ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
First Grants
Award winner: A. Kelso
Institution: University of Southampton
Value: £298,248
The scrutiny universe: the House of Commons select committees and the psychology of group processes
Award winner: T.J. Scotto
Institution: University of Essex
Value: £392,343
The structure, causes and consequences of foreign policy attitudes: a cross-national analysis of representative democracies
Award winner: C.F. Norbury
Institution: Royal Holloway, University of London
Value: £399,036
Eye Say: investigating language-production processes in typical and atypical development
Award winner: C. Criscuolo
Institution: London School of Economics
Value: £399,698
Attracting large multinational corporations with subsidies. Is it money well spent?
Award winner: A. Moradi
Institution: University of Sussex
Value: £296,404
Human development under colonial rule in West Africa: exploitation, modernisation and legacies
Award winner: L. Porter
Institution: University of Glasgow
Value: £330,370
Planning with indigenous customary land rights: an investigation of shifts in planning law and governance in Canada and Australia
Award winner: R.N. Turner
Institution: University of Leeds
Value: £306,902
Reducing prejudice via indirect intergroup contact
Award winner: F. Martin
Institution: University of Exeter
Value: £395,876
Global partnerships as sites for mutual learning: teachers' professional development through study visits
Award winner: M. Barry
Institution: University of Strathclyde
Value: £146,472
Youth offending and youth transitions: the influence of capital on desistance from crime
Award winner: G. Trojanowski
Institution: University of Exeter
Value: £263,417
Executive compensation, incentives and corporate debt
Award winner: G.M. Fischer
Institution: London School of Economics
Value: £196,021
Group formation, contract structure and investment choice
Award winner: J.R. Budds
Institution: The Open University
Value: £8,235
The political ecology of extractive industries and changing waterscapes in the Andes
Award winner: K. Gillan
Institution: University of Manchester
Value: £165,281
Making corporations moral: routes of influence on corporate behaviour
Award winner: K.D. Watson
Institution: Lancaster University
Value: £310,808
Phonological levelling, diffusion and divergence in Liverpool and its hinterland
IN DETAIL
Award winner: Jane Hamlett
Institution: Royal Holloway, University of London
Value: £282,571
At home in the institution? Asylum, school and lodging-house interiors in London and Southeast England, 1845-1914
Jane Hamlett will use the ESRC's first-grant funding to conduct the first comparative historical study into the interiors of residential institutions. Her explorations will include "lunatic asylums", as they were once referred to, and lodging houses, examining how they used interior decorations to construct their institutional identities, and how this influenced the lives of their inmates.
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCH
Award winner: Steven Goodacre
Institution: University of Sheffield
Value: £181,174
Evaluation and development of triage methods used to select patients with suspected pandemic influenza for hospital admission
Award winner: Elizabeth Miller
Institution: Health Protection Agency
Value: £613,678
Head-to-head comparison of two H1N1 swine influenza vaccines in children aged six months to 12 years
NIHR HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
The NIHR's Health Technology Assessment programme produces independent research information on the effectiveness, costs and impact of healthcare treatments and tests for those who plan, provide or receive National Health Service care. Listed here are the September-October 2009 research grant awards.
Award winner: Christopher Butler
Institution: Cardiff University
Value: £1,479,217
Probiotics for antibiotic-associated diarrhoea (including clostridium difficile) in care homes: establishing the platform and a randomised controlled trial (the PAAD study)
Award winner: Warren Lenney
Institution: North Staffordshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Value: £907,503
Management of asthma in school-aged children on therapy - MASCOT