Research grants obtained
Research grants awarded as the Lead Applicant:
• European Asthma Federation ‘A study of the risk factors for asthma’, 1997, £5,500 (3 months, completed successfully).
• The Broads Authority ‘The broads harvester project’, 1999, £2,500 (3 months, completed successfully) (with Prof. Kerry. Turner).
• NHS Executive Eastern ‘A study of serious and fatal road traffic accidents in Norfolk and Cambridgeshire’, £118,000, (4 years, commenced October 2000) (with Dr Robin Haynes, & Professor Ian Harvey).
• Norfolk Constabulary ‘Norfolk Safety Camera evaluation’, £95,000, (24 months, Phase 1 (£45,000) commenced December 2001, Phase 2 (£50,000) commenced November 2002) (with Dr Robin Haynes).
• Tyndall Centre ‘Visualising coastal futures: technologies for decision-making in participatory coastal management’, £114,000, (2.5 years, commenced October 2002) (with Professor I Bateman, Dr J Andrews, Professor A Watkinson, Dr A Haxeltine, Mr P Doktor (Environment Agency), Dr J Hiskett (Norfolk Wildlife Trust), Mr Tim Venes (Norfolk Coast Partnership)).
• Tyndall Centre ‘Visualising coastal futures: technologies for decision-making in participatory coastal management: Additional work package’ £20,000. (with Professor I Bateman, Dr J Andrews, Professor A Watkinson, Dr A Haxeltine, Mr P Doktor (Environment Agency), Dr J Hiskett (Norfolk Wildlife Trust), Mr Tim Venes (Norfolk Coast Partnership)).
• HM Treasury/Department for Transport/ DEFRA ‘Rural accessibility and cancer survival’ £150,000 (3 years, commenced 1 March 2003) (with Dr Robin Haynes).
• Norfolk Constabulary ‘Norfolk Safety Camera evaluation, Phases 3 & 4’, £100,000, (24 months, commenced February 2004) (with Dr Robin Haynes).
• Norfolk Constabulary ‘A study of injury collisions amongst motorcyclists’, £9,750 (16 months, commenced January 2004) (with Dr Robin Haynes).
• Department of Health. ‘Neighbourhood risks for injuries to young adults.’ £25,767 (30 months, commenced August 2004).
• Broads Authority. ‘Norfolk Broads Ecological Corridors Visualisation Project.’ £4,500 (6 months, commenced May 2006) (with Dr Andrew Lovett).
• Medical Research Council ‘Environmental and Social influences on Physical Activity’ £392,267 (30 months, commenced June 2006) (with Dr Iain Lake).
• Medical Research Council ‘Speedy study – GPS Extension’ £25,787 (6 months, commenced June 2007).
Research grants awarded as the Lead Applicant in ENV:
• Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) ‘The relationship between quality of urban green space and physical activity’ (9 Months, commenced April 2005), £78,774 (With Dr Melvyn Hillsdon, University of Bristol).
• INTERREG ‘BRANCH – Biodiversity Requires Adaptations in Northwest europe under a CHanging climate’ (3 years, commenced January 2005), £194,110.
• Natural England ‘Urban Green Space and Physical Activity’ (9 months, commenced January 2008), £51,070 (With Dr Melvyn Hillsdon, University of Bristol).
• UKCRC ‘National Centre of Excellence for Diet and Physical Activity’ (5 years, due to commence January 2009), £4,995,220 (With Prof. Nick Wareham, University of Cambridge).
Research grants awarded as a named co-applicant:
• Forestry Commission ‘Estimating arrival numbers and values for informal recreational use of British woodlands’, 2000, £5,800 (18 months, completed successfully) (Lead applicant: Prof. Ian Bateman).
• Tyndall Centre ‘Linking sea level rise, coastal biodiversity and economic activity in Caribbean island states: A pilot study’, 2001, £25,000, (10 months, commenced June 2001) (Lead applicant: Prof. Andrew Watkinson).
• Tyndall Centre ‘Interactions between tourism, biodiversity and climate change in the coastal zone’, 2003, £68,000, (£24,000 ENV portion of funding) (24 months) (Lead applicant: Prof. William Sutherland).
• Dept of Health, ‘Neighbourhood and household influences on injuries to preschool children’ £159,095 (24 months. Commenced 1st January 2005) (Lead applicant: Prof. Robin Haynes).
• ESRC, ‘Catchment, Hydrology, Resources, Economics and Management (CHREAM)’ £942,912 (4 years, commenced October 2005) (Lead applicant: Prof. Ian Bateman).
Research grants awarded as a named collaborator / mentor:
• British Heart Foundation ‘The environment and physical activity’, 2003, £76,000 (Lead applicant: Prof. Mike Rayner, University of Oxford).
• ESRC ‘Interdisciplinary Early Career Research Fellowship – Katy Appleton’, 2008, £130,245. (Lead applicant: Dr Katy Appleton).