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Partner Funds 2022/23 recipients

11 January 2023

Explore this year's projects awarded funding through UCL's various Partner Funds, which support collaborations with key partner institutions around the world.

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This year, UCL Global Engagement ran 12 funding streams to support joint projects led by UCL academics with colleagues at UCL's key global partner institutions. 

Below, explore the diverse projects that will each deepen research and/or teaching collaborations in areas of mutual interest betwen UCL and its partners around the world. 

Congratulations to all the 2022/23 Partner Funds recipients!

Africa & Middle East

Africa and Middle East Teaching Fund
Lead UCL academicFacultyProject title
Dr Giorgio TalocciBartlettDwelling the threshold between climate change and economic growth: promoting a sustainable and just use of natural resources in Somaliland
Dr Michael WoodrowEngineeringA Collaborative Global South and Global North University Student Project to Enhance Online Learning Adaptation and Practical Engineering Skills Acquisition
Prof Sue MallettMedical SciencesCollaborative training initiative in clinical trial design and statistics in KEMRI, Kenya
Prof Thumbi Ndung'uMedical SciencesPromoting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Research Environments in Africa
UCL-Wits University Strategic Partner Funds
Funding streamLead UCL academicFacultyProject title
Pump priming initiativesDr Adam HarrisSocial & Historical SciencesPromoting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Research Environments in Africa
Research/teaching collaborative activityDr Andrew FlinnArts & HumanitiesDeveloping a research partnership on comparing and creating sustainable community archives in South Africa and the United Kingdom
Research/teaching collaborative activityDr Neha BaturaPopulation Health SciencesAn economic evaluation of the Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative trial in Soweto, South Africa
Research/teaching collaborative activityProf Paul FrommeEngineeringLow-cost guided wave ultrasound equipment for research and teaching in developing countries
UCL-Wits-ARUAProf Tristan McCowanIOERethinking community-university engagement for sustainability

North America 

UCL-University of Toronto Strategic Partner Funds
Funding streamLead UCL academicFacultyProject title
Emerging global talentsDr Chu Lun Alex Leung EngineeringAdditive Manufacturing of Lightweight Metallic Materials
Emerging global talentsDr Claire GarnettPopulation Health SciencesThe Value of Real-World Data and Evidence for Digital Therapeutics
Emerging global talentsDr Katey WarranPopulation Health SciencesEstablishing Capacity, Connection and Collaboration for Early Career Researchers working at the intersection of the Arts, Humanities, and Health
Strategic global challengesDr Nicola LivingstoneBartlett Critical Dialogues of the Post-Covid City: Urban challenges and sustainable transformations in London and Toronto
Strategic global challengesProf Tristan McCowanIOEAfter 2030: What Comes Next for the Sustainable Development Agenda?

East Asia 

UCL-Peking University Strategic Partner Funds
Lead UCL academicFacultyProject title
Prof Dorian FullerSocial & Historical Sciences[Roundtable Workshop] Frontiers of Archaeological Science: Technological, Environmental, and Economic Transitions
Dr Jing MengBartlettPowering low carbon transition within planetary boundaries: A Case Comparative between China and the UK
Dr Dominic PapineauMAPSA UCL-PKU graduate student training program to study the abiotic lunar carbon cycle in Chang’E5 samples and beyond
Dr Adam SzmulEngineering

Machine Learning Based Image Synthetisation and Segmentation for Adaptive Radiotherapy: A Cross-Institutional Validation and Application

UCL-Zhejiang University Strategic Partner Funds
Lead UCL academicFacultyProject title
Prof Patrick HaggardBrain SciencesInvestigating the attentional consequences of agentic actions
Dr Wei MiaoEngineeringRising Socioeconomic Inequalities and Entrepreneurship during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Opportunities
Prof Hugh StarkeyIOEPromoting education about and for sustainable development: encouraging opportunities to teach for peace, cultural diversity and equalities in teacher education at UCL and ZJU
Dr Yiming WangBartlettSmartising social infrastructures for post-COVID cities: On the ‘pros’ and ‘cons’ of travel tracking
UCL-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Strategic Partner Funds
Lead UCL academicFacultyProject title
Prof Paul FrommeEngineeringStructural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures
Dr Yang XuMaths & Physical SciencesArchitectural carbon host for stable sodium metal anode
Dr Will McDowallBartlettCircular economy policies for plastic packaking waste
Prof Hao NiMaths & Physical SciencesEarly warning system to predict sepsis onset from electronic health data in intensive care monitoring: a novel machine learning approach based on path development layer
Prof Neil  BurgessBrain SciencesInvestigating the neural mechanisms of event memory in intracranial recordings from epilepsy patients
Dr Lu ChenEngineeringUltralow Platinum-Loading Alloys Catalysts for An Efficient and Durable Oxygen Reduction Reaction
Dr Andreas MayerMedical SciencesDesigning Multiepitope-based Vaccine against Severe Malaria from Immune Mapped RIFFIN Antigens using Immunoinformatic Approach
Dr Rui TangBartlettProsumer-based Integrated Energy System Driven by the Fifth Generation District Heating and Cooling Network 
UCL-Osaka University Strategic Partner Funds
Lead UCL academicFacultyProject title
Dr Tracey ClarkeMaths & Physical SciencesDeveloping and understanding new materials for even greener organic photovoltaics
Dr Stephanie EfthymiouBrain SciencesPhysiological role of RUBCN in brain neurodevelopment and the function of RUBCN variants
Dr Andrew SommerladBrain SciencesSocial and behavioural consequences of dementia and future treatments: Collaborative network and meeting
UCL-Tohoku University Strategic Partner Funds
Lead UCL academicFacultyProject title
Prof David AlexanderMaths & Physical SciencesEnvironmental and Energy Resiliency for Disaster Risk Reduction in Japan
Prof Sven BestmannBrain SciencesEstablishing a UCL-Tohoku University community for research with the Megabank to advance understanding of the biological and environmental causes of stroke and depression (MEGA-MOVE)
Prof Maria ChaitBrain SciencesEstablishing a UCL-Tohoku University community for research with the Megabank to advance understanding of hearing problems and their environmental and genetic causes (MEGA-HEAR)
Prof Andrea ReveszIOEExploring the neuro-cognitive demands of writing in a foreign language in crisis situations

South Asia

UCL-IIT Delhi Strategic Partner Funds
Lead UCL academicFacultyProject title
Dr Beatrice Baudet, Prof Matthew Richard Coop Professor, Dr Susana Lopez-QuerolEngineeringLarge shear strain behaviour for soil pile-monopile interfaces subjected to cyclic loading in offshore wind structures
Dr Mojtaba Abdi-Jalebi, Dr Nusrat Rashid Maths & Physical SciencesAn approach closer to real photosynthesis: photovoltaic solar cell driven photoelectrochemical CO2 reduction using hybrid plasmonic nanomaterials towards sustainable solar fuels production
Prof Jonathan HolmesSocial & Historical SciencesExploring the spatiotemporal patterns of water stable-isotope across Indo-Gangetic plains to understand the regional hydroclimate
Dr Enrique Galindo-NavaEngineeringLifing prediction of complex NI-based superalloys for nuclear application using complementary experimental microstructural characterisation and constitutive modelling. 
Dr Tracey M. ClarkeMaths & Physical SciencesTuning the Charge Transport in Organic Semiconductors through Strategic Functionalization: A Combined Experimental and Computational Approach 
Prof Asterios GavriilidisEngineeringEffect of Reactor Configuration on Synthesis of Nanoparticles
Dr Eleanor ChiariArts & HumanitiesCreative visual methodologies for higher education: A transnational pedagogical project 
UCL-AIIMS Strategic Partner Funds
Lead UCL academicFacultyProject title
Prof Pascale V. GuillotPopulation Health SciencesTo investigate the therapeutic potential of extracellular vesicles (EV) released by human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC)-derived mesenchymal stem cells (iMSCs) to counteract oestrogen deficiency induced bone deterioration
Prof Julie DaviesPopulation Health SciencesEnabling medical leadership in India and England: A comparative study
‘EMLIE’
Prof James MoonPopulation Health SciencesMeasuring and treating iron overload in thalassemia patients in India to improve their survival
Dr Darren PlayerMedical SciencesSkeletal muscle regeneration following total knee arthroplasty: limitations of the intrinsic stem
cell pool. 
Dr Victoria GarfieldPopulation Health SciencesA multidisciplinary approach to understanding the interrelationships between Sleep quality, brain morphometry And Cognition (a SOLACE study): comparison between individuals residing in India vs the UK
UCL-IISc Strategic Partner Funds
Lead UCL academicFacultyProject title
Dr Mojtaba Abdi JalebiMaths & Physical SciencesStudy of Novel Lead-free Perovskite Semiconductors for Green Energy Applications
Dr Maria SecrierLife SciencesSpatial and tumour microenvironment modelling of hybrid states during the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transitionin cancer
Prof Jayant S. VaidyaMedical SciencesDesign and development of a bimodal intraoperative probe for breast cancer diagnosis
Prof Tony KenyonEngineeringDesign and Fabrication of Halide Perovskite Nanocrystal-basedMemristors
Prof Manish K. TiwariEngineeringHigh-resolution printing of sensors on woven and nonwoven textilesfor connected healthcare

South East Asia & Australasia

University of Sydney-UCL Partnership Collaboration Awards
Lead UCL academicFacultyProject title
Dr Augustin GuibardEngineeringData-driven simulations for real-time flame spread and fire growth prediction
Dr Paige PatchinSocial & Historical SciencesWind turbine construction at the Ends of the Earth: Materials and Materialisms of the Anthropocene
Dr Sandra Álvarez-Carretero  Life SciencesReconstructing the evolutionary timescale of the Tree of Life
Dr Mojtaba Abdi JalebiMaths & Physical SciencesImproving performance of tin-based halide perovskites for development of highly efficient perovskite multi-junction tandem photovoltaics
Prof Bani AnvariEngineeringMicro-Freight Delivery Solutions: A Tale of Two Cities