Leverhulme Trust
Research fellowships
Sciences
- Award winner: Ilik Saccheri
- Institution: University of Liverpool
- Value: £24,664
Causes and consequences of a novel sex determination mechanism in a butterfly
Humanities
- Award winner: Michèle Barrett
- Institution: Queen Mary University of London
- Value: £49,184
Virginia Woolf’s social and historical research: the author as note-taker
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Research grants
- Award winner: Michael Schrader
- Institution: University of Exeter
- Value: £422,707
Unveiling novel functions of peroxisomal lipid-binding proteins in interorganellar cooperation and regulation of lipid metabolism
- Award winner: Che Connon
- Institution: Newcastle University
- Value: £150,795
Development of Brillouin spectroscopy for mechanotransduction research
- Award winner: Anna Amtmann
- Institution: University of Glasgow
- Value: £493,153
Perception and integration of nutritional signals in plant root systems: solving the mystery of K-Fe-P interactions
- Award winner: Finn Grey
- Institution: University of Edinburgh
- Value: £115,623
Generation of genome-wide CRISPR knockout libraries for pig and chicken
- Award winner: Henryk Faas
- Institution: University of Nottingham
- Value: £148,147
Monitoring enzyme activity with a hyperpolarised MRI biosensor
Arts and Humanities Research Council
Research grants
- Award winner: Felix Driver
- Institution: Royal Holloway, University of London
- Value: £811,967
The mobile museum: economic botany in circulation
- Award winner: Siobhan Wills
- Institution: Ulster University
- Value: £79,752
Community experience of conflict in Haiti: assessing the emotional legacy of civilian deaths as a result of intense use of force by UN peacekeepers
- Award winner: Juliane Furst
- Institution: University of Bristol
- Value: £491,976
Notes from the zone of Kaif: the life and work of Azazello – hippy, poet, drug addict and artist
- Award winner: Wendy Ayres-Bennett
- Institution: University of Cambridge
- Value: £3,212,710
Multilingualism: empowering individuals, transforming societies (MEITS)
In detail
Award winner: Julia Laite
Institution: Birkbeck, University of London
Value: £203,040
Trafficking, smuggling, and illicit migration in gendered and historical perspective, c. 1870-2000
This project will investigate illicit migration and trafficking in the 19th and 20th centuries from a global perspective. The team will collaborate to produce a comparative study of trafficking and clandestine migration in the British and Russian empires. A digital collaboration project will bring together historians studying trafficking, smuggling and illicit migration in other areas of the world. The project’s collaborative nature will allow researchers to explore methodological questions including: how can we write a collaborative global history of trafficking that also captures national, local and individual factors, and how can we develop lasting collaborations between those who research the history of trafficking around the globe?