Royal Society
Wolfson Research Merit Awards
These awards are worth £10,000-£30,000 a year, which is a salary enhancement.
- Award winner: David Spring
- Institution: University of Cambridge
Drugging the undruggable: discovery of protein-protein interaction modulators
- Award winner: Thomas Krauss
- Institution: University of York
Wavelength-scale biosensors to explore biology at the level of individual cells
University Research Fellowships
- Award winner: Timothy Easun
- Institution: Cardiff University
- Value: £503,125
Photogating nanofluidics: ultrafine spatially controlled diffusion and reactivity
- Award winner: Andrzej Szelc
- Institution: University of Manchester
- Value: £473,558
Searching for sterile neutrinos with liquid argon
- Award winner: Martin How
- Institution: University of Bristol
- Value: £503,785
Polarised light as an alternative to colour in animal vision
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- Award winner: Rajat Gupta
- Institution: Oxford Brookes University
- Value: £150,017
WLP+ (Whole Life Performance Plus)
- Award winner: Kamran Mumtaz
- Institution: University of Sheffield
- Value: £98,456
Layered extrusion of metal alloys (LEMA)
- Award winner: Adrien Desjardins
- Institution: University College London
- Value: £1,087,560
All-optical pulse-echo ultrasound imaging for real-time guidance of minimally invasive procedures
Natural Environment Research Council
- Award winner: James Lee
- Institution: University of York
- Value: £390,617
Sources and emissions of air pollutants in Beijing
- Award winner: Sean Wilkinson
- Institution: Newcastle University
- Value: £141,857
Real-time assessments of wind-related damage to electricity infrastructure (societal theme: sustainability)
- Award winner: Larissa Naylor
- Institution: University of Glasgow
- Value: £98,747
A decision framework for integrated green grey infrastructure (IGGIframe)
In detail
European Union – European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights
Award winner: Adele Jones
Institution: University of Huddersfield
Value: €400,000
None-in-Three
(This grant was awarded in response to a call issued by the EU delegation to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean titled “Towards a Future Free from Domestic Violence”)
This project will investigate domestic violence in the countries of Grenada and Barbados and use the data gathered to develop an interactive, role-playing computer game aimed at changing attitudes in potential perpetrators of violence while empowering those at risk of victimisation. Adele Jones, professor of social work at the University of Huddersfield, told Times Higher Education that the project was motivated by the “high prevalence of domestic violence” in the region. “[It] is investigating the impact of domestic violence on women who may be especially vulnerable, are particularly marginalised, or who may have difficulties in leaving a violent relationship.” The groups were chosen “because there is virtually no research in the Caribbean” about keeping them safe. The team will also study the views of men and youth from two groups: those convicted of offences who are accessing behaviour change programmes, and those who grew up in violent homes but are not violent.