National Institute for Health Research
Health Technology Assessment Programme
- Award winner: Mike Crawford
- Institution: Imperial College London
- Value: £1,520,225
The clinical and cost-effectiveness of lamotrigine for people with borderline personality disorder: a randomised controlled trial
- Award winner: Tim Harrison
- Institution: University of Nottingham
- Value: £1,887,818
The clinical and cost-effectiveness of temporarily quadrupling the dose of inhaled steroid to prevent asthma exacerbations: a pragmatic, randomised, normal care-controlled, clinical trial
European Commission
- Award winner: Brian Tighe
- Institution: Aston University
- Value: £237,744
Develop new contact lens systems for ocular drug delivery
- Award winner: Alex Rozin
- Institution: Aston University
- Value: £245,424
To develop nanomaterial photonic sensor for food manufacturing
- Award winner: Sergei Turitsyn
- Institution: Aston University
- Value: £237,744
Advanced regenerator technologies for high-capacity systems
Economic and Social Research Council
Transformative Research Call: ‘Transforming’ Social Science
Maximum limit of £250,000; will run for 18 months.
- Award winner: Fernand Gobet
- Institution: University of Liverpool
Automatic generation of scientific theories
- Award winner: Stephen Reicher
- Institution: University of St Andrews
Beyond the “banality of evil”: a new understanding of conformity and atrocity
Leverhulme Trust
Research Project Grants
Sciences
- Award winner: Adrian Chaplin
- Institution: University of Warwick
- Value: £160,874
Transition metal-based [2]rotaxanes for the investigation of alkane activation
- Award winner: David Fermin
- Institution: University of Bristol
- Value: £141,512
Novel dehydrogenase-based architectures for electrocatalytic conversion of liquid fuels
Humanities
- Award winner: Stephen Rippon
- Institution: University of Exeter
- Value: £98,381
Planning in the early medieval landscape: technology, society and settlement
International Networks
Sciences
- Award winner: Pat Monaghan
- Institution: University of Glasgow
- Value: £98,000
Interdisciplinary network on telomere biology
Social sciences
In detail
Award winner: Chris Reed
Institution: University of Dundee
Value: £188,834
DrEAMS: dialogue-based exploration of argument and mediation space
Publicly funded mediation offers a cheaper alternative to litigation, but still costs tens of millions of pounds. This project aims to build a philosophically and linguistically grounded model of the mediation process to serve as a foundation for developing software tools to provide practical support. The project will develop an argument-mapping tool built on a theoretical account of argumentation in dispute mediation. It will also develop models of dialogue for the approach, depending on factors such as the willingness of the parties to participate and the exact stage of the process.