Rebuilding a Resilient Britain

2023

Discipline Hopping for Environmental Solutions - UoR-NHM Joint Citizen Science Research Centre for UN Sustainable Development Goals

Sponsor/Funder(s): NERC (Natural Environment Research Council) – Natural

Environment Research Council

Grant total: £19,949.34

Departmental share of grant: £1,275

Project timeline: 2023 (12 months)

Role: Co-PI

Collaborator(s): Prof. Nicholas Branch (PI), SAGES, Dr Andrew Ainslie (Co-I), Agriculture, Policy, and Development; Dr Soon Gweon (Co-I), Biological Science; Dr Nasreen Majid (Co-I), Institute of Education; Dr Jo Anna Reed Johnson (Co-I), Institute of Education; Dr Joh Tweddle (Co-I), Natural History Museum (NHM), London

2021

Discipline Hopping for Environmental Solutions

Sponsor/Funder(s): NERC (Natural Environment Research Council) – Natural

Environment Research Council

Grant total: £20,692

Departmental share of grant: £3657

Project timeline: 2022 (12 months)

Role: Co-I

Collaborator(s): Prof. Nicholas Branch (PI), SAGES, Dr Claudia Murray (Co-I), Real Estate and Planning; Dr Cherilyn Elston (Co-I), Languages and Cultures; Dr Catriona McAllister (Co-I), Languages and Cultures; Dr Oscar Martínez-Alvarado (Co-I), Meteorology; Dr Penélope Plaza (Co-I), Architecture

Assessing planning’s contribution to delivering on the Government’s 25 Year Environment Plan

Sponsor/Funder(s): David Robins Fund

Grant total: £9960

Project timeline: 2020 (12 months) Role: PI

Collaborator(s): Dr Amy Burnett (PDRA (Postdoctoral Research Associate)

2019

Nutrition, Lifestyle, Genes and Metabolome - A Biosocial Cohort Study of Obesity in Young Adults from Urban Peru [MR/S024778/1]

Sponsor/Funder(s): MRC (Medical Research Council) Medical Research Council

Grant total: £552,322.18

Departmental share of grant: £26,179

Project timeline: 2019-2022 (36 months)

Role: Co-I

Collaborator(s): Dr. Vimal Karani, Reading University (PI, Lead) and Oxford University and GRADE (Peru)

2018

Waste Food-Energy-Water Urban Living Labs - Mapping and Reducing Waste in the Food-Energy-Water Nexus [ES/S002243/1]

Sponsor/Funder(s): ESRC/AHRC/Innovate UK, and other international research councils.

Grant total: £1,313,856.11

University of Reading share of grant: £16,207 (ESRC)

Project timeline: 2018-2022 (36 months) + 6 months extension

Role: Co-I

Collaborator(s): Prof. Sue Charlesworth, Coventry University (PI, Lead) and University of Bath, and Schumacher Institute, Wessex Water, GENeco, Centre for Sustainable Energy and Bristol Food Network in the UK, and international partners in Brazil, The Netherlands, South Africa, Norway, and United States.

2016

Food4families / Health Impact of Community Gardening Places and Urban Spaces

Sponsor/Funder(s): Berkshire Community Fund

Grant total: £12,500

University of Reading share of grant: £7,500

Project timeline: 2016-2019 (36 months)

Role: Co-PI

Collaborator(s): Dr. Aileen Ho (Co-PI (Co Principal Investigator)), School of Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, Dr. Senjuti Manna (PDRA), Ms. Sharon Fitton, Reading International Solidarity Centre.

2015

Urban Coastal Transformations: Promoting transnational policy development in the governance of environmental quality and crime reduction [ES/N000021/1]

Sponsor/Funder(s): ESRC and São Paulo [Brazil] Research Foundation (FAPESP)

Grant total: £39,507 (ESRC)

University of Reading share of grant: £3,680 (ESRC)

Project timeline: 2015 (12 months)

Role: Co-I

Collaborator(s): Prof. (Emeritus) Timothy D. Botterill (Lead), Oxford Brookes University; Prof. Sonia Seixas (Co-PI), State University of Campinas (São Paulo, Brazil); Prof. Trevor Jones (Co-I), University of Cardiff

2014

Cities on the Grow - Pathways to supporting the sustainable growth of urban food enterprises in London, Reading and Almere

Sponsor/Funder(s): European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) - Climate KIC (Horizon2020)

Grant total: £160,000

University of Reading share of grant: £84,191

Project timeline: 2014-2015 (24 months)

Role: Co-PI

Collaborator(s): Dr Gerben Mol (Lead), Wageningen University; Suzanne van de Meulen (Co-I), Deltares; Dr Alison Bailey (Co-I), School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading; Mr. Keith Heron (Co-I), Henley Business School Centre for Entrepreneurship