Seedcorn Fund projects 2015-2016
These are the successful Seedcorn Fund funded projects in 2015-2016:
Natural earthquakes as proxies for man-made seismic hazard and risk: understanding induced earthquakes, their ground motions and building vulnerability in the UK
Flavia de Luca (Civil Engineering), co-applicants Maximilian Werner and James Verdon (Earth Sciences) - £2500
Green and Black- An alternative green capital
Kat Wall (Policy Bristol, Faculty of Social Science and Law), co-applicants Gary Topp (Green Capital Partnership) and Roger Griffith (Ujima Radio CIC) - £2150
Community-based monitoring of volcanic ash hazard
Katherine Cashman (Earth Sciences), co-applicant Emma Liu (Earth Sciences) - £1650
Geology for Global Development – 2015/16 Research and Development Engagement Workshops
Mark Trigg (Geographical Sciences), co-applicants Emily White (Chemistry), Serginio Remmelzwaal and Ryan Lloyd (Earth Sciences) - £700
Transition Engineering: Exploring future pathways to sustainable resource consumption
Paul Harper (Aerospace engineering), co-applicants Jeremy Burn, Chris McMahon (Mechanical Engineering) and Karen Bell (Sociology, Politics and International Studies) - £1000
Pilot evaluation of the Crocodile walking school bus smart-phone application to increase active travel and reduce car journeys to school
Russ Jago (Policy Studies), co-applicant Ruth Kipping (Social and Community Medicine) - £3000
Modelling urban flood risk in developing countries: Proof-of-concept for an interdisciplinary approach
Sean Fox (social science - Geographical Sciences) and Jeff Neal (science - Geographical Sciences) - £3000
Borneo challenge: Tracking orangutans using drones
Tom Richardson (Aerospace engineering) and Jim Freer (Geographical Sciences) - £3100