NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCH
Health Technology Assessment (NIHR HTA) programme
• Award winner: Heather Fortnum
• Institution: University of Nottingham Medical School
• Value: £140,385
Assessment of the feasibility and clinical value of further research to evaluate the management options for children with Down's syndrome and otitis media
• Award winner: Julian Peto
• Institution: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
• Value: £784,566
Vitamin D and longevity (ViDAL) trial - randomised feasibility study
ACTION MEDICAL RESEARCH
• Award winner: Paul Heath
• Institution: St George's, University of London
• Value: £86,084
Infection - monitoring antibiotic use in babies
• Award winner: David Carmichael
• Institution: University College London
• Value: £190,057
Epilepsy - improving brain scanning before surgery
JISC
Digitisation programme
• Award winner: Michael Pidd
• Institution: University of Sheffield
• Value: £109,612
Manuscripts online: written culture from 1000 to 1500
• Award winner: Tim Bullough
• Institution: University of Liverpool
• Value: £149,009
ENGrich
• Award winner: Humphrey Southall
• Institution: University of Portsmouth
• Value: £139,900
Old maps online: finding and referencing historical mapping as a platform for research and teaching
LEVERHULME TRUST
Research Project Grants
Basic sciences
• Award winner: Graham Hutchings
• Institution: Cardiff University
• Value: £174,132
Investigation of gold heterogeneous catalysts for CO2 utilisation
• Award winner: Michael Ingleson
• Institution: University of Manchester
• Value: £161,685
Regeneration of amine-borane hydrogen storage materials using H2 as reductant
• Award winner: Daniela Schmidt
• Institution: University of Bristol
• Value: £161,717
Ocean acidification and responses of the marine benthos in the Southern Ocean
• Award winner: Mark Sephton
• Institution: Imperial College London
• Value: £175,787
Investigating the relationships between minerals and molecules
IN DETAIL
Research Programme Grants
Social studies
• Award winner: Beverley Searle
• Institution: University of St Andrews
• Value: £732,417
Mind the (housing) wealth gap: intergenerational justice and family welfare
This project will focus on the transfer of wealth, particularly housing wealth, within families. It will address inequality in society, particularly the uneven distribution of housing wealth within and across generations. Those who do not have access to such wealth are at a disadvantage as housing increasingly determines life chances. The study will also look at housing inequalities in the context of an ageing society. Parents face a dilemma between saving wealth for their own welfare needs or passing it on to their children. When housing takes such a central role, a variety of legal concerns are raised.