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Shortlisted Applicants for 2011

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Vice Chancellor's Excellence in Knowledge Transfer Award Shortlist

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Fin Caton-Rose, Senior Lecturer, School of Engineering nominated by Iqbal Mujtaba.
  • Shortlisted for good sustained development in a range of products, good examples of University Research and Knowledge Transfer and successfully commercialised research.
Fin Caton-Rose


Paul Edwards, Bradford Dementia Group, School of Health nominated by Shirley Congdon.
  • Shorlisted for maintaining and developing a reputation that will put Bradford on the map, a good breadth of work and well written application.
Paul Edwards


Des Tobin, Centre for Skin Sciences, nominated by Vladimir A Botchkarev.
  • Shorlisted for his excellent research and its business application.
Des Tobin

Ben Whiteside, Centre for Polymer Micro and Nano Technology, nominated by Fin Caton-Rose.

  • Shorlisted for his engaged with SMEs and taking his research through to commercialisation of the product

Ben Whiteside

Business Innovation Award Shortlist

  • Raed A Abd-Alhameed, School of Engineering, for his partnership with Pace Plc
  • Leigh Mulvaney-Johnson, Centre for Advanced Materials Engineering for their partnership with Nampac Plastics Europe Limited
  • Claire Surr, Bradford Dementia Group, for their partnership with Bupa Care Homes
  • Ben Whiteside, Centre for Polymer Micro and Nano Technology, for their Partnership with Coronet Medical Technologies Ltd

Interdisciplinary Award Shortlist

  • Paul Edwards, Bradford Dementia Group for furniture developed for dementia patients
  • Rob Forbes, Pharmacy for new coating technology
  • Anant Paradkar, Centre for Pharmaceutical Engineering Science for his propolis (honey bee product) work
  • Xiao-Lei Wang, Polymer Interdisciplinary Research Centre, School of Engineering for Science Bridges China

Community Partnerships Award Shortlist

  • Eleanor Clyde-Evans, School of Lifelong Education and Development for the AmazeYourself programme
  • Lisa Cumming and Jenny Pearce, School of Social and International Studies for the Programme for a Peaceful City
  • Tim Green, Language Centre, School of Lifelong Education and Development for Community Interpreting project
  • Ali Rashid, School of Computing, Informatics and Media for his Multimedia project
  • Chris Wilson, UCAN, Student's Union, for Cycle re Cycle

See who the winners were.