Start-up funding

Start-up funding has been awarded to enable project teams to develop interdisciplinary research ideas. All of the Start-up funding has now been allocated.

Start-up funding awards October 2011

The final round of Start-up funding was awarded in October 2011 to the following projects:

• Development and testing of body perception measurement
  Ailie Turton, Candy McCabe, Mark Palmer and Tim Moss were awarded £3,872.
  Distressing changes in body image can occur following peripheral injuries, or central nervous system damage. However representing or measuring body image is a challenge. The purpose of this project is to develop a digital media tool for assessing changes in body image that can be used to evaluate interventions.
• Mapping communities vulnerable to air pollution in Lagos
  Dotun Olowoporoku , Jo Barnes, Judy Orme and Jon Pollock were awarded £7,948.
  This will enable the researchers to undertake rapid evidence assessment of the strength of association between objective indicators of air pollution exposure and self-reported evidence of harm, as well as identifying data requirements for mapping spatial variations of this association in Lagos, Nigeria.
• Background research for an NIHR bid on nurse rescheduling
  Alistair Clark, Pam Moule and Martin Serpell were awarded £3,993.
  Giving nurses good shift schedules impacts positively on patient care and nurse retention. Poor shift rescheduling can impact negatively. This HEAT projects funds time to help write a bid to the National Institute of Heath Research (NIHR) on Nurse Rescheduling, an interdisciplionary collaboration between Faculty of Environment and Technology and Faculty of Health and Life Sciences.
• Wireless sensor network for water quality monitoring@UWE
  Darren Reynolds, Mokhtar Nibouche, John Greenman, Ioannis Ieropoulos, Mark Webster and Robin Thorn were awarded £8,100.
  This interdisciplinary project brings together stakeholders from microelectronics, environmental and sensor technologies. This project involves representatives from academia, UWE facilities and SME technology companies for the development of a wireless sensor network for the acquisition of continuous water quality data from aquatic environments located on the UWE campus at Frenchay.
• Fully Integrated Flood Infrastructure (FIFI) Training Network
  David Proverbs, Jessica Lamond, Katie Williams, Danielle Sinnett, Trevor Goodhew, Neville Quinn and Selena Gray were awarded £1,582.
  This is helping scientists in hydrology, urban planning, construction, property and the behavioural sciences work together to develop training for flood risk professionals. In this multidisciplinary field the need for practitioners to develop skills beyond their technical specialisms is well recognised.
• A new diagnostic aid for urinary tract infection detection
  Norman Ratcliffe, Ben deLacy Costello and Gillian Smith were awarded £3,600.
  There is a need for better detection methods of urinary tract infections; a significant case of morbidity affecting 20% of women. This projects aims to improve the current dipstick technology for detecting urinary tract infections.
• An Exploration of Hard (Urban Design) and Soft (Social Marketing) Measures in Influencing Sustainable Behaviours
  Katie Williams, Alan Tapp, Danielle Sinnett, Sarah Leonard and Jennifer Joynt were awarded £11,685.
  The ‘Sustainable Behaviours and Neighbourhood Design’ project is a collaboration between the Bristol Centre for Social Marketing and the Centre for Sustainable Planning and Environments. It aims to better understand the nature of the relationships between urban design in residential neighbourhoods and sustainable behaviours, exploring motivations, norms, attitudes and awareness.
• BeCAUSE: Behaviour Change and Agriculture in Urban Society and Environments
  Jennifer Joynt, Danielle Sinnett, Clare Wilkinson and Katie McClymont have been awarded £6,399.
  Food production in towns and cities offers the potential to overcome current and future challenges associated with food security, energy use and the changing climate. BeCAUSE will assess how urban agriculture is being adopted in Bristol and produce insights into the barriers, risks and opportunities encountered by community groups.