Academics and support staff from across the University have continued to secure research funding in a wide range of fields. Recent funding successes include:
Joss Winn (CERD): Two bids funded by JISC: Linking You (with ICT (£14k)) and Jerome (with Paul Stainthorp and ICT, (£36K))
Jerome began in the summer of 2010, as an informal ‘un-project’, with the aim of radically integrating data available to the University of Lincoln’s library services and offering a uniquely personalised service to staff and students through the use of new APIs, open data and machine learning.
Linking You intends to re-evaluate the overall underlying architecture of the University’s websites with a range of stakeholders and engage with others in the sector around the structure, persistence and use of the open data we publish on the web.
Professor Michael Healey (AAD), Professor Belinda Colston (HLSS) and Professor Mike Esson (College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales and University of Lincoln): AHRC networking funding for The Art of Reconstruction for Plastic Surgeons (£29k)
The Art of Reconstruction uses artistic techniques to help train plastic surgeons in the aesthetics of reconstructive surgery. This project is a collaborative venture which will involve establishing an international network to build on this work and carry out research into the outcomes for patients and surgeons.
Dr Leslie Hicks and Karin Crawford (HLSS): AHRC funding for Communities in Care (£30k)
This scoping study is designed to stimulate debate and inform future discussion at the levels of policy, practice and research in respect of the contested relationship between ‘community’ and ‘looked after children and young people’.
Katie Strudwick (HLSS): Higher Education Academy funding for Employability Skills in Social Sciences – Parent and Student Expectations (£6K)
This project will evaluate perceptions of the employability value of Social Science courses held by pre-university students and their parents. The data collected will be used to develop information and guidelines to ensure greater student and parent satisfaction, and influence course development, within the Department and wider University to better reflect the employability agenda whilst maintaining critical academic theorising and knowledge.
Catherine Bochel (HLSS): British Academy small grant funding for Understanding Effective Petition Systems (£4K)
The use of petitions systems is increasing and looks set to be part of the political landscape for the foreseeable future. The aim of this research is to use a comparative case study approach in eight different systems at national, devolved and local levels in order to understand what makes petitioning systems effective.
Dr Catherine Burge (AAD): Leverhulme funding for an Artists in residence with the Royal Armouries in Leeds (£7.5k)
Dr Burge will investigate the Royal Armouries’ collection from the perspective of the decorative and sculptural, which differs from the dominant internal expertise which has a more historical and technological perspective. Outcomes include an exhibition, website, contribution to the gallery’s 5-year strategy, journal article.
Dr Tom Duckett (MHT): Higher Education Innovation and Regional Fellowships funding for Automatic Online Detection and Identification of Potato Blemishes (£16K)
This fellowship will develop a prototype system for accurate monitoring of individual potatoes and aggregation of summary statistics for an entire harvest, and enable us to demonstrate this prototype to the industry.
Professor Niro Siriwardena (HLSS): East Midlands Health Innovation and Education Cluster funding for Improving Primary Care Resources for Effective Sleep Treatment (IPCREST) (£39K)
The project will train GPs and nurses in patient-focused treatment for insomnia (assessment of sleep problems and CBT-I). This builds on previous research by Niro and his team into effective treatment for sleep disorder.