Awardee and recipient archive
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AK Pulsor, Cardiak Ltd
Cardiak Ltd is developing an innovative device to offer long-term help to patients with heart failure, significantly improving their quality of life and boosting prospects of a recovery. With proof of concept already established, NESTA?s early-stage fundi
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Andrew Constantine
Andrew Constantine secured a NESTA Fellowship to work with pre-eminent conductors around the world and to expand the appeal of classical music. Described by Classic FM as ?a rising star of classical music? and by the legendary conducting teacher Ilya Musi
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Barry Clive, SolarStructure
SolarStructure secured NESTA investment in its technology to reduce the amount of carbon and fossil fuel needed to run buildings. The device differs from other solar solutions by allowing non-direct sunlight to penetrate (so less internal lighting is need
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Camden Arts Centre
Camden Arts Centre built upon its record of delivering arts events that involve the local community by presenting Image Conscious, a mentoring programme in partnership with NESTA to nurture talent among young people disaffected with conventional education
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CAPE UK - Creative Space Project
CAPE UK used NESTA investment to bring together pupils, teachers, arts practitioners and research scientists for Creative Space, which explored ways of making science and technology lessons more creative. Working with schools in Leeds and Manchester, the
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Carnesky's Ghost Train
With NESTA's support, producer Jeremy Goldstein and artistic director Marisa Carnesky created Carnesky?s Ghost Train, taking the audience on a real and spectacular amusement park ghost train to explore issues of migration. Hailed as one of the most innova
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CellCentric
CellCentric gained NESTA funding to investigate epigenetics, an emerging area of research with enormous potential for developing more effective disease treatment, particularly for cancer. CellCentric is working with world-leading scientists to translate t
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Centre for Astronomy and Science Education
With NESTA's support, the Centre for Astronomy and Science Education at the University of Glamorgan staged conferences in which pupils used science fiction to stimulate their imaginations and learn more about science. CASE went on to collaborate with NASA
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Centre of the Cell, Professor Frances Balkwill
Receiving a funding boost from NESTA at a critical stage in the project, The Centre of the Cell in East London is the world's first interactive science centre inside a working medical school
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Ceravision Ltd
Ceravision used NESTA's investment to further its work on a revolutionary electrode-less, microwave-driven high intensity bulb. The first of its kind, it is expected to have widespread use from desktop projectors to projection televisions.
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Cheltenham Science Festival, FameLab
NESTA joined forces with the Cheltenham Science Festival for FameLab, a national competition to discover the new faces of UK science communication. Overall winner of Famelab 2006 was Jonathan Wood, biologist turned Deputy Editor of research journal Materi
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Children's Palaces, Kids' Clubs Network
The Curiosity and Imagination project, based at Kids' Clubs Network, examined the need and potential for innovative, community-based learning centres where children could go to discover and develop their talents.
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Clymene Christoforou
Clymene Christoforou is a director of ISIS - a media arts agency in Newcastle. Her proposed Cultural Leadership placement will be based at the European Forum for Arts and Heritage, in Brussels.
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Community Action Network
NESTA?s support enabled Community Action Network to work with primary and secondary schools in the North East, training teachers and governors to integrate social enterprise into the curriculum, to foster a culture of creative and entrepreneurial thinking
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Community Sounds and Voices
NESTA supported the Community Sounds and Voices project, bringing together the Stephenson Railway Museums in North Tyneside and the Science Museum in London to work with the Blind Society for North Tyneside, artists and the local community on a multi-sens
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Conjunct Ltd
Optoelectronics company Conjunct Ltd develops products for short-range, high-speed optical communications. The company secured NESTA investment to press ahead with innovative technologies with a wide range of applications.
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Connections in Space
NESTA funded the distribution of a new CD-Rom, Connections in Space - exploring the connections between mathematical, scientific and artistic images - to all UK secondary schools free of charge.
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Cosmic Composer
NESTA supported the launch of Cosmic Composer, an online virtual learning environment in which Key Stage 2 pupils compose, interact and navigate their own course through a solar system.
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Crafts Council New Makers Prize
NESTA funded a new prize - supported by the Crafts Council - for designer-makers poised to make a valuable impact on the UK 's trade and design sectors. The prize championed design talent in an attempt to boost creativity in the economy.
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Crafts Council Next Move Graduate Scheme
NESTA part-funded the Crafts Council's Next Move scheme, which aims to equip a new generation of creative practitioners with the right resources to start successful careers.
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David Royle, Covelink Marine Ltd
David Royle's company Covelink Marine Ltd secured NESTA investment to prototype and develop the world's first modern, efficient and fast amphibious vehicle.
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Eddie Clunan
Eddie Clunan used his NESTA investment to develop a portable road traffic counter which can distinguish between cars, motor bikes and bicycles. The equipment is enabling National Parks and other heritage sites to monitor flows of traffic on minor roads an
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Ellis Cohen
NESTA's support enabled Ellis Cohen to further his work on a life support monitor with an evacuation alarm to help fire fighters in high-risk situations.
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Francis Charters, Achieve4.me
NESTA's support enabled Francis Charters to further his work on new educational software, Achieve4.me, which allows students to use text, video or sound files to record their achievements, and plan for future learning and career progression.
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Future Now, Carlton Television
Future Now was a 12-week television series on Carlton Television in 2001 that inspired inventors throughout the UK to present their ideas in a Sixty Second Sell to a panel of design and innovation experts. The winner was awarded £10,000 from NESTA to dev
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Gilbert Cockton
Professor Gilbert Cockton is using his NESTA fellowship to explore the meaning, implications and opportunities of "Design as the Creation of Value". He is comparing this innovation-centred approach with other established views of design, and developing n
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Gill Clarke and Fiona Millward
Choreographers and dancers Fiona Millward and Gill Clarke secured a joint NESTA Fellowship to develop radical techniques in dance training as part of their commitment to the ongoing development of professional dance artists.
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Jim Daly, Clean Technologies Associates Ltd
Clean Technologies Associates has developed a method of sterilising surgical instruments, hospitals wards and other environments using super-oxygenated water instead of chemicals. NESTA's support was pivotal in allowing the company to complete development
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John Carroll
John Carroll developed Autoload to improve safety and efficiency during the specialised process of laying floor screed on building sites. With NESTA funding, he built and tested a prototype to begin to turn his idea into a commercial product.
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Jon Catling
Sculptor and keen cyclist Jon Catling secured NESTA investment to test his design for a revolutionary comfortable saddle to take the pain out of cycling. NESTA's support also enabled him to move towards marketing the saddle.
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Joseph Cefai, Starbridge Systems
Starbridge Systems used NESTA's investment to develop revolutionary technology to free diabetics from needles and syringes, giving them insulin through a pump worn on the skin like a plaster. The company has gone on to secure an agreement with drug delive
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Julian Crouch
With NESTA's Fellowship, Julian Crouch, co-Artistic Director of the acclaimed Improbable Theatre Company, was given the chance to explore his interests in drawing and animation. Noted for his considerable influence on contemporary British theatre design,
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Kelly Atkins, Carpet Burns
Kelly Atkins secured a Creative Pioneer award to expand her successful business Carpet-Burns, which transforms carpet waste into desirable goods from tables to table mats. Her vision is an international ecological brand which helps the Government and carp
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Kentaké Chinyelu-Hope
Kentak� Chinyelu-Hope secured a NESTA award to take time out from hip-hop agency Momi Inc and the Arts Council to work alongside Dr Chew at the world-class Singapore Science Centre, developing skills and knowledge to return to the UK.
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Kevin Carey
ICT pioneer and campaigner for social justice Kevin Carey secured a NESTA Fellowship to look at ways of using digital broadcasting to widen access to knowledge and choice, particularly for the elderly and disabled.
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Les Couzens, WM Metals
NESTA enabled WM Metals to build a prototype plant for removing heavy metals from incinerated sewerage waste. The technique is new to the water industry and, if adopted, could reduce disposal of hazardous waste in landfill sites.
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Liam Curtin & John Gooding, The Art Department
Artists Liam Curtin and John Gooding collaborated with musicians and engineers to create the 50-ft High Tide Organ, installed on Blackpool's south shore promenade in October 2002 to make music from the movement of the waves at high tide. NESTA's award pai
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Liz Crow
Writer, filmmaker and respected disability activist Liz Crow secured a NESTA Fellowship to examine how best to use her creative work to provoke change and to find new ways to reach audiences. During the Fellowship, her Roaring Girl Productions was short-l
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Lucy Comerford
Computer scientist Dr Lucy Comerford and husband Peter, a musician - heading the Microcomputer Music Research Unit at the University of Bradford - secured NESTA investment to develop a new generation of pipeless organs called BEST2, using a powerful pipel
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Mark Champkins
Mark Champkins used NESTA's investment to develop and commercialise products to help pupils concentrate in lessons. His company Concentrate has gone on to win awards and his products are now on sale, including a bag which doubles as a cushion to stop unco
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Michael Casey
A NESTA Fellowship enabled film producer Michael Casey to build on his knowledge of, and contacts with, the US film industry. In forging new links, his ambition is to establish a Northern Irish - US axis within the global film industry, and so launch Nort
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Michael Medora, ColourHolographic
Quite literally stopping people in their tracks, ColourHolographic?s arresting holograms have become a powerful new tool for marketeers. Since receiving their NESTA award to commercialise the technology, the company has won new business from the likes of
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National Campaign for the Arts, Promoting Creativity
NESTA funded the National Campaign for the Arts' discussion, Promoting Creativity, on the importance of creativity to the business, science, arts and education communities. NESTA also paid for a report to ensure wider dissemination of the findings.
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Paul Balmer and Judy Caine, Music on Earth
Paul Balmer and Judy Caine's Music On Earth has made a series of DVDs using innovative techniques to capture the life and music of leading musicians. NESTA funding helped them to market and publicise the first. Since then, their profile of Stéphane Grapp
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Peter Coates
Peter Coates is an accomplished stonecarver and sculptor. He has used his Fellowship to pursue interdisciplinary collaboration with engineering consultancy, Arups. He will also explore new materials, such as granite, and the juxtaposition of traditional w
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Professor Terry Clark
Professor Terry Clark, with his research team at Sussex University, secured NESTA investment to further his groundbreaking work in quantum physics. Initial support enabled him to make a breakthrough in theory. Further funding was aimed at turning that th
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Raffaella Carzaniga and Elspeth Bartlet, Drive Online
With Drive Online, the Centre for Bioimaging at Rothamsted Research is giving students real-time remote access to a scanning electron microscope and the scientists who use it.This new educational tool gives any school in the country access to the laborato
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Reactive Colours
NESTA supported designers at Cardiff School of Art & Design as they developed a free software package, Reactive Colours, to help people with autism to socially interact and have fun.
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Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health held a seminar bringing together child medical and education professionals to explore educational opportunities and challenges for children with severe disabilities.
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Rural Arts, Click: Move
NESTA supported Rural Arts' Click: Move project, giving secondary school students across North Yorkshire the opportunity to work with arts professionals to produce an interdisciplinary performance, combining dance and digital media.
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Sandra Chapman
NESTA's Fellowship has enabled Sandra Chapman - one of Britain 's leading astrophysicists - to create new art aimed at making scientific data more accessible to the public and strengthening understanding of issues such as climate change.
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The Campaign for Drawing
The Campaign for Drawing encouraged thousands of people to explore drawing through a range of events around the UK, backed by a national education and research programme. NESTA funded and supported the Drawing Power events as well as the Power Drawing edu
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The Culture Company
NESTA supported the Two Cultures conference, exploring how science and technology can be as important as the arts in shaping our culture.