Revolving Investment Fund (RIF)

I have secured two RIF grants from DMU (<£20k), one to look at healthy building design and one to look at food and nutrition.

Healthy building design

Introduction:

To allow research workshops and activities to discuss the effect of the NHS / Medical building design and engineering on acute and long-term health, and will be encompassed in two themes.

Theme one examines the effect of the clinical built environment on reliable data collection. NHS strategies Point of Care testing, Choices, and creation of primary care holders encourages more clinical measurements to be taken in a variety of settings. Co-driving this is modern technology which allows sensitive clinical measures to be made in non-conventional settings (for example at home or in supermarket car parks). However, the effect of the built environment on these measures is unclear.

Theme two examines the long-term health effects of poor building design and engineering using the latest research from cross disciplines.

Food and nutrition

Introduction:

The food and nutrition cluster at HLS faculty has an established and evolving international reputation for academic research in food and human nutrition. The cluster offers dynamic research across a wide cross-section of activities from pure, applied, NHS, e-learning and social sciences.

1) This project will identify key areas and groupings within the cluster and foster a food and nutrition research culture conducive to grant submissions

2) Specifically, it will allow further development and collaborative workshops and meetings between the NHS, Graham Basten and Simon Dyson to address the issue of clinical, nutritional and social aspects of Sickle Cell Disease.