Benjamin Meaker Annual Awards 2026-27

Measuring the invisible: developing novel instrumentation to study the chemistry of atmospheric nanoparticles and their climate impacts

• UoB Lead: Dr Bryan R. Bzdek in the School of Chemistry

• International Collaborator: Professor Coty Jen (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Sustainable Composite Manufacturing: Eco Responsible Materials, Recycling, and AI Enabled Processing

• UoB Lead: Dr James Kratz in the School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering

• International Collaborators: Professor Pascal Hubert (McGill University, Canada)

Understanding the development of oracy practices in secondary school mathematics classrooms in England and Canada

• UoB Lead: Professor Alf Coles in the School of Education

• International Collaborator: Professor Nathalie Sinclair (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

Reconceptualising the relationship between policing, surveillance technology, and democracy

• UoB Lead: Professor Clare Torrible in the School of Law

• International Collaborator: Dr Justin Ellis (University of Newcastle, Australia)

Equitable multi-ancestry genomics to identify and validate therapeutic targets in severe infection

• UoB Lead: Dr Fergus Hamilton in Population Health Sciences

• International Collaborator: Dr Guillaume Butler-Laporte (McGill University, Canada)

Cultures of Alcohol Consumption

• UoB Lead: Dr Stephen Mawdsley in the Department of History

• International Collaborator: Professor Dan Malleck (Brock University, Canada)

From Blind Spots to Blueprints: Adaptive Imaging of Earth and Planetary Interiors with Novel Seismic Data

• UoB Lead: Dr Jessica Irving in the School of Earth Sciences

• International Collaborator: Professor Vedran Lekic (University of Maryland, USA)