2009 NEWTON INTERNATIONAL FELLOWS
Award winner: Shaikh Faruque Ali
Institution: Swansea University
Dynamics and control of smart structural systems with uncertainty
Award winner: Alexandra Alvergne
Institution: University College London
Social influence on the diffusion of cultural innovation: the case of modern contraception
Award winner: Nobuko Anan
Institution: University of Warwick
Playing with the West: parody in contemporary Japanese women's performance
Award winner: Mariya Bivolarska
Institution: University of Nottingham
Microscopy of living cells using parallel plasmon-enhanced photothermal microscopy
Award winner: Matthew Blaschko
Institution: University of Oxford
Statistical learning approaches to semantic computer vision
Award winner: Vaclav Brozek
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Model-checking problems for infinite-state stochastic games
Award winner: Mirna Chahine
Institution: Imperial College London
The role of nuclear import in differentiation of the human embryonic-stem-cell-derived cardiomyocyte
Award winner: Emmanuelle Crost
Institution: Institute of Food Research
Microbiota/host interactions in the human gut: role of Ruminococcus gnavus E1 in mucins' degradation
Award winner: Hanyin Cui
Institution: University of Durham
Estimation of inclusion size and number distribution in liquid metals using ultrasonic methods
Award winner: Omer Dushek
Institution: University of Oxford
Investigating signal initiation in T-cell receptor clusters
Award winner: Goki Eda
Institution: Imperial College London
Large-area thin films from graphene
Award winner: Benoit Fauque
Institution: University of Bristol
Nature of the electronic ground state of a 3D metal near the quantum limit
Award winner: Ariel Feldman
Institution: University of Manchester
Joshua and his texts in Second Temple times
Award winner: James A. Gillis
Institution: University of Cambridge
Development and evolution of the vertebrate pharyngeal endoskeleton
Award winner: Jorg Gotte
Institution: University of Bristol
Displacing light beams with surface metamaterials
Award winner: Marcin Gruszecki
Institution: University of Warwick
Magneto-hydrodynamic wave diagnostics of space plasmas
Award winner: Maria Rosa Guerrieri
Institution: University of Edinburgh
The role of nitrogen deposition in driving carbon uptake by forest ecosystems
Award winner: Zhipeng Guo
Institution: University of Oxford
Solidification dynamics under applied external physical fields
Award winner: Pedro Hallal
Institution: Institute of Child Health
Effects of early-life exposures on physical activity and body composition throughout the lifespan
Award winner: Sridhar Hariharaputran
Institution: Royal Holloway, University of London
An integrated network of metabotropic glutamate receptor interactions
Award winner: Dong-Ku Kang
Institution: Imperial College London
High-throughput droplet-based microfluidic systems for analysis of protein-protein interactions
Award winner: Chenfeng Ke
Institution: University of Bristol
Towards glucose sensing with synthetic lectins
Award winner: Konstantinos Kostarakos
Institution: University of Cambridge
The sensory-to-motor interface of cricket auditory behaviour
Award winner: Pintu Kumar Mandal
Institution: University of Leeds
Novel carbohydrate inhibitors for bacterial toxins
Award winner: Fabiana Li
Institution: University of Manchester
Gold and glaciers: an ethnography of equivalence and incommensurability in the global economy
Award winner: Yixian Lin
Institution: University College London
Early glass and pigments from Majiayuan Cemetery, Gansu, China
Award winner: Amos Madhlopa
Institution: University of Strathclyde
Development of a dynamic model for computation of solar distribution in a double-slope solar still
Award winner: Tamar R. Makin
Institution: University of Oxford
Functional consequences of multisensory plasticity following hand amputation in the human brain
Award winner: Sonali Nag
Institution: University of York
Children at risk for reading difficulties in Kannada, an Indian alphasyllabary
Award winner: Pablo Navarro
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Analysis of the gene-regulatory network controlling ES cell identity
Award winner: Thao Nguyen
Institution: Royal Holloway, University of London
A replicable and sustainable ICT-enabled business model to benefit women-run micro-enterprises
Award winner: Kate Nixon
Institution: University of Manchester
Fundamental studies of the ionisation of laser-aligned atoms and molecules by low-energy electrons
Award winner: Chukwuma Okoye
Institution: University of Leeds
The postcoloniality of African theatre and performance
Award winner: Christopher Olivola
Institution: University College London
From fundamental psychological principles to the valuation of human lives
Award winner: Kirill Ospovat
Institution: Queen Mary, University of London
Socialising culture: court society, patronage and culture in 18th-century Russia
Award winner: Maria Pala
Institution: University of Leeds
Origins and expansion of mitochondrial DNA haplogroup HV and the modern human settlement of West Eurasia
Award winner: Ali Usman Qasmi
Institution: Royal Holloway, University of London
Exploring pluralism in Islamic traditions: the Shia Muslims of Punjab since 1857
Award winner: Huanguang Qiu
Institution: School of Oriental and African Studies
The economics of biofuel production: social and environmental impacts in China
Award winner: Harapriya Rath
Institution: University of Manchester
Porphyrins and expanded porphyrins as linkers between heterometallic rings
Award winner: Guillaume Saint-Guillain
Institution: King's College London
Identities, colonialisms and state transformations in the 13th-century Mediterranean
Award winner: Arjan Schakel
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Regional reform and territorialisation of party systems
Award winner: Simone Severini
Institution: University College London
Quantum networks dynamics
Award winner: Shad Siddiqui
Institution: University of Birmingham
Mechanistic study of formation of kinetically trapped nanoemulsions for future health foods
Award winner: Yonatan Sivan
Institution: Imperial College London
Bringing together metamaterials and non-linear optics
Award winner: Kyriaki Skartsila
Institution: Natural History Museum
Hydroxylapatite nanoparticles: their reactivity and potential toxicity
Award winner: Yury Suleymanov
Institution: University of Oxford
Quantum-mechanical effects in chemical-reaction rates
Award winner: Masayoshi Tanaka
Institution: University of Leeds
Biomimetic fabrication of highly regulated, biocompatible nanowires using tubulated liposomes
Award winner: Fang Wang
Institution: University of Sussex
A new sub-grid scale two-phase turbulent combustion model using fully resolved direct numerical simulation
Award winner: Pavlos Xenitidis
Institution: University of Leeds
Symmetries and integrability of lattice equations and related partial differential equations
Award winner: Rui Yang
Institution: Queen Mary, University of London
Electrically small antennae loaded with metamaterials for body-centric wireless communications
IN DETAIL
The Finnis Scott Foundation
Institution: University of Northampton
Value: £57,000
Conserving crop and wild flower pollinating insects
The grant will aid research into the conservation of pollinators in the region by providing three years of financial backing for a PhD student at Northampton. The student will be supported by Jeff Ollerton, senior lecturer in ecology, and Jon Stobart, professor of history. The cross-disciplinary research will involve an examination of garden records, such as planting schemes in historical archives, and ecological surveys of insects in gardens.