National Institute for Health Research
Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation programme
- Award winner: Andrew Horne
- Institution: University of Edinburgh
- Value: £1,215,358
A multi-centre randomised controlled trial of the efficacy and mechanism of action of Gabapentin for the management of chronic pelvic pain in women
- Award winner: Alberto Sanchez‑Fueyo
- Institution: King’s College London
- Value: £1,671,143
Prospective randomised marker-based trial to assess the clinical utility and safety of biomarker-guided immunosuppression withdrawal in liver transplantation (“LiverTOL-Dx” Trial)
Health Technology Assessment programme
- Award winner: Simon Thompson
- Institution: University of Cambridge
- Value: £226,643
Screening women for abdominal aortic aneurysm
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Research grants
- Award winner: Marina Bloj
- Institution: University of Bradford
- Value: £17,501
Neural pathways underlying human 3D motion perception
- Award winner: Ruaidhri Carmody
- Institution: University of Glasgow
- Value: £693,836
Dissecting the function of Bcl-3 in NF-kB signalling in B cells
- Award winner: Giorgio Gilestro
- Institution: Imperial College London
- Value: £375,531
Genetics of sleep regulation and function: the AKR genes in Drosophila
Economic and Social Research Council
Research grants
- Award winner: Timothy Hope
- Institution: University of Salford
- Value: £150,136
A profiler for crime, criminal justice and social harm
- Award winner: Krijn Peters
- Institution: Swansea University
- Value: £134,268
At the end of the feeder road: assessing the impact of track construction for motorbike taxis on agrarian development in Liberia
- Award winner: Alison Brown
- Institution: Cardiff University
- Value: £411,516
Economic recovery in post-conflict cities: the role of the urban informal economy
- Award winner: Michaela Benzeval
- Institution: University of Essex
- Value: £1,467,783
How can biomarkers and genetics improve our understanding of society and health?
In detail
Award winner: Daniel Stevens
Institution: University of Exeter
Value: £241,890
Media in context and the 2015 general election: how traditional and social media shape elections and governing
Researchers on this project will explore pressing questions relating to media effects on governance and elections. These include:
- the flow of campaign information, which is traditionally depicted as trickling down from elites to the masses;
- the changing media landscape and the impact of declining newspaper readership and trust in media;
- the role of traditional and social media in the post-election period (interpretations of poll results may confer legitimacy on an outcome and may provide a narrative about an electoral mandate).
The project will also look at flaws in election coverage studies. Much work ignores non-election coverage, thus not permitting analysis of the overall news context. British media studies also tend to rely solely on survey data, ignoring the benefits for establishing causation and effect sizes offered by field experiments.