UCL Grand Challenges Small Grants awarded to 22 new projects
26 April 2013
22 new research projects have been awarded funding of up to £5,000 through the 2013 UCL Grand Challenges Small Grants Scheme.
The scheme funds cross-disciplinary collaborations between staff in different 911±¬ÁÏÍø departments under the broad headings of Global Health, Sustainable Cities, Intercultural Interaction and Human Wellbeing.
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The successful applicants are:Ìý
Grand Challenge of Global Health
An integrated approach to HIV and AIDS and informal settlements in
sub-Saharan Africa
Dr Colin Marx (Bartlett Development Planning Unit) & Dr Sarah Hawkes
(Institute for Global Health)
A life history approach to diabetes in rural India
Professor Jonathan Wells (Institute of Child Health) & Dr Andrea
Migliano (Anthropology)
Examining the feasibility and ethical acceptability of providing cause
of death information to families of the deceased in rural Nepal
Dr Joanna Morrison (Institute for Global Health) & Dr James Wilson
(Centre for Philosophy, Justice & Health)
Adaptation to milk drinking in Chilean goat herders; the role of
genetics and selection
Professor Dallas Swallow (Faculty of Life Sciences) & Professor Ruth
Mace (Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences)
A Smartphone App for Neonatal Jaundice
Dr Terence Leung (Medical Physics & Bioengineering) & Dr Judith
Meek (UCLH)
Grand Challenge of Human Wellbeing
Medical (In)humanities
Dr Stephanie Bird (School of European Languages,
Culture & Society) & Dr Peter Zusi (School of Slavonic & East
European Studies)
How to get on (with) a bus: A pilot study of
wheelchair users' engagement with research on bus accessibility
Dr Brian BalmerÌý(Science & Technology
Studies) & Dr Catherine Holloway (Civil, Environmental & Geomatic
Engineering)
Socio-cognitive skills in children with visual
impairment
Dr. Michelle de Haan (Institute of Child Health) &
Dr. Naomi Dale (Institute of Child Health)
Sporting Chance: testing the evolutionary determinants
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Gustav Milne (Institute of Archaelogy) & Dr
Benjamin Gardener Sood (Epidemiology & Public Health)
The Social Web, a Community Technology for Healthy Ageing
Dr Rodney Reynolds (Instute for Global Health)
&ÌýDr Dylan Kneale (Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering)
Distress in elderly renal
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Dr David Wheeler (Centre for Nephrology) & Dr
Joseph Low (Mental Health Sciences)
Grand Challenge of Intercultural Interaction
Transnational
Slade: mapping the diaspora of an art school
Dr Amna Malik (Slade School of Fine Art) & Dr
Melissa Terras Ìý(Information Studies)
Ideas of
African sculpture in archaeology and art in modern Britain: Jacob
Epstein, Flinders Petrie, Ronald Moody and Edna Manley
Dr Gemma Romain (Geography) & Dr Debbie
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John Donne's Conversions, 1613-2013
Daniel Smith (English) & Dr Jason Peacey (History)
Coordination and Collaboration
William Steptoe (Computer Science) & Dr Daniel
Richardson (Cognitive, Perceptual & Brain Sciences)
Trust and Distrust in the Eastern Bloc and the Soviet
Union, 1956-1991
Dr Alexey Tikhomirov (School of Slavonic & East
European Studies) & Professor Mary Fulbrook (School of European Languages,
Culture & Society)
Increasing Awareness of Organ Donation in Black and
Minority Ethnic Groups
Dr Cecil Thompson (UCLH) & Bimbi Fernando (UCLH)
Grand Challenge of Sustainable Cities
Blackout prevention and solutions through
multi-disciplinary techniques
Dr Catalina Spataru (UCL Energy Institute) & Dr
Hervé Borrion (Department of Security & Crime Studies)
Behaviour change: reducing waste

Professor Susan Michie (Clinical, Educational &
Health Psychology) & Richard Jackson (Estates)


Assessment of alternative transport models for Havana

Dr Emily Morris (Institute of the Americas) & Dr
Julio Davila (Development Planning Unit)

The suburban food basket: the role of spatial setting
and social context in providing access to healthy food

Dr Shaun Scholes (Epidemiology & Public Health)
& Professor Laura Vaughan (Bartlett School of Graduate Studies)
Cities for Human Locomotion
Dr Stephen Marshall (Bartlett School of Planning) &
Professor Nick Tyler (Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering)