Grants Awarded
US Awards
$20,000 Iowa NSF EPSCoR Energy Utilization platform (continuation funds 2014 – 2015)
$33,000 Provost’s Office additional start-up funds over 3 years (additional RA) (2014 – 2017)
$22,000 Match funding (20%) from Iowa Energy Centre (IEC) for an ASHRAE funded project if awarded.
$3, 000 Iowa Energy Centre (IEC) for a project entitled: Building a powerful team to research the performance of energy-efficient learning environments;
$12, 000 New Faculty Seed Funds of the Iowa NSF EPSCoR Energy Utilization platform for a project entitled: Iowa's New Schools: A Future Invested in Sustainability (PI) (2013 – 2014)
UK Awards
January 2012 – April 2013 (GBP 29,750)
Higher Education Academy (HEA) Departmental Awards programme "E-mentoring for Employability" working with the School of Civil and Building Engineering to develop a pilot virtual /e-mentoring programme for construction and engineering students.
March 2012 - February 2013 (GBP 72,872)
Jisc Access to Resources Phase 2 fund: "Cross-Institutional Learning Framework for Energy CPD: MEGS-KT" ran for 12 months (http://cede.lboro.ac.uk/megs-kt.html )
March 2007 - February 2010 (GBP 211,000)
Three-year UKERC/ESRC Early Careers Interdisciplinary Fellowship . How Can We Design Schools As Better Learning Spaces and To Encourage Sustainable Behaviour? Co-Design Methodologies and Sustainable Communities.
(RES-152-27-0001)
January 2009 (GBP 750)
Universitas 21 Seed Funding to host a series of lectures on school design with the intention of fostering interest international, interdisciplinary collaborative research entitled: Transforming Our Schools (all lectures are available online in full )
August 2008 - February 2009 (GBP 48,000)
Participation in the Learning Sciences Research Institute (LSRI) University of Nottingham project (0.03 participation) cross-disciplinary research team, headed by Dr Elizabeth Hartnell- Young, as a named researcher working on the Jisc funded (total of £47,957 over six months) Project "A Study of Effective Evaluation Models and Practices for Technology Supported Physical Learning Spaces"