Pollination ecosystem service support by sustainable urban drainage systems Oct 1, 2023 - Mar 31, 2026
Pollination ecosystem service support by sustainable urban drainage systems

International Partnership for Multi-dimensional Integration of Circularity in Architectural Education in Turkey and UK Oct 19, 2022 - Oct 19, 2024
This project aims to enhance the newly established partnership with Istanbul Technical University(ITU) and to extern the partnership with the other higher education institutes and organisation in Turkey, to develop an innovative education programme t... Read More about International Partnership for Multi-dimensional Integration of Circularity in Architectural Education in Turkey and UK.

Contributing to a circular economy of clothes– repurposing offcuts into accessories fibre for fashion accessories. Jan 16, 2023 - Jun 30, 2023
Ghillied has an ambition to minimise waste in the fashion industry – both in terms of front-end over production, and back-end waste. This encompasses manufacturing too many products that are likely to go to waste, the subsequent offcuts from this pro... Read More about Contributing to a circular economy of clothes– repurposing offcuts into accessories fibre for fashion accessories..

Training on transport & public health for transport practitioners and Essential Evidence 4 Scotland Nov 1, 2022 - Jan 31, 2024
Part 1: The aim is to provide regular training sessions for both public authority transport /highways practitioners, and a similar but 'reverse' training for public health practitioners on the relationships between transport and health.
A key... Read More about Training on transport & public health for transport practitioners and Essential Evidence 4 Scotland.

Characterising spatial freshwater soundscapes on an urban-rural gradient Apr 3, 2023 - Sep 29, 2023
The project aims to compare existing methods with a new methodology based on sensor arrays and utilising spatial audio algorithms, which can identify which direction a particular sound comes from and attenuate sounds from other directions. It will al... Read More about Characterising spatial freshwater soundscapes on an urban-rural gradient.

Cross-lingual Audio-visual Speech Enhancement based on Deep Multimodal Learning Jun 1, 2023 - May 31, 2025
Speech enhancement and separation techniques are often used to improve the quality and intelligibility of speech degraded by background distractions, including speech and non-speech noises. We aim to change the current landscape of research and innov... Read More about Cross-lingual Audio-visual Speech Enhancement based on Deep Multimodal Learning.

Dance of the Seasons Feb 1, 2023 - Mar 31, 2024
Dance of the Seasons is a collaborative, inter-disciplinary artistic research project that explores how two very different art forms – dance and film – could be engaged in a creative dialogue with each other in order to address one of the most pressi... Read More about Dance of the Seasons.

Affordable and sustainable green homes for underprivileged people in Africa. Dec 12, 2022 - Dec 12, 2023
A product service innovation providing affordable, fast, modular & sustainable construction technology using a new-age construction material "Composite Paper Honeycomb Panel”. The panel has two components - an inner core (paper honeycomb made with r... Read More about Affordable and sustainable green homes for underprivileged people in Africa..

Optimisation of moorland bird surveys project Jan 1, 2023 - Apr 4, 2023
To analyze existing moorland bird survey data to investigate if there is an optimal (in terms of data quality vs effort level) approach to achieve the aims of detecting, and estimating breeding densities of, certain breeding species.

Assessing and Protecting Spawning Herring and Associated Biodiversity: WOSHH-eDNA-Sound Apr 1, 2023 - Mar 31, 2025
Assessing and Protecting Spawning Herring and Associated Biodiversity: WOSHH-eDNA-Sound
Herring helped to generate local income, identity, and societal change for centuries in Scotland, but their numbers on the west coast have been in decline... Read More about Assessing and Protecting Spawning Herring and Associated Biodiversity: WOSHH-eDNA-Sound.

Bundling seagrass carbon with mangroves Jan 1, 2023 - Dec 31, 2023
The high costs of measuring carbon stocks and increments in subtidal seagrass beds mean that fully accredited seagrass carbon projects, using current standards and protocols, are not usually financially viable. The required precision means that any m... Read More about Bundling seagrass carbon with mangroves.

Impacts of forestry on breeding curlew distribution Mar 1, 2023 - Jun 1, 2023
We were approached by Forestry Commission England (FCE) to consider addressing five key questions they had identified as being important in terms of impact of forestry on curlew over the next 5-10 years and beyond, in order to feed into FCE’s policy... Read More about Impacts of forestry on breeding curlew distribution.

Attitudes and behaviours towards 20mph speed limit 3 years post intervention Oct 23, 2023 - Oct 18, 2024
1) Augment the previous research undertaken by the Transport Research Institute, Edinburgh Napier University, to assess the impacts of the implementation of 20mph default speed limits across all Scottish Borders (SB) settlements
2) New fieldwo... Read More about Attitudes and behaviours towards 20mph speed limit 3 years post intervention.

Raptor Persecution in Scotland Jul 1, 2023 - Jun 30, 2024
Drs Soliman and Wooff are designing a project examining raptor persecution in Scotland. One of the six UK wildlife crime priority areas, the illegal killing of birds of prey is primarily associated with land management practices on driven grouse moor... Read More about Raptor Persecution in Scotland.

Restoring Gambian riverine mangrove wetlands Dec 14, 2023 - Dec 13, 2024
community based mangrove restoration in the Gambia, using new techniques to restore salinised flats and working towards carbon accreditation for long term income

In Our Hands II Aug 4, 2023 - Apr 30, 2024
Since 2020, British Council has worked with partners from academic and creative sectors (private) to develop the necessary spaces where youth can reinterpret Nepal’s natural and cultural heritage to develop a stronger understanding of their contribut... Read More about In Our Hands II.

The use of Artificial Intelligence to speed up Discrete Element Method (DEM) simulations Jan 1, 2024 - Jun 30, 2024
Discussions have started with Prof. Pijush Samui at Indian Institute of Technology in Patna to develop proposal for this call. (RSE SCOTLAND ASIA PARTNERSHIPS HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH FUND)

Commercialisation of Homegrown Wood Fibre Oct 2, 2023 - Mar 27, 2025
To enhance the utilisation of the current English Forest resource for built environment delivery and correspondingly influence future forest strategies by demonstrating what is possible and scalable. Derive these scalable solutions and stress test th... Read More about Commercialisation of Homegrown Wood Fibre.

Development of new sustainable approach in drug discovery: One-pot parallel synthetic strategy to minimise the environmental footprint May 1, 2024 - Apr 30, 2025
Over thousands of Medicinal Chemistry research groups around the world across academia, research-based institutions are involved in synthesizing libraries of compounds in the early drug discovery phase. During this synthetic process, massive amount o... Read More about Development of new sustainable approach in drug discovery: One-pot parallel synthetic strategy to minimise the environmental footprint.

Chair of Transport & Health Feb 12, 2024 - Feb 11, 2025
This will allow me to continue and extend some of the work that I do, to promote and support policy and practice which results in an increase in total physical activity time, mainly as a result in an increase in walking for transport, and overall an... Read More about Chair of Transport & Health.