THE BRITISH ACADEMY
The British Academy has awarded 23 conference support grants, worth a total of almost £160,000, to UK scholars. The grants aim to promote dialogue and exchange within the humanities and social sciences. Further details about the Academy's Conference Support Scheme are available from www.britac.ac.uk/funding/guide/confs.cfm
Award winner: Pierpaolo Antonello
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £3,353
Apocalissi: eschatological imagination in Italian culture from Dante to the present
Award winner: Peter Austin
Institution: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Value: £2,500
Beliefs and ideologies on endangered languages
Award winner: Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Institution: School of Oriental and African Studies
Value: £13,067
The arts of the Mamluks in Egypt and Syria (1250-1517)
Award winner: Philip Bullock
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £2,075
Russia in Britain 1880-1940: reception, translation and the Modernist cultural agenda
Award winner: Luisa Cale
Institution: Birkbeck, University of London
Value: £4,600
Romantic disorder: predisciplinarity and the divisions of knowledge
Award winner: Christopher Carey
Institution: University College London
Value: £1,800
Eros in ancient Greece
Award winner: John Chapman
Institution: Durham University
Value: £4,520
Home, settlement and dwelling: temporal perspectives
Award winner: Lucy Donkin
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £2,585
Imagining Jerusalem in the medieval West
Award winner: Paulo Drinot
Institution: University of Manchester
Value: £4,283
Global wounds
Award winner: Robert Evans
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £3,620
The changing landscape of East-Central Europe in transnational context c1700-1989
Award winner: Christopher Gill
Institution: University of Exeter
Value: £2,144
Teleology in the ancient world: the dispensation of nature
Award winner: Anthony Heath
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £13,693
Affirmative action in the labour market: international perspectives
Award winner: Serena Heckler
Institution: Durham University
Value: £12,904
Indigenous studies and engaged anthropology: opening a dialogue
Award winner: Sebastian Hoffmann
Institution: Lancaster University
Value: £6,776
ICAME 30 (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English)
Award winner: Ed Hopkins
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Value: £5,000
Relativity, inequality and public policy
Award winner: Martin Jones
Institution: King's College London
Value: £4,132
XXI Anglo-German Colloquium: seeing and visibility in the literature of the German Middle Ages
Award winner: George Leeson
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £19,515
Ageing in Latin America - developing the research agenda
Award winner: Eamonn O'Ciardha
Institution: University of Ulster
Value: £10,920
The plantation of Ulster 1609-2009: a laboratory for empire
Award winner: Dagmar Schiek
Institution: University of Leeds
Value: £5,901
Multidimensional equality law second European conference
Award winner: Avi Shlaim
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £12,752
June 1967: the crisis and its consequences
Award winner: Trevor Stack
Institution: University of Aberdeen
Value: £14,825
The category of religion: boundaries and their consequences
Award winner: Julian Stallabrass
Institute: Courtauld Institute of Art
Value: £5,000
Modernity's cultural politics: China in context
Award winner: Vincenzo Vergiani
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £8,552
Bilingual discourse and cross-cultural fertilisation: Sanskrit and Tamil in medieval India
THE LEVERHULME TRUST
Award winner: Ludovica Serratrice
Institution: University of Manchester
Value: £69,051
Understanding language comprehension in bilingual children
Award winner: John Maloney
Institution: University of Exeter
Value: £35,817
Voting behaviour, party strategy and economic voting
Award winner: John Hardcastle
Institution: University of London
Value: £244,858
Social change and English: a study of three English departments 1945-1965
Award winner: Guy Robinson
Institution: Kingston University
Value: £200,016
Lifestyles and life-courses: the social context of household waste management
Award winner: Karen McComb
Institution: University of Sussex
Value: £174,892
Age and experience as determinants of acquired knowledge in a non-human mammal
Award winner: Nicholas Barton
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £249,459
Cemeteries and sedentism in the epipalaeolithic of North Africa
IN DETAIL
European Research Council
Award winner: Martin Schroder
Institution: University of Nottingham
Value: EUR2.5 million (£2.22 million)
This Advanced Grant will help to further groundbreaking research in energy and sustainability by supporting the development of new ideas and techniques in chemistry over the next five years. Researchers at the University of Nottingham are working to develop new nanoscale framework polymers for the storage and activation of gases (notably hydrogen) and volatile organic compounds, new catalysts for the reversible oxidation and photochemical production of hydrogen from water, and the clean and selective recovery of precious and high-value metals from process streams and ores by supramolecular recognition and binding.