Economic and Social Research Council
Future Research Leaders Scheme
- Award winner: Vanesa Castan Broto
- Institution: University College London
- Value: £171,459
Mapping urban energy landscapes in the global South
- Award winner: David Clifford
- Institution: University of Southampton
- Value: £139,496
Emerging international connections of philanthropy: exploring the global and local geography of UK-registered charities working overseas
- Award winner: Felicity Boardman
- Institution: University of Warwick
- Value: £166,074
Selecting futures: the social and ethical implications of genetic screening
DFID-ESRC Growth Research Programme
- Award winner: Arjunan Subramanian
- Institution: University of Glasgow
- Value: £390,164
Information, market creation and agricultural growth
Leverhulme Trust
International Networks
Sciences
- Award winner: Davide Mariotti
- Institution: University of Ulster
- Value: £124,507
Materials processing by atmospheric pressure plasmas for energy applications
Humanities
- Award winner: Norman Housley
- Institution: University of Leicester
- Value: £67,358
Reconfiguring the Crusade in the 15th century: goals, agencies and resonances
- Award winner: Giorgio Riello
- Institution: University of Warwick
- Value: £79,261
Luxury and the manipulation of desire: historical perspectives for contemporary debates
Social sciences
- Award winner: Alan Roulstone
- Institution: Northumbria University
- Value: £50,629
Combating young disabled people’s worklessness: an international network
Major Research Fellowships
- Award winner: Bina Agarwal
- Institution: University of Manchester
- Value: £126,933
Agricultural production collectivities and collective action theory
- Award winner: Emma Clery
- Institution: University of Southampton
- Value: £124,166
Romantic women writers and the question of economic progress
In detail
Research Leadership Awards
Award winner: William Pettigrew
Institution: University of Kent
Value: £818,692
Corporations and cultural hybridisation: English overseas trading companies in the 17th century and the development of a global dialogue about governance
This project will investigate the relationship between England’s remarkable commercial expansion overseas in the 17th century and the profound changes to its government that define its domestic history in that age. Dr Pettigrew says that he hopes to reconsider the place of overseas trading corporations - precursors of modern multinationals - and the markets they traded in. “I want to examine how the corporations allowed non-European cultures to influence English thinking about government and governance. The project will depict the formative stages of the English empire as a series of experiments with government,” he adds. It will show that the first multinational corporations played “an unappreciated part as conduits for globalisation and constitutional change…Answering the research question will help us to better understand how corporate experience overseas ‘hybridised’ English thought and practice about government and how this hybridisation catalysed globalisation,” Dr Pettigrew concludes.