THE LEVERHULME TRUST
RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS
Basic sciences
Award winner: Hui Lu
Institution: University of Manchester
Value: £157,487
Towards an understanding of weak and transient protein-protein interactions
Award winner: Joseph Harrity
Institution: University of Sheffield
Value: £106,634
Conjunctive reagents towards a novel molecular toolbox
Award winner: Francis Keenan
Institution: Queen's University Belfast
Value: £157,536
In the blink of an eye: high-speed observations of the Sun and other stars
Award winner: Richard Syms
Institution: Imperial College London
Value: £169,004
Optical field gradients in solution chemistry
Award winner: William James Parnell
Institution: University of Manchester
Value: £228,721
The influence of microstructure on wave and front propagation through heterogeneous media
Award winner: Ian Penton-Voak
Institution: University of Bristol
Value: £150,143
Dynamic beauty: studying social impressions with realistic stimuli
Award winner: Rob Wilson
Institution: University of St Andrews
Value: £249,759
Reconstructing 8,000 years of environmental and landscape change in the Cairngorms
Award winner: Konstanze Rietsch
Institution: King's College London
Value: £104,0
A Lie-theoretic approach to derived categories of flag varieties
Award winner: Julie Gough
Institution: University of Manchester
Value: £189,360
Substrate control of cell shape and effect on gene expression
Award winner: Guillaume Rousselet
Institution: University of Glasgow
Value: £116,899
Effects of age, luminance and pupil size on retinal and cortical processing speed
Award winner: Benjamin Ward
Institution: Cardiff University
Value: £151,034
Chiral calcium complexes: green catalysts for the future
Award winner: Andrew Smith
Institution: Royal Holloway, University of London
Value: £117,178
Sensory integration in human brain areas involved in monitoring self-motion
Award winner: Peter Bernath
Institution: University of York
Value: £212,922
Molecules in cool stars, brown dwarfs and exoplanets
Award winner: Graham Worth
Institution: University of Birmingham
Value: £123,390
Developing on-the-fly quantum dynamics for proton transfer in enzyme catalysis
Award winner: Chris Cooper
Institution: University of Essex
Value: £208,935
Gas signalling and biological energy
Award winner: Pietro Ballone
Institution: Queen's University Belfast
Value: £206,668
Sensing atomic-scale electric fields by self-organised lipid layers on mercury
Award winner: Martha Clokie
Institution: University of Leicester
Value: £124,846
Functional viromics of Cyanobacterium Synechococcus WH7803 infection by S-PM2
Award winner: Patrick Lemoine
Institution: University of Ulster
Value: £100,280
Role of ionic buffer and protein sheet on the toughness of mature enamel
Award winner: Mike Finnis
Institution: Imperial College London
Value: £228,914
Quantum mechanics of dislocations and grain boundaries in alumina
Award winner: Steven Andrews
Institution: University of Bath
Value: £95,780
Terahertz circular dichroism spectroscopy
Award winner: Ralph Kenna
Institution: Coventry University
Value: £85,742
Mythological networks
Award winner: Stefan Hollands
Institution: Cardiff University
Value: £53,420
Quantum field theory on curved spacetimes, the operator expansion and dark energy
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Humanities (international networks)
Award winner: Angeliki Lymberopoulou
Institution: The Open University
Value: £176,600
Damned in hell in the frescoes of Venetian-dominated Crete (13th-17th centuries)
Crete was ruled by the Venetians from 1211 until 1669. A culturally prolific period, it provides one of the most prolonged case studies in cultural interaction between two groups - the native Greek Orthodox population and the Venetian colonists. A lasting monument to this era comprises the 750 surviving churches with fresco decorations. No fewer than 77 of these fresco cycles contain representations of hell and these form the focus for this study. The team hopes to provide material for future research in key iconographic subjects to understand their social and historic context.