Dr Gabriella Spinelli from the Brunel Business School has received a Daiwa foundation award of £9000 to support a research collaboration with Tokyo University. The research will investigate the demographic challenges in UK and Japan with specific attention to the role of ageing users as catalysts of technology innovation. The grant compliments her current stream of research and contributes to the Business Strategy and Innovation programme that she leads within BIAS (Brunel Institute for Ageing Studies).
Dr Spinelli provides supervision on the MSc dissertation and MBA project for students of the Brunel Business School.