Edinburgh Medical School

Projects

Projects per year 1996 2013 2014 2015 2016 2029

• 2 Curtailed
• 11 Not started
• 81 Active
• 822 Finished

Projects per year

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  PPLS Small Project Grant : Public engagement with climate news: a feasibility study.

  Widdicombe, S.

  1/02/24 → 31/07/24

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Public Engagement 100%

• PPLS Small Project Grant: Argument by analogy in everyday communication.

  Doumas, L.

  10/01/24 → 31/05/24

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Everyday Communication 100%

• NES Training: Introduction to Interventions for Children and Young People experiencing an Eating Disorder

  Duffy, F.

  1/01/24 → 1/03/24

  Project: Consultancy

• PPLS Small Project Grant : The organisation of ventral temporal cortex and medial parietal cortex in aphantasia

  Silson, E.

  1/11/23 → 1/07/24

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Temporal Cortex 100%

• PPLS Small Project Grant : Collaborative Learning with Social Robots in Ageing

  MacPherson, S. E.

  25/09/23 → 31/12/23

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Collaborative Learning 100%

• Big Ideas Accelerator

  Cariola, L., Bird, T., Wolters, M. & Tarsia, M.

  1/08/23 → 31/07/24

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

• 7T MRI to determine mechanisms of fatigue in multiple sclerosis

  York, B., Waldman, A., Porter, D., MacDougall, N., Fullerton, N., Meijboom, R. & Chandran, S.

  20/07/23 → 20/01/24

  Project: Research

  • Multiple Sclerosis 100%
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging 100%
  • Structure (Composition) 33%
  • Phase Composition 33%
  • Disease 16%

• Energy poverty: How does the home influence the risk, recovery, and intergenerational recurrence of childhood respiratory infections?

  Swann, O., Whyte, M., Jackson, A., Henderson, N., Gilbert, N. & Walmsley, S.

  1/06/23 → 31/05/24

  Project: Research

• WTDP2: Wellcome Trust Mental Health Prize Phase 2

  Murray, A., King, J., Mirman, D., Obsuth, I., Allitt, M. & Errington, P.

  15/03/23 → 11/11/23

  Project: Research

• Visual Function evaluation and inherited retinal dystrophy: detecting decline

  Dhillon, B., Li, R. & Megaw, R.

  UK-based charities

  1/03/23 → 29/02/24

  Project: Research

• Light during incubation: A significant, and understudied, welfare challenge for poultry

  Henderson, L. & Meddle, S.

  1/03/23 → 31/08/24

  Project: Research

  • Birds 100%
  • Aves 100%
  • Chicks 62%
  • Neuroendocrine System 55%
  • White Leghorn 50%

• Paws on Campus

  Williams, J., Hawkins, R., Wauthier, L. & Gardiner, A.

  1/02/23 → 31/12/23

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Wellbeing 100%
  • Mental Health 100%

• PPLS Small Project Grant: The role of active dependencies in agreement attraction

  Sturt, P.

  1/01/23 → 30/07/23

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Interference 100%
  • Comprehension 100%
  • Bayes Factor 33%
  • Reading 33%

• PPLS Small Project Grant : The role of alpha synchronization in linking visual perception and memory recall

  Silson, E.

  1/01/23 → 31/03/23

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Visual Perception 100%
  • Synchronization 100%

• Targeting Therapies: Exploring the Cultural and Normative Dimensions of 'Targeted' Approaches to Biomedicine and Public Health

  Pickersgill, M. & Geiger, S.

  1/12/22 → 31/05/24

  Project: Research

  • Approach 100%
  • Therapeutic Procedure 83%
  • Biomedicine 76%
  • Medical Sciences 76%
  • Expectations 76%

• SINAPSE Early Career Researcher Exchange Fund 2022

  York, B.

  1/11/22 → 31/12/22

  Project: Research

• PPLS Small Project Grant : Prep for grant proposal “Toward a unified theory of diverse causal beliefs”

  Bramley, N.

  21/10/22 → 31/03/23

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

• Speech for Intelligent cognition change tracking and Detection of AD (SIDE-AD) Research Program

  Luz Filho, S. & Ritchie, C.

  1/10/22 → 30/09/23

  Project: Research

• Social Science issues relating to Monkeypox

  Garcia Iglesias, J., Pickersgill, M., Chataway, J., Horwood, J., Nagington, M., May, T., Amlôt, R., Williams, J., Buijsen, S. & McHugh, C.

  1/10/22 → 31/03/23

  Project: Research

  • Public Health 100%
  • Social Media 50%
  • Qualitative Research 50%
  • Stakeholders 50%
  • Online Dating 50%

• iTPA: Wellcome Trust Institutional Translational Partnership Award: Translational Innovation Competition

  Errington, P., Mirman, D., Allitt, M., Obsuth, I. & Murray, A.

  15/09/22 → 15/09/23

  Project: Research

  • Innovation 100%
  • Economic and Social Development 100%
  • Awards 100%
  • Intervention 100%
  • Health 100%

• The neural basis of semantic and social cognition in autism

  Mirman, D. & Thye, M.

  1/09/22 → 30/06/23

  Project: Research

  • Social Cognition 100%

• Development of an online self-directed Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) intervention to improve ability to cope and quality of life after bereavement

  Finucane, A. & Gillanders, D.

  1/09/22 → 31/08/23

  Project: Research

  • Grief 100%
  • Wellbeing 70%
  • Abilities 68%
  • Quality of Life 68%
  • Coping Strategies 68%

• Wellcome Mental Health Data Prize

  Murray, A., Mirman, D., Obsuth, I., Allitt, M. & Errington, P.

  22/08/22 → 15/09/23

  Project: Research

  • Mental Health 100%
  • Propensity-Score Matching 25%
  • Adolescence 25%
  • Wellbeing 25%

• Linguistics Analysis of “Transitions in Parenting of Teens (T-Pot)

  Cariola, L.

  1/08/22 → 31/07/23

  Project: Research

• Collaborative pump priming award ¿ ARUK Scotland Network Centre Grant

  McColl, B., Horsburgh, K. & Szymkowiak, S.

  UK-based charities

  1/04/22 → 31/03/23

  Project: Research

• Collaborative pump priming award ¿ ARUK Scotland Network Centre Grant

  Toombs, J. & Spires-Jones, T.

  UK-based charities

  1/04/22 → 31/03/23

  Project: Research

• mW: Investigating mental wellbeing along the lifecourse (1991-2020) and during the COVID-19 pandemic - CAHSS Challenge Investment Fund

  Nightingale, G., Brondi, L., Marshall, A., Calia, C. & Popov, V.

  1/04/22 → 30/06/22

  Project: Research

• HIV Activists during COVID-19

  Ledin, C., Fakoya, O. & Garcia Iglesias, J.

  1/03/22 → 30/09/22

  Project: Research

  • COVID-19 100%
  • Human Immunodeficiency Virus 100%
  • Health 80%
  • Activism 40%
  • Identity 40%

• Identifying novel strategies to restore the microglial homeostatic phenotype and modulate neuroinflammation

  Qiu, J.

  MRC

  1/02/22 → 31/01/24

  Project: Research

• CAHSS Knowledge Exchange and Impact Grant: Learning about Neurodiversity at School (LEANS): Amplifying the impact and reach of new resource for children and their teachers

  McGeown, S., Alcorn, A. & Fletcher-Watson, S.

  1/02/22 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

  • Primary School Students 100%
  • Primary School Teachers 100%
  • Primary Schools 100%
  • Educational Programmes 100%

• Identifying novel strategies to restore the microglial homeostatic phenotype and modulate neuroinflammation

  Shaw, T. & Qiu, J.

  MRC

  1/02/22 → 31/01/24

  Project: Research

• Assessing the replication properties of prion protein aggregates found in archived formalin-fixed, paraffin embedded appendix tissue collected from the asymptomatic population by the highly sensitive in vitro prion amplification assay

  Barria Matus, M. & Green, A.

  Non-EU-based charities

  14/01/22 → 13/01/23

  Project: Research

• Difficulty and pleasure in comprehending novel extensions of verb-based metaphors assessed using fNIRS

  Errington, P., Mirman, D. & Thye, M.

  5/01/22 → 30/06/22

  Project: Research

  • Reading Habit 100%
  • Linguistics 100%
  • Functional near Infrared Spectroscopy 100%
  • Wellbeing 100%
  • Anticipation 100%

• Utilising spatial transcriptomics to assess microglial location-dependent reactive heterogeneity in cerebrovascular-mediated matter injury and cognitive decline

  Szymkowiak, S.

  UK-based charities

  1/01/22 → 30/06/22

  Project: Research

• PPLS Small Project Grant: Generalisation in humans and machines

  Doumas, L.

  1/01/22 → 31/07/22

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

• A web based, continuously updated summary of primary research relevant to AD

  Sena, E., Currie, G. & MacLeod, M.

  UK-based charities

  1/01/22 → 30/06/23

  Project: Research

• Neurodiversity and Narrative Fiction

  McGeown, S. & Crompton, C.

  1/01/22 → 31/12/22

  Project: Research

  • Neurodiversity 100%
  • Narrative Fiction 100%

• Defining local and remote microglial responses to focal brain infarcts at single-cell and spatial level

  Barrington, J.

  UK-based charities

  1/01/22 → 30/06/22

  Project: Research

• PPLS Small Project Grant: Development and Validation of Measures of Pet Self-Expansion and Perceived Pet Responsiveness

  Stanton, S. & Loughnan, S.

  1/01/22 → 31/07/22

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Loneliness 100%
  • Wellbeing 100%
  • Economic and Social Development 100%
  • Depression 60%
  • Positive Affect 60%

• Changing homes, changing housing, changing relationships: Pets and care experienced children and young people

  Muldoon, J. & Williams, J.

  1/12/21 → 31/05/22

  Project: Research

  • Children 100%
  • Housing 50%
  • Child 50%
  • Young Woman 50%
  • Women 50%

• ESRC Festival of Social Science

  Cariola, L.

  1/11/21 → 30/11/21

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

• PPLS Small Project Grant: Phonetic effects in speech production and comprehension

  Corley, M.

  11/10/21 → 1/04/22

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

• PPLS Small Project Grant: Testing personality traits among 185,000 gene donors

  Mottus, R.

  11/10/21 → 31/03/22

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Personality Trait 100%
  • Life Satisfaction 100%
  • Emotional Stability 11%
  • Agreeableness 11%
  • Meta-Analysis 11%

• Digard: Understanding the social cognitive profiles of autistic bilinguals

  Digard, B. & Auyeung, B.

  ESRC

  1/10/21 → 30/09/22

  Project: Research

  • Bilingualism 100%
  • Experience 83%
  • Adults 83%
  • Qualitative Method 83%
  • Perspective 83%

• ‘Stopping you falling into the fire’: A mixed methods exploration of participant views of the Pathfinder Deferred Caution and Deferred Charge scheme

  Goodall, K., Obsuth, I., Hopkins, E., Zenkl-Galaz, A. V. & Luczka, K.

  1/10/21 → 27/10/22

  Project: Research

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  • Police 100%
  • Qualitative Approach 100%
  • Mixed Methods 100%
  • Support Services 33%

• UKRI/ESRC

  Cariola, L., McAloney-Kocaman, K., Lee, B., Falconer, L. & Rigg, K.

  1/10/21 → 30/09/22

  Project: Awarded Facility Time

• Biology, data science and the making of precision education

  Williamson, B., Pykett, J., Pickersgill, M. & Kotouza, D.

  6/09/21 → 5/09/23

  Project: Research

• Repurposing terazosin for ALS: how treatment changes the proteome in a TDP-43 mouse model

  Chaytow, H.

  UK central government bodies/local authorities, health and hospital authorities

  2/09/21 → 31/07/22

  Project: Research

• VIP interneuron-mediated disinhibition underlies cortical network plasticity & perceptual learning (Leena Williams)

  Williams, L. & Kind, P.

  BBSRC

  1/09/21 → 31/08/24

  Project: Research

• DATAMIND: Data Hub for Mental health INformatics research Development

  McIntosh, A., Adams, M., Iveson, M. & Smith, D.

  MRC

  1/09/21 → 31/08/24

  Project: Research

  • Methylome 100%
  • Aging 100%
  • Cognitive Function 100%
  • Association 85%
  • Phenotype 71%