways and Roads |
| Naveed Iqbal | Development of novel welding mechanism for joining dissimilar materials in battery cells |
| Jason Bennett | The role of Gadd45β in tumour-associated dendritic cells |