The University of Bath's Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Impact Acceleration Accounts (IAAs) administered awards ranging from £10K to £50K between the two IAAs in 2025-26.
All projects are led by research staff from departments across the University with a wide range of anticipated outcomes and impacts.
More about the IAAs at Bath and how they can support your research impact work.
Faculty of Engineering and Design
Department of Chemical Engineering
EPSRC (Fast-Track): Principal Investigator Dr Sandhya Moise with Co-Investigator Professor Katherine Fraser (Mechanical Engineering) and Research Associate Dr David Phillips will build on strong networks to develop their fluidised bed bioreactor into a more user-friendly, accessible and commercially viable system for adoption in the biotech industry.
Department of Mechanical Engineering
EPSRC (Fast-Track): Principal Investigator Prof Vimal Dhokia with Dr Lorenzo Giunta, Co-Investigators Prof Christos Vasilakis and Prof Melih Celik and Research Assistant Hanan Tureci Isik, will simulate how healthcare providers’ on-demand drug delivery needs can be supported by a novel Automated Drug Compounding system.
EPSRC (Fast-Track): Principal Investigator Prof Chris Bowen and Research Associate Dr Narayan Bastola are exploring piezo-electric components with ‘holes’ for transducer applications, to develop methods that optimise metallisation and polarization processes which will form the basis of further collaboration with industry.
EPSRC: Principal Investigator Dr Andrew Cookson and Research Associate Dr Liam Burrows will be working with a local hospital and UK University to accelerate the clinical adoption of AI for early detection and phenotyping of Pulmonary Hypertension and explore pathways to commercialise the technology.
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of Education
ESRC: Principal Investigator Prof. Ceri Brown and Co-Investigator Dr Alison Douthwaite, developing the reach of the ‘Connected Belonging’ toolkit to extend its innovative approach to inclusion and mental wellbeing for Further and Higher Education settings.
Department of Psychology
ESRC: Principal Investigator Dr Faith Martin, working in Rwanda to support communities and health-care providers to address stigma and increased understanding of youth self-harm.
ESRC: Principal Investigator Prof. Sarah Halligan & Co-Investigator Dr Tamsin Sharp, supporting adolescent experiences of trauma in South Africa, by working closely with local communities using an arts-based approach.
Department of Social and Policy Science
ESRC: Prof Roy Maconachie and Dr Alessandra Fabbri will be working with the World Food Programme (Colombia), local indigenous Wayuu Authorities and Colombia local Environmental agencies to coproduce actionable policy relevant pathways for ecosystem restoration and community livelihood resilience and decision-making support tools.
Institute for Policy Research – Brunel Centre
ESRC: Principal Investigator Dr Aida Garcia Lazaro and Co-Investigator Dr Susan Lattanzio, Dr Lucy Martin & Prof, and Prof Linda Newnes. They will be working with the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) to support workforce digital skills in the transition pathway to resilient and sustainable energy.
School of Management
ESRC: Principal Investigator Dr Shuya Zhong who will engage with diverse local communities to co-design inclusive engagement models using her research-inspired children's book, to demystify the world of logistics and foster effective social dialogue for young people.
Faculty of Science
Department of Chemistry
EPSRC (Fast-Track): Principal Investigator Prof Toby Jenkins and Research Fellow Dr Naing Tun Thet will commission a Biological Evaluation Report to fully assess the biological risk of their patented technology, which has been shown to prevent skin infection and dermatitis in pre-clinical testing.
EPSRC (Fast-Track): Principal Investigator Prof Frank Marken and Research Associate Dr Zhongkai Li will continue to develop and commercialise a novel battery technology based on locally stored gases which are considerably greener, safer and more sustainable than current battery technologies.
Department of Life Sciences
EPSRC (Fast-Track): Principal Investigator Dr Andrew Watts with Research Fellow Chwen Tay and Research Associate Dr Bayan Alkhawaja will initiate commercialisation of their novel linker technology to optimise the success of antibody drug conjugates (ADCs), one of the fastest growing classes of cancer drugs.
Department of Mathematical Sciences
EPSRC: Principal Investigator Dr Thomas Burnett ), Co-Investigator Prof Chris Jennison and Research Assistant Neža Dvorsak will engage with stakeholders to create software tools and training materials that translate mathematical research into innovative clinical trial designs, allowing for earlier statistical futility analyses and more efficient planning.
EPSRC: Principal Investigator Dr Beate Ehrhardt and Research Associate Dr Laura Oporto Lisboa, with support from Eoin O'Neill will translate their innovative research on Spatially Aware Plate Layouts (SAPL) beyond genomics with a user-friendly open-access web tool.
Department of Physics
EPSRC: Principal Investigator Prof William Wadsworth and Research Associate Dr Kerrianne Harrington will work with a deep tech company to demonstrate innovation in high-power laser delivery through multi-mode hollow-core fibres (HCFs) and produce HCFs for the comparatively unexplored commercialisation areas of laser delivery and instrumentation.