Leverhulme Trust
Research Project Grants
Sciences
- Award winner: Karl Hale
- Institution: Queen’s University Belfast
- Value: £245,468
Towards a new total synthesis of (+)-Acutiphycin via O-Directed Hydrostannation
- Award winner: Louis Morrill
- Institution: Cardiff University
- Value: £175,992
The productive merger of organocatalysis and frustrated Lewis pairs
- Award winner: Shuzo Sakata
- Institution: University of Strathclyde
- Value: £232,495
The function of sub-second brainwaves in REM sleep
Humanities
- Award winner: Jackson Armstrong
- Institution: University of Aberdeen
- Value: £310,455
Law in the Aberdeen council registers 1398-1511: concepts, practices, geographies
Social sciences
- Award winner: Mitchell Callan
- Institution: University of Essex
- Value: £103,128
Rejecting innocent victims: the roles of relative judgments and emotional impact
National Institute for Health Research
Health Technology Assessment programme
- Award winner: Joe Kai
- Institution: University of Nottingham
- Value: £198,788
Medical treatment of heavy menstrual bleeding in primary care: Long-term follow-up of ECLIPSE trial cohort
Public Health Research programme
- Award winner: Caroline Free
- Institution: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London
- Value: £1,413,918
Safetxt: A randomised controlled trial of an intervention delivered by mobile phone messaging to reduce sexually transmitted infections (STI) by increasing sexual health precaution behaviours in young people
- Award winner: Kate Jolly
- Institution: University of Birmingham
- Value: £446,793
Healthy Dads, Healthy Kids UK: a cultural adaptation and feasibility study of a weight management programme for fathers of younger children
In detail
Paladin Capital
Academics supported by Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre
Award winners: Principal investigators: Julia Davidson, Mary Aiken and Steve Chan
Institutions: Middlesex University and Hawaii Pacific University
Value: $100,000
Young people and pathways into cybercrime
“This project aims to draw together existing evidence on online behaviour and associations to criminal behaviour among young people,” Julia Davidson, professor of criminology at Middlesex University, said. “Specifically, it intends to explore the trajectories and pathways that lead to ‘cyber-criminality’ through a series of mixed-methodological endeavours and the integration of theoretical frameworks across criminology and psychology and computer science.” Professor Davidson added that they were focusing on the potential path from cyber juvenile delinquency to lone cybercriminal, to organised cybercrime. “Law enforcement have commented that…particularly IT-literate boys, are increasingly committing cybercrime offences ranging from money laundering for criminal gangs to hacking,” she said. “Unfortunately, many of these young people are ignorant about the severe custodial sentences such crimes carry as well as the possibility of extradition to the US to stand trial where crimes are committed against a US company or agency. This is an international problem.” Among other things, the project aims to inform professionals within key infrastructures under threat from cybercriminality, and help schools and colleges educate vulnerable young people as to the dangers of cybercrime.