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EPSRC Support by Research Area (Engineering Design) in Theme (Manufacturing the Future)

Research areas are used to describe EPSRC's portfolio of excellent long term research and high quality postgraduate training.

Grants are classified using one or more research areas. The number and value of grants listed below reflects how the theme portfolio is described by this research area.

Please note: some research areas will appear under multiple themes. There is no unique, absolute, relationship between a research area and a theme.

Grant TitlePrincipal
Investigator		OrganisationDepartmentTotal Grant
Value (£)
A hybrid precision manufacturing platform for next-generation of nanoscale productsLuo, Professor XUniversity of StrathclydeDesign Manufacture and Engineering Man 766,513
A Multiscale Digital Twin-Driven Smart Manufacturing System for High Value-Added ProductsLuo, Professor XUniversity of StrathclydeDesign Manufacture and Engineering Man 2,805,908
AFM-based nano-machining: developing and validating a novel modelling approach for effective process implementation in nanotechnology applicationsBrousseau, Dr EBCardiff UniversitySch of Engineering 692,656
Assuring the quality of design descriptions through the use of design configuration spacesMcKay, Professor AUniversity of LeedsMechanical Engineering 1,204,456
Biohaviour - Building the Blind WatchmakerPrice, Professor MQueen's University of BelfastSch Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 792,707
Citizen Nature WatchPhillips, Dr RRoyal College of ArtSchool of Design 351,880
Cognitive Chemical ManufacturingBourne, Dr RAUniversity of LeedsChemical and Process Engineering 2,007,487
Combining Chemical Robotics and Statistical Methods to Discover Complex Functional ProductsLapkin, Professor AUniversity of CambridgeChemical Engineering and Biotechnology 1,227,510
Connected Everything II: Accelerating Digital Manufacturing Research Collaboration and InnovationSharples, Professor SUniversity of NottinghamFaculty of Engineering 1,065,313
Design and direct metal laser sintering of replacement heart valvesBressloff, Professor NWUniversity of SouthamptonFaculty of Engineering & the Environment 474,978
Design and green manufacturing of functional nanomaterialsPatwardhan, Professor SVUniversity of SheffieldChemical & Biological Engineering 1,011,132
Designing the Future: Resilient Trans-Disciplinary Design EngineersNewnes, Professor LBUniversity of BathMechanical Engineering 1,787,703
Development and Demonstration of an Effective Optimisation Approach for Large-scale Chemical Production SchedulingLI, Dr JUniversity of Manchester, TheChem Eng and Analytical Science 245,055
Digital Manufacturing on a Shoestring [Digital Shoestring]McFarlane, Professor DUniversity of CambridgeEngineering 1,667,135
Digital twins for improved dynamic designWagg, Professor DJUniversity of SheffieldMechanical Engineering 5,112,624
Diode-pumped Ti:sapphire lasers: a manufacturable platform for precision photonicsKemp, Professor AJUniversity of StrathclydeInst of Photonics 935,452
Elastic Manufacturing systems - a platform for dynamic, resilient and cost-effective manufacturing servicesRatchev, Professor SMUniversity of NottinghamFaculty of Engineering 2,803,659
Embedded Integrated Intelligent Systems for ManufacturingWest, Professor AALoughborough UniversityWolfson Sch of Mech, Elec & Manufac Eng 1,608,257
Enabling Next Generation Additive ManufacturingHague, Professor RJUniversity of NottinghamFaculty of Engineering 5,852,466
Engineering Microbial-Induced Carbonate Precipitation via Meso-Scale SimulationsOfiteru, Dr INewcastle UniversitySch of Engineering 604,550
Engineering Microbial-Induced Carbonate Precipitation via Meso-Scale SimulationsJefferson, Professor TCardiff UniversitySch of Engineering 54,008
Engineering Microbial-Induced Carbonate Precipitation via Meso-Scale SimulationsGebhard, Dr SUniversity of BathBiology and Biochemistry 356,353
EPSRC NetworkPlus In Digitalised Surface Manufacturing: Towards "World's Best" ProcessesMatthews, Professor AUniversity of Manchester, TheMaterials 1,015,120
ESTEEM: Energy efficient and Safe out-of-oven manufacTuring for compositE materials with intEgrated MultifunctionalitiesZhang, Dr HQueen Mary University of LondonSchool of Engineering & Materials Scienc 395,947
Future Electrical Machines Manufacturing HubJewell, Professor GUniversity of SheffieldElectronic and Electrical Engineering 10,455,745
High-Volume Composites Manufacturing Cell with Digital Twinning CapabilityWarrior, Professor NUniversity of NottinghamFaculty of Engineering 454,736
Improving the product development process through integrated revision control and twinning of digital-physical models during prototypingHicks, Professor BJUniversity of BristolMechanical Engineering 1,653,338
iNEED (including Non-destructive Evaluation in Engineered Design)Mulholland, Professor AUniversity of BristolEngineering Mathematics 167,249
Inline virtual qualification from 3D X-ray imaging for high-value manufacturingEvans, Dr LSwansea UniversityCollege of Engineering 1,025,110
LightForm: Embedding Materials Engineering in Manufacturing with Light AlloysQuinta da Fonseca, Professor JUniversity of Manchester, TheMaterials 4,827,337
Machining metre-sized gratings with nanometre accuracyBuscher, Dr DFUniversity of CambridgePhysics 758,973
Manufacturing Bio-inspired "Artificial Wood" from (Low-Cost) Ionic LiquidsLee, Dr KImperial College LondonAeronautics 252,776
Manufacturing Fellowship Extension in: Controlling geometrical variability of products in the digital and smart manufacturing eraScott, Professor PJUniversity of HuddersfieldSch of Computing and Engineering 697,733
Nanostar Sieving for Oligonucleotides Manufacture (NanoSieveOligo)Livingston, Professor AImperial College LondonChemical Engineering 562,145
New Industrial Systems: Chatty FactoriesBurnap, Professor PCardiff UniversityComputer Science 1,467,376
New Wire Additive Manufacturing (NEWAM)Williams, Professor SWCranfield UniversitySch of Aerospace, Transport & Manufact 5,886,209
Powders by design for additive manufacture through multi-scale simulationsHaeri, Dr SUniversity of EdinburghSch of Engineering 370,418
Predictive Modelling for Incremental Cold Flow Forming: An integrated framework for fundamental understanding and process optimisationPearce, Professor CUniversity of GlasgowSchool of Engineering 1,232,185
Production engineering research for the manufacture of novel electronically functional yarns for multifunctional smart textilesDias, Professor TNottingham Trent UniversitySch of Art and Design 1,322,905
Quasi-ambient bonding to enable cost-effective high temperature Pb-free solder interconnectsLIU, Professor CLoughborough UniversityWolfson Sch of Mech, Elec & Manufac Eng 437,621
Quasi-ambient bonding to enable cost-effective high temperature Pb-free solder interconnectsHolmes, Professor AImperial College LondonElectrical and Electronic Engineering 267,695
Quasi-ambient bonding to enable cost-effective high temperature Pb-free solder interconnectsHaigh, Professor SJUniversity of Manchester, TheMaterials 303,232
REBUILD - REgenerative BUILDings and products for a circular economyHopkinson, Professor PUniversity of ExeterBusiness and Management 921,629
Redistributed Manufacturing in Deployed Medical Care Network PlusPhillips, Professor WEUniversity of the West of EnglandFaculty of Business and Law 1,741,421
Re-Imagining Engineering Design: Growing Radical Cyber-Physical-Socio PhenotypesPrice, Professor MQueen's University of BelfastSch Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 7,355,902
Responsive Manufacturing: Maximising Value Through LifeNewnes, Professor LBUniversity of BathMechanical Engineering 523,467
SEE MORE: SECONDARY ELECTRON EMISSION - MICROSCOPY FOR ORGANICS WITH RELIABLE ENGINEERING-PROPERTIESRodenburg, Dr CUniversity of SheffieldMaterials Science and Engineering 1,004,316
SIMulation of new manufacturing PROcesses for Composite Structures (SIMPROCS)Hallett, Professor SRUniversity of BristolAerospace Engineering 1,115,704
STOP fibrous microplastic pollution from textiles by elucidating fibre damage and manufacturing novel textilesYang, Dr DUniversity of EdinburghSch of Engineering 25,678
STOP fibrous microplastic pollution from textiles by elucidating fibre damage and manufacturing novel textilesTausif, Dr MUniversity of LeedsSch of Design 624,583
SYstems Science-based design and manufacturing of DYnamic MATerials and Structures (SYSDYMATS)Lang, Professor ZUniversity of SheffieldAutomatic Control and Systems Eng 1,607,562
Temporal Design for Additive Manufacture: GrowCADThomas-Seale, Dr LUniversity of BirminghamMechanical Engineering 237,591
The UK Catalysis Hub - 'Science': 2 Catalysis at the Water-Energy NexusHardacre, Professor CUniversity of Manchester, TheChem Eng and Analytical Science 4,010,674
Through-life performance: From science to instrumentationStarr, Professor ACranfield UniversitySch of Aerospace, Transport & Manufact 1,228,367
UK FIRES: Locating Resource Efficiency at the heart of Future Industrial Strategy in the UKAllwood, Professor JMUniversity of CambridgeEngineering 5,176,328
UK Manufacturing Symbiosis NetworkPlus (UKMSN+)Batista, Dr LCAston UniversityCollege of Business and Social Sciences 892,577
Using Machine learning to enable feedback controlled manufacture of self-assembled patterned materialsEbbens, Dr SUniversity of SheffieldChemical & Biological Engineering 252,938
What happens when you cross LEGO and a Star Trek Replicator?Pope, Dr S AUniversity of SheffieldAutomatic Control and Systems Eng 237,248

Total Number of Grants: 58
Total Value of Grants: £93,937,637

The grant value may include the cost of access to facilities (these funds are not awarded to the grant holding organisation).