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2C6C6748-6425-4097-8DE2-35C06C3F4F6EFROM BOYS TO MEN: PRECLUDING THE PROCLIVITY TO PERPETRATEClosedResearch GrantRES-062-23-2678-A
Why do some boys grow up to be domestic abuse perpetrators when others do not? How can we change the attitudes and feelings that give rise to abusive tendencies?

The research will answer these questions through a mixed methods study that examines:

1200 secondary school children's attitudes to domestic violence. Using attitudinal and self-report measures we will also examine how these attitudes relate to children's direct experiences of violence as victims, witnesses to, and perpetrators of domestic abuse and dating violence.

The contingencies through which domestic and dating violence are legitimised. Focus groups will be used to explore in what circumstances teenagers who might otherwise condemn violence are prepared to condone it.

Young men's biographical accounts of experiencing, witnessing and/or perpetrating acts of dating or domestic violence.

Through a detailed analysis of each of these 3 datasets and their interrelations, the research will attempt to explain why some young men come to adopt pro-violence attitudes and others do not; the roles attitudes, emotional well-being, and experiences of both parent-child and intimate partner relationships play in this; and how to intervene more effectively in the lives of young people already manifesting violence proclivities.
2014-01-31924BE15C-91F2-4AAD-941A-3F338324B6AEESRC2011-01-01INCOME_ACTUAL309989Radio interview on Capital FMA press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewNational867328EE-23EF-487E-B7F4-9424678A484Dfalse2013Young Men's Experiences of Domestic AbuseParticipation in an activity, workshop or similarD913EBCD-D591-4B56-86C3-7158CA374361falseOne in four boys has abused his girlfriendA press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewNational12D38989-0B0C-4F5A-8BCE-3764CFECAC02http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/article3910179.ecefalsehttp://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/article3910179.ece2013One in four children admit to abusing their teenage boyfriend or girlfriendA press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewNational039E58B6-BAE9-4A83-845D-51DC94DE256Bhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2483229/One-children-admit-abusing-teenage-boyfriend-girlfriend.htmlfalsehttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2483229/One-children-admit-abusing-teenage-boyfriend-girlfriend.html2013This is abuse or is it? Domestic abuse perpetrators' responses to anti-domestic violence publicityParticipation in an activity, workshop or similar11C0246B-369A-48C2-9D3E-F3B89BB572F7falseEvaluating the effectiveness of domestic abuse prevention educationParticipation in an activity, workshop or similar68CFA6DC-383D-42EF-A3D2-F70365FE1C87falseRadio 5 Live InterviewA press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewNational7D36A75E-E696-4FD1-82CC-E85B85D0FDB3false2013BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Feature - Teenagers and Domestic ViolenceA press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewNational51B43631-BCA4-4D9F-8394-B59F96CA955Dfalse2013Sky News InterviewA press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewNational53B34EE7-AB88-4296-A305-5AF1046F2AF9false2013'This is abuse' LectureA talk or presentationB5F11535-AF35-478D-8ACC-22575E885CAAfalse2013Domestic abuse prevention in the Big SocietyA talk or presentation68808BE7-F4A2-401E-B6CC-09F35044863Afalse2014Can Group Therapy Cure Domestic Violence?A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewNational0EEED57F-812F-4BC9-83ED-9B4B12AB6DBDhttp://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/can-group-therapy-cure-domestic-violence-8985289.htmlfalsehttp://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/can-group-therapy-cure-domestic-violence-8985289.html2013The Guardian, Higher Education Network 'Research in Brief'A magazine, newsletter or online publicationNational0ADE3188-D68C-4F03-89E0-A76F08C0E2A7http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2013/apr/11/research-in-brief-aprilfalse2013Recommendations to the Home OfficeA formal working group, expert panel or dialogueNational11C041F3-5B23-4475-9D11-54F05B767525Home OfficefalsePolicymakers/Parliamentarianshttp://prezi.com/kpfdp0fcvdzt/from-boys-to-men-project/2013News 24 InterviewA press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewNationalC1265FAD-72A3-48BA-B312-E0FB2D69D61Dfalse2013Radio 4 Woman's Hour - Preventing Domestic ViolenceA press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewNational4DD05E38-D16A-4831-8EEF-66B07B21AA67http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00j7s6nfalsehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00j7s6n2011Police ProfessionalA magazine, newsletter or online publicationNationalE788216C-933A-4BA6-A053-284DF0EC7B62falsePublic/other audiences2013Preventing Domestic Abuse: Working with Children and Young PeopleParticipation in an activity, workshop or similar5A8BDAF3-245A-41AC-962E-44FE73E95057falseCFP: International Congress on Gender Violence: IntersectionalitiesParticipation in an activity, workshop or similarC55A0BB0-0A88-4269-9549-026DAF6E978AfalseVAWG (Violence Against Women and Girls) Strategy GroupA talk or presentationNational6478454D-2BE8-4A9C-BCF0-8FEDDAF9AE60falsePolicymakers/Parliamentarians2013Manchester study shows that almost half of all young teen daters are in abusive relationshipsA magazine, newsletter or online publicationNationalD59F73E7-0F8D-409E-A525-719F4C600ED7Mancunian MattersfalseMedia (as a channel to the public)http://mancunianmatters.co.uk/content/26074587-manchester-study-shows-almost-half-all-young-teen-daters-are-abusive-relationships2013University of Manchester Press Release 'Anti-violence campaign will not stop domestic abuse'A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewNational0DD1932A-F0E5-4F39-9D6B-C424F6E8D267http://facultyofhumanities.newsweaver.com/v9j2ehask471ibuvxwqdd1?email=true&a=1&p=30033985&t=21801655falseMedia (as a channel to the public)http://facultyofhumanities.newsweaver.com/v9j2ehask471ibuvxwqdd1?email=true&a=1&p=30033985&t=218016552012Recommendations to Scottish ParliamentA formal working group, expert panel or dialogueRegional0381A7AE-02A6-4558-B8FB-BE1DC87598A7Cross Party Group on Men's Violence Against Women and ChildrenfalsePolicymakers/Parliamentarians2013Recommendations to NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence)A talk or presentationNational699D9473-CEBC-4335-A1F8-7A7870D41469falsePublic/other audiences2013Radio Stoke InterviewA press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewNationalBC1CF777-77E0-4BF9-A23E-18441FDED2D1false2013Discover Criminology DayParticipation in an activity, workshop or similar381CD625-2F48-40F4-B861-63B217EECF59falseBBC Radio Stoke, Breakfast ShowA press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewNationalB18D38AF-D4CC-4060-9995-3BBECD0CABC5false2011Evaluating the effectiveness of a school-based domestic abuse prevention programmeA talk or presentation8773982F-CB60-4F10-A34E-130C9AEA73DDfalse2014Sandon Business and Enterprise CollegeParticipation in an activity, workshop or similar5B1B36E2-7CCD-42EC-B156-3D7D73BB431FfalseUniversity of Manchester Press Release 'High levels of domestic abuse revealed among teenagers'A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewNational6437C596-F472-4F27-98CA-B52001EE1E43falseMedia (as a channel to the public)2013'This is abuse or is it? Domestic abuse perpetrators' responses to anti-domestic violence publicity'A talk or presentationBF50677F-1B1B-44FD-85D4-5A002C6D9F12false2014BBC Radio Manchester: From Boys to MenA press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewNational5C0CE418-388F-476B-A73A-FD7A6236A93CfalseMedia (as a channel to the public)2012Recommendations to Welsh GovernmentA formal working group, expert panel or dialogueRegionalD0A3F1F2-F575-4198-B0F9-AA0773ED633FfalsePolicymakers/Parliamentarians2013Lessons needed to end abuse at home, say Keele University researchersA press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewNational7E201C16-4815-4C6B-9DFF-B4D9C42C92E7http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/Lessons-needed-end-abuse-home-say-Keele/story-18595420-detail/story.html#axzz2QETRDWXEfalsehttp://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/Lessons-needed-end-abuse-home-say-Keele/story-18595420-detail/story.html#axzz2QETRDWXE2013BBC Breakfast TV broadcastA press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewNational00786056-E273-4B70-B16C-12FCF7459D68false2013Sheffield Domestic Violence Working GroupParticipation in an activity, workshop or similar0817231F-D69D-424B-8992-A696E07E4E4BfalseBBC Midlands Today: Domestic abuse prevention programmes for young peopleA press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewNational49CCBC7E-89BD-442A-8871-E56C14DEE878falseMedia (as a channel to the public)2013University of Manchester Press Release 'Experts demand policy reform on domestic abuse amongst young men'A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewNational99C3F775-DD38-4E56-9CC3-8332A4428AFEfalseMedia (as a channel to the public)2013Feature in RESPECT newsletterA magazine, newsletter or online publicationNationalF75F03D5-304B-41CD-81AD-AAF68A1C1E2Dfalse2013Public lecture - 'This is abuse or is it?'A talk or presentationA35DB99B-0340-466D-B015-5DA32736A023false2013Key 103 interviewA press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewNationalB7253BD6-3EFC-4213-B679-59D299BBB786false2012ARCH Annual Domestic Violence ConferenceParticipation in an activity, workshop or similarF977002C-9B44-47C0-BE1D-2DD44FE3B316falseBBC Radio 1 NewsbeatA press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewNational65CE076D-A89A-4E46-88CA-1ACE52ABD65Cfalse2013Signal Radio InterviewA press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewNationalA28536B7-48F6-4803-A11A-F8902EDF7E43false2013Heart, West Midlands - radio interviewA press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewNationalB0C3F2F2-60D4-48FA-AF52-8053D28010A9false2013BBC 4 Woman's Hour: 'This is Abuse' campaign for young people - is it working?A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewNational24D95F4C-5513-4D20-A16B-E08A5C46BE90falseMedia (as a channel to the public)2012Teenagers: Home violence acceptableA press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewNational25833C11-953F-48D7-98EA-98EE14A7D012false2013Times Higher Education piece 'Keele University - Keep it out of the family'A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewNational6E9090DC-80D0-468A-BDBC-6285D54ABF90http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/412232.articlefalsehttp://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/412232.article2010Our findings have been used to: 1. Inform the guidance RESPECT, a national umbrella organisation, produces to inform the development of violence prevention services. 2. Inform the development of social marketing aimed at young people, as developed by Central Government. 3. Provide training content for Coordinated Action Against Domestic Abuse (CAADA): a national charity supporting a multi-agency and risk-led response to domestic abuse. 4. To support further evaluation of domestic abuse prevention education programmes. 5. Inform media stories on the prevalence of domestic abuse among young people and to raise awareness of the dearth of service provision in this area. 6. To advise practitioners and policymakers. 6 key findings and guidance documents are available on the project website, together with video resource material. 7. To inform students of the advantages of mixed methodological approaches to social sciences and highlight the challenges of achieving impact.20133AFF9C66-EA0A-4E44-A5B7-47FA17195FECSocietal,Economic,Policy & public servicesEducation,OtherThe project found that over half of 13-14 year olds school children sampled had some direct experience of domestic abuse, whether as victims, witnesses or perpetrators. Nearly half had experienced at least one type of domestic abuse in their relationships; a quarter had carried out at least one abusive behaviour; over a third had witnessed abuse between parents. We found that most young people think that it is wrong to hit a partner, but many can think of exceptions to this rule, most typically when a partner has hit them first or cheated on them. Boys are more likely than girls to endorse such exceptions. Both boys and girls regarded violence from women to men as more socially acceptable than violence perpetrated by men against women. When young men construe domestic violence as a 'fight' it becomes possible to see how acceptance of 'hitting back' among many young men and young women contributes to a set of dynamics in which those young men who are unprepared to 'lose' perpetrate grievous assaults against female partners. Pervasive concerns about trust help explain apparent contradictions in many young men's attitudes towards domestic abuse, including their apparent willingness to excuse particular instances of violence that they would ordinarily condemn if described more abstractly. Class-based and racialized forms of stereotyping fuse with loosely psychological theories to enable some young men to distance themselves from those they deem 'real' perpetrators. Among those young men known to service providers in the criminal justice system there are also substantial overlaps in experiences of victimization, exposure to abuse between parents and problems with violence perpetration towards partners, parents and step parents. The experience of living with adult men who were cruel makes it harder for some to recognise their own seemingly less calculating forms of violence as abuse. Many of those who have grown up in homes where there were problems with crime, domestic violence and drug abuse have found it necessary to become skilled in the capacity to threaten physical force: a skill they sometimes use to confront men whom their mothers or ex-partners are dating. Some of those who have behaved in controlling ways towards partners are, nevertheless, desperate not to become the kinds of men their fathers were despite struggling to negotiate their own relationships. The research found that attitudes can be changed through relationship education programmes. Social marketing can encourage young people to reflect critically on their own behaviour, though it can also elicit defensive reactions. It is shameful to see oneself as a potential perpetrator and easier to blame failings in a particular relationship for abuse. Few boys are keen to seek help if they experience violence in their own relationships. Those in trouble are often distrustful of teachers and social workers. Containing and constructive responses to young men who have been violent and/or abusive can also help them, in time, to identify with those they have hurt, but there are few service providers that young men can self-refer to.The research can be used to: 1. Inform the development of policy and practice on domestic abuse prevention, including preventative intervention, family intervention work, social marketing and perpetrator programmes. 2. It may also be of use to film makers, journalists and those producing resources for young people that require primary accounts of young people's involvement in violence. To date five academic articles, one book chapter, and three non-academic articles have been published. A book about the project has been commissioned by Routledge and is deliverable in Oct 2014 and co-authored between the project team and linked PhD student (Alger). Together with Professor Hydén, Professor Gadd is editing a collection on Responses to Violence for Palgrave. On the project's website other outputs include an extensive 'how-to' research toolkit, videos, blogs, prezis and powerpoints, press releases, reports and publications. The research findings have been promoted in many presentations, events and media opportunities and directly to the Home Office, Scottish Parliament, Welsh Government and to NICE, EAVW (Ending Violence Against Women Coalition) the NSPCC, the Children's University, and the RESPECT Young People's Practitioner conference. The research was presented to audiences of academics, policymakers, police, probation, educational psychologists, social workers, domestic violence support workers and organisations campaigning against domestic violence in Keele, Birmingham, Bristol, London, Manchester, and Edinburgh totalling in excess of 500 participants. In the final project event, panel members representing RESPECT, Women's Aid, EVAW, the Home Office, Youth Justice Board, MsUnderstood Partnership, Greater Manchester Police discussed the significance of the research and the impact it would have in their own particular contexts. Gadd and Fox have both given interviews and participated in discussions that have been released through newspaper articles, radio and television broadcasts; including a BBC Newsbeat feature and discussion with MP Jeremy Browne on Radio 4's Woman's Hour. The Home Office have confirmed that this research has directly informed the development of their campaign approach. The research was also shared in a meeting with the Children's Commissioner. The research impacted directly on ARCH, the evidence enabling them to secure further funding to continue delivering their education intervention. It also supported the case made for a new intensive mentoring programme for high risk perpetrators in Coventry. Many practitioners have commented that the evidence has served to verify their own practice, beliefs and experiences, impacting on their confidence to continue and further develop strategies, programmes and interventions that they implement. In its first year, the project's website had over 5000 visits. Emails to promote the research findings have been sent to all Local Authorities in the UK, through the Educational Psychology forum EPNET, through several mailing lists via colleagues working in Sociology/Social Work and via Facebook and Twitter. There are 340 individuals on the project dissemination list. In addition to the pdf copies of the reports that are free to download, 400 copies of the three key findings reports and 200 copies of the recommendations document have been printed and distributed in hard copy. The NSPCC have added copies of all four reports to their library.0C52CB61-A94A-4CEC-9B58-A6C4E6DEADCBCommunities and Social Services/Policy,Education,Healthcare,Security and Diplomacyhttp://www.boystomenproject.com885A96D5-201D-4BD4-B390-F5C1CE8AB55BYoung Men and Domestic Abuse18417a4fe5aeeb1632ba064eacb71391Gadd David2015-01-019780415722117857F6388-1A72-4B46-81C8-94A3821B61A7Young teenagers' experiences of domestic abuseJournal of Youth Studies5cf06d39af5e60cd7619f648bf365985Fox C2013-01-014089544B-78E7-4179-8CAF-0E446E980F31Domestic abuse prevention in the big society8c366f1e59e2438b723c4326a01c339aDavid Gadd (Author)2011-01-018A0BB681-7619-47BF-83EF-3B0ADD11D059Beyond Typologies: Foregrounding Meaning and Motive in Domestic Violence PerpetrationDeviant Behavior5fdf7c9bdc3e701afa6aa3c34d796582Gadd D2016-01-01C94F1403-F630-495A-8849-3B4BCD19FB7CThis is Abuse Or is it? Domestic abuse perpetrators' responses to anti-domestic violence publicityCrime, Media, Culture5fdf7c9bdc3e701afa6aa3c34d796582Gadd D2014-01-018643E4D7-F4CA-4AFE-A74D-392FB31C946FDomestic abuse prevention after Raoul MoatCritical Social Policy5fdf7c9bdc3e701afa6aa3c34d796582Gadd D2012-01-01783368F2-62AE-4F62-90AE-68B83DB3B83CDevelopment of the Attitudes to Domestic Violence Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents.Journal of interpersonal violence65fcac8d2ac4e9b34c6e49f180e39c7aFox CL2015-01-010886-26055F275654-2C25-466E-90F2-856D24274A6DYoung Men and Domestic Abuse8137e526436b87224a7076ae50c714d9Gadd2015-01-0197813179367706188FC20-ED2F-408C-9F5F-D2A787F63B06Evaluating the effectiveness of domestic abuse prevention education: Are certain children more or less receptive to the messages conveyed?Legal and Criminological Psychology5cf06d39af5e60cd7619f648bf365985Fox C2016-01-0148218753-0DC3-4534-86FD-716224A8F005Young Men and Domestic Abuse18417a4fe5aeeb1632ba064eacb71391Gadd David2015-01-019780415722117RES-062-23-2678-ARES-062-23-2678-A4511FB20-8392-418E-809D-7701FACC03C90Law & legal studies5858EC49-4786-4440-8352-1AB0B6DC5F230Psychology5858EC49-4786-4440-8352-1AB0B6DC5F230PsychologyB75590D5-E385-45F1-B6D0-CC3EDEFDE67D0Socio Legal Studies2CA5E2BF-36B9-4A1D-99D3-3599C8A67CE1Geophysical quantification of seafloor greenhouse gas: the effect of gas bubble and hydrate morphology on sediment geophysical properties.ClosedResearch GrantNE/J022403/1Global climate prediction models need accurate information on the amount of greenhouse gases (methane CH4 and carbon dioxide CO2) hosted by seafloor sediments as free gas and gas hydrates. Extensive distributions of seafloor methane gas and methane gas hydrate have been detected by geophysical surveys on continental margins around the world, while monitoring of carbon dioxide seepage from sub-seafloor CO2 reservoirs will become increasingly important as full scale carbon capture and storage facilities come online in future. However, quantification of the amount of in situ gas using geophysical remote sensing methods remains a challenge. In this technology-led proposal, we intend to provide the required step change in knowledge that will allow us to relate seafloor geophysical measurements to gas content and thus provide the marine community with the necessary survey know-how. The main barrier to progress is our poor state of knowledge of the effect of gas and gas hydrate morphology (i.e., size and shape) on the measured geophysical sediment properties acoustic velocity and attenuation, and electrical resistivity. Gas bubbles in sediments are known to show complex shapes and size distributions that are strongly influenced by sediment type. Muddy sediments show crack-like gas bubbles while sandy sediments show spheroidal gas bubbles. If these sediments occur in deep enough water on the continental slope, then methane gas hydrate may form producing equivalent crack-like or disseminated hydrate morphologies. Only dedicated, well controlled laboratory experiments can hope to unravel the complex interaction between gas and hydrate morphology, sediment type and the observed geophysical properties. Unfortunately, no such experimental capability exists at present, so we will have to develop our own laboratory measurement system. Our solution is to build the world's first acoustic pulse tube for gas- and gas hydrate-bearing sediment studies. It will enable the bulk acoustic and electrical properties of large sediment core samples, up to 1 m long, containing natural methane (or carbon dioxide) gas bubbles or hydrate, to be measured under simulated seafloor pressures and temperatures. Experiments on synthetic muds with known amounts of methane and hydrate will also assist our understanding of these physical property inter-relationships. We will also study relevant theoretical models that will be tested against the laboratory experimental results. These validated models are what we need to interpret seafloor geophysical measurements in terms of in situ gas and hydrate content. We will interact with other scientists seeking to quantify seafloor greenhouse gas associated with methane hydrates in the Arctic and sub-seafloor carbon dioxide storage sites, and with potential industry and government end-users of seafloor geophysical technologies.Improved seafloor geophysical surveys are increasingly in demand to help answer pressing societal questions such as: 1) how will the oceans affect global climate change in future? and 2) how can we sustainably exploit global ocean resources? While the academic sector and inter-governmental agencies are mainly focussed on answering question 1), question 2) is largely in the hands of the private sector. UK companies are major players in the highly competitive global seafloor survey market driven currently by the oil and gas (energy) sector. The leading edge geophysical survey know-how developed here would enable them to sustain and increase their market share, creating jobs and wealth for the UK as a whole. Most importantly, it will enable them to deliver the seafloor data needed, at the scale needed, to manage the ocean economy in an environmentally responsible way. In particular, the proposed research will be of great value to the offshore community working in the following areas: 1) Geophysical and geotechnical survey. Improved geophysical methods are needed to gain faster (ie more economic) and more accurate information on sediment load-bearing capacity and slope stability for the safe siting of seafloor structures, such as wind farms, tidal power generators, oil platforms, pipelines and cable routes. Better knowledge of gas content would also benefit the avoidance of shallow gas pockets as a drilling hazard (e.g . could allow drilling in gassy seafloor areas with only minor gas content that previously would be avoided altogether because present methods can only say if gas is present or not). The project results would also be of interest to geotechnical companies offering specialised autoclave sediment sampling and physical properties measurements. 2) Hydrates exploitation. Better geophysical methods are needed for the commercial assessment of hydrate deposits for natural gas fuel in future (reservoir exploration, characterisation and monitoring during production). Improved high resolution geophysical methods would be particularly useful for locating and assessing relatively small hydrate reservoirs (compared to conventional deep natural gas reservoirs). Hydrate deposits may be exploited in future in combination with CO2 storage (eg German SUGAR project) by replacing methane with CO2 hydrate. Such complex industrial scale seabed operations would require tight control of seabed gas and hydrate contents through geophysical survey. 3) Carbon capture and storage (CCS). There will be an increasing demand for monitoring of seafloor CO2 leakage (and CO2 distribution within storage reservoirs themselves) as large marine CO2 storage projects come online around the world (e.g. Sleipner, Snoehvit, China, India, etc). CCS is currently the only pragmatic engineering solution to arrest the rise in anthropogenic CO2 emissions from burning of fossil fuels. The oil and gas sector will need the new geophysical survey know-how provided by this project to adapt to this emerging new market, estimated to be worth billions of pounds in future. 4) Naval defence. Improved knowledge of the acoustic and electrical properties of seafloor sediments, particularly gas-bearing shelf and continental slope sediments, will be of direct benefit to the protection from mines of military, civilian and relief sea transport and landing operations, as well as submarine warfare. Also, knowledge of possible energy sources on the seabed (eg from methane gas) would be useful for long-term seafloor monitoring stations, including autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) docking stations (the same technology is relevant to future autonomous oceanographic surveys). Geophysical survey methods are needed for rapid environmental assessment of large areas of seabed prior to military operations. The UK military and strategic allies would benefit from this know-how, thus contributing to national security.2016-06-298A03ED41-E67D-4F4A-B5DD-AAFB272B6471NERC2013-02-08INCOME_ACTUAL267482Eton College Engineering Careers Networking Event for studentsParticipation in an activity, workshop or similarRegional64F10F64-5013-4DEC-91D8-F1E69EC0A55BfalseSchools2016Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute (SMMI) university seminarA talk or presentationLocal5E031926-E5E2-40BC-A8BA-665153F62E38falsePostgraduate students2015A presentation given at the IEAGHG 10th Monitoring Network Meeting in Berkeley, California, USA in June 2015A formal working group, expert panel or dialogueInternational5FC16E8F-F632-4016-AF01-4088680F3D98falsePolicymakers/politicianshttp://www.ieaghg.org/ccs-resources/technical-workshops/64-content2015The Sea and Me - public engagement talkParticipation in an open day or visit at my research institutionLocalDA2E8371-BC7D-4253-9F6A-31B90F5DC83EfalseSchoolshttp://www.southampton.ac.uk/assets/imported/transforms/content-block/UsefulDownloads_Download/8B2217405C5C4F64BB30FD6D13460EAA/sea_and_me_full_programme_131114.pdf2014 Public engagement plenaryParticipation in an open day or visit at my research institutionLocal56C1184C-A506-453B-A44C-E8795066CF7AfalsePostgraduate studentshttp://www.southampton.ac.uk/medicine/news/2015/05/3mt-alan-morris.page2015Professional body lecture (Institute of Physics, London)A talk or presentationRegionalB81DE26B-2FF7-4F04-A21D-0C10E9832329falseProfessional Practitionershttp://www.iop.org/activity/branches/south_east/lse/calendar/files/file_66665.pdf2016University Seminar (Dundee)A talk or presentationLocal6A778621-8B7E-43D1-B822-D0E13779BC1CfalseProfessional Practitionershttp://www.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk/events/archive2016Professional body lecture (Midlands branch of the Institute of Acoustics)A talk or presentationRegional0CEA8681-195A-4A97-8416-038A50A12157falseProfessional Practitionershttps://ioa.org.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=157&reset=12015A presentation given at the UKCCS Research Centre Spring Biannual Meeting 2015 held at Cranfield University, 21-22 April 2015A formal working group, expert panel or dialogueNationalD59AA6FB-9A70-418D-84A6-2DB9CE225F09falsePolicymakers/politicianshttps://ukccsrc.ac.uk/news-events/events/ccs-action-cranfield-biannual2015Professional body lecture (Joint Institute of Acoustics and Institute of Physics)A talk or presentationRegional5AFB2E20-FDDC-40EF-873F-D9E6E154C662falseProfessional Practitionershttps://ioa.org.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=150&reset=12015We are in partnership with the NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE to use our formulations to help them develop diagnostic techniques for examining the seabed. They in turn will help civil engineering and environmental and energy companies to make better use of their sonar data from the seabed.20146E90C12A-0940-4203-AA5F-6CBA151E510DEconomic,Policy & public servicesConstruction,Energy,EnvironmentThis is a relatively recent award. We have identified what could be errors in the formulations and techniques used for decades in assessing gas populations using acoustics in the seabed. The grant is not yet finished.We are in partnership with the NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE to use our formulations to help them develop diagnostic techniques for examining the seabed.4B28AB05-B2AC-4D99-AF07-86BE0B1713C9Construction,Energy,Environmenthttp://www.southampton.ac.uk/engineering/research/projects/detecting_leaks_from_undersea_gas_pipelines.page?953506D4-B637-40E4-BF68-2BB2D53E1A50The acoustic bubble: Oceanic bubble acoustics and ultrasonic cleaningec491e71ae4b4334b1b451bf42c03822Leighton T2016-01-011FBCA647-B153-4F13-85EE-64531DE942DCIEAGHG "Review of Offshore Monitoring for CCS Projects"559e8408400994e29c916b9ace6bddd7Hannis S2015-01-01C6131301-EF80-4740-9133-E8A3BCAE2AE3Detection and impacts of leakage from sub-seafloor deep geological carbon dioxide storageNature Climate Change89637ddb907fd4ead9654c569c69e5cbBlackford J2014-01-01729F47A8-4CF2-4FC4-9B49-370267E180C9The acoustic bubble: Oceanic bubble acoustics and ultrasonic cleaningec491e71ae4b4334b1b451bf42c03822Leighton T2015-01-016E92C4A4-F4A4-47FC-ACFF-1C3DE25CFED5Comparison of theories for acoustic wave propagation in gassy marine sedimentsProceedings of the 2nd International Conference and Exhibition on Underwater Acousticse9e6cc2fb075a6cbcc48a350910ec453Dogan H2014-01-0104E757BC-05B6-47DB-8D7F-779B2EA90847Dynamics of gas bubbles in viscoelastic media accounting for high amplitude pulses and second harmonic emissionse9e6cc2fb075a6cbcc48a350910ec453Dogan H2015-01-0155EDC786-3BB2-40D2-BF6C-0D8616D3D71BPassive acoustic quantification of gas fluxes during controlled gas release experimentsInternational Journal of Greenhouse Gas Controld5b32fa6f196cb782ef3c1780a67638bBergès B2015-01-01E7238FBD-7FD2-4708-A25B-12FB4CBBFF1BAnthropogenic sources of underwater sound can modify how sediment-dwelling invertebrates mediate ecosystem properties.Scientific reports86d500cf86db6b98f4db2b53f2dfd696Solan M2016-01-012045-2322D9A65930-ABBB-485F-A0C1-61A26749225BExtraterrestrial sound for planetaria: A pedagogical study.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Americaf2333ac70576ccfddf6b46cc2f61ebfaLeighton TG2016-01-010001-4966F701A604-E80A-47DD-AD14-F8EA87DE09E2Numerical simulation of the nonlinear ultrasonic pressure wave propagation in a cavitating bubbly liquid inside a sonochemical reactor.Ultrasonics sonochemistrye9e6cc2fb075a6cbcc48a350910ec453Dogan H2016-01-011350-41778BCBCD6E-EDED-4EFB-B68D-1896190D8AE2Sonar equations for planetary exploration.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America6855e7a272749bb454dc983f89749f70Ainslie MA2016-01-010001-496600986E29-17F2-47EC-BC97-05B6344B33FBAcoustic inversion for gas bubble distributions in marine sediments: mercury resultse9e6cc2fb075a6cbcc48a350910ec453Dogan H2015-01-01EEE749A7-1635-4C0C-986A-C552D5B42717The acoustic bubble: Ocean, cetacean and extraterrestrial acoustics, and cold water cleaningJournal of Physics: Conference Seriesec491e71ae4b4334b1b451bf42c03822Leighton T2017-01-01E3C9991D-1D87-4B3D-B057-AF620D9394C4Modelling acoustic scattering, sound speed, and attenuation in gassy soft marine sediments.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America335897b88366ccd96096980473925bacMantouka A2016-01-010001-4966NE/J022403/16E910789-6B8D-4B73-B5B0-F3156942B558100GeosciencesB5705566-FCD9-4E90-A1F6-458BBDED816E20Carbon Capture & Storage859194A3-8EE1-41D7-90C5-DA2999B93E8E20Earth ResourcesBE94F009-26A1-4E5B-B0B3-722A355F282C20Geohazards9C0F9DC0-329C-4C09-B439-E4335EA8F91620Properties Of Earth Materials5537B6B2-9FD6-40FB-B300-64555528D3FF20Sediment/Sedimentary Processes50A21BAA-1EB6-4121-98AC-365AE54F14E5Lightweight Innovative Flexible Technology (LIFT)ClosedFeasibility Study132221LIFT (Lightweight Innovative Flexible Technology) is an exciting one year feasibility project that will investigate a completely new and highly disruptive lightweight automotive suspension system concept. The project partners will make use of the latest materials and structures to combine the necessary elasticity and damping properties with durability and wheel control within a significantly simplified system. Eliminating discrete suspension components and developing an integrated system will provide superior performance and deliver considerable weight and cost savings. The project partners, Simpact, Ariel and University of Warwick, will adopt an advanced CAE modelling approach, coupled with correlation against real-world road and track data for a baseline vehicle, providing the ability to deliver rapid, validated design iterations. On completion of the project the virtual prototype demonstrating the feasibility will be progressed into a physical prototype for road testing.2017-02-28E18E2F0F-AC7D-4E02-9559-669F7C8FEC74Innovate UK2016-03-01INCOME_ACTUAL181373132221D05BC2E0-0345-4A3F-8C3F-775BC42A0819Unclassified53368443-8B03-4CCE-B505-334D8AA2E47APredicting musical choices using computational models of cognitive and neural processingClosedResearch GrantEP/M000702/1Music consumption has shifted dramatically in recent years towards streaming from vast music libraries, overloading the user with the enormity of possible musical choices. This new landscape makes it imperative to develop intelligent tools to help listeners choose music to listen to. Research in music technology has traditionally followed a pure engineering approach, which has taken the field some way. However, progress is being hindered by the lack of a robust, scientifically grounded model of the listener, which can be used to inform digital music players (e.g., iTunes, Spotify, Last FM) about users' preferences for selecting music. The proposed research addresses this gap by developing the scientific knowledge needed to create computational models which can predict listeners' musical choices from features of the music and electrical brain responses recorded using Electroencephalography (EEG). The principal idea is to develop a scientific understanding of the psychological and neural processes involved when a listener chooses music to listen to. The hypothesis is that accurate predictions of a listener's musical choices can be made using a combination of psychological principles, musical features and electrical brain responses recorded from the scalp. This research has two foundations: first, to conduct listener studies to identify those psychological principles, musical features and brain responses; and second, to use that knowledge to build a computational model that predicts a listener's choice of music. The modelling approach includes three components to capture features of music that have an impact on musical choices. The first component uses acoustic features such as dissonance and temporal regularity extracted from the audio using signal processing methods. The second component takes a higher-level cognitive approach, extracting measures of complexity using information-theoretic models based on note-level representations of music. The third component extracts the emotional intentions of the music from affective textual analysis of the lyrical content. Understanding the exact nature and weighting of these features and how they impact on musical choice requires the detailed examination of the choices that listeners make when listening to music. Therefore, investigating the behaviour of actual listeners is central to this research and two studies will be performed. The first focuses on collecting EEG data while participants listen to musical excerpts and select them for future listening. Machine learning methods will be used to predict the listeners' decisions using features of the time-varying neural response recorded prior to the choice being made. The purpose of the second user study is to collect data for predict modelling of choices from features of the music itself and attributes of the listener. This will involve a larger range of musical excerpts and a wider range of listeners than is practical for the EEG study. The objective is to understand the psychological processes involved in musical choice and to use this knowledge to refine, parameterise and optimise the computational models of musical choice. The final stage of the research will develop an integrated predictive model of musical choice by combining predictive models using the musical signal with those making predictions from the neural signal. The development of such an integrated model is highly innovative. The advent within the last two years of affordable, multi-channel, wireless EEG headsets for the consumer market makes the possibility of using these devices to control media players and other interactive systems a real possibility. Therefore, the time is ripe to combine research in neuroscience, music cognition and machine learning, reflecting the unique interdisciplinary expertise of the PI, to understand the mapping between neural signals, musical structure and song selections.By investigating and modelling the psychological and neural processes involved in musical preference and choice, this project holds benefits to several groups beyond academic researchers, both in the UK and internationally. These include: 1. Commercial Private Sector: * Digital music software industry: understanding the psychological and neural processes involved in listeners making musical choices, will help the digital music industry develop better software for supporting and enhancing those choices, especially since this research will implement computational models that aim to predict choice; * Advertising industry: Understanding the psychological and neural principles of musical preference and decision making can help the advertising industry understand how to use music most effectively for marketing products; * Musicians and concert organisers: who can use the principles of musical choice to help design better concert programmes and playlists for releases. 2. Public and third sectors: * music educators: understanding of the psychological principles involved in musical preference and choice can facilitate the selection of repertoire and help design software for inspiring young children in musical education * Independent organisations promoting STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) to young people and underrepresented groups, by using music to generate interest in STEM careers. 3. The wider public: * musical listeners will benefit from better software tools that match their intuitive preferences when making musical choices; * Students and school children in technical, musical and psychological fields can benefit by creating links between scientific, technical and musical domains to better understand these disciplines. The ways in which this research will target these beneficiaries is outlined in the Pathways to Impact document. For academic beneficiaries see Section 2 in the Case for Support.2016-12-05798CB33D-C79E-4578-83F2-72606407192CEPSRC2015-04-06INCOME_ACTUAL100224Science Museum GroupUnited Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland (UK)The Science MuseumLive Science Residency at the Science Museum14D4D4C9-86F2-452C-8715-299BB39CB868The collaboration is multi-disiplinary involving psychology, neuroscience, computer science and music. Full details of the outcomes can be found in Narrative Impact.The Science Museum provided the gallery space, computers, public engagement training for our team and produced final copies of the promotional materials, consent forms and information sheets along with other advice, guidance and support.We developed three experiments, adapted from our lab-based studies to run within a 15-20 minute session with visitors to the museum. We successfully applied for QMUL ethical consent for the project, prepared the text for the promotional materials, consent forms and information sheets and ran the residency over a five week period in the Science Museum. We also sent a report to the Science Museum and we are currently analysing over 470 datasets that we collected.Public2015-01-01Live Science Residency, Science MuseumParticipation in an activity, workshop or similarInternational6ACDFF70-6626-4B25-9A04-92515C3F8403falsePublic/other audiences2015Workshop on Auditory Neuroscience, Cognition & Modelling (WANCM 2016)Participation in an activity, workshop or similarInternationalC2499A15-247B-48A1-B6CB-D1DC7B32F170falsePostgraduate studentshttp://c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/wancm2016/2016966United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland (UK)GBPUnited Kingdomen_GBQMUL Centre for Public Engagement Small Grants Award2016-02-02Queen Mary University of London (QMUL)F7438511-4DBC-4C74-9B25-53C251155DBBAcademic/University2015-11-01We have run a Live Science Residency called "Why do you like the music you like" at the Science Museum, London. The residency ran over 5 weeks in Nov-Dec 2015 and engaged visitors to the museum as participants in research on musical emotion and preferences. The residency included both psychological tasks and neural investigation using a mobile EEG headset, which recorded visitors electrical brain responses while listening to music. In addition to collecting data, we also actively engaged with visitors explaining our research to them and asking for their opinions on our research. In total, we engaged with 372 people ranging in age from 8 to 78 (308 adults and 64 children), yielding more than 480 sets of data across both tasks. Many people came to the museum specifically to take part in our residency and some brought their whole family. About 10% of participants completed feedback forms. These indicated that the participants enjoyed the experience (mean rating of 6 out 7) and 71% of participants said they would be more likely to engage with science in the future as a result of taking part in our experiments.201500B47B33-42E5-488D-AFAE-CA0B04FA6C19Cultural,SocietalEducation,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Culture, Heritage, Museums and CollectionsThe project is not yet complete (it has been running for about 11 months) so our results are not yet fully analysed. However, we have reached the appropriate objectives for this stage in the project. Specifically, we have discovered that listeners preferences for music vary as a function of the activity that they are undertaking concurrently (e.g., driving, working, exercising). Further research will investigate how these context-related preferences are related to features of the music (e.g., tempo, dynamics, dissonance, complexity). We have also discovered that overall people prefer music that expresses a calm or peaceful mood (compared with happy, sad and angry). In some situations listeners choose to listen to music that is mood congruent (e.g., a listener in a peaceful mood listening to peaceful music) while in other situations they choose music that is mood-incongruent (e.g., a listener in an angry mood choosing music that is peaceful). We are currently investigating what might explain these different listening strategies.Understanding why people like to listen to music raises profound questions for academic research and exciting opportunities for practical application in the non-academic world. Regarding academic developments, further research is required on how the context (e.g., social or task-related factors) interacts with individual factors (e.g., personality, genre preferences, current emotional state, motivations, goals and desires) and attributes of the music (e.g., loudness, dissonance, complexity, familiarity, prototypicality) to determine the musical choices that individuals make in particular situations. In particular, it seems that in some situations individuals make mood-congruent (e.g., a person feeling sad choosing to listen to sad music) choices and in others they make mood-incongruent choices (e.g,. the same person choosing to listen to happy music) but currently we don't understand why this is. Research using EEG has focused to date on emotional responses to music and there is very little scientific understanding of neural correlates of musical pleasure or liking, let alone preference decisions. Although there is much research to be done, understanding the factors - psychological, neuroscientific, musical and contextual - that determine musical preference decisions would be of great benefit beyond academia. It would allow the development of more sophisticated music recommendation engines which could be used in industries ranging from online radio stations, personal listening, retail and advertising. It may also be useful in music therapy allowing a therapist to select appropriate music for particular patients.7A298633-BE09-4CC9-BA40-5BEA5C0C6E4CDigital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Healthcare,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Culture, Heritage, Museums and CollectionsEP/M000702/1EB5F16BB-2772-4DDE-BD6C-3B7A6914B64C80Info. & commun. Technol.5858EC49-4786-4440-8352-1AB0B6DC5F2320Psychology41593421-CFAC-411D-94A7-E144022B0E6D5Artificial IntelligenceE457FFDE-A4C1-4907-AE12-A394D95A3AE520Cognitive PsychologyCC2B62EB-22CD-45F9-A6D2-0CE29B6D90FD25Cognitive Science Appl. in ICT089C8106-E4C8-4473-A5AB-F932AF4EC07C50Music & Acoustic Technology53CA02D0-866C-4415-974E-3310A9130C00The molecular control of glial progenitor proliferation in Drosophila and mammalsClosedResearch GrantBB/H002278/1Devastating nervous system injury (e.g. spinal cord injury, brain damage), neurodegenerative diseases of the ageing brain (e.g. Alzheimer's disease) and demyelinating diseases (e.g. multiple sclerosis) cannot be cured and future therapy requires understanding of the underlying biology. The key therapeutic approach to repair central nervous system (CNS) damage and disease is the transplantation of stem cells or glial progenitors to the site of injury. For instance, transplantation of stem cells or glial progenitor cells in paraplegic mice repairs the broken axons and restores normal movement. However, the current lack of knowledge of how the transplanted cells behave prevents a guarantee of repair, and prevents control over undesirable outcomes such as cancer (i.e. gliomas). Thus a molecular understanding of neural stem cell and glial progenitor proliferation is urgently required. There are glial progenitors in the adult human CNS, which upon injury or disease divide in what is known as the glial-repair response (GRR), leading to a spontaneous brief recovery. Although the GRR does not result in functional repair, it reveals an intrinsic tendency of the nervous system to repair itself. If we knew what the underlying genes are and how they work, we could manipulate them to induce repair. A golden opportunity to discovering the gene network controlling glial progenitor cell division and CNS repair is provided by the GRR. Working out gene networks important for human development and disease is frequently done using the fruit-fly Drosophila because most gene networks are evolutionarily conserved. Drosophila research enables powerful genetic approaches to investigating gene function, it has high cellular resolution, it is technically sophisticated, cheap, quick, it can be done in whole and in living animals, and it does not raise ethical concerns. We have discovered a GRR in Drosophila and we have a detailed working model of the underlying molecular genetic mechanism: a gene network involving a tight relationship between the genes Notch, Prospero/Prox1, Eiger/ TNF and Dorsal/NFkB. The aim of this proposal is to work out the molecular genetic mechanism underlying the control of glial progenitor division and the GRR in the Drosophila and mammalian CNSs. To meet this aim, the following experimental objectives will be addressed: (1) To test our working model on the involvement of the candidate genes in the control of proliferation of quiescent glial precursors in Drosophila. (2) To translate our findings to the mammalian CNS, by testing the functions of the mammalian homologues in the context of glial progenitors and the GRR of the mouse spinal cord. (3) To use Drosophila to test and identify further genes involved in the GRR and glial proliferation, which can then be extrapolated to mammalian glial proliferation and GRR. This project is a collaboration between a Drosophila and a mammalian expert to use the powerful genetics of Drosophila to advance mammalian glial progenitor research. Research into repair of the damaged or diseased CNS typically relies on mammalian animal models, requiring a severity of damage to animals ranging from sacrifice at different stages of development to inflicting physical damage (e.g. breaking the spinal cord). While Drosophila research does not raise ethical concerns, basic research using fruit-flies requires an active involvement of Drosophilists to promote the effective translation to mammalian gene discovery. Here, we will use Drosophila to propel mammalian research while in this way replacing and reducing the use of mice. Our Drosophila paradigm is simple and will become available to the wider research community for further research into the GRR and drug testing for therapeutic purposes using fruit-flies. This proposal responds to the call for the '3Rs: replacing protected animals with invertebrate models' and the strategic priority of 'Ageing and lifelong wellbeing' research.We aim to work out the molecular mechanism underlying the control of glial cell proliferation in the central nervous system (CNS) of Drosophila and mice. The hypothesis is that the glial repair response (GRR) is evolutionarily conserved and Drosophila can be exploited to understand mammalian NG2 oligodendrocyte progenitor proliferation and the mammalian GRR. With preliminary findings from Drosophila we have established a working model: quiescent glial precursors are normally on the brink to divide due to a positive feed-back loop between Notch (activator of cell division) and Prospero/Prox1 (repressor of cell division). This balance is broken and pushed towards cell division by Eiger/TNFa released upon injury, which activates Dorsal/NFkB, the expression of which depends on Prospero/Prox1. The experimental objectives are: (1) To consolidate our Drosophila model using: genetics, immunohystochemistry and confocal microscopy; an experimental paradigm of the GRR developed in AH's lab; and automatic counting of glial cells using software developed in AH's lab. (2) To translate our Drosophila findings to the mammalian CNS, by testing the functions of the mammalian homologues in NG2 glial progenitors and the GRR of the mouse spinal cord. This will be done by: purifying NG2 cells from the spinal cord of normal mice, followed by immunohystochemistry and microscopy; carrying out transfections for gain of function and siRNA analyses in isolated cells and in situ in the spinal cord, and one transection experiment as a GRR proof of principle. (3) To use Drosophila to test and identify further genes involved in the GRR and glial proliferation, using genetics, which can then be extrapolated to mammalian NG2 cells. We already know that at least two genes involved in the control of NG2 proliferation - EGFR and FGFR - also regulate glial proliferation in Drosophila. The output will be a molecular platform for the control of glial proliferation and the GRR in Drosophila and mammals.2013-06-302512EF1C-401B-4222-9869-A770D4C5FAC7BBSRC2010-01-04INCOME_ACTUAL334225University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland (UK)College of Medical and Dental SciencesGlial proliferation, differentiation, repair4D0923A8-7FC2-4627-8803-AFBC6732D9F4• Kato, Forero and Hidalgo (2011) The glial regenerative response to CNS injury is enabled by Pros-Notch ad Pros-NFkB feed-back. PLoS Biology 9, e1001133 • Forero, Kato and Hidalgo (2012) Automatic cell counting in vivo in the larval nervous system of Drosophila. J Microscopy. 2012 May;246(2):202-12. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2818.2012.03608 • Kato, K., Hidalgo, A. An Injury Paradigm to Investigate Central Nervous System Repair in Drosophila.(2013) J. Vis. Exp. (73), e50306, doi:10.3791/50306. http://www.jove.com/video/50306/an-injury-paradigm-to-investigate-central-nervous-system-repairProf Ann Logan's team trained the post-doctoral researcher Dr Kentaro Kato to carry out all the experiments in mice, and provided advice.This was a BBSRC grant with Dr Alicia Hidalgo (School of BIosciences, University of Birmingham) as the Principal Applicant, and Prof Ann Logan (IBR, Medical School, University of Birmingham) as Co-applicant. The project involved investigating the genetic bases of glial cell proliferation and differentiation in the fruit-fly Drosophila, and in the mouse. Dr Hidalgo supervised all the Drosophila work, Prof Logan supervised all the rodent work. The appointed post-doctoral researcher, Dr Kentaro Kato, carried out all the experimental work.Academic/University2010-01-01Member of the organising committee for NeuroFly, ManchesterParticipation in an open day or visit at my research institutionInternationalD9C9914D-5C42-45DE-9230-006C03974EDAnetworkingtrueOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)2010Community DayParticipation in an activity, workshop or similarRegionalAA63167D-F957-4BE7-A5C4-55AC9B768A62outrachfalsePublic/other audiences2013Lab web-siteA magazine, newsletter or online publicationInternational4977D653-491B-4612-B83C-717FBB94A499making our work known to the publicfalsePublic/other audiences2006,2007,2008,2009,2010British Science FestivalParticipation in an activity, workshop or similarNationalCA23731E-1EEC-4E01-A0B0-2BFC0B803B87Public understanding of science and researchtruePublic/other audiences2014Community DayParticipation in an activity, workshop or similarLocal57C20ED6-6B0B-4F82-8092-E5A9A4F5503CoutreachfalsePublic/other audiences2014We have discovered a gene network that controls the glial regenerative response to central nervous system injury, using the fruit-fly as a model organism.It consists of the mutual maintenance between the cell cycle inhibitor Prospero (Pros) and the cell cycle activators Notch and NF_B. Together they maintain glia in the brink of dividing, they enable glial proliferation following injury, and subsequently they exert negative feedback on cell division restoring cell cycle arrest. Pros also promotes glial differentiation, resolving vacuolization, enabling debris clearance and axonal enwrapment. Disruption of this gene network prevents repair and induces tumourigenesis. Using wound area measurements across genotypes and time-lapse recordings we show that when glial proliferation and glial differentiation are abolished, both the size of the glial wound and neuropile vacuolization increase. When glial proliferation and differentiation are enabled, glial wound size decreases and injury-induced apoptosis and vacuolization are prevented. The uncovered gene network promotes regeneration of the glial lesion and neuropile repair. In the unharmed animal, it is most likely a homeostatic mechanism for structural robustness. This gene network may be of relevance to mammalian glia to promote repair upon CNS injury or disease, something we are also addressing with the current project.As indicated above, in the longer term, our findings could have medical relevance in the context of repair and regeneration of the central nervous system after damage (e.g. spinal cord injury, stroke, demyelinating diseases). In the long term, the discovered gene network may lead to finding therapeutic solutions to promote repair after central nervous system damage (e.g. spinal cord injury). For instance, it might be possible to control glial progenitors or stem cells by manipulating the discovered gene network, or use drugs targeting these genes.5B3F92DF-0A35-42B8-B30F-20760D58E709Healthcarehttp://www.biosciences-labs.bham.ac.uk/hidalgo/Alicia_Hidalgo_Lab_Home.htmlFellowship Evaluator for the Spanish "Agencia Nacional de Evaluacion y Prospectiva" from the Spanish Ministry for Science and EducationAsia99E19B8A-3A3C-41E6-9A11-A010EA16E5FEParticipation in advisory committeeBBSRC Committee A Core MemberNational5A32E05C-7BD1-47A1-8935-DBD3753DB0ACMembership of a guidance committeeBBSRC Pool of ExpertsNationalAF00BB4F-FE94-4B54-87E3-C99203B9D78AParticipation in advisory committeeCNS injury in Drosophila living larvae to investigate regeneration and repair557E530C-EDA4-4632-A132-DF32E698271Ethis model was presented at a conference for the first time in 2014falseRegeneration and repair in the living Drosophila larval CNSDatabase/Collection of dataWe have written a package of six programmes called DeadEasy for the automatic quantification in vivo of apoptotic cells, mitotic cells, neurons and glia in the nervous system of Drosophila.E979D395-B63E-47F7-A107-079FB60EC5FDSo far, we have used these programmes for multiple projects that have resulted in 3 publications, and more manuscripts are now in preparation. The programmes are publicly and freely available as ImageJ plug-ins through my lab web-page (after publication).trueDeadEasy softwareTechnology assay or reagent2008software programme to count the number of glial cells in Drosophila in vivo39709CF9-D33B-42A8-ABF1-A2238881C983sharing toolstrueDeadEasy GliaTechnology assay or reagenthttp://www.biosciences-labs.bham.ac.uk/hidalgo/Software.html2012During the course of my MRC-CEG, and funded by an EU Marie Curie Post-doctoral fellowship and subsequently (ie 2010) by a BBSRC Project Grant, we established an injury paradigm in the Drosophila larva that enables us to investigate the genetic and molecular basis underlying central nervous system regeneraiton.FB2FAD77-7EFD-486F-BA6C-51CA97E5A838This work is not published yet, the manuscript is currently under review, but the method and reagents will become available after publication.falseNerve cord injury paradigm in DrosophilaModel of mechanisms or symptoms - non-mammalian in vivoDuring the course of my MRC-CEG, I coordinated the successful application of an Equipment Grant from the Wellcome Trust, that enabled us to purchase a new confocal microscope, employ an imaging specialist and create the Biosciences Advanced Light Microscopy Facility.A3A3206F-5BB5-46D3-80CF-669A34622F87The Leica SP2 confocal microscope has been essential for all the projects carried out by my research team. Thjs confocal and the general management and access to BALM has been open to everyone in our University, and has helped many other research groups in the University of Birmingham (a total of 67 users).trueBALM confocal microscopyImprovements to research infrastructure2006We generated strains for Drosophila fruit-flies mutant for the DNTs, as well as strains of transgenic flies bearing over-expression of knock-down constructs (RNAi) for the DNTs. We are the only lab in the world to have generated these reagents and we have already distributed them to several other labs world-wide.90052855-1A1F-468A-BE10-5603FFF114A6Collaborations, publications, knowledge, networkingtrueGeneration of DNT reagentsTechnology assay or reagenthttp://www.biosciences-labs.bham.ac.uk/hidalgo/Projects.html2008We generated antibodies to Toll-7, and constructs for both Toll06 and Toll-721CC92DD-3F50-4388-93F7-07D83FE9E573CitationstrueGeneration of Toll-6 and Toll-7 reagentsTechnology assay or reagent2013Software tool for tracking moving Drosophila flies to measure their speed, trajectory and wobbling (loss of balance). This programme is a modification of an existing programme called MTRACK-2.DF92B074-1758-4D18-AD59-C52BC5F06189This programme will be made freely available after publication in a journal.trueFlyTracker softwareTechnology assay or reagent2013to count the number of HB9 or other sparesely distributed neurons in the Drosophila embryonic CNS in 3D in vivo735FBAD4-CC6C-411B-BB40-4D703C071498sharing with scientific communitytrueDeadEasy NeuronsSoftwarehttp://www.biosciences-labs.bham.ac.uk/hidalgo/Software.html2010adaptation of DeadEasy Caspase to work in larvae, in 3D stacks of confocal images taken from the whole larval CNSF877055A-7BA9-4AA9-BA26-0C20B58BD627sharing with scientific community and research advancetrueDeadEasy Caspase LarvaeSoftwarehttp://www.biosciences-labs.bham.ac.uk/hidalgo/Software.html2011to count the number of glial cells in the Drosophila larva in 3D in vivo7F8DFE15-F3C7-4564-B085-41193E00CB24sharing and scientific advance, publicationstrueDeadEasy Larval GliaSoftwarehttp://www.biosciences-labs.bham.ac.uk/hidalgo/Software.html2012to count the volume occupancy of active zones or other synaptic components29B54FB0-F436-48EB-B851-B28EDE48F13Csharing and scientific advancetrueDeadEasy SynapseSoftwarehttp://www.biosciences-labs.bham.ac.uk/hidalgo/Software.html2013to track crawling larvae and walking flies2B34365E-C9D4-43FA-A633-823AF2A2B607sharing and scientific advancetrueFlyTrackerSoftwarehttp://www.biosciences-labs.bham.ac.uk/hidalgo/Software.html2013to count the number of glial cells or dividing cells in Drosophila embryos in 3D in vivo9EE9E369-48F3-4A0F-A5A7-3D30B06B62E9sharing and scientific advancetrueDeadEasy MitoGliaSoftwarehttp://www.biosciences-labs.bham.ac.uk/hidalgo/Software.html2010software to count the number of apoptotic cells in the Drosophila embryo in vivoFD59744C-F889-4919-BB0B-4FAF72A112A0sharing with the scientific community; research advance; publicationstrueDeadEasy CaspaseSoftware2009CD65BCF4-B0EF-4522-A893-C0AE7CF6325CProx1 Inhibits Proliferation and Is Required for Differentiation of the Oligodendrocyte Cell Lineage in the Mouse.PloS oneb08f082dd3db817d0182c3c68ea016a9Kato K2015-01-011932-6203A772AC81-6EE2-4380-9452-7B819AB00351Automatic cell counting in vivo in the larval nervous system of Drosophila.Journal of microscopy8ea62ffae0d1dbbcca3ee9fab066a575Forero MG2012-01-010022-272069322E2E-BB4B-4E32-B741-A5D1FA4B3797DeadEasy Mito-Glia: automatic counting of mitotic cells and glial cells in Drosophila.PloS one8ea62ffae0d1dbbcca3ee9fab066a575Forero MG2010-01-011932-6203F43323F4-BAF6-4717-ADBE-AB61130B1890The glial regenerative response to central nervous system injury is enabled by pros-notch and pros-NF?B feedback.PLoS biologyb08f082dd3db817d0182c3c68ea016a9Kato K2011-01-011544-9173AD2B3F74-5941-4CB6-90F2-EDB2CD62143DAn injury paradigm to investigate central nervous system repair in Drosophila.Journal of visualized experiments : JoVEb08f082dd3db817d0182c3c68ea016a9Kato K2013-01-011940-087XBB/H002278/1D05BC2E0-0345-4A3F-8C3F-775BC42A0819Unclassified53F8E750-78D7-49E1-B523-332E0F657B47Ruthenium Organometallic ComplexesActiveStudentship1800459The chemical fate of ruthenium organometallic complexes in a biological setting is an area of key research interest relevant to medicinal chemistry. This project will look to understand the mechanistic aspects of ruthenium complexes in a biological setting, focussing on two different biological applications. 1) Ru(II) arene complexes have been studied for their activity against cancer in vitro and in vivo. Through the optimisation and incorporation of a fluorinated ligand probe into Ru(II) arene complexes, the locations and modes of binding in a cell will be analysed, through 19F NMR, mass spectrometry an fluorescence microscopy. This information will lead to a more structured and less scattered approached to the design of ruthenium anti-cancer drugs. 2) Ruthenium complexes have well studied catalytic capabilities, for example, the use of Grubbs' catalyst in olefin metathesis. This project will look to introduce specific Ru organometallic catalysts into the active site of engineered enzymes. The key advantage of the enzyme is that it imparts high substrate specificity, and when combined with an organometallic catalyst the artificial metalloenzyme generated can have powerful catalytic properties. For example, Ru(II) arene complexes have shown catalytic activity in the C-H hydroxylation of an aromatic ketone, and these complexes will be attached to cysteine and/or histidine residues of the protease enzyme Subtilisin E.2020-03-31798CB33D-C79E-4578-83F2-72606407192CEPSRC2016-10-01INCOME_ACTUAL01800459D05BC2E0-0345-4A3F-8C3F-775BC42A0819UnclassifiedCD57F414-9595-4430-89EC-2FE9CF269F8CA Climatology of Atmospheric Iron Inputs to the Atlantic OceanClosedResearch GrantNE/G000239/1Desert dust can be picked up by strong winds and transported great distances, sometimes thousands of kilometres, through the atmosphere. This process has some interesting effects on the climate of our planet. Iron makes up a small portion of the dust and this element is often in short supply for the plants (phytoplankton) that live in the ocean. Wind-blown dust can be an important source of iron to these organisms in some ocean regions and so dust supply can be linked to phytoplankton growth and the uptake of carbon from the atmosphere that this causes. While in the atmosphere, dust also alters the way that radiation is absorbed or reflect by the planet. It is therefore important to include dust transport in models of the Earth's climate system, but our current understanding of this transport is rather poor. One particular difficulty is the lack of measurements available to help constrain and develop such models. Some long-term monitoring sites provide information on changes in dust transport over time, but they are too few and too widely spaced to give adequate information on spatial variability. The UEA group has recently carried out 10 long-transect crossings of the Atlantic Ocean, sampling the atmosphere for the iron content of aerosol and rain. This is a unique dataset and will allow us to assess the atmospheric input of iron to the Atlantic directly, based on field data, for the first time. The results of our study will be shared directly with modellers at the Hadley Centre and the QUEST Earth System Science programme, so that we can ensure that the benefit of this extra information is passed directly to the modelling community.2009-05-318A03ED41-E67D-4F4A-B5DD-AAFB272B6471NERC2008-10-01INCOME_ACTUAL49541Desert dust can be picked up by strong winds and transported great distances, sometimes thousands of kilometres, through the atmosphere. This process has some interesting effects on the climate of our planet. Iron makes up a small portion of the dust and this element is often in short supply for the plants (phytoplankton) that live in the ocean. Wind-blown dust can be an important source of iron to these organisms in some ocean regions and so dust supply can be linked to phytoplankton growth and the uptake of carbon from the atmosphere that this causes. While in the atmosphere, dust also alters the way that radiation is absorbed or reflect by the planet. It is therefore important to include dust transport in models of the Earth's climate system, but our current understanding of this transport is rather poor. One particular difficulty is the lack of measurements available to help constrain and develop such models. Some long-term monitoring sites provide information on changes in dust transport over time, but they are too few and too widely spaced to give adequate information on spatial variability. The UEA group carried out 10 long-transect crossings of the Atlantic Ocean between the years 2000 and 2005, sampling the atmosphere for the iron content of aerosol and rain. This is a unique dataset and allows us to assess the atmospheric input of iron to the Atlantic directly, based on field data, for the first time. The results of our study were compared directly to the results of three separate dust transport models. This comparison showed that all of the models performed well for some of the substances that we measured, in some parts of the Atlantic, but none could reproduce all of the measurements over the whole Atlantic. In one case the lack of agreement between observations and model was due to an over-estimation of rainfall in the model.Development of models that simulate the atmospheric transport of dust and its direct and indirect impact on the Earth System is on-going. Comparison of our results to existing models has helped to highlight areas where models can be improved. The observational database established during our project will continue to be useful resource for the validation of such models in the future.CADE41F7-56E4-473D-A7DD-5DD7178459A2EnvironmentThe database holds a collection of data on the concentrations of iron, nutrients, trace metals and other constituents in aerosols and rainwater obtained during sampling from ships in the remote ocean and from some marine land-based sites. The coverage of the data is global in extent.69583DF0-0505-4EB4-89DC-EA1A8FAC5416Data obtained from the database is currently being used to validate global models of atmospheric nitrogen deposition.trueSOLAS Aerosol and Rainwater Chemistry DatabaseDatabase/Collection of datahttp://www.bodc.ac.uk/solas_integration/implementation_products/group1/aerosol_rain/200958C558E5-B497-45EF-89C9-96DB5BC5F3EBFractional solubility of aerosol iron: Synthesis of a global-scale data setGeochimica et Cosmochimica Actae85a47a00a9b32a1394e992a216231e1Sholkovitz E2012-01-011B1B3769-A2E5-4C1F-9BA5-E0CD3C0C7491Estimation of atmospheric nutrient inputs to the Atlantic Ocean from 50°N to 50°S based on large-scale field sampling: Iron and other dust-associated elementsGlobal Biogeochemical Cycles215e286ca6069fb7681a07a52811b3cfBaker A2013-01-015E229CF7-6979-4971-B236-9C801450F72CImpacts of atmospheric nutrient deposition on marine productivity: Roles of nitrogen, phosphorus, and ironGlobal Biogeochemical Cycles4c9e5ecfb88a1bf25f30582beca8c808Okin G2011-01-01CB5E7FCF-1009-4376-9383-24C450B097C8Atmospheric transport and deposition of mineral dust to the ocean: implications for research needs.Environmental science & technologyf7d0b039a0f533350e7db3a567659437Schulz M2012-01-010013-936XNE/G000239/1EE4457DB-92A3-44EA-8D5F-77013CC107E010Climate & Climate ChangeE05CFC1B-8264-49AB-8A54-E3A86F40470790Marine environments62DCC1BF-B512-4BDB-A0C3-02BC17E15F6B45Biogeochemical CyclesEE4457DB-92A3-44EA-8D5F-77013CC107E010Climate & Climate ChangeC29F371D-A988-48F8-BFF5-1657DAB1176F45Ocean - Atmosphere Interact.CE1A80AA-D01C-455D-857B-3118D90AF90AExploring novel M...C-C agostic interactionsClosedResearch GrantEP/E050743/1Intermolecular and intramolecular interactions can have a significant effect on the properties of a particular compound, for example, in relation to its stability or reactivity. Understanding how an interaction occurs, its relative strength and how it can be altered is extremely important in fundamental structure and bonding terms. While there is a wealth of information available on some of the more common interactions, such as hydrogen bonding, this is not true for all types of interaction. Agostic transition metal...C-C interactions involve the donation of electron density from the carbon-carbon bond to the metal centre, this type of interaction is directly relevant to C-C activation, however, they are extremely rare and not well characterized for any technique.We propose to employ an integrated approach combining synthesis, NMR mapping and theoretical techniques with experimental charge density experiments in order to characterise and tune late transition metal...C-C agostic interactions. Importantly the study incorporates charge density studies which will, for the first time, allow the electronic structure of the interaction to be probed. The results of the study will provide synthetic routes, kinetic and thermodynamic data and experimental visualisation of such agostic interactions. This information will be of fundamental significance to the international chemical community, and will undoubtably be utilized in areas involving C-C activation, such as, novel organic synthesis and industrial applications, such as, petroleum cracking using heterogeneous catalysis.2009-11-11798CB33D-C79E-4578-83F2-72606407192CEPSRC2007-11-12INCOME_ACTUAL178054609107F8-BC45-4CA0-8B44-B73136F7607DC-C Bond Activation of a Cyclopropyl Phosphine: Isolation and Reactivity of a Tetrameric RhodacyclobutaneOrganometallicsd13be55cf8f61b426de48f523f634be7Chaplin A2010-01-0142777D83-0ADA-44EB-A4A0-9E4E29D5C0B1Monomeric and oligomeric amine-borane sigma-complexes of rhodium. intermediates in the catalytic dehydrogenation of amine-boranes.Journal of the American Chemical Society0fe248b24c215bb53f3bb5b061efff40Douglas TM2009-01-010002-78630F1C7E8C-A592-4FC7-ADBB-F37BC290026CAlkyl dehydrogenation in a Rh(I) complex via an isolated agostic intermediate.Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)4a40bbd8332b45e77bddbc0be3a1a1bbChaplin AB2009-01-011359-7345F6EF1B0F-0AA2-4E41-BBED-30752DF6F34CB-H Activation at a Rh(I) centre: A Missing Link in the Transition Metal Catalysed Dehydrocoupling of Amine-BoranesAngewandte Chemie International Editione26504e61045e6099eaf2221fb84ea9en/a Weller2010-01-01CA60BC0B-0623-4082-8D6C-EAE8CC97D130C-C activation in the solid state in an organometallic s-complex.Journal of the American Chemical Society4a40bbd8332b45e77bddbc0be3a1a1bbChaplin AB2011-01-010002-7863263D8925-8FC2-47EA-8A9E-3A9426B60404Amine- and dimeric amino-borane complexes of the {Rh(P(i)Pr3)2}+ fragment and their relevance to the transition-metal-mediated dehydrocoupling of amine-boranes.Inorganic chemistry4a40bbd8332b45e77bddbc0be3a1a1bbChaplin AB2010-01-010020-1669435C8819-0BE6-47BD-ACA3-733B6AF28A25[Rh{NC5H3-2,6-(CH2PtBu2)2}(PCy3)][BArF4]: A Latent Low-Coordinate Rhodium(I) PNP Pincer CompoundOrganometallicsd13be55cf8f61b426de48f523f634be7Chaplin A2011-01-012F094CF0-C365-4D38-AED2-2D292E8FB2FADihydrogen Loss from a 14-Electron Rhodium(III) Bis-Phosphine Dihydride To Give a Rhodium(I) Complex That Undergoes Oxidative Addition with Aryl ChloridesOrganometallicsa0b594a7f8ea307d14fa1ac1e07abbcaDouglas T2008-01-01EP/E050743/1863FC58A-7217-42EA-B076-663F2D770BB850Chemical measurement60EBB420-734E-4DB5-B0F2-65A1115A27F850Chemical synthesis1820CCC5-B4C4-47E9-B81F-8F49AC606F0E50Chemical Structure454398F2-57A6-4959-8845-0F248CF4D5C425Chemical Synthetic MethodologyA097DA61-EABD-4142-9025-D4EA5CA6308225Co-ordination ChemistryCEF6CD7D-F86F-46E7-8DF9-318FD776CE5FThe macrophysiology of insect thermal biology in a changing world.ClosedResearch GrantNE/C518949/1It is well-known that the earth's climate is currently in a time of fast change, which it is widely accepted is due to the effects of pollution in the atmosphere. It is also well-known that the distribution of at least some species is limited by their ability to tolerate very high or very low temperatures, such that they can only live in areas where the climate is suitable. Temperature may be especially important for ectotherms, which cannot physiologically regulate their body temperature. It follows that changes in climate might lead to changes in the distribution of species as some areas become more suitable and others less so. This means that some species may invade areas where they did not live before, which may be a problem if they are crop pests, for example. Other species may not be able to cope with the new climates and so go extinct. These potential problems mean that it is important to understand how species will respond to temperature changes. However, at the moment there are many aspects of species responses to temperature change that we don't understand. For example, we might expect species from temperate climates, which experience both high and low temperatures, to be better able to cope with change than tropical species, which only experience high temperatures, and than polar species, which only experience relatively low temperatures. Yet, we don't know whether this is actually true. We don't know whether a species that increases its tolerance of high temperatures loses its tolerance to low temperatures. We don't know how far the tolerances of species can be changed by selection for better tolerance or high or low temperatures. We don't know whether different populations of a species respond differently to temperature changes depending on whether or not they are near the limits to that species' distribution. These are the questions that this grant will address, using aphids as a model system. Aphids are useful study organisms because they are easy to grow in the laboratory, and some features of their thermal biology have already been worked out. Moreover, aphids are important crop pests that also spread crop diseases, so their response to climate change could have significant implications for agriculture.2009-04-158A03ED41-E67D-4F4A-B5DD-AAFB272B6471NERC2006-01-16INCOME_ACTUAL21899853F8FB62-F54A-4671-9892-AAD490942BB0Low temperature thresholds: are chill coma and CT(min) synonymous?Journal of insect physiology6be3196bf36517314d8c2c93dd883e7cHazell SP2011-01-010022-1910F4EDCCD3-457C-40F0-8AEB-A57F68C9AC0AHyperthermic aphids: insights into behaviour and mortality.Journal of insect physiology6be3196bf36517314d8c2c93dd883e7cHazell SP2010-01-010022-19101CFC5FEE-0450-459C-B29D-215EACF913D8A comparison of low temperature tolerance traits between closely related aphids from the tropics, temperate zone, and Arctic.Journal of insect physiology6be3196bf36517314d8c2c93dd883e7cHazell SP2010-01-010022-19103E8E656A-C6D6-4B17-9CA3-89F2BD2FBE0AInsect overwintering in a changing climate.The Journal of experimental biology67f9b0d30e6aeaca9b42d96b03471d1eBale JS2010-01-010022-0949BF7ECA31-A5E8-46B8-9B61-B226D15B6CE3A method for the rapid measurement of thermal tolerance traits in studies of small insectsPhysiological Entomology965f791b0fe1af77685b6764eaa3a7f2HAZELL S2008-01-01NE/C518949/1EE4457DB-92A3-44EA-8D5F-77013CC107E030Climate & Climate Change1A1A6805-9DC4-4BCE-BC70-9F2AA4FD093B10Ecol, biodivers. & systematics13975896-2E87-4DAA-99BC-E8D86B00B14660Plant & crop scienceEE4457DB-92A3-44EA-8D5F-77013CC107E030Climate & Climate Change6CA01F47-BDE6-46F1-8679-A31D5317A88560Environmental PhysiologyDE30777A-E4A8-486B-875D-58CC92FD552510Population Ecology6953C601-53EB-4B02-9BA7-2E882BFD33EFInterdisciplinary Exchanges: Natural resource management in the 21st centuryClosedResearch GrantES/L001330/1
This seminar series will focus on natural resource management issues in developing countries and specifically address these issues by creating a new network of practitioners and natural and social scientists to:

identify and address current interdisciplinary challenges in Natural Resource Management (NRM) research

bridge the gap between science, policy and action

Human-dominated landscapes are playing an increasingly important role in natural resource conservation and social and ecological outcomes are inherently interrelated and difficult to separate. To achieve truly sustainable outcomes, social and ecological processes must, therefore, be studied simultaneously and in collaboration with practitioners that can facilitate the design of applicable solutions, especially in the world's poorest regions. By uniting academic disciplines tackling social and environmental issue related to the management of natural resources, and focusing on how to best convert world-class research into policy and action, this series directly addresses ESRC's current "Environment, Energy and Resilience" research and impact strategy.
This series on interdisciplinary exchanges in natural resource management research will significantly advance scientific knowledge and theory building in the fields of development, social and cultural geography, and conservation biology. Critically, this series will also significantly enhance the ability of academics and practitioners to engage with each other and reflect on best practices, thinking forward through different interdisciplinary exchanges that may challenge the status quo. By promoting this dialogue between national and international, leading and up-and-coming academics and practitioners from both developed and developing countries, this series directly supports a variety of RCUK's academic and societal pathways to impact. We will do this by: 1) Enhancing the knowledge economy by debating new knowledge and scientific advancement of theory and practice 2) Enhancing the research capacity, knowledge and skills of our partner organizations and early career researchers 3) Creating avenues for effective dialogue between practitioners and academics to increase the awareness and understanding of the links between disciplinary expertises, policy and action within complex socio-ecological systems. Who will benefit from this seminar series? Our team has a strong track record of non-academic partnerships in research and user-engagements at all stages in research projects. This series uses the established networks of our non-academic and academic partners to ensure the close and central involvement of non-academic institutions. They will be involved all stages of the seminar series and will be specially invited to give presentations at each event, participate in workshop activities and join research grant consortia emerging from the network. Invited partner practitioner organizations include, World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF), Conservation International (CI), the World Pheasant Association (WPA), Village Aid, Envirotrade. (Note: we have secured £5000 from th Sheffield Institute for International Development to cover participation costs of additional practitioners) How will they benefit from this seminar series? Through shared dialogue about research activities and experience within workshops, open-access briefings (working papers) and academic publications (as part of a special edition in high-impact journal) and through focused grant application activities. In addition, we will build a dedicated webpage designed in house and hosted on the Sheffield Institute for International Development website. This website will contain project information and provide an open-access repository of working papers, offering opportunities for interaction with and beyond our partners. We will advertise our project website (and associated papers, podcasts and briefings) through the existing contacts and networks of the project team, and through actively making new contacts in relevant institutions. Our team has training and expertise in writing for different audiences and so the briefings will be pitched in the appropriate style for engaging practitioner and academic audiences. We will use existing social networking tools (facebook and twitter for the Sheffield Institute for International Development, Leed's Sustainability Research Institute and the Newcastle Institute for Research on Sustainability) to further extend our reach. Partners will also be encouraged to make links to our website from their home pages.2015-09-30924BE15C-91F2-4AAD-941A-3F338324B6AEESRC2013-10-01INCOME_ACTUAL24146Conflict and Natural Resourse Management WorkshopParticipation in an activity, workshop or similarInternational4AD21A28-9251-4A13-8945-9CE0C94F2D08Workshop summary.trueOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)2015Final Interdisciplinary Exchanges Workshop and RetreatParticipation in an activity, workshop or similarInternationalA4F35B22-2B68-4A81-83CB-79D9B45527EFWorkshop report.trueOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)2015Climate Change Adaptation WorkshopParticipation in an activity, workshop or similarInternational18CD79C7-E20F-41EA-B71E-5223FDCE5B03Blog and grant application.trueOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)2014Payment for Ecosystem Services WorkshopParticipation in an activity, workshop or similarInternationalA5AF09E7-CEBE-475E-A1E5-AC8828A2E21BDraft PES paper and early career researcher blog.trueOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)2015Food Security WorkshopParticipation in an activity, workshop or similarInternationalA9327AE8-7F10-4714-A19C-6031E4F8C542Blog by early career researcher. Workshop summary.trueOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)2014Community-based Naturual Resoucre Management WorkshopParticipation in an activity, workshop or similarInternationalD76F6E04-3D6F-4B88-AB4D-358B2FB2B369The participants worked on a paper together for peer-review.trueOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)2014The networking and collaborative discussion opportunities provided by the seminar series have both fostered new relationships and strengthened existing ones between participants. We have enhanced the knowledge economy by debating new knowledge and scientific advancement through workshops, open-access briefings (working papers) and academic publications (in high-impact journals). We have enhanced the research capacity, knowledge and skills of our partner organisations and early career researchers through shared research, activities and experience (through presentations, workshops and dialogue). We have created avenues for effective dialogue between practitioners and academics to increase the awareness and understanding of the links between disciplinary expertises, policy and action within complex socio-ecological systems (through presentations, workshops and dialogue and new collaborations). Those involved in the network will take forward these new and strengthened collaborations and develop them further through joint grant applications, funded projects and ongoing writing projects. Others can benefit from our experiences by reading our publications, attending events taken forward by the core team and being inspired by our successes at working across disciplinary boundaries.2015C8872B12-942A-473E-9DFA-ECAEE487B86CSocietalEducationKey Findings Report: ESRC Interdisciplinary Exchanges Seminar Series The purpose of the seminar series was to create a new network of natural and social scientists and practitioners to identify and address current interdisciplinary challenges in natural resource management (NRM) research, and to bridge the gap between science, policy and action. This seminar series specifically aimed to significantly advance interdisciplinary science to: 1) identify and tackle previous and current interdisciplinary successes and failures, 2) develop strong networks between academics from different disciplines and practitioners in order to identify critical research questions, 3) establish a world leading international and interdisciplinary research consortium to prepare a series of major funding bids with direct policy implications for NRM, and d) provide crucial capacity building for young researchers (e.g. through formal links to ESRC DTCs). Activities and Achievements The table below summarises the key activities undertaken by the network. Events (key speakers) When Where Outputs CBNRM • Phil McGowan (Newcastle University) • George Holmes (Leeds University) • Kerry Waylen (James Hutton Institute) Jan 2014 Sheffield CBNRM and Complexity paper for publication Food Security • Tim Benton (UK Government Global Food Security Champion) • Jahi Chappell (Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, US) April 2014 Newcastle Blog Workshop summary Climate Change Adaptation • Katharine Vincent (Kulima Integrated Development Solutions, South Africa) • Martin Rokitski (Oxfam UK) Sept 2014 Leeds Blog Grant application Payment for Ecosystem Services • Niall Marriott (Carbon Plus Capital, UK) • Mark Reed (Birmingham City University) Jan 2015 Leeds PES paper Blog Conflict and NRM • Rosaleen Duffy (University of London) • John McNeish (Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway) Sept 2015 Sheffield Workshop summary Retreat • Key participants July 2015 Hope Valley Workshop report Key achievements from the seminar series can be grouped according to the following: 1. Dialogue, discussion and networking Each workshop comprised at least two keynote speakers, the core team, early career researchers and other invited academics and practitioners. The days were structured around keynote presentations, break-out groups to discuss pre-set questions and plenaries. An evaluation session at the final 'retreat' workshop asked participations to reflect on the key achievements around dialogue, discussion and networking. There were: a. Meeting new people with overlapping areas of interest and expertise b. Critical feedback on new ideas c. Sharing new perspectives on research ideas from different disciplines d. Forming new writing collaborations e. Exposure to different ways of thinking about shared NRM issues f. Exchanges of methods/theories from terrestrial to marine environments (and vice versa) g. Developing new contacts and collaborative research partners h. Challenging interdisciplinary ideas i. Exchanges of critical perspectives and thinking 2. Written outputs Each workshop was preceded by the circulation of 'key issues' briefings, and a summary or blog was produced after the workshop and put on our website. Two publications for peer-review have also been submitted by the core team and participants (including early career researchers). a. "The challenge for effective CBNRM in an increasingly complex environment" Twyman et al. paper submitted to PNAS Jan 2015 rejected after review and re-submitted to Conservation Biology Jan 2016; b. "A Place-Based Approach to Payments for Ecosystem Services" Reed et al. to be submitted to Ecosystem Services (Jan 2016); c. Synthesis paper on "interdisciplinary exchanges" in preparation for submission to Ecology and Society; d. Blog series, led by the early career researchers, comprising reflection in key debates emerging from workshops: The Complex Simplicity of Payments for Ecosystem Services (Green); The adaptation language - implications for working at the boundaries of research, policy and practice (Dixon); Food Security: Sparing and Sharing Food (Green); e. Summary reports (Food Security; Local Adaptation to Climate Change; NR Conflict); f. Website: http://www.interdisciplinaryexchanges.org 3. Collaborative outcomes Academics (both Co-Is and participants) and practioners within the series have capitalised on the networking opportunities and as a result have been able to foster and strengthen new and existing collaborations. Grant applications activities that have been prompted by the network include: a. Profs Dougill and Stringer (Leeds) gained joint collaborative research funding through the NERC/DFID Future Climate for Africa programme together with Katharine Vincent (Kulima IDS, South Africa). This involved both a national pilot case study project in Malawi (£60k) leading to a Vincent et al. (2015) paper in Climate Policy and Jones et al. (2015) Nature Climate Change commentary; and a successful regional consortium UMFULA project (£3.97m) led by Declan Conway at LSE with Dougill / Vincent as co-PIs and Stringer as a co-I. b. Early career researcher Dr Green submitted an application on food security to the Newton Fund (unsuccessful). c. Drs Twyman and Evans led a successful internal University of Sheffield interdisciplinary PhD network application on the Green Economy with external partner Niall Marriott from CarbonPlusCapital. Three students have started Oct 2015 and further funding for the network was secured from the Grantham Institute for Sustainable Futures (Sheffield). d. Evans and Oldekop led a successful grant application to University of Sheffield's Sheffield Institute for International Development on "Developing Policy and Intervention Impact Evaluation Expertise" (Nov 2015). e. Dr Holmes (Leeds) led a White Rose Doctoral Training Network application on "Innovative approaches to understanding new forms of conservation governance for social and environmental benefits" with partner World Land Trust that included Twyman and Oldekop (Sheffield),and Leeds (Sallu) (December 2015). f. Dr Whitfield (Leeds) led a White Rose Doctoral Training Network application on "Social Science of Agri-Food System Sustainability" with partner CGIAR that included Tywman (Sheffield) and Quinn (Leeds) (December 2015). Vincent, K., Dougill, A.J., Dixon, J.L., Stringer, L.C., Cull, T. (2015). Enhancing climate services for national planning in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from Malawi. Climate Policy. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14693062.2015.1075374 Jones, L., Dougill, A.J., Jones, R., Steynor, A., Watkiss, P., Kane, C., Koelle, B., Moufouma-Okia, W., Padgham, J., Ranger, N., Roux, J-P., Suarez, P., Tanner, T., Vincent, K. (2015). Ensuring climate information guides long-term development. Nature Climate Change, 5, 812-814. http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v5/n9/full/nclimate2701.htmlThe networking and collaborative discussion opportunities provided by the seminar series have both fostered new relationships and strengthened existing ones between participants. We have enhanced the knowledge economy by debating new knowledge and scientific advancement through workshops, open-access briefings (working papers) and academic publications (in high-impact journals). We have enhanced the research capacity, knowledge and skills of our partner organisations and early career researchers through shared research, activities and experience (through presentations, workshops and dialogue). We have created avenues for effective dialogue between practitioners and academics to increase the awareness and understanding of the links between disciplinary expertises, policy and action within complex socio-ecological systems (through presentations, workshops and dialogue and new collaborations). Those involved in the network will take forward these new and strengthened collaborations and develop them further through joint grant applications, funded projects and ongoing writing projects. Others can benefit from our experiences by reading our publications, attending events taken forward by the core team and being inspired by our successes at working across disciplinary boundaries.6544EDA5-5033-44EE-A162-8D4077BB8AA5Agriculture, Food and Drink,Education,Environmenthttp://www.interdisciplinaryexchanges.org188AE6CC-1040-4B65-9DE0-6A76211D42D6Towards Effective Community-based Natural Resource Management in the Context of Increasing ComplexityConservation Biology66274d146de7e33daa2044cbbcf856e1Twyman C3CC1F2D9-7AEA-4DFF-8128-5FB52AF18BE2A Place-Based Approach to Payments for Ecosystem Services.Global Environmental Change6258d324c40833c9aaaf179470b8dad5Reed MSES/L001330/1EE4457DB-92A3-44EA-8D5F-77013CC107E00Climate & Climate ChangeEBACD6D4-D1E5-4970-8BEC-7F4568EB26BA0Development studies1A1A6805-9DC4-4BCE-BC70-9F2AA4FD093B0Ecol, biodivers. & systematics3A4CB57C-9B22-41A2-AB15-1275032993650Human GeographyEE4457DB-92A3-44EA-8D5F-77013CC107E00Climate & Climate Change5020ECC8-E0E8-434D-BDD5-663A9C04EFA20Conservation EcologyAC8CEC39-DB37-4D0E-9EEA-A3CFC91618F00Development Geography78369800-A95E-49BC-94E7-8659E5C2EFEF0Geography and Development8D5E20EB-F470-4A70-9B72-5D68D7AFB1EB0Nat Resources, Env & Rural Dev698A2FC2-BE5B-4455-B53A-31221CBE793DImpact of Spatio-Climatic Variability on Environment-Hosted Land-based Renewables: MicroclimatesClosedResearch GrantNE/H010351/1Many current or projected future land-based renewable energy schemes are highly dependent on very localised climatic conditions, especially in regions of complex terrain. For example, mean wind speed, which is the determining factor in assessing the viability of wind farms, varies considerably over distances no greater than the size of a typical farm. Variations in the productivity of bio-energy crops also occur on similar spatial scales. This localised climatic variation will lead to significant differences in response of the landscape in hosting land-based renewables (LBR) and without better understanding could compromise our ability to deploy LBR to maximise environmental and energy gains. Currently climate prediction models operate at much coarser scales than are required for renewable energy applications. The required downscaling of climate data is achieved using a variety of empirical techniques, the reliability of which decreases as the complexity of the terrain increases. In this project, we will use newly emerging techniques of very high resolution nested numerical modelling, taken from the field of numerical weather prediction, to develop a micro-climate model, which will be able to make climate predictions locally down to scales of less than one kilometre. We will conduct validation experiments for the new model at wind farm and bio-energy crop sites. The model will be applied to the problems of (i) predicting the effect of a wind farm on soil carbon sequestration on an upland site, thus addressing the question of carbon payback time for wind farm schemes and (ii) for predicting local yield variations of bio-energy crops. Extremely high resolution numerical modelling of the effect of wind turbines on each other and on the air-land exchanges will be undertaken using a computational fluid dynamics model (CFD). The project will provide a new tool for climate impact prediction at the local scale and will provide new insight into the detailed physical, bio-physical and geochemical processes affecting the resilience and adaptation of sensitive (often upland) environments when hosting LBR.2015-04-018A03ED41-E67D-4F4A-B5DD-AAFB272B6471NERC2010-06-15INCOME_ACTUAL282486We are awaiting the most crucial publication to be accepted that indicates there is a small microclimatic effect on peatland due to the windfarm and then we will be in a position to more widely promote the findings. This paper is under review after resubmission.20138D9C4A44-1EB7-4EFD-B63A-EF678AE11DCCEnergy,EnvironmentThe publications are currently in review, so not yet peer-accepted, but our key findings are: 1.windfarms on peatland do generate a small microclimate 2. however characteristics carbon cycling processes in the windfarm we studies are not dissimilar to other peatlands that do not host windfarmsIt may be used in consent decisions for windfarms, or in C payback assessments22CBAEF3-424B-490C-B19C-4BED20D24C52Energy,Environmenthttp://www.carbonlandscapes.org473AF8C2-950D-47A3-A076-A8CA823F9FC4Ground-level climate at a peatland wind farm in Scotland is affected by wind turbine operationEnvironmental Research Letters447631a66439719e2e8db99a1423ec2bArmstrong A2016-01-0125A0D162-CDF5-4302-90E6-E844EFAFD265Richardson, H.; Waldron, S.; Whitaker, J.; Ostle, N. (2015). Measures of peatland carbon cycling from peat mesocosm incubation experiments.91a0da919cb7b813877af1fae3b207deRichardson2015-01-01BD0DA7CD-6ED0-4E2A-BBF0-FA820E4CB64EWind farm and solar park effects on plant-soil carbon cycling: uncertain impacts of changes in ground-level microclimate.Global change biology447631a66439719e2e8db99a1423ec2bArmstrong A2014-01-011354-1013D001F263-BC1E-4669-8D5F-6AFEA9EFC894Biotic and Abiotic Factors Interact to Regulate Northern Peatland Carbon CyclingEcosystems447631a66439719e2e8db99a1423ec2bArmstrong A2015-01-01A4525F08-1DDB-4230-B4FF-E65C890837D3Armstrong, A.,Richardson, H.,Waldron, S.,Ostle, N.J.,Whitaker, J. (2015). Field measurements of peatland carbon cycling at a wind farm hosting peatland in Scotland.e8e7a3048d425d6ba67d5744411a8fc4Armstrong2015-01-01NE/H010351/1E4C03353-6311-43F9-9204-CFC2536D201725Atmospheric phys. & chemistry6E910789-6B8D-4B73-B5B0-F3156942B55825GeosciencesE05CFC1B-8264-49AB-8A54-E3A86F40470750Marine environments62DCC1BF-B512-4BDB-A0C3-02BC17E15F6B25Biogeochemical Cycles859194A3-8EE1-41D7-90C5-DA2999B93E8E25Earth Resources12C7A68B-3922-4925-9C0B-7FACEC92181525Ecosystem Scale ProcessesE94BED75-343A-47C8-BEA1-E1E927732B3425Land - Atmosphere Interactions6B75AED4-88D1-4053-A6E5-2EDEFDA64CAEActive Multi-Axle Steering of Heavy Goods VehiclesClosedResearch GrantEP/D004152/1Studies performed in Canada, Australia, USA and in Europe have shown that long combination vehicles (LCVs), with two or more trailers can significantly reduce road congestion, improve safety, improve transportation cost efficiency, reduce fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions and significantly reduce road surface wear. Unfortunately three major practical barriers prevent adoption of LCVs in the UK: (i) poor manoeuvrability; (ii) poor high speed stability; and (iii) poor reversibility.(i) Many of the roundabouts and narrow roads in the UK's freight transportation network would be impossible for conventional LCVs to negotiate. One way to improve the low speed manoeuvrability of an LCV would be to steer the trailer and/or tractor drive axles. Simple 'passive' steering systems have been developed for rigid trucks and tractor/semi-trailers. Such systems set the road wheel steer angles in a fixed relationship to the geometry of the vehicle: the angles do not change with speed. Recent studies have shown that passive steering systems substantially improve the low-speed manoeuvrability of tractor/semi-trailer combinations by reducing cut-in. They also significantly reduce lateral tyre forces / leading to lower tyre wear and reduced road surface damage. This is important for transporting goods in urban areas where vehicles need to negotiate sharp corners and small diameter roundabouts, at low speeds.(ii) High speed stability is also a problem for many conventional LCVs since lateral accelerations are amplified with each successive trailer. This can lead to premature roll-over during evasive manoeuvres. While passive steering would improve the low speed manoeuvrability of LCVs, the applicants have recently shown that such systems reduce high-speed yaw stability, increase rearward amplification and degrade handling. Consequently fitting a passive steering system to an LCV is likely to further degrade its already poor high-speed stability. To overcome these problems at high speeds an active steering system could be used instead of passive steering. In an active system the steering relationship is varied while the vehicle is in motion to achieve optimal performance at all speeds. While such systems have yet to be developed for heavy vehicles, they have been successfully employed on cars and SUV's: eg Delphi's 'Quadrasteer' system fitted to GMC SUV's. Quadrasteer increases manoeuvrability at low speeds and improves handling and stability at high speeds. Similar benefits could be gained by using active steering on HGVs in general and LCVs in particular.(iii) Finally, the poor reversibility of conventional LCVs would severely restrict the use of existing freight terminals and loading dock infrastructure in the UK. However active steering could be designed to assist drivers to reverse complex multi-unit vehicles. Preliminary research by the applicants has shown that active steering can improve the reversibility of tractor/full trailer combinations, however, algorithms to suit other vehicle combinations, such as tractor/semi-trailers and LCVs, still need to be developed.The main research challenges to be addressed in this project are therefore to develop active steering technologies for LCVs. Once prototype technologies have been developed and tested it will be possible to assess the costs and benefits of implementing active-steering on LCVs in the UK.The research will build on previous work on active steering systems for lorries performed in Cambridge University Engineering Department. It will involve theoretical control system development; field testing of control concepts using existing experimental heavy goods vehicle units; prototype actuator hardware development and laboratory testing; and a detailed cost/benefit analysis. The research will be performed by two postdoctoral researchers in the university, working in collaboration with engineers from a consortium of companies in the heavy vehicle industry.2009-06-01798CB33D-C79E-4578-83F2-72606407192CEPSRC2006-01-02INCOME_ACTUAL511248Firestone Industrial ProductsUnited States of AmericaFirestone Industrial ProductsC0F47E34-C3A4-4ABD-B5C8-3E38E5B1D9B5Private2006-01-01Mektronika Systems LtdUnited Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland (UK)Mektronika Systems LtdE116AF4B-58B9-4D53-AD56-A7080ADCA573Private2006-01-01FM EngineeringUnited Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland (UK)F M Engineering Ltd9CB55B86-37EC-45C0-A60E-0346C3E87A9FPrivate2006-01-01MeritorUnited States of AmericaArvin Meritor (Clwyd)95502449-42DF-4BEA-9B8B-CD1731481AE6Private2006-01-01Volvo TrucksSweden, Kingdom ofVolvo Trucks319195C4-FE8A-4FF1-B5F9-C4BBE157D86APrivate2006-01-01HaldexSweden, Kingdom ofHaldex Brake Products LtdB13AA3A2-B0D3-4AA2-923F-A1CCCDCD79F2Private2006-01-01Tinsley Bridge LimitedUnited Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland (UK)Tinsley Bridge Limited9D5633EC-A1A6-422A-AA30-278507AEAAB7Private2006-01-01Denby TransportUnited Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland (UK)Denby Transport LtdF33A6D0F-BF59-42B7-80EC-94236FAB157APrivate2006-01-01MeritorUnited States of AmericaArvin Meritor67D6222E-0DD1-4E35-8A41-1CE53E33E5DBPrivate2006-01-01Mother and Infant Research Activities (MIRA)Nepal, State ofMIRA LtdDE2D76C8-F9E6-4484-B97B-6DBDE7F95D0DCharity/Non Profit2006-01-01QinetiqUnited Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland (UK)QinetiQ ltdA6B98F3C-C6EE-407B-9B07-731FA08130DBPrivate2006-01-01'Some Advances in Heavy Vehicle Technology' IRTE Technical Conference, September 13, 2012.A talk or presentationNational99DBCB05-DE4A-4B9B-94FF-E8B6195ED01FA number of key industry players enquired about the possibilty of partnering with the university for commercial exploitation of the trailer steering technologies.falseProfessional Practitionershttp://www.soe.org.uk/news/soe-news/item/irte-technical-conference-to-focus-on-cost-saving-technologies/2012Active Steering of a Longer Semitrailer - Freight Transport Association Longer Semitrailers ConferenceA talk or presentationNationalBBC78008-3AD3-4A8A-B7CF-A879417AAB63Requests for further informationfalsePublic/other audiences20121 Cebon, D. 'Active Steering of Heavy Goods Vehicles', SAE 2012 Heavy Truck Handling, Dynamics and Control Symposium, May 15-17, 2012, Greenville, SC, USA.A talk or presentationInternational3D95EB69-FE47-4019-89A1-F37B6307281DGenerated substantial interest in active trailer steering technologies among US heavy vehicle industry.falsePublic/other audienceshttp://www.sae.org/events/hths/2012125000United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland (UK)GBPUnited Kingdomen_GBDevelopment of a Longer Semitrailer - Collaborative project funded by industry2014-12-02Cambridge Vehicle Dynamics Consortium4D737D63-1CA2-4E72-A7B5-6ED93BD84704Private2012-12-011. The technology developed in this project has been licensed to Tridec BV (the largest manufacturer of trailer steering systems in Europe) and is being developed into their next-generation product in a joint project between the university researchers and the company. The system has the potential to enable use of longer and much more productive vehicles in a variety of niche applications, including: longer articulated vehicles; multiple-trailer long-haul vehicles; more efficient refuse collection; farm-gate collection of agricultural products such as milk. 2. The mathematical models developed and used in this project were used by the researchers as part of a study for the Department for Transport (DfT) into implementation of longer semitrailer vehicles in the UK. As a result of the recommendations of this study, the DfT implemented a 10-year trial of these vehicles on UK roads. These vehicles carry about 15% more capacity than conventional semitrailers while using approximately the same amount of fuel. Consequently their fuel consumption and CO2 footprint per unit of payload is substantially better than conventional articulated vehicles. There are less of them on the roads, resulting in lower levels of traffic congestion. They also do less road wear per unit of payload and have the potential to make the UK freight industry more competitive with its European counterparts.201268806DE5-73F1-4DCD-832F-5F0E0BA1FDE4Economic,Policy & public servicesTransportA safety system for at least one steerable wheel of a vehicle. The system comprises an actuating means and a locking means and is arranged such that, upon a predetermined condition arising, the actuating means effects centring of the or each wheel and the locking means then effects locking of the or each centred wheel.344E7802-63FB-474B-BDA2-4844E821E7E3N/ANoWO2008040957Patent application publishedSTEERABLE WHEEL SAFETY SYSTEM2006A system for controlling a vehicle. The vehicle (1) has a steerable front axle (3) and at least one further steerable axle (6) and the system comprises means for determining the path of a reference lead point (5) at the front of the vehicle (1). There is also means for determining the path of a follow point at the rear of the vehicle, and means for driving the at least one further steerable axle (6) of the vehicle such that the deviation between the path of the lead point (5) of the vehicle and6D9DE398-5376-47B1-B260-6B57BDA8D7FDYet to be implementedYes0715142.6Patent grantedACTIVE STEERING CONTROLLER2009The original objectives of the project are listed below along with a summary of key project outcomes. All references shown in brackets [ ] and links to photographs and videos can found at web link listed below. * Investigate active steering control strategies for tractor-semitrailer combinations: Control strategies were devised for active steering of tractor-semitrailer vehicles at low speed [2, 5] and high speed [4, 8]. The controllers were field tested on an existing experimental vehicle. Low speed performance benefits on the standard UK roundabout manoeuvre included a 72% reduction in steady-state off-tracking and an 83% reduction in peak tyre force while eliminating entry tail-swing. This contrasted with a 260% increase in tail swing for a conventional trailer steering strategy [15]. At high speed, a 27% reduction in lateral acceleration during a lane-change manoeuvre was achieved with no increase in off-tracking [4]. * Devise and test prototype active steering hardware and software for fail-safe, efficient operation. A new fail-safe steering actuation system was designed, built and fitted to a new test trailer [10]. A comprehensive investigation of all possible failure modes was performed [1]. The ultimate design incorporated novel fail-safe, self configuring control software [9]. * Develop and test active steering strategies for a selection of long combination vehicles. Control strategies were developed to be applicable to a range of common LCVs at low and high speeds. These strategies were field tested using the actively steered 7-axle B-double vehicle developed during this project. At low speed 'perfect' following of the tractor path was achieved with both trailers, using less swept path width than a conventional tractor-semitrailer, and causing no tail-swing. By contrast an unsteered B-double was not able to negotiate the roundabout, and a conventional steering strategy showed a hazardous 1.6m of tail-swing [10]. Simulations show a 17% decrease in rearward amplification and an 80% reduction in transient off-tracking at high speed [11]. * Investigate control strategies for active steering of conventional and long combination vehicles in the reverse direction. A path-following control strategy was developed to enable the same manoeuvres to be performed in reverse as in the forward direction. During field tests with this controller, the actively steered B-double was able to negotiate the UK roundabout manoeuvre in reverse with nearly perfect path following: an impossible task for an unsteered vehicle [12]. * Quantify the costs and benefits of actively steered conventional and long combination vehicles. Two cost-benefit analyses were performed [17, 18]. Potential benefits of introducing LCVs in the UK include: ?2.1b p.a. reduction in costs associated with traffic congestion and up to 40% reduction in CO2 from freight transport. A detailed follow-on study further quantified the potential for reducing CO2 [6, 7, 19. 20]. Beneficiaries of the technologies developed in this project include: the environment (reduced CO2 emissions); the public (safer, less road-damaging vehicles); vehicle operators (more efficient and versatile vehicles), Department for Transport (new knowledge about performance and benefits of LCVs); industrial partners (exploitation of the technology).The technology has significant commercial potential for articulated heavy vehicles world-wide. Two patents have been applied for. One has been granted so far. The technology for active steering systems has been licensed to the leading European manufacturer of steering axle systems for heavy goods vehicles.AE5C82CF-D0D4-41BB-9BE5-9F864033BEAFTransporthttp://www-cvdc.eng.cam.ac.uk/directory/research-themes/active-steering-of-long-combination-vehiclesTechnical analysis of benefits of longer semitrailers for DfT study.National1B46533B-0A8C-44A5-92E9-98F02E042093The work done was part of a study which led to a 10-year national trial of longer semitrailer vehicles. The benefits of these vehicles are: reduced numbers of heavy vehicles on the road, lower fuel consumption and CO2 emissions per freight task for HGVs, reduced traffic congestion, reduced road-wear per freight task.Membership of a guidance committeehttps://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/3820/report.pdf1F284401-C240-452C-843A-445A0FCE2B60Implementation of Trailer Steering Control on a Multi-Unit Vehicle at High SpeedsJournal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Controldd11719287bf17bc0b08fafdc67bb85eRoebuck R2013-01-01EF9D3790-B70B-4AD3-AE52-453E9401F83BPath-Following Steering Control for Articulated VehiclesJournal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control293ad55ecc5477953e35a6a5222aec7aJujnovich B2013-01-01AA2DDDD9-6735-4EF1-A501-68BB08DAED9FActive Rear Steering Control of a Tractor - Semi-Trailerf4862d8677c2da2424842c3c20eefedcJujnovich, BA2008-01-0119158834-4CF2-4558-B34C-2E70DD92B55DHigh-speed optimal steering of a tractor-semitrailerVehicle System Dynamics188171302b534ec3231090d12faced88Cheng C2011-01-013D989ADF-F5E1-48DC-989A-44A23D9F2A86Implementation of active rear steering of a tractor-semi-trailerf4862d8677c2da2424842c3c20eefedcJujnovich, BA2008-01-013622069B-1A3C-47C0-AFA6-37241C47209DSocial appraisal: active multi-axle steering of heavy goods vehicles83fc73d2249511a8b1e0f93603ab6588Hall, B.2007-01-01ISSN 0309-74205F21D592-5B88-4C87-AFAF-5B6CB65F6FE6An automatically-reconfigurable software-based safety system for rear-steering multi-unit vehiclesIEEE Transactions on Automatic Control9a288b955cb13016a62895232f1d37daRoebuck, RL14FB5BF8-2C40-4A1B-938F-FB2CAD56C068Parameter and state estimation for articulated heavy vehiclesVehicle System Dynamics188171302b534ec3231090d12faced88Cheng C2011-01-013308816E-3F40-406B-9F89-0F74B0841207Factors influencing the energy consumption of road freight transportProceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Sciencea9a7ce71ab7572b1287723d650cc11ebOdhams A2010-01-01345929BF-B8D0-4B16-8178-AFA7D685284FAssessing the business case for production of multi-axle steering systems for heavy goods vehicles at Arvin Meritor, Wrexham5cf078c6073121089392c64b70da39aeDavies, K.2008-01-01C63491A2-00D0-4B3F-A5B4-23017B2CC6B0Dynamic safety of active trailer steering systemsProceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part K: Journal of Multi-body Dynamicsa9a7ce71ab7572b1287723d650cc11ebOdhams A2008-01-018EAA965C-748C-49C1-8CEC-3C53DB901FB2Modelling the fuel consumption of heavy vehiclesea987256a80f83d07136f100fb3a11c9Hunt, S.2009-01-01ISSN 0309-742038903D74-D209-45ED-8161-4FB710D6D4D6Active steering of a tractor-semi-trailerProceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineeringa9a7ce71ab7572b1287723d650cc11ebOdhams A2011-01-0193425687-0473-44F2-82C5-3A4954C95EF7Energy Use in Heavy Vehiclesc02ab17bc13490ccbc1d70acb6722e5dOdhams, AMC2008-01-01ISSN 0309-7420F84A1521-E0D2-4904-831A-FA324B0275FBParameter measurement for heavy-vehicle fuel consumption modellingProceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineeringde87720ab5502fb9205d283314e6d091Hunt S2011-01-0175FEC22D-3581-41FC-9DDE-EB949BB74197Implementation of active steering on a multiple trailer long combination vehicle197333a116622ab7c57ec317e93e44dbCebon, D.2011-01-0166E82434-BDE6-4587-AEEA-F7977A66C252Implementation of Active Steering on a Multiple Trailer Long Combination Vehicle9a288b955cb13016a62895232f1d37daRoebuck, RL2010-01-0107E7807B-A380-4259-9A45-EFF8F381C0A8Enhancing safety of actively-steered articulated vehiclese836e0fdd84952b7571479b6c943bc7eCheng Caizhen2009-01-01EP/D004152/15E9AA4EC-49E3-4D6A-B545-79DA07CE39E010Management & Business Studies53F27348-198B-4AEF-A34B-8307067F507C90Systems engineering21CE2EA6-E7A2-4406-A045-0DA7CA19B69590Control Engineering748617DE-4AB0-42C9-9514-B22ECFBE05E110Transport Ops & ManagementAB4AA8AA-65DC-408D-A40E-2C495BF7382EMICA: Whole body 3-D imaging of cancer and inflammation in live zebrafish using optical tomography and fluorescence lifetime readouts of signallingClosedResearch GrantMR/K011561/1Our overarching aim is to develop a new optical technology platform to directly image mechanisms of disease throughout whole live organisms as they progress over time with a view to improving our understanding of" global" responses to disease progression, and to specific treatments, in order to develop new therapies. To visualise internal processes requires transparent organisms. Zebrafish embryos are particularly interesting because they are inherently transparent and are vertebrates - and so represent better human biology than other transparent organisms. They are increasingly used for biomedical research, with cellular processes being studied using microscopes, and many zebrafish disease models have been produced, including for cancer and inflammation. Unfortunately the use of embryos precludes full studies of disease progression such as tumour development or chronic inflammation and it would be useful to be able to image such processes in more mature fish. Imaging larger fish, however, is challenged by the onset of absorption and scattering of light and the lack of instrumentation for high resolution 3-D imaging through cm scale samples. We would work with non-pigmented mutations of zebrafish and develop new techniques to counter light scattering that we would implement in a novel tomographic imaging system to enable detailed 3-D imaging of changes in tissue structures, cell migration and signalling processes throughout whole juvenile and adult live zebrafish. Such "global" 3-D imaging is important for cancer because tumour cells typically spread from their original site to other organs. This is called metastasis, which is very difficult to treat and often leads to death. Observing the growth and spread of tumour cells throughout an organism and how they grow at new sites is not possible using the mammalian disease models such as mice that are often used to study cancer biology because they are not optically accessible. Global 3-D imaging is also important for inflammation to study how the response to pollutants spreads throughout an organism, leading to chronic inflammation, and how the body's defences recruit immune cells. However, even with non-pigmented zebrafish, the established optical imaging techniques are restricted to image near the surface and are strongly compromised by optical scattering. Our approach would build on a method called "optical projection tomography" that is similar to x-ray tomography but works with visible light. We would combine it with novel image reconstruction software that builds on the basic physics of light propagation and advanced techniques to exploit characteristic properties of the scattered light. We will apply this novel imaging platform to the study of cancer and inflammation using genetically modified adult zebrafish. To study cancer, we would breed zebrafish in which we can either induce tumours with a chemical reagent or in which we can transplant zebrafish-derived tumours. These cancer models resemble the disease state in humans. To study inflammation, we would use adult zebrafish models that have an analogous immune response to humans and we would study the progression of inflammation resulting from chemical pollutants including cigarette smoke. The various zebrafish models would also be genetically engineered such that specific proteins found in tumour cells, immune cells or blood vessels would be labelled with fluorescent molecules to facilitate imaging of the disease-related structural changes and cell migration. We would also use fluorescently labelled "biosensors" that change their fluorescence properties when specific molecular interactions take place as part of the signalling processes that determine normal cellular function and which become dysregulated in cancer and inflammation. By observing when and where signalling processes are activated or otherwise, we can study the effects of potential therapies such as anti-cancer or anti-inflammatory drugs.This project aims to develop and apply a new optical tomographic imaging platform to directly observe the progression of disease, including quantitative assays of morphological changes, physiological and molecular signalling processes in live whole juvenile and adult zebrafish that benefit from fully developed vasculature and immune system. We aim to extend optical projection tomography (OPT) to rapid imaging of cell migration using a novel (patent filed) configuration and realise 3-D mapping of optical absorption and fluorescence signals (including fluorescence lifetime imaging - FLIM) in cm-scale non-pigmented zebrafish lines using novel computational reconstruction algorithms to account for weakly scattered light propagation and ballistic light techniques to improve 3-D image quality. We will develop this technology in the context of its application to disease models for both cancer and inflammation. For this we will perform crosses and modify already available zebrafish strains, with fluorescently labelled vasculature and cell types (tumour cells, neutrophils and macrophages). For cancer we would make 3-D measurements of developing (inducible, syngeneic) tumours and the surrounding vasculature and map the localisation and size of resulting metastases over time. We would also read out the activation of Src, MT1-MMP & Rac biosensors using FLIM FRET and correlate changes in these important signalling pathways with tumour development. For inflammation we would image the kinetics of recruitment of inflammatory cell populations throughout a single fish in response to chemical pollutants and correlate this with the activation of signalling networks (Nalp3 inflammasome, TLR) using sensors for cathepsin B, caspase 1 and NF-kB. We would thereby study how chemically induced inflammation varies between larval, juvenile and adult zebrafish. As a basis for future projects, we would start exploring the inflammatory response in tumour bearing zebrafish.Our local strategic intent is to build on our experience imaging disease models and developing FLIM and FRET technology to establish novel capabilities for global 3-D imaging of biological processes in live organisms such as juvenile/adult zebrafish that would provide an unprecedented resource for disease/drug studies and developmental biology. Once proven, we would make it available via collaboration to academe and industry and ultimately establish a user-contribution-to-costs model to share and sustain the facility, as well as exploring access to industry on a commercial basis. We would also work to make the proposed new imaging technology more widely available to industry and other users through its commercialisation. This would hopefuly benefit academic, clinical and industrial researchers who could buy the commercial instruments and would stimulate the development of competitive techniques, which would benefit the instrumentation sector - particularly companies serving the pharmaceutical and biomedical research communities. Malignant and chronic inflammatory diseases remain areas of major unmet need and commercial opportunity for the pharmaceutical industry. The capabilities of the proposed instrumentation to image global responses to gene knockdowns or therapeutic interventions in live organisms and to correlate bulk physical changes with changes in the activation of cell signalling pathways would be important for pharmacology and drug testing. It could increase the efficiency of the drug discovery pipeline, e.g. by reducing the time to failure for unsuccessful drug candidates and increasing the opportunities for off-target discovery. The new capabilities to image cancer processes in vivo should benefit the drug discovery industry, providing new tools and information concerning mechanisms of cancer development and progression, and clinical oncologists, who could increase their understanding of cancer metastasis and the value of different therapeutic approaches. The enhanced abilities to image tumour-vasculature interactions, tumour progression and metastasis could increase understanding of the behaviour of tumour cell subpopulations in relation to therapeutic targeting. Along with researchers and clinicians, drug companies could benefit from the improved capability to evaluate the efficacy of drug compounds to slow down or prevent tumour progression and metastasis afforded by imaging whole organisms in vivo and from the identification of novel therapeutic targets. Most importantly, cancer patients could benefit in terms of improved understanding of their disease and increased opportunities to identify effective pharmacological therapies and to develop new ones. In the longer term, this could impact on the development of preventative and therapeutic strategies for cancer that would benefit policy makers and health care providers across the world and could ultimately help reduce the economic burden and human suffering caused by this disease. Beyond cancer, the capability to track the spatio-temporal behaviour of leukocytes and signalling in the context of entire organisms would provide a currently unique resource for understanding the basic physiology of immunity and inflammation as well as disease processes. It could enable genetic or drug screens to understand at a mechanistic level processes that underlie and/or are involved in an extremely broad range of pathologies including cardiac disease, arthritis and obesity and so could impact a very wide range of pharmaceutical researchers, clinicians and patients. Beyond medicine the imaging techniques could be applied to plants and animals to impact food security. The knowledge and skills gained by the staff working on this project would directly benefit them in terms of increasing their potential for research impact and future employment and could benefit the biophotonics instrumentation and medical research communities who could employ them.2015-08-31C008C651-F5B0-4859-A334-5F574AB6B57CMRC2013-04-01INCOME_ACTUAL762029Magnus Life ScienceUnited Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland (UK)Magnus Life Science8A34F928-2FE6-4CCA-8D9B-610D028E2732This project is multidisciplinary. Magnus Life Science are a drug discovery company. They do not develop technology. The academic Imperial/UCL team has developed technology of interest to Magnus. The Imperial College London team includes physicists and biologists and the UCL team includes biologists and computer scientistsBesides their financial contribution, Magnus have provided advice and an industrial perspective for our project and take an interest in our research with a view to exploiting it for drug discoveryMagnus were an industrial partner in our MICA award. . We continue to develop our zebrafish imaging technology and aim to consult them with a view to ensuring that our technology is relevant to drug discovery.Private2013-01-01Biophotonics Summer School Hven 2015A talk or presentationInternationalEDC1CCD4-35FD-41B0-8C2B-8A2C6D5A6BC0falsePostgraduate studentshttp://www.biop.dk/biophotonics15/school/school.asp?page=main_school_lecturers2015MDFI for HCA workshop 2014Participation in an activity, workshop or similarNational975E5877-EE76-43DD-BCCD-8FCEE0D52A9AfalseIndustry/Business2014International Women's Day at Imperial College - Women at Imperial receptionParticipation in an open day or visit at my research institutionLocal0612D71F-A292-4283-A161-D8535F8DCA4BfalsePublic/other audienceshttp://www.imperial.ac.uk/equality/support-for-staff/imperial-women/women2016/201660594United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland (UK)GBPUnited Kingdomen_GBEngineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EPSRCEPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship2017-01-02University of Cambridge24FF787B-29FD-4E89-AFF1-939084B63EF1Public2016-02-01We have developed a range of new transgenic zebrafish lines including an inducible liver tumour model for cancer and a range of lines expressing FRET biosensors: TraNac TG(fabp10-rtTA) TraNac TG(TRE-Src bios) TraNac TG(TRE-Rac1 bios) TraNac TG(TRE-MT1-MMP) TraNac TG(TRE-iRFP-KRasV12) TraNac Tg(Ubi:Caspase1 YVHDA bios) TraNac Tg(Ubi:Caspase3 bios) TraNac Tg(Ubi:Rac1 bios) TraNac Tg(Ubi:SECFP) TraNac Tg(MPEG1:Caspase1 YVHDA bios) TraNac Tg(MPEG1:Caspase3 bios) TraNac Tg(IFABP 4.5Kb:Caspase1 YVHDA bios) TraNac Tg(MPEG1:Caspase1 YVHDA bios; KDR:mCherry)78C2360C-16FA-4FAC-A5EB-B67880EA73BCWe have demonstrated the capability to undertake longitudinal imaging of live zebrafish with induced tumour and have imaged temporal development of both tumour and vasculature in a cross-sectional study in which we validated in vivo imaging results with histopathology.falseTransgenic zebrafishBiological samplesThis is a complete OPT system that can be coupled to a gated image intensifier to implement 3-D tomographic FLIM. It includes software to control the instrument for data acquisition and OPT reconstruction using Filtered back projection, which can utilise GPU to provide reconstruction at unprecedented speed.270151AF-046C-4160-952E-DAEADC9D72E2We have used this FLIM OPT instrument to image live zebrafish embryos expressing FRET biosensor for Caspase 3, which enables us to acquire in vivo 3-D maps of apoptosis over timeFLIM OPT systemNew/Improved Technique/Technology2013We have developed a software tool to reconstruct OPT data sets that have been significantly under-sampled, thereby permitting faster image acquisition, which is important for in vivo imaging. This utilises an iterative reconstruction algorithm and has been used with both zebrafish embryos and with adult zebrafish.05C1DA13-8CAD-40F8-8CCF-D051EEC33829This compressive sensing approach means that we can acquire useful tomographic data sets with as few as ~30 projections (where 100's of projections would be required for fully sampled reconstructions using filtered back projection). This essentially makes multispectral OPT of live zebrafish possible, since it reduces the time spent under anaesthetic and the light dose to the sample.Compressive sensing OPTSoftware20142BC7D75E-0744-4B4C-8C04-C6573CDA6969Visualising apoptosis in live zebrafish using fluorescence lifetime imaging with optical projection tomography to map FRET biosensor activity in space and time.Journal of biophotonics71953361aa1127e81edfcbb2798c99aaAndrews N2016-01-011864-063XFD1B15FA-2B46-4272-ADFE-3A1CAC2E26CFSimultaneous angular multiplexing optical projection tomography at shifted focal planes.Optics lettersfbfd9fb6e692d07596464ca94848bf67Chen L2013-01-010146-9592FD540B50-D9B5-488B-9F13-4C9E64317284Novel 3D imaging platform tracks cancer progression in vivoBiochemist62f15ea31e5b2cbe058671efd69d926bMcGinty J.2016-01-0117401194A1BFE2CB-FC2D-417F-AD11-AB2436AD091CFluorescence Lifetime Imaging for Biomedicinefe0ca69d98568622e5c24beb8f244db6French P2014-01-01978-1-55752-999-2773C3C39-2EB6-4A2A-A468-54C038E30E94Fluorescence lifetime imaging across the scales - Plenary Lecture LALS 2014bf7ae13e2e627786ac8dd105322f1b02French,PMWDAFFDB32-E91F-4AFC-937C-4F2010619AADMesoscopic in vivo 3-D tracking of sparse cell populations using angular multiplexed optical projection tomography.Biomedical optics expressfbfd9fb6e692d07596464ca94848bf67Chen L2015-01-012156-70852F82D83F-B49A-4226-B8AA-DB44CFF39B4DMapping the spatio-temporal localisation of Caspase 3 activity using fluorescence lifetime optical projection tomography7c4d944887becd5229a7a28ae5d6d715Andrews, AAC1E1D0E-0760-4485-AC9A-06A83140E6AEQuantitative in vivo optical tomography of cancer progression & vasculature development in adult zebrafish.Oncotarget22e459c4c42360108e16cea2f07aec37Kumar S2016-01-011949-25536035C302-9D7A-47CD-8AD9-6BBB696A3E3ESimultaneous angular multiplexing optical projection tomography at shifted focal planes.Optics lettersfbfd9fb6e692d07596464ca94848bf67Chen L2013-01-010146-9592ED13009E-A54D-4983-892A-C248BFA77F2CAccelerated Optical Projection Tomography Applied to In Vivo Imaging of Zebrafish.PloS one132b1a61319104db3ff8cb488a57a3e7Correia T2015-01-011932-6203041268D3-BF65-46F0-8A6B-4EDFFCE635D2Rapid in-vivo Optical Projection Tomography of Larval and Adult Zebrafish Disease Models with Angular Multiplexing and FLIM-FRETd79daf874f4caa609b9e05d0aae1acd1Kumar, SCC799F36-B443-4C21-842B-740BADFD4048Remote focal scanning optical projection tomography with an electrically tunable lens.Biomedical optics expressfbfd9fb6e692d07596464ca94848bf67Chen L2014-01-012156-7085D35427D7-5A45-4279-AF7B-2E0EC11F8FB5Techniques to improve the spatial and temporal resolution in optical projection tomography: remote focal scanning and time-lapse cell trackingfc6dfd910722f1200b691d94579e350dMcGinty J2015-01-01978-1-55752-954-14F1EBD1B-0CD2-45FC-9228-993616676B14Accelerated Optical Projection Tomography Applied to In Vivo Imaging of Zebrafish.PloS one132b1a61319104db3ff8cb488a57a3e7Correia T2015-01-011932-6203MR/K011561/17C58A707-1BF6-4573-A44F-30B271C8081350CancerC6D70A71-8796-47BC-AFE0-CC2286E66A0650Inflammatory and Immune System1BF330A9-C7B5-49C5-B54B-CF4FAE6DF1D81002.1 Biological and endogenous factorsABEC6F5D-452C-45EB-95B2-29032D8B002EEUWATHERActiveResearch GrantAH/N504397/1Water networks have been integral to the expansion of urban centres and the development and expansion of trade, thus also interacting with flood control strategies and the construction and maintenance of rural landscapes. There has been a long history of artistic and cultural representation of these waterways, and the life that they have brought to their surrounding landscapes. This is in danger of being lost. In this post-industrial age it is therefore necessary to develop new, more coordinated, strategies to promote memory and identity of river cultures, linking institutional activities and encouraging the exchange of experiences. The presence in many European countries of artificial waterways and connected natural hydrography can thus be considered a significant cultural heritage. Characterized by an intrinsic hydraulic complexity, this heritage goes back far in time at least to the Middle Ages, develops further during the Renaissance and reaches its maturity during the industrial era. In some cases, this hydraulic network is already a tourist attraction; in other cases, it has a hidden potential for sustainable development. Such a precious, historic heritage deserves today a renewed, coordinated commitment to its re-evaluation, by considering both the structural heritage of the waterways (canals, bridges, locks, shipyards, mills, quays) and the artistic and cultural artefacts that are now in peril (artistic and cultural interpretations of river life, traditional wooden boats and other crafts). The research will be undertaken from a multi-disciplinary perspective, involving teams from the University of Brighton (UK), University Ca Foscari Venice (Italy), the University of Leiden and the Free University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and the University of Gerona (Spain). The project will bring cultural geography into conversation with art history, oral history, digital media and design. In the contexts of geography and spatial planning, discourses about the cultural-historical dimensions of landscape are elaborate and on-going, particularly in the field of cultural geography. At the same time, in the humanities - for example in the research field of 'ecocriticism' - a growing interest in ecological concerns is being expressed by artists and writers. From the diverse disciplines of geography, spatial planning and the humanities, there is thus clearly a need to research how (both historical and contemporary) cultural heritage can contribute to our knowledge about land and waterscapes. Allied to this is a broad wish to explore the new opportunities offered by digital media to record, represent and interpret cultural heritage, particularly where it engages with often hidden secondary and essentially local communities and their environments. This project aims to develop these theoretical discussions and to elaborate - beyond theory and at the same time developing theory further - concrete tools in which both oral history and cultural heritage information are linked to geospatial information that can be shared with the communities that created the content, as well as the wider public, government agencies and other bodies who share a stake in the future of Europe's rich heritage of secondary waterways and associated waterscapes.The potential impact of the EUWATHER project outcomes includes: - A new digital tool to make a database on waterways cultural heritage easily accessible to private entrepreneurs in river tourism, to public/private institutions devoted to environmental education, to open air and other museums, and to rural tourism networks, particularly those involving hikers and cyclists. - Support for institutional (both local and national) activities concerning diagnostics, conservation, recovery and digitisation of both tangible and intangible waterscape assets. - Stimulating major co-ordination, co-operative and co-designed activities that involve local communities, public institutions and private bodies involved in secondary rivers and historic canals management. To ensure that the full impact of the project is achieved, a number of Associated Partners (APs) have agreed to participate in the project, using their specific expertise to guide and complement the research, as well as providing access to the waterscapes themselves. They will also ensure that the full social and economic impacts of the project are distributed across the four partner countries and beyond. In the case of the UK, the Canal & River Trust (CRT) has a long standing expertise in managing, restoring and fostering the social uses of waterways. The CRT wishes to work with the research team to implement a new approach to co-designed community engagement. This will be used to identify and evaluate new approaches to the development and management of under-used urban canals in Greater Manchester. It is expected that the impacts of this work will be both social (better amenity, recreation and health impacts) and economic (more user fees). In the Netherlands, the involvement of Waterrecreatie Nederland is crucial to ensure that the project addresses new tourism and recreational opportunities, to supplement the work that Waterrecreatie Nederland has been undertaking in the last decades. The Italian AP (the Consorzio di Bonifica Acque Risorgive, Reclamation Land Syndicate) is experienced in the management of secondary hydrography with particular reference to river restoration and the establishment of good ecological standards - a crucial goal of the EU Water Framework Directive. The impact for this partner will be in implementing new approaches to community engagement, which will allow it to develop a better understanding of the potential of using an ecosystem services approach to its resource management activities. The Spanish AP (the Euro-Mediterranean Tourism and Water Campus) is experienced in developing interactions between universities and private companies with the goal of encouraging water based tourism along minor rivers and canals. The research will provide new insights and methods that can help develop this work. None of the Associated Partners is equipped individually to undertake extended research into complex subjects such as the social, cultural, environment and economic development of their waterway assets. Instead, they rely very often on work with local volunteers and others. In this sense the expected impact of the project on the Associate Partners is substantial.2017-08-311291772D-DFCE-493A-AEE7-24F7EEAFE0E9AHRC2015-09-01INCOME_ACTUAL142153Community consultationParticipation in an activity, workshop or similarNationalFC93D94B-98FB-402C-8981-60E88BF4C938None yetfalsePublic/other audiences2015This research is in its early stages, and has not yet generated overall findings. However, the first public meeting in Manchester, in October 2015, generated some new ways in which partner organisations might address hard to reach communities. This will be followed up in the research.20152B336CC6-4BE5-4C06-A293-1A2C9E2127DFPolicy & public servicesEnvironment,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and TourismCF7244CE-FE67-4B26-9A96-8CF2B1A75144Circular story telling: reimagining stories as a means of doing community historiesf46b14e8d2e0595945d32093021a4244Ravenscroft, ND69331B5-426E-499F-900A-D10521681503Heritage and tourism in Britain and Ireland: conservation, nation, identity55b0b6fcbe40e8be1a6c7c9b6fd7b30eGilchrist, P.AH/N504397/1D05BC2E0-0345-4A3F-8C3F-775BC42A0819UnclassifiedAC2A355B-7AA4-4FF5-9F72-29A04C69DE98An Automotive Class MEAClosedCollaborative Research & Development210007No abstract available.2007-06-30E18E2F0F-AC7D-4E02-9559-669F7C8FEC74Innovate UK2004-04-01INCOME_ACTUAL3273000210007D05BC2E0-0345-4A3F-8C3F-775BC42A0819UnclassifiedACB19DDD-F3EC-406B-BE69-2B104805ED8DA failure of neuroprotective redox signalling from skeletal muscle to motor neurons leads to loss of motor units with ageingClosedResearch GrantBB/I004076/1The loss of skeletal muscle mass that occurs as we age leads to a significant decline in muscle strength and this is a major factor leading to the physical frailty seen in the elderly. Frailty is a major contributor to many health care problems and poor quality of life and results in increased risk of falls, hypothermia, incontinence and lack of independence. The bulk of our muscle declines by ~40% between the ages of 50 and 70 years regardless of the amount of exercise that is undertaken. Most current approaches to preserve muscle function during ageing try to improve the function of the muscle that remains in the elderly and are based on exercise training regimens, but the loss of muscle cells is associated with a loss of the motor nerves that stimulate the muscle to contract and there is no evidence that these can be replaced by exercise training. Thus exercise-based approaches can optimise the remaining muscle in the elderly, but cannot replace the motor nerves that are already lost. It is currently unknown whether the loss of the motor nerves precedes and leads to loss of the muscle or whether the reverse occurs. It appears that damage to tissues by highly reactive substances called free radicals or reactive oxygen species (ROS) may play an important role in the processes of ageing. Skeletal muscle cells have sophisticated systems that allow them to increase their protection against ROS during exercise, but this process appears to fail during ageing and contributes to the age-related loss of muscle cells. It is not known whether similar protective systems exist in the motor nerves, but some data indicate that muscle cells release substances that stimulate an increased protection against ROS in the motor nerves and hence helps to maintain their vaibility. Interventions to support these system might therefore help maintain the function of motor nerves during ageing. This possibility will be tested in a project that will use a combination of cell culture and mouse models. Muscle cells and motor nerve cells will be co-cultured to determine whether contracting muscle cells release substances that act on motor neurons to upregulate their defences against ROS and then the effect of ageing on this process will be examined in young and old mice. Our group has previously shown that aged mice with a genetic modification to improve their muscle defences against ROS show an improvement in muscle function. This project will determine whether this same genetic modification also improves the function of motor nerves. Finally the project will identify the substances that mediate these protective effects since they may be potential targets for future intervention studies to maintain motor nerve and muscle function in ageing.Age-related loss of skeletal muscle mass and function is a major factor leading to the physical frailty seen in the elderly. The age-related decline in skeletal muscle mass is due to loss of muscle fibres and weakness of the remaining fibres. This is associated with loss of the motor nerves (neurons) that normally innervate those fibres. It is currently unknown whether the loss of the motor neurons precedes, and leads to, loss of the muscle fibres or whether the reverse occurs. Damage to tissues by highly reactive free radicals or reactive oxygen species (ROS) appears to contribute to the age-related loss of muscle fibres and is in part due to an age-related failure of homeostatic mechanisms that regulate ROS activities. Exercise or contractile activity of muscle upregulates protective systems in the muscle that help maintain ROS homeostasis, but it is unclear whether similar processes occur in the motor neurons. This project will use a combination of cell culture and mouse models to determine: (i) whether contracting skeletal muscles release substances that act on motor neurons to upregulate defences against ROS and other cytoprotective proteins, (ii) whether ageing leads to a decline in this cytoprotective signalling process potentially leading to an increased susceptibility of the motor neuron to damage during ageing, (iii) whether interventions known to improve the ability of skeletal muscle to generate ROS that signal adaptations prevent the age-related loss of motor neurons, and (iv) whether substances released from muscle oxidise proteins in the peripheral nerve axons and whether these oxidised proteins signal the upregulation of defences against ROS and other cytoprotective proteins in the motor neuron cell body. If sucessful this project may indicate novel approaches to maintaining motor neuron numbers in the ageing neuromuscular system.Who will benefit from the work? In the longer term the elderly are anticipated to be the main beneficiaries of this work. The need to find ways of improving the health and quality of life of ageing populations in the UK and most other countries is a major scientific and social challenge. Projections from the Office for National Statistics & Government Actuary Department indicate that by 2050 the proportion of people over 60 in Britain will rise from 21% to almost 40%. Frailty is a major contributor to many health care problems and poor quality of life in the elderly leading to increased risk of falls, hypothermia, incontinence and lack of independence. Muscle mass declines by ~40% between the ages of 50 and 70 years regardless of the amount of exercise undertaken by subjects and this reduction in muscle mass and increasing weakness is a major contributor to frailty. Understanding the mechanisms by which loss of muscle mass occurs with increasing age is also relevant in agriculture and animal husbandry, since meat yields decline in older farm animal species. A third group that may benefit from this research are the pharmaceutical and personal care products sectors of UK industry, for whom the data generated may provide a resource to guide identification of pharmaceutical or non-pharmaceutical interventions to reduce age-related loss of muscle mass and function. With the increasing elderly population there is increased demand for anti-ageing products. Anti-ageing products have enormous economic potential for the pharmaceutical and personal care products sector and there is therefore potential for EU and UK economic benefit and improved quality of life as a consequence of the development of anti-ageing products. How will they benefit from this research? The aim of the overall research programme is to identify interventions to maintain muscle mass and function in the elderly. Most current approaches to preserve muscle function in the elderly are based on exercise programmes that aim to optimise the mass and function of the muscle that remains, but cannot replace the motor units that are lost and even very active older adults still show an age-related decline in muscle mass and function. The current project aims to identify approaches that will maintain motor nerve function with a preservation of whole functional motor units (motor neurons, motor axons, neuromuscular junctions and muscle fibres) with ageing. This approach has great potential to minimise age-related loss of muscle mass and function although the timescale of development of appropriate interventions rom the current work may be several years. If successful, the prevention of age-related loss of skeletal muscle mass and function would lead to an improvement in quality of life of elderly individuals with an increase in mobility, independence and a reduced tendency to become frail with a major economic impact on UK healthcare costs. What will be done to ensure that they benefit from this research? In addition to the usual route of publication of the scientific data in peer-reviewed international journals and presentations at international scientific meetings, the applicant will utilise other methods for communicating his work. For example, he regularly gives lay presentations to the public and schools in association with relevant charitable organisations such as Help the Aged and provides material for relevant local and national television and radio programmes. Information about the study and results will be presented on the senescence.info website (http://www.senescence.info). This website has been maintained by Dr Joao de Magalhaes since 1997. It is dedicated to the biology of ageing and attracts roughly 7,000 unique users per month. The site serves to inform potential beneficiaries and the general public about ageing research, its impact and importance.2014-08-312512EF1C-401B-4222-9869-A770D4C5FAC7BBSRC2011-09-01INCOME_ACTUAL361672Dissemination eventParticipation in an activity, workshop or similarLocal7EEE145C-F3E9-456D-8CAB-A4B3435CD6F7falseIndustry/Business2014,2015Radio interviewA broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)Regional528C561C-56AF-495C-83BC-BF030333ADD4falsePublic/other audiences2014,2016648000United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland (UK)GBPUnited Kingdomen_GBMRC project grant (Jackson,, Barratt-Jolley, McArdle, Vasilaki)2018-01-02Medical Research Council (MRC)C932B8C6-02E3-42AC-A726-D569CE2EC45AAcademic/University2015-01-01164CA038-6635-40F6-9403-B9881D125E68The effect of lengthening contractions on neuromuscular junction structure in adult and old mice.Age (Dordrecht, Netherlands)cf9e51f081fc764f3a08f1e8b4c8d656Vasilaki A2016-01-010161-9152450D404E-99DF-43D2-84EC-7628F98BA4D9Ageing-induced changes in the redox status of peripheral motor nerves imply an effect on redox signalling rather than oxidative damage.Free radical biology & medicine0d7998df32f1d020b979c4ca79d9a56cMcDonagh B2016-01-010891-58495B324C19-596C-48BF-8E5A-C3BD3A7CD496Reactive oxygen species in sarcopenia: Should we focus on excess oxidative damage or defective redox signalling?Molecular aspects of medicine919c654c73fa10081d0afbe01fff6040Jackson MJ2016-01-010098-29977F59989F-C8C9-4BEB-AF91-0E9950E701E8Neuron-specific expression of CuZnSOD prevents the loss of muscle mass and function that occurs in homozygous CuZnSOD-knockout mice.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology81cc8109739bc395e69059d85a5a58b5Sakellariou GK2014-01-010892-6638BB/I004076/1D05BC2E0-0345-4A3F-8C3F-775BC42A0819Unclassified4B1ADC07-C783-4806-AB57-2E0517D71CA5Development of a Chinese Language version of the Social & Community Opportunities Profile (SCOPE) for NGO services in Hong KongClosedResearch GrantES/K005227/2This study is going to explore whether an English language measure of social inclusion can be translated into an equivalent Chinese measure of inclusion that can be used to assess inclusion in disadvantaged groups such as immigrant groups and people with mental health problems. We will compare some new results for the Chinese version with results from the original research in the UK in several samples: people with mental health problems in the Hong Kong (HK) resident and immigrant populations, and Chinese immigrants in the UK. The advantages of cross-cultural comparison have been reported as testing the boundaries of knowledge and stretching methodological parameters; highlighting important similarities and differences; and the promotion of institutional and intercultural exchange and understanding. The present proposal looks at these matters in relation to the concept of social inclusion in the UK and HK. While we recognise that the concept of social inclusion is a contested one, for the purposes of the current proposal we accept the World Bank definition. Social Inclusion (SI) refers to promoting equal access to opportunities, enabling everyone to contribute to social and economic program and share in its rewards. Interest in cross-cultural measurement issues has grown rapidly since the turn of the century. Although psychologists have taken the lead on measurement issues social work researchers have recognised the importance of developing crosscultural measurement for the profession, especially for work with minority and immigrant groups. Most authors agree on the fundamental areas in which the new questionnaire should be shown to be equivalent to the original one. These include the concept itself, the questions used to assess it, the precise wording of these questions, and the meaning of the words used in the different languages. Technically, the way each of the items (or variables) relate to each other and to the underlying concepts should be the same in both cultures, for full equivalence to be demonstrated. A number of cross-cultural translation guides have become available over the years which provide guidance about adapting measures for other cultures. Taking into consideration the various available guides, for the purposes of this research we are adopting the guidance from a leading French research institute, which suggests that we proceed as follows. First we need to speak to groups of people in HK to see to what extent their views about the nature of the concept are similar or dissimilar to those in the UK. To do this we use a method known as 'concept mapping'. We then have experts examine the extent to which the items in the UK measure capture these ideas. At this point it may be necessary to add additional items to the new version. We then translate the UK version into Chinese, and back again, and reconcile and clarify any difference. The new version is then piloted in the Chinese communities, and any difficulties ironed out. Once we have obtained an acceptable version of the measure, following piloting we will then apply the measure to different samples. One will be of discharged mental patients in HK and these will be compared to similar patients in the UK to see if their nature and levels of inclusion are similar or not. Another will be of Chinese immigrants to the UK to see if their levels of inclusion are more similar to UK population or HK residents and immigrants. Finally, we will assess whether the new measure compares in the way it should with a widely used standardised measure, and a measure of recovery. The measure and these findings will provide the basis for further community research in Hong Kong, mainland China and in Chinese immigrant communities in other parts of the world. Social inclusion policy impact could be evaluated in these contexts and social interventions could demonstrate how they have helped people to become more included in society.Social policies in both Wales and England aim to demonstrate that they are able to help and support people from disadvantaged and disabled groups to engage in meaningful activity in the social mainstream. Use of the SCOPE and SCOPE-C could be instrumental in enabling them to measure the efficacy of their social interventions. Int'l Co-I (Chui) has good links and association with NGOs in Hong Kong who run rehabilitation services for people with mental illness. The proposed research, when carried out, will generate valid measurement tools for Hong Kong where valid outcome measures are badly needed to raise service accountability, service efficacy, and to promote evidence-based practice and service evaluation. This is particularly important as rehabilitation services are undergoing a re-structuring in the direction of integration and a more community based approach. It is expected both social and healthcare services, government or non-government organizations, will benefit from the study. The fruits of the study will also benefit future research in the form of handy baseline measures for helping professions and healthcare services, providing reliable yardsticks for policy making on social inclusion, and making it possible for Hong Kong to take part in international multi-site studies in connection with outcome measures. Some organisations may wish to use the SI measure as an audit tool, or as a routine outcome measure for those social and health care providers whose goal is to promote inclusion for disadvantaged groups. Betsi Cadwallader University Health Board and the local authority in Wrexham have used one of our measures to conduct such an audit and to arrange services to meet the identified aspirations of the users of services (see also the ESRC examples of impact, below). For example: Enhancing cultural enrichment, quality of life, health and well-being: Direct impact on services and service users. Measure can be used to assess progress towards individual inclusion goals. Data can be aggregated to assess performance of services. Contributing towards evidence based policy-making and influencing public policies and legislation at a local level: In Wrexham, audit and then system level changes showed that social inclusion for service users improved. Provides a tool for managers and clinical teams to self-assess performance in relation to inclusion and mainstreaming goals. Shaping and enhancing the effectiveness of public services: Wrexham changed service configurations and pathways on the basis of the audit that included service user goals for mainstreaming etc. Concentrated on user identified priorities and not organisational integration. Transforming evidence based policy in practice and influencing and informing practitioners and professional practice: Individual professionals and teams can adopt this kind of assessment and then focus on the service user priorities. In Wrexham the organisations involved improved access to facilities for people with mental health problems. Improving social welfare, social cohesion: Helps clinical services to take a holistic view of service user needs rather than focusing only on symptoms. This leads to improved outcomes for service users and thereby improves social welfare provision. Changing organisational culture and practices: Wrexham changed referral practices and removed obstacles to inclusion. Enhancing the research capacity, knowledge and skills of businesses and organisations: Provides the services with a tool to evaluate their own services and compare themselves with population norms and other providers. Contributing toward wealth creation and economic prosperity i.e. the creation and growth of companies and jobs; enhancing business revenue and innovative capacity: those people who are enabled to engage in paid employment will be contributing to economic prosperity through performing a useful function, paying taxes, and coming off state benefits.2015-12-31924BE15C-91F2-4AAD-941A-3F338324B6AEESRC2014-10-01INCOME_ACTUAL28325Findings led to the use of the SCOPE and SCOPE-C in rehabilitation services in Ireland, community mental health services in the north of New South Wales, and the method is being replicated at the School of Nursing in the University of Sao Paulo. A new proposal with existing collaborators and Professor Feng from Shanghai is being developed.20147838A7F5-89B3-48D5-94E5-FB8A54965D40Policy & public servicesCommunities and Social Services/Policy,Healthcare1. The study produced a Chinese-language measure of social inclusion (SCOPE-C) based on translation and cultural adaptation of the Social and Community Opportunities Profile (SCOPE) developed in UK. 2. A focus group involving concept mapping was conducted to investigate the understanding of social inclusion among various social groups (social workers, seniors, community residents, mental health services users/ university students, and non-professional NGO workers) in September 2012. The major themes identified included material resources and wealth, work, social harmony and freedom from discrimination, as well as communication and community participation. These themes were similar to those found in the UK conceptual mapping study. 3. As the concept mapping of social inclusion shared much similarity between the UK and HK participants, the SCOPE was translated into Chinese, and back-translated into English, and any differences resolved and explained. The final SCOPE-C questionnaire consisted of 56 items. It was piloted to test appropriateness and acceptability before being used in Hong Kong samples. Three rounds of face-to-face data collection were conducted among 168 Chinese mental health services users recruited through NGOs (October 2013 to July 2014). 4. Results showed that satisfaction with opportunities to participate scores were higher than the perceived opportunity scores. Contrary to findings of the conceptual mapping study, participants did not often encounter discrimination in their daily life. Their perceived general health was between average and good. The overall social inclusion, average satisfaction with opportunities, and average perceived opportunities had significant positive correlation with one another, and all were positively correlated with respondents' physical health, but not mental health. Recovery score correlated significantly and positively with the physical health, mental health, and overall social inclusion. Ten of the eleven subscales of recovery correlated significantly and positively with overall social inclusion, lending support to the validity of SCOPE-C. 5. SCOPE-C was used to collect data from 56 new arrivals from Mainland China in Hong Kong through NGOs in face-to-face individual interviews. The results were compared with the 51 immigrants in UK collected previously. Both Hong Kong and UK participants reported high overall social inclusion. The two sub-samples shared many similarities in the perceived opportunities and satisfaction of opportunities in various social domains. Immigrants in Hong Kong, a host society with similar language, demonstrated higher perceived satisfaction with opportunities in contact with friends and family, as well as higher perceived opportunities for community involvement than Chinese immigrants in UK, a society with a different language. However, overall social inclusion appeared to be independent of health conditions. 6. Among the mental health services user sample, SCOPE-C demonstrated high test-retest reliability over two weeks and six-months. Exploratory factor analysis found that mentally unhealthy and the general population sub-samples in UK, as well as the mentally unhealthy sub-sample in Hong Kong were similar in the factor structure. Self-rated "overall social inclusion" differed significantly among all of the samples, with the healthy population feeling more included than the groups with mental illnessThe results can be compared with the results from other studies using the SCOPE (already in use in the UK, Ireland, Australia, and Brazil). The instrument can be tested on mainland China where there is scope for the study of social inclusion in community groups, mental health service users and migrant workers. We are working with the medical university in Shanghai on this issue. Similar studies of the impact of refugee status on social inclusion in the host country will also be possible.19BCF8E0-A9F9-4F82-8105-816061FA2E07Communities and Social Services/Policy,Healthcare57648AB8-EC9B-4F5D-970A-E59EF0ED29B8Relationship Between Health, Experience of Discrimination, and Social Inclusion Among Mental Health Service Users in Hong KongSocial Indicators Research35301fe05f391b75e52c10db399cae9eChan K2014-01-012CD8CFF0-6989-4B40-9E77-540D826F4B4ASocial Inclusion and Health Conditions Among Chinese Immigrants in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom: An Exploratory StudySocial Indicators Research35301fe05f391b75e52c10db399cae9eChan K2015-01-01C3325137-9896-44F3-A5BF-49E6EB3C98B3The social and community opportunities profile social inclusion measure: Structural equivalence and differential item functioning in community mental health residents in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom.The International journal of social psychiatryfeb63f3d6638cb8cb7f9a96cf8c2ff72Huxley PJ2016-01-010020-764069872C32-AA2B-4A97-8486-983D26072BCEApplication of SCOPE-C to Measure Social Inclusion Among Mental Health Services Users in Hong Kong.Community mental health journal35301fe05f391b75e52c10db399cae9eChan K2016-01-010010-385396CF2E24-06E3-43EB-BED4-4BF642B608DFWhat does social inclusion mean to Singaporeans? A qualitative study of the concept of social inclusionAsia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development6dacb2dbf6aa32867a413272d8db222bChiu M2016-01-01B46A7FF0-72B8-49B4-B575-6B19BE659C93Application of SCOPE-C to measure social inclusion in Hong KongCommunity Mental Health Journal35301fe05f391b75e52c10db399cae9eChan KES/K005227/215BB01B2-C5B4-4A60-97F8-AC3E9E1D4B7CES/K005227/1107050.02012-11-012014-09-304B1ADC07-C783-4806-AB57-2E0517D71CA5ES/K005227/228325.22014-10-012015-12-31D05BC2E0-0345-4A3F-8C3F-775BC42A0819Unclassified4BB4D6BC-82B7-4A5D-ABD4-30B3935AE74BThe migration of large-scale bed forms in an estuarine environment: observation and parameterisation for coastal area modellingClosedTraining GrantNE/F012306/1CONTEXT. The topic of this proposal relates within Oceans 2025 to: Shelf and coastal processes: 13 'Morphological modelling in Liverpool Bay and adjacent estuaries'. It fits mainly under WP 3.5 'Coastal morphodynamics and bathymetric evolution', while contributing also to WP 9.1 'Assessing and improving the accuracy of shelf sea models'. In addition, this studentship will add significant value to the NERC-funded FORMOST project (NE/E015123/1, 2008-2010, involving Bangor University and POL) which aims to (i) extend POL's field observational capabilities in sediment transport research, and (ii) develop new parameterizations of local sediment transport, based on Bangor's Sand Transport Model, that will here be implemented in two coastal area models (Telemac and POLCOMS). The Telemac system has already been upgraded to include a parameterised version of the Bangor model, and this will be available to the student via FORMOST as a working tool for data interpretation. In addition, new field data will be obtained during FORMOST in the outer channels of the Dee Estuary, within the area of POL's Coastal Observatory, providing background information for the studentship. BACKGROUND. The migration of large-scale sedimentary features (sand waves, banks and bars) contributes significantly to the morphological evolution of the seabed. Such features are not resolved within coastal sediment transport models, giving rise to uncertainty in morphological outcomes. This project will focus on the mobility and migration of large-scale bed features in the Dee Estuary, examining the key physical processes largely from an observational standpoint, but including a modelling element that will allow an informed interpretation of the experimental outcomes. An understanding of the role of estuaries like the Dee in acting as sources or sinks for mobile sediment is essential from a management viewpoint against a background of climate change. The results of a pilot study carried out using POL's X-band radar during summer 2007 (MSc project, Bangor University, jointly-supervised by POL) indicate that large-scale sand features are advancing into the Dee Estuary in the intertidal area between Hilbre Island and the Wirral mainland. More generally, POL's radar, which is capable of monitoring the movement of bed forms over a 4 km radius, has revealed that large sand features are also advancing into the estuary in deeper water. However, what is unknown is the relative contribution of the respective large bed forms to the sediment budget of the Dee Estuary. The DETAILED AIMS of the studentship are to: (i) track sand dunes in the inter-tidal area near Hilbre Island, thus elaborating the results of the 2007 pilot study. This will highlight the role of waves and currents on net sediment transport. Interpretation of the results will include Telemac simulations for the conditions measured on site. (ii) track using X-band radar the movement of sand banks and dunes in deeper water in mid-estuary. Interpretation will be provided both by available/new ADCP data and modelling. Telemac (and possibly POLCOMS) will be used to establish the 'drivers' responsible for morphological change. (iii) establish a methodology for the inclusion of large-scale bed features in coastal area models, taking as a starting point Van Rijn's (2005) roughness formulation, introducing this into Telemac, and critically testing its effect with regard to the bed forms in the Dee. End users. The PhD programme will be of relevance to end users concerned with management issues in the Dee. For example, the Countryside Commission for Wales (CCW) as well as the Environment Agency (EA) will be in attendance at FORMOST project meetings to which the student will contribute. The study will also contribute directly to the Centre for Catchment and Coastal Research, part of the Partnership Project between Aberystwyth and Bangor Universities.2013-02-288A03ED41-E67D-4F4A-B5DD-AAFB272B6471NERC2009-03-01INCOME_ACTUAL70094NE/F012306/1D05BC2E0-0345-4A3F-8C3F-775BC42A0819Unclassified39D08C45-A2CB-434E-83AF-25A185FF3014London Bridge Station RedevelopmentClosedFeasibility Study400246Abstracts are not currently available in GtR for all funded research. This is normally because the abstract was not required at the time of proposal submission, but may be because it included sensitive information such as personal details.2013-04-30E18E2F0F-AC7D-4E02-9559-669F7C8FEC74Innovate UK2011-10-01INCOME_ACTUAL100000400246D05BC2E0-0345-4A3F-8C3F-775BC42A0819Unclassified3A68AF7C-727E-4C53-8D55-2616136E2056Functional relationships in Bayesian evidence synthesis of multiple outcomesActiveResearch GrantMR/M005232/1Healthcare policy and clinical decisions are usually based on a systemic review, critical appraisal and statistical summary of the evidence from previous clinical trials. It is hoped that this will provide information on which treatment or treatments should be recommended, based on how effective they are on a particular measure (for example that patients' pain improves by a greater amount). However, for many clinical conditions several different tools are used to assess patients' response to treatment. Treatment effects on each of these tools (outcomes) can also be reported in different formats. This is often the case in clinical guidelines produced for the UK's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), where different, but often related, outcomes are considered equally important to guide recommendations for clinical practice. Performing separate analyses on each outcome, ignores the fact that outcomes are related and can lead to different or even conflicting conclusions. It is therefore desirable to summarise all the evidence on all outcomes in a coherent way. This makes best use of available evidence and will provide better (more precise) information on which to base clinical decisions and make policy recommendations. Current methods for summarising evidence on more than one outcome are technically difficult to implement and often do not greatly improve the precision of results. We propose more restrictive methods, which use expert opinion on how the various outcomes are related to obtain better estimates of treatment effects. For example, in the treatment of Social Anxiety, it is known that if patients' symptoms (measured on a particular scale) do not improve with treatment, then no patients will be classified as having recovered from the condition (measured on another scale). Conversely, treatments which improve symptoms are also more likely to have more patients achieving recovery. We propose methods for summarising the evidence on different, but related outcomes, by taking advantage of known relationships such as these, in order to obtain better treatment effect estimates. The proposed methods are technically simpler to implement than the methods currently proposed for summarising multiple outcomes. However, by imposing relationship between the treatment effects on the different outcomes, we will be making strong assumptions about the data. These assumptions will be checked using recommended statistical techniques and expert clinical opinion, to ensure that the proposed models are appropriate. We will compare the proposed methods to the current standards for summarising treatment effects on multiple outcomes. We propose to apply the methods to different clinical settings, develop methods to specify the relationships between outcomes and collaborate with clinical colleagues and decision makers to ensure that the assumptions are sensible and not contradicted by available data. We aim to develop a strategy which can be followed in order to obtain clinical opinion on plausible relationships between the outcomes, implement them in a statistical model and evaluate that model using available statistical software, to check that the assumptions made are appropriate.Health Technology Assessments usually include systematic reviews of randomised controlled trials and evidence syntheses which are then embedded in economic models. While pair-wise meta-analysis has been extended to mixed treatment comparisons (MTC, also termed network meta-analysis) for multiple treatments, less progress has been made in synthesis of multiple outcomes, both within and between trials. A single, coherent analysis using all the available data on all outcomes is preferable to separate outcome-specific analyses. The commonly recommended approach, multivariate meta-analysis, requires only correlations between outcomes at the within- and between-trial levels, but models are technically difficult to fit, especially when there are more than 3 or 4 outcomes, and/or when the data are sparse. However, there is often prior knowledge on the nature of the relationships between outcomes and there is a need for models which capture these relationships. We will develop models that express functional relationships between outcomes, and which typically have fewer parameters. However, these models make stronger assumptions, so the issue of model fit is critical. Trial data in different areas of medicine displays a wide variety of functional relationships between outcomes. We will focus on a very common occurring evidence structures that feature multiple outcomes subject to either measurement error (for example, patient- or clinician-rated outcomes) or variability (weight, blood pressure), reported in different formats and/ or at multiple time points. We will develop a framework, applicable to all multiple outcome structures, for identifying, fitting, and evaluating functional relationships. We will apply the framework to several illustrative, real-life clinical examples. Models will be implemented by extending current Bayesian methods for MTC, of which standard (two-treatment) meta-analysis is a special case.Academic: Outputs from this project will be published in leading journals, presented at international conferences and local meetings, and disseminated through the network of academic colleagues the applicant (PI) regularly collaborates with. Attendance at four international conferences is planned, some aimed at statistical audiences, others at health economics, decision-making and general evidence synthesis audiences. This will ensure that the research impacts on current knowledge in the fields of Bayesian evidence synthesis, multivariate meta-analysis and mixed treatment comparisons (network meta-analysis) for decision making, contributing to the advance of knowledge in these fields. National Policy makers: The PI is involved with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Clinical Guidelines Technical Support Unit which, amongst other things, provides training and support to NICE guideline development groups on complex evidence synthesis. This involvement is expected to continue throughout the project and the methods will be immediately available for use in NICE guideline development, ensuring better use of the available evidence to make recommendations for clinical practice. Findings from this project will be incorporated into the training workshops currently provided to NICE, ensuring that the community of guideline developers and commissioners is aware of the potential benefits of the proposed approach, and can apply it when relevant. International Policy makers and Industry: The PI is involved with the delivery of 3- and 5-day courses on evidence synthesis, which are attended by researchers from the university departments contracted to undertake evaluations for NICE, by NICE analysts, and representatives of pharmaceutical companies, consultancy firms, policy makers and academic institutions from around the world. It is expected that work arising from this project will be incorporated into these courses, lectures and workshops, disseminating it to a wide audience and ensuring that it is used when relevant, impacting on policy and improving patient care worldwide. Patients and their families: Patients will benefit from methods that provide more accurate estimates of treatment benefits. The engagement with NICE, its partners and the pharmaceutical and consultancy industries, will allow the methods to be applied and understood by decision-making bodies and companies submitting evidence to them, ensuring more reliable information is available to make better decisions for patient care. This will result in a more efficient use of health resources, benefiting patients and society by improving health and well being.2018-09-30C008C651-F5B0-4859-A334-5F574AB6B57CMRC2015-01-01INCOME_ACTUAL323624RSS ConferenceA talk or presentationInternational231E9BFE-71FF-4CC0-AF85-A87AC31472ACfalseProfessional Practitionershttp://www.rss.org.uk/RSS/Events/RSS_Conference/2015_Conference/RSS/Events/Conference/2015_conference.aspx?hkey=2a432b6b-6baf-4bc3-baa4-063221c13ab82015INSERM workshop 234: Network meta-analysisParticipation in an activity, workshop or similarInternational2BBF6CD3-86F8-42DE-B95F-AF451E7324D4falsePolicymakers/politicianshttp://atelier234.clinicalepidemio.fr/2015FB0465BE-7476-4667-A8D2-C0D0BCD29F27A mixed treatment comparison for short- and long-term outcomes of bare-metal and drug-eluting coronary stents.International journal of cardiology872275e66a11ca1b6bfe60235722233aPetrou P2016-01-010167-527388656F0E-1142-407B-B609-E965D9F18DD1A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Of Novel Oral Anticoagulants For Acute Treatment And Secondary Prevention Of Venous Thromboembolic Disease.Value in health : the journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research143e161e890803c5e1abef38120dc0ebBryden P2015-01-011098-30153FBA305F-A056-46CA-9868-0FC9B7A01983Comparative efficacy and safety of anticoagulant strategies for acute coronary syndromes. Comprehensive network meta-analysis of 42 randomised trials involving 117,353 patients.Thrombosis and haemostasis2c8a96850cd5f5d6159653b5c6759e02Navarese EP2015-01-010340-62452B000113-9592-444F-8C35-DC4185AA2C0DOutcomes reported in trials of methods for the induction of labourTrials6373b28db69ddd67634379178312e453Medley N2015-01-01C47F76C3-0671-4DDC-809F-F9474FE18079Methods to induce labour: a systematic review, network meta-analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis.BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecologyc82414dabe811d35aba7a3fc3b81b83aAlfirevic Z2016-01-011470-03287DB88C0B-6E9D-4E90-BAD2-295EF9282D6EThe Cost-Effectiveness Of Novel Oral Anticoagulants For The Prevention Of Stroke In Atrial Fibrillation In England And Wales.Value in health : the journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Researchc4d36f40355dfa4d0b2709e1c0fc5bfcThom H2015-01-011098-30150334F240-4B27-4B6E-9FFA-11B589565CCAAbsolute or relative effects? Arm-based synthesis of trial data.Research synthesis methods9d5a8847acc685cbc20c964dce9ac52eDias S2016-01-011759-2879F8EED568-3FA1-458A-AA31-EF87EC3AEB10Classes of antihypertensive agents and mortality in hypertensive patients with type 2 diabetes-Network meta-analysis of randomized trials.Journal of diabetes and its complications5abadfb889a8a5bc8045ec48348d2cd9Remonti LR2016-01-011056-87276D5748B5-56A6-46EC-9094-2A1CB702F601Dietary supplements and risk of cause-specific death, cardiovascular disease, and cancer: a protocol for a systematic review and network meta-analysis of primary prevention trials.Systematic reviews07fad3c3fdbeeb2df3103d7d1d3ab30dSchwingshackl L2015-01-012046-4053E2D96F90-F623-4BEF-88DB-F35F533F7E49Impact of long-term lifestyle programmes on weight loss and cardiovascular risk factors in overweight/obese participants: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.Systematic reviews07fad3c3fdbeeb2df3103d7d1d3ab30dSchwingshackl L2014-01-012046-4053043DA209-724A-4EBC-B595-926DB95E6E13Efficacy and safety of long-acting ß-agonist/long-acting muscarinic antagonist combinations in COPD: a network meta-analysis.Thorax24038cac61d29607fa69e246d1f670f6Oba Y2016-01-010040-6376079C2AD3-ECE2-4FE8-80C9-763A2E0F577ERe: Hutchinson M, Fox RJ, Havrdova E, et al. 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Curr Med Res Opin 2014;30:613-27.Current medical research and opiniond18890d74464fa814342df5425ad4521Nixon R2015-01-010300-79958D781ACF-8230-4B36-86B3-2A3E10D5A998Automated generation of node-splitting models for assessment of inconsistency in network meta-analysis.Research synthesis methodsa43f1871207fb7f431f2cb0284c410dbvan Valkenhoef G2016-01-011759-28796C9869F6-0581-45DE-9DC4-B1A75B3A9614A Bayesian framework to account for uncertainty due to missing binary outcome data in pairwise meta-analysis.Statistics in medicine33e9ddcbe905dd1d7c412a987c50ecedTurner NL2015-01-010277-6715F61462FF-C621-4A9B-8D14-1D284B1E1984Simultaneous synthesis of treatment effects and mapping to a common scale: an alternative to standardisation.Research synthesis methodsbe634fac835e6c6b3a8ab2f90cde0628Ades AE2015-01-011759-2879AACF42EF-0B08-45C5-9841-1A4F62E6D672Network Meta-Analysis of Oral Anticoagulants for Primary Prevention, Treatment and Secondary Prevention of Venous Thromboembolic Disease, and for Prevention of Stroke in Atrial Fibrillation.Value in health : the journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Researcha35f4489b41104162363c10463473461Lopez-Lopez JA2015-01-011098-301539DC8F4F-3848-4A6E-812C-CDB8D3EF5763Which method is best for the induction of labour? A systematic review, network meta-analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England)c82414dabe811d35aba7a3fc3b81b83aAlfirevic Z2016-01-011366-5278699832D4-348B-4144-B7DB-0A530905E0A0Model-Based Network Meta-Analysis: A Framework for Evidence Synthesis of Clinical Trial Data.CPT: pharmacometrics & systems pharmacologycf440ce4915d370258dff6cdf9370c69Mawdsley D2016-01-012163-8306MR/M005232/1F3822669-BB5A-4BB4-BAE0-DCB9DE36E092100Generic Health Relevance90487A08-C473-4CEB-B6D9-011A74AD06CF1008.4 Research design and methodologies3B0A73D8-2F08-423B-9278-24EEB15E11E3Microdrilling Systems and ServicesClosedSmart - Proof of Market700495The project is to research the market potential for laser micromachining of certain critical parts required by the semiconductor industry. The market will be served by the supply of laser micromachining systems and subcontract micromachining services in the Asia Pacific region. The semiconductor industry is dependent on certain micromachined parts to manufacture microprocessors and memory. At present most of these parts are machined mechanically. However, the industry trend towards greater complexity and smaller feature sizes has pushed certain semiconductor designs beyond current mechanical machining methods. Laser micromachining is therefore starting to be used for leading edge chips. The demand for laser micromachining is expected to grow rapidly as today's leading edge chips become tomorrow's volume product. Oxford Lasers has been successful in securing business with a number of companies in Europe and the USA. This project will enable Oxford Lasers to establish the industry requirements for laser micromachining in the Asia Pacific region and enable it to be ready to satisfy this rapidly growing market. It will also enable Oxford Lasers to understand the particular requirements of this market which appears to be different to other regions. As the Asia Pacific region dominates the market for semiconductors it is an extremely important potential market.2015-07-31E18E2F0F-AC7D-4E02-9559-669F7C8FEC74Innovate UK2015-02-01INCOME_ACTUAL24912700495D05BC2E0-0345-4A3F-8C3F-775BC42A0819Unclassified3B571CA0-3AEB-4DED-BD5E-26B412789BF0TEDDINET: network of (Build)TEDDI projectsActiveResearch GrantEP/L013681/1Reducing (and shifting) energy demand is a vital component to more sustainable energy use. Information and communication technologies (ICT) are a key enabling factor to improved demand management, opening (in principle at least) the road not only to smart meters and smart grids, but also to smart citizens who are more aware of their energy use and are acting on that information to reduce energy bills and energy wastage in their daily life. The Research Councils UK, through their Digital Economy and Energy programmes, are supporting a very substantial amount of research on the impacts of digital innovation on energy demand reduction in all aspects of life. In total £22 million has been committed to 22 interdisciplinary research projects under two related calls; 'Transforming Energy Demand through Digital Innovation' (TEDDI, 2009) and 'Transforming Energy Demand in Buildings through Digital Innovation' (BuildTEDDI, 2011). No fewer than 29 universities and over 70 high-profile commercial and government organisations are involved in the (Build)TEDDI programme. Across such a large programme there are many potential opportunities for collaboration, including knowledge sharing, pooling of resources, collaborative data mining etc. But with each project team needing to focus on the delivery of their own research objectives, there is little time and breathing space to explore, build and maintain collaborations across the 21 projects. We are asking for resources to create a network for all the (build)TEDDI projects to ensure that all opportunities for collaboration are identified and utilised. Over a 4 year period we propose a range of activities to improve communication and knowledge exchange between research and stakeholder communities (industry sectors and policy makers), to build a strong and cohesive research community and maximise academic collaboration between the 22 (build)TEDDI projects for improved project outputs and increased research impacts. We have deeloped plans for a total of 14 different types of activities, including engagement with relevant industry sectors to ensure that research findings, experiments and experiences are stimulating innovations and industrial development; stronger and more sustained debate with policy makers to improve the provision of evidence for policy; a 'single shop front' to present all (Build)TEDDI projects and their outputs to date; a pooling of research data and academic publications; systematic and comprehensive dissemination programme of project findings to targeted audiences and stakeholders.TEDDINET impacts will be of benefit to many industry, policy maker and public stakeholders including: -Department for Energy and Climate Change -Department of Business Skills and Innovation -OFGEM -'Big 6' Energy Companies (iBritish Gas, E.On, EdF etc) -SME Tech Companies (GEO, Sentec, NI) -SmartGridGB -Technology Strategy Board -Energy Technologies Institute -Research & Commercialisation Networks (ARCC, MBE KTN, UKERC NERN, Smart Grid GB) -IT Companies (INTEL, IBM, O2, Telefonica) -Local Government Organisations -Housing Associations -Built Environment & Smart Meter Stakeholders (CIBSE, BRE, EST) We have put in place a number of activities to ensure that impacts are delivered throughout the network's duration and have a long-lasting influence on the future policy direction and commercialisation pathways. In summary this includes: - High-profile Annual Meetings to bring together the key stakeholders to discuss emerging High-Level themes in digital innovation and energy demand - Thematic workshops to explore specific issues within the (Build)TEDDI scope and consolidate expert knowledge in this area - Final events for TEDDINET including a 'technical commercialisation' event to accelerate uptake of the research outputs - Three High-Level Theme annual reports for Years 1, 2, and 3 (drawing on Annual Meeting, Thematic Workshops and other evidence-gathering) - Final report on High-Level Themes in Year 4 (drawing on the Final Meeting, the Technical Commercialisation Event and Thematic Workshops) - A 'Strategic Research Agenda' report in Year 4 (including recommendations for research funders on future direction and priorities for TEDDI research) In addition TEDDINET will play a key role in data curation, ensuring this takes place for the (Build)TEDDI projects. EPSRC have recently funded an End-Use Energy Demand Research Centre for Energy Epidemiology (CEE). TEDDINET will work with CEE and others to provide: i) advice on data curation and legacy to the (Build)TEDDI projects; ii) identification of a suitable data archive facility; iii) monitoring on the progress of data archiving within the (Build)TEDDI programme; iv) promoting the Open Access goals of RCUK; and v) dissemination of the archived data to maximise the impacts of the (Build)TEDDI datasets.2018-07-31798CB33D-C79E-4578-83F2-72606407192CEPSRC2013-09-01INCOME_ACTUAL559981workshop hosted by 3 participating projects, in LoughboroughA formal working group, expert panel or dialogueNational655CB81F-605A-43D3-BA1D-3768FA7F588Dfollow up activities from that workshop include exchanges on ethics, on privacy of cloud data storage, on best-practice in public engagement and more. some thematic workshops to follow in 2015. workshop was also attended by some non-academics (TSB/Innovate UK and social housing associations), who were specially invited for developing further links and to elicit a discussion on shared activities in the futurefalsePublic/other audienceshttp://teddinet.org/activities/workshop-2/2014annual meeting at the Royal Society 25-03-2014Participation in an activity, workshop or similarNational354C5527-B751-453F-943C-4382258CDE97we got feedback from industry we made new contacts and grew the number of people on our mailing list we saw a peak of visitors to our website we received invitations to present our work at forthcoming industry eventsfalsePublic/other audienceshttp://teddinet.org/activities/annual-meeting/20143C869CDB-C5B6-467F-A577-57B8A4B2E8A8Multidisciplinary research: should effort be the measure of success?Building Research & Information29d13eb7fbaac0c8e412b38216c8ee6cBuswell R2016-01-010893B360-3C1E-40D7-BC39-4BCE7680643DImproving energy literacy through student-led fieldwork - at homeJournal of Geography in Higher Educationa56d95381e7c743062ebfbc77f266ed9van der Horst D2015-01-01D0455F9E-D5DB-4A66-84E3-5E474DB3B775Serious games for energy social science researchTechnology Analysis & Strategic Management7df0bc168653e30ae5dbe3eedd03ffaeWood G2014-01-0105B1C834-F25E-4E5D-8060-230543359717Smart energy, and society?Technology Analysis & Strategic Managementa56d95381e7c743062ebfbc77f266ed9van der Horst D2014-01-013C9A0376-F0F5-46BB-9CA0-D9AA30FDD7E9Crossing transdisciplinary boundaries within energy research: An 'on the ground' perspective from early career researchersEnergy Research & Social Science12c255e049a30528654b93a32ff0e1c4Mallaband B2017-01-019FE72843-4CB8-4634-9B2D-8E6ACEDE3259The reality of cross-disciplinary energy research in the United Kingdom: A social science perspectiveEnergy Research & Social Science12c255e049a30528654b93a32ff0e1c4Mallaband B2017-01-01EP/L013681/1D05BC2E0-0345-4A3F-8C3F-775BC42A0819Unclassified3CDAA452-61F6-43A9-8568-28065F235527Identification of novel routes to modulate GMSC function to promote repair of gingival tissueActiveStudentship1820601The aim of this work proposed here is to characterise gingival mesenchymal stem cells derived from healthy and inflamed gingival tissue. Cell 'stemness' will be confirmed by performing colony forming assays and by examining multi-differentiation potential, including the ability of the cells to differentiate into gingival tissue. Studies comparing gene and protein expression of stem cells derived from healthy and inflamed tissue will also be carried out, with the aim of identifying 'healthy' and 'inflamed' gingival stem cell markers and to identify pathways and networks involved. The responses of 'healthy' and 'diseased' GMSCs exposed to inflammatory triggers will also be examined and it will be determined if these responses can be modulated using inhibitors and/or activators of the key pathways identified.2020-09-302512EF1C-401B-4222-9869-A770D4C5FAC7BBSRC2016-10-01INCOME_ACTUAL01820601D05BC2E0-0345-4A3F-8C3F-775BC42A0819UnclassifiedE29E6CB0-E39E-4D9A-A402-315A8E9BC24DEstablished Career Fellowship for Professor Catherine MitchellActiveFellowshipEP/K001582/1Innovation, Governance and Affordability for a Sustainable and Secure Economy Tackling climate change, whilst ensuring energy security and affordability are key issues facing energy the system within the UK and internationally. The goal of moving towards a more sustainable, low carbon economy implies the need for a radical transition in the way that energy is both supplied and used. Such a change not only links to the technologies that are developed and deployed, but also the wider political, social, and economic institutions and infrastructures in which they are embedded or with which they are connected, including all of the actors within them. This is a dynamic and complex process and the interactions between all these factors and the choices made by the different actors within the energy system, such as policy makers, large firms, new entrants, investors, end users, etc will all influence that way the change occurs - i.e. energy governance. This research will focus on the relationships between innovation, governance, energy demand and affordability. It will do this by exploring the means by which interactions take place within the energy systems and their implications for innovation in respect to carbon targets, technology deployment, investment, new practices, customer involvement, energy efficiency, and the total cost of energy for customers. Specifically the research will consider the relationships between institutions, policy design (such as rules and incentives within the gas and electricity systems (markets and infrastructure), industry structure, incumbent and new entrant company strategies and decision-making processes and consumer practices. It will do this by primarily following the relatively simple causal relationships put forward by political and institutional economic theory. More complex theories of innovation (the multi level perspective and the coevolutionary theory of change) do consider governance but not in great detail. Incorporating the overall methodologies of these more complex theories will add rigour to our analyses, and also enable an expansion of the discussion of governance in both the MLP and co-evolutionary innovation theories. The programme will do this over four years in four countries with very different innovation histories. In particular, it will analyse the implications of different innovation and governance relationships on the success or otherwise of energy demand reduction and issues of affordability. Finally, it will analyse the implications of the findings on long term strategic innovation in energy systems, building upon, and contributing to, the literature and analysis of socio-technical transitions, coevolutionary analysis, institutional economics and policy paradigms. The outcomes will lead to a better understanding of how the transition to a sustainable, low carbon energy system, can occur. The research team is being lead by Catherine Mitchell from the Energy Policy at Exeter University and is supported by a high level expert panel. This includes UK and international academics working on transition theory, representatives from large and small energy companies, the UK energy regulator, as well as practitioners from the wider energy community who work with a range of stakeholders from across the energy sector. The research will be carried out in respect to the UK energy system and with international comparative analysis within Denmark, Germany, California and Texas.We anticipate that this research will provide a wide range of benefits to multiple audiences including those directly involved with, or with an interest within, energy systems and the transition to a low carbon economy. This therefore includes the UK and EU which is looking for evidence to support strategies towards a low carbon future through a holistic approach embracing technological, political, economic and societal factors. We expect the research to be of interest to those working within the academic and research communities, but it will also have a much wider reach, given that it is linking political, institutional economic and innovation theory with practice, to better understand how energy systems evolve. The individuals and institutions in the comparative countries will also receive the program outputs as they occur, so the impacts will begin to multiply. As such, the research will reach much further afield than academia, being of interest to energy companies (big 6 and new entrants), transmission and distribution companies, organisations involved with rules and regulations (eg Ofgem), and policy making (including BIS, DECC, NGOs), as well as those involved within technology development and deployment from across the innovation chain, investors, customer groups and civil society, such as transition towns. The research will feed into UKERC, knowledge transfer networks and international organisations such as the IPCC. The part-focus on the demand side and affordability will also be of interest to Government and Ofgem, as well as consumer groups, local authorities and energy users more generally. In respect to the benefits that this wide range of stakeholders will gain, the project's approach focuses on governance and innovation of energy systems will help to identify potential governance structures to speed up the transition to a low carbon society at a cheaper cost. The research also intends to link theory to practice, helping the broad energy community to understand innovation that has previously occurred, and why. This will build out the collective understanding for those interested in theory, but will also be practical in nature, informing policy makers on how to better enable the transition to a low carbon energy system. The focus on innovation, governance and affordability, will be an important part of the jigsaw in understanding cost implications for energy system in respect to supply and demand and more broadly the competiveness of the UK economy. By identifying the way in which governance does impact and could impact on the future energy system, will also play an important part in understandings of how the UK can better position itself to meet its 2050 targets.2016-12-31798CB33D-C79E-4578-83F2-72606407192CEPSRC2012-10-01INCOME_ACTUAL1300150Columbia UniversityUnited States of AmericaVisiting Fellow at Columbia University, New YorkA49696B4-0164-4898-9124-362C2596F971Start of a deepening collaboration with Columbia researchers; greater links between students between Universities. Numerous meetings were held to share knowledge and exchange ideas on UK and US energy research with members of the GEPC faculty.Access to facilities, intellectual input towards collaborative workIntellectual input into Global Energy Policy Group at Columbia; Writing a paper with David SandelowAcademic/University2015-01-01University of SheffieldUnited Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland (UK)'Anti-politics and Depoliticisation Special Group' (APDSG)17B4FB44-BDB5-409D-B158-E4BCD30CD62AThere have been 2 workshop and book proposalAs aboveOrganised a research network, found new members, organisations international workshop, submitted funding applicationsAcademic/University2013-01-01Central European University (CEU)United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland (UK)'Anti-politics and Depoliticisation Special Group' (APDSG)5D5EF476-6BE5-46BE-B5DB-179D49EC492AThere have been 2 workshop and book proposalAs aboveOrganised a research network, found new members, organisations international workshop, submitted funding applicationsAcademic/University2013-01-01University of CaliforniaUnited States of AmericaUniversity of California, BerkeleyVisiting fellow at University of California, BerkeleyE47C4A4F-57DF-4007-8340-60DBA3B6E161None yet, but there are hopes of closer teaching links between Berkeley and Exeter Universities, as well as deeper collaborative research linksIntellectual input of Berkeley staff; access to facilities.Catherine Mitchell is a Visiting Fellow in the Energy and Resources Group at Berkeley. Contributions include talks to Berkeley students, held a colloquium, and gave talk to energy team in BerkeleyAcademic/University2015-01-01Leibniz AssociationGermany, Federal Republic ofLeibniz-Institut fur Regionalentwicklung Und'Anti-politics and Depoliticisation Special Group' (APDSG)7E42C660-41AF-4FD8-BFA9-25BCBA1146B6There have been 2 workshop and book proposalAs aboveOrganised a research network, found new members, organisations international workshop, submitted funding applicationsPublic2013-01-01Political Studies AssociationUnited Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland (UK)'Anti-politics and Depoliticisation Special Group' (APDSG)23EF67DA-80CD-41D4-8DF4-3FF0533153E7There have been 2 workshop and book proposalAs aboveOrganised a research network, found new members, organisations international workshop, submitted funding applicationsCharity/Non Profit2013-01-01Free University of BerlinGermany, Federal Republic ofVisiting Professorship with Helmholtz project ENERGY TRANS6AEC1637-19C9-42B2-8B5D-4B3404039230None yet, although expectations of future collaborative projects and papers. There have been numerous meetings with staff across the organisation to start the process of creating long-term partnerships.None, apart from access to facilitiesAcademic/intellectual contribution in terms of inputting knowledge of importance of governance to energy system transformation into ENERGY TRANS ProjectAcademic/University2015-01-01Participated in an invited roundtable for IPPR (London)A formal working group, expert panel or dialogueNational07F7557D-9A31-40BD-B89A-1DDCE7AB5138Engagement with IPPR helped shape their programmefalseProfessional Practitioners2014,2015UKERC Annual Assembly (Warwick)Participation in an activity, workshop or similarInternational7328F171-4B3B-4DFB-AE37-189A23FC164Eno awaretrueOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)2013Open letter from Green Alliance to Oliver LetwinA magazine, newsletter or online publicationNationalAC31E53D-2F1B-40BC-AEA1-653273540945Letter picked up in subsequent Guardian article on 3rd July 2015: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/03/decc-staff-cuts-90-percent-threaten-uks-climate-change-plans-experts and Business Green on same date: http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2416092/budget-cuts-could-undermine-energy-and-climate-change-policiesfalsePolicymakers/parliamentarianshttp://www.green-alliance.org.uk/resources/Letter_OliverLetwin.pdf2015Global conversation (New York)A talk or presentationInternational46E41F7A-D678-4E43-A6AF-A22A1AE94E64The event strengthened links between Exeter University and researchers in the U.S., and cemented Exeter University's role as a leader in research around energy and climate changefalsePublic/other audienceshttp://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/featurednews/title_480721_en.html2015Presentation: Incumbent challenger interactions (Stuttgart)A talk or presentationInternational5AB02D83-BBC1-4C55-AEA1-EAB549AD2E4DThe paper developed for this event, co-written with Anthony Froggatt and Richard Hoggett (http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Post-stuttgart-1-final-paper.pdf) led to the development of a project on Future Utilities: three 2-day workshops to be held in Europe, Hong Kong and the U.S. These workshops will in turn feed into an edited book about incumbent challenger interactions and change to energy business models. This work has also fed into the research proposal for IGov Phase 2, as well as work with Ofgem on Non-Traditional Business Models. This event also paved the way for a Visiting Professorship on the ENERGY TRANS project at the University of Berlin.falseOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/presentation-governance-and-disruptive-energy-systems/2014PhD upgrade panel member (Budapest)Participation in an activity, workshop or similarNational43995C26-67CF-4F65-A0D5-39D53C980C6FStrengthened links with CEUfalsePostgraduate students2015Joined Green Alliance Green Social Democracy panelA formal working group, expert panel or dialogueNationalAFD61AF4-989A-4B9B-9117-E88557E0C46FInfluenced debates on these policies within the Labour Party. Discussion with Sir John Armitt at launch event.truePolicymakers/parliamentarianshttp://www.green-alliance.org.uk/greensocialdemocracy.php2012,2013,2014Presentation to the Sustainable Energy Planning Research Group (Denmark)A talk or presentationInternational2219F1AA-1ACB-4916-98E7-054D7BC6AD8BNow working with SEPRG on potential European research bidfalseOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)2015Participation in Demos/British Gas roundtable on smart metersParticipation in an activity, workshop or similarNational9B3B5C5E-A4F4-470A-88DF-4F4BF159522FNo impact measuredfalsePolicymakers/parliamentarians2014Article for New PowerA magazine, newsletter or online publicationNationalAC5F4607-42A0-4017-B3AF-2121005C966AtbcfalseMedia (as a channel to the public)http://geography.exeter.ac.uk/media/universityofexeter/schoolofgeography/images/researchgroups/epg/New_Power_issue_76_interview_(2).pdf2015International comparisons of governance and innovations (Berlin)A talk or presentationInternational28866319-739C-4F82-A767-FA258EC5A37AWork carried out on request of Christof Berger, who Catherine is involved with alongside Anthony Froggatt on Future Utilities project (see Stuttgart presentation for further details on this)falsePostgraduate studentshttp://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/presentation-international-comparisons-of-governance-innovations/2015UKERC Co-Directors MeetingA formal working group, expert panel or dialogueNational3CA42B49-91C4-437F-9EC9-A2EF49D619D1Knowledge ExchangetrueOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)http://www.ukerc.ac.uk/support/tiki-index.php2013Article in Windpower Monthly (August 2015)A magazine, newsletter or online publicationInternationalD6B4AFC8-61E0-4C1A-B766-6E8C0F4CB29DtbcfalseProfessional Practitionershttp://www.windpowermonthly.com/article/1361482/reflection-not-recreate-wrong-market-model2015Discussion on financing climate policy with environmental organisationsA formal working group, expert panel or dialogueNational344A1582-03DF-4349-A548-54D3BC2855EAFollowing the meeting, we were approach by UEA to participate in a future conference on climate policyfalseProfessional Practitioners2013Discussion with BIS (London)A formal working group, expert panel or dialogueNational73B913F8-3D5C-4F6D-B108-6C3D33A984C2This event was to brief civil servants within BiS on emerging energy policy issuesfalsePolicymakers/parliamentarianshttp://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/talk-by-catherine-mitchell-on-energy-policy-to-bis-26-feb-2013/2013,2014Quoted in Energy Spectrum (May 2014)A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewNationalF08E37DA-E706-4FCD-A4CE-216524FDDE82tbcfalseProfessional Practitioners2015Informal advice to a group within the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the EnvironmentParticipation in an activity, workshop or similarNational93E3A21E-2A3D-49DD-992B-02ED3F91E202This meeting arose from previous contributions Matthew Lockwood had made towards a New Climate Economy group paper on "Path dependence, innovation and the economics of climate change" (http://2014.newclimateeconomy.report/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Path-dependence-and-econ-of-change.pdf)falseOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)http://newclimateeconomy.report/2015Quoted in Energy Voice (July 2015)A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewNationalC47E4EE3-EDF1-4489-B6B6-485927A9B5ECtbcfalseMedia (as a channel to the public)https://www.energyvoice.com/marketinfo/81805/budget-2015-uk-out-of-step-on-environment/2015Presentation: Innovation, governance and affordability (Exeter)A talk or presentationNationalDA4149A2-CB67-4A2E-A821-7084383687ECA discussion followed afterwardsfalseOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/presentation-igov/2014System change in a regulatory state paradigm: the "smart" grid in the UK (Bordeaux)A talk or presentationInternational3B2219F9-0A97-44C3-BF64-D58D3087F552Presentation to Innovation, technology and regulation - Exploring new modes of energy governance. At 7th ECPR General Conference, Sciences Po, Bordeaux, 4 - 7 September 2013. This presentation was to an interdisciplinary academic group and designed to stimulate debate.falseOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/paper-system-change-in-a-regulatory-state-paradigm-the-smart-grid-in-the-uk/2013Policy for Climate Change (Exeter)A talk or presentationNationalA577FD40-1A5D-4352-A0B9-E575EDEB6B86Wide dissemination and discussion on links between energy policy and climate change with the public.truePublic/other audienceshttp://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/presentations-policies-for-climate-change/2014Problematising the Politics of Low Carbon Transition (London)A formal working group, expert panel or dialogueInternational2DA9B958-EB14-4587-A41A-33F04A45A7CFNonefalseOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/problematising-the-politics-of-low-carbon-transition/2013Panelist: Energy and economic competitiveness (Chatham House)Participation in an activity, workshop or similarNational00EA9F0E-AA80-442A-B471-64798574DC4ENone measuredfalseProfessional Practitionershttps://www.chathamhouse.org/conferences/Energy20142014Presentation to RCUK Strategy Fellowship Team (London)A talk or presentationNationalF11CECE6-4A25-40E0-BDB5-CDB2BDBE4CCEtbctruePublic/other audienceshttp://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/presentation-the-igov-project/2015Quoted in Blue and Green (October 2015)A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewInternational607F176D-A972-4961-A635-86AE41B9341CtbcfalsePublic/other audienceshttp://blueandgreentomorrow.com/2015/10/22/new-low-carbon-electricity-most-cost-effective-option-for-uk-power-sector/2015Member of Editorial Advisory Panel of Nature EnergyA formal working group, expert panel or dialogueInternational922C5E92-5E71-4459-A94E-19CDA4474519Participates in decision-making for article submissionstrueOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)2015State of the power sector (London)A talk or presentationNational2380F6A0-FA6C-468C-A909-FEFD21107C00European part of three workshops organised as part of the Future Utilities project (See Stuttgart presentation engagement for further details)falseOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/presentation-the-state-of-the-power-sector-in-europe/2015Energy and IPE (Sussex)A formal working group, expert panel or dialogueInternational90663999-5F1B-46E7-8182-7A01605DE0D9As a result of conversations with Pete Newell, CK is putting together a Special Issue on this subjectfalseOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)2015Presentation: Earth System Governance (Norwich)A talk or presentationInternational0D3FBA8E-7D76-4705-892C-6112A1563139Stimulated discussion afterwards around role of evidence in policymakingfalseOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)http://norwich2014.earthsystemgovernance.org/2014Article in The Guardian (July 2015)A magazine, newsletter or online publicationNational26E06987-E113-4DE0-9D8B-E91B01877BDCtbcfalseMedia (as a channel to the public)http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/08/clean-energy-switch-uk-falling-behind2015Quoted in Carbon Brief (April 2015)A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewNationalA563EB4B-9061-413C-BCB7-B99C444B39C8tbcfalseMedia (as a channel to the public)http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2015/04/expert-views-what-the-general-election-means-for-uk-climate-and-energy-policy/2015Progressive Energy Governance ConferenceA talk or presentationInternationalE342C08A-56E2-4BF5-9964-BA4EBB157530As well as bringing together actors from across the energy system to discuss progressive energy governance, the event was widely reported on twitter and led to several blogs - not only by the IGov team, but also from within industry (Cornwall Energy) and wider Civil society (Green Alliance). Some of the ideas put forward will be built upon with the IGov research agenda.falseProfessional Practitionershttp://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/category/events/igov-events/progressive-energy-governance/2014Oral evidence to CMA hearing on energy market investigationA formal working group, expert panel or dialogueNational3D7BE6B6-341E-4E09-B463-F270FF820BE6The evidence was record as part formal reporting of these meetings. This engagement is one element within a wider set of engagements and publications directed towards informing the Competition and Markets Authority inquiry. Specifically, the IGov team argued that the four proposed 'Theories of Harm' be broadened to include consideration of the role of energy system governance as a potential barrier to innovation and change. The CMA's Theories of Harm were subsequently broadened, a decision, it is understood, which was heavily influenced by the IGov team's engagements. This engagement can thus be considered a starting point for a range of outputs and engagements, particularly around the important of code and license reform, which cumulatively have contributed to influence the CMA in its investigation. As well as the publications included elsewhere, the following publications, events and blogs for further information on this impact: https://assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk/media/53f1bce1e5274a48c100000f/UoE_Energy-Policy_Group-response_to_IS.pdf http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/presentation-introduction-to-code-governance/ http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/paper-codes-governance-and-reform-discussion-paper/ http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/submission-to-cma-energy-market-investigation/ http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/cma-energy-market-investigation-updated-issues-statement/ In addition to this, Catherine Mitchell has just submitted a response to the National Infrastructure Inquiry highlighting the importance of governance reform, and presenting an alternative energy governance framework for GB.truePolicymakers/parliamentarianshttps://assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk/media/54bf9bcc40f0b6158d000017/Summary_of_hearing_with_University_of_Exeter.pdf2014Governance and disruptive energy systemsParticipation in an activity, workshop or similarInternationalCB462873-6075-4FFB-9B0D-631C1334A20BThe workshop resulted in a paper that will become an academic output and possibly the basis for future funding bids.falseOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/presentation-governance-and-disruptive-energy-systems/2014Press release for ECIU (May 2015)A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewInternationalD8B06949-D567-4D38-B24D-707351E58FA2Comments picked up by numerous other media outletsfalseMedia (as a channel to the public)http://eciu.net/press-releases/2015/tesla-home-storage-a-nail-in-the-coffin-of-conventional-utilities2015Attended advisory group meeting for UKERC project on smart grid scenariosA formal working group, expert panel or dialogueNational63A38D68-C4BE-41B7-BFCF-8CDDD57C46BDtbctrueProfessional Practitioners2013Community energy - benefits to Cornwall (Cornwall)A talk or presentationInternational766A61A4-B215-41A2-A3A6-69C6D9D389E2Some of the other speakers were from Local Authorities in other countries which Cornwall Council are partnering in an EU project e.g. Germany. As result we made useful contacts for our own research as well sharing our research with them.falsePublic/other audienceshttp://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/presentation-community-energy-benefits-to-cornwall/2013Being a successful policy academic (Penryn)A talk or presentationLocal2103D84F-8DA6-474F-BED1-9CE32D8E7D06No impact apparent yetfalsePostgraduate students2015Quoted in ECIU piece (July 2015)A magazine, newsletter or online publicationInternational294FE13B-961A-4BFF-92C8-E096480B0282tbcfalseProfessional Practitionershttp://eciu.net/blog/2015/does-the-uk-need-baseload-power-maybe-not2015Meeting with Baroness (Margaret) McDonagh, Chair of the Central Delivery Body for smart metersA formal working group, expert panel or dialogueNational47584B8B-D0C4-4E85-B8DC-2E747AF9E07BWe believe this meeting helped shaped their views on how to communicate the benefits of smart meters to the publictruePolicymakers/parliamentarians2013Seminar on heat and the community (Edinburgh)A talk or presentationNational71E9F09F-8E85-421C-8553-498254938890Strengthen links with Edinburgh University and research networks around heatfalseOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/ML-Heat-and-the-City-Community.pdf2015Advisory board member for 'Welfare, Employment and Energy Demand' projectA formal working group, expert panel or dialogueNational646C5A40-2B5A-4614-B560-A36832B6CDCBAs a result of enlarging network and subsequent conversations with the network, CK has submitted an application to become an ESRC Future Research LeaderfalseOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)2015Quoted in The Guardian (July 2015)A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewNational37F780E5-5D25-4879-A8EF-F618338A3B02tbcfalseMedia (as a channel to the public)http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jul/09/green-energy-sector-attacks-budget-climate-change-levy2015Participated in Green Social Democracy meeting organised by Green AllianceParticipation in an activity, workshop or similarNationalCFFB00EE-8731-452C-8DE7-8DE417B31B5EtbcfalsePolicymakers/parliamentarians2013Response to IEA World Energy OutlookA press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewInternational71B1CCC6-6A15-4ACE-A97C-098F69088E55Additional media requestsfalseMedia (as a channel to the public)2015IPCC Lead Auhtors Meeting (Ethiopia & Vigo)A formal working group, expert panel or dialogueInternationalB104844F-0275-432D-9136-FA6024116914These meetings resulted in the WGIII report as part of the IPCC AR5 which also feed into the 1024 Synthesis ReporttrueOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)http://www.ipcc-wg3.de/2012,2013Discussant at Energy Distributed Generation EventA talk or presentationInternational6E785E6E-D1E7-43CD-A86C-22DB8E270D43It lead to relationships developing with other international speakers as well as greater understanding of what is happening in other countries in respect to distributed energy generation, such as California and Germany.falseProfessional Practitioners2014Presentation on Political Momentum (Bangkok)A talk or presentationInternational702A30EB-6C55-4AAA-9C82-846207263DCBFollowing this and the other presentation in Bangkok on 22nd April 2015, some key insights fed into the ongoing debate in Thailand around the future of solar PV policy. Furthermore, there have been discussions with some of those met at the meeting around putting together a research bid.falseOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)http://thaisolarpvroadmap.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/SeminarProgram_FinalVersion.pdf2015Quoted in Carbon Brief (October 2015)A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewInternational5AD2CB74-0805-4BF0-84B2-DA955AF70571tbcfalseMedia (as a channel to the public)http://www.carbonbrief.org/ccc-uk-wind-and-solar-will-be-cheaper-than-gas-by-2020/2015FITs and RPSs are under attack - what are the issues and how do we address them? (Vermont)Participation in an activity, workshop or similarInternationalBE233FAE-D1A8-4F90-8C5F-155D7DEA0C34We talked to the head of the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to to discuss the suitability of its structure for a European wide regulator. We met key people working in energy regulation from across world and discussed potential for transferring best practice from the regions to Britain. We expect further collaboration as a result of these discussions.falseProfessional Practitionershttp://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/presentation-fits-and-rpss-are-under-attack/2013GB Energy Policy - constraints and opportunities (Eden Project)A talk or presentationNational6AA2BA8F-8D97-433C-A0E3-CA1E0F1EDFD5No measured impact yetfalseProfessional Practitionershttp://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/presentation-gb-energy-policy-constraints-and-opportunities/2015Achieving energy transitions (Joensuu)A talk or presentationInternational40E3B976-3BDD-49C9-B2EA-DB9C7EA80605None recordedfalseOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Energy-Transitions-paper-submission-info.pdf2014Annual ENSYMORA Meeting (Denmark)A formal working group, expert panel or dialogueInternational0E9721E0-A3C4-4C1A-862F-8B873EBEB41AA shared PhD was one outcome from the this meeting. We also made very good new contacts in the European risk and energy world and very good need energy system contacts in Demark.trueOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)http://www.ensymora.dk/2013,2014Advised IPPR on A new approach to electricity marketsA formal working group, expert panel or dialogueNationalDB8EE6D9-41A5-4334-B417-8392A9C7636EThe report launched at the House of Commons with senior practitioners and policy makers on the panel. It was also reported in the media.falsePolicymakers/parliamentarianshttp://www.ippr.org/assets/media/publications/pdf/new-approach-electricity-markets_Sep2014.pd2014Presentation to Steve Sorrell (Demand Centre)A talk or presentationNationalCB66D2EE-C659-444F-AB22-CDA7155ECC24Bringing RCUK people closer to IGov projecttrueOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)2015Panel member of 'The Energy Debate' (London)Participation in an activity, workshop or similarNationalF6D18864-EEA0-454E-969A-8B56E7E63F37Has led to other invitations to present to industry association eventsfalseProfessional Practitioners2014Comparative political economy of sustainable energy transitions (Warwick)A talk or presentationNational81A76A8E-E2EF-4CF7-8962-05393CFD23E9There was a follow up meeting held with academics at Imperial to discussion our research and thinking in more depth.falseOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/presentation/2014Invited to give views on principles-based regulation (Ofgem)Participation in an activity, workshop or similarNational9DDEE48F-19A1-4FB2-AB31-A3D01D902CF2Ofgem have subsequently brought out two consultations on this, although no direct link is obviousfalseProfessional Practitioners2015Oxford Institute of Energy StudiesA formal working group, expert panel or dialogueInternationalC7BB84B3-DDDD-4A84-AD4E-85D9ADAE14DEGetting to know key people working on the detail of energy electricity markets workfalseProfessional Practitioners2014BBC World Service 'World Have Your Say' ProgrammeA press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewInternationalA88E119C-54DA-4E15-A5A9-1C653CA663B6nonefalseMedia (as a channel to the public)2014Quoted by Energy Desk (May 2015)A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewNationalCF5D88F4-2B1B-4FDE-9141-20D822AEF40DRequoted elsewherefalseMedia (as a channel to the public)http://energydesk.greenpeace.org/2015/05/08/what-does-a-tory-government-mean-for-climate-and-energy/2015Lunchtime presentation at the Institute for Public Policy ResearchA talk or presentationNationalD0698734-2A10-4B6D-BC78-4952D8305921No further impacts measuredfalseProfessional Practitioners2015Meeting with Ofgem Sustainability TeamA formal working group, expert panel or dialogueInternationalB20B08BB-7DBA-4BAE-B455-661821069741Maintaining a good working relationship with OfgemfalseProfessional Practitioners2014Meeting with Ben Eyre-White (DECC)Participation in an activity, workshop or similarRegional4F6A4A5F-3618-4F13-B908-56D08FB0BB15Continued correspondence with DECC; CM has email from Ben Eyre White thanking CM for 'invaluable' inputfalsePolicymakers/parliamentarians2015EnergyUK MeetingA formal working group, expert panel or dialogueNational866F48A5-79CB-4658-9C2A-1772C2E5C2EBIt deepened our relationship with EnergyUK and share information and knowledge between our organisations.falseProfessional Practitioners2014Advised climate change campaign group 10:10 on their political analysis and strategyA formal working group, expert panel or dialogueNational9E782ADB-41CB-4E5E-A62F-19CDDAC14096The discussion helped to shape political strategy and communications around better organising PV investorsfalseProfessional Practitioners2015RAP Day Follow on MeetingsA formal working group, expert panel or dialogueInternational4D2E2AA9-E08D-45D2-A761-D9FE5926E789These meetings enable us to effectively increase our energy understanding of US markets and regulation and their potential application to the UK. This included attending the annual meeting of the North-east National Association of Regulatory Utility CommissionsfalseProfessional Practitioners2014Introduction to IGov and Theories of Change (Falmouth)A talk or presentationLocalEDD02C42-E831-42E8-8D34-DEC889478BF7nonefalseOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/presentation-introduction-to-igov-and-theories-of-change/2014Meeting with Will Straw to discuss energy policiesParticipation in an activity, workshop or similarNational8AED27ED-4D79-4397-B05C-A7BF0A3BE726Matthew Lockwood advised that IPPR should work more on energy efficiency, which might have affected their decision to do just that.falsePolicymakers/parliamentarians2013Participated in Green Alliance roundtable on &quot;Building a public mandate for UK infrastructure&quot;Participation in an activity, workshop or similarNational897C04DD-ACEA-427F-A5B9-9C2ACB911F79Following this engagement Matthew Lockwood provided extensive comments to a Green Alliance paper on infrastructure, which fed into the Armitt Review, who proposed a National Infrastructure Commission, an idea which is now being carried forward by the current government.falsePolicymakers/parliamentarianshttp://www.green-alliance.org.uk/resources/Infrastructure_planning.pdf2014political economy of fossil fuel subsidies in developing countries (Sussex)A talk or presentationLocal308C46A1-0B85-45F0-B476-6523FC8C0922Following the talk the OECD contacted us and requested a copy of the presentation.falseOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/presentation-political-economy-of-fossil-fuel-subsidies-in-developing-countries/2013Provided written and verbal evidence to Scrutiny Committee on Energy BillA formal working group, expert panel or dialogueNationalEEC8192F-D41C-4611-AFEF-FFA273A7595DThe evidence was record as part formal reporting of these meetings.truePolicymakers/parliamentarianshttp://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2013/january/energy-bill-committee-announce-evidence-programme/2013Quoted in Business Green (March 2015)A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewNational6B4B880A-038D-4742-A392-B17EF994DF96None recordedfalseMedia (as a channel to the public)http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/analysis/2397847/uk-energy-policy-pulling-in-opposite-directions-mps-warn2015Quoted in Guardan article (Feb 2015)A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewNationalD5B7B066-5EF7-4C48-9BAA-C03B71624F76None recordedfalseMedia (as a channel to the public)http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/feb/15/fossil-fuel-industry-must-take-stranded-assets-seriously-say-tim-yeo2015Ofgem Heads of Team MeetingA formal working group, expert panel or dialogueNationalE74B97A0-E1DB-460C-A0FE-1D47E5A8E2D3not awarefalseProfessional Practitioners2013Advising IPPR on their climate and energy programmeParticipation in an activity, workshop or similarNational4717E0C2-62DA-4982-B455-D7DDECAA916ANo impact measuredfalseProfessional Practitioners2013Surviving a Sandpit (Exeter)A talk or presentationLocalEAC990A8-CCA8-402A-8FD0-A604C88E07D2No impact apparent yetfalseOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)2015Informal advice to Elliott Whittington, Deputy Director, Corporate Leaders GroupParticipation in an activity, workshop or similarNationalACFFD0F5-6577-42A7-9E31-01D4CD8FE600No impact measuredfalseProfessional Practitioners2015Phone interview to the Carbon TrustParticipation in an activity, workshop or similarInternational8AE8EDAB-40F5-4990-A5C7-D1DB71DF8793No impact measuredfalseProfessional Practitioners2015The development of Energy Policy from Vesting to Electricity Market Reform (Falmouth)A talk or presentationRegionalBD0F586A-CE6B-4D17-8DC8-7EFE234FB680The event gave our group better links with the other speaker - the previous head of Energy UK the main energy lobby. He subsequently became an honorary fellow of our group.trueOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/presentation-the-development-of-energy-policy-from-vesting-to-electricity-market-reform/2014ECIU press releaseA press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewNational67984559-3719-4032-8A75-CD805CE40EEFNone recordedfalseProfessional Practitionershttp://eciu.net/press-releases/2014/capacity-market-will-lead-to-higher-energy-bills2014UK Energy Governance: Change, Capacity and Interactions (Canterbury)A talk or presentationNationalFFC5E9F0-5B7F-4073-9485-6759D9E0993BnonefalseOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/presentation-uk-energy-governance-change-capacity-and-interactions/2014Meeting with Citizens AdviceParticipation in an activity, workshop or similarNationalCF892C02-4FA6-458C-BCDE-2A2E8FE33E2FLed to key people becoming involved in the IGov team's subsequent work on codes and licenses.falseProfessional Practitioners2015 Meeting with HM TreasuryA formal working group, expert panel or dialogueNational973464E1-B209-43B3-B73E-7557AEB11956It deepened our relationship with Treasury.truePolicymakers/parliamentarians2014Good Energy MeetingA formal working group, expert panel or dialogueNational09B1ECF2-1133-4898-AE97-B27BFCA3C927This meeting was an opportunity to developed our own understand of the issues facing suppliers in the UK as well as a way to discuss our research with them.falseProfessional Practitioners2013Seminar to Sussex Energy GroupA talk or presentationNational5DD66BFF-A24F-4D14-A3C9-A7503CBC7AE9None recordedfalseOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)2015Today Programme interview (June 2015)A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewNational73C71739-A29B-4216-A4A8-ECBA287A4B8EtbcfalseMedia (as a channel to the public)https://audioboom.com/boos/3264714-catherine-mitchell-the-today-programme-09-06-20152015Article in The House Magazine (April 2015)A magazine, newsletter or online publicationInternational51328FB0-251E-4090-825C-EDB695EC8257tbcfalseMedia (as a channel to the public)https://geography.exeter.ac.uk/media/universityofexeter/schoolofgeography/images/researchgroups/epg/The_House.pdf2015Became Chair of RAPA formal working group, expert panel or dialogueInternationalA8ADC2F0-EF4B-49BB-8E01-D5664E32EDC7tbctruePolicymakers/parliamentarianshttp://www.raponline.org/about/board-member/id/572015Presentation on 'Toward a Decentralised Demand-Focused Electricity System: Policy Design and Challenges' (Bangkok)A talk or presentationInternational76172C6E-BD6A-4693-897A-51EEC02099BFFollowing this and the other presentation in Bangkok on 22nd April 2015, some key insights fed into the ongoing debate in Thailand around the future of solar PV policy. Furthermore, there have been discussions with some of those met at the meeting around putting together a research bid.falsePolicymakers/parliamentarianshttp://thaisolarpvroadmap.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/SeminarProgram_FinalVersion.pdf2015Advised Nick Wood, Ofgem on Danish regulatory framework for energyParticipation in an activity, workshop or similarNational18A655B4-E41B-4F98-9950-5E787BFA3A64No impact measuredfalseProfessional Practitioners2015Attended Advisory Group meeting for UKERC Phase 3 (Cardiff)A formal working group, expert panel or dialogueNational946400FE-F8D6-4DA1-A727-BC7C58CEF032Impacted design of projectfalseOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)2015Meeting with EPSRCA formal working group, expert panel or dialogueNational8ABCED20-9C93-45EC-A539-5A28C2C4BFA7Deeping relationship between Exeter and EPSRC.falseOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)2014Participated in a panel at Cornwall Energy eventParticipation in an activity, workshop or similarNationalB0B0386F-7BCA-430E-AFC8-3E6B26AD51CDtbcfalseProfessional Practitionershttp://www.cornwallenergy.com/cms/data/files/Courses/EMR-Apocalypse-When-Agenda.pdf2015Energy System of the Future (Luxembourg)A talk or presentationInternational3DFA77A4-F1E5-4B9B-9FB5-2776FCF788D7CM met Frédéric THOMA, an advisor to the Luxembourg energy minister, thereby strengthening links to EU energy policymakersfalsePolicymakers/parliamentarianshttp://www.setplan2015.lu/2015Meeting with Tom Leveridge and team from ECCCParticipation in an activity, workshop or similarNational6A5B6951-430E-4FB5-A53C-566DD7ABF481This meeting was a follow-up of the 'Future energy challenges' presentation Catherine Mitchell gave on 12th March, which proposed key questions for incoming government - and which were subsequently picked up by the ECCC in Dec 2015truePolicymakers/parliamentarians2015IPPR Policy Advisory Committee (London)A formal working group, expert panel or dialogueNationalA4E999F6-CA05-4EBF-A9DB-C8CC618D5C20Feeds into decision making for this think-tank.falseProfessional Practitioners2012Future challenges in energy policy (ECC, London)A talk or presentationNational16932364-6952-432C-9CC6-1588E30C2886The new ECC priorities (released in December 2015) reflect the views communicated by the IGov group on what these priorities should be, particularly relating to ensuring GB energy governance can respond to the rapidly changing environment in terms of the technologies availabletruePolicymakers/parliamentarianshttp://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/energy-and-climate-change-committee/inquiries/parliament-2010/fuelling-the-debate-committee-successes-and-future-challenges/2015Organised two panels on 'Energy Governance' (BISA)Participation in an activity, workshop or similarInternational0ECB54A1-1E0E-470F-B3E4-064A64DE1F67Building networks with other members of BISAfalseOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/presentation-climate-norm-creation-and-interactions-with-energy-governance/2014Participated in Green Alliance Green Social Democracy panel meeting on green industrial strategyParticipation in an activity, workshop or similarNational2AB92377-814E-4855-8292-8481B04A55FCMeeting fed into pamphlet (and further work) on Green Alliance Green Social DemocracyfalseProfessional Practitionershttp://www.green-alliance.org.uk/greensocialdemocracy.php2013Presentation on institutional inertia (STA)A talk or presentationNationalF7978391-3EAE-41B9-9970-8D381B30A7F7Elements from presentation publicised through twitterfalseProfessional Practitioners2015Member of the Industry and Parliament Trust's Energy CommissionA formal working group, expert panel or dialogueNationalA03892B1-0F31-43A9-B73C-BA4FF042D38DNone measuredtruePolicymakers/parliamentarians2013ECIU press release (March 2015)A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewNationalEF8B9BDF-E893-4EAF-B859-E7FA59722E1EPress release picked up by numerous media outletsfalseMedia (as a channel to the public)http://eciu.net/press-releases/2015/report-on-energy-policy-offers-little-new-wisdom2015Interviewed on CTV News CanadaA press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewInternational954A90DC-34E7-4270-95C0-3169C64E57E9none recordedfalseMedia (as a channel to the public)2014Varieties of capitalism and the politics of sustainable energy transitions (Sussex)A talk or presentationLocal98BF3AB7-CBA8-4AF1-B96E-16DB660547D2Not awarefalseOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/presentation-varieties-of-capitalism-and-the-politics-of-sustainable-energy-transitions/2013Session Chair: PRASEG Conference (London)Participation in an activity, workshop or similarNational55C31671-1735-4DE2-BCC6-2DEB9ED9CE3BStrengthened network; Catherine Mitchell met with Sara Bell (Tempus Energy), with whom she has gone on to do more work withfalseProfessional Practitionershttp://www.praseg.org.uk/save-the-date-praseg-annual-conference-2014/2014Is the Climate Change Act safe? (Sussex)A talk or presentationLocal5214D1B9-5043-4EDF-92DD-8E7872DBD2C4not aware of any, other than follow up discussions with SPRU academicsfalseOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/presentation-is-the-climate-change-act-safe/2013Quoted in Energy and Environmental Management (July 2015)A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewNationalBD3E3CA6-EB3D-4FC8-8AC1-7952C56A9D83tbcfalseMedia (as a channel to the public)http://www.eaem.co.uk/news/budget-2015-osborne-criticised-scrapping-%E2%80%98out-dated%E2%80%99-climate-change-levy2015Presentation on context for code governance reform (London)Participation in an activity, workshop or similarNational30734DDB-6D89-49EE-B060-D035F444525FThis engagement is one element within a wider set of engagements and publications directed towards informing the Competition and Markets Authority inquiry, with a particular emphasis on codes. Specifically, the IGov team argued that the proposed 'Theories of Harm' be broadened to include consideration of the role of code governance as a potential barrier to innovation and change. The CMA's Theories of Harm were subsequently broadened. This decision, it is understood, was heavily influenced by the IGov team's engagements. As well as the publications included elsewhere, see the following blogs for further information on this impact: https://assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk/media/53f1bce1e5274a48c100000f/UoE_Energy-Policy_Group-response_to_IS.pdf http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/submission-to-cma-energy-market-investigation/ http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/cma-energy-market-investigation-updated-issues-statement/falseProfessional Practitionershttp://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/agenda/2015Lib Dem energy policy advisory group (London)A formal working group, expert panel or dialogueNational5510D022-07B4-4008-85AA-D24184D39AFBNot that we are aware offalsePolicymakers/parliamentarians2012Being Specific about the Politics of Low Carbon Transitions (Leeds)A talk or presentationRegional34F75562-B3E1-4871-BF5A-673116B9E083nonefalseOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/presentation-being-specific-about-the-politics-of-low-carbon-transitions/2013Renewables: how far can we go? (London)A talk or presentationNationalB8540E40-81FC-41AE-A47D-507BDB8B3471Meeting set up in part because Catherine Mitchell is on the ECIU board. Talk was picked up by Edie.net (http://www.edie.net/news/6/Energy-storage-and-interconnectors-offer-best-route-to-decabarbonisation-says-policy-expert/28619/?utm_content=buffer29eaa&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer) Also resulting from this engagement, Catherine Mitchell wrote a series of blogs on 'no resource is 100% reliable', which have now been widely circulated and become part of a wider discussion about the importance of flexibility: http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/new-thinking-a-no-regret-energy-policy-reduce-flatten-and-flex/ http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/no-resource-is-100-reliable-the-belgian-nuclear-winter/ http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/no-resource-is-100-reliable-us-polar-vortex-and-energy/ http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/no-resource-is-100-reliable-a-100-renewable-energy-system-operation-on-no-wind-no-sun-days/ http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/no-resource-is-100-reliable-a-realistic-what-if-model/ http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/no-resource-is-100-reliable-embracing-change-and-capturing-opportunities-of-the-new-energy-system-requires-a-new-mind-set/falseProfessional Practitionershttp://eciu.net/events/2015/renewables-how-far-can-we-go2015Interview on Cornwall Energy IslandA press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interviewRegional1FB42514-1559-41DC-8460-4E66AEB4F9D6tbcfalseMedia (as a channel to the public)2015Innovation and Governance Institutions, Rules and Regulations (Exeter)A talk or presentationLocal51F190CB-A5E1-4433-8E2D-612F93219E34Created new links between University research groupsfalseOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/presentation-innovation-and-governance-institutions-rules-and-regulations/2013Oral evidence given to HoL Select Committee on Science and TechnologyA formal working group, expert panel or dialogueNational115A84C0-8A77-4E44-AA63-B4FB4F2A5191The evidence was record as part formal reporting of these meetings. The evidence was also quoted extensively in the HoL report published the following year: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201415/ldselect/ldsctech/121/121.pdf The invitation to submit evidence was in response to a series of blogs Catherine Mitchell wrote on changing governance arrangements in New York: 30 June 2014: Can the very different US Regulatory System Provide Insights for Energy Regulation in Britain/Europe? http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/lessons-from-america-can-the-very-different-us-regulatory-system-provide-insights-for-energy-regulation-in-britaineurope/ 2 July: New York States' Reforming the Energy Vision http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/lessons-from-america-new-york-states-reforming-the-energy-vision/ 4 July: If only the GEMA was more like a US Public Utility Commission http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/lessons-from-america-if-only-the-gema-was-more-like-a-us-public-utility-commission/ 7 July: Worrying analogies between the EMR process and the California Electricity crisis 2001 http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/lessons-from-america-worrying-analogies-between-the-emr-process-and-the-california-electricity-crisis-2001/ 11 July: Customer Default Service with Comparative retail - is this the way forward in GB? http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/lessons-from-america-customer-default-service-with-competitive-retail-is-this-the-way-forward-in-gb/ 18 July: Is the US form of 'decoupling' transferable to GB? http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/lessons-from-america-is-the-us-form-of-decoupling-transferable-to-gb/ 1 August: Capacity Market Details and Demand Side Response http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/lessons-from-america-capacity-market-details-and-demand-side-response/truePolicymakers/parliamentarianshttp://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201415/ldselect/ldsctech/121/121.pdf2014,2015GB Energy Policy Overview (Denmark)A talk or presentationInternationalF3CBF95A-F717-4A9A-9BE7-12FB2AC9D71FA share PhD was one outcome from the this meeting. We also made very good new contacts in the European risk and energy world and very good need energy system contacts in Demark. This work also successfully led to a new EU funded project looking at auctions for renewable energy in European, as well a further bid on the future role of gas in Denmark.trueOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/presentation-gb-energy-policy-overview/2014Participated in RAP Board MeetingsA formal working group, expert panel or dialogueInternationalF825275F-86D9-4349-91A6-FB074C0C4A8BCatherine Mitchell is Chair of RAP, and is thus exposed to meetings and people, in part as a result of IGov worktrueProfessional Practitionershttp://www.raponline.org/2012,2013,2014,2015Tomorrow's utilities - what future (London)A talk or presentationNational9CE06B65-6404-4B37-B778-19FDF06DA138No impacts evident at this timefalseProfessional Practitionershttp://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/presentation-tomorrows-utilities-what-future/2015Presentation on political dynamics of green transformations, BonnA talk or presentationInternational2220A896-9982-4A18-9260-1AF4B98EF028not awarefalseOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/presentation-low-carbon-transformation-and-political-strategy/2014Oral evidence to Environment and Sustainability Committee (Senedd)A formal working group, expert panel or dialogueNational7F8B85E1-D315-4543-8A1D-806EF2373E9EThe evidence was formally recordedtruePolicymakers/parliamentarianshttp://www.senedd.assembly.wales/ieIssueDetails.aspx?IId=13374&amp;Opt=32015Governance and transition presentation (Berlin)A talk or presentationInternational4AE7201E-5B1A-4306-82B7-39B00352A9BCNothing as yet, but impacts expected in future.falseOther academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/presentation-governance-transition-to-a-sustainable-energy-system/2015Meeting with Energy Team in BiSA formal working group, expert panel or dialogueNational803BDD89-2E57-4D09-98DE-ECB41F22AC22Developing better relationship with a ministry with responsibilities for energy policytruePolicymakers/parliamentarians2014Gave presentation by phone to energy team at UK embassy in BrazilA talk or presentationInternational3A3FE791-DF27-4CC0-ADA6-B48A20832C83No impact measuredfalsePolicymakers/parliamentarians2015Presentation: 'Innovation, Governance and Affordability for a Sustainable and Secure Economy' (London)Participation in an activity, workshop or similarNationalA85B7585-BF7A-4F59-96E6-AF45132D4F65No impacts recorded aside from expanding networksfalsePublic/other audiences2014Meeting with Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls, MP, on policies for a low carbon economyParticipation in an activity, workshop or similarNationalC6DA1D6A-8743-4377-95BF-62DC5E7262EAFollowing that meeting Ed Balls made a speech on the environment in Summer 2013. The Armitt Review also include energy efficiency as an infrastructure priority.falsePolicymakers/parliamentarians2013Comments given to Policy Exchange on Governing Power report draftParticipation in an activity, workshop or similarNationalB3030E2E-17A7-49FD-9F6F-3BF6D389822ANo additional impactsfalseProfessional Practitionershttp://www.policyexchange.org.uk/images/publications/governing%20power.pdf2015Meeting with John Ashton RE politics of climate changeParticipation in an activity, workshop or similarNational3CFC5A9B-D9E0-4F52-B64D-D4D78E016C75No impact measuredfalseProfessional Practitioners2013Discussant at Cornwall Energy DG eventParticipation in an activity, workshop or similarNationalD1925B37-29D3-4AEC-BAA5-6EA46E988DEDNo impact recordedfalseProfessional Practitioners2014715EF9DF-8BDF-4F8E-AB99-445F5B91028AEU Climate Benchmarking: Qualifications, Compromises and Compliance in the UK and Germany56910801df64b4c318ed7dd989e5b2baKuzemko, C.2014-01-01C6FCBDF8-55F1-43DB-A354-20871576C9B8How to Change the Balance of Power78bca471b1da3fcfdd61b01a471c3fe7Mitchell, C.2013-01-01E4AE6D3F-A305-4365-9DC6-8F1104BBE35ABook Review: Electricity Supply - the British Experiment42823a4563d02642fed31691b876daa6Mitchell C2015-01-014CD32461-AB0A-4DB0-A215-D8900CA91D8EDemand and Decarbonisation in 2050: Themes from Scenariosb160ce62a24e50731f70b02a97f796efSteward, T.2014-01-01D21BFFE0-B152-4616-9D04-C4519C75E86FThe UK's Levy Control Framework for renewable electricity support: Effects and significanceEnergy Policy4ea7f6cf7ac22d8dcdd545c3e46481eeLockwood M2016-01-011BF7AADC-BF45-4E00-8740-59105F8D9ED5Stern Review 2.0? 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