Pollination ecosystem service support by sustainable urban drainage systems Oct 1, 2023 - Mar 31, 2026
Pollination ecosystem service support by sustainable urban drainage systems
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...
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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 aim is...
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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...
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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...
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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 since...
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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...
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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...
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New funding for biodiversity conservation Jan 1, 2024 - Dec 31, 2025
The project will result in a sustainable finance stream for the community for the protection and restoration of coastal ecosystems through a certified credit-generating framework that is highly replicable. The innovation of this project will be disse...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Prudence Risk Culture: Does it Drive Robust Sustainability Strategies? Sep 2, 2024 - Aug 31, 2025
This project will evaluate the hypothesis that organisations with a strong prudence risk culture demonstrate more robust sustainability strategies. Specifically, it investigates if prudence drives proactive climate risk management and influences sust...
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Exploring the Relationship between Habitat Biodiversity and Donkey Welfare: A Case Study in Scotland and the North of England May 6, 2024 - Jul 31, 2024
The application was written by Edinburgh Napier 4th year student Skye Kenny, in collaboration with Dr Gavin Ballantyne and partners at the University of the West of England and The Donkey Sanctuary.
The project will start before Skye graduates in...
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Linking microbial genes to methane emissions from peatlands under water-table changes Jun 1, 2024 - Dec 31, 2027
• Explore methane producing methanogens and methane consuming methanotrophs diversity
and functional genes across multiple peatland sites under water table changes and
quantitatively link it to methane fluxes.
• Study populations of methanogens an...
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