National Institute for Health Research
Health Services and Delivery
Research programme
- Award winner: Martin C. Gulliford
- Institution: King’s College London
- Value: £349,926
Cost-effectiveness of different levels of uptake of bariatric surgery in a large population: cohort study and Markov model
- Award winner: Sunil M. Shah
- Institution: St George’s, University of London
- Value: £310,750
An evaluation of the effectiveness of annual health checks and quality of healthcare for adults with a learning disability
Health Technology Assessment programme
- Award winner: Zarko Alfirevic
- Institution: University of Liverpool
- Value: £233,356
Which method is best for the induction of labour? A systematic review, network meta-analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis
Leverhulme Trust
Philip Leverhulme Prizes
These awards recognise early career researchers whose work has already had a significant international impact and whose future research career is exceptionally promising.
Modern languages and literature
- Award winner: Kathryn Banks
- Institution: Durham University
- Value: £70,000
Research on the specificity of literary thinking relative to other forms of thought in the early modern period
Geography
- Award winner: Dabo Guan
- Institution: University of Leeds
- Value: £70,000
To develop a new concept of “disaster footprint” analysis in the field of climate change adaptation
Research Project Grants
Social sciences
- Award winner: Chris Stiff
- Institution: Keele University
- Value: £71,291
Campus citizen behaviours: Predicting students’ prosocial behaviours
- Award winner: Martin Everett
- Institution: University of Manchester
- Value: £247,940
Collecting and analysing secondary covert social network data
Humanities
- Award winner: David Whitley
- Institution: University of Cambridge
- Value: £135,677
In living memory: the place and uses of learning poetry
Sciences
- Award winner: Louise Martin
- Institution: University College London
- Value: £252,262
Prehistoric hunting strategies in Jordan: reconstructing prey behaviour and ecology
In detail
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Award winners: Collin Sones, Rob Eason, Spiros Garbis, Peter Smith and Saul Faust
Institution: University of Southampton
Value: more than £230,000
Laser-printable point-of-care sensors for low-cost medical diagnosis and disease monitoring
This research aims to develop robust, inexpensive, user-friendly, disposable paper-based sensors to detect biomarkers in cancer patients. It will explore whether Laser-Induced Forward Transfer (LIFT) printing of biological materials can be used to develop the sensor device on paper. These sensors would be telemedicine-enabled, allowing transfer of valuable clinical diagnostic information between patients and their care team via mobile phones. According to Dr Sones: “The paper-based sensors would enable diagnosis at an early stage, from a patient’s bedside in the comfort of their own home, without the need for either specialised equipment or trained medical personnel.” If successful, these paper-based sensors could prove invaluable in rapidly testing for detection and diagnosis of conditions including cancer and infectious diseases such as influenza, HIV and tuberculosis.
