Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Research Grants
- Award winner: Roger Colbeck
- Institution: University of York
- Value: £101,080
Towards practical quantum technologies
- Award winner: John Walls
- Institution: Loughborough University
- Value: £856,808
SuperSolar hub extension
- Award winner: Salvador Eslava
- Institution: University of Bath
- Value: £100,740
Nanostructured metal oxides for solar fuels
- Award winner: Steven Rose
- Institution: University of Oxford
- Value: £345,836
Inertial confinement fusion – exploring the options for ignition
- Award winner: John Graves
- Institution: Coventry University
- Value: £121,726
Novel production process for renewable hydrogen from animal and human waste
Wellcome Trust
Investigator Awards in Humanities and Social Sciences
- Award winner: Evelyn Welch
- Institution: King’s College London
- Value: £878,939
Renaissance skin
- Award winner: James Mills
- Institution: University of Strathclyde
- Value: £997,937
The Asian cocaine crisis: pharmaceuticals, consumers and control in South and East Asia, c.1900-1945
Investigator Awards in Science
- Award winner: Martin Tobin
- Institution: University of Leicester
- Value: £1,318,502
Large-scale genomic epidemiology approaches to study the natural history of lung function and COPD
Royal Society
University Research Fellowships
- Award winner: Janet Deane
- Institution: University of Cambridge
- Value: £301,253
Mechanisms of aberrant intracellular trafficking in human disease
- Award winner: Edward Morrow
- Institution: University of Sussex
- Value: £318,135
Sexually antagonistic genes: from candidate to cause
- Award winner: James Owen
- Institution: Imperial College London
- Value: £420,744
Formation and evolution of extra-solar planets
- Award winner: Charles Melnyk
- Institution: John Innes Centre
- Value: £569,377
Generating and regenerating vasculature in plants
In detail
Medical Research Council
Award winner: Kate Watkins
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £738,919
Enhancing speech fluency in people who stutter
Stuttering is a developmental condition that continues to exist in one in 100 adults, often causing anxiety and restricting their ability to engage in some careers and hobbies. Fluency can be acquired through various methods – including temporarily by speaking with a different accent – but also by altering auditory feedback (such as by changing its pitch). The latter’s effectiveness suggests that stammering could be related to problems in combining motor and auditory information. Watkins’ study will use standard therapeutic techniques while testing whether a weak current passed through the brain can improve the acquisition of fluency. They will also use MRI scans to observe communication between motor and auditory regions of the brain, develop new MRI techniques to scan the muscles associated with speech production and use magnetoencephalography to measure rapid brainwaves while people listen to and produce speech.