Grants
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Research Income
2021-2025: EU Horizon 2020 (European Green Deal)."ARSINOE: Climate Resilient-regions through Systemic Solutions and Innovations." ~€850K (FEC) for Exeter (UEBS and CEMPS). Total budget: ~€15M. Co-investigator.
2020-2021: The Emergency Medicine Foundation (EMF). "ED Waiting Time Predictions in Real-time: Development of Data Acquisition System and Performance Evaluation of Advanced Statistical Models. (with Andrew Staib, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Queensland; Anton Pak and Kelly Trinh, James Cook University; Brenda Gannon and Rob Eley, University of Queensland. Co-investigator.
2020-2023: EU Horizon 2020. “ULTIMATE: Industry Water-utility Symbiosis for a Smarter Water Society.” €~400K (FEC) for Exeter (UEBS and CEMPS). Total budget: ~16M. Co-investigator.
2020: Newton Bhabha PhD Placement Grant with the Indian Institute of Technology - Delhi, India (2020).
2019-2020: Torbay Medical Research Funds.“NHSquicker- Development, Support and Evidence Capture”. Torbay Medical Research Funds (TMRF). Principal Investigator.
2018-2019: NHSquicker Evaluation. South West Academic Health Sciences Network and Torbay Medical Research Funds (£13K). Principal Investigator.
2017-2018
Parliamentary Academic Fellowship with the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST). "Investigating the Efficacy of Nudge Approaches in the Healthcare Settings: A Study Focusing on Urgent and Emergency Care.” ESRC IAA. £47K (FEC). Fellowship / Principal Investigator.
ESRC IAA Impact Cultivation Award. NHS Quicker App: Collecting Evidence of Impact. £10,454 (FEC) - with John Powell. ESRC IAA contribution £2,965. Principal Investigator.
University of Exeter Open Innovation Platform – Impact Funds. A Native Mobile App to Capture Evidence on the Impact of Real-Time Data in Nudging Patients’ Emergency Department Attendance Behaviour. £ 69,460 (FEC) - with John Powell and Andi Smart. UOE contribution £21,784. Additional match funding of £7500 from Torbay and South Devon NHS Trust. Principal Investigator.
ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (Social Policy Network). Extending the IMPACT Network by engaging with The Horizon Group, NHS England. £27,580 (FEC) - with John Powell, Andi Smart. ESRC IAA contribution £2,945. Principal Investigator.
The Leverhulme Trust. Developing an interdisciplinary Perspective and Framework for Modeling. The Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship for Prof. Paul Fishwick. £13,692. Principal Applicant.
2016-2018
EPSRC. Modelling supply chain optimisation in the food and beverages industry: Helping SMEs in South West England work towards the circular economy - EP/P008941/1 (with S Boehm, M Howard). EPSRC Circular Economy. £483K (FEC). Co-Investigator.
2016-2017
National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). ReGROUP project (Medical School). £12,486 (with J Campbell, A Smart, G Abel et al.). Co-investigator (Modelling Workstream).
2016 (Sept. - Dec.)
ESRC Impact Acceleration Award: Economic Development & Welfare Scheme (EDWAS). Empowering People to make Healthcare Choices through Business Intelligence: A Scoping Study and Pilot (with Prof. Dinesh Kumar, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore) - £6,551. Principal Investigator.
2015-2016
ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (Project Co-creation)- "Systems Modelling and Computer Simulation of Urgent and Emergency Care in Torbay & South Devon" - £33,283 (with John Powell). ESRC IAA contribution £19,907. Principal Investigator.
2015-2018
NHS-funded PhD studentship in Healthcare Modelling and Simulation (South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Torbay Hospital) - £53K (with John Powell). Primary Supervisor.
2013-2015
INTERREG [INTERREG IVA France (Channel) – England]. Mer-Innovate. Modelling and optimising maintenance tasks with regard to constraints specific for offshore generating power systems - work package 2 (Total budget - €1.3 million; University of Exeter - €250k). Co-investigator.
Internal Grants
2016-2017
Business School Cluster Funding (Sustainability & Circular Economy) - "Modelling for Discontinuous Innovation and its Impact on Social Change" - £5,000 (with Nazrul Islam, Jeff Jia and Masoud Fakhimi, University of Surrey). Principal Investigator.
Business School Cluster Funding (Organisations in Transition) - "IMPACT Network Event and Website Development" - £2,500 (with John Powell). Principal Investigator.
UOE Outward Mobility Academic Fellowships (research visit to IIMB) - "Development of REF Impact Case Study and Collaboration for Funding Opportunities through UKERI and Global Challenges Research Fund”. UOE Outward Mobility Academic Fellowship 2016/17. £2,000.
UOE Visiting Academic International Fellowship (research visitor from IIMB - Prof. Dinesh Kumar) - UOE Visiting International Academic Fellowships 2016/17. £1,800.
Business School Cluster Funding (Organisations in Transition) - "Modelling the operations of offshore wind turbines: Development of a pedagogical tool for decision making and a hybrid-distributed DES and ABS model of MRO activities" - £3,070 (with Andi Smart). Principal Investigator.
Business School Cluster Funding (Organisations in Transition) - "Developing capability and international links in the Simulation, Analytics and Modelling (SAM) theme within OiT" - £4,085. Principal Investigator.
2015-2016
Business School Cluster Funding (Behaviour, Identity and Decisions) - Towards funding for a research assistant - £1,000. Principal Investigator.
Business School Cluster Funding (Sustainability & Circular Economy) - "An Investigation of Model Reusability in Practice: An Example of the Blood Supply Chain in South Devon and Torbay" - £2,160. Principal Investigator.
2015-2019
South West Doctoral Training Centre PhD studentship (1+3 entry) on Healthcare Analytics - ESRC and Business School match-funded - £79,958 (with Martin Pitt). 50/50 split ESRC/Business School. Primary Supervisor.
2014
University of Exeter Bridging the Gaps Development Fund - "Damage Assessment for Storm Hazards" (£4,943). Co-investigator. With Albert S. Chen, Michael Hammond, Slobodan Djordjevic, David Butler (Centre for Water Systems, College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences) and John Powell (Business School).
2013-2015
RCUK New Economic Models in the Digital Economy. "A Standards-Driven Approach for Integrated Systems Modelling of Food Banks" (£6,000). Principal Investigator.
2013
RCUK New Economic Models in the Digital Economy. "Towards Cooperative Simulation-aided Decision making in the Digital Age" (£3,000). Principal Investigator.
Exeter Business School seed corn funding for OR55 conference sponsorship. (£2,400).
2012
HEA travel grant. To present paper ("Learning Supply Chain Management through use of a Business Game") at the STEM Annual Conference 2012: Aiming for Excellence, Imperial College London, 12-13 April 2012. (£300).
Swansea University Bridging the Gaps - Escalator Fund. "Establishing Networks Research Group at Swansea University" (£7,500). Co-investigator.
2011
Swansea Academy of Learning and Teaching Small Project Grants 2011. "Dissemination of Information Pertaining to Unfair Practices and Preparation of Better Assignments" (£2,000). Principal Investigator.
Wales Institute of Mathematical and Computational Sciences (WIMCS). Grant to support attendance at the 37th annual meeting of the EURO working group on OR Applied to Health Services 2011 (ORAHS 2011), Cardiff, UK, July 24-29, 2011. (£400).
Swansea University Bridging the Gaps - Bridging Fund. Grant to support healthcare simulation work with Dept. of Hematology, Singleton Hospital (£500). Principal Investigator.
Swansea University Bridging the Gaps - Escalator Fund. "Swansea Biomedical Computing Laboratory (BMC-Lab): A Multi-Disciplinary Research Unit". (£2,200). Co-investigator.