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Third annual UCL-IIT Delhi Strategic Partner Funds recipients
21 April 2022
Eight projects jointly led by UCL and IIT Delhi (IITD) academics have each received up to £10,000 to support collaborative activities
The third annual UCL-IITD Strategic Partner Funds has awarded seed funds to eight projects from UCL and IITD academics.
The two institutions contributed joint funds to the recipients, with each of the projects receiving up to £10,000.
The funds will support collaborative research activities in areas including Eastern Indo-Aryan languages, Indian migrant labour, and community-integrated thermal energy storage.
One of the funding recipients, Prof Kartikeya Tripathi (UCL Engineering Sciences), said: ‘Dr Abhijnan Chakraborty from IIT-D and I are truly grateful to have received the award under UCL-IITD Strategic Partner Funds. The aim of the project is to disrupt black-marketeers and make rail travel affordable for ordinary passengers in India. We have started working with Indian Railways to study mass booking of train tickets by rail touts, and ways to prevent it. The funding has enabled our multi-disciplinary team with expertise in AI, cybersecurity and policing to work with practitioners and have a real-world impact. That makes the whole process quite exciting and socially relevant!"
Congratulations to all the 2021/22 recipients of the UCL-IITD Strategic Partner Funds:
| Lead UCL applicant | Faculty | Project |
|---|---|---|
Dr Pamela Fennell | Bartlett | Community Integrated Thermal Energy Storage (CITES) for Next-Generation Energy-Efficient |
Dr Rhodri Jervis | Engineering Sciences | Sustainable Carbon Fibre-based Nonwoven Materials for Gas Diffusion Layers in Fuel Cells |
Prof Andrew Nevins | Brain Sciences | The Grammar of Honorifics: Dialectal Micro-comparison among Eastern Indo-Aryan Languages |
Prof Tim Williams | Social & Historical Sciences | Climate Change and Livelihood in the Buddhist Landscapes of Lahaul and Spiti areas of Himachal Pradesh |
Dr Kartikeya Tripathi | Engineering Sciences | Protecting Indian migrant labour from extortionist rail |
Dr Sanjeev Kumar | Engineering Sciences | Electro-Optic Investigation of Superconductor Low-Dimensional Semiconductor |
| Dr Saffron Woodcraft | Bartlett | How do public values in science, technology and innovation shape prosperity outcomes? Lessons from the agri-food sector in India |
| Dr Lauren Andres | Bartlett | Everyday Practices and Temporalities: Safety, Inclusion and Access in 24-hour Delhi |
More information
- UCL joins global partners highlighting need to address the UN SDGs
- Recipients of second annual Strategic Partner Funds with AIIMs and IIT-D
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