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Funding and Grants
Prof. Niki Panteli (CoI)
Project: TIPS in the blended home-work environment: a sociotechnical perspective. With Collins, E. (PI – Cardiff) , Nurse, J (Kent)., Williams, N (Cranfield).
Grant Amount: £21,961 (80% FEC). | Funding Body: EPSRC Sprite+ Sandpit. | Duration: September to December 2020
Prof. Niki Panteli and Dr. Philip Wu
Project: Mobile e-shopping feature on Smartify App
Grant amount: £5,000 | Funding Body: Storyfutures Fellowship | Duration: July to October, 2020
Dr Ayomikun Idowu (PI)
Project: Digital Entrepreneurship on Retail Platforms: A way to formalise employment for young people in the UK and Africa.
Grant amount: £25,643(80% FEC) | Funding body: Digit futures at work research centre| Duration: September 2020 to August 2021
Prof. Niki Panteli (part of the Discribe team)
Project: Discribe conducts transformative social science research to help make a safer digital future.
Funding body: UK Government’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund “Digital Security by Design” Programme.
- Led by Prof H. Crawley (PI, Coventry University) the ‘South-South Migration, Inequality and Development Hub’ is a multi-million pound major research programme funded by UKRI through their Global Challenges initiative. DOS member (and Director of Engagement for the Centre), Prof G Harindranath, is a Co-I on this research programme (with Prof T Unwin, Geography) responsible for the Work Package ‘Technology, Inequality and Migration’ (£670K).
- Led by DOS member (and Director of Funding for the Centre) Prof Mark Lycett(PI), ‘HYPHEN: Hyper Reality Production Tools for Immersive Experiences’ is an interdisciplinary research project (CoI Prof P Dalton, Psychology) with significant impact potential and funded by Innovate UK (£53.2K).
- Led by Dr D Fields (PI, University of Sheffield), Dr Tom Wainwright is CoI on the research project ‘Digital Platforms for the Rental Market: Disrupting or Exacerbating Power Asymmetries’ funded by the British Academy (£49K).
- Led by DOS member (and Co-Director of the Centre), Dr Yingqin Zheng (PI) with Co-I, Shyam Krishna (Phd student and Director of Social Media for the Centre), ‘Between digital platforms and the deep sea-social justice implications of digital platforms on marginality in coastal south India’ is funded by the EPSRC Not-Equal Network (£4.3K)
- DOS member, Justin O’Brien, (PI) seeks to address the question ‘Can a multi-media, Moodle based critical analysis skills intervention encourage final year undergraduates to engage more deeply with UoL library resources?’ in a project funded by the Centre for Distance Education Teaching and Research (5.9K)
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