THE LEVERHULME TRUST
The Leverhulme Trustees have announced the results of the 2008 competition for Philip Leverhulme Prizes. These prizes, with a value of £70,000 each, are awarded to young scholars who have made a substantial and recognised contribution to their field of study and are particularly recognised at international level.
EARTH, OCEAN AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
Award winner: Stephen Barker
Institution: Cardiff University
Palaeoceanography and palaeoclimatology
Award winner: Alan Haywood
Institution: University of Leeds
Palaeoclimatology
Award winner: Heiko Palike
Institution: University of Southampton
Palaeoclimatology
Award winner: Paul Palmer
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Climate change
Award winner: Rosalind Rickaby
Institution: University of Oxford
Palaeo-biogeochemistry
Award winner: Christian Turney
Institution: University of Exeter
Geochronology and palaeoclimate reconstruction
HISTORY OF ART
Award winner: Jill Burke
Institution: University of Edinburgh
The visual arts and the construction of identity in Renaissance Italy
Award winner: Natasha Eaton
Institution: University College London
Indian and British colonial art, 1700-2008
Award winner: Alexander Marr
Institution: University of St Andrews
Art and science in early modern Europe
Award winner: Carol Richardson
Institution: The Open University
Early modern art history
Award winner: Caroline Vout
Institution: University of Cambridge
Greco-Roman art and its reception
MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
Award winner: Marianna Csornyei
Institution: University College London
Geometric measure theory
Award winner: Martin Hairer
Institution: University of Warwick
Probability/analysis
Award winner: Harald Helfgott
Institution: University of Bristol
Number theory, diophantine geometry and group theory
Award winner: Jared Tanner
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Numerical analysis
Award winner: Andreas Winter
Institution: University of Bristol
Quantum information
MEDIEVAL, EARLY MODERN AND MODERN HISTORY
Award winner: Filippo de Vivo
Institution: Birkbeck College, University of London
Early modern European history, especially Italy and the Republic of Venice
Award winner: Caroline Humfress
Institution: Birkbeck, University of London
Early medieval history, legal history and the early Christian Church
Award winner: Simon MacLean
Institution: University of St Andrews
Medieval European history (8th-11th centuries)
Award winner: Hannah Smith
Institution: University of Oxford
Early modern British history
Award winner: Paul Warde
Institution: University of East Anglia
The economic and environmental history of northern Europe
Award winner: William Whyte
Institution: University of Oxford
British architectural history
ZOOLOGY
Award winner: William Hughes
Institution: University of Leeds
Evolutionary biology - entomology
Award winner: Kate E. Jones
Institution: Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London
Biodiversity science
Award winner: Andrea Manica
Institution: University of Cambridge
Population biology
Award winner: Tommaso Pizzari
Institution: University of Oxford
Evolutionary biology
Award winner: Jane Reid
Institution: University of Aberdeen
Population and evolutionary ecology.