PUBLIC EVENT
Offering up to £200,000 per award for up to two years, the APEX Awards provide teaching and administration relief for the applicant and/or co-applicant, to allow the time and freedom to pursue genuine interdisciplinary and curiosity-driven research. Research projects must span the remit of more than one of the British Academy, the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering.
In the webinar, the Royal Society will provide information and guidance to prospective applicants and research officers interested in learning more about the APEX Awards. We will be joined by members of the APEX Awards Committee, APEX Alumni, Tom Carter and Rebecca Moore (Royal Society secretariat) and Alice Varah (British Academy secretariat).
Programme*
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2.50pm |
Zoom opens |
| 3.00pm |
Welcome Olivia Saunders, Programme Manager, Royal Academy of Engineering |
| 3.05pm |
Introduction to the APEX award scheme
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| 3.20pm |
'Top-tips’ to applicants from the APEX Award Committee Professor Peter Guthrie OBE FREng, University of Cambridge |
| 3.30pm |
The perspectives of APEX Alumni
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| 4.00pm |
A live Q&A at the end of the presentation |
| 4.15pm |
Zoom closes |
*subject to change
Recording notice
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Professor Peter Guthrie OBE FREng
Peter Guthrie was the first Professor in Engineering for Sustainable Development in the UK, taking up this post at the University of Cambridge in 2000. Prior to that he was in engineering consultancy for over 25 years. His research is focused on resilience of infrastructure, the assessment of large scale projects for sustainability, and energy efficiency in buildings. A civil engineer, Peter has worked in countries such as Nigeria, Malaysia, Lesotho, Sudan, Philippines, Ethiopia, and Botswana, and on major infrastructure projects such as London 2012, Channel Tunnel Rail Link (HS1), Conwy Tunnel, major airports, and building projects. He has recently led research consultancy for Lloyd’s Register Foundation (LRF). Peter was a Vice-President of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2020-2024), and is currently leading work on Infection Resilient Environments. Peter is founder and Vice-President of the charity RedR Engineers for Disaster Relief.
Professor Karl Bates
Dr Karl Bates is a Professor of Evolutionary Biomechanics in the Department of Musculoskeletal & Ageing Sciences at the University of Liverpool. His research concentrates on the functional anatomy of terrestrial vertebrates, with the goal of understanding the links between morphology (both hard and soft tissues) and limb biomechanics in order to better characterise how animals achieve their full range of behavioural activities and interact with their environments. He is particularly interested in the functional consequences of changing morphology through deep time and evaluating how elements of the locomotor system have evolved to allow animals to radiate into a variety of ecological niches. This has led him to study a range of living tetrapods from primates (particularly humans and other Great Apes) to archosaurs (birds and crocodilians) in order to further our understanding of major evolutionary transitions in locomotor biomechanics. He routinely uses a range of theoretical and experimental techniques to study locomotion, ranging from motion analysis, force and pressure platforms to 3D static and dynamic computer simulations. In addition to research into evolutionary biomechanics, he is also actively involved in a number of clinical and veterinary projects, including work on ageing human knees and wrists, dysfunction and disease in the canine locomotor system, and monitoring age-related limb degeneration in domestic dogs using gait analysis and plantar pressure data.
Professor Alexandra Sanmark
Alex Sanmark is Professor of Medieval Archaeology at the Institute for Northern Studies, University of the Highlands and Islands. Her main research interests include all aspects of Viking-Age society Scandinavia and the medieval North Atlantic. She has led a number of research projects in these areas, such as the AHRC/DFG-funded The Norse and the Sea which focuses on Viking Age settlement and maritime connections in Scotland and the APEX awarded project Communications in Norse Orkney. She is also an Honorary Reader in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Uppsala.
Professor Robin Coningham
Robin Coningham holds UNESCO’s Chair in Archaeological Ethics and Practice in Cultural Heritage at Durham University and has extensive experience of archaeology and post-disaster heritage interventions across South Asia. He is interested in sustainable community engagement and equitable partnerships, and the balance between heritage protection and development. Co-designed with statutory authorities, policy makers, heritage managers, engineers, geoarchaeologist and epigraphers, his APEX award explored the feasibility of regenerating Medieval Licchavi Period irrigation infrastructure in Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley.