Kieran Sharkey

Research Grants

EPSRC (Principal Investigator) 2021-2024 (funder ref: EP/T031727/1) £568K Impact of network-structured populations on evolution.

European Commission. (2021-2025) Marie Curie Innovative Training Networks. (funder ref: 955708—EvoGamesPlus EUR 4,000,000.  Lead for University of Liverpool EUR300,000.

EPSRC (Co-Investigator) 2015-2021 (funder ref: EP/N014499/1) £2,500,000 ‘Liverpool Centre for Mathematics in Healthcare’ Lead for one of three research themes in the centre. The research theme investigates the dynamics of infectious diseases on networks.

BBSRC & NERC (co-funded) (Principal Investigator) 2015-2017 (funder ref: BB/M026434/1) £305,000 ‘Use of contact structures for the control of infectious diseases in the British aquaculture industry’ This objective is to assimilate fish farming industry data from England, Wales and Scotland and determine, using simulation, the best island-wide control strategies for dealing with outbreaks. Project partners are the University of Stirling, Cefas and Marine Scotland with contributions of £10K from Cefas and £25K from Marine Scotland.

Leverhulme Trust (Principal Investigator) 2015-2018 (funder ref: RPG-2014-341) £163,000 ‘Invasion in population dynamics’ This is a theoretical investigation of the concept of invasion.

EPSRC (Principal Investigator) 2012-2013 (funder ref: EP/K503538/1) £122,000 ‘Can metabolic control analysis be used to control epidemics’ EPSRC first grant scheme. This developed new methods for controlling epidemics on contact networks based on control analysis methods in systems biology.

Defra (Co-Investigator) 2006 (funder ref: RPM/2910) £120,000 ‘Avian influenza epidemic modelling’ Research project to advise Defra on the efficacy of control strategies to control H5N1 avian influenza in the British Poultry Flock.

Main research funding