LEVERHULME TRUST
Research Project Grants
Basic sciences
• Award winner: Nabeel Affara
• Institution: University of Cambridge
• Value: £244,745
Control of offspring sex ratio by spermatid genes that evade transcript sharing
• Award winner: Jason Smith
• Institution: University of Oxford
• Value: £2,833
Tunable microcavities for sensing in the physical and biological sciences
• Award winner: Jonathan Rossiter
• Institution: University of Bristol
• Value: £209,558
A robot that decomposes: towards biodegradable robotic organisms
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCH
Health Technology Assessment programme
• Award winner: Helen McConachie
• Institution: Newcastle University
• Value: £259,946
Measurement in autism-spectrum disorder under review
Health Services and Delivery Research programme
• Award winner: Graham Thornicroft
• Institution: King's College London
• Value: £487,844
Management by geographic area or management specialised by disorder? An evaluation of effects of an organisational intervention on secondary mental healthcare for common mental disorder
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
Research Seminar Awards
Demography
• Award winner: Victoria Hosegood
• Institution: University of Southampton
• Value: £16,865
Family demography and health in low- and middle-income countries: a cyberseminar series exploring family change and intergenerational relationships
Economics
• Award winner: Rowena Grey
• Institution: University of Essex
• Value: £17,759
Economic growth and economic performance over the long run: frontier research in economic and social history
Environmental planning
• Award winner: Rob Imrie
• Institution: King's College London
• Value: £14,670
Designing inclusive environments: shaping transitions from theory into practice
• Award winner: David Benson
• Institution: University of East Anglia
• Value: £14,610
Constructing the green economy: integrating sustainability for governance?
Human geography
• Award winner: Simon Parker
• Institution: University of York
• Value: £14,935
Rethinking centres and peripheries
• Award winner: Nicholas Gill
• Institution: University of Exeter
• Value: £17,990
Exploring everyday practice and resistance in immigration detention
IN DETAIL
• Award winner: Hannah O'Regan
• Institution: Liverpool John Moores University
• Value: £222,780
Quantifying the mosaic: testing modern analogues for African palaeoenvironments
Reconstructions of the ecology of sites where fossils of our ancestors have been found have often been described as "mosaic habitats". There is no scientific consensus on what the term means, or what mosaics might have looked like. Using remote sensing data, this project will quantify modern African mosaics, the processes that form and maintain them and their spatial distribution, and compare them to the fossil record. The aim is to use the present to help interpret the past.