ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
The ESRC has announced £16.5 million of funding over five years for three research centres focusing on the UK's economic wellbeing. These centres will help support the decision-making process of organisations by providing data on future growth and development.
Award winner: Richard Blundell
Institution: Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy, Institute for Fiscal Studies
Value: £6.79 million
Award winner: Nicholas Crafts
Institution: Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy, University of Warwick
Value: £3.6 million
The Leverhulme Trust
Award winner: Susan Jobling
Institution: Brunel University
Value: £190,430
Modelling and mimicking effects of pollution from molluscs to men
Award winner: Kirsty Park
Institution: University of Stirling
Value: £102,182
Assessing the effects of micro-turbines on urban wildlife
Award winner: Selina Stead
Institution: Newcastle University
Value: £198,356
Poverty eradication through aquaculture
Award winner: Frederic Fol Leymarie
Institution: Goldsmiths, University of London
Value: £100,502
Arts-computing study into the process involved in sketching faces
Award winner: Paul Jeffrey
Institution: Cranfield University
Value: £78,450
Graph theoretic approaches to improving water-service infrastructure robustness
Award winner: Juliet Coates
Institution: University of Birmingham
Value: £256,708
Evolution of a protein family: armadillo-related genes in moss
Award winner: Graeme Sarson
Institution: Newcastle University
Value: £137,960
Mathematical models for the developed Neolithic
Award winner: Amalia Patane
Institution: University of Nottingham
Value: £139,487
Colloidal nanocrystals for life sciences and electronics
Award winner: Jonathan Yearsley Clark
Institution: University of Surrey
Value: £189,113
Morphometric herbarium image-data analysis
Award winner: Paul Neve
Institution: University of Warwick
Value: £183,962
Experimental evolution of resistance to herbicides in Chlamydomonas reinharditii
Award winner: Andrew Adamatzky
Institution: University of the West of England
Value: £228,106
Mould intelligence: biological amorphous robots
Award winner: Simon Bending
Institution: University of Bath
Value: £209,818
Hybrid spintronic devices; driven spin-charge texture in magnetic semiconductors
Award winner: Timothy Birkhead
Institution: University of Sheffield
Value: £182,697
The history of modern ornithology from 1920-present
Award winner: Benjamin W. Tatler
Institution: University of Dundee
Value: £117,755
Remembering where: exploring why position memory is poor for dynamic movie sequences
Award winner: Patricia Hunt
Institution: Imperial College London
Value: £126,921
New ways to elucidate the electronic structure of solutes and solvents
Award winner: Jacob Koella
Institution: Imperial College London
Value: £142,717
On the use of microsporidians as effective and evolution-proof malaria control
Award winner: John Carr
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £150,723
Subversion of insect resistance by plant viruses: accident or targeted attack?
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Award winner: John Van Reenen
Institution: Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics
Value: £6.08 million
How globalisation and new technologies affect growth and inequality
The LSE's Centre for Economic Performance will conduct policy-related research into globalisation and the new technologies that affect growth and inequality. Looking at themes surrounding education, innovation and labour markets, it will also examine the skills base of communities and how global forces can affect it.