MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
Almost £3 million in grants has been awarded by the Medical Research Council and 11 partner organisations as part of the second wave of funding for the National Prevention Research Initiative, which supports research aimed at preventing chronic diseases.
- Award winner: Jean Adams
Institution: Newcastle University
Value: £97,244
The new TV diet - evaluating the effect of the UK 2007 Ofcom restrictions on television food advertising to children
- Award winner: Anne Ellaway
Institution: MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow
Value: £96,876
Availability of and access to physical activity opportunities and links with health behaviours and obesity among adults
- Award winner: Chris Riddoch
Institution: University of Bath
Value: £269,632
Pooling of children's physical-activity data
- Award winner: Andrew Steptoe
Institution: University College London
Value: £193,376
Socio-demographic, economic and biomedical determinants of multiple health behaviours in older adults
- Award winner: Alison Stephen
Institution: MRC Human Nutrition Research, Cambridge
Value: £143,520
Eating behaviours: tracking through the life course and impact on chronic disease
- Award winner: Lucy Cooke
Institution: University College London
Value: £423,644
The influence of incentives on children's consumption of vegetables
- Award winner: Martyn Standage
Institution: University of Bath
Value: £262,712
The use of incentives in the formation of healthy lifestyle habits following the school-to-work transition
- Award winner: William Bruce Traill
Institution: University of Reading
Value: £156,020
The effectiveness of fat taxes and thin subsidies in improving diets
- Award winner: Sarah Lewis
Institution: University of Nottingham
Value: £193,516
A comprehensive evaluation of the impact of English tobacco-control policy on smoking-cessation activities
- Award winner: Laurence A. Moore
Institution: Cardiff University
Value: £210,900
Free school-breakfast initiative data augmentation and analysis
- Award winner: Andrew Russell
Institution: Durham University
Value: £124,224
Contraband and counterfeit tobacco - exploring an economic disincentive to the denormalisation of tobacco
- Award winner: Murray Smith
Institution: University of Aberdeen
Value: £261,324
Economic appraisal of the choice and targeting of lifestyle interventions to prevent disease in deprived populations
- Award winner: Mark Hamer
Institution: University College London
Value: £95,194
Physical activity behaviours and mortality risk among South Asian communities living in England
- Award winner: Seeromanie Harding
Institution: University of Glasgow
Value: £147,802
Do neighbourhood environments contribute to ethnic differences in obesity, physical activity and diets?
