ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
Fourteen fellows will share £5.5 million under the Global Uncertainties scheme, run by the ESRC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. They will look at how individuals, communities and states form opinions on security and insecurity, exploring why some ideas can lead to conflict or criminality.
- Award winner: L.J. Cameron
Institution: The Open University
Value: £446,476
Living with uncertainty: metaphor and the dynamics of empathy in discourse
Award winner: K. Cooper
Institution: University of Manchester
Value: £601,104
Constantine's dream: belonging, deviance and the problem of violence in early Christianity
Award winner: A. El-Affendi
Institution: University of Westminster
Value: £313,691
Narratives of insecurity, democratisation and the justification of (mass) violence
Award winner: T. Farrell
Institution: King's College London
Value: £438,678
Organisations, innovation and security in the 21st century
Award winner: L.D. Freedman
Institution: King's College London
Value: £650,793
Strategic scripts for the 21st century
Award winner: R.M. Gleave
Institution: University of Exeter
Value: £594,251
Legitimate and illegitimate violence in Islamic thought
Award winner: A. Hammerstad
Institution: University of Kent
Value: £242,866
The securitisation of forced migration: changing ideas and beliefs about displacement and their impact on security
Award winner: P.R. Higate
Institution: University of Bristol
Value: £306,974
Mercenary masculinities imagine security: the case of the private military contractor
Award winner: D.K. Leonard
Institution: Institute of Development Studies
Value: £557,245
Global uncertainties: security in an Africa of networked, multi-level governance
Award winner: L. McNamara
Institution: University of Reading
Value: £309,103
Law, terrorism and the right to know
Award winner: C. Rooney
Institution: University of Kent
Value: £333,372
Radical distrust: a cultural analysis of the emotional, psychological and linguistic formations of religious and political extremism
Award winner: N.J. Wheeler
Institution: Aberystwyth University
Value: £538,013
The challenges to trust-building in a nuclear world
Award winner: J.R. Wolffe
Institution: The Open University
Value: £477,519
Protestant-Catholic conflict: historical legacies and contemporary realities
ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
Award winner: R.K. O'Reilly
Institution: University of Warwick
Value: £150,300
Supramolecularly assembled functional nanocages
Award winner: K. Lomas
Institution: Loughborough University
Value: £2,549,426
Measurement, modelling, mapping and management (4M): an evidence-based methodology for understanding and shrinking the urban carbon footprint
Award winner: K.J. Friston
Institution: University College London
Value: £91,003
Spatio-temporal models of brain electrophysiology
Award winner: P.J. Lusby
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Value: £221,608
Synthetic nanomachines driven through metal-ligand exchange reactions
Award winner: H. Tai
Institution: Bangor University
Value: £134,250
Novel photocrosslinkable hyperbranched polymers for injectable scaffolds: design, synthesis, characterisations and in vitro evaluation
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Award winner: Masooda Bano
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £416,641
Global uncertainties and support for Islamic militancy - female madrassas in Pakistan
Dr Bano will use her three-year fellowship to examine how religious beliefs can become radicalised by looking at the rise of Pakistan's female madrassas. She will examine closely the Jamia Hafsa madrassa in Islamabad, which took arms against the state in 2007 to defend Sharia. She said: "The female madrassas provide a lens to study the uncertain interface between traditional values and beliefs and global influences, which often results in further radicalisation of traditional beliefs."