Projects

COVID-19 National Core Study - Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration, part of the Longitudinal Health and Wellbeing Core study 2020-2022

• Medical Research Council: £430,000; University of Leicester:
• Project lead: Professor John Gulliver

CuBES Copper Basin Exploration Science 2020-2023

• Natural Environment Research Council: £1.7m; University of Leicester: £330,000
• Project leads: Holwell, Fishwick

DigiGen - The Impact of the Digital Transformations on the Digital Generation

• Horizon 2020: €3m; University of Leicester: £354,000
• Project lead: Karatzogianni
• Co-leads: Dr Bernhard Forchtner, Di Levine, Dunning, Hart, Cossu.

Enhancing UK Flood Resilience: Past Floods, Present Threats, Future Responses 2019-2022

• Arts and Humanities Research Council - Landscape Decisions Network Grant: £44,937
• Project lead: Professor Jones 

East Pemba Maritime Heritage Project and Creating Pwani – a new maritime heritage space for Zanzibar

• Arts and Humanities Research Council: East Pemba Maritime Heritage Project GCRF: £99,619; University of Leicester: £9,999
• Project lead: Horton (Royal Agricultural Institute)
• Co-lead: Laura Basell 

Exploiting biodiversity in Brachiaria and Panicum tropical forage grasses using genetics to improve livelihoods and sustainability

• Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council RCUK-CIAT Newton-Caldas Initiative: £150,000
• Project lead: Professor Pat Heslop-Harrison

Flood and Flow: Place-Names and the Changing Hydrology of English and Welsh Rivers 2016-2018

• Leverhulme Trust: £375,816; University of Leicester: £100,000
• Project lead: Jones

Forests 2020, International Partnership Programme 2016-2020

• UK Space Agency: £14,213,000; University of Leicester: £1,318,540
• Project lead: Tipper
• Co-lead: Professor Heiko Balzter

Grazing behaviour, urine composition and soil properties are key drivers of nitrous oxide emissions from livestock urine in the uplands 2015-2018

• Natural Environment Research Council: £958,000; University of Leicester: £125,440
• Project lead: Chadwick, Bangor University
• Co-lead: Whelan

Hazards and benefits of the built environment; noise, indoor air and green space 2020-2025

• National Institute of Health Research: £1m
• Project lead: Professor Anna Hansell 
• Co-lead: Professor John Gulliver

Increasing Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health in Disaster Prone Hard to Reach (H2R) Locations of Bangladesh 2022-2023

• Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh National Institute of Population Research and Training (NIPORT), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare: £66,433.09; University of Leicester: £30,981.19
• Project lead: Dr Nibedita Ray-Bennett

Exploring the Feasibility and Value of a Regional Network for First Responders (RN4FR) to Reduce Avoidable Disaster Deaths in the Caribbean Region 2022

• Knowledge Exchange, Impact and Proof of Concept Development Fund, CSSAH, University of Leicester: £14,676.79.00
• Project lead: Dr Nibedita S. Ray-Bennett

Understanding the impact of climate change on drowning risk in Bangladesh and Tanzania 2021-2022

• The Royal National Lifeboat Institution: £40,000;University of Leicester’s share: £3,674.21
• Project lead: Dr Nibedita S. Ray-Bennett

Life Changing Scholarships for Human Development 2020-2022

• Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK: £131,480
• Project lead: Dr Nibedita S. Ray-Bennett

Met4Tech Interdisciplinary Circular Economy Centre 2021-2024

• UK Research and Innovation: £5.4m; University of Leicester: £958,0000
• Project leads: Professor Gawen Jenkin, Smith, Abbott, Ryder

Personalised Space Technology Exercise Platform 2021-2023

• UK Space Agency: £1,382,839
• Project lead: Ng
• Co-lead: Professor Anna Hansell

Philippines Remediation of Mine Tailings (PROMT) 2021-2024

• Natural Environment Research Council: £1.7m; University of Leicester: £437,000
• Project lead: Professor Gawen Jenkin 
• Co-leads: Abbott, Smith, Whelan

Programme Coordination Team, Landscape Decisions Programme 2019-2023

• UK Research Innovation - Strategic Priorities Fund: £725,000; University of Leicester £725,000
• Project lead: Professor Heiko Balzter

Pulses and Oilseeds Research Initiative

• Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council - Newton-Bhabha Fund UK-India - £1.5m, £150,000
• Project leads: PI Bancroft, York,
• Co-lead: Professor Pat Heslop-Harrison

The Human Exposome Project: a toolbox for assessing and addressing the impact of environment on health 2020-2024

• Horizon 2020: €12m; University of Leicester: £515,000
• Project leads: Van Kamp, RIVM
• Co-leads: Professor John Gulliver, Professor Anna Hansell

CongoPeat: past, present and future of the Congo basin peatlands, 2018-2023

• NERC: £3.1m; University of Leicester £200,000
• Project lead: Lewis, Leeds
• Co-leads: Professor Sue Page and Dr Arnoud Boom

Drought and peatland fires in Indonesian Borneo: Understanding drivers and impacts, 2020-2023 

• NERC-GCRF: £3.75m; University of Leicester, £909,500
• Project lead: Van der Veen, Exeter
• Co-leads: Professor Sue Page and Professor Caroline Upton

Toward an accurate estimate of wasted peat GHG emissions in England, 2020-2022

• BEIS: £540,000; University of Leicester £68,500
• Project lead: Evans, CEH
• Co-leads: Dr Joerg Kaduk, Dr Arnoud Boom, Professor Sue Page

Overcoming barriers to sustainable livelihoods and environments in smallholder agricultural systems on tropical peatland, 2017-2021 

• BBSRC: £750,000; University of Leicester £247,500
• Project lead: Sjogersten, Nottingham
• Co-leads: Professor Sue Page, Professor Caroline Upton