Funding sources

European funding

  • LIGHTCAP: Light, Cognition, Attention, Perception. European Training Network under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions framework. H2020-MSCA-ITN-2019 Grant Agreement number 860613. Project lead: Yvonne de Kort, Eindhoven Technical University. Sheffield lead: S Fotios. Start date March 2020. £530K.

Highways England

  • Impact of Road Lighting. 584(4/45/12)ARPS (contract with ARUP UPS), £130K, January 2016 to March 2017.

EPSRC

  • SATURN: Supporting Active Travel Using Road-lighting at Night. EPSRC grant ref EP/V043587/1 awarded to J Uttley and S Fotios, start date October 2021, £315,949

  • HAROLD: HAzards, ROad Lighting and Driving. EPSRC grant ref EP/S004009/1 awarded to S Fotios and R Rowe, start date January 2019, £578,684.

  • MERLIN-2: Further empirical evidence of lighting for pedestrians. EPSRC grant EP/M02900X/1, awarded to S Fotios, June 2015, £454,085.

  • MERLIN: Mesopically Enhanced Road Lighting: Improving Night-vision. EPSRC grant EP/H050817, awarded to S Fotios, October 2010, £417,588.

  • Lighting for the classroom of the future: Acceptability of glare. EPSRC grant EP/F029276/1, awarded to S Fotios & R Parnell, February 2008 to January 2009, £31,009.

  • Street Lighting: A metric for specifying white light. EPSRC grant EP/F035624/1, awarded to S Fotios, March 2008 to February 2010, £172,936.

  • Purchase of a spectroradiometer. EPSRC grant GR/T09385/01, £34,276, awarded July 2004.

  • White Light: an investigation of the perception of exterior lighting. EPSRC Grant: GR/S25074/01: September 2003 – August 2006, £137,665.

Department for Transport

  • Research into the effects of road surface material on road lighting performance, contract No. PPAD 9/100/77, January 2005 to December 2005, £33,002.

  • Research into the circuit wattage of discharge lamps used in public lighting, contract No. PPAD 9/100/76, June 2004 to November 2004, £30,282.

Industry

  • Obstacle Detection: Investigating the effects of lamp type and luminance, June 2007, Philips Lighting Ltd., £26,780.

CIE-UK

  • Travel award; approx. £6500 (Steve Fotios, Jim Uttley, and three bursaries for PhD students) to attend the 29th Session of the CIE, June 2019, Washington DC.

  • Travel award; £580 to attend the CIE Expert Tutorial and Workshop on Research Methods for Human Factors in Lighting, Copenhagen, 2018.

  • Travel award; £980 to attend CIE 2018 visibility symposium, Berlin, 2018.

  • Travel award; £1905 to attend CIE 2016 conference, Melbourne, 2016.

  • Travel award; £770 to attend 28th Session of the CIE, Manchester, 2015.

  • Travel award; £1000 to attend CIE 2014 conference, Kuala Lumpur, 2014.

  • Travel award; £700 to attend CIE 2013 conference, Paris, 2013.

  • Travel award; £2000 to attend CIE 2012 conference, China, 2012.

  • Travel award; £2000 to attend 27th Session of the CIE, South Africa, 2011.

  • Travel award; £800 to attend CIE expert symposium, Ghent, 2010.

  • Travel award; £500 to attend CIE 2010 conference, Vienna, 2010.

  • Travel award; £800 to attend Division 4/5 meetings, Helsinki, 2008.

  • Travel award; £950 to attend 26th Session of the CIE, Beijing 2007.

  • Research Award 2002; contribution to setting up a lighting research room, £1,761.

  • Research Award 2000; provide side-by-side lighting comparison booths, £2,000.