Investigation of the molecular pathogenesis and pathophysiology of Disorders of Sex Development (EuroDSD): was funded for 3-years (3m€) through the EU FW7 in 2008. EuroDSD established a clinical data registry and research environment to support all aspects of rare sex diseases. The EuroDSD project included clinical partners from across Europe and has (up to now!) recruited over 1300 DSD cases. The technologies and standard operating procedures and processes for data collection, data access and usage in EuroDSD were widely endorsed by independent ethic oversight committees. Importantly many non-funded clinical and research collaborators are involved in EuroDSD. A paper describing one of the outputs of EuroDSD is available here.

Scots Words and Placenames (SWAP): aimed to engage the Scottish public in talking about the Scots words that they use and hear around them. The project sought any examples of words, their meanings, how they were used, where they were used, how they were pronounced, if people knew what they meant, whether they appeared on maps or were known through word-of-mouth; even how they looked (through uploading pictures). The results of the SWAP project were added to the word collections of Scottish Language Dictionaries and helped to form new dictionaries of the Scots language. They also contributed to knowledge of Scots place-names. The information we gathered on place-names was used to populate a comprehensive glossary of Scots place-name elements and to supplement the dictionary-based research, which was used to create it. This was an early example of a crowd-sourcing project.