Grants awarded in November 2015 (over £10k)

Miss K L Hemingway, Mr N D Cutts, Prof M Elliott, £10,000, Environment Agency, Assessment of Saltmarsh Development in the Alkborough MR Site for WFD Compliance

Prof L Ingle, £16,532, City Health Care Partnership CIC, Research Assistant in Exercise

Dr M Hird, £51,385, EPSRC, The British Liquid Crystal Society Annual Training Workshop

Dr B Hänfling, Dr L Lawson Handley, £55,829, Scottish Environment Protection Agency, The Development of an eDNA-Based Approach for Fish Sampling in Lochs for WFD – Phase 2

Grants awarded in October 2015 (over £10k)

Dr E Robson, £30,840, ESRC, Social cash transfers, generational relations and youth poverty trajectories in rural Lesotho and Malawi

Dr K Earle, £15,000, Tigers Sport and Education Trust, Hull City Football Club consultancy (Additional funds)

Grants awarded in September 2015 (over £10k)

Dr C Wu, Dr J M Mi, £19,761, EPSRC, Feasibility study of ultrasound-enhanced catalytic esterification of pyrolysis bio-oil

Mr W Musk, Mr O Dawes, Prof M Elliott, £10,600, Natural England, Morecambe Bay Invertebrate Analysis, Biotope Assignment and Condition Advice

Miss K L Hemingway, Mr N D Cutts, Prof M Elliott, £11,650, Able UK Ltd, Black-tailed Godwit Foraging Preferences and Prey Take, intertidal mudflats, North Killingholme

Dr S Lukaschuk, Dr S McLelland, £14,800, University of Leeds, Modeling wave dynamic on jet currents in a flume

Prof B P Binks, Prof P D Fletcher, £82,262, Lubrizol Limited, Crude Oil Pour Point Depressants – Screening And Design Of New Products 

Dr G Ferrier, £10,014, NERC, 3D sub-surface geospatial models

Grants awarded in July 2015 (over £10k)

Dr S Hull, £241,000, Heritage Lottery Fund, ‘Capturing the Coast’ marine ecology project

Dr K Earle, Dr G Abt, £15,000, Hull City Tigers Ltd, Studentship – Hull City Tigers – James Deighton

Prof T Coulthard, £25,000, Environment Agency, Collaborative research agreement relating to long-term morphodynamics and sedimentation of the Holderness coast and Humber Estuary

Dr J Purdy, £14,943, Nottingham University Hospitals, I-BiT+ Assessment and treatment of patients with Amblyopia using interactive binocular computer games

Grants awarded in June 2015 (over £10k)

Each month we publish a round-up of grants awarded in the Faculty of Science and Engineering over £10k. Congratulations to all staff on their awards.

The awards for June 2015 are as follows:

Dr K Earle, £12,000, Hull City Tigers Ltd, PhD Sponsorship Agreement

Mr P A Marshall, Dr C Wilcox, Dr H White, £15,000, Hull City Tigers Ltd, Injury screening using the Functional Movement Screen in academy level footballers – Studentship

Prof M Wang, £62,983, Department of Energy and Climate Change, Process Intensification for Carbon Capture with new solvent

Dr A Dyson, £46,590, Office for Naval Research, Theory of Transport in Semiconductor Devices

Dr S G Maher, Dr S J Archibald, Dr A Beavis, Prof J Greenman, £30,000, Castle Hull Hospital Trust, Biophysics Research Project

University researchers awarded grant to image an early trigger in prostate cancer

Above: Dr Justin Sturge (left) and Dr Graeme Stasiuk (right)

Researchers from the University of Hull have been awarded a £100,000 grant from Prostate Cancer UK to investigate into an early trigger of the disease.

Dr Justin Sturge and Dr Graeme Stasiuk have received the funding to develop a new bioimaging probe which will help detect the initial stages of the disease.

Grants awarded in April 2015 (over £10k)

Prof B P Binks, £87,886, Shiseido, Emulsions stabilised by soft particles (PhD Studentship)

Dr R M Forster, Mr S Barnard, Mrs S J Boyes, Mr D Burdon, Prof M Elliott, Miss S Thomson, £24,220, Marine Management Organisation, Evidence for the Use of Environmental Remediation to Improve Water Quality

Prof N Pamme, £49,995, British Council, Microfluidic System for Water Quality Monitoring in Resource Poor Environments

Grants awarded in March (over £10k)

Prof D A Atkinson, Society for Libyan Studies (British Academic BASIS funds), Colonial Science and the production of comprehensible territory in Italian Libya

Prof S K Haywood, Dr P Deutz, Dr S H Zein, British Council, Enhancing environmental resilience & energy security by developing efficient novel methods for converting palm oil waste to biodiesel and fertiliser

Dr R M Forster, British Council, Newton Institutional Link – UMT Seaweed Exchange

Dr R W Boyle, MRC, MICA – Well-characterised monclonal antibody-photosensitiser conjugates for treatment of head and neck cancer additional funds

Mr S Barnard, Prof M Elliott, Miss S Thomson, Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Prioritising Pressures for Marine Habitats in UK Regions

Prof X Zhao, Royal Society, Multiple Factors Engaged Heat Transfer in the Refuge Chambers

Dr A Franco, Mr S Barnard, Prof M Elliott, Marine Management Organisation, MMO1096 Spatial Models for Essential Fish Habitat for the South Coast Marine Plan Phase 2

Dr R M Forster, Prof M Elliott, Mr L Mander, Dr J A Strong, Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, A feasibility study to consider the use of earth observation satellite data in order to meet UK statutory monitoring obligations in the marine environment (MB0141)

Dr J A Strong, Mr S Barnard, Prof M Elliott, Dr A Franco, Dr K Mazik, Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, MSFD habitat area indicator development (ME5318)

Prof X Zhao, European Union, IRES – R & D in Sustainable Building Energy Systems and Retrofitting additional funds

Grants awarded in February 2015 (over £10k)

Prof M Wang, Dr C Wu, EPSRC, Novel low energy catalytic gas cleaning process to deliver high quality syngas from the gasification of waste biomass – additional funds

Dr B Haenfling, Dr L Lawson Handley, Environment Agency, Development of an eDNA-based approach for fish sampling in lakes for WFD

Dr L Cawkwell, Hull & East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia Research

Dr J Affolderbach, University of Luxembourg, Green building in regional strategies for sustainability: multi-actor governance and innovative building technologies in Europe, Australia, and Canada

Dr H Holle, Dr F C Cowdell, British Skin Foundation, A multisensory approach to itch

Prof G H Mehl, EPSRC, High speed multi-level phase device for active spatial control

Dr H V Snelling, Dr C D Walton, European Union, H2020 SC-Climate – INFINITY

Prof X Zhao, Dr K S Fancey, EPSRC, Key Technologies for Enhancing Energy Efficiency of the Dew Point Air Cooler and its Manufacturing

Prof X Zhao, Royal Society, Multiple Factors Engaged Heat Transfer in the Refuge Chambers

Prof X Zhao, International Research Staff Exchange, R-D-SBES-R-R&D in Sustainable Building Energy Systems & Retrofitting

Grant awarded: ‘The integrity of UK hydrocarbon operations from upstream to downstream’

Graham Ferrier, Senior Lecturer in Geography, has been successful in an application to the NERC Field Spectroscopy Facility title ‘The integrity of UK hydrocarbon operations from upstream to downstream’.

One of the outstanding issues of unconventional hydrocarbon exploitation is the life-cycle emissions of greenhouse gases, such as methane. It is critical that we obtain consistent measurements of these emissions from exploration wells, production wells, abandoned wells, processing facilities, and the networks that transport and deliver gas.

An evaluation of potential methane gas detector technologies, initially under controlled conditions, and then at selected study sites, to monitor fugitive emissions at the site scale over the full life cycle of a hydraulic fracturing site is therefore required.