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EPSRC Support by Research Area (Engineering Design) in Theme (Manufacturing the Future)

Research areas are used to describe EPSRC's portfolio of excellent long term research and high quality postgraduate training.

Grants are classified using one or more research areas. The number and value of grants listed below reflects how the theme portfolio is described by this research area.

Please note: some research areas will appear under multiple themes. There is no unique, absolute, relationship between a research area and a theme.

Grant TitlePrincipal
Investigator		OrganisationDepartmentTotal Grant
Value (£)
21st Century Prototyping: Improving product prototyping through the integration of physical and digital workflowSnider, Dr CUniversity of BristolMechanical Engineering 344,003
A hybrid precision manufacturing platform for next-generation of nanoscale productsLuo, Professor XUniversity of StrathclydeDesign Manufacture and Engineering Man 766,513
A Multiscale Digital Twin-Driven Smart Manufacturing System for High Value-Added ProductsLuo, Professor XUniversity of StrathclydeDesign Manufacture and Engineering Man 2,805,908
AIM3: Additive and intelligent manufacturing of multi-functional membranesTokay, Dr BUniversity of NottinghamFaculty of Engineering 1,008,679
Circular Economy for Small Medical DevicesRahimifard, Professor SLoughborough UniversityWolfson Sch of Mech, Elec & Manufac Eng 1,546,200
Closed Loop Digitalised Data Analytics and Analysis Platform (DAAP) for Intelligent Design and Manufacturing of Power Electronic ModulesStoyanov, Dr SUniversity of GreenwichMathematical Sciences, FACH 321,061
Closed Loop Digitalised Data Analytics and Analysis Platform (DAAP) for Intelligent Design and Manufacturing of Power Electronic ModulesShen, Professor YUniversity of LiverpoolElectrical Engineering and Electronics 137,864
CMMI-EPSRC - Right First Time Manufacture of Pharmaceuticals (RiFTMaP)Cordiner, Professor JUniversity of SheffieldChemical & Biological Engineering 1,543,633
Elastic Manufacturing systems - a platform for dynamic, resilient and cost-effective manufacturing servicesRatchev, Professor SMUniversity of NottinghamFaculty of Engineering 2,803,659
ESTEEM: Energy efficient and Safe out-of-oven manufacTuring for compositE materials with intEgrated MultifunctionalitiesZhang, Dr HQueen Mary University of LondonSchool of Engineering & Materials Scienc 395,947
Future Electrical Machines Manufacturing HubJewell, Professor GUniversity of SheffieldElectronic and Electrical Engineering 10,735,962
Machining metre-sized gratings with nanometre accuracyBuscher, Professor DFUniversity of CambridgePhysics 758,973
Nature-inspired bio-Syngas Technologies for Olefins SynthesisMaterazzi, Dr MUCLChemical Engineering 1,168,549
Re-Imagining Engineering Design: Growing Radical Cyber-Physical-Socio PhenotypesPrice, Professor MQueen's University of BelfastSch Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 7,355,902
Rotational Vibration Assisted Increment Sheet Forming by Novel Tooling (RV-ISF)Long, Professor HUniversity of SheffieldMechanical Engineering 1,016,188
STOP fibrous microplastic pollution from textiles by elucidating fibre damage and manufacturing novel textilesTausif, Professor MUniversity of LeedsSch of Design 624,583
The UK Catalysis Hub - 'Science': 2 Catalysis at the Water-Energy NexusHardacre, Professor CUniversity of Manchester, TheChem Eng and Analytical Science 4,010,674
UK FIRES: Locating Resource Efficiency at the heart of Future Industrial Strategy in the UKAllwood, Professor JMUniversity of CambridgeEngineering 5,176,328
Ultrasonically enabled supportless 3D printing (Sonobeamer)Neale, Dr SLUniversity of GlasgowSchool of Engineering 1,015,143

Total Number of Grants: 19
Total Value of Grants: £43,535,767

The grant value may include the cost of access to facilities (these funds are not awarded to the grant holding organisation).