Manchester-Melbourne Research Fund
The University of Manchester and the University of Melbourne have established a joint fund to deepen and extend collaborative research links between the universities.
The fund covers travel and subsistence costs for staff to undertake short-term visits in both directions.
Visits should enable collaborators to develop outputs and outcomes that leverage external funding.
Although there currently isn't a Manchester-Melbourne call, there is a new trilateral call between Manchester, Melbourne and Toronto that is now open. For full details, see the MMT research fund webpage.
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Previous grants awarded
2021
UoM Lead | Melbourne Lead | Faculty (UoM) | School (UoM) | Title of the research project |
Dr Elvira Uyarra |
Dr Kathryn Davidson |
HUMS |
Alliance Manchester Business School |
Innovation districts: embedding societal missions into new urban models |
Dr Richard Allmendinger |
Dr Hadi Khorshidi |
HUMS |
Alliance Manchester Business School |
FinTech and financial crimes: methods, applications, and regulations |
Dr Ali Bhagat |
Dr Melissa Johnston |
HUMS |
School of Social Sciences |
Debt, financial inclusions and intersections in (post) COVID-19 |
Prof Radha Boya |
Dr Nikolai Dontschuk |
FSE |
School of Natural Sciences |
Investigation of novel 2D-magnetic materials with quantum diamond microscopy |
Dr Natalie Cook |
Associate Prof Richard Tothill |
FBMH |
School of Medical Sciences |
Elucidating Cancer of Unknown Primary (CUP) through molecular classification |
Prof Sarah Cartmell |
Dr Vini Gautam |
FSE |
School of Natural Sciences |
Nanowire scaffolds for neural and bone tissue engineering |
Dr Lin Ma |
Dr Januka Attanayake |
FSE |
School of Engineering |
Bridging micro-to macro-scale characterisation of subsurface energy storage |
Dr Farshad Arvin |
Dr Simon Baxter |
FSE |
School of Engineering |
Combining engineering and ecology to transform insect surveillance capabilities |
Dr Ahu Gumrah Dumanli-Parry |
Dr Devi Stuart-Fox |
FSE |
School of Natural Sciences |
Bioinspired structurally coloured responsive pigments |
Dr Jonathan Worboys |
Dr Philippa Saunders |
FBMH |
School of Biological Sciences |
Ligand density dictates the activation/inhibition threshold of immune cells |
2020
UoM Lead | Melbourne Lead | Faculty (UoM) | School (UoM) | Title of the research project |
Dr Simona Giordano |
Prof Lynn Gillam |
HUMS |
School of Social Sciences |
Gender diverse adolescents: a Manchester – Melbourne collaborative research |
Prof Edward Johnstone |
Dr Clare Whitehead |
FBMH |
School of Medical Sciences |
Developing novel biomarkers and therapeutics for pregnancy complications |
Dr András Vörös |
Dr Johan Koskinen |
HUMS |
School of Social Sciences |
Developing statistical models for social influence in large-scale educational networks |
Prof Kevin Ward |
Professor Michele Acuto |
HUMS |
School of Environment, Education and Development |
Financing and governing urban mobility infrastructures in an uncertain world |
Prof Pei Sun |
Associate Professor Helen Hu |
HUMS |
Alliance Manchester Business School |
Understanding governance and internationalisation of Asian multinationals |
Dr Patrick Manu |
Dr Shang Gao |
FSE |
School of Engineering /Department of Mechanical Aerospace and Civil Engineering |
Industry 4.0 for construction occupational safety and health (Con-OSH 4.0) |
Dr Meghan Tinsley |
Prof Barry Judd |
HUMS |
School of Social Sciences |
After repatriation: new approaches to indigenising the Museum |
Prof Mark Travis |
Prof Laura Mackay |
FBMH |
School of Biological Sciences |
Determining novel pathways regulating memory T cell formation and function |
Prof Jonathan Green |
Dr Mirko Uljarevic |
FBMH |
School of Biological Sciences |
Leveraging international autism trial datasets to understand children’s social-communicative development |
2019
UoM Lead | Melbourne Lead | Faculty (UoM) | School (UoM) | Title of the research project |
Dr Amy Blakemore |
Dr Susan Fletcher |
FBMH |
School of Health Sciences |
Thinking outside the square: optimising care for mental-physical multimorbidity |
Dr Bijan Parsia |
Mr Gary Cazalet |
FSE |
School of Engineering |
Technology for Access to Law |
Dr Alison Browne |
Dr Sarah Rogers |
HUMS |
School of Environment, Education and Development |
A meta-ethnography of lived experiences of socio-environmental transformation |
Prof Sarah Cartmell |
Dr Daniel Heath |
FSE |
School of Natural Science |
Advanced wound dressings for rapid wound closure |
Dr Ransford Antwi Acheampong |
Dr Crystal Legacy |
HUMS |
School of Environment, Education and Development |
Autonomous disruption: socio-spatial and infrastructure investment implications of autonomous vehicles |
Prof Matthew Halsall |
Dr James Bullock |
FSE |
School of Engineering |
The interaction of 2D materials with the surface of silicon |
Dr Sherilyn MacGregor |
Prof Lesley Head |
HUMS |
School of Social Sciences |
Investigating the sustainability-migration nexus through interdisciplinary, comparative cross-national research |
Prof Andrew Renehan |
Prof Alexander Heriot |
FBMH |
School of Medical Sciences |
Organ preservation and avoidance of surgery in cancer |
Prof Penny Tinkler |
Dr Signe Ravn |
HUMS |
School of Social Sciences |
Youth, (Im-)Mobility and Place: developing new vantage points |
Prof Richard Curry |
Prof David Jamieson |
FSE |
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
Nanoscale quantum doping: towards qubit engineering on demand |
2018
UoM Lead | Melbourne Lead | Faculty (UoM) | School (UoM) | Title of the research project |
Prof Peter Budd |
Dr Colin Scholes |
Faculty of Science and Engineering |
School of Natural Sciences |
Next-generation membranes to sieve toxic gases from industry emissions |
Prof Sarah Cartmell |
Assoc Prof Andrea O'Connor |
Faculty of Science and Engineering |
School of Natural Sciences |
A new and synergistic collaboration in biomedical materials research |
Prof Bruce Grieve |
Dr Helen Suter |
Faculty of Science and Engineering |
School of Engineering |
Developing cost-effective sensor systems and networks for scalable Precision Agriculture |
Dr Thomas Waigh |
Prof Richard Strugnall |
Faculty of Science and Engineering |
School of Natural Sciences |
Antibiotic resistance - a quantitative biological physics approach |
Dr Sandra Bucci |
Assoc Prof Reeva Lederman |
Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health |
School of Health Sciences |
Exploring therapeutic alliance for digital mental health |
Prof Nicky Cullum |
Dr Suzanne Kapp |
Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health |
School of Health Sciences |
Informing self-management of chronic wounds: establishing research priorities |
Dr Drew Whitworth |
Dr Linda Corrin |
Faculty of Humanities |
School of Environment, Education and Development |
Exploring digital literacy in online and blended learning environments |
2017
UoM Lead | Melbourne Lead | Faculty (UoM) | School (UoM) | Title of the research project |
Dr Patrick Parkinson |
Prof Kenneth Crozier |
Faculty of Science and Engineering |
School of Natural Sciences |
Carrier trapping processes in nanostructured optoelectronic devices |
Dr Aravind Vijayaraghavan |
Prof Amanda Ellis |
Faculty of Science and Engineering |
School of Natural Sciences |
Covalent stitching of graphene sheets for energy and composite applications |
Prof Andrew Trafford |
Prof Leanne Delbridge |
Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health |
School of Medical Sciences |
Defining pro-arrhythmic actions of local cardiac sex steroids in ageing |
Prof Andrew Munro |
Assoc Prof Craig Hutton |
Faculty of Science and Engineering |
School of Natural Sciences |
Identification of the molecular target of mycocyclosin in M. tuberculosis |
Dr Sarah Clinch |
Dr Jorge Goncalves |
Faculty of Science and Engineering |
School of Engineering |
Understanding how personal technologies are used to regulate emotion |
Dr Jerome de Groot |
Dr Ashley Barnwell |
Faculty of Humanities |
School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
International Family History Network |
2016
UoM Lead | Melbourne Lead | Faculty (UoM) | School (UoM) | Title of the research project |
Prof Andrew Murray |
Prof Robert Scholten |
Faculty of Science and Engineering |
School of Natural Sciences |
Low energy diffraction studies using ultracold electron |
Dr Thomas House |
Dr Nicholas Geard |
Faculty of Science and Engineering |
School of Natural Sciences |
New approaches to understanding contact behaviour for infectious disease transmission |
Dr Joe Ravetz |
Prof Ruth Beilin |
Faculty of Humanities |
School of Environment, Education and Development |
Fire and flood: risk and resilience in the urban future |
Prof Katherine Morris |
Dr John Moreau |
Faculty of Science and Engineering |
School of Natural Sciences |
Understanding the environmental life cycle of uranium: recovery and remediation |
Dr Eduardo Martínez-Ceseña |
Prof Tansu Alpcan |
Faculty of Science and Engineering |
School of Engineering |
Techno-economic integration of DER in distribution networks through investment coalitions |
Prof Sophia Ananiadou |
Prof Karin Verspoor |
Faculty of Science and Engineering |
School of Engineering |
Extracting cancer biomarkers from the literature |