National Institute for Health Research
Health Services and Delivery Research Programme
- Award winner: Andrew Judge
- Institution: University of Oxford
- Value: £532,390
Models of care for the delivery of secondary fracture prevention after hip fracture: a health service cost, clinical outcomes and cost-effectiveness study within the South Central region
Knowledge Exchange and Enterprise Network
- Award winners: Judy Scully, Jo Lyubovnikova and Pawan Budhwar
- Institution: Aston University
- Value: £86,440
To assess and demonstrate the financial and social impact of My Time CIC services, a community mental health support project
Leverhulme Trust
Philip Leverhulme Prizes
Classics
- Award winner: Patrick Finglass
- Institution: University of Nottingham
- Value: £70,000
Archaic and classical Greek poetry, especially Stesichorus, Pindar and Sophocles
- Award winner: Miriam Leonard
- Institution: University College London
- Value: £70,000
Classical reception, intellectual history, Greek literature and philosophy
Major Research Fellowships
- Award winner: Joya Chatterji
- Institution: University of Cambridge
- Value: £104,038
South Asian histories of citizenship
- Award winner: David Wyn Jones
- Institution: Cardiff University
- Value: £82,796
Vienna and the culture of music: 1700, 1800, 1900
Law
- Award winner: Kimberley Brownlee
- Institution: University of Warwick
- Value: £70,000
Legal and moral theory: civil disobedience, ideals, punishment, human rights
Economic and Social Research Council
DFID-ESRC Growth Research Programme
- Award winner: Orazio Attanasio
- Institution: Institute for Fiscal Studies
- Value: £309,441
Improving productivity in developing countries: identifying bottlenecks and obstacles to investments and technology adoption
- Award winner: Cesar Luis Jorge Revoredo-Giha
- Institution: Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC)
- Value: £360,378
Assessing the contribution of the dairy sector to economic growth and food security in Malawi
In detail
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Award winners: Matthew Terry and Alison Smith
Institutions: University of Southampton and University of Cambridge
Value: £500,000
A new model for chloroplast-to-nucleus communication during seedling development
This three-year project will study the transmission of information within plant cells, examining the mechanism of communication between chloroplasts and the nucleus. “Solar energy is the only significant source of new energy for our planet,” Matthew Terry explains. “The process of photosynthesis in chloroplasts can harvest this energy. We need to understand exactly how photosynthetic cells communicate and function if we are to develop better bioenergy systems.” The project will examine how the photosynthetic apparatus is assembled efficiently and safely in the early stages of seedling development, and how this may be affected by environmental conditions. It is hoped the research will provide indicators that may be useful in crop plant management and chloroplast biotechnology.