Economic and Social Research Council
Transformative Research Call: ‘Transforming’ Social Science
Maximum limit of £250,000: the funding will run for 18 months.
- Award winner: George Davey Smith
- Institution: University of Bristol
The biosocial archive: transforming lifecourse social research through the incorporation of epigenetic measures
- Award winner: Vincent Reid
- Institution: Lancaster University
Understanding light in the late-term human fetus: proof of concept for social research techniques
The Wellcome Trust
- Award winner: David Lowe
- Institution: Aston University
- Value: £154,240
Advancing a transformative health technology: smartphone-based rapid, non-invasive telemonitoring and symptom prognosis for progressive neurological disorders
European Commission
- Award winner: Nick Doran
- Institution: Aston University
- Value: £457,043
The distributed core for unlimited bandwidth supply for all users and services (DISCUS)
Royal Society
Wolfson Research Merit Awards
Awards are worth £10,000-£30,000 a year, which is a salary enhancement.
- Award winner: Derk-Jan Dijk
- Institution: University of Surrey
Individual differences in sleep-wake regulation: a multidisciplinary approach
- Award winner: Alicia J. El Haj
- Institution: Keele University
Engineering cells and tissues for regenerative medicine and stem-cell therapies
- Award winner: Hilary Ranson
- Institution: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Ensuring the sustainability of malaria vector control
Leverhulme Trust
Research Project Grants
Sciences
- Award winner: Elizabeth Gibson
- Institution: University of Nottingham
- Value: £95,779
Dye-sensitised NiO photocathodes for solar fuel generation
- Award winner: Yuri Kalnishkan
- Institution: Royal Holloway, University of London
- Value: £133,964
Online self-tuning learning algorithms for handling historical information
- Award winner: Leonid Kulakov
- Institution: Queen’s University Belfast
- Value: £84,070
A phage metagenomics approach to forecast the evolution of microbial communities
International Networks
Humanities
- Award winner: Elleke Boehmer
- Institution: University of Oxford
- Value: £26,289
Planned violence: postcolonial urban infrastructures and literature
In detail
Award winner: James Mark
Institution: University of Exeter
Value: £974,056
1989 after 1989: representing revolution in a globalised world
“Although ‘1989’ quickly became understood as a watershed moment, both elite and social interpretations of its meaning and relevance are diverse,” Professor Mark said. “The 1989 settlements continue to be contested in Eastern Europe itself, as most recently evidenced in the Bulgarian protests last winter. We will consider the impact of the collapse of European state socialism, examining the ways in which liberal readings of its demise have become an important part of Western identity, and how its fall has been addressed in places where state socialism survived, such as China or Cuba.”
The study is recruiting postdoctoral fellows and PhD students: see Exeter’s website for details.