ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
Award winner: P. Sawyer
Institution: Lancaster University
Value: £252,245
Making tacit knowledge in requirements explicit
Award winner: C. J. Noakes
Institution: University of Leeds
Value: £256,118
Development of computational models to design upper-room ultraviolet germicidal irradiation air disinfection systems in hospital environments
Award winner: C. Christopoulos
Institution: University of Nottingham
Value: £440,431
Integrated macro-models of networks and fields for the simulation of complex systems
Award winner: D. Smith
Institution: University of Glasgow
Value: £365,156
Under dark skies: port cities, extreme events, multi-scale processes and the vulnerability of controls around counterterrorism
Award winner: G. D. Padfield
Institution: University of Liverpool
Value: £538,931
Lifting standards: a novel approach to the development of fidelity criteria for rotorcraft flight simulators
Award winner: R. Heintzmann
Institution: King's College London
Value: £414,953
Light efficient detection in sectioning biological microscopy (EDIM)
Award winner: W. Dison
Institution: University of Bristol
Value: £194,707
Subgroups of direct products and right-angled Artin groups
Award winner: T. Jackson
Institution: University of Surrey
Value: £316,801
Food Climate Research Network - Phase 2
THE WELLCOME TRUST
Award winner: Martyn Evans
Institution: Durham University
Value: £1.8 million
Medicine and human flourishing: understanding the human side of medicine, exploring in particular the relationship of health and medicine to wider notions of well-being. The place of creativity and arts in healthy lives form key interest areas
Award winner: Brian Hurwitz
Institution: King's College London
Value: £2 million
The boundaries of illness: looking at personal and cultural representations of health and illness, and the boundaries between them. People's experiences of health and their responses to illness will be explored, as will their experiences of health and illness
THE NUFFIELD FOUNDATION
The Nuffield Foundation has announced the winner of its annual New Career Development Fellowship Scheme award, designed to encourage future social scientists by facilitating research with partnerships with more experienced researchers. Awards are up to £170,000 over three years.
Award winner: Jane Nolan and Malcolm Warner
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £149,938 over three years
An investigation of the social networks of foreign and local financial experts in Hong Kong and Shanghai
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
The Economic and Social Research Council has announced the winners of its third annual large grants competition. Grants have been awarded to experienced researchers requiring long-term support for research or research infrastructure, in projects that address both UK and global issues.
Award winner: Jonathan Gershuny
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £1.9 million over five years
The Centre for Time Use Research will expand and enhance the time-use data available for researchers. It will allow more comprehensive analysis of how people from across 76 countries use their time, explore how this has changed over time, examine if people's use of time is based on class, life stages or gender, and how time use is affected by government policy
Award winner: Michael Devereux
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £2.2 million over four years
How governments currently manage business taxation, and how governments in the future can better design and manage business taxes
Award winner: Nigel Rice
Institution: University of York
Value: £1.3 million over four years
The Health, Econometrics and Data Group will focus on analysing health, health-related behaviour and healthcare. Research aims to better inform health-related policy in areas such as health inequality and ways to evaluate public health initiatives, and will compare the performance of health-care systems on an international level
Award winner: Peter Totterdell
Institution: University of Sheffield
Value: £2 million over four years
An investigation of the mental and behavioural process of emotional regulation.
