Leverhulme Trust
Research Project Grants
Humanities
- Award winner: Andrew Chamberlain
- Institution: University of Manchester
- Value: £246,725
An investigation of ancient animal mummies using diagnostic radiographic imaging
- Award winner: Elizabeth Graham
- Institution: University College London
- Value: £210,554
The role of past human activity in structuring modern landscapes and soils
- Award winner: Richard P. Ingham
- Institution: Birmingham City University
- Value: £108,329
A bilingual thesaurus of Middle English and Anglo-French
Social sciences
- Award winner: Giacinta Cestone
- Institution: City University London
- Value: £130,070
Internal labour and capital markets in French business groups
Sciences
- Award winner: Ramon Grima
- Institution: University of Edinburgh
- Value: £124,461
Pushing the frontiers of stochastic modelling in biology: intrinsic noise in non-dilute conditions
- Award winner: Paul Harris
- Institution: University of Brighton
- Value: £101,947
A mathematical model of the formation and growth of cavities in the spinal cord
North West Cancer Research Fund
- Award winner: Oliver Fleck
- Institution: Bangor University
- Value: £164,190
Functions of mismatch repair proteins in the cellular response to nucleoside analogues
Royal Society
Wolfson Research Merit Awards
Awards are worth £10,000-£30,000 a year, which is a salary enhancement
- Award winner: Lajos Hanzo
- Institution: University of Southampton
Intelligent gigabit optical- and quantum-wireless information infrastructure
- Award winner: Bruce Lipschultz
- Institution: University of York
Developing plasma physics to tame the plasma-material interface for fusion energy
- Award winner: Frances M. Platt
- Institution: University of Oxford
Understanding and treating lysosomal disorders
Alzheimer’s Research UK
- Award winner: Mariana Vargas-Caballero
- Institution: University of Southampton
- Value: £58,000
Emergence of cognitive impairment in an Alzheimer’s disease mouse model: the role of NMDA receptor currents
In detail
Royal Society University Research Fellowship
Award winner: James Geach
Institution: University of Hertfordshire
Value: £399,113
Exploring the molecular universe: the missing link of galaxy formation
This project aims to carry out fundamental research that will help to answer some of the biggest questions astronomers face. How did our Sun, and indeed all stars in the universe, form? How did galaxies form and evolve? The Milky Way is only one of the billions of galaxies that have evolved into an enormous number of different types over a time span equivalent to nearly three times the age of the Earth. Studying the differences in the properties of the various galaxies is central to our understanding of the universe and its contents. James Geach will study the gas content of very distant galaxies using cutting-edge astronomical facilities.