ROYAL SOCIETY
The Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship scheme supports scientists and engineers at an early stage of their career and is designed to help researchers progress to permanent academic positions across the UK. The Royal Society covers up to 80 per cent of scholars' salaries, estates and indirect costs. Research expenses of up to £13,000 for the first year and up to £11,000 thereafter are also provided.
Award winner: Janet Anders
Institution: University College London
Dynamics of information in quantum many-body systems
Award winner: Jenny Clark
Institution: University of Cambridge
Understanding charge generation in conjugated polymers for better solar cells
Award winner: Tom Dunkley Jones
Institution: Imperial College London
An Earth system model approach to the Eocene-Oligocene climate transition
Award winner: Andreea Font
Institution: University of Cambridge
Constraining the assembly history of local group galaxies
Award winner: Verena Gortz
Institution: University of York
Liquid-crystalline polymer microspheres
Award winner: Jennifer Bizley
Institution: University of Oxford
Sound features in the mammalian brain
Award winner: Veronica Grieneisen
Institution: University of East Anglia
Polarity and cell-shape dynamics
Award winner: Elva Robinson
Institution: University of York
Ant collective organisation in robust networks (ACORN)
Award winner: Sarah Newey
Institution: University of Oxford
Cell-cell signalling during brain development
Award winner: Heather Sibley
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Brain function in high-risk bipolar disorder and schizophrenia
ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
These research grants have been awarded as part of the Bright IDEAS scheme, which intends to support genuinely novel and potentially transformative research activities. This round of funding has been awarded solely in the area of materials manufacturing.
Award winner: Andrew Abbott
Institution: University of Leicester
Value: £175,525
High-strength starch-based plastics
Award winner: Martin Booth
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £241,043
Optical strategies for the manufacture of photonic materials
Award winner: Daren Caruana
Institution: University College London
Value: £253,538
Plasma-olyte
Award winner: Rob Eason
Institution: University of Southampton
Value: £190,025
Nanoparticles on demand via multiphoton absorption (NOVA): the practical nanoparticle-making machine
Award winner: Julian Evans
Institution: University College London
Value: £162,980
The clay aeroplane - step one
Award winner: Chris Bowen
Institution: University of Bath
Value: £165,104
A low-cost route to manufacture nanostructured materials
Award winner: Andrew Mills
Institution: University of Strathclyde
Value: £218,917
Intelligent pigments and plastics
IN DETAIL
Arts and Humanities Research Council
Award winner: Mike Parker Pearson
Institution: University of Sheffield
Value: £800,000
Feeding Stonehenge
This research project sets out to answer key questions about how ancient people lived and ate at Stonehenge. It will develop the research further by analysing the bones of the cows slaughtered in the area 4,500 years ago to discover which areas the cattle - and the Stonehenge visitors - came from. The team also aims to explore the dressing of the sarsen stones, study how the public and private spaces at the nearby Durrington Walls differ from each other and establish in which season animals were culled at Stonehenge and Durrington Walls.