UMRI 2025: Unlocking Interdisciplinary Research Excellence
The University of Manchester Research Institute鈥檚 (UMRI) 2025 Interdisciplinary Research Pump-Prime Projects Announced
The UMRI 2025 Interdisciplinary Research Pump-Prime Call received numerous innovative and collaborative proposals across all disciplines, making the selection process highly competitive. Thank you to all who collaborated and submitted applications.
We are delighted to introduce the Principal Investigators, categorised by their platform theme:
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Priority areas: Creativity, Health and Wellbeing, Creative Industries and Innovation and Civic and Creative Places.
- School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
Dead or Alive: Birds in our World
- School of Engineering
Challenging the impossible: Questioning the reconstruction of ancient Egyptian faces through interdisciplinary collective approaches from digital, medical and arts methods
- School of Health Sciences
Co-producing inclusive housing and care solutions with older lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer people
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Priority areas: Digital Cultures, Digital Health, Digital Worlds, Digital Society, and the Digital Economy.
- School of Environment, Education and Development
Platformization of rural Africa: dependency, dispossession and data in the 鈥榮haring economy鈥�
- School of Health Sciences
Bridging the Gap: AI-Powered Spatial Tumour Profiling of Glioblastoma from Routine H&E Images
- School of Engineering
Hypo-cheat Randomised Control Trial Enabler
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Priority areas: Skills, Resilience, Resources, Net-Zero, Health and Equity.
- School of Education, Environment and Development
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- School of Engineering
Community-led Energy Renewables
- School of Engineering
Route 66: Visions for Rapid Decarbonisation of Transport 鈥� Exploring Integrated Approaches for Road, Aviation and Maritime
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Priority areas: Healthier Lives, Healthier Places and Healthier Systems.
- School of Medical Sciences
Closing the health gap: using technology to improve data transfer to tackle inequalities in CVD-related diagnoses and outcomes
- School of Medical Sciences
Addressing Cancer Inequalities Through Integrated Clinical and Environmental Data Analysis
Healthier Futures will also be directly supporting a further five awards:
- School of Education, Environment and Development
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- School of Education, Environment and Development
Understanding gendered trends in worsening adolescent mental health: Reviewing the evidence and facilitating knowledge exchange
- School of Medical Sciences
Epigenetic Risk scores for early prediction of kidney disease in diabetes:
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- School of Health Sciences
Electronic patient records and Deaf BSL users: exploring system potential and health profiles
- School of Natural Sciences
Socioeconomic, behavioural and environmental drivers of chikungunya in Africa
Congratulations to the funded research projects and teams. We look forward to the advancements interdisciplinary research will bring to tackle society's most pressing global challenges.
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