{"id":984,"date":"2017-07-07T15:16:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T14:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reading.ac.uk\/the-forum\/?p=984"},"modified":"2021-11-03T11:25:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T11:25:35","slug":"reading-researchers-secured-2-1-new-funding-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/2017\/07\/07\/reading-researchers-secured-2-1-new-funding-in-may\/","title":{"rendered":"More research funding success in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A project to explore how growing\u00a0more trees on farmland could regulate the climate is one of those that was secured during May.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2017\/07\/Martin-Lukac.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-985 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2017\/07\/Martin-Lukac-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2017\/07\/Martin-Lukac-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2017\/07\/Martin-Lukac-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2017\/07\/Martin-Lukac-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2017\/07\/Martin-Lukac.jpg 1211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A total of \u00a32,173,327 was confirmed during the month, with funds awarded by research councils, businesses, government departments and agencies, charities, and learned societies. The awards will be distributed across 20 new research projects.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Steve Mithen, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation, said: \u201cOnce again, well done to everyone who has been involved in securing this latest batch of research awards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe list of funders this month highlights how our researchers are engaging with a diverse range of organisations outside academia, including in business and policy areas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among those winning funding are:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Martin Lukac<\/strong>, from Agriculture, has been awarded \u00a3237,772 from NERC for a project to study how agroforestry \u2013 the growing of trees and food crops together \u2013 could play a role in helping to regulate the climate<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rachel McCrindle<\/strong>, from Biomedical Engineering, has secured \u00a3283,333 jointly from Innovate UK and One Sightsolutions Ltd, for a new Knowledge Transfer Partnership<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dimitris Charalampopoulos<\/strong> (Food and Nutritional Sciences) secured a \u00a3386,300 award from BBSRC as part of its Global Challenges funding, to explore how cocoa pod husks \u2013 a waste product in cocoa production in Indonesia \u2013 could be processed to create new products.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sylvie Dubuc<\/strong> (Geography) secured \u00a3441,530 from the ESRC for a project examining the causes, trends and implications of parents preferring sons over daughters in the UK<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Others winning awards in May were Michael Shaw (Agriculture), Roger\u00a0 Matthews (Archaeology),\u00a0 Giuseppe Feola, Kevin White (Geography and Environmental Sciences), William Holderbaum (Biomedical Engineering), Angela Clerk, Alice Pollitt (Biological Sciences), Rosalind Fallaize, Glenn Gibson, Paula Jauregi (Food and Nutritional Sciences), Mai Sato (Law), Nick Klingaman (Meteorology), Beatrice Heuser (Politics &amp; International Relations), Claire Williams, and Peter Scarfe (Psychology).<\/p>\n<p><strong>A <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/closed\/res\/ResearchSupportClosed\/OtherInformation\/reas-rs_recentawards.aspx\"><strong>full list of recent awards<\/strong><\/a><strong> is available on the Research &amp; Enterprise Services website (requires UoR log-in details).<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A project to explore how growing\u00a0more trees on farmland could regulate the climate is one of those that was secured during May. 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