NEWTON INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIPS
This is the first round of Newton International Fellowships. Fellows have the chance to work at UK research institutions for two years. The scheme is a joint initiative between the British Academy, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society. Grants fellowships of up to £68,000 have been awarded to 51 overseas postdoctoral researchers to work in the UK in engineering, natural and social sciences and humanities. The rest of the recipients will appear next week.
Award winner: Saskia Roselaar
Institution: University of Manchester
Conquest and integration in the Roman Republic
Award winner: Samu Niskanen
Institution: University of Oxford
A critical edition of St Anselm's letters
Award winner: Vivien Prigent
Institution: University of Oxford
Estimation of the gold-coin output of the Byzantine Sicilian mint from the 7th to the 9th century
Award winner: Andrey Shcherbenok
Institution: University of Sheffield
Soviet past as the traumatic object of contemporary Russian culture
Award winner: Xiaobo Zhai
Institution: University College London
Greatest happiness, democracy and tyranny of majority: the normative and institutional structure of Jeremy Bentham's constitutional theory
Award winner: Shin-Sook Kim
Institution: School of Oriental and African Studies
Negation, scope and negative-polarity items in Korean
Award winner: Vicki Sentas
Institution: King's College London
Securing nations: policing terrorist organisation offences in the UK and Australia
Award winner: Jie Sui
Institution: University of Birmingham
Cultural contributions to the neural mechanisms of self-face perception
Award winner: Chiara Letizia
Institution: University of Oxford
Religious change in Nepal
Award winner: Katrien Pype
Institution: University of Birmingham
Presidential propaganda on Kinshasa's television screens: an exploration of politics and media in the Democratic Republic of Congo (2009-10)
Award winner: Dariusz Gafijczuk
Institution: University of Lancaster
The ruins of Mitteleuropa: an investigation into the cultural blueprints of the centre
Award winner: Martina Viarengo
Institution: London School of Economics
School size and students' performance: an international perspective
Award winner: Koon Fung Lam
Institution: University College London
Flow-separation processes in micro-structured units
Award winner: Huiling Duan
Institution: Cardiff University
Nanomechanics and design of multi-functional porous solids and structures
Award winner: Yulong Li
Institution: University of Nottingham
Theoretical and practical research on topologies and applications for direct AC-AC (matrix) converters
Award winner: Bin Zhang
Institution: University of Glasgow
Modelling on the structural phase transitions and failures of carbon nanomaterials in extreme environments
Award winner: Robert Gordon
Institution: University of Cambridge
Combustion characteristics of second-generation biofuels as examined with advanced laser diagnostics
Award winner: Rajib Chowdhury
Institution: Swansea University
Structural health monitoring of aerospace vehicle under uncertain environments
Award winner: Sriram Venkatachalam
Institution: City University London
Nonlinear interactions between violent waves and elastic structures
Award winner: Francesco Bonaccorso
Institution: University of Cambridge
Chirality controlled nanotube composites for photonics and optoelectronics
Award winner: Akira Nakajima
Institution: University of Sheffield
Development of ultra-high performance power-integrated circuit technology using GaN-based polarisation-junction device technology
Award winner: Adrien Mamou-Mani
Institution: Open University
Investigating the consistency and quality of musical wind instrument manufacturing
Award winner: Oleksiy Sydoruk
Institution: Imperial College London
Travelling-wave THz devices
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Association for International Cancer Research
Award winner: Lesley Rhodes
Institution: University of Manchester
Value: £175,000
Professor Rhodes will investigate whether dietary omega-3 fatty acids can reduce the risk of skin cancer by boosting the body's immune system. More than 60 women with allergies to nickel will be tested in the photobiology unit at Manchester's School of Medicine and Salford Royal NHS Foundation Hospital to determine whether successful lab test results can be replicated clinically. "In animal studies, nutritional supplementation with omega-3 fatty acids protects against both UVR-induced immune suppression and skin cancer," Professor Rhodes said. "This study will determine whether the same effect occurs in humans."