Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- Award winner: Eric McInnes
- Institution: University of Manchester
- Value: £295,760
Non-classical paramagnetic susceptibility and anisotropy in lanthanide coordination complexes: a combined experimental and theoretical study
- Award winner: Maria Oswald
- Institution: University of Bristol
- Value: £1,150,810
Leakage-aware design automation (LADA): tools and techniques for software crypto implementations
- Award winner: Kylie Vincent
- Institution: University of Oxford
- Value: £2,940,740
New routes to driving enzyme-catalysed chemical synthesis using hydrogen gas
- Award winner: Agba Salman
- Institution: University of Sheffield
- Value: £333,192
Discrete computational modelling of twin screw granulation
- Award winner: Rachel Williams
- Institution: University of Liverpool
- Value: £247,693
Novel chemical cross-linking of the cornea for treatment of keratoconus
Royal Academy of Engineering/Lloyd’s Register Foundation
Research Fellowships
- Award winner: Martynas Beresna
- Institution: University of Southampton
- Value: £593,809
Ultrafast laser-induced nanostructuring: a pathway to advanced optical fibre engineering
- Award winner: Trung Duong
- Institution: Queen’s University Belfast
- Value: £670,645
Meeting future wireless capacity via secure and energy-efficient small-cell networks
- Award winner: Mark Batty
- Institution: University of Kent
- Value: £526,646
CGrail: unified, optimisable and formally specified C concurrency
- Award winner: David Phillips
- Institution: University of Glasgow
- Value: £623,290
Sensing and actuation of nano-scale mechanics in biological systems
Arts and Humanities Research Council
- Award winner: Ian Goode
- Institution: University of Glasgow
- Value: £357,867
The major minor cinema: the Highlands and Islands film guild (1946-71)
- Award winner: Helen Nicholson
- Institution: Royal Holloway, University of London
- Value: £68,348
For love or money? Collaboration between amateur and professional theatre
In detail
Award winner: Jonathan Culpeper
Institution: Lancaster University
Value: £1 million
Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare’s Language
“The project investigates Shakespeare’s language, but not simply how it is used to create meanings within Shakespeare,” said Jonathan Culpeper, professor of English language and linguistics at Lancaster University. “It will compare his language with that of a 321 million-word corpus comprising the works of his contemporaries.” Professor Culpeper told Times Higher Education that the UK was a “world leader in corpus-based methods” – using computers to identify language patterns in vast collections of electronic texts. The UK has “generated dictionaries, grammars and more”, he said, but this has “never been done for Shakespeare”. The researchers hope to discover “what is unique about Shakespeare’s language and what it would have meant to his contemporaries” – for example, attitudes towards “love” or “death”, what it means to be “Welsh” or a “harlot”, or even the significance of eating “fish” instead of “beef”.