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Dr Robinson:

• Collaboration with the University of Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia and explore the global value chain for cut flowers (February, 2009), financed by Cardiff University International Collaboration Award .

Prof. Rainbird:

• ‘Opening Doors: Evaluation of UNISON students on the Open University’s K100 Programme in Northern Ireland’ with Jason Heyes and Elspeth Leeson, financed by Birmingham Business School, 2009.

Dr De Propris:

• December 2008-December 2009 NESTA Research Grant
  
  Creative Clusters and Regional Innovation
  The research project investigates the innovation spillovers of creative clusters on UK regional innovation capabilities. The project is shared with Dr. C. Chapain and Dr. S. MacNeill (Birmingham Business School) and Prof. P. Cooke (CASS, Cardiff University). Sum awarded: £120,000.
• August 2007 Dean’s Funding Initiative Award
• 2006-2007 EU - ESF INTERREG Project 
  DISTRICT-CLINIC (Co-operation Linking Interactive Networks & Innovative Clusters) Dr De Propris was Project Leader for the Birmingham Business School. 
  
  The project was a collaborative research project with the Black Country Chamber of Commerce, University of Florence (Italy), and RKW Saxony.  
  
  The aim was to maximise learning and achieve significant improvements in cluster policy and support to the benefit of the global competitiveness of enterprises by bringing together diverse and expert partnerships from the public and private sectors. 
  Grant value: €70,000. (See Official Reports for Publications).
• 2006-2007 EU - ESF INTERREG Project 
  DISTRICT-PICTURE (Promoting Innovative Clusters through Urban Regeneration)
  
  Dr De Propris was Project Leader for the Birmingham Business School. 
  
  The project is a collaborative research project with IRIS (Istituto Ricerche e Interventi Sociali, Florence, Italy) and the University of Florence (Italy). 
  
  The project aimed at developing new methods to promote innovative urban clusters between manufacturing and service companies in cities under transition to a more knowledge-based structure. The project will experiment in the Prato (Tuscany) urban area, whose Municipality has already started implementing its strategic plan to support the current transition phase. PICTURE will support the City Council by means of studies and analysis and designing locally relevant proposals in the economic, social and urban fields.
  Grant value: €50,000. (see Official Reports for Publications).
• January 2007 AIM-RSA Co-sponsorship to organise and host a workshop at the Birmingham Business School on “Competitiveness and Global Clusters”. Sponsors were the Advanced Institute of Management and the Regional Studies Association Sponsorship worth: £2,200. (see Conference Organisation for details).
• 2005-2006 European Science Foundation (ESF) Grant 
  This funded an Exploratory Workshop on ‘The Governance of Networks as a Determinant of Local Economic Development’. This involved 10 universities across Europe, coordinated by the Birmingham Business School (with Roger Sugden, David Bailey and James Wilson). Grant worth: €13,500. 
• May 2004- November 2005 British Academy Larger Research Grant
  Title: “The Evolution of the Organisation of Production in a Marshallian Industrial District: The Birmingham Jewellery Quarter”I was the Lead applicant and coordinator of the collaborative research project which also involved Prof. Luciana Lazzeretti, The University of Florence (Italy). 
  Grant awarded: £16,975. 
• April 2002- April 2003 British Academy Small Research Grant
  Title: “The pattern of economic development of a Marshallian industrial district: the case of Birmingham jewellery quarter from 1850 to today” 
  
  I was the Lead applicant and coordinator of the collaborative research project which also involved Prof. Luciana Lazzeretti, The University of Florence (Italy). Grant awarded: £4950. 
• September 2002- September 2003 The Nuffield Foundation
  Title: “The local impact of inward FDI: A comparison of the UK and Italy”
  
  Collaborative project jointly run with Dr. Nigel Driffield, Aston Business School. Grant awarded: £5,800. This project led to publications of Cambridge Journal of Economics and International Journal of the Economics of Business.

Dr Duberley:

• 2004-2006Scientists Transitions from Public to Private sector research contexts Principal Investigator, financed by ESRC. This research examines the career transitions of scientists moving between the public and private sectors.     

Prof. Cole:

• June 2004-June 2007 Globalisation and the Environment: Causes, Consequences and Policy Implications , financed by The Leverhulme Trust .  Researchers: Matthew Cole and Robert Elliott

Prof. Szmigin:

• 2009  £4,730 British Academy Disposal of the dead: an examination of the interface between consumption behaviour and supply
• £319,788 ESRC First Grants Scheme ‘Negotiating managed consumption: Young people, branding and social identification processes’ (with University of Bath as mentor to Dr. Andrew Bengry- Howell)
• £750 Deans Special Initiative Fund, University of Birmingham, Consumerism in Public Services
• 2005 £208,054 ESRC Social Identity Programme: Branded consumption and social identification: Young people and alcohol (with Christine Griffin, Bath University)
• 2005 £13,779 ESRC Research Seminars Competition: Identities of Consumption ( with Christine Griffin, Bath University, Anne Phoenix, Open University, Robert McDonald, University of Teesside, Beverley Skeggs, Goldsmiths College )
• 2005 € 10,000 University of Limerick Research Seed Funding Grant: What Credit Means: A Commensurate Study of Attitudes and Behaviour to Credit and Debt among Irish and UK Consumers
• 2003 £500 Deans Special Initiative Fund, University of Birmingham for background research into ESRC bid ‘Older Consumers: connecting citizenship and the marketplace.
• 1999 £6500 Research Grant from Birmingham Business School Research Committee of to support research into Older consumers and Cognitive Age. Jointly awarded to Isabelle Szmigin and Marylyn Carrigan
• 1998 £1,000 Mondex for study into use of Mondex cards at Exeter University

Dr Clark:

2000-2006 With three De Montfort University colleagues Dr Clark co-held an ESRC award that supported an international research team investigating Country of Origin Effects of American Multinationals in Europe. The ESRC awarded us £140,000 as part of the Competitiveness of British Industry Programme. Project team Phil Almond, Peter Butler, Ian Clark, Trevor Colling, Tony Edwards, Anthony Ferner, Len Holden and Michael Muller. Award holders Ian Clark, Trevor Colling, Anthony Ferner and Len Holden.

Dr Lonsdale:

• 2001, he was the joint-recipient of a £278,000 research grant from the EPSRC for research into buyer-supplier relationships. In 2003, the research undertaken was graded by the EPSRC as 'Tending to Outstanding / Tending to Internationally Leading'.
• 2002, he was the joint-recipient of a £75,041 research grant from the Oxford Radcliffe NHS Hospital Trust for research into organisational buying behaviour.
• 2007, he was the joint-recipient of an £99,901 research grant from the ESRC for research into temporary employment in the UK public sector. This research also received a high grading from the funding council.
• 2009, Dr Lonsdale became a recipient of an EREBUS CASE studentship, with the research focusing upon the development of sustainable procurement policies. All of these research projects have yielded a high number of publications (see list below), many in internationally leading journals such as Public Administration, the British Journal of Industrial Relations and the International Journal of Human Resource Management.