Details of Grant

EPSRC Reference:

EP/W00061X/1

Title:

Bionics+: User Centred Design and Usability of Bionic Devices

Principal Investigator:

Other Investigators:

O'Connor, Professor RJ	Dawes, Professor H	Nazarpour, Dr K
Green, Dr R

Researcher Co-Investigators:

Project Partners:

Albany Business Consultants Ltd	BIOS Health Ltd	Brunel University London
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board	Cardiff University	Coherent UK Ltd
Coventry & Warwickshire NHS PartnerTrust	Devices for Dignity	Facebook (International)
Galvani Bioelectronics	Great Ormond Street Hospital	Imperial College London
Koalaa Limited	Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	National University of Ireland Maynooth
Newcastle University	NHS	NIHR CLAHRC for South Yorkshire
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust	Platt & Associates, Inc.	Sheffield Hallam University
UCL	University Hospitals Birmingham	University of Aberdeen
University of Bristol	University of Cambridge	University of Edinburgh
University of Glasgow	University of Manchester, The	University of Oxford
University of Sheffield	University of Southampton	University of Strathclyde
University of Surrey	University of York

Department:

Sch of Engineering

Organisation:

University of Warwick

Scheme:

Standard Research - NR1

Starts:

21 June 2021

Ends:

20 June 2025

Value (£):

902,307

EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:

Biomaterials	Biomechanics & Rehabilitation
Tissue engineering

EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:

Healthcare

Information Technologies

Related Grants:

Panel History:

Panel Date	Panel Name	Outcome
17 Mar 2021	HT New Challenges NetworkPlus Interview Panel	Announced

Summary on Grant Application Form

The Bionics+ NetworkPlus will represent the spectrum of research, clinical and industrial communities across bionic technologies within the EPSRC Grand Challenge theme of Frontiers of Physical Intervention. It will invigorate and support a cohesive, open and active network with the mission of creating a mutually supportive environment. It will lead to the co-creation of user-centred bionic solutions that are fit for purpose. These advances will have a global impact, consolidating the world-leading position of the UK. The founding tranche will focus on ambitious and transformative research, new collaborative and translational activities, and the formulation of a longer-term strategy. Within this context, as a community, we will explore and identify areas of opportunity and value, driven by Bionics users' needs, complementary to existing activity and strengths. The network will instigate and support early-stage research in these priority areas, alongside providing an outward-facing representation and engagement of the UK Bionics community. Further, we aim to contribute in an advisory capacity to public bodies, UK industry and government policy.

At the time of the application, we have obtained a positive commitment from circa 70 groups including bionic users, academic partners from universities in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and a few international partners; partners in medical devices, orthotics and prosthetics industry, both large corporates and small-medium size companies; and many clinicians, surgeons and aligned health experts from relevant NHS clinics and the private sector.

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Organisation Website:

http://www.warwick.ac.uk