SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
The STFC's Science in Society Fellowships are aimed at academics with significant research experience who have demonstrated a track record in outreach or communications work.
- Award winner: Maggie Aderin
Institution: University College London
The fellowship will allow the continuation of Dr Aderin's work with the media and as a speaker for schools. She is a scientific space expert for BBC Breakfast and BBC News 24 and is currently researching and developing new programme concepts for the International Year of Astronomy.
- Award winner: Colin Pulham
Institution: University of Edinburgh
This project aims to inspire young people about science, convey the nature of the research process, support teachers in curriculum delivery and promote dialogue between scientists and the public. Demonstration lectures and hands-on workshops highlighting research into the effects of high pressures on selected materials will help achieve these aims.
The STFC's Large Awards Scheme provides funds from £15,000 to £100,000 for projects expected to have significant regional or national impact. Project teams must have strong links with the STFC's scientific research community.
- Award winner: M. Paterson
Value: £85,000
"A Life in Physics": Large Hadron Collider documentary project
- Award winner: C. Bishop
Institution: National Space Centre
Value: £90,000
"Astronomy": UK planetarium show
- Award winner: Maxwell Alexander
Value: £52,300
"The Astronomers": portrait photographs of professional/amateur astronomers
THE LEVERHULME TRUST
The Leverhulme Trust offers awards for the support of research and education across all subject areas, with annual funding totalling £40 million. At its most recent trustee meeting, it announced the winners of a number of grants.
Applied sciences
- Award winner: Thomas J. Joyce
Institution: Newcastle University
Value: £151,449 over 30 months
Design and manufacture of simulator for testing shoulder prostheses
- Award winner: Simon Harper
Institution: University of Manchester
Value: £112,187 over 24 months
SCweb2: senior citizens and Web 2.0
- Award winner: Dan Nicolau
Institution: University of Liverpool
Value: £176,160 over 36 months
Fungal behaviour in microfluidics structures
- Award winner: Peter Markowich
Institution: Cambridge University
Value: £222,478 over 36 months
Kinetic and mean field partial differential models for socioeconomic processes
Basic sciences
- Award winner: Anna Amtmann
Institution: University of Glasgow
Value: £223,446 over 36 months
Remember last time? Stress memory and its relation to stress intolerance in plants
- Award winner: Evelyn Buckwar
Institution: Heriot-Watt University
Value: £77,480 over 24 months
Investigation of stability issues for stochastic differential equations (SDEs) and for numerical algorithms for SDEs
- Award winner: Lesley Cohen
Institution: Imperial College London
Value: £187,689 over 36 months
Defects in 2D frustrated prototype spin ice systems
- Award winner: Andrew Cooper
Institution: University of Liverpool
Value: £213,495 over 36 months
Microporous organic polymers for ambient temperature gas storage
- Award winner: Robin Huw Crompton
Institution: University of Liverpool
Value: £221,466 over 36 months
Pads versus claws in arboreal locomotion: mechanics of predator-prey relationships
- Award winner: Trevor Dale
Institution: Cardiff University
Value: £149,391 over 36 months
Engineering protein fibres with nucleic acids
- Award winner: Stephen Donkin
Institution: £134,741 over 36 months
Value: University of York
Invariant theory and applications
Award winner: Walter Federle
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £129,212 over 36 months
Nepenthes pitcher traps and counteradaptations of specialised ants
Award winner: Franca Fraternali
Institution: King's College London
Value: £140,383 over 36 months
Role of surface flexibility in protein interaction networks
Award winner: Susan Gathercole
Institution: University of York
Value: £135,059 over 36 months
The impact of training on everyday use of working memory in the classroom
Award winner: Juan Antonio Valiente Kroon
Institution: £83,732 over 24 months
Value: Queen Mary, University of London
Analysis of initial data at isotropic singularities and its evolution
Award winner: Adrian Linacre
Institution: University of Strathclyde
Value: £118,979 over 36 months
Identification of CITES in listed species in traditional East Asian medicines
Award winner: Graeme D Ruxton
Institution: £43,495 over 12 months
Value: University of Glasgow
Missing midges: a first field demonstration of predator confusion
Award winner: Ari Sadnandom
Institution: £97,497 over 24 months
Value: University of Glasgow
Ubiquitinated suppressors of plant immunity
Award winner: Karl Sandeman
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £14,880 over 24 months
Towards magnetic refrigeration: magentostriction and spin states in Co-Mn-Si
Award winner: Vincent Savolainen
Institution: £228,709 over 36 months
Value: Imperial College London
Global patterns of diversification and dispersal in monocotyledonous plants
Award winner: Joe Silk
Institution: £230,2 over 36 months
Value: University of Oxford
Citizen Science: Image processing via the wisdom of crowds
Award winner: David Smith
Institution: £123,370 over 36 months
Value: University of York
Insights into chemical evolution - amplification/catalysis in gel formation
