Joint Seed Funding awards

2026

‘Integrating Optimal Control solid-state NMR Spectroscopy and Machine Learning for the Rational Design of Functional Zeolites’ 

  • St Andrews PI:  Professor Sharon E. Ashbrook, School of Chemistry
  • Charles PI: Dr Zdeněk Tošner, Laboratory of NMR Spectroscopy, Faculty of Science 

‘Consequences of moon-moon tides on the rotational–orbital evolution of Jupiter’s ocean worlds’ 

  • St Andrews PI: Dr Hamish Hay, School of Mathematics and Statistics
  • Charles PI: Michaela Walterová, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics 

‘Caring for Feminist Archives in Contemporary Art and Curating’ 

  • St Andrews PI: Dr Catherine Spencer, School of Art History
  • Charles PI: Denia Tomková, Department of Art Theory and Practice 

‘Advanced Spectroscopic Studies of Uranium-Based Superconductors’  

  • St Andrews PI: Dr Peter Wahl, School of Physics and Astronomy
  • Charles PI: Dr Michal Vališka, Department of Condensed Matter Physics 

2025

'Understanding Health Information Processing and Cognitive Biases in Young Adults'
  • St Andrews PI: Dr Kenneth Mavor, School of Psychology and Neuroscience
  • Charles PI: Dr Lukáš Hejtmánek, Department of Psychology and Life Sciences, Faculty of Humanities
'Cross-laboratory exchange of rock-magnetic protocols: example of the Shetland ophiolite complex'
  • St Andrews PI: Dr William McCarthy School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
  • Charles PI: Dr Filip Tomek, Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Faculty of Science
'Automated identification of volcanic ash in diverse environmental archives'
  • St Andrews PI: Dr Richard Streeter, School of Geography and Sustainable Development
  • Charles PI: Dr Daniel Vondrák, Institute for Environmental Studies, Faculty of Science
'Bridging the East-West Divide: Exploring Common Grounds between Western and Eastern European Histories of Political Violence'
  • St Andrews PI: Dr Tim Wilson, Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, School of International Relations
  • Charles PI: Dr Ota Konrád, Department of German and Austrian Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences

2024

'Contemporary Histories of Populist Success in Central and Eastern Europe: Discourse, Culture, and Democratic Decline'
  • St Andrews PI: Professor John Anderson, School of International Relations
  • Charles PI: Dr Ondřej Daniel, Institute of World History 
'Barriers to Belonging and Becoming: creating interventions to improve the student experience in higher education'
  • St Andrews PI: Dr Paula Miles, School of Psychology and Neuroscience
  • Charles PI: Dr Irena Smetáčková, Department of Psychology 
'Cold War Classics (CWC) 1947-1989'
  • St Andrews PI: Dr Henry Stead, School of Classics
  • Charles PI: Dr Alena Sarkissian, Centre for Classical Studies
'Art History and Museology: Translating Critical Approaches and Digital Tools into Innovative Pedagogical Practice'
  • St Andrews PI: Dr Shona Kallestrup, School of Art History
  • Charles PI: Dr Marie Rakušanová, Department of Art History

2023

'Organizing for the future: public and private approaches to managing sustainability' 

  • St Andrews PI: Professor John Ferguson, Business School
  • Charles PI: Dr Michal Plaček, Department of Public and Social Policy

'Tackling antigypsyism through research and pedagogy’

  • St Andrews PI: Dr Paloma Gay y Blasco, School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies
  • Charles PI: Dr Yasar Abu Ghosh, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

'Inclusive Community Building through Digital Heritage Preservation in Times of Crisis: Strategies for Cohesive Resilience in the Face of War, Migration, and Climate Change'

  • St Andrews PI: Dr Alan Miller, School of Computer Science
  • Charles PI: Dr Tomáš Klír, Department of Archaeology

'Peat carbon accumulation across climatic, hydrological and ecological gradients in the greater Amazon basin’

  • St Andrews PI: Dr Ian Lawson, School of Geography and Sustainable Development
  • Charles PI: Dr Adam Hastie, Faculty of Science

2022

‘Coastal heritage and climate change: developing strategies for multiscale and multidisciplinary risk management’

  • St Andrews PI: Professor Tom Dawson, School of History
  • Charles PI: Professor Gianvito Scaringi, Institute of Hydrogeology, Engineering Geology and Applied Geophysics

‘Medieval Explorations’ 

  • St Andrews PI: Professor Ian Johnson, School of English
  • Charles PI: Professor Lucie Doležalová, Institute for Greek and Latin Study

‘Borderworlds: Temporal, Geographical and Psychosocial exploration of Symbolic Borders’

  • St Andrews PI: Dr Stavroula Pipyrou, School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies
  • Charles PI: Dr Kateřina Králová, Institute of International Studies