EPSRC IAA Projects Funded in 2022

Our new EPSRC IAA for 2022-2025 commenced on 1st April 2022. Projects listed on this page include some funded under the previous 2017-2022 EPSRC IAA as well as the new award.

The VR Metaverse and cybersickness

Featured project: Mitigation of Cybersickness and Motion Sickness in the Era of the Metaverse

Standard IAA Projects Awards

Ubiquitous Asset Management Using Hybrid RFID and IoT Technologies
Shuja Ansari (PI), Qammer Abbasi and Muhammed Imran, James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with Beringar Ltd - £11,217 

Using artificial tastebuds in biomedical technology settings
Alasdair Clark (PI), James Watt School of Engineering, William Peveler, School of Chemistry, in collaboration with Spraying Systems Co - £50,076

Spin-out Business Plan and Pitch Deck
Sandy Cochran (PI), Margaret Lucas, James Watt School of Engineering, and Darian Brookes, Research & Innovation Services, in collaboration with Nami Surgical Ltd. - £40,794

Computational Modelling of an MRI-Compatible In-vitro and In-vivo Stimulation System for Brain Cancer Treatment
Rupam Das (PI), Finlay Walton and Hadi Heidari, James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with QV Bioelectronics - £6,197 

Energy-related Emissions Analytics for Sustainable Finance
Vinny Davies (PI), Jethro Browell, School of Mathematics & Statistics, in collaboration with Nat West - £40,000

Tracing Light - ARC Artist Residency
Daniele Faccio (PI), School of Physics & Astronomy, Sarah Cook, College of Arts & Humanities, in collaboration with Semiconductor Films Ltd - £40,000

Building communities, the future of academia
Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay (PI), James Watt School of Engineering - £42,700

Disposable plasmonics assays for monitoring airborne pathogens in commercial air filters
Affar Karimullah (PI), School of Chemistry, Edward Hutchinson, College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, Malcolm Kadodwala, School of Chemistry, Nikolaj Gadegaard, James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with Pinpoint Medical Ltd. - £39,118

SmartQA: Generating Questions & Answers From Product Reviews for Opinew
Craig MacDonald (PI), Sean MacAvaney, School of Computer Science, in collaboration with Opinew - £33,600

Maximising the impact of the next generation Quasi Vivo advanced cell culture system through the creation of a user guide
Sean McGinty (PI), Lauren Hyndman, James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with Kirkstall - £27,317

Compact Field Prototypes for Wee-g Gravimeter
Abhinav Prasad (PI), Karl Toland, School of Physics and Astronomy - £17,136 

RoboGuide: Recruiting and deploying a humanoid robot for assisted indoor navigation and shopping assistant for blind and partially sighted people
Ola Popoola (PI), Wasim Ahmad, Paul Lynch, Muhammad Imran, James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with Softbank Robotics Europe [Part of United Robotics Group (URG) GmbH]; Forth Valley Sensory Centre Trust (FVSC); The Royal National Institute of Blind (RNIB), Scotland; Sight and Sound Technology - £26,557

“Biofilter-Build” - building a sustainable drinking water treatment future
Cindy Smith (PI), Bill Sloan, Marta Vignola, James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with Scottish Water - £49,769

Computer Science Academy Africa (CSA Africa)
Sofiat Olaosebikan (PI), School of Computer Science - £10,500

Development of a framework and principles for environmental sensor network design
Marian Scott (PI), Claire Miller, Mu Niu, School of Mathematics & Statistics, with SRUC and Censis - £25,300

Synthesis of organic materials for downconverters
Peter Skabara (PI), Oleksandr Kanibolotskyy, School of Chemistry, in collaboration with GW Associates - £50,000

Worldwide use of polluting fuels for household heating and lighting for Sustainable Development Goal 7 - Phase 1
Oliver Stoner (PI), School of Maths & Statistics, in collaboration with WHO - £24,220

Worldwide use of polluting fuels for household heating and lighting for Sustainable Development Goal 7 - Phase 2
Oliver Stoner (PI), School of Maths & Statistics, in collaboration with WHO - £29,467

Early-Stage Clinical Development of LW223 for Future Commercialisation
Andrew Sutherland, School of Chemistry, in collaboration with Adriana Tavares (University of Edinburgh) and Life Molecular Imaging - £23,471

An Evaluation of Tailored Real Time Energy Services for Comfort, Affordability and Sustainability in Scottish Social Housing
Ahmad Taha (PI), Muhammad Imran, David Flynn, Qammer Abbasi, James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with Albyn Housing Society Ltd - £33,811

Clinical validation and exploitation for rapid pathogen diagnosis platforms
Huabing Yin (PI), Julien Reboud, Jon Cooper, James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with Epigem Limited - £50,000

Energy COnscious Network for Independent Living (COIL)
Ahmed Zoha (PI), Masood Nizami, Muhammad Ali Jamshed, Muhammad Ali Imran, James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with Briteyellow - £18,626

Fast Track IAA Project Awards

Joint CDT and TCES Conference - Future Leaders in Regenerative Medicine
Matt Dalby (PI), College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, Michelle Carmichael, College of Science & Engineering: College Academic & Student Administration, in collaboration with Tissue and Cell Engineering Society, World Precision Technologies, Veolia Water Technologies, Sphere Fluidics, Jellagen, Swift Analytical, N8, Don Whitley Scientific, PHC Europe, Cell Guidance Systems, Cellink, Zimmer Peacock, Pepro Tech and OP11 - £3,000

Alliance for Mechanobiology
Oana Dobre (PI), Giuseppe Ciccone, Massimo Vassalli and Delphine Gordon, James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with University of Sydney - £3,940

Addressing technical shortfalls and assessing future end-user needs in the treatment of the UK’s civil plutonium
Joy Farnaby (PI), School of Chemistry, in collaboration with Sellafield - £2,350

Imaging Across the Electromagnetic Spectrum – An Industrial-Academic Open Space Event in CoSE
Andy Harvey (PI), School of Physics & Astronomy, Tony Kelly, James Watt School of Engineering - £701

Invited Talk and Panel Session at NetworkX Industrial Conference
Paul Harvey (PI), James Watt School of Engineering - £1,240

ITU-T Standardisation Meeting and Workshop
Paul Harvey (PI), James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with UN ITU-T - £2,360

HyperMeasure: Measuring anatomical geometry using light
Akhil Kallepalli (PI), School of Physics & Astronomy, in collaboration with QuantIC and CENSIS - £4,931

Synthesis of organic materials for downconvertors
Lyuda Kanibolotska (PI), Oleksandr Kanibolotskyy, Pete Skabara, School of Chemistry, in collaboration with Britest Ltd - £3,000

Online programme - Prepare to Launch a Career Outside of Academia Through Your Own Technology Venture
Lyuda Kanibolotska (PI), School of Chemistry - £1,440

ADS Hydrogen powered aviation event
Lynne McCorriston (PI), Science & Engineering College Research Administration, David Flynn, James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with ADS - £2,000

Banners for robotics and automation event (Scotland Manufacturing and Supply Chain Conference and Exhibition)
Lynne McCorriston (PI), Science & Engineering College Research Administration - £552

Single-cycle THz fields electro-optical sampling with single-photon detectors
Taylor Shields (PI), Matteo Clerici, James Watt School of Engineering - £2,500

MLiS conference
Jack Radford (PI), Valentin Kapitany, Daniele Faccio, School of Physics & Astronomy - £1,238

Brazil water treatment visit
Marta Vignola (PI), Cindy Smith, James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with Federal University of Minas Gerais and COPASA MG - £4,500

Prototyping a flexible implantable optogenetic device
Finlay Walton (PI), James Watt School of Engineering - £2,992

Develop Partnership with Leading Robotics Companies
Guodong Zhao (PI), James Watt School of Engineering - £4,450

Research Associate IAA Project Awards

Impact Acceleration in Cybersecurity of Supply Chains
Tania Wallis (PI), School of Computer Science, in collaboration with National Cyber Security Centre - £14,167

Other IAA Calls for Proposals - Awards

New tools to identify malaria vector habitats from high resolution Earth Observation data
Kimberly Fornace (PI), College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, Brian Barrett, School of Geographical & Earth Sciences, in collaboration with Health Innovation Laboratory, Peru; IHI, Tanzania and Terraframe, joint project with BBSRC IAA - £40,000

Attendance of Materials Research Exchange, London
Trevor Almeida (PI), School of Physics & Astronomy - £650

Printed Sensors and Devices for High Performance Flexible Electronics
Dhayalan Shakthivel (PI), Ensieh Seyed Hosseini, James Watt School of Engineering - £1,800

The pulse-elevator: a new concept for granular media
Patrick Harkness (PI), Xuan Li, Kevin Worrall, James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with Schenck Process, joint project with STFC IAA - £26,570

Disposable plasmonics assays for monitoring airborne pathogens in commercial air filters (Supplement)
Affar Karimullah (PI), School of Chemistry, in collaboration with Pinpoint Medical Ltd. - £1,787

Entrepreneurship Workshops proposal for IAA Funding
Darian Brookes (PI), Research & Innovation Services - £50,000