Leverhulme Trust
Research Project Grants
Humanities
- Award winner: Clive Gamble
- Institution: University of Southampton
- Value: £163,228
Seasonality, mobility and storage in Palaeolithic hunting societies
- Award winner: Abigail Williams
- Institution: University of Oxford
- Value: £206,386
A new history of reading and authorship in the 18th century
Sciences
- Award winner: Dorothy Duffy
- Institution: University College London
- Value: £158,285
Modifying semiconductors by exciting electrons
- Award winner: Murray Grant
- Institution: University of Exeter
- Value: £200,129
Re-engineering plant defences to nullify phytopathogen virulence strategies
- Award winner: Russell Minns
- Institution: University of Southampton
- Value: £210,002
High-harmonic spectroscopy as a tool for the study of photochemical reactivity
- Award winner: Wesley Moran
- Institution: University of Huddersfield
- Value: £104,664
Iodonium salts: new varieties and novel reactions
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- Award winner: Anne Bernassau
- Institution: University of Glasgow
- Value: £34,999
Acoustic control and digital counting
Royal Society
Wolfson Research Merit Awards
Awards are worth £10,000-£30,000 a year, which is a salary enhancement.
- Award winner: Gregory Gutin
- Institution: Royal Holloway, University of London
Parameterised combinatorial optimisation problems
- Award winner: Douglas Parker
- Institution: University of Leeds
Interaction of moist convection with weather and climate systems
European Commission
- Award winner: Lee Cronin
- Institution: University of Glasgow
- Value: £356,739
EVOBLISS: technological evolution of synergy between physico-chemical and living systems
National Institute for Health Research
Health Technology Assessment Programme
- Award winner: Sheila Harvey
- Institution: King’s College London
- Value: £28,353
Survey and point prevalence study of sedation practice in UK adult general critical care units
In detail
European Research Council
Award winner: Max Saunders
Institution: King’s College London
Value: €2.2 million
Ego-media: The impact of new media on forms and practices of self-presentation
This project will look at how digital and social media have transformed how we write about and present ourselves online. In considering the implications of the growth of new digital methods of self-expression on notions such as individuality, creativity, privacy and sociability, the study will examine the shift from traditional biographical and autobiographical forms such as letters, diaries, journals and memoirs to the immediacy and often fragmented forms of self-presentation available on social media. It will also question the impact of digital technologies such as Facebook, blogging and Twitter on how we portray ourselves.
