Cabot Seedcorn Funded projects 2018 - 2019
Winners of 2018's Cabot Institute Innovation Fund have been announced. The funds are aimed at supporting bold, ambitious, and impactful ideas, that transcend disciplinary boundaries. It offers us an opportunity to invite new ideas from our research community – those that might not receive funding from traditional sources, but which show real intellectual or practical promise.
The Cabot Institute Innovation Fund is an annual open call of approximately £30,000 derived from generous gifts and donations to the Cabot Institute. Those who apply for funds must reflect the Cabot Institute’s interdisciplinary and engaged research approach, which brings together multiple disciplines and/or non-academic partners.
Once again, we were delighted to receive fantastic applications across all the Cabot Institute themes of global change, water, low carbon energy, food security, natural hazards and future cities and communities.
Funded projects 2018-2019
The following were successful in their bid and we would like to congratulate them on their awards. Click the links to find out more.
Awarded: £7000
Investigators: Jessica Paddock (SPAIS), Egle Cesnulyte (SPAIS), Neil Carrier (School of Arts).
Dragon eggs: Drone-deployed remote environmental monitoring
Awarded: £2800
Investigators: Kieran Wood (Aerospace Engineering), Tom Scott (Physics), Tom Richardson (Aerospace Engineering), Yannick Verbelen (Physics), Suresh Kaluvan (Physics), Matt Watson (Earth Sciences).
Changing ice: developing interdisciplinary research on the Earth’s cold places
Awarded: £2040
Investigators: Adrian Howkins (Historical Studies), Martyn Tranter (Geographical Sciences).
Cyber security for food security
Awarded: £3000
Investigators: Dirk van der Linden (Computer Science), Emma Williams (Psychological Science), Awais Rashid (Computer Science), Bogdan Warinschi (Computer Science).
Palm oil in nutrition, health and the environment: perceptions from a sub-Saharan African setting
Awarded: £6857
Investigators: Sarah Sauchelli Toran (Bristol Dental School), Jeff Brunstrom (Experimental Psychology), Fiona Lithander (Bristol Dental School), Simeon Pierre Chouken (University of Dschang, Cameroon), Julian Hamilton-Shield (Bristol Medical School).
Development of a floating platform for water quality survey using hyperspectral camera
Awarded: £2726
Investigators: Dawei Han (Civil Engineering), Yiheng Chen (Civil Engineering), Miguel Rico-Ramirez (Civil Engineering), Theo Tryfonas (Civil Engineering), John Day (Physics), Roddy Allan (Mechanical Engineering).
Food as a commons: setting an innovative research and impact agenda for the future of food in the UK
Awarded: £3810
Investigators: Tomaso Ferrando (Law School), Naomi Millner (Geographical Sciences), Chiara Tornaghi (Coventry University), Jose Luis Vivero-Pol (University of Louvain), Priscilla Claeys (Coventry University).