Newton Fund: Recently awarded projects.

The following newly recorded projects were funded by UKRI's Newton Fund programme.
This information was downloaded on 17 September 2020 by the DevPubMetric system using data published in the UKRI Gateway to Research database over the preceeding month.

The total value of the 27 awards reported below is £6,787,213.


FunderReferenceProject TitleLead OrganisationAward ValueStart DateEnd Date
BBSRCBB/V003771/1Application of novel soil management technologies for poverty alleviation of traditional rural communities and enhanced environmental health of the AmUniversity of Nottingham£25,304Sep 2020Aug 2022
MRCMR/K008722/1Investigation of factors that prevent endogenous regeneration of the retina by Müller stem cellsUniversity College London£35,678Jan 2013Mar 2014
MRCMR/V00607X/1Expanding the reach, impact and sustainability of ToyBox Study Malaysia: a kindergarten-based healthy behaviour interventionRoehampton University£53,257Jun 2020Dec 2021
STFCST/T007141/1Project ThaiPASS: Thailand-UK Python+Astronomy Summer Schools 2020 and 2021.University of Warwick£66,676Mar 2020Oct 2021
STFCST/R006598/1Newton STFC-NARIT - EXOhSPEC (Exoplanet high-resolution Spectrograph)University of Hertfordshire£270,119Apr 2018Dec 2020
STFCST/T007117/1Newton STFC-NARIT: Using astronomy education as a motivator for long-term capacity building in STEMLiverpool John Moores University£108,532Mar 2020Mar 2022
STFCST/T007133/1Newton STFC-NARIT : Towards freeform optics manufacturing capabilities in Thailand for Space and Astronomical applicationsDurham University£119,753Apr 2020Mar 2022
STFCST/T001399/1DARA Big Data: 2019 ExtensionUniversity of Manchester£469,503Apr 2019Mar 2021
STFCST/R001898/1A UK-Africa Data Science Network: Capturing the SKA-Driven Data TransformationUniversity of Manchester£1,475,448Dec 2017Mar 2021
STFCST/V00137X/1Space-enabled Crop disEase maNagement sErvice via Crop sprAying Drones (SCENE-CAD)Loughborough University£404,069Feb 2020Feb 2022
STFCST/T006552/1Towards freeform optics manufacturing capabilities in Thailand for Space and Astronomical applicationsUniversity of Sheffield£49,761Apr 2020Mar 2022
STFCST/T007311/1Newton STFC-NARIT: EXOhSPEC (Exoplanet high-resolution Spectrograph)University of Hertfordshire£271,915Apr 2020Mar 2022
STFCST/T001429/1Newton Fund for capacity building in data intensive science in the Middle-EastUniversity College London£303,212Sep 2019Feb 2021
STFCST/R006539/1Newton STFC-Narit: Using astronomy surveys to train Thai researchers in handling Big DataUniversity of Sheffield£89,342Jan 2018Mar 2020
STFCST/V001388/1AMAZING- Advancing MAiZe INformation for GhanaUniversity College London£404,373Feb 2020Feb 2022
STFCST/R00661X/1Newton STFC-NARIT: Adaptive Optics Programme for the Thai National ObservatoryDurham University£157,381Apr 2018Sep 2020
STFCST/T007214/1Adaptive Optics Programme for the Thai National ObservatoryDurham University£216,570Apr 2020Mar 2022
STFCST/R006555/1Newton STFC-NARIT Capacity Building for Thai Radio Astronomy Phase 2University of Hertfordshire£445,006Mar 2018Mar 2021
STFCST/T007176/1Newton STFC-NARIT: Capacity Building Towards TeV Energy Frontiers with the Cherenkov Telescope ArrayDurham University£75,639Apr 2020Mar 2022
STFCST/T001402/1Newton STFC Capacity Building with LIGO-IndiaUniversity of Glasgow£217,256Dec 2019Mar 2021
STFCST/T007303/1Newton STFC-NARIT: Exoplanet Citizen Science with the Thai Robotic Telescope NetworkUniversity of Manchester£76,226Mar 2020Feb 2022
STFCST/R006571/1Newton STFC-NARIT: A telescope control system for the next generation of facilitiesLiverpool John Moores University£186,777Mar 2018Sep 2020
STFCST/T001798/1Development in Africa with Radio Astronomy Phase 2 - ExtensionUniversity of Leeds£453,741Nov 2019Mar 2021
STFCST/R006547/1Newton STFC-NARIT: Thai-UK Python+Astronomy Summer Schools (ThaiPASS): A STEM outreach project on Python with applications to data-driven astronomyUniversity of Hull£28,049Feb 2018Aug 2019
STFCST/T007168/1Capacity Building for Thai Astronomy Phase 3: Establishing NARIT Millimetre Laboratory for Developing State-of-the-Art Astronomical ReceiversUniversity of Oxford£168,723Mar 2020Mar 2022
STFCST/V000306/1BioSpace: Using space-enabled remote sensing to deliver long term sustainable growth of biopesticide useCAB International£404,262Feb 2020Feb 2022
STFCST/T00715X/1A telescope control system for the next generation of facilitiesLiverpool John Moores University£210,641Mar 2020Feb 2022