ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL
Award winner: Malcolm Vale
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £721,073
The Gascon Rolls 1317-1468
Award winner: James Hegarty
Institution: Cardiff University
Value: £168,715
The history of genealogy, the genealogy of history: the family and the narrative construction of the past in early South Asia
Award winner: Roland Smith
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £644,290 The last statues of antiquity
Award winner: Michael Caesar
Institution: University of Birmingham
Value: £154,187
The Zibaldone Project: the first complete edition in English of the notebooks of Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837)
Award winner: Bjarke Frellesvig
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £826,715
Verb semantics and argument realisation in pre-modern Japanese: a comprehensive study of the basic syntax of pre-modern Japanese
Award winner: Mary-Ann Constantine
Institution: University of Wales
Value: £608,574
Wales and the French Revolution
Award winner: Michael Questier
Institution: Queen Mary, University of London
Value: £5,480
Who were the nuns? A prosopographical study of English convents in exile in the 17th and 18th centuries
Award winner: James Saunders
Institution: Bath Spa University
Value: £163,891
Words and music: defining the compositional and performance practice of text scores
Award winner: John Darlington
Institution: Imperial College London
Value: £152,975
Patterns of reference and networks of authority: classical and biblical citations and the production of a new canon in Early Modern culture 1500-1800
Award winner: Bill Wells
Institution: University of Sheffield
Value: £169,654
Phonetic design of overlapping speech in talk-in-interaction: a cross-linguistic study
ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
Award winner: J. Masthoff
Institution: University of Aberdeen
Value: £105,930
The joking computer: an interactive language playground
Award winner: B. Nuseibeh
Institution: The Open University
Value: £24,422
Security and privacy for all
Award winners (institution): I. D. Abrahams (University of Manchester), C. J. Howls (University of Southampton)
Value: £15,7, £61,6
"Meet the mathematicians" outreach events
Award winner: I. Hardalupas
Institution: Imperial College London
Value: £524,022
How does primary liquid break-up determine the downstream spray characteristics of airblast atomisers?
Award winners (institution): G. R. Davis (Queen Mary, University of London), T. Wess (Cardiff University)
Value: £797,268, £501,824
High definition X-ray microtomography and advanced visualisation techniques for information recovery from unopenable historical documents
Award winner: M. Ghadiri
Institution: University of Leeds
Value: £364,621
Assessing the flowability of cohesive powders from a small sample quantity
Award winner: R. M. Morgan
Institution: University College London
Value: £9,593
Collaboration meetings with academics at the University of Western Australia and Canberra University and an international conference presentation of new research in Melbourne
Award winner: M. D. Bowden
Institution: The Open University
Value: £5,851
Grant in aid of supporting the Sixth UK Technological Plasma Workshop
WELLCOME TRUST
Nine UK universities have received awards totalling almost £30 million to help create new, internationally competitive research facilities under the Capital Awards in Biomedical Sciences initiative.
Award winner: Ed Watkins
Institution: University of Exeter
Value: £3.6 million
Improving psychological interventions for mood and personality disorders: a translational research approach
Award winner: Irene Leigh
Institution: University of Dundee
Value: £3.5 million
Centre for Molecular Medicine
Award winner: Brian Sutton
Institution: King's College London
Value: £1.7 million
Centre for Biomolecular Spectroscopy
Award winner: Jennifer Kirkham
Institution: University of Leeds
Value: £1.1 million
Clinical and translational research unit at Leeds Dental Institute
Award winner: Mike Barer
Institution: University of Leicester
Value: £3.9 million
Faculty of medicine and biological sciences central research facility
Award winner: Janet Hemingway
Institution: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Value: £2 million
Fourth floor of new centre for tropical infectious disease; refurbishment of part of the existing LSTM building
Award winner: Jeff Errington
Institution: University of Newcastle
Value: £6 million
Bacterial cell biology building
Award winner: Nicholas Rawlins
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £2.1 million
Divisional centre for behavioural and systems neuroscience
Award winner: Jim Naismith
Institution: University of St Andrews
Value: £5 million
Biomedical sciences research complex
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
A total of £5 million in funding has been awarded to nine UK projects under a BBRSC-led scheme that aims to improve techniques for faster and more efficient development and manufacture of biological medicines.
Award winner: Zhangfeng Cui
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £480,559
Lyophilisation of proteins: an in situ study on structural changes and molecular interactions
Award winner: Tim Dafforn
Institution: University of Birmingham
Value: £416,200
An amphipathic reagent to extract, stabilise and purify proteins
Award winner: Royston Goodacre
Institution: University of Manchester
Value: £402,612
Raman spectroscopy as a novel analytical bioprocessing tool for process analytical technology (PAT)
Award winners (institution): Chris Hewitt (Loughborough University), Lorraine Young (University of Nottingham)
Value: £376,648, £366,643
Developing scalable, standardised manufacturing methods for human pluripotent stem cells
Award winner: Ioan Notingher
Institution: University of Nottingham
Value: £543,484
Non-invasive biophotonics tool for phenotypic identification of pluripotent stem cells and their progeny
Award winners (institution): Colin Robinson (University of Warwick), Eli Keshavarz-Moore (University College London)
Value: £346,970, £334,424
Exploitation of the Tat export machinery for protein production by bacteria
Award winner: Nigel Slater
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £3,494
BRIC 2008: bioprocess intensification by microcapillary separations systems
Award winners (institution): Mark Smales (University of Kent), Daniel Bracewell (University College London)
Value: £323,538, £365,107
Integrating upstream host cell-line selection and development with improved downstream bioprocessing
Award winners (institution): Nicholas Willoughby (Heriot-Watt University), Paul De Sousa (University of Edinburgh)
Value: £310,945, £104,711
A novel characterisation and separation technique for pluripotent human embryonic and hematopoeitic stem cells.
