Royal Society
Wolfson Research Merit Awards
Awards are worth £10,000-£30,000 a year, which is a salary enhancement
- Award winner: Carlos Nuñez
- Institution: Swansea University
Duality in string theory, dualities in quantum field theories and applications
- Award winner: Alistair Pike
- Institution: University of Southampton
Robust chronologies and isotopic windows on human behaviour
- Award winner: Hayley Fowler
- Institution: Newcastle University
Understanding climate change impacts on hydrological extremes
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Standard Research
- Award winner: William Holderbaum
- Institution: University of Reading
- Value: £708,302
Development of a functional electrical stimulation system for bone health maintenance in spinal cord injury patients
- Award winner: Edward Archer
- Institution: University of Ulster
- Value: £82,793
An investigation into engineered thermoplastic polymer composite filament for through thickness reinforcement of laminated carbon fibre composites
- Award winner: Joanne Mason
- Institution: University of Exeter
- Value: £100,237
Transport properties of incompressible field-guided MHD turbulence
Leverhulme Trust
Research Project Grants
Sciences
- Award winner: Kristian Franze
- Institution: University of Cambridge
- Value: £166,156
Forces in neuronal development and growth
- Award winner: Stephen Lynch
- Institution: Cardiff University
- Value: £230,776
Quantum optics of mid-gap chalcogen donors in singlecrystal silicon
- Award winner: Hugh Rabagliati
- Institution: University of Edinburgh
- Value: £158,522
Expectation-driven language learning
- Award winner: Elizabeth Sockett
- Institution: University of Nottingham
- Value: £143,770
The molecular control of bacterial biting and gliding in Bdellovibrio
In detail
Research Project Grants
Humanities
Award winner: Stuart Taberner
Institution: University of Leeds
Value: £260,140
Traumatic pasts, cosmopolitanism and nation-building in contemporary German and South African literature
This project will analyse literary fiction in post-unification Germany and post-apartheid South Africa as a critique of the way these countries relate their traumatic pasts to the globalisation of Holocaust memory (“cosmopolitan memory”) in order to promote nation-building. The study will explore coming to terms with National Socialism in Germany and apartheid in South Africa and also investigate the way literature in both countries is reflecting on and shaping these processes. “At the heart of this three-year project is a comparison of the ways literary fiction emerging from Germany and South Africa is currently probing the tensions that can emerge between nation-building and this commitment to honour past victims by rejecting prejudice in the present,” wrote Stuart Taberner in the Leverhulme Trust’s newsletter. “What this project seeks to do is to examine how writers from a variety of backgrounds in each country are confronting ‘the nation’ with its unfulfilled promises and its incomplete reckoning with the past.”
