Dr Wendy Martin
Senior Lecturer

Project details

National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Applied Research Collaborations (ARC). NIHR Thames Valley ARC. Planning and Delivering Social Care Theme: 2026 to 2031: £1,256,137.00 Co-leader of Social Care theme

NIHR Three Schools' Dementia Research Programme Housing and Dementia: Exploring the Needs and Challenges of Private Renters. Collaborator and Mentor (for early career researcher, Dr Elenyd Whitfield, Queen Mary’s University).

2025/26 British Academy Conferences scheme. ‘Sound, Nature and Wellbeing in Ageing’ £23,330 September 2025. Co-Investigator

Foundation for the Sociology of Health & Illness. Research Grant Development Award. Researching biosocial rhythms in the context of disability, ageing and care across a lifecourse £5,965. 2024–2025. Co-Investigator

UKRI Ageing Development Award Sound, Environment and Ageing: Bringing the Outside Into Care Homes £336, 500. September 2023- September 2025.  Co-Investigator

Brunel Interdisciplinary Award (2022) Living Avatars £3,000. 2022. Co-Investigator

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Aging in Data. Partnership grant. CAN $2.5 million 2021-2028. Principal Investigator: Prof Kimberly Sawchuk, Concordia University: Co-Investigator. See https://agingindata.ca/

Research England. Collaborative award.  Ageing, Wellbeing and the Digital. With Tampere University, Finland. £12,000: 2020-21. Principal Investigator

NIHR/ESRC uplift funding for Visual Ethnography as part of APPLE-Tree programme (Active Prevention in People at risk of dementia:Lifestyle,bEhaviour change/Technology to REducE cognitive decline) 2021-2023. £300,000: Collaborator and Academic Lead for Visual Methods

ESRC Productivity Insights Network. Health and Wellbeing in SMEs: a co-design approach to enhance productivity. £9995: 2018-2019 Principal Investigator

Interdisciplinary Award.  Brunel University London. Objects of Desire, Objects of Disgust: Design and Assistive Technologies in Later Life.  2017-2018 £25,000. Co-Investigator. 

University Seminar Series Award, Brunel University London. Creative Methods in the Social Sciences. 2016-2017. £2,500. Principal Investigator

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Quantified Aging and Digital Culture. Insight Grant. CAN $158,500. 2017-2022. Collaborator.

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Ageing, Communication, Technologies (ACT): experiencing a digital world in later life. Partnership grant. CAN $2,993,263: 2014 – 2021. Co-Investigator 

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Ageing, Communication, Technologies (ACT): experiencing a digital world in later life. Partnership grant. CAN $ 2,993,263: 2014 – 2021: Co-Investigator

ESRC Social Science Festival. Photographing Everyday Life: Ageing, Lived Experiences, Time and Space. November 2014: £1990: Principal Investigator 

Economic Social Research Council (ESRC). Photographing Everyday Life: Ageing, Lived Experiences, Time and Space. £300,000: 2010 – 2013: Principal Investigator 

ESRC Seminar series. Ageing, Race and Ethnicity. £17,950: 2012 – 2014: Co-Investigator 

Canadian Institutes for Health Research and the Health Care, Technology, and Place programme: University of Toronto. Inter-organizational collaboration for patient transitions: The inter-relation between policy and practice in England and Canada. 2012 - 2015. Co-investigator / Co-mentor: Fellowship for Dr Jay Shaw

The Dunhill Medical Trust. Bridging the gap between policy and practice: dignity in care for older people  2011 – 2013: £121,254: Co-Investigator

The Leverhulme Trust. Inter, intra-generational and transnational caring in minority communities: reciprocity, duty or obligation?  2011 - 2013: £186,000: Co-Investigator

New Dynamics of Ageing (NDA). Families and Caring in South Asian Communities.  2007 – 2011: £370,000: Co-Investigator

SDO. National Institute for Health Research. Study to develop integrated working between primary health care services and care homes. 2008 – 2011: £500,00: Co-Investigator