Funding
22 funded projects from 2005 to 2026, spanning visual analytics, intelligence analysis, health certification and data science. Amounts are as recorded at the time of award; some figures are total project values rather than my own share.
Inclusive Floor Plan Design with Generative AI
2026- Role
- Co-investigator
- Funder
- University of Nottingham, UK
- Funding
- £30,000
Applying generative AI to the design of accessible and inclusive floor plans.
Decoding the Vindolanda tablets: Generative AI to reassemble, read and restore Roman handwritten texts
2025–2029- Role
- Co-investigator
- Funder
- Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), UK
- Funding
- £116,000
- Partners
- The British Museum
Using generative AI to reassemble, read and restore the Vindolanda tablets, working with the British Museum.
Human-Centred Text-to-Image Generation
2025- Role
- Principal investigator
- Funder
- REF Enhancement Fund, University of Nottingham, UK
- Funding
- £5,000
Human-centred approaches to text-to-image generation.
Human-AI Collaboration for Scientific Discovery
2024–2026- Role
- Principal investigator
- Funder
- International Research Collaboration Fund, University of Nottingham, UK
- Funding
- £15,000
An internal collaboration fund award supporting human-AI collaboration for scientific discovery.
Cognitive Engineering for Human-Centred AI Design
2021–2024- Role
- Co-investigator
- Funder
- Genetec Inc., Montreal, Canada
- Funding
- £450,000
An industry collaboration with Genetec on cognitive engineering for human-centred AI design.
RAMP VIS: Making Visual Analytics an Integral Part of the Technological Infrastructure for Combating Covid-19
2021–2022- Role
- Co-investigator
- Funder
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK
- Funding
- £430,000
A collaborative effort with visualisation researchers across the UK, providing visual analytics support in the fight against Covid-19. It started as a volunteer response and grew into a funded network.
God, the Oracle, and the Nightclub Bouncer: Can human dignity be modelled in an AI-based decision support system for post-Covid health certification
2020–2021- Role
- Co-investigator
- Funder
- EPSRC Network Plus SPRITE+
- Funding
- £50,000
- Partners
- Birmingham City University, King’s College London, Cardiff University, University of Exeter, Trilateral Research Ltd
Exploring whether human dignity can be modelled in an AI-based decision support system for post-Covid health certification — and what it means to build such a system responsibly.
Behaviour analytics for defence and security
2019- Role
- Principal investigator
- Funder
- Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), Ministry of Defence (MOD), UK
- Funding
- £80,000
- Partners
- MASS Ltd
Using the human-machine teaming approach to design a new visual analytics method for behaviour analysis in defence and security settings.
Combining data visualisation with machine learning to make sense of large social media data
2018–2019- Role
- Principal investigator
- Funder
- Microsoft Azure Research Award
- Funding
- US$20,000
Using Microsoft Azure to analyse over 1.5 billion tweets with an updated SAVI (Social Analytics VIsualisation) pipeline.
The Connected Vehicles
2018–2019- Role
- Co-investigator
- Funder
- Department for Transport and City of York Council, UK
- Funding
- £50,000
A connected vehicles project with the Department for Transport.
Providing data analysis insights into real to-the-second timing patterns of passenger rail services using Machine Learning techniques
2017–2018- Role
- Co-investigator
- Funder
- Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) and the Rail Research UK Association (RRUKA)
- Funding
- £80,000
Applying machine learning to the real to-the-second timing patterns of passenger rail services.
TimeSets: timeline visualisation for provenance-based big data sensemaking
2016- Role
- Principal investigator
- Funder
- Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), Ministry of Defence (MOD), UK
- Funding
- £100,000
A data visualisation project addressing data quality and lineage issues in sensemaking using provenance, built on the TimeSet technique.
Open-source Big Data Insight
2015- Role
- Principal investigator
- Funder
- Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), Ministry of Defence (MOD), UK
- Funding
- £50,000
Building the big data infrastructure and data lake for the visual analysis of open-source intelligence data.
VALCRI – Visual AnaLytics for sense-making in CRiminal Intelligence analysis
2014–2018- Role
- Co-investigator
- Funder
- European Commission (EU FP7 integration project)
- Funding
- €13,000,000
A very large project with around 20 partners and 100 personnel across many EU countries, developing the next generation of visual analytics for criminal intelligence analysis.
Patterns of Life Visualisation Experimentation, Pt. II
2014–2015- Role
- Co-investigator
- Funder
- Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), Ministry of Defence (MOD), UK
- Funding
- £120,000
Designing, implementing and evaluating a new visual analytics tool for Pattern-of-Life analysis, which tries to understand and predict movement patterns of individuals or small groups.
Pattern of Life Visualisation Experimentation
2014- Role
- Co-investigator
- Funder
- Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), Ministry of Defence (MOD), UK
- Funding
- £89,000
First phase of the Pattern-of-Life visualisation experimentation programme.
High-dimensional visualisation for big data
2014–2015- Role
- Principal investigator
- Funder
- CGI Group, UK
- Funding
- £20,000
Investigating how interactive projection techniques can help users improve their understanding of data with very high dimensionality.
Multiple source information assimilation to support decision-making
2013–2015- Role
- Co-investigator
- Funder
- Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), Ministry of Defence (MOD), UK
- Funding
- £195,000
A two-year project applying visual analytics techniques to support sense making in intelligence analysis.
Data Intensive Visual Analytics (DIVA)
2012–2013- Role
- Co-investigator
- Funder
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), UK
- Funding
- £215,000
A project jointly funded by EPSRC and Dstl, involving Middlesex University and three further partners.
UK Visual Analytics Consortium Joint Research Project
2011–2013- Role
- Co-investigator
- Funder
- Ministry of Defence (UK) and Department of Homeland Security (US)
- Funding
- £870,000
A consortium bringing together five leading UK universities including Bangor University, funded jointly by the UK and US defence and security agencies.
ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure
2007–2008- Funder
- National ICT Australia (NICTA)
- Funding
- A$100,000
NICTA representative on the ARC research network.
Network Analysis and Visualisation Taskforce
2005–2006- Funder
- ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure
- Funding
- A$33,000
Co-investigator on the taskforce.
Details of any individual award are available on request — email me.