Medical Research Council
Research grants
- Award winner: Paolo Madeddu
- Institution: University of Bristol
- Value: £622,762
In vitro and in vivo preclinical testing of pericyte-engineered grafts for correction of congenital heart defects
- Award winner: Gemma Nixon
- Institution: University of Liverpool
- Value: £425,519
Rational design, synthesis and biological evaluation of benzimidazoles: towards a novel therapy selectively targeting C. neoformans beta-tubulin
- Award winner: Eric Aboagye
- Institution: Imperial College London
- Value: £3,776,850
Development of metabolism radiotracers to probe disease pathology in human subjects with cancer
National Institute for Health Research
Health Services and Delivery Research Programme
- Award winner: David Osborn
- Institution: University College London
- Value: £820,915
Acute day units as crisis alternatives to residential care (AD‑CARE)
- Award winner: Rod Sheaff
- Institution: Plymouth University
- Value: £168,161
From programme theory to logic models for multi-specialty community providers: a realist evidence synthesis
- Award winner: Jenny Shaw
- Institution: University of Manchester
- Value: £650,018
Dementia and cognitive impairment in the prison population of England and Wales: identifying individual need and developing a skilled, multi-agency workforce to deliver targeted and responsive services
Leverhulme Trust
Research Project Grants
Humanities
- Award winner: Sethina Watson
- Institution: University of York
- Value: £152,339
The register of Walter de Gray, Archbishop of York (1215-55)
- Award winner: Clive Oppenheimer
- Institution: University of Cambridge
- Value: £165,547
Nature and impacts of Middle Pleistocene volcanism in the Ethiopian Rift
Social sciences
- Award winner: Charles Watkins
- Institution: University of Nottingham
- Value: £141,462
British amateur topographical art and landscape in Northwest Italy, 1835-1915
In detail
Award winner: Alex Mesoudi
Institution: University of Exeter
Value: £217,042
The cultural evolution of social hierarchy: an experimental investigation
Picture the scenario: a friend starts a new job. Is she more likely to learn from the assertive, intimidating supervisor whom her new colleagues fear, or from the thoughtful, reserved supervisor whom they look up to and respect? How people acquire information from others, “social learning”, has been explored widely in academia, but the wider social context within which they do so has not. There has been little study of how the socio-hierarchical organisation of human groups influences social learning. This project will combine cultural evolutionary theories from biology and anthropology with experimental social psychology and behavioural economics methodologies. The team will explore how social learning unfolds within, and may itself generate, social hierarchies. The researchers will also examine how social learning can generate social hierarchies based on knowledge exchange.