NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCH
Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation programme
Award winner: Valerie Moyra Pomeroy
Institution: University of East Anglia
Value: £1,231,854
Clinical efficacy of functional strength training for upper limb motor recovery early after stroke: neural correlates and prognostic indicators
ACTION MEDICAL RESEARCH
Research Training Fellowships
Award winner: Karen Logan
Institution: Imperial College London
Value: £189,234
Diabetes during pregnancy: what puts babies at risk of diabetes, too?
Award winner: Alpesh Kothari
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £183,004
Flat feet: which children need surgery?
Award winner: Karin Tuschl
Institution: University College London
Value: £200,000
Manganese toxicity: tackling this disabling metabolic imbalance
LEVERHULME TRUST
Research project grants
Sciences
Award winner: Jason Braithwaite
Institution: University of Birmingham
Value: £125,634
Cortical hyperexcitability and the out-of-body experience
Award winner: Mark Williams
Institution: University of Leicester
Value: £153,981
Pioneer ostracod zooplankton
Humanities
Award winner: Eleni Asouti
Institution: University of Liverpool
Value: £231,948
"Unfamiliar landscapes": from foraging to farming in central Anatolia, Turkey
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL AND NETHERLANDS ORGANISATION FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
Anglo-Dutch network initiatives in the humanities
Joint applications for up to EUR40,000 (£32,000) 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: Shirley Jordan and Christoph Lindner
Institutions: Queen Mary, University of London and the University of Amsterdam Visual culture and "interruption" in global cities
IN DETAIL
International Networks
Humanities
Award winner: Maire Ni Mhaonaigh
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £50,961
Converting the Isles: conversion to Christianity in the insular world Conversion to Christianity is arguably the most revolutionary social and cultural change that Europe experienced in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, transforming religious beliefs and practices, the nature of government, the priorities of the economy, the character of kinship and gender relations. Converting the Isles, an international research network for the study of the conversion to Christianity in Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia and Iceland in the early and central Middle Ages, focuses on the social, economic and cultural aspects of religious conversion. It aims to open up new research avenues, to offer a comparative perspective on conversion processes in the insular world, and to foster genuine interdisciplinary collaboration between leading historians, archaeologists and philologists, as well as early-career scholars.