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08
July
2025
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12:13
Europe/London

UMRI 2025: Unlocking Interdisciplinary Research Excellence

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The University of Manchester Research InstituteÇà¹ÏÊÓÆµ™s (UMRI) 2025 Interdisciplinary Research Pump-Prime Projects Announced

The UMRI 2025 Interdisciplinary Research Pump-Prime Call received numerous innovative and collaborative proposals across all disciplines, making the selection process highly competitive.  Thank you to all who collaborated and submitted applications.

We are delighted to introduce the Principal Investigators, categorised by their platform theme:

 Director: 

Priority areas: Creativity, Health and Wellbeing, Creative Industries and Innovation and Civic and Creative Places.

  •  School of Arts, Languages and Cultures 

Dead or Alive: Birds in our World

  •  School of Engineering

Challenging the impossible: Questioning the reconstruction of ancient Egyptian faces through interdisciplinary collective approaches from digital, medical and arts methods 

  •  School of Health Sciences 

Co-producing inclusive housing and care solutions with older lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer people 

 Director: 

Priority areas: Digital Cultures, Digital Health, Digital Worlds, Digital Society, and the Digital Economy.

  •  School of Environment, Education and Development 

Platformization of rural Africa: dependency, dispossession and data in the Çà¹ÏÊÓÆµ˜sharing economyÇà¹ÏÊÓÆµ™  

  •  School of Health Sciences 

Bridging the Gap: AI-Powered Spatial Tumour Profiling of Glioblastoma from Routine H&E Images 

  •  School of Engineering 

Hypo-cheat Randomised Control Trial Enabler 

 Directors:  and 

Priority areas: Skills, Resilience, Resources, Net-Zero, Health and Equity.

  •  School of Education, Environment and Development

Pan Africa Mining Study   

  •   School of Engineering 

Community-led Energy Renewables 

  •  School of Engineering 

Route 66: Visions for Rapid Decarbonisation of Transport Çà¹ÏÊÓÆµ“ Exploring Integrated Approaches for Road, Aviation and Maritime

 Director: 

Priority areas: Healthier Lives, Healthier Places and Healthier Systems.

  •  School of Medical Sciences 

Closing the health gap: using technology to improve data transfer to tackle inequalities in CVD-related diagnoses and outcomes

  •  School of Medical Sciences 

Addressing Cancer Inequalities Through Integrated Clinical and Environmental Data Analysis

Healthier Futures will also be directly supporting a further five awards:

  • School of Education, Environment and Development

Co-developing interdisciplinary research bids to advance healthy ageing and age-friendly urban regeneration in North Manchester

  • School of Education, Environment and Development

Understanding gendered trends in worsening adolescent mental health: Reviewing the evidence and facilitating knowledge exchange

  • School of Medical Sciences

            Epigenetic Risk scores for early prediction of kidney disease in diabetes: 

            A pilot study in Greater Manchester

  • School of Health Sciences

            Electronic patient records and Deaf BSL users: exploring system potential and health profiles

  • School of Natural Sciences

            Socioeconomic, behavioural and environmental drivers of chikungunya in Africa

Congratulations to the funded research projects and teams. We look forward to the advancements interdisciplinary research will bring to tackle society's most pressing global challenges.

For further funding opportunities, please refer to the webpages:

To discover more from our previous award holders, please visit the  and .