ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL
Part of £14 million awarded by the AHRC in the latest round of its standard grant scheme. 43 awards are funded (Awards 1-18 published on 31 January).
- Award winner: D. Gauntlett
- Institution: University of Westminster
- Value: £188,365
Young people's creative understanding of their media worlds
- Award winner: S. C. Gibb
- Institution: University of Durham
- Value: £165,974
The new ontology of the mental causation debate
- Award winner: M Gibson
- Institution: University of Exeter
- Value: £172,858
Mysticism, myth and "Celtic" nationalism: a case study of Cornwall
- Award winner: J. Hallam
- Institution: University of Liverpool
- Value: £377,188
Mapping the city in film: a geo-historical analysis
- Award winner: E. C. D. Hunter
- Institution: School of Oriental and African Studies
- Value: £554,804
The Christian library from Turfan
- Award winner: N. M. T. Jackson
- Institution: University of Liverpool
- Value: £93,183
Culshaw & Sumners: a Victorian architectural practice and its impact on Liverpool's built environment
- Award winner: N. Jardine
- Institution: University of Cambridge
- Value: £491,008
Diagrams, figures and the transformation of astronomy, 1450-1650
- Award winner: D. Jeater
- Institution: University of the West of England, Bristol
- Value: £142,935
"Why did you fight?" Narratives of Rhodesian identity during the insurgency 1972-1980
- Award winner: D. Lomas
- Institution: University of Manchester
- Value: £397,970
Surrealism and same-sex desire
- Award winner: M. Luddy
- Institution: University of Warwick
- Value: £439,107
Marriage in Ireland, 1660-1925
- Award winner: J. M. Lyon
- Institution: University of Bristol
- Value: £554,461
Penguin archive project
- Award winner: J. McGonagle
- Institution: University of Manchester
- Value: £164,294
Post-colonial negotiations: visualising the Franco-Algerian relationship in the postwar period
- Award winner: A. G. Munton
- Institution: University of Plymouth
- Value: £76,655
Wyndham Lewis's art criticism in The Listener, 1946-1951: postwar British art in its context of ideas, institutions and practice.
- Award winner: C. Oppenheim
- Institution: Loughborough University
- Value: £66,816
Using the h index to rank influential UK researchers in information science and librarianship (resubmission)
- Award winner: U. Pagel
- Institution: School of Oriental and African Studies
- Value: £252,095
Locating culture, religion and the self: a study of the Tantric community in Rebkong (East Tibet)
- Award winner: J. P. Parrinder
- Institution: University of Reading
- Value: £179,129
The impact of distribution and reading patterns on the novel in Britain, 1880-1940
- Award winner: T. Reinhardt
- Institution: University of Oxford
- Value: £587,219
Medieval Latin dictionary
- Award winner: D. A. Reynolds
- Institution: University of Manchester
- Value: £526,493
Watching dance: kinaesthetic empathy
- Award winner: E. J. Shepherd
- Institution: University College London
- Value: £92,958
The impact of the UK Freedom of Information Act on records management in the public sector
- Award winner: P. P. Sims-Williams
- Institution: University of Wales, Aberystwyth
- Value: £390,889
Gaulish morphology with particular reference to areas south and east of the Danube
- Award winner: S. Stern
- Institution: University College London
- Value: £732,243
Medieval monographs on the Jewish calendar
- Award winner: K. J. Stringer
- Institution: Lancaster University
- Value: £250,126
The Norman edge: identity and state-formation on the frontiers of Europe
- Award winner: J. Tenbrink
- Institution: University of Westminster
- Value: £396,698
Genocide and genre: performing mass violence and its histories - film-making with perpetrators and survivors of the 1965-66 Indonesian genocide
- Award winner: T. Wilkinson
- Institution: University of Durham
- Value: £407,799
The fragile crescent: settlement change during urban transition
- Award winner: C. Withers
- Institution: University of Edinburgh
- Value: £185,614
Correspondence: exploration and travel from manuscript to print, 1768-1848
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL
- Award winner: J. McCloskey
- Institution: University of Ulster
- Value: £28,908
Assessment of earthquake and tsunami hazard in western Sumatra, following 09/07 Mentawai Islands earthquake sequence
- Award winner: W. H. Blake
- Institution: University of Plymouth
- Value: £44,615
Wildfire, soil and the risk to aquatic resources: evidence from the burnt Evrotas River basin, Greece (urgency grant)
- Award winner: T. Bell
- Institution: University of Oxford
- Value: £97,057
Structure and function of replicate natural bacterial communities
- Award winner: D. W. Franks
- Institution: University of York
- Value: £109,882
Developing a methodology for social network sampling
ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
33 grants totalling £10,733,142 were awarded by the EPSRC in January. These include grants in both responsive and managed modes and are spread across the EPSRC programme.
- Award winner: R. Poli
- Institution: University of Essex
- Value: £370,346
Analogue evolutionary brain computer interfaces
- Award winners (institutions): P. W. McOwan (Queen Mary, University of London), A. Johnston (University College London)
- Value: £289,324 (Queen Mary, University of London), £332,907 (University College London)
Analysing dynamic change in faces
- Award winner: W. A. P. Smith
- Institution: University of York
- Value: £1,310
Combining model - and irradiance-based constraints for improved face shape recovery and recognition from single images
- Award winner: R. A. Stockman
- Institution: University of Nottingham
- Value: £758,402
Complexity from symmetry
- Award winner: M. Chalmers
- Institution: University of Glasgow
- Value: £714,267
Contextual software
- Award winner: A. Ireland
- Institution: Heriot-Watt University
- Value: £304,909
Co-operative reasoning for automatic software verification
- Award winner: J. S. Dai
- Institution: King's College London
- Value: £225,757
Creating physical structure from disarray
- Award winner: G. Purnell
- Institution: University of Bristol
- Value: £132,071
Creating physical structure from disarray
- Award winner: M. A. Green
- Institution: University College London
- Value: £116,705
Crossover from positive to negative colossal magnetoresistance
- Award winner: B. Slater
- Institution: University College London
- Value: £221,546
Crystal growth of nanoporous materials.
