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The Department of Engineering Science’s 'Spotlight' event series has successfully bridged the gap between complex engineering research and public awareness. By fostering effective communication skills among researchers, the initiative has demonstrated the importance and relevance of engineering in everyday life to a wider, non-specialist audience. This case study explores the development of the initiative and the department's plans to diversify audiences and solidify its impact.
Revolutionising Consumer Plastics: A Collaborative Journey from Lab to Industry
EPSRC IAA funds supported Professor Dermot O’Hare and Dr Clement Collins Rice’s testing of a newly discovered, highly effective tuneable catalyst platform for novel industry applications key to sustainable manufacturing of plastics.
A new device to detect cardiovascular disease
A collaboration between the Physics and Cardiovascular Medicine Departments at Oxford University has developed a low-cost, hand-held device to help detect signs of cardiovascular and other diseases, which is now being tested in clinical studies.
New tools for reproducible hydrogen-deuterium exchange mass spectrometry
IAA funded a partnership between the Department of Statistics and the global biopharma companyGSK to improve and commercialise new software which can help speed up the drug development pipeline.
Sustainably sourced, degradable polymers for homecare application
A team at the Department of Chemistry has used EPSRC IAA funding to explore how to manufacture and use sustainable polymers, instead of those derived from fossil fuels, in cleaning and laundry products.