SPARC - Strategic Promotion of Ageing Research Capacity

Award Holder & Other Key Researchers
Institution

Project Title
& Details including link to project posters

Months
& Value

Executive
Summary
on Web

Interview
on Web

SPARC Workshops at which
Presentations have been made

Life in the Home

Mr Philip Astley
South Bank

Integrating the technological and social models of later life in the maintenance and adaptation of private housing

12
£30,500

Yes

1. Ageing Research and Occupational Therapy 2007
2. Research for a better age  - Hexham 2007

Dr Shaun Lawson
Lincoln

Multimodal augmented reality to support ageing in place

12
£28,944

Yes

Yes

1. New Technologies for Support and Care 2007
2. Technologies for Health, Rehabilitation and Self Management of Long Term Conditions 2008

Professor Paul Chamberlain
SHU

Design and the Home

12
£23,178

Yes

1. Ageing Research and Occupational Therapy 2007
2. New Technologies for Support and Care 2007

Product Design

Dr Alaster Yoxall Sheffield subsequently SHU

The 'inclusive engineering' approach: enhanced data gathering for an optimum diameter for ease of opening

6
£17,048

Yes

Yes

1. Design for Older People 2006
2. Older People Going Places 2008
3. Design Research and its Applications for Ageing Populations 2008

Dr Avril Thomson & Dr Ben Stansfield
Strathclyde

Designer relevant bio-mechanical data : Packages opening in an older adult population

12
£56,587

Yes

Yes

1. Design Research and its Applications for Ageing Populations 2008

Interface Design

Dr Faustina Hwang Reading

Improving computer interaction for older users: an investigation of dynamic on-screen targets

12
£42,703

Yes

Yes

1. Promoting Independence through New Technology 2008
2. Technologies for Health, Rehabilitation and Self Management of Long Term Conditions 2008
3. Older People Going Places 2008

Dr Panayiotis Zaphiris
City

Mathematical Modelling of Age Related Differences in Web Browsing

12
£26,600

Yes

1. Promoting Independence through New Technology 2008

Care Systems

Dr Christos Vasilakis
Westminster subsequently UCL

Developing capacity for evaluating proposed policies in the care for older patients through computer simulations

12
£38,838

Yes

1. Rehabilitation in Ageing 2008

The Older Worker

Professor Peter Buckle
Surrey

Understanding the design of the workplace for the older worker

12
£36,357

Yes

Yes

1. Old and Active 2007
2. Health Workplace Design and the Older Worker 2008
3. Older People Going Places 2008

Professor Alistair Gibb
Loughborough

Ageing in construction workers

12
£33,073

Yes

Yes

1. Health Workplace Design and the Older Worker 2008
2. Older People Going Places 2008

Getting Out and About

Mr Mike Bradley & Suzette Keith
Middlesex

An investigation into the advanced technology desires, needs and requirements of older drivers

18
£55,500

Yes

Yes

1. Award Holders Workshop 2006
2. Research for a Better Age - Eastbourne 2006
3. Transport for Older People 2006
4. Growing Old in Wales 2008
5. Showcasing Ageing an Disability Research 2008

Dr Charles Musselwhite
Bournemouth subsequently UWE

Prolonging safe driving behaviour through technology: attitudes of older drivers

14
£27,691

Yes

Yes

1. Transport for Older People 2006
2. Research for  Better Age - Penzance 2007
3. Older People on the Move 2007
4. Older People Going Places 2008

Dr Gregory Marsden & Dr Mima Cattan Leeds

Transport and older people: integrating transport planning tools with users needs

9
£24,963

Yes

Yes

1. Transport for Older People 2006
2. New Technologies for Support and Care 2007
3. Outdoors a Step too Far? 2008
4. Older People Going Places 2008

Prof Richard Neale & Dr Jo Waters Glamorgan

Design and community regeneration: Investigating personal safety concerns in socio-economically deprived communities in South Wales

9
£28,640

Yes

Yes

1. Award Holders Workshop 2006
2. Transport for Older People 2006
3. Outdoors a Step too Far? 2008
4. Growing Old in Wales 2008

Vision

Dr Mark Hollands
Birmingham

The contribution of visuomotor decline to falls in older adults during adaptive locomotion

12
£51,472

Yes

1. A Walk a Day Keeps a Fall at Bay 2007
2. Rehabilitation in Ageing 2008
3. Older People Going Places 2008

Dr Tom Freeman
Cardiff

Age, eye movement and motion perception

12
£37,229

Yes

1. Older People on the Move 2007
2. Growing Old in Wales 2008

Dr Ian Michael Wormstone
UEA

Age-related signalling capacities of the human lens

12
£50,083

Cognition and Communication

Professor Lorraine Tyler & Dr Meredith Shafto
Cambridge

Investigating the neural underpinnings of word-finding problems across the life span

12
£40.022

Yes

1. Understanding the Ageing Brain 2007

Dr Maria Klara Wolters
Edinburgh

What makes synthetic speech difficult to understand for older people? The contribution of auditory ageing

6
£17,775

Yes

1. New Technologies for Support and Care 2007

Professor Zoe Kourtzi
Birmingham

In search of bio-markers for cognitive ageing in the human brain

12
£29,961

Yes

1. Award Holders Meeting 2007
2. Understanding the Ageing Brain 2007

Activity and Diet

Dr Gladys Onambele-Pearson
MMU

Optimisation of skeletal muscle responses and quality of life to exercise in people over 60 years old: healthy diet vs dietary supplementation

12
£28,245

Yes

Yes

1. Old and Active 2007
2. A Walk a Day Keeps a Fall at Bay 2007
3. Transatlantic awareness and collaboration 2008
4. Older People Going Places 2008

Dr Sarah Aldred
Birmingham

Lipoprotein Oxidation in Ageing

12
£29,148

Yes

Yes

1. Rehabilitation in Ageing 2008

Dr Dianne Ford
Newcastle

The molecular basis of the beneficial effects of calorie restriction on ageing: DNA methylation influenced by Sitr1-mediated histone deacetylation

8
£44,682

Yes

1. Award Holders Meeting 2007
2. Transatlantic awareness and collaboration 2008

Dr Richard Ferguson
Strathclyde subsequently Loughborough

Temperature and velocity interactions in neuromuscular function during locomotion in older people

12
£51,322

Yes

1. Award Holders Meeting 2007

Dr Matthew Lancaster
Leeds

Ageing, exercise and gender: complex interactions and outcomes for all muscles

12
£25,500

Chemical Biology of Ageing

Dr Terry Davis initially Fiona Wyllie
Cardiff

Evaluating the role of p38 MAP kinase in the accelerated ageing of WS fibroblasts

12
£39,992

Yes

1. Award Holders Workshop 2006
2. Chemistry and Biology 2006
3. Growing Old in Wales 2008

Dr Mark Bagley
Cardiff

Chemical tool for ageing research

12
£35,959

Yes

1. Chemistry and Biology 2006
2. Growing Old in Wales 2008

Dr Elizabeth Ostler
Brighton

Chemical analysis of ageing tissue in Drosophila melanogaster

18
£58,820

Yes

1. Transatlantic awareness and collaboration 2008

Ageing Mechanisms and Oxidative Stress

Dr Donald Palmer
RVC

Unnatural ageing of killer cells

12
£36,765

1. Research for  Better Age - Penzance 2007

Professor Paul Winyard
Exeter

Application of high-throughput assays of oxidative stress to studies of the role of common genetic variation in healthy human ageing

12
£56,851

1. Research for a Better Age - Hexham 2007

Dr Richard Hartley
Glasgow

EPR, oxidative stress and ageing

18
£58,534

Yes

Yes

1. Transatlantic awareness and collaboration 2008

Dr Katrin Jennert-Burston & Dr Mark Yeoman
Brighton

A proteomics approach to understanding age-related changes in neuronal function

18
£53,920

1. Research for a Better Age - Eastbourne 2006

2. Funding Ageing Research 2008

Dr Andrew Trafford
Manchester

An investigative approach to define a role for endothelial nitric oxide synthase in the vascular biology of ageing and consequences for cardiac function

12
£32,695

Dr Ilaria Bellantuono
Sheffield

Gene expression profiling to understand stem cell ageing

10
£28,288

Yes

1. Transatlantic awareness and collaboration 2008