Research projects and grants
Funded research and innovation projects at CBIT, with each project’s funder, CBIT’s role and its period; then the grants, by era.
Professor Xiao Ma, CBIT’s Director: BeefTwin £1.2m (Project Lead, Round 1) and EASE £1.2m (Project Co-Lead, Round 2) — the only UK researcher to have won awards in both rounds of UKRI's Cross-Research Council Responsive Mode. EASE is co-led with Dr Iryna Kuksa, NTU School of Art & Design.
Featured projects
Four flagship grants, each with a customer story or a project page; the full list of every grant follows below, in “All grants”.
Showing 4 of 4 projects
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BeefTwin
An AI digital twin for beef farming.
Project page
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EASE
Entrepreneurship, Art and Science for Environmental Sustainability: a consortium led by De Montfort University, in which CBIT leads the “Build & Test” work and artists develop prototypes in Artist Venturing Labs.
Impact story
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Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Elite Capital / BarberBoss
£290K Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Partnership — KTP 10063869, Nottingham Trent University × Elite Capital / BarberBoss
Case study
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UKHAIC
The UK Healthy Ageing Innovation Consortium, funded by BBSRC and led by Nottingham Trent University with the University of Leicester and Northumbria University. CBIT ran its STEAM Founder programme for the consortium’s researchers.
Impact story
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Source: CBIT figures registry v1.8 (1 October 2026). Figures and sources
All grants
Each grant with its funder, the role, its period and a link to its public record: since CBIT was founded in April 2022 first, then the grants our team delivered before then.
Since CBIT was founded (April 2022)
EASE: Entrepreneurship, Art, and Science for Environmental Sustainability
Public record: EASE: Entrepreneurship, Art, and Science for Environmental Sustainability
SurplusMap: feasibility of a city-scale digital twin to enable surplus food redistribution in London
Before CBIT: grants our team delivered: grants
CBIT was founded at Nottingham Business School in April 2022. The work below was completed before then by members of today’s CBIT team, at their previous institutions.
DROPS: Dynamic, Real time, On-demand Personalisation for Scaling
Public record: DROPS: Dynamic, Real time, On-demand Personalisation for Scaling
FAIR-SPACE: Future AI and Robotics Hub for Space
Public record: FAIR-SPACE: Future AI and Robotics Hub for Space
ConTriVE: Control and Trust as Moderating Mechanisms in addressing Vulnerability for the Design of Business and Economic Models
HARRIET: Smart Me versus Smart Things: The Development of a Personal Resource Planning (PRP) System through Human Interactions with Data Enabled by the IoT
HAT: Home Hub-of-all-Things (HAT) as Platform for Multi-sided Market powered by Internet-of-Things
NEMODE: Digital Economy 'New Economic Models' Network+
Public record: NEMODE: Digital Economy 'New Economic Models' Network+
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