The Research Collaboration Stimulus Fund is funded from the Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) and allocated to the University by HEFCE to stimulate interactions with business, government, industry and other users of University research.
The focus of the Fund is on facilitating research collaborations and engagement with non-academic partners. The Fund aims to stimulate and pump-prime interdisciplinary research activity across Faculties that will ultimately lead to collaborations and the development of full research grant or contracts proposals with non-academic partners. Projects arising will be externally-funded either directly, or the collaboration with the non-academic partner(s) will be leveraged through public funding sources, either national or international. Successful projects will be awarded funding within the range of £5k to £15k.
The Research Collaboration Stimulus Fund pump primes small research projects that fulfil the following criteria:
If you would like further information regarding this fund, please contact Susan Davies, sdd1@soton.ac.uk.
Our projects cover a wide range of topics, you can find out more about these below.
| Principal Investigator | Project Title |
|---|---|
| Dr Tom Irvine | The Global Black Atlantic as Sonic Social Machine: Past, Present and Future |
| Dr Anita Lavorgna | Promotion of harmful alternative cancer treatments on Twitter: network and content characteristics |
| Professor Sunil Manghani | Making a Web of Arts |
| Dr David Millard | An Investigation into the Ethics of Mixed Reality Games and Experiences |
| Dr Silke Roth | Enabling Digital Fieldwork in Third Sector Organisations through Data Protection Research Exemptions |
| Dr Bindi Shah | Migration and Nationhood on Twitter |
| Professor Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon | PEDASI IoT Observatory – Delivering data driven services |
| Principal Investigator | Project Title |
|---|---|
| Dr Tiejun Ma | Intelligence Mobile Blockchain-based Fraudulent and Risky Behaviour Prediction for Personal Financial Applications |
| Professor Tolga Bektas | Web-based Optimisation Tools for Collaborative Planning in Freight Distribution |
| Dr Aastha Madaan | The Impact of Social Media on Democratic Elections and Public Votes |
| Principal Investigator | Project Title |
|---|---|
| Dr Darja Reuschke | Digital Workplace for Innovation and Participation (DigiWIP) |
| Professor Neil Wrigley | Enhancing Long-Term Engagement & Research Collaboration with the ‘giant of the digital economy’ |
| David Baxter | Exploring the Future of Work: The Effects of Distributed Work on Social Capital and Innovation |
| Dr Ramine Tinati | Intervention Mechanism for Detecting Supporting of Asthma Sufferers |
| Dr Vadim Grinevich | The Business-to-Business Sharing Economy: Is there a case for policy intervention? |
| Dr Ben Waterson | Traffic Lights: Harnessing Distributed Control Intelligence |
| Principal Investigator | Project Title |
|---|---|
| Dr Ramine Tinati | Capacity building to enable longitudinal studies of online citizen participation systems |
| Dr Jane Pritchard | Individual and Network Trust in Remote Monitoring Systems |
| Dr Silke Roth | Smart Rural Areas - communities, communication and safe spaces in South Africa |
| Jason Sadler | The Geospatial Observatory |
| Dr Thanassis Tiropanis | Ethics and Law in Web Observatories |
In addition to the projects above, the WSI also funded 5 smaller Pump Priming Projects:
| Principal Investigator | Project Title |
|---|---|
| Dr Su White | The MOOC Observatory Dashboard: Management, analysis and visualisation of MOOC data |
| Dr Kieron O'Hara | Anonymisation, Open Data and Data Protection |
| Dr Chris Phethean | Analysing Dietary Patterns, Preferences and Knowledge using Social Media. |
| Professor Michelle Lowe | Digital Reconfiguration in the Retail Sector |
| Dr Sha Liu | Web Based Big Data Platform for Financial Sentiment Mining |
| Dr Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon | Observing and Recommending from a Social Web with Biases |
| Principal Investigator | Project Title |
|---|---|
| Professor Frank McGroarty | Measuring Financial Sentiment in Social Media |
| Dr Richard Giordano | The Quantified Self and Clinical Decision Making |
| Professor Melanie Nind | Participation and Responsible Innovation for Co-Design for Exchange (PRICE) |
| Dr Eloise Monger | CLEAR: Comparing Learning Event and Actual Resuscitation data. A Web Observatory for resuscitation data |
| Dr Clare Hooper | Digital Police Officer: Linguistic Analysis to Identify Cybercriminals |
| Dr Mike Wald | Massive Open Online Annotation Framework |
| Jason Sadler | Dissemination and 3D Visualisation of Hampshire Aerial Data |
| Dr Sarah Parsons | Obesity and Health over Social Networks |