Dr Wendy Martin
Senior Lecturer
Mary Seacole 301
- Email: wendy.martin@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 268747
- Global Public Health
- Department of Health Sciences
Research grants and projects
Research Projects
Project details
2025/26 British Academy Conferences scheme. Sound, Nature and Wellbeing in Ageing’ £23,330 September 2025. Co-Investigator
UKRI Ageing Development Award Sound, Environment and Ageing: Bringing the Outside Into Care Homes £336,500. 2023- 2025. Co-Investigator. See
Foundation for the Sociology of Health & Illness. Research Grant Development Award. Researching biosocial rhythms in the context of disability, ageing and care across a lifecourse £5,965. 2024–2025. Co-Investigator
Brunel Interdisciplinary Award (2022) Living Avatars £3,000. 2022. Co-Investigator
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Aging in Data. Partnership grant. CAN $2.5 million 2021-2028. Principal Investigator: Prof Kimberly Sawchuk, Concordia University: Co-Investigator. See
Research England. Collaborative award. Ageing, Wellbeing and the Digital. With Tampere University, Finland. £12,000: 2020-21. Principal Investigator
NIHR/ESRC uplift funding for Visual Ethnography as part of APPLE-Tree programme (Active Prevention in People at risk of dementia:Lifestyle,bEhaviour change/Technology to REducE cognitive decline) 2021-2023. £300,000: Collaborator and Academic Lead for Visual Methods
ESRC Productivity Insights Network. Health and Wellbeing in SMEs: a co-design approach to enhance productivity. £9995: 2018-2019 Principal Investigator
Interdisciplinary Award. 成人直播app. Objects of Desire, Objects of Disgust: Design and Assistive Technologies in Later Life. 2017-2018 £25,000. Co-Investigator.
University Seminar Series Award, 成人直播app. Creative Methods in the Social Sciences. 2016-2017. £2,500. Principal Investigator
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Quantified Aging and Digital Culture. Insight Grant. CAN $158,500. 2017-2022. Collaborator.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Ageing, Communication, Technologies (ACT): experiencing a digital world in later life. Partnership grant. CAN $2,993,263: 2014 – 2021. Co-Investigator
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Ageing, Communication, Technologies (ACT): experiencing a digital world in later life. Partnership grant. CAN $ 2,993,263: 2014 – 2021: Co-Investigator
ESRC Social Science Festival. Photographing Everyday Life: Ageing, Lived Experiences, Time and Space. November 2014: £1990: Principal Investigator
Economic Social Research Council (ESRC). Photographing Everyday Life: Ageing, Lived Experiences, Time and Space. £300,000: 2010 – 2013: Principal Investigator
ESRC Seminar series. Ageing, Race and Ethnicity. £17,950: 2012 – 2014: Co-Investigator
Canadian Institutes for Health Research and the Health Care, Technology, and Place programme: University of Toronto. Inter-organizational collaboration for patient transitions: The inter-relation between policy and practice in England and Canada. 2012 - 2015. Co-investigator / Co-mentor: Fellowship for Dr Jay Shaw
The Dunhill Medical Trust. Bridging the gap between policy and practice: dignity in care for older people 2011 – 2013: £121,254: Co-Investigator
The Leverhulme Trust. Inter, intra-generational and transnational caring in minority communities: reciprocity, duty or obligation? 2011 - 2013: £186,000: Co-Investigator
New Dynamics of Ageing (NDA). Families and Caring in South Asian Communities. 2007 – 2011: £370,000: Co-Investigator
SDO. National Institute for Health Research. Study to develop integrated working between primary health care services and care homes. 2008 – 2011: £500,00: Co-Investigator
Research links
Co-author network
- Prof Christina Victor
- Dr Gabriella Spinelli
- Prof Rhona Anderson
- Dr Emma Norris
- Dr Kei Long Cheung
- Dr Amy Prescott
- Visualise network
Similar research interests
- Professor Louise Mansfield
- Professor Sarita Malik
- Dr Busayawan Lam
- Dr Salman Masoudi Soltani
- Professor Emma Wainwright
Research group(s)
- IEHS