Research Grants

RCUK Grants

Grant Reference and Body	Dates	Value	Title	Remarks
EP/J017485/1 and EPSRC	2013-2016	GBP365,643	A rigorous statistical framework for estimating the long-term health effects of air pollution	I am the sole investigator on this grant awarded to Southampton and it relates to apartner grantheld by Glasgow University.
NE/J012238/1 and NERC	2012-2015	GBP475,583	Quantifying annual cycles of macronutrient fluxes and net effect of transformations in an estuary: their responses to stochastic storm-driven events	I am a CI who leads the statistical modelling arm in thismulti-disciplinary multi-university consortium granttotalling more than a million pounds. This will enable me to hire a statistics post-doc for one year.
EP/H010637/1 and EPSRC	2010-2012	GBP341,363	MetSim: a Hospital Simulation Support Tool Using Meteorological Information to Improve the Planning and Management of Health Services	I am a CI who led the statistical modelling arm in this joint grant with Cardiff Univerrsity.
EP/C531965/1 and EPSRC	2005	GBP4,507	Recent advances in modelling spatio-temporal data	This grant, obtained jointly with Prof Susan Lewis, enabled me to organise a research workshop in Southampton.
EP/C008863/1 and EPSRC	2005-2010	GBP415,486	PLATFORM: End-to-End pipeline for chemical information: from the laboratory to literature and back again	I am a CI who led the statistical modelling arm in this multi-disciplinary grant.

Funding Body	Dates	Value	Purpose	Remarks
SAMSI	2013	US$2,000	To participate in a SAMSI-SAVI US-India workshop on environmental statistics	I gave an invited talk.
Australian National University	2011	AUS$8,000	To establish research collaboration.	This funding also allowed me to give a 3-day shor-course on Bayesian methods for spatial and spatio-temporal data.
Duke University	2011	US$3,000	To continue research collaboration.	This funding also allowed me to give 3 invited talks in the USA.
The National Academies	2007	US$45,000	To model large space-time data	This funding allowed me to become a resident Senior Research Fellow at the US Environmental protection Agency offices in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
US Environmental protection Agency	2005-2006	US$45,000	To model and forecast ozone levels in the Eastern USA	This funding allowed me to develop methods and software for real time forecasting of ozone levels.
Universities of Rome and Bergamo, Italy	2004-2005	EUR5,000	To work with Prof Giovanna Jona Lasinio and Prof A. Fasso.	This enabled me to visit Rome and Bergamo for three weeks.
SAMSI	2003	US$11,500	To participate in a SAMSI environmental statistics programme	This funding allowed me to visit SAMSI for 6 months that initiated collaboration with Prof Alan Gelfand (Duke University) and Dr David Holland, US Environmental Protection Agency.
The Royal Society, UK	1999	GBP600	To give an invited talk at Joint Statistical Meetings	I gave a talk at the JSM in Baltimore in 1999.

Funding Body	Dates	Value	Purpose	Remarks
University of Southampton	2011	GBP21,000	To partially fund a PhD Studentship for 3 years	I won this from a university-wide competition.
University of Southampton	2008	GBP75,000	An overseas PhD studentship	I won this from a university-wide competition.
University of Southampton	2008	GBP75,000	A PhD studentship	This funding was obtained jointly with Dr Andrew Chipperfield in Engineering.
Dorothy Hodgkin Trust	2005	GBP75,000	A PhD studentship for three years	This grant was administered by the University of Southampton and was obtained jointly with Peter Challenor.
The Royal Statistical Society, UK	2005	GBP1,200	To jointly organise a research workshop in Southampton	The workshop had more than 60 participants from 10 different countries.
Ordnance Survey, UK	2005	GBP500	To organise a research workshop in Southampton	The workshop had more than 60 participants from 10 different countries.