Leverhulme Trust
Research Project Grants
Sciences
- Award winner: Nadia Sidorova
- Institution: University College London
- Value: £200,253
Localisation for branching Bouchaud random walks
- Award winner: Radostin Simitev
- Institution: University of Glasgow
- Value: £147,661
Two-layer thermo-compositional dynamo models of the geomagnetic field
- Award winner: Junwang Tang
- Institution: University College London
- Value: £249,930
Feasibility of nanomaterial fabrication by microwave-promoted microreactor
- Award winner: Jamie Davies
- Institution: University of Edinburgh
- Value: £238,569
Building a synthetic cell- patterning mechanism to test a biological model
Economic and Social Research Council
Future Research Leaders Scheme
- Award winner: Rachael Jack
- Institution: University of Glasgow
- Value: £163,724
Mapping the cultural landscape of emotions for social interaction
- Award winner: Robin Purshouse
- Institution: University of Sheffield
- Value: £173,428
Complex systems modelling of alcohol consumption dynamics in the British population
- Award winner: Stefania Marino
- Institution: University of Manchester
- Value: £161,869
Migration and trade union responses: analysis of the UK in a comparative perspective
European Commission
Marie Curie Fellowship
- Award winner: Sergei Turitsyn
- Institution: Aston University
- Value: £239,646
Development of advanced all-optical regenerator subsystems for exceeding Shannon’s linear capacity limits in future optical networks
- Award winner: Paul Topham
- Institution: Aston University
- Value: £185,026
Exploring injectable peptide-based hydrogels for cell therapy
- Award winner: Alex Rozhin
- Institution: Aston University
- Value: £247,388
Knowledge transfer on novel nanostructures synthesised by laser ablation and their application for biological sensors
FP7 - ICT Call
- Award winner: Simon Thompson
- Institution: University of Kent
- Value: £471,706
Prowess: Property-based testing of web services
In detail
Award winner: Emma Tarlo
Institution: Goldsmiths, University of London
Value: £145,539
Head to head: untangling the global trade in human hair
This research explores the various uses and meanings of hair as it becomes incorporated into different projects of self-enhancement and asks what this trade might tell us about gender, ethnicity, bodies and identities in the early 21st century. It involves following the passage of hair as it moves between significant nodes of interaction in the global hair trade, with a particular focus on shops and salons in London, wig-making in New York, Hindu temples and rural areas in India where hair is collected and processed, and hair-harvesting events in Ukraine. It will also explore the relationships of intimacy and distance between different actors in the trade - “hair givers”, barbers, “collectors”, stylists, etc. While at one level the research aims to document a trade about which little is known, it also explores the strangeness of disembodied hair with its capacity to be conceptualised as body part, waste product, organic crop and desirable commodity.