Arts and Humanities Research Council
Science in Culture Innovation Awards
- Award winner: Tony Prescott
- Institution: University of Sheffield
- Value: £64,118
Cyberselves in immersive technologies
- Award winner: John Coleman
- Institution: University of Oxford
- Value: £63,532
Ancient sounds: mixing acoustic phonetics, statistics and comparative philology to bring speech back from the past
Royal Society
Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowships
This scheme supports outstanding scientists and engineers at an early stage of their career and is designed to help them progress to permanent academic positions
- Award winner: Lily Asquith
- Institution: University of Sussex
- Value: £428,611
New physics searches and Higgs coupling measurements with ATLAS
- Award winner: Giulia Zanetti
- Institution: Birkbeck, University of London
- Value: £450,647
Role of COPII vesicle coat in trafficking of procollagen and its regulation
Wolfson Research Merit Awards
Awards are worth £10,000-£30,000 a year, which is a salary enhancement
- Award winner: Malcolm White
- Institution: University of St Andrews
The CRISPR-Cas system for prokaryotic antiviral defence
- Award winner: Sandy Cochran
- Institution: University of Dundee
Medical micro-ultrasound: minimally invasive high resolution imaging and therapy
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Standard Research
- Award winner: Nathan Gomes
- Institution: University of Kent
- Value: £926,417
NIRVANA: intelligent, heterogeneous virtualised networking infrastructure
- Award winner: Xujiong Ye
- Institution: University of Lincoln
- Value: £125,230
MyLifeHub: An interoperability hub for aggregating lifelogging data from heterogeneous sensors and its applications in ophthalmic care
Leverhulme Trust
Research Project Grants
Sciences
- Award winner: Andrew Horsfield
- Institution: Imperial College London
- Value: £147,073
Novel excited electron devices: a computational investigation
- Award winner: Liz Sockett
- Institution: University of Nottingham
- Value: £143,770
The molecular control of bacterial biting and gliding in Bdellovibrio
Humanities
- Award winner: Parvathi Kumaraswami
- Institution: University of Manchester
- Value: £160,035
Beyond Havana and the nation? Peripheral identities and literary culture in Cuba
In detail
Award winner: Charlotte Burns
Institution: University of York
Value: £224,372
Evaluating the impact of austerity upon environmental policy in Europe
This project investigates whether the global financial crisis has had an impact on environmental policy, taking the European Union as a case study. The team will analyse EU and state-level policies. “The main rationale for the project is that previous economic crises have generally had a negative effect upon the environment,” said Charlotte Burns, a lecturer in the department of environment. “Over the long term the economy tends to take precedence over environmental policy with knock-on effects upon policy ambitions.” The team hopes to develop a way to measure environmental policy change in response to the crisis, and to provide data on whether and how policy change has occurred as a consequence.
