EPSRC Industrial CASE Studentship Award

01/10/2006 – 01/03/2010, Wainwright (PI in collaboration with Dr D. Greenwood, School of Built Environment) The Design and Development of an Integrated Construction Management Information System (ICMIS) utilising Business Process and Collaborative Groupware Technologies with Koru Property Services Ltd, Gateshead, (Value £60.8K).

Knowledge Transfer Partnership/Teaching Company Schemes

01/11/2000 – 01/04/2002, Wainwright (co-investigator/supervisor) The development of a marketing strategy and marketing information system (with e-business) for an SME, Teaching Company Scheme, Durham Business School with RB Pipetech Ltd, Wallsend, (value £70K).

E-Business, Information and Communications Technology and SMEs

Wainwright, D (Principal Investigator), Green, G., Yarrow, D., Fitzgerald, B., A pilot study of ICT and innovation benchmarking: Towards developing learning partnerships between universities and SMEs, January – July 2004, (Enterprise and Employability Fund, £9,800).

Information Systems Research Projects (NHS, HEFC and SERC funded)

2004, Wainwright, D. (Principal Investigator), Waring, T., Gateshead PCT, Information and Communication Technology in Primary Care: An independent study, February – September 2004, (Northumbria University Small Research Grant, Value, (£1,500).

2003, Professor Charlotte Clarke (Principal Investigator), Wainwright, D., Walton, G. Reed, J., Building the Discipline of Improvement for Health and Social Care – A Definitional Study, (NHS funded Value, £44K).  Final Report submitted November 2003.

01/09/96 to 01/09/98, Wainwright (Principal Investigator) The development of a model to illustrate the competitive and clinical impact of re-engineered information flows through the use of electronic communication links between General Medical Practices and Hospitals, UNN HEFC funded research studentship, (value £26,640).

01/02/96 to 01/03/96), Waring, Howey, Wainwright (Principal Investigator), Action Research project to analyse clinical and business information provision, Freeman Hospital Funded, value £2850, arranged 3 month staff secondment for Waring and Howey working within the Freeman Trust IS and IT departments)

01/11/93 to 31/09/95 Wainwright Principal Investigator, Waring, Maguire and Robinson co-investigators, research associate, Thomas, The development of a post implementation review model as an iterative learning aid for both systems developers and users with the aim of promoting more effective design, development and implementation of hospital information support systems, UNN HEFC funded value £23,800, UNN NBS top up £15,000, total £38,800

01/03/93 to 01/12/94, Wainwright Principal Investigator, Maguire and Rigby co-investigators, The MEDICS project evaluation study, Northumberland Health Authority funded, value £25,000).

01/09/92 to 31/07/93, Wainwright Principal Investigator, Maguire and Robinson co-investigators, An investigation into current practice relating to the translation of patient care service objectives into information systems strategy at regional level within the NHS, UNN HEFC funded value £10,000).

1992/93, Newton principal investigator, Wainwright and Robinson co-investigators, An analysis of General Practice fundholding in the Northern Region, research associate Fraser, UNN HEFC funded value £14,683)

1985 to 1988, Research Associate (B) and then Lecturer (Principal Investigator) at the Department of Business Analysis, Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic on a three year SERC/ACME (Science and Engineering Research Council Application of Computers in Manufacturing Engineering now EPSRC) sponsored research project.  The project (value £103K) was a collaboration between the Department of Business Analysis and Fasson Adhesive Products Ltd based in Cramlington, Northumberland.  Final report successfully received by ACME in February 1989 (Grant No GR/D 40739).