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Is verbal aggressiveness associated with a reduced ability to process abstract concepts?
Funder: British Academy/Leverhulme Trust
Duration: January 2026 - June 2027

Co.I. Prof Veena Kumari and Dr Ignazio Puzzo (University of Reading)

Sensory Modulation and Neurorehabilitation Research Laboratory & Hub (SMNR-Lab)
Funder: Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust
Duration: -

Research Infrastructure Fund - preliminary application

Virtually fall free: Delivering virtual reality-based action simulation training to improve balance and reduce fall risk in children with developmental coordination disorder
Funder: The Waterloo Foundation
Duration: May 2025 - September 2026

Children with DCD often have difficulty balancing and are more likely to trip or fall during everyday activities such as walking and running. AOMI training, a mental practice technique that involves a person watching a video demonstration of a movement whilst simultaneously imagining the physical feelings associated with the movement, has the potential to help these children improve their balance. Our research shows that AOMI training improves performance and learning of upper-limb tasks in children with DCD, and whole-body tasks in healthy adults. Recently, we showed that delivering AOMI training in VR (VR-AOMI training) enhances these benefits. This approach is promising in children with DCD as it is low-cost and combines enjoyable elements of VR gaming with targeted training methods to improve movement competence. However, the effectiveness of VR-AOMI training has not yet been tested in DCD populations. This project aims to address this gap by determining how children with DCD respond to VR-AOMI training designed to improve their balance. This will provide a scientific basis for the development of at-home balance training that could be recommended to improve balance and reduce fall risk for children with DCD.

Neural mapping and neuromodulation in Parkinson's Disease: combining motor training and linguistic abilities
Funder: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq)
Duration: January 2025 - January 2027

Funding call: Programa Conhecimento Brasil: programme dedicated to building collaborations between researchers in Brazil and Brazilian Researchers abroad

Wolfson Health and Wellbeing across the Life-Course Laboratory
Funder: Wolfson Foundation
Duration: January 2025 - December 2026

Funding for equipment and refurbishment of Health Sciences laboratory spaces

Development of a patient-reported outcome to assess concerns about falling in hospital settings
Funder: NIHR - National Institute for Health and Care Research
Duration: December 2024 - March 2026

Development and validation of new PROM that aims to measure concerns about falling in hospitalised populations/settings. The project contains a cross-sectional and longitudinal component such that both reliability and construct validity as well as predictive validity/utility can be established.

Rapid evidence scoping review: Creativity and Pathways to Subjective Wellbeing
Funder: What Works for Wellbeing
Duration: September 2023 - January 2024
Category Fluency words recall order and clinical evolution of MCI patients
Funder: Alzheimer's Association
Duration: June 2023 - May 2025
Elucidating the neural basis of individual and collective creative design: challenges by combining brain measurement and brain stimulation
Funder: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Duration: April 2023 - March 2025

JSPS Overseas Research Fellowship

Daily activities matter: Post COVID Lifestyle and Mental Wellbeing
Funder: Brunel Institute of Communities and Society (ICS)
Duration: January 2023 - June 2023
Psycho-Social Influences on Cognitive Health In Aging Sexual Minorities
Funder: Alzheimer's Association
Duration: June 2022 - May 2025
Stix for Mindfulness
Funder: Hillingdon Enterprise Fund, London Borough of Hillington
Duration: April 2022 - October 2023
Barriers and Enablers for Children and Parents' Cycling: A Prospective Longitudinal Study Using Survey, Interview, A.I. and Intervention Data
Funder: The Bikeability Trust and Department for Transport
Duration: January 2022 - September 2022

Brunel University London is in Hillingdon, an ethnically diverse borough which is home to 19,946 children aged 10-14 years. Children in this age group are missing out on accessing Bikeability Level 3 training: despite a thriving Bikeability Level 2 programme in the borough, the number of Bikeability Level 3 sessions is low . This project is designed to improve our understanding of why, and to identify ways in which we can increase children's cycling in the borough, using a variety of technological approaches to do so.

Cognitive Trajectory of COVID-19: Pre-versus Post-COVID-19 Cognitive Function in Survivors
Funder: British Academy
Duration: September 2021 - April 2023
Training weight-shifting strategies to overcome freezing of gait in daily life
Funder: Parkinson's UK
Duration: June 2021 - October 2023
SPM Tutorial
Funder:
Duration: -
Angry Teens: Recognising Cognitive, Physiological and Neural Factors Influencing Psychological Functioning in Adolescence
Funder: BRAIN & BEHAVIOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION YOUNG INVESTIGATOR GRANT (YI)
Duration: February 2021 - January 2023
Gang aggression: What do we need to know & how can we reduce It
Funder: The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
Duration: January 2021 - December 2021
Investigating the neurophysiological characteristics of developmental prosopagnosia
Funder: Experimental Psychology Society (EPS)
Duration: June 2020 - August 2020
European Varela Award
Funder: Mind and Life Europe
Duration: March 2020 - June 2021
Novel Computational Methods for Predicting Transitions in Spatiotemporal Neurodynamics between Attention and Mind-wandering
Funder: United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Duration: August 2019 - July 2022

Total amount awarded: $81,190; amount to Brunel: 17,021.81 (10% FTE of PI salary including 20% overheads)

When reading misfires: the case for letter confusability
Funder: British Academy
Duration: June 2019 - October 2020
When reading misfires: the case for letter confusability
Funder: British Academy
Duration: May 2019 - November 2020
Attending Mindfully: A Psychophysiology Study of Sensory Processing in Meditators
Funder: Fundacao Bial
Duration: April 2019 - April 2021
What is the role of baroreceptors in descending pain modulation?
Funder: EFIC-Grunenthal
Duration: 2019 - 2021
Riding Along In My Automobile: Musically-Induced Emotions and Driving Behaviour
Funder: Economic & Social Research Council
Duration: November 2018 - May 2020
Psychological predictors of injuries in Badminton
Funder: Badminton World Federation
Duration: October 2018 - October 2019
Investigations into the etiology of phantom limb sensations and phantom limb pain
Funder: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Duration: September 2018 - June 2023

Major limb amputation affects millions of people worldwide. Following amputation, all most all patients have phantom limb sensations (PLS) and over 85% develop phantom limb pain (PLP). Despite its documented existence for several hundred years, the etiology of PLP remains unknown.

Visual short-term memory capacity and multi-target attention
Funder: Brunel Research Initiative & Enterprise Fund (BRIEF)
Duration: September 2018 - May 2022
Analysis of gait patterns before and after foot arthrodesis surgery
Funder: Ortho Solutions Ltd
Duration: February 2018 -
TRANSFER IN - Childhood Maltreatment: Emotional Consequences and Potential Interventions
Funder: Medical Research Council
Duration: January 2018 - July 2019