ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL
The AHRC research grants schemes are intended to support well-defined research projects to enable individuals to collaborate with, and bring benefits to, other individuals and organisations through the conduct of research.
Award winner: Yossef Rapoport
Institution: Queen Mary, University of London
Value: £165,709
Rural society in medieval Islam: translation and study of the History of the Fayyum
Award winner: H. Roms
Institution: Aberystwyth University
Value: £165,779
"It was 40 years ago today ...": locating the early history of performance art in Wales 1965-79
Award winner: J.I. Rose
Institution: Oxford Brookes University
Value: £175,155
Archaeological and palaeoenvironmental investigation of Upper Pleistocene human occupation in the Dhofar Mountains, southern Arabia
Award winner: I. Ruthven
Institution: University of Strathclyde
Value: £145,913
Decision-making in web searching: what do searchers look at and why?
Award winner: J.J. Scally
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Value: £413,097
Unlocking the Celtic collector: the mind, methods and materials of Alexander Carmichael (1832-1912)
Award winner: P.R. Schofield
Institution: Aberystwyth University
Value: £492,695
Seals in medieval Wales, 1200-1550 (SiMeW)
Award winner: R. Sutton-Spence
Institution: University of Bristol
Value: £243,847
Metaphor in creative sign language
Award winner: P.J. Thonemann
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £140,998
Monumenta Asiae Minoris Antiqua XI: monuments from southern Phrygia, Lycaonia and Cappadocia
Award winner: J.C. Haffenden
Institution: University of London
Value: £841,207
T.S. Eliot editorial project
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Newton International Fellowship
Award winner: Deborah Villarroel-Lamb
Institution: University College London
Modelling and prediction of long-term coastal morphology
Newton International fellows will spend two years at UK research institutions. The collaborative scheme between the British Academy, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society gives awards of £64,000-£68,000 to postdoctoral researchers from all over the world in natural and social sciences, engineering and humanities.
Dr Villarroel-Lamb's fellowship will allow her to work with specialists at University College London to model and predict coastal erosion, with particular emphasis on her home region in the Caribbean.
She is a lecturer at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad. During her PhD research, she developed a coastal-erosion model that predicted the short-term response of the beach in varying conditions. She hopes to use UCL's high-performance computing facilities to develop the model to simulate the long-term behaviour of beaches, making it a more effective tool for coastal-zone management.
A list of the rest of the Newton fellows will be published next week.