Middlesex University
Financial Statements 2016/17
Research and Business Research
The University has enjoyed continued success in research grants and contracts over the past year, with research income recognition increasing from £5.3m in 2015/2016 to £5.5m in 2016/2017. Total ongoing research grants and contracts stand at £25.5m and show a healthy diversity, with £8m coming from grants, £7.4m from contract research and £10m from collaborative grants.
There was a fall in new grants and contracts from £7.8m to £6.7m, but this decrease is largely due to a decline in the number of applications rather than application success rates.
A grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) of £432,264 was awarded to Tao Geng from the Faculty of Science and Technology for research into a ‘neuromorphic control system for agile biped locomotion’, which aims to develop a 3D robot with human-like walking patterns.
Marcus O’Dair in the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries was awarded £20,000 from the Digital Catapult Centre, to support an artist in residence in performing arts.
Rachel Herring from the School of Health and Education won two grants from Alcohol Research UK: £56,642 for research into the challenges of alcohol abuse treatment, and £30,000 for work investigating the role of peer mentors within specialist alcohol treatment services.
EU-funded projects
A grant of £110,482 was awarded to Betsy Thom in the School of Health and Education by the Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency (CHAFEA) for work on interventions to prevent illicit drug use and the use of new psychoactive drugs among vulnerable people.
Mark Springett, from the Faculty of Science and Technology, was awarded £82,289 by the Directorate-General for Education and Culture for work on encouraging digital take- up amongst older citizens.
Erasmus+
Funding under the Erasmus+ scheme included two grants awarded to George Dafoulas: £76,465 to develop a new undergraduate programme in enterprise systems engineering, using a student-centred adaptive learning approach, and £54,778 for the establishment of Quality Assurance Centres in Azerbaijan universities.
Preparing for the year ahead
A major challenge for the coming year is preparing for our departure from the EU. This is a particular concern for the Faculty of Science and Technology, where £1,200,000 of the total £1,941,000 research income recognition was from EU-funded projects.
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