LEVERHULME TRUST
Philip Leverhulme Prize
These prizes, with a value of £70,000 each, are awarded to outstanding scholars who have made a substantial and recognised contribution to their field.
Performing and visual arts
• Award winner: Emily Wardill
• Institution: University of the Arts London
Film and video
Research Project Grants
Basic sciences
• Award winner: Simon Wagstaff
• Institution: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
• Value: £168,967
Understanding the presence and prolonged stability of mRNA in snake venoms
• Award winner: Ian Crawford
• Institution: Birkbeck, University of London
• Value: £142,443
Exploring the Moon with MoonZoo: lunar science from public participation
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL AND THE NETHERLANDS ORGANISATION FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
Anglo-Dutch network initiatives in the humanities Joint applications for up to EUR40,000 (£33,000) each have now been successfully funded for networking or exchange activities relating to two thematic areas: Sustainable Communities in a Changing World and Cultural Interactions of Research.
• Award winners: Marcello Bertotti and J.B. Burgers
• Institutions: University of East London and Erasmus University Rotterdam
An examination of the contribution of creative enterprise centres to the development of more sustainable communities
• Award winners: Anthony Carrigan and Alicia Schrikker
• Institutions: Keele University and Leiden University
The cultural politics of catastrophe: (post)colonial representations of Southeast Asian and Caribbean disasters, 1800-2012
• Award winners: Tony Wilkinson and Maurits Ertsen
• Institutions: Durham University and the Delft University of Technology
Between human niche construction and imperial power: long-term trends in ancient water systems
• Award winners: Gillian Carr and Robert van der Laarse
• Institutions: University of Cambridge and Free University Amsterdam
Landscapes of war, trauma and occupation: painful heritage and the dynamics of memory in post-1989 Europe
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCH
Health Technology Assessment programme
• Award winner: Steve George
• Institution: University of Southampton
• Value: £1,187,544
Accuracy and cost-effectiveness of dynamic contrast-enhanced computed tomography in the characterisation of solitary pulmonary nodules
IN DETAIL
Public Health Research (PHR) programme
• Award winner: Katrina Mary Wyatt
• Institution: Peninsula Medical School
• Value: £1,353,752
Cluster randomised controlled trial, economic and process evaluation to determine the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a novel intervention (Healthy Lifestyles Programme, HeLP) to prevent obesity in schoolchildren
Researchers have worked over five years to develop and refine a drama-based healthy-lifestyles programme called "HeLP" for Year 5 primary schoolchildren. Results from a pilot trial involving four schools, two of which received HeLP, suggest it has the potential to improve physical-activity levels and dietary behaviours. The team now plans to test HeLP with 1,000 9- to 10-year-olds from 28 schools.