Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Technology Programme
- Award winner: Mark Plumbley
- Institution: Queen Mary University of London
- Value: £77,443
Audio data exploration: new insights and value
- Award winner: Marianne Ellis
- Institution: University of Bath
- Value: £105,790
Capillary bed bioreactor: improved estimation of dermal bioavailability
Standard Research
- Award winner: Karen Turner
- Institution: University of Strathclyde
- Value: £302,477
Energy-saving innovations and economy-wide rebound effects
National Institute for Health Research
Health Technology Assessment (NIHR HTA) Programme
- Award winner: Jane Norman
- Institution: University of Edinburgh
- Value: £1,3,029
An open randomised trial of the Arabin pessary to prevent preterm birth in twin pregnancy – STOPPIT – 2
- Award winner: Robert Hinchliffe
- Institution: St George’s, University of London
- Value: £323,265
Aspirin for venous ulcers: randomised trial (AVURT)
- Award winner: Ruth Gilbert
- Institution: University College London
- Value: £1,856,285
Preventing infection using antibiotic impregnated long lines (PREVAIL)
Leverhulme Trust
Research Project Grants
Humanities
- Award winner: Ian Kenneth Bailiff
- Institution: Durham University
- Value: £102,443
Developing new approaches to dating ancient irrigation features
- Award winner: Michael Fulford
- Institution: University of Reading
- Value: £260,639
From Roman England to Roman Britain: rural settlement, society and economy
- Award winner: Matthew Rampley
- Institution: University of Birmingham
- Value: £286,602
Promoting national and imperial identities: museums in Austria-Hungary
- Award winner: Jon Williamson
- Institution: University of Kent
- Value: £222,096
Grading evidence of mechanisms in physics and biology
Arts and Humanities Research Council
Science in Culture Innovation Awards
- Award winner: Adam Zeman
- Institution: University of Exeter
- Value: £64,169.41
The eye’s mind – a study of the neural basis of visual imagination and its role in culture
In detail
Award winner: Jason Hall
Institution: University of Exeter
Value: £64,187
Poetry by numbers, then and now: metre, mathematics, machines and manufacture
This project centres on a Latin verse machine, invented by John Clark in the early 19th century, which “composes” lines of poetry in a random sequence. The study aims to discover the competencies, methods and skill sets needed to build such a device, as well as the extent to which the convergence of these specialisms can be put to productive use today to inform restoration projects relating to Britain’s technological heritage. Hall and his team will study the machine and documents relating to its use to try to understand its operation, preserve it and return the device to a functioning state. The project will also construct virtual and actual replicas of the machine.
