Eleven research teams in seven of the University's Schools have received grants totalling £170,000 to accelerate the impact of their research. These awards were made through pilot funding schemes from the and the .
The awards of £10-20,000 support diverse knowledge exchange and commercialisation activities over the coming 12 months: product design and product testing, market research, applying natural hazard research with businesses, secondments, and producing resources for dissemination to business and the public.
BBSRC’s Sparking Impact Award and NERC’s Impact Accelerator Fund were distributed by an internal competition and panel review managed by the University’s).
Dr Neil Bradshaw (Director of Enterprise and Panel Chair) said: 'These competitions ran to a tight timescale. In only six weeks our academic community created many excellent proposals and we were oversubscribed by almost 50 per cent. The Panel had to make tough decisions and we look forward to seeing how cutting-edge research can deliver great impact through these projects and partnerships.'
The full list of awards is as follows:
Biochemistry
(BBSRC-funded) for ‘User documentation, tutorials and example data for Bristol University Docking Engine (BUDE)’. Producing a user manual for protein-protein docking, binding-site identification and drug screening.
Biological Sciences
(NERC-funded) for ‘Ticks and tick-borne disease: sheep farmer knowledge-transfer in South West England.’
Chemistry
(NERC-funded) for ‘Climate lessons from earth history: lessons of political value to the renewable energy sector?' A secondment with Regen South West.
(BBSRC-funded) for ‘Self-assembling and peptide cages: from development to biomedical applications’.
Clinical Sciences
(BBSRC-funded) for ‘Prototype development of miniaturised automated sampling system for 24-hour monitoring of hormone levels in man’.
Earth Sciences
(NERC-funded) for ‘Using magmatic and geothermal data to inform geothermal energy production in Ethiopia'.
(NERC-funded) for ‘Identifying high-risk volcanoes’. With United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (ISDR), Munich RE, Willis Group and Risk Management Solutions (RMS).
Geographical Sciences
(NERC-funded) for ‘Commercialisation of flood risk products for insurance markets’.
Veterinary Sciences
(BBSRC-funded) for ‘A novel test of affective state for laboratory animals: development of a prototype ‘home cage’ testing protocol in collaboration with Delta Phenomics BV’.
(BBSRC-funded) for ‘Applying targeted parasite control on smallholder farms in Botswana using a mobile phone-based decision-support system’.
(BBSRC-funded) for ‘Safety tests of a prototype block (FeatherWel) designed to reduce injurious pecking in laying hens’.