The Cabot Institute Innovation fund is an annual open call of approximately £20,000. Those who apply for funds must reflect the Cabot Institute’s interdisciplinary and engaged research approach, which brings together the social sciences, life and physical sciences and engineering and involves non-academic partners. Awards are decided by the Cabot Institute Steering Group which comprises of the Cabot Institute's theme leaders and key individuals in Professional Services.
Once again, like last year, we had some great applications across all the Cabot Institute themes of global change, water, energy security, food security, natural hazards and future cities and communities. The following were successful in their bid and we would like to congratulate them on their awards.
Flavia de Luca (Civil Engineering), co-applicants Maximilian Werner and James Verdon (Earth Sciences) - £2500
Kat Wall (Policy Bristol, Faculty of Social Science and Law), co-applicants Gary Topp (Green Capital Partnership) and Roger Griffith (Ujima Radio CIC) - £2150
Green and Black- An alternative green capital
Katherine Cashman (Earth Sciences), co-applicant Emma Liu (Earth Sciences) - £1650
Community-based monitoring of volcanic ash hazard
Mark Trigg (Geographical Sciences), co-applicants Emily White (Chemistry), Serginio Remmelzwaal and Ryan Lloyd (Earth Sciences) - £700
Geology for Global Development – 2015/16 Research and Development Engagement Workshops
Paul Harper (Aerospace engineering), co-applicants Jeremy Burn, Chris McMahon (Mechanical Engineering) and Karen Bell (Sociology, Politics and International Studies) - £1000
Transition Engineering: Exploring future pathways to sustainable resource consumption
Russ Jago (Policy Studies), co-applicant Ruth Kipping (Social and Community Medicine) - £3000
Sean Fox (social science - Geographical Sciences) and Jeff Neal (science - Geographical Sciences) - £3000
Tom Richardson (Aerospace engineering) and Jim Freer (Geographical Sciences) - £3100
Borneo challenge: Tracking orangutans using drones