Announcing the recipients of Global Engagement Seed Funding 2024/25

Since 2021, UCL Global Engagement has invested over £2 million in more than 400 projects through its seed funding schemes. These small but impactful grants have helped kickstart new research collaborations with global partners, many of which have gone on to leverage external funding, with over £12 million received in total so far and a further £60 million at planning or application stage. 

Prof David Coen, UCL’s Pro-Vice-Provost (Global Engagement), highlighted the pivotal role these funds play in international research: “While the funding amounts may be relatively small, they have a catalytic effect—helping to build relationships, enhance researchers’ expertise, and strengthen institutional reputations. They can also serve as a pathway to citizen science, community engagement, or tackling global research challenges. Importantly, they often contribute to career progression, particularly for early career researchers.” 

UCL’s Global Engagement Funds (GEF) offer grants of up to £5,000 to support collaboration between UCL staff and colleagues around the world. The funds are open to all disciplines and support a variety of activities, from research projects to knowledge exchange and interdisciplinary initiatives. 

For larger-scale collaborations, Partner Funds provide up to £20,000 per project, with matched contributions from UCL’s key international partner institutions (a total of 15 Partner Funds ran for 24/25). These joint funding opportunities strengthen institutional ties and allow researchers to develop ambitious, long-term projects. 

Prof Tara Keck, Vice-Dean (International) for Life Sciences and Chair of the Life Sciences GEF Panel, explained what the selection panel looks for: “We prioritise projects that might not fit traditional research funding criteria but have a clear plan for sustainability and measurable outcomes. Early career researchers are a particular focus, with nearly half of this year’s successful applicants at the early stages of their careers.” 

For researchers, these funds provide the first step in building meaningful collaborations. Dr Shahab Akhavan, Lecturer at the Institute for Materials Discovery, shared how seed funding shaped his work: “The funding was crucial in both initiating and strengthening our collaboration with global partners. It allowed us to organise reciprocal visits, joint seminars, and lab tours—creating opportunities for knowledge exchange and curriculum development. These activities have laid the foundation for ongoing and future collaborations, including joint publications.” 

What’s next? 

While this year’s funding round has now closed, the next opportunity is just around the corner—applications for the 2025/26 Global Engagement Funds (GEF) will open on 21 May 2025 and close on 20 June 2025. Additionally, several Partner Fund calls will open in the Spring, including a trilateral call between AIIMS, UCL and IIT Delhi launching on 28 March 2025, with others becoming available in the Autumn. 

To stay updated, please visit the Partner Funds page and subscribe to our mailing list for announcements on upcoming funding opportunities. 

Early career researchers (ECRs) are strongly encouraged to apply and have strong success rates, particularly for the GEF, reflecting UCL’s commitment to supporting emerging researchers in building international networks.

Congratulations to all the 2024/25 funding recipients! A full list of awarded projects by region is available below. 

Africa & Middle East

Fund	Name	Faculty	Project name	Award amount (£)
GEF	Dr Effrosyni Argyri	Institute of Education	Investigating the Impact of Multilingual Children’s Identity on Language and Literacy	3000
GEF	Alexandra Bradbury	Population Health Sciences	How “Healthy Ageing” is perceived by older adults living in retirement villages and care homes in Zimbabwe to guide future research on social prescribing in Sub-Saharan Africa.	5000
GEF	Prof Francesca Cacucci	Life Sciences	Co-production of a psychosocial intervention in support of survivors of gender-based violence in Guinea: scoping project in collaboration with UNFPA and local partners.	3480
GEF	Prof Alison Clark-Wilson	Institute of Education	Supporting the development of the Ghanaian educational technology ecosystem: Developing policy and practice towards a Ghanaian EdTech Testbed	5000
GEF	Dr Rory Gibb	Life Sciences	Enhancing UCL-Ugandan collaboration activities to characterise emerging virus diversity and eco-epidemiology in a zoonotic disease hotspot	5000
GEF	Dr Hassan Haghparast Bidgoli	Population Health Sciences	Political economy of Universal Health Insurance Reform in Eqypt	4950
GEF	Prof D Flemming Hansen	Life Sciences	Title of the proposed activity: Developing an approach to study complex biological systems in health and disease by integrating magnetic resonance with artificial intelligence	4940
GEF	Prof Paul Hellier	Engineering Sciences	Leading improved air quality through emissions policy in Saudi Arabia	5000
GEF	Dr Irene Josa i Culleré	Bartlett	Just transitions to decarbonisation and circular economy in Small Island Developing States: the case of Mauritius	2500
GEF	Dr Eileen Kennedy	Institute of Education	Quality Blended Learning in Lebanon – a Symposium for Impact	4630
GEF	Dr Allison Lindner	Laws	Swimming towards sustainable regulation: fashion waste and trade in Ghana	5000
Africa & Middle East Teaching Fund	Dr Elizabeth George	Population Health Sciences	Training statisticians to teach with R statistical software in Zimbabwe	3486
Africa & Middle East Teaching Fund	Dr Daisy Loyd	Institute of Education	Co-creating professional development training materials to strengthen special education teachers’ competence in teaching learners with disabilities in South Africa	2548
Africa & Middle East Teaching Fund	Dr Azadeh Mashayekhi	Bartlett	Learning from local practices of city-making: thinking through participation in research and design, insights from Cario and London	3470
UCL-Wits University Strategic Partner Funds	Prof Edward Fottrell	Population Health Sciences	Supported self-management for adults and elders living with multimorbidity in rural South Africa: intervention and proposal development workshops to address an escalating challenge.	5000
UCL-Wits University Strategic Partner Funds	Prof Paul Fromme	Engineering Sciences	Development and deployment of low-cost guided ultrasonic wave monitoring systems for teaching, research, and industrial application in developing countries	10000
UCL-Wits University Strategic Partner Funds	Dr Polly Gould	Bartlett	Between the Edit and the Text: experiments in writing the centre and the periphery between the Global South and North	4980
UCL-Wits University Strategic Partner Funds	Prof Peter Latham	Life Sciences	Towards a Normative Theory of Place Cells and its Application to Robot Navigation	4700
UCL-Wits University Strategic Partner Funds	Dr Katie McFall	Maths & Physical Sciences	Critical Metals in Southern Africa: Hydrothermal Processes and Mineralisation of Unusual Metal Deposits	4910
UCL-Wits University Strategic Partner Funds	Dr Uzoamaka Okoli	Medical Sciences	Preclinical Modelling of Cancer in 3D: Tissue Utility and Data Analysis for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion	4998
UCL-Wits University Strategic Partner Funds	Prof Jennifer Robinson	Social & Historical Sciences	Displaced and Extended Urbanisation in South Africa	4998

 

Australasia

Fund	Name	Faculty	Project name	Award amount (£)
GEF	Prof Courtenay Norbury	Brain Sciences	Establishing an international training programme for mental health practitioners to support needs of young people with language and communication challenges	5000
GEF	Prof Alice Stevenson	Social & Historical Sciences	Ethical approaches to the care and display of ancient Egyptian mummified human remains in museums	2038
UCL-University of Sydney Strategic Ignition Grants	Dr Francesco Aletta	Bartlett	Facades in the loop: Embodying the role of green facades in enhancing the sensory experiences, biodiversity, food production, environmental quality, health and wellbeing in cities through participatory systems thinking	20000
UCL-University of Sydney Strategic Ignition Grants	Prof Peter Barker	Maths & Physical Sciences	Integrated array of levitated quantum sensors for dark matter detection.	20000
UCL-University of Sydney Strategic Ignition Grants	Dr Evangelos Mazomenos	Engineering Sciences	Hyper-Realistic Simulation of Minimally Invasive Surgery using Generative Artificial Intelligence	20000
UCL-University of Sydney Strategic Ignition Grants	Prof Joanne Santini	Life Sciences	Developing New Treatment Options for Infections Caused by Pathogenic Gram Negative Bacteria	14892
UCL-University of Sydney Strategic Ignition Grants	Prof Helena Titheridge	Engineering Sciences	Shared micromobility and social inclusion	19492

 

East & Central Asia

Fund	Name	Faculty	Project	Awad amount (£)
GEF	Dr Carlo Campajola	Engineering Sciences	Kickstarting a UCL-Japan collaboration on innovative economic metrics for digital monetary systems	5000
GEF	Prof Ayona Datta	Social & Historical Sciences	Beyond smart cities: Smart regions and the technologies of urbanisation in Taiwan	5000
GEF	Dr Georgios Nikiforidis	Maths & Physical Sciences	Affordable Energy Storage Solutions with Magnesium-Based Electrolytes	5000
GEF	Dr Chika Nweke	Engineering Sciences	Addressing the challenges of transition support, pastoral care and teamworking skills packages for Hong Kong/Chinese international students in Engineering	5000
GEF	Dr Irina Petrova	Arts & Humanities	Mapping Community-Based Climate Solutions: Towards the Advancement of the Next-Generation Approaches in a Pluriverse World	3030
GEF	Dr Alessandro Poma	Medical Sciences	"Drug-free” Antimicrobial Strategies for Sustainable Dental Healthcare	5000
GEF	Dr Aiden Sidebottom	Engineering Sciences	Towards evidence-based policing in Japan	4180
GEF	Prof Thorsten Stoesser	Engineering Sciences	Transport of Microplastics in Natural Water Bodies and Their Predation by Benthos	5000
UCL-Fudan University Strategic Partner Funds	Dr Ruwei Chen	Maths & Physical Sciences	Small things make big deal for aqueous zinc-ion batteries: functional bio-based polymer binders	20000
UCL-Fudan University Strategic Partner Funds	Prof Jing Meng	Bartlett	Building resilience of critical mineral supply chains: A case study of the United Kingdom	20000
UCL-Fudan University Strategic Partner Funds	Dr Hubin Zhao	Medical Sciences	NEW-MMM: New-generation WEarable MultiModal Monitoring for intensive care and beyond	20000
UCL-Korea University Strategic Partner Funds	Dr Rodolfo Catena	Population Health Sciences	Technology intensity and collaboration in hospitals in the United Kingdom and South Korea	9360
UCL-Korea University Strategic Partner Funds	Prof Christos Masouros	Engineering Sciences	Merging capabilities towards 3D Integrated Sensing and Communications for 6G and Beyond	10000
UCL-Korea University Strategic Partner Funds	Dr Michael Plouffe	Social & Historical Sciences	Strategic Foresight and Digital Diplomacy: Unpacking Europe-SK cooperation	9980
UCL-Korea University Strategic Partner Funds	Dr Leonardo Rios Solis	Engineering Sciences	Development of strategies for the biosynthesis of pharmaceutical natural products using recombinant bacteria and yeast	10000
UCL-Korea University Strategic Partner Funds	Dr Mingzhong Zhang	Engineering Sciences	Boosting Concrete’s Ability to Eat Carbon Dioxide for a Net Zero Built Environment	10000
UCL-Osaka University Strategic Partner Funds	Dr Reza Haqshenas	Engineering Sciences	Investigating the cytoskeletal dynamics and cellular behaviour under mechanical stresses applied by ultrasound waves	10000
UCL-Osaka University Strategic Partner Funds	Dr Mina Kim	Engineering Sciences	Collaboration between the preclinical imaging teams at University College London and Osaka University that aims to advance the treatment and monitoring of lung and colon diseases with MRI	9078
UCL-Osaka University Strategic Partner Funds	Prof Michael Michaelides	Brain Sciences	Establishing long-term partnerships to identify and characterise novel disease genes and molecular mechanisms in inherited retinal disease	10000
UCL-Peking University Strategic Partner Funds	Prof D'Maris Coffman	Bartlett	Global Carbon Dioxide Removal Deployment Pathways and Strategies	20000
UCL-Peking University Strategic Partner Funds	Prof Michael Grubb	Bartlett	Decarbonising China’s electricity alongside liberalisation: Market Design for Electricity Transition and Environmental benefits	20000
UCL-Peking University Strategic Partner Funds	Prof Robin Hickman	Bartlett	Transit orientated development (TOD), social equity and discourse: London and Beijing	20000
UCL-Peking University Strategic Partner Funds	Prof Maurizio Marinelli	Bartlett	How to Foster Urban Prosperity through a Study of the Water-related Heritage: Experiences from China and the United Kingdom	20000
UCL-Peking University Strategic Partner Funds	Prof George Ploubidis	Institute of Education	Enhancing Mental Health and Wellbeing in Older Adults in the UK and China: Leveraging Social Participation, Family Support, and Community Cohesion for Sustainable Impact	19320
UCL-Peking University Strategic Partner Funds	Prof Mike Raco	Bartlett	AI and the Sustainable Development and Management of Urban Built Environments: Lessons from London and Beijing	19952
UCL-Peking University Strategic Partner Funds	Prof Sarah Spurgeon	Engineering Sciences	Sustaining Electric Mobility: Addressing EV Battery Degradation in the Context of Climate Change	20000
UCL-Peking University Strategic Partner Funds	Prof Ulrich Tiedau	Arts & Humanities	Decoding Climate Narratives: A Comparative Study of Climate Change Communication on Social Media Platforms in China and the UK	20000
UCL-Peking University Strategic Partner Funds	Prof Yijie Zhuang	Social & Historical Sciences	Archaeology without Borders: Sharing and expanding archaeology teaching curricula between the UK and China through the International Centre for Chinese Heritage and Archaeology (ICCHA)	18548
UCL-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Strategic Partner Funds	Prof Stavroula Balabani	Engineering Sciences	Microengineered, haemodynamically driven, soft robots for precision vascular embolisation procedures	10000
UCL-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Strategic Partner Funds	Prof Pearse Keane	Brain Sciences	Impact of training data on medical foundation models: healthcare generalisability and fairness	10000
UCL-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Strategic Partner Funds	Prof Chaozong Liu	Medical Sciences	Development of an Intelligent Knee Unloading Brace for Self-management of Osteoarthritis	10000
UCL-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Strategic Partner Funds	Prof Sara Price	Institute of Education	Building bridges in education through interdsicplinary methodological innovation: Embodied, Multimodal, AI and Machine Learning techniques.	10000
UCL-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Strategic Partner Funds	Prof Aimee Spector	Brain Sciences	Understanding cognition in menopause transition: Cultural adaptation of a self-reported measure.	10000
UCL-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Strategic Partner Funds	Dr Mingqing Wang	Maths & Physical Sciences	Fiber-based Supercapacitors for Wearable Electronics	10000
UCL-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Strategic Partner Funds	Prof Kai Kit Wong	Engineering Sciences	Sustainable Physical-Layer Authentication for Wireless Networks	10000
UCL-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Strategic Partner Funds	Dr Yunda Yan	Engineering Sciences	Cyber-Physical Security Reinforcement of Sustainable Smart Grids: Design, Monitoring and Operation	10000
UCL-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Strategic Partner Funds	Dr Hang Yang	Maths & Physical Sciences	Designing High-Entropy Heterogeneous Interfaces for High-Value Conversion of Waste Plastics	10000
UCL-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Strategic Partner Funds	Dr Heran Zheng	Bartlett	Tracking Livestock Antimicrobial Uses along Global Supply Chain	9900
UCL-Tohoku University Strategic Partner Funds	Prof Ava Fatah	Bartlett	The Intelligent Workplace: human and cyber workplace interaction in hybrid and liquid environments. A cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural examination.	10000
UCL-Tohoku University Strategic Partner Funds	Prof Pearse Keane	Brain Sciences	Validation and Enhancement of AI-based Systemic Disease Detection with Retinal Imaging from Asian Cohorts at Tohoku University	10000
UCL-Tohoku University Strategic Partner Funds	Dr Susana Lopez-Querol	Engineering Sciences	Assessment of liquefaction and its effects in infrastructures at the Noto Peninsula in Japan, through Machine Learning techniques	10000
UCL-Tohoku University Strategic Partner Funds	Prof Guido Orgs	Brain Sciences	Reading from Body Motion: the role of culture and expertise in the performing arts for emotion recognition and expression.	10000
UCL-Tohoku University Strategic Partner Funds	Dr Ana Pellicer-Sanchez	Institute of Education	Examining the neuro-cognitive representations of disaster-related vocabulary in a foreign language	10000
UCL-Tohoku University Strategic Partner Funds	Prof Davide Ravasi	Engineering Sciences	Integrating Tradition and Innovation: Enhancing Disaster Recovery and Community Resilience through Cultural Heritage and Social Innovation in Japan	9996
UCL-Tohoku University Strategic Partner Funds	Prof Mohammad Shamsudduha	Maths & Physical Sciences	Application of AI Technology for Mapping of High-resolution Surface Water Storage Using Earth Observation Satellite Data via Google Earth Engine (AI-WATER)	10000
UCL-Zhejiang University Strategic Partner Funds	Dr Shun Cai	Engineering Sciences	Data-Driven Deep-Learning Optimization of Electrical Machine and Control System towards Zero-Carbon Electrified Propulsion	15000
UCL-Zhejiang University Strategic Partner Funds	Prof Maria Chait	Brain Sciences	The effect of aging on Auditory Statistical Learning – a multi modal investigation	15000
UCL-Zhejiang University Strategic Partner Funds	Prof Tom Pegram	Social & Historical Sciences	Chinese and Western Perspectives on ‘Good Governance’ and their International Implications	13458

 

Europe

Fund	Name	Faculty	Project	Award amount (£)
GEF	Dr Simona Aimar	Arts & Humanities	First-Generation Stories	1500
GEF	Prof Jyoti Belur	Engineering Sciences	Evaluating measures to improve officer wellbeing in the Malta Police Service	4945
GEF	Dr Michael Bowl	Brain Sciences	Strengthening synergistic research, training and teaching links between the UCL Ear Institute and the Institut de l’Audition (Paris)	4680
GEF	Dr Rodolfo Catena	Population Health Sciences	Supply chain collaboration to address the global shortage of pharmaceuticals	4837
GEF	Dr Philip Coen	Life Sciences	Beyond SAFE Labs: Transforming a meeting to a global cultural initiative	4875
GEF	Dr Elodie Douarin	Arts & Humanities	From war victims to political actors: Understanding women’s engagement in political activities following trauma – networking and scoping workshop	2200
GEF	Dr Rebecca Hale	Institute of Education	Holocaust education in a world of division and polarity: A roundtable event to examine the role of Holocaust education in addressing contemporary challenges.	3500
GEF	Dr Ioanna Ioannou	Engineering Sciences	High-performance computing and advanced technologies for multi-hazard risk assessment in distributed infrastructure	5000
GEF	Dr Anastasia Kalea	Medical Sciences	Preparation of the first UCL summer school in Greece on “Food, Diet, Health and Sustainability”	5000
GEF	Dr Sebastian Maier	Maths & Physical Sciences	Pushing the Bounds of Reinforcement Learning: Novel Approaches, Algorithms and Applications	5000
GEF	Dr Nicola Moretti	Bartlett	An exploration into multi-scale digital built Asset Management for circularity and Net Zero solutions	5000
GEF	Dr Nusrat Rashid	Maths & Physical Sciences	Accelerating Green Hydrogen Production: Strategic Collaboration on Earth-Abundant Nanostructured Electrocatalysts by UCL, Technical University of Berlin, EPFL, and Nankai University	5000
GEF	Dr Victoria Showunmi	Institute of Education	The lived experiences of Black women in postgraduate education in England and France: An intersectional exploration of how gender and race relate to wellbeing and progression	3500
GEF	Dr Macs Smith	Arts & Humanities	Diversifying the Language of the Stage: Encounters Between British and European Theatre	3250
GEF	Dr Rui Tang	Bartlett	Decarbonising energy systems: a platform nurturing innovations	4992
GEF	Dr Temenuga Trifonova	Arts & Humanities	BACAH Paris Summer School	2530
GEF	Prof Jinghao Xue	Maths & Physical Sciences	Analysing children status in Turkish family	5000

 

Latin America

Fund	Name	Faculty	Project	Award amount (£)
GEF	Dr Matthew Doyle	Social & Historical Sciences	The Alternative University Network: Building an Internationalization of Higher Education in Response to Local and Global Challenges	4900
GEF	Mrs Rosanne Esposito	Institute of Education	Establishing a collaboration to co-design an inclusive pedagogy toolkit for teachers in Latin America	5000
GEF	Dr Leah Li	Population Health Sciences	The impact of adverse climate events on maternal and child health using data from the 100 million Brazilian cohort	2000
GEF	Prof Manolis Mavrikis	Institute of Education	Advancing Research on AI-Driven Teacher Assistance Tools: formative assessment of open-questions in STEM	5000
GEF	Dr Katia Menacho Medina	Population Health Sciences	Assessment of Cardiac Function and Myocardial Tissue Characterization on Anaemic Pregnant Women living in a Highland City in Ancash, Peru.	3000
GEF	Dr Cintia Akemi Oi	Life Sciences	Uncovering Brazilian wasp genomic resources	5000
GEF	Dr Argyrios Oraiopoulos	Bartlett	Integrating Housing Stock Modelling and Public Health for Community Well-being in Informal Settlements in Lima	3850
GEF	Dr Tom Pegram	Social & Historical Sciences	The Premise and Promise of Planetary Governance: Constituting the Political in the Anthropocene	4988
GEF	Dr Christopher Piper	Medical Sciences	Teaming up British and Chilean scientists to address the ethnical basis of clinical and immunological diversity in rheumatoid arthritis patients: An interdisciplinary approach.	5000
GEF	Dr Mariana Reyes Carranza	Social & Historical Sciences	‘Digital technologies for land justice: The future of regional planning in Mexico’s socially owned lands’	5000
GEF	Dr Ana Claudia Suriani da Silva	Arts & Humanities	Women in the Latin American and Iberian Press: an international network of scholars working on Portuguese and Spanish-speaking women writers and the press (19th –20thcenturies)	5000

 

North America

Fund	Name	Faculty	Project	Award amount (£)
GEF	Prof Jonathan Bell	Social & Historical Sciences	Boston University/Stanford/University of California/Emory/UCL annual conference in American history 2025	5000
GEF	Dr Tadhg Carroll	Life Sciences	An international partnership to inform global analyses of biodiversity change via the application of emerging techniques in causal inference	5000
GEF	Dr Christopher Foye	Bartlett	Symposium, Workshop and Seminar: Developing a comparative political economy of the housebuilding industry	5000
GEF	Prof Clare Melhuish	Bartlett	Co-producing transdisciplinary knowledge to support an ecological urbanism for the Caribbean	5000
GEF	Dr Vasiliki Orgeta	Brain Sciences	Missing with dementia: The development of a Global Observatory to improve future research and care	4955
GEF	Dr Guyanne Wilson	Arts & Humanities	Early Warnings for All?: Understanding the language of flood early warning systems in Trinidad	5000
GEF	Dr Mohamed Yousif	Life Sciences	Training aquaculture researchers and fish farmers in Vietnam on how to make polymer-based fish vaccines.	4940
UCL-Cornell Global Strategic Collaboration Awards	Prof Daniel Bendor	Brain Sciences	Optogenetic control of memory prioritisation	7740
UCL-Cornell Global Strategic Collaboration Awards	Dr Sergio Bertazzo	Engineering Sciences	Mineralomics of Cardiovascular Calcification	8000
UCL-Cornell Global Strategic Collaboration Awards	Dr Mark Colley	Engineering Sciences	Evaluating Cultural Differences in Mobility: Developing a Toolkit and Preliminary Investigations	7810
UCL-Cornell Global Strategic Collaboration Awards	Dr Ting Sun	Maths & Physical Sciences	EPHEUS: Enhancing Preparedness for Heat Extremes in Urban Environments with accurate near-Surface Predictions	8000
UCL-University of Toronto Strategic Partner Funds	Dr Polly Livermore	Population Health Sciences	Optimizing patient and family-centered paediatric rheumatology care: a cross-Atlantic effort to improve psychosocial supports	20000
UCL-University of Toronto Strategic Partner Funds	Dr Michal Ovádek	Social & Historical Sciences	The Memory Engine: Do Voters Learn from Past Democratic Backsliding Episodes?	19170
UCL-University of Toronto Strategic Partner Funds	Prof Jennifer Rodd	Brain Sciences	How are word meanings learned, represented, and processed? Integrating insights from experimental psycholinguistics and computational models of natural language processing	20000
UCL-University of Toronto Strategic Partner Funds	Dr Rui Tang	Bartlett	Advancing Building Controls for Smart, Low-Carbon Buildings: Benefits, Limitations, and Future Challenges	20000
UCL-University of Toronto Strategic Partner Funds	Dr James West	Arts & Humanities	The Role of Digital Ethnic Journalism in Intercultural Dialogue: The Cases of Chicago, London, and Toronto	19480

 

South & South East Asia

Fund	Name	Faculty	Project	Award amount (£)
GEF	Dr Zakia Arfeen	Medical Sciences	Looking back to move forward: A critical historical examination of the development of medical education in Pakistan	5000
GEF	Prof Sarah Edwards	Engineering Sciences	Developing partnerships to promote lived experience experts’ role in global mental health research	5000
GEF	Dr Katie Hemer	Social & Historical Sciences	Consolidating opportunities for Bioarchaeological research in India – collaboration between UCL Institute of Archaeology and the Anthropological Survey of India, Archaeological Survey of India, and Deccan College.	4994
GEF	Dr Eunju Hwang	Institute of Education	Digitalisation and Socio-Cultural Dynamics of Space: Promotion and Resistance of Digitalisation	5000
GEF	Dr Kirrily Pells	Institute of Education	Global partnership, local leadership: developing creative tools to support intergenerational resilience within vulnerable children and families	5000
GEF	Prof Tiziana Rossetto	Engineering Sciences	UK-Indonesia Collaboration on Engineered and Nature-based solutions against Tsunami Disasters	5000
GEF	Dr Libby Sallnow	Brain Sciences	Building reciprocal partnerships in global palliative care: a new collaboration between a research institute (UCL) and a policy centre (the WHO Collaborating Centre for Building Country Capacity in Palliative Care, India)	5000
GEF	Dr Madiha Shaikh	Brain Sciences	Exploring the feasibility and accessibility through piloting a psychosocial intervention for informal caregivers of individuals with psychosis	5000
GEF	Prof Phiroze Vasunia	Arts & Humanities	Connected Ancient Worlds	2452
UCL-AIIMS Strategic Partner Funds	Prof Rajiv Jalan	Medical Sciences	Development of a multi-analyte clinical mass spectrometry-based multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) assay for the early detection of acute kidney injury (AKI) and evaluation of response to terlipressin in advanced liver cirrhosis (chronic liver disease) and acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF)	10000
UCL-AIIMS Strategic Partner Funds	Prof Deepak Kalaskar	Medical Sciences	BIOHAND: Advancing 3D-Printed Biosimilar Scaffolds for Bone Regeneration in Post-Traumatic Hand Fractures- A UCL-AIIMS collaborative Approach, Biohand stands for Biosimilar Innovations for Optimized Hand Bone Augmentation and Neo-Differentiation	10000
UCL-AIIMS Strategic Partner Funds	Dr Swapna Mandal	Medical Sciences	Application of non-linear analysis of oxygen saturation for the diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnoea and its correlation with cardiovascular risk in Indian subjects.	2000
UCL-AIIMS Strategic Partner Funds	Prof Krista Rombouts	Medical Sciences	Development of matrix metalloproteinase-based assays to detect liver fibrosis, a major risk factor for liver cancer	10000
UCL-IIT Delhi Strategic Partner Funds	Prof Dina D'Ayala	Engineering Sciences	Assessment of Energy-Efficient High-Strength Reinforcing Bars for Building Design	30000
UCL-IIT Delhi Strategic Partner Funds	Prof Paul Hellier	Engineering Sciences	Experimental and numerical investigations on the soot formation from lubrication oil in hydrogen fueled combustion engines	30000
UCL-IIT Delhi Strategic Partner Funds	Dr Rhodri Jervis	Engineering Sciences	Reversible Bonding for Optimal Novel Disassembly of Energy Storage System at the End-of-Life (ReBOND)	30000
UCL-IIT Delhi Strategic Partner Funds	Prof Manish Tiwari	Engineering Sciences	Smart Surgical Gloves with Fabric Coated TENG and Multimodal Sensing for Sustainable Medical Electronics	30000

 

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Country locations of 2024/25 award recipients. Darker shades represent countries with a higher number of funded projects.