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Seed Corn Research Fund

Enabling the exploration of transport, supply chain and logistics issues in the UK…

The Seed Corn Fund was set up to provide a small research grant on a 'seed corn' basis to enable supply chain, logistics and transport researchers in the UK to explore issues of current and academic interest.

The fund helps to encourage UK universities to develop their research capabilities. By supporting small scale research projects in universities, the grant assists researchers working in emerging (research) groups in the hope that this will lead to the development of larger scale projects which will be able to attract funding from other commercial and public sources. With this in mind, it is unlikely that the funding for any one project under this scheme will exceed £7,500 other than in exceptional cases.

Click here for Seed Corn Funding criteria

2011/2012 Seed Corn Fund Applications

Applications for the 2011/2012 Seed Corn Fund should be submitted to CILT(UK) by Friday 29th April 2011.

The successful applicants for 2010/2011 were:

  • Professor David Oglethorpe, Northumbria University for, "Standing at the crossroads: a comparative analysis of logistics, supply chain mechanisms, collaboration and customer fulfilment strategies at farmers' markets in the North East of England and the State of Delaware".
  • Dr Debbie Holley, London Metropolitan University for, "Second Life: Exploring warehouse safety safely in a 3D virtual world".
  • Dr James Aitken, University of Surrey for, "Service led reverse logistics systems".

  • Dr Jon Spragg, Manchester Metropolitan University for, "Re-examining agile supply chain practices in post recession fashion retail".

2009/2010 Seed Corn Funding was awarded to:

  • Dr Mark Gannon, University of Surrey for, "A pilot study to assess the representation of political support in the business case for public transport capital projects in the UK".
  • Dr Chee Wong, University of Hull for, "A study of the plastics recycling supply chain".

Recent Seed Corn Research Reports

 

Contact the Institute for more information on the Seed Corn Research Fund

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