Collaboration Fund

The White Rose Collaboration Fund was launched in October 2008 and is designed to support emerging collaborative activities across the three White Rose universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York. The Fund has supported over 90 projects to date.

To learn more about Collaboration Fund please see our report on outcomes and highlights from the scheme

To watch our Collaboration Fund Webinar, 16th June 2022, please visit our YouTube channel, or see below links:

Introduction – Craig Walker

What makes a good collaboration fund application? – Karen Tsui

Guest speaker Hossein Olya

Guest speaker Gemma Traviss-Turner

The presentation can be downloaded here: White Rose Collaboration Fund Webinar Slides 2022

How to apply

Funded Projects

Bespoke Open, Collaborative and Creative Approaches to Heritage Documentation (BOCCAHD)

Bespoke Open, Collaborative and Creative Approaches to Heritage Documentation (BOCCAHD)

Documentation systems are a bedrock for cultural heritage collections. They enable institutions to be accountable for their collections, for cultural heritage workers to find, describe and share the items in […]

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The UK-Rwanda partnership as the ‘end of asylum’: Externalising borders, offshoring and resistance

The UK-Rwanda partnership as the ‘end of asylum’: Externalising borders, offshoring and resistance

On 14th April 2022 the UK government announced the UK-Rwanda partnership which aims to formalise the mass removal of asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda. This ambitious, timely and […]

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From Circular Economy to Soil Health

From Circular Economy to Soil Health

With increasing food demand, climate change and the drive towards a circular economy, regenerative agriculture (reusing ‘waste’ and improving crop nutrient acquisition) improves sustainability. Reusing wastewater sludge, animal manures and […]

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White Rose Interdisciplinary Network on Fertility Care in the Global South

White Rose Interdisciplinary Network on Fertility Care in the Global South

Infertility is a major yet overlooked health and social care issue, affecting an estimated 48.5 million couples worldwide. Rates of infertility are significantly higher in Low-and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), particularly in Africa. Despite the large burden of infertility – especially for women, who are often blamed and stigmatised – policy […]

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Unleashing The Power of Influencer Marketing to Stimulate Prosocial Causes

Unleashing The Power of Influencer Marketing to Stimulate Prosocial Causes

There are growing concerns around the impacts of global challenges such as natural or humanitarian crises, technological disruptions, or social movements. These challenges often cause uncertainty and require the support […]

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Infectious illness presenteeism in the age of COVID-19

Infectious illness presenteeism in the age of COVID-19

Presenteeism is defined as attending work in spite of illness. Presenting to work with an infectious illness such as influenza is common and causes problems due to the possibility of […]

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Slavery and Steam: steam power, railways and colonialism

Slavery and Steam: steam power, railways and colonialism

The relationship between steam power and global trade is complex, from the adoption of steam power on plantations to the global distribution of materials and products, and the adoption of […]

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Domestic Violence and Marginalised Communities

Domestic Violence and Marginalised Communities

Domestic violence and abuse (DVA) is currently high on the Government’s agenda with a Domestic Abuse Bill journeying through the Houses of Parliament. DVA intersects cultural, religious, gender and ethnic […]

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Establishing a regional consortium to lead the improvement of health technology for children and young people

Establishing a regional consortium to lead the improvement of health technology for children and young people

The prevalence of technology in healthcare is rapidly expanding. People of all ages with long-term health conditions (LTCs) increasingly rely on health technology for self-management, with remote clinical support and […]

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White Rose Early Career Screen Industries Research Network

White Rose Early Career Screen Industries Research Network

The White Rose Early Career Screen Industries Research Network (ECSiRN) will consolidate screen industries research in the region and establish a dynamic research community. The term screen industries includes film, […]

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Establishing LEUKOLABS.UK

Establishing LEUKOLABS.UK

3.5 million patients have rare genetic diseases in the UK. Studies of monogenic diseases are indispensable to elucidate gene function and to understand complex multifactorial disorders. We are a team […]

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Vital Circulations: A Framework for Understanding Social Dynamics in and beyond a Pandemic

The COVID-­19 pandemic has brought into relief the porousness of our bodies, and the importance of pathogenic substances passed between them every day. Meanwhile the global quest for vaccines and […]

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Measuring, evaluating and improving the quality of care for dying people and their families

The concept of ‘a good death’ is individualised and multi-faceted, yet it is something that impacts us all. The importance of providing high quality care to dying patients and their […]

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Visual dysfunction as a biomarker of Frontotemporal Dementia and Motor Neurone Disease

Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) and Motor Neurone Disease (MND) are devastating, incurable neurodegenerative disorders.   A mutation in the C9Orf72 gene is the most common genetic cause of both disorders. Recently, the first […]

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Between post-colonial solidarity for sustainable energy transitions and neo-colonial extraction: Investigating India’s role in East African energy landscape

This interdisciplinary project will investigate India’s growing role in the East African (Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya) energy sector.   The last decade has seen an increasing attention on South-South co-operation in infrastructure […]

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Enhancing analytical capabilities in soils for low-carbon technologies

Soils are essential to a range of emerging low-carbon technologies.  In soil chemistry, co-ordination and valence of iron (Fe) and aluminium (Al) ions are of great importance across different applications. Iron’s ability to bind organic […]

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INCEPT - INformated Circular Economy ProducTs

INCEPT – INformated Circular Economy ProducTs

Economic, environmental and social imperatives to move from a linear (take-use-dispose) to a circular economy (take-use-reuse) for low value (typically high volume) consumer products form an urgent ‘wicked problem’ requiring […]

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Oral Health-White Rose Consortium (OH-WRC)

Oral Health-White Rose Consortium (OH-WRC)

Understanding ‘Raised in Yorkshire’ (RiY): its wider influence on health and life opportunities and it’s potential for scalability. Health Need: Dental decay (caries) has a significant impact on children (pain, […]

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Multilingualism and anxiety in people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

Multilingualism and anxiety in people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

Multilingualism and anxiety are core research and policy issues (DfE, 2018). Anxiety disorders, a feeling of unease, worry or fear, are the most prevalent mental disorders and are associated with […]

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Innovating the Future of Bio-Inspired Autonomous Robots for Offshore Renewable Energy Inspection

Innovating the Future of Bio-Inspired Autonomous Robots for Offshore Renewable Energy Inspection

This project brings together broad expertise to address pressing challenges in biomimetic vehicle capabilities. The purpose of this project is to build a prototype Biomimetic Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (BAUV) for […]

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Socially Responsible AI for Distributed Autonomous Systems

Socially Responsible AI for Distributed Autonomous Systems

This project aims to initiate a long-term collaboration and shape a solid ground for a new ambitious research area on socially-responsible robotic and autonomous systems. These systems will be equipped […]

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Landscapes for people, landscapes for nature

Landscapes for people, landscapes for nature

How to balance food production, biodiversity conservation, and the cultural values of landscapes. Aim: Establish a long-term, interdisciplinary collaboration to investigate the impacts of different land-use strategies on multiple aspects […]

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The White Rose Child & Adolescent Sleep Research Network

The White Rose Child & Adolescent Sleep Research Network

Over the last 10 years there has been a 300% increase in the number of children accessing specialist sleep support from Sheffield Children’s Hospital. The impact of sleep problems in […]

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Domestic debt markets in developing economies:

Domestic debt markets in developing economies:

Who shapes them? What drives them? Who benefits? In the new era of market-based finance, developing countries are developing their domestic debt markets at unprecedented speeds and depths, contributing to […]

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A pilot study to objectively examine the impact of weight stigma on diet, physical activity and sleep

A pilot study to objectively examine the impact of weight stigma on diet, physical activity and sleep

Obesity is one of society’s greatest challenges with 2/3rds of UK adults being overweight or obese. Reduced food intake, increased physical activity and improved sleep are key health behaviours in […]

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Fast and Accurate! Foundations and Guarantees for Algorithms and AI

Fast and Accurate! Foundations and Guarantees for Algorithms and AI

White Rose FGAA The aim of the project is to initiate a long-term collaboration (Foundations and Guarantees for Algorithms and AI) providing new algorithms for big data sets and networks […]

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AI

AI Law and Ethics: The Challenge of AI Wrongdoing

The aim of this project is to examine how the frameworks we currently use to think about responsibility towards others—including concepts such as harm, wrongdoing, fault, causation, redress, and blame—apply […]

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oasis

Oasis in a desert? The importance of ecological refugia for long-term peatland resilience

Peatlands are globally-important habitats, archives of palaeoenvironmental information and carbon stores. However, human activities including drainage, burning, peat harvesting and pollution are having devastating impacts on peatlands (1). Enormous sums […]

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Contested territories: Interdisciplinary dialogues on conflict, resistance and development alterna-tives in Latin America

Recent political changes in Latin America point towards an end of the ‘pink tide’, a return of nationalist, (neo)colonial and neoliberal ideologies, and a shift away from inclusive and sus-tainable […]

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Weight management for adults with severe mental illness (SMI)

Severe mental illness (SMI) is described as the “scandal of premature mortality’. People with SMI are 50% more likely to be obese than the general population. There is little doubt […]

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Grains of future past: using ancient wheat genetic variation to drive crop improvement

There is a pressing need to increase crop yields to feed the rapidly increasing world population, but yields have become static over the last 20 years. In wheat, this has […]

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Assessing Functional Ability in Older Adults

Assessing Functional Ability in Older Adults

To meet the societal challenge of successful ageing, the WHO recently proposed a focus-shift from disease and symptoms to functional ability enabling wellbeing in older adults (WHO, 2015). Functional ability […]

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Police

The Violent State in Historical Perspective

As scholars of twentieth century international history, the three lead academics are well-versed in the role played by violence in modern state-formation. Yet while our multilingual research draws on a […]

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Inhibition of the DNA Damage Response as a Targeted Therapy in Myeloproliferative Neoplasms.

Inhibition of the DNA Damage Response as a Targeted Therapy in Myeloproliferative Neoplasms.

Myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) occur when patients acquire genetic ‘driver mutations’ (commonly in JAK2 or CALR) in haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) causing aberrant blood cell production resulting in thrombosis, splenomegaly, bone […]

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Investigating Mitophagy Related Drug Mechanisms in Parkin Mutant Models.

Investigating Mitophagy Related Drug Mechanisms in Parkin Mutant Models.

This project aims to elucidate the mechanism by which mitophagy occurs in parkin mutant models with relation to Parkinson’s Disease. Parkinson’s is the second most common neurodegenerative disease and parkin […]

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Refugia of Futures Past

Refugia of Futures Past

Current research suggests that society may not meet Paris Agreement climate mitigation goals to keep global temperature rise below 1.5-2.0 oC, and global biodiversity losses are at accelerated rates similar […]

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Mechanisms and Evolution of Ribosome Specialisation

Mechanisms and Evolution of Ribosome Specialisation

Ribosomes are large macromolecular complexes that perform all cellular protein synthesis. The ribosome was long considered to be uniform in both composition and, consequently, function. However, our understanding of ‘the ribosome’ and translation has been […]

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Improving public health by using road lighting to encourage cycling at night

Improving public health by using road lighting to encourage cycling at night

This project will provide preliminary data that can support an increase in the number of people cycling, which is a goal for the UK and other governments due to the […]

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Using religious imagery in popular culture

Using religious imagery in popular culture

to explore and challenge everyday sexism, sexual harassment and abuse together with secondary school students Revelations of pervasive sexual harassment and abuse are emerging from numerous settings. Moreover, educational research […]

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Luther as Philosopher

Luther as Philosopher

The aim of this project is to consider Martin Luther and his influence from a philosophical perspective. While Luther has been widely studied by theologians and historians, he has been […]

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CLCI: Climate–Leaf Chemistry Interactions

CLCI: Climate–Leaf Chemistry Interactions

Plants cover around 25% of the surface of the Earth and have been central to life on land for over 400 million years. Today, atmospheric CO2 is at a level […]

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Marginalisation and the Law: Medieval and Modern

Marginalisation and the Law: Medieval and Modern

Just like in the modern world, medieval societies contained subordinate groups and individuals who were repeatedly relegated to the margins. While many of these groups have been the subject of […]

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Imperial afterlives: The crisis of nation and citizen in historical perspective

Imperial afterlives: The crisis of nation and citizen in historical perspective

The end of colonial empires in the twentieth century defined the world in which we live, yet we are only beginning to understand its historical significance. While scholars have long […]

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White Rose Mucosal Drug Delivery Network

White Rose Mucosal Drug Delivery Network

Drugs that are used to treat a variety of diseases are most likely swallowed in tablet-form or delivered intravenously to the patient. However, these routes have significant drawbacks, such as […]

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New Frontiers of Palm Oil: Tackling the Multi-Dimensional Dynamics of Palm Oil Expansion in West Africa

New Frontiers of Palm Oil: Tackling the Multi-Dimensional Dynamics of Palm Oil Expansion in West Africa

During the past 25 years, global production of oils and fats increased by over 150% and palm oil accounted for most of the increase, ~30% of world production (USDA, 2016). […]

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Understanding Solidarity amid refugee crises

Understanding Solidarity amid refugee crises

Recent refugee ‘crises’ have prompted shifts in discourses and practices about refugee protection in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The provision of sanctuary to refugees is an expression of […]

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Energy poverty and social relations: understanding vulnerability through secondary qualitative analysis

Energy poverty and social relations: understanding vulnerability through secondary qualitative analysis

This project draws on a large body of existing (under-utilised) qualitative data to investigate the impact of households’ social relations on vulnerability to energy poverty (10 datasets, approximately 500 participants). […]

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INUNDATION

INUNDATION

ImproviNg coastal commUNity hazard AssessmenT usIng nOvel experimeNts (INUNDATION) Global sea level is rising and it is likely that the rate of rise will accelerate, significantly threatening coastal communities. The […]

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Microbial pollution in water sources under extreme weather conditions: modelling sediment-pathogen interactions

Microbial pollution in water sources under extreme weather conditions: modelling sediment-pathogen interactions

The transmission of water borne diseases under extreme weather events is a crucial issue with regard to public health in the UK and worldwide. Microbial pollution of water resources in […]

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Early Sleep in Children at Risk of Autism Spectrum Disorder

Early Sleep in Children at Risk of Autism Spectrum Disorder

Lead Academic; Dr Victoria Knowland (York) Dr Heidi Christensen – Sheffield Dr Anna Weighall – Leeds This study has dual aims. The primary aim is to assess the feasibility of […]

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Novel approaches to targeting metastasis in breast cancer

Novel approaches to targeting metastasis in breast cancer

Lead Academic: Thomas A Hughes (Leeds) William J Brackenbury (York) Ingunn Holen (Sheffield) Substantial complementary expertise in breast cancer exists across the White Rose consortium, however, collaboration across all three […]

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Europe, migration and the new politics of (in)security

Europe, migration and the new politics of (in)security

Lead Academic: Dr Alexandra Hall (University of York) Dr Emma Briant (University of Sheffield) Dr Deirdre Conlon (University of Leeds) European countries face pressing problems in the wake of recent […]

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Assessing the appropriateness of existing model adaptation methods to the context of middle-income countries:

Assessing the appropriateness of existing model adaptation methods to the context of middle-income countries:

a case study on Taxanes for adjuvant treatment of early breast cancer in South Africa Project Lead Abualbishr Alshreef (Sheffield) Bryony Dawkins (Leeds) Dr Matthew Taylor (York) Economic Evaluations (EE) […]

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Understanding public perceptions and experiences of low carbon building materials

Understanding public perceptions and experiences of low carbon building materials

Lead Academic Katy Roelich Leeds Danielle Densley Tingley  Sheffield Carolyn Snell  York This project is a pilot study to explore public perception of low carbon building materials. It will investigate […]

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Comparative Risks of Hydraulic Fracturing for Shale Gas in the UK

Comparative Risks of Hydraulic Fracturing for Shale Gas in the UK

Lead Academic Tom Lynch Leeds Alistair Boxall York Lorraine Maltby Sheffield The potential mechanism for pollution of groundwater from shale gas production is through the contamination of groundwater with hydraulic fracturing […]

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Making Mouths: assessing the incorporation and survival of biological signals in oral biofilms

Making Mouths: assessing the incorporation and survival of biological signals in oral biofilms

Lead Institution: York: Camilla Spelle Sheffield: Dr Maria E Romero-Gonzalez Leeds: Prof. Deirdre Devine, Our aim is to develop a novel, collaborative, interdisciplinary research network on ancient oral biofilms. ‘Making Mouths’ […]

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Fostering and sustaining UK, multidisciplinary, family-focused care across the life-course

A White Rose collaboration in long-term condition management. Lead Institution: Leeds:  Professor Veronica Swallow Sheffield: Professor Penny Curtis York: Professor Yvonne Birks Care of persons with long term conditions (LTCs) […]

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Britain and Europe: The political economy of ‘Brexit’

Britain and Europe: The political economy of ‘Brexit’

Lead Institution: University of Sheffield: Scott RE Lavery York: Professor Lucia Quaglia, Leeds: Dr CharlesDannreuther  Britain’s economic model is characterised by a highly flexible labour market, openness to trade and […]

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Silent Speech: restoring the power of speech to people whose larynx has been removed

Silent Speech: restoring the power of speech to people whose larynx has been removed

Lead Institution: University of Sheffield Dr Jose A. Gonzalez  University of Leeds: Dr Andy Bulpitt University of York: Dr Damian Murphy Every year, some 17500 people in Europe and North […]

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Low cost, long-term measurement of motor activity and REM sleep.

Low cost, long-term measurement of motor activity and REM sleep.

We will assemble expertise, personnel and facilities from across the WR network to develop and pilot a novel device for inexpensive and noninvasive sleep monitoring. This device has important applications […]

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Observing a changing atmosphere through educational air pollution gardens

Observing a changing atmosphere through educational air pollution gardens

Air pollution levels in the UK, and more widely across Europe, remain high enough to have significant impacts on the natural environment. In particular, atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition exceeds thresholds […]

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White Rose Early Career Ethics Researchers (WRECERs)

White Rose Early Career Ethics Researchers (WRECERs)

WRECERs is a  network of early-career researchers at York, Leeds, and Sheffield, who work in ethics (broadly construed to include ethical theory, metaethics, applied ethics, and political philosophy). Three key […]

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The socio-economic patterning of smoking and alcohol use and its implications for control policies in England

The socio-economic patterning of smoking and alcohol use and its implications for control policies in England

Both smoking and heavy alcohol consumption account for a significant proportion of mortality inequalities in England, with lower socio-economic status (SES) associated with higher mortality for tobacco and alcohol-attributable diseases […]

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Travel and transport in the Country House

Travel and transport in the Country House

This project will take as its focus the theme of the next YCHP joint exhibition (projected for 2018/9) Travel and Transport in the Country House. The theme will challenge curators […]

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Roughness modulation of Greenland Ice Sheet hydrology and ice-flow dynamics

Roughness modulation of Greenland Ice Sheet hydrology and ice-flow dynamics

Lead Academic – Andrew Sole  (Sheffield) David Rippin (York) Duncan Quincey (Leeds) The contribution of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) to future sea-level rise is uncertain (IPCC, 2013).   Observations reveal the […]

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Governance, identity and political economy in the North of England

Governance, identity and political economy in the North of England

Lead Academic – Richard Hayton (Leeds) Dr Craig Berry (Sheffield) Professor Martin Smith (York) In the aftermath of the 2014 independence referendum in Scotland, critical questions are being posed about the […]

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Reduced-order spatio-temporal dynamical modelling and simulation of periprosthetic bone remodelling for joint replacements

Reduced-order spatio-temporal dynamical modelling and simulation of periprosthetic bone remodelling for joint replacements

Lead Academic – Lingzhong Guo (Sheffield) Paul Genever (York) Zhongmin Jin (Leeds) Understanding periprosthetic bone remodelling is critical for improving the design of implants and aiding in clinical decisions.  Although it […]

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Identifying and managing perinatal mental health in male partners using the Born and Bred in Yorkshire (BaBY) cohort

Identifying and managing perinatal mental health in male partners using the Born and Bred in Yorkshire (BaBY) cohort

A White Rose Collaboration in Gender and Perinatal Mental Health Lead Academic -Dr  Zoe Darwin (Leeds) Dr Paul Galdas (York) Dr Sharron Hinchliff (Sheffield National and international policy recognises the […]

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Hearts of Oak: Caring for British Woodlands

Hearts of Oak: Caring for British Woodlands

Lead Academic – Amy Cutler (Leeds) Sarah Rees Jones (York) Felicity Stout (Sheffield) The primary aim of this collaborative project is to create the first cross-institutional hub of its kind for […]

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Controlling diffuse pollution in urban areas using biofiltration systems

Controlling diffuse pollution in urban areas using biofiltration systems

Lead Academic – Christian Berretta (Leeds) Virginia Stovin (Sheffield) Alistair Boxall (York) This project focuses on opportunities associated with the application of biofiltration systems for stormwater management and water quality protection in […]

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Neuroimaging as a marker of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

Neuroimaging as a marker of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

Lead Academic – Tom Stafford (Sheffield) Jac Billington (Leeds), Antony Morland (York) We will create a unique network of expertise, personnel and facilities from across the WR network in order to […]

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White Rose Chemical Biology Toolkits: Enabling the dissection of biomolecular interactions through chemistry

White Rose Chemical Biology Toolkits: Enabling the dissection of biomolecular interactions through chemistry

Lead Academic – Dr Martin A. Fascione (York) Prof Jon Sayers (Sheffield) Dr Deijan Zhou (Leeds) Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) is a powerful technique to study label-free, real-time biomolecular interactions, it […]

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Dementia, Cognition and Care

Dementia, Cognition and Care

Lead Academic Professor Gail Mountain Professor David Bunce (Leeds) Professor Gillian Parker (York) The aim is to develop a virtual centre of cross-disciplinary excellence in dementia research, focussed on non pharmacological […]

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White Rose Network for the Interdisciplinary Study of Second Language Learning (NISSLL)

White Rose Network for the Interdisciplinary Study of Second Language Learning (NISSLL)

Lead Academic Heather Marsden (York) Melinda Whong (Leeds) Kook-­‐Hee Gil (Sheffield) Language learning is currently in crisis in Britain, with declining student numbers and skills, to the detriment of business. Against this […]

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Peace of Mind: Researching Mindfulness Based Approaches for Positive Mental Health in Children and Young People.

Peace of Mind: Researching Mindfulness Based Approaches for Positive Mental Health in Children and Young People.

Lead Academic – Dr Siobhan Hugh-Jones (Leeds) Dr Lisa Berry – (Sheffield) Dr Pam Hanley – (York) Child wellbeing in England is low compared to most developed countries and is […]

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Policy for the Effective Realisation of Energy Storage in Grid and Transport Applications.

Policy for the Effective Realisation of Energy Storage in Grid and Transport Applications.

Lead Academic Prof. Tim Cockerill (Leeds) Dr. Grant Wilson (Sheffield) Dr. Samarthia Thankappan (York) The White Rose Universities have developed a substantial portfolio of expertise applicable to the policy, environmental, techno-economic […]

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The Responsibility to Protect and Humanity: A Study on the Idea of Human Interconnectedness

The Responsibility to Protect and Humanity: A Study on the Idea of Human Interconnectedness

Adrian Gallagher – Project Lead (Leeds)  Garrett W. Brown (University of Sheffield) Lars Waldorf (University of York) The aim is to set up a White Rose Consortium for the Responsibility […]

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Building Up Resilience in Supply Chains Network (BURNS)

Building Up Resilience in Supply Chains Network (BURNS)

Bob Doherty  – Project Lead (York) Anne Tallontire (Leeds David Oglethorpe  (Sheffield) The sustainability of international agricultural supply chains is fast becoming an important issue. The World Bank (2012) forecasts […]

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Energy and fuels from thermal chemical conversion of biomass

Energy and fuels from thermal chemical conversion of biomass

Chunfei Wu – Project Lead  (Leeds) Vida Sharifi (Sheffield) Vitaliy Budarin (York) The aim: To explore the feasibility of a combining different novel methods of biomass pyrolysis with steam-air gasification […]

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Evaluating Ecological Impacts of Soil Compaction using a Multidisciplinary Approach

Evaluating Ecological Impacts of Soil Compaction using a Multidisciplinary Approach

Manoj Menon –  Project Lead (Sheffield Andreas Heinemeyer (York) Xiadong Jia (Leeds) Soils provide a range of ecosystem services including food and fibre production, maintenance of biodiversity, storage of carbon, […]

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White Rose Centre for Employee Ownership

White Rose Centre for Employee Ownership

Andrew Pendleton – Project Lead  (York) Andrew Robinson (Leeds:) Peter Marsh (Sheffield) The primary aim is to establish the White Rose universities as the leading centre for employee ownership research […]

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White Rose Studies of Ableism: Proposal for a new inter-disciplinary research collaboration

White Rose Studies of Ableism: Proposal for a new inter-disciplinary research collaboration

Dan Goodley – Project Lead (Sheffield) Angharad Beckett (University of Leeds) Parvaneh Rabiee (York) Prof Dan Goodley (Sheffield) is co-ordinating a project which brings together researchers from the disciplines of critical psychology, […]

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Caught in the act – novel approaches to preventing the crystallisation of amorphous materials

Caught in the act – novel approaches to preventing the crystallisation of amorphous materials

Mark Hodson – Project Lead (York) Liane G. Benning  (Leeds) John Harding (Sheffield) Crystallisation and the transition from amorphous to crystalline states is an intriguing problem with important implications for […]

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Performing the Past: exploring the heritage of working-class communities in Yorkshire

Performing the Past: exploring the heritage of working-class communities in Yorkshire

Vicky Crewe –  Project Lead (Sheffield) Jonathan Pitches (Leeds)  Kate Giles (York) This network will capitalize on the potential offered across WRUC to develop innovative multi-disciplinary methods for investigating and […]

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Coastline Dynamics in an Increasingly Stormy World

Coastline Dynamics in an Increasingly Stormy World

Katherine Selby – Project Lead  (York) Graeme Swindles (Leeds) Mark Bateman (Sheffield) A major impact of climate change is global sea-level rise and increased storminess which will impact on coastlines, […]

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Migration and Economic Crisis: Responses of Brits at home and abroad

Migration and Economic Crisis: Responses of Brits at home and abroad

Majella Kilkey  – Project Lead (Sheffield) Dr Neil Lunt (York) Dr Louise Waite ( Leeds) This project has the overall aim of developing a White Rose-led international research network on […]

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Printable radiation curable dielectric layers for application in organic electronics

Printable radiation curable dielectric layers for application in organic electronics

Long Lin – Project Lead  (Leeds) Patrick Smith (Sheffield) Stephen Johnson (York) Organic electronic materials provide a new approach to fabricating light weight, flexible microelectronic devices which can be produced […]

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Mental Health and Ageing Research: White Rose INitiative (MARWIN)

Dr. Praveen Thokala  –  Project Lead (Sheffield) Mary Godfrey (Leeds) Gillian Parker (York) The project is addressing the key issues of mental health and wellbeing in ageing population through highly […]

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From welfare to work: linking best practice in clinical and employability-focused research for claimants of disability benefits

From welfare to work: linking best practice in clinical and employability-focused research for claimants of disability benefits

Colin Lindsay  – Project Lead (York) Nick Ellison (Leeds) Stephen Kellett (Sheffield) More than two million people of working age in the UK are out of work and claiming disability/incapacity […]

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Towards more nutrient, carbon and energy-efficient agricultural systems

Towards more nutrient, carbon and energy-efficient agricultural systems

Les Firbank – Project Lead (Leeds) Jonathan Leake (Sheffield) Sue Hartley (York) The overall aim of the project was to pump-prime collaborative agricultural systems research among the White Rose Universities, […]

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Governing Public and Private Security in Europe

Governing Public and Private Security in Europe

Prof Adam Crawford –  Project Lead (Leeds) Martin Smith (Sheffield –  now at York) Adam White (York) This project aims to establish a European network, led by White Rose Consortium […]

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Understanding the effect of soil water stress on ecosystem-climate feedbacks

Understanding the effect of soil water stress on ecosystem-climate feedbacks

Lisa Emberson – Project Lead (York) Stephen Sitch (Leeds) Colin Soborne (Sheffield) Co-ordinated by Dr Lisa Emberson (York), this project brings together scientists from a range of disciplines and expertise […]

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Establishing the HUPKI mouse as an invaluable tool for cancer research

Establishing the HUPKI mouse as an invaluable tool for cancer research

Monica Hollstein – Project Lead (Leeds) Carl Smythe (Sheffield) Jo Milner (York Identifying new ways to inhibit cancer development is of critical import for health research.  Prof Hollstein (Leeds) will […]

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A new approach for indoor air pollutant measurements

A new approach for indoor air pollutant measurements

Nicola Carslaw – Project Lead (York) Dwayne Heard (Leeds) Abigail Hathaway (Sheffield)  Dr Nicola Carslaw (York) is coordinating a team of researchers on a project which aims to measure the […]

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The Making of Medieval History

The Making of Medieval History

Graham A. Loud – Project Lead (Leeds) Martial Staub (Sheffield) Peter Biller (York)  Prof Graham A. Loud (Leeds) co-ordinated a project on “The Making of Medieval History” which aimed to […]

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Establishing a Centre for History of Philosophy (CHiPhi)

Establishing a Centre for History of Philosophy (CHiPhi)

Michael Beaney – Project Lead  (York) Alix Cohen (Leeds) Robert Stern (Sheffield) The White Rose Centre for the History of Philosophy (CHiPhi) will bring together staff and postgraduates from the three […]

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Composite crystals; a key to understanding biomineralisation and engineering superior materials?

Composite crystals; a key to understanding biomineralisation and engineering superior materials?

John Harding – Project Lead (Sheffield) Fiona Meldrum (Leeds) Roland Kroger (York) Professor John Harding (Sheffield) will co-ordinate a team of researchers on a project entitled ‘Composite crystals: a key to understanding […]

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Risk, Resilience and Governance in an Age of Uncertainty

Risk, Resilience and Governance in an Age of Uncertainty

Martina McGuinness (Sheffield) Evelyne Coles (Leeds) Matthian Beck (York) A project on Risk, Resilience and Governance in an Age of Uncertainty is being co-ordinated by Dr Martina McGuinness (Sheffield). Across the […]

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White Rose IPBio Project

White Rose IPBio Project

Gregory Radick –  Project Lead  (Leeds) Aurora Plomer (Sheffield) Tom Baldwin (York) A project being co-ordinated by Dr Greg Radick from Leeds is taking advantage of existing international connections to forge opportunities […]

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Hydrothermal microwave pyrolysis of microalgae

Hydrothermal microwave pyrolysis of microalgae

Andrew Rose –  Project Lead (Leeds) Jim Gilmour (Sheffield) James Clark (York) Dr Andrew Ross from Leeds is to co-ordinate a project investigating whether microwave technology can provide an effective means […]

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Liberal Realism: Political Theory in an Age of Insecurity

Liberal Realism: Political Theory in an Age of Insecurity

Matt  Sleat – Project Lead (Sheffield) Derek Edvane (Leeds) Matt Matravers (York) The White Rose Association for Political Philosophy (WRAPP) will create a formal network where informal connections already exist: the project’s […]

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Achieving Economic Recovery of the Resources Embedded in Wastewater

Achieving Economic Recovery of the Resources Embedded in Wastewater

Nigel Horan  – Project Lead  (Leeds) Adrian Saul (Sheffield) Malcolm Cresser (York)

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