May 02
Once again Northumbria University is involved in 26 contributions to the prestigious CHI conference, this year being held in Paris and finishing today. You can read about them all here: CHI 2013: Changing Perspectives Experts from the Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences and Health and Life Sciences have taken part this year, with contributions including …
Apr 11
Recently Professor Bob Giddings represented Northumbria University in a Horizon 2020 Stakeholder Workshop in Rome on Sustainable Urban Dynamics. This workshop involved experts across the EU from industry and academia as well as the EC to inform the development of the Horizon 2020 Challenge on “The promotion of sustainable and inclusive environments through innovative spatial …
Mar 15
The AHRC this week announced a new highlight notice for their Research Grants (both standard and early career routes) on Connected Communities and Design. Applications can be up to £1.5M FEC for standard grants and up to £250K for the early career route. What are they looking for? They’re looking for projects which intersect across …
Mar 07
UKRO has highlighted an EC workshop on Innovative Spatial and Urban Planning and Design which will take place in Rome on 28th March, 2013. The purpose will be to identify potential research subjects on innovative spatial and urban planning and design in preparation for forthcoming calls in Horizon 2020. Calls on this topic will feature under the …
Feb 16
BBSRC have just launched a new call aimed at harnessing crowd-sourcing approaches to tackle large and complex scientific problems, which have relevance to one or more of their strategic priorities: BBSRC: Crowd-sourcing for biological sciences What are they looking for? Successful proposals will involve a range of disciplinary approaches, including bioscience expertise, ICT, design and …
Dec 05
3D Printing, or to give it its slightly less memorable moniker “additive manufacturing”, has been hailed as a revolutionary and game-changing tool for design and manufacturing. Although it is already well established, market uptake has been slow. The UK’s Technology Strategy Board is now collaborating with AHRC, EPSRC, and ESRC to fund business-led industrial research …
Sep 18
From the University newsroom this week: Intelligent self-repairing clothing and sensors that can detect the potential onset of an epileptic seizure sound like the stuff of science fiction but Northumbria University designers and engineers are turning them into reality. The cutting-edge of design and engineering visions for the future will be showcased at the launch …
Aug 31
You may remember back in Spring this year the Design Council and AHRC jointly invited the design research community to comment on barriers and opportunities to funding and to highlight gaps in design research. This consultation has now concluded and an initial scoping study [PDF] has been produced outlining the key findings and suggesting possible future …
Jun 08
Following the recently released EPSRC/AHRC/ESRC Design for Wellbeing call, Research and Business Services have organised a collaboration meeting for all interested parties to discuss the call and how they might contribute to any proposals which go forward. It will take place on Friday 15th June, 10 am – 12 midday in City Campus East building …
May 15
The EPSRC has released the Design for Wellbeing call trailed last week by the ESRC. AHRC are also involved in this cross-council call which is part of the Lifelong Health and Wellbeing strand. You can read the full call for proposals on the EPSRC website: Design for wellbeing: ageing and mobility in the built environment [PDF] …
