Research and Innovation Insights

The Centre for Global Eco-Innovation has worked with many businesses from various sectors, across the North West to help them to innovate, develop & grow. Find out more about our past and present projects below.

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Researcher Blog: Indoor Air Pollution - More Than Just Hot Air!

Posted on: 9 June 2023 by

PhD researcher Iman Hussain reflects on his research for the National Air Quality Testing Services (NAQTS)

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Researcher Blog: How I ended up driving around the Lake District monitoring Electric Vehicle Charge Points

Posted on: 8 June 2023 by Ellie Dolmor

"Sitting in an overpriced car park on a cold November morning watching people charge their cars, I began to wonder how I got here. A researcher, on a solo trip to the Lake District, in a borrowed MINI Electric Hatchback, trying to figure out where to put Electric Vehicle charge points and working alongside a community charge point operator, Charge My Street." Ellie Dolmor reflects on her 2022 research study.

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Researcher Blog: Scientific Outreach during Cov-19

Posted on: 5 October 2020 by Claire Holden and Katie Reeves

Two Lancaster University PhD researchers, Claire Holden and Katie Reeves, didn’t let the lockdown stop them from taking easy-to-understand science to the people.

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Business Blog: Knowledge Exchange Works Both Ways

Posted on: 3 March 2020 by Carolyn Hayes

Carolyn Hayes, from the Centre for Global Eco-innovation, reflects on a recent trip to Botswana to help develop knowledge-sharing between research and business, African style.

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Researcher Blog: University Collaboration Illuminates the Future of Farming

Posted on: 18 June 2019 by Phoebe Sutton

Phoebe Sutton explains how her commercially-led PhD with May Barn Consultancy, co-founders of the largest plant factory in the UK, will help address hidden hunger and promote green growth.

Video Case Study - Silverwoods

Silverwoods Waste Management has successfully repurposed industrial waste products as beneficial agricultural soil amendments. Focusing on Silverwoods Waste Management’s main product, Molly Frost's PhD research project aims to understand the full carbon sequestration potential of cement bypass dust when applied to agricultural soils.

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Video Case Study - NAQTS

Iman Hussain's PhD research project with the National Air Quality Testing Services is aimed at simultaneously decarbonising buildings, promoting good Indoor Air Quality (IAQ), and reducing the likelihood of airborne virus transmission. The project has worked to validate an Internet of Things network of sensors to improve IAQ, reducing ventilation related energy demand, and driving better understanding of stakeholder use of IAQ data.

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Video Case Study - Typhon Treatment Systems

Winner of the Eco-I NW ‘One-to-Watch’ Award 2022, Typhon have collaborated with the Eco-I NW project to further develop an innovative and low energy LED water-treatment system.

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