Department of Informatics

Recent research grants and donations

Grant titleAwarding bodyPeriodAmount
Centre for the Improvement of Population Health through E-health Research (CIPHER) MRC 03/13-02/18 £45,489*
Cardiac control of fear in the brain EU 06/13-05/17 £1,494,049*
INSIGHT II - Darwinian neurodynamics EU 03/13-02/16 £286,445*
Green Brain - Computational modelling of the honeybee brain EPSRC 10/12-09/15 £335,477
A unified model of compositional and distributional semantics: Theory and applications EPSRC 10/12-09/15 £370,066
The Turing Centenary Research Project: Mind, mechanism and mathematics - Dr David Gamez JTF Turing Research Fellowship 07/12-06/15 £75,000
Predictive coding in social perception - Dr Marte Otten EU Marie Curie Fellowship 05/13-04/15 £180,085
How expectations shape awareness - Dr Yair Pinto EU Marie Curie Fellowship 05/13-04/15 £173,294
EUCogIII: 3rd European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems, Interaction and Robotics EU 02/12-03/15 £39,350
Towards a social media science: Tools and methodologies ESRC NCRM 04/13-09/14 £128,035
Theoretical explanation of the cognitive foundations of creativity Leverhulme Trust 10/10-09/14 £123,557
Face 2 Face: Tracing the real and the mediated in children's cultural worlds ESRC NCRM 09/13-08/14 £133,497*
CEEDS: The Collective Experience of Empathic Data Systems EU 09/10-08/14 £285,092
Systematic benchmarking of chemical sensory arrays using feature selection and machine learning CSIRO 05/13-04/14 £35,539
Data quality in the Clinical Practice Research Datalink - Dr Rosemary Tate CPRD Research Fellowship 03/13-03/14 £111,908
Connecting virtual communities to the digital economy through micropayment technologies Technology Strategy Board 03/12-02/14 £505,613
Towards a next-generation computational neuroscience EPSRC 01/09-12/13 £1,114,409
Trajectories to community engagement: Understanding older people's experiences of engagement with online and offline communities EPSRC Communities and Culture Network+ 06/13-11/13 £13,430
The digital stadium - Mobile services over novel networking technologies EPSRC 10/12-07/13 £76,791
The ergonomics of electronic patient records: An interdisciplinary development of methodologies for understanding and exploiting free text to enhance the utility of primary care electronic patient records Wellcome Trust 01/09-06/13 £670,258*
Insect-inspired visually guided autonomous route navigation through natural environments EPSRC 05/11-04/13 £102,329
CASE studentship with Vero UK Ltd EPSRC, Vero UK 10/09-04/13 £63,500
Decision making in neural networks: Influence of learning BBSRC 04/10-03/13 £1,120,045*
The Green Revolution Game - Computer games for social impact Institute for Development Studies 03/10-03/13 £100,000
Developing measures to assess the quality of GPRD data for research purposes Industrial research contract 02/12-11/12 £42,638
Exploitation of diverse data via automatic adaptation of knowledge extraction software Technology Strategy Board 06/11-11/12 £77,588
Visualisation of the quality of electronic health records for clinical research Technology Strategy Board 04/11-10/12 £86,383
SWAT (Semantic Web Authoring Tool) EPSRC 06/09-06/12 £57,914
e-Flux: Evolutionary microfluidix EU 04/09-03/12 £250,000
Reanimating cultural heritage: Digital repatriation, knowledge networks and civil society strengthening in post-conflict Sierra Leone AHRC 02/09-01/12 £155,983
EUCogII - 2nd European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems, Interaction and Robotics EU 02/09-01/12 £26,536
Motion capture applied research Industrial research contract 05/11-01/12 £15,122
ECCEROBOT - Embodied Cognition of Compliantly Engineered Robot EU 04/09-12/11 £382,892
Olfactory coding in the insect pheromone pathway BBSRC 05/08-12/11 £466,867
ECHOES II: Improving children's social interaction through exploratory learning in a multimodal environment ESRC 11/08-11/11 £237,138
From reasoning principles for function pointers to logics for self-configuring programs EPSRC 11/08-10/11 £396,670
Supporting shy users in pervasive computing EPSRC 10/08-09/11 £1,077,778*
RCUK academic fellowship RCUK 10/06-09/11 £125,000
Innovating a digital value chain (B2C and B2B fair trade e-tailing system) through web 3D and social networks SEEDA 05/11-07/11 £12,000
Relative completeness for logics of functional programs EPSRC 01/11-06/11 £13,409
FLIP: A concurrent bi-modal programming language for computational thinking EPSRC 01/09-06/11 £297,591
Cross-disciplinary feasibility account - Interfaces between informatics, neuroscience and engineering EPSRC 01/10-04/11 £201,085*
CHANGE (Engendering change in people's everyday habits using ubiquitous computing technologies) EPSRC 11/09-04/11 £3,754
Motion in Place (MiPP) AHRC 03/10-03/11 £434,345*

* indicates grants held jointly with other Schools at Sussex; in these cases the full award value is given.

Donation purposeDonorPeriod
The Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science - renewal Dr Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation 2012-15
Consciousness science donation Anonymous donor 2012
Text analytics doctoral bursaries and research internships donation Anonymous donor 2012
The Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science Dr Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation 2010-12
Robotics donation - walking robot Peter de Bourcier 2011
Neurodynamics and consciousness doctoral scholarship donation Anonymous donor 2010