Professor Sukanlaya Sawang has an outstanding track record of securing and leading major research projects and grants across multiple disciplines. She has successfully attracted over £1.5 million in research funding, leading initiatives funded by prestigious bodies such as UKRI, the British Academy, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the Australian Research Council. Her projects span innovation management, entrepreneurial ecosystems, AI maturity frameworks, wellbeing tourism, sustainable development, and youth unemployment solutions. Notable projects include leading a Knowledge Transfer Partnership on AI-enabled adaptive learning, a British Academy project on innovation and sustainability, and a UKRI-funded international collaboration on AI maturity frameworks for the UK and Japan). She also contributed as a partner lead to a UKRI GCRF project addressing youth unemployment in Africa. Her research consistently bridges innovation, entrepreneurship, technology, and societal wellbeing, demonstrating her commitment to delivering impactful, interdisciplinary solutions on a global scale.

Example of Funded Projects 
- Senior Living Innovation  
- Workplace behaviour in open-plan office  
- Proactive engagement with Small Businesses ( Brisbane City Council, Brisbane Marketing and PwC Chair of Digital Economy)
- Digital Maturity ( Department of Innovation, Science, Information and Technology and Industry and PwC Chair of Digital Economy)
- Designing the Future: The InstaBooth for Situated Community Engagement and Wellbeing  
- Green HRM and employee engagement  
- Professional development program  
- Innovation housing adoption  
- Enterprise social media and employees’ well-being 
- Innovation Benchmark for Spatial Industry
- E-learning engagement​ for Rail industry  
​- World class university consortium
- AI-enabled adaptive learning
- AI maturity frameworks

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