05 / Funding

Research Funding

£574,755+ in competitively won research funding through Innovate UK, spanning industry knowledge transfer and cyber security innovation projects.

Total Secured — March 2025
£574k+
Total Funding
5
Active Projects
3
As PI / Co-PI
Funded Projects
£253,441
Academic Supervisor
KTP Applied AI — Novel Data Science for Living Green Infrastructure

Knowledge Transfer Partnership with I Want Plants Ltd. Developing novel data science capabilities to understand and quantify the environmental benefits arising from living green infrastructure in urban environments.

Innovate UK · Knowledge Transfer Partnership · 2023–2025
Active
£219,531
Academic Supervisor
KTP Applied AI — Flexible Energy Management for Corporate Real Estate

Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Oaktree Power Ltd. Developing novel AI capabilities to improve flexible energy management systems for the corporate real estate sector.

Innovate UK · Knowledge Transfer Partnership · 2023–2025
Active
£60,000
Co-Principal Investigator
AI-Based Cyber Security Platform for Windfarm Protection — Cyber ASAP Phase 2

Developing an AI-based platform for detecting and preventing cyberattacks on offshore and onshore windfarm operational technology infrastructure, including SCADA and industrial control systems.

Innovate UK · Cyber ASAP Phase 2 · 2024 (Applied)
Applied
£26,907
Principal Investigator
Web Security Vulnerability Assessment for IoT Platform — AKT2I Cyber Security

Partnership with Acquacheck Engineering Ltd. Assessment of web security vulnerabilities for Acquacheck's IoT water management platform, with identification of optimal mitigation strategies under different deployment and scalability scenarios.

Innovate UK · Accelerated Knowledge Transfer to Innovate (AKT2I) · 2022–2023 · Completed
Completed
£14,876
Principal Investigator
SPIDS4IIoT — Secure, Privacy-Preserving & Intelligent IDS for IIoT — Cyber ASAP Phase 1

Developing a secure, privacy-preserving, and intelligent intrusion detection system for Industrial Internet of Things environments using federated deep learning, enabling detection without centralising sensitive operational data.

Innovate UK · Cyber ASAP Phase 1 · 2024
Active
In Development
Proposal in Preparation · 2025

EPSRC New Investigator Award

Full proposal in development for an EPSRC New Investigator Award to support a dedicated programme of research in federated learning for smart critical infrastructure security.