BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
Insect Pollinators Initiative
About £10 million has been granted to nine UK-based projects to explore the causes and consequences of threats to insect pollinators. The initiative is jointly funded by the BBSRC, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Natural Environment Research Council, the Wellcome Trust and the Scottish government. It aims to inform strategies to protect crop pollination and maintain biodiversity in natural ecosystems. The amounts listed below are an approximate value.
Award winner: Koos Biesmeijer
Institution: University of Leeds
Value: £1 million
Sustainable pollination services for UK crops
Award winner: Giles Budge
Institution: Food and Environment Research Agency
Value: £750,000
Modelling systems for managing bee disease: the epidemiology of European foulbrood
Award winner: Claire Carvell
Institution: Nerc Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
Value: £500,000
Investigating the impact of habitat structure on queen and worker bumblebees in the field
Award winner: Chris Connolly
Institution: University of Dundee
Value: £1.5 million
An investigation into the synergistic impact of sublethal exposure to industrial chemicals on the learning capacity and performance of bees
Award winner: Bill Kunin
Institution: University of Leeds
Value: £1.4 million
Linking agriculture and land use change to pollinator populations
Award winner: Jane Memmott
Institution: University of Bristol
Value: £1.2 million
Urban pollinators: their ecology and conservation
Award winner: Robert Paxton
Institution: Queen's University Belfast
Value: £1.6 million
Impact and mitigation of emergent diseases on UK insect pollinators
Award winner: Eugene Ryabov
Institution: University of Warwick
Value: £800,000
Unravelling the impact of the mite Varroa destructor on the interaction between the honeybee and its viruses
Award winner: Geraldine Wright
Institution: Newcastle University
Value: £800,000
Can bees meet their nutritional needs in the current UK landscape?
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL
Award winner: Ardis Butterfield
Institution: University College London
Value: £36,840
Medieval song network
Award winner: Ray Monk
Institution: University of Southampton
Value: £23,578
Challenges to biography: a multidisciplinary research network
Award winner: Giorgio Riello
Institution: University of Warwick
Value: £36,709
Global commodities: the material culture of early modern connections, 1400-1800
Award winner: Joanne Clarke
Institution: University of East Anglia
Value: £24,193
Environmental change in prehistory: an interdisciplinary study of the impact of the 6th millennium BP climate transition on human populations
Award winner: Sheila Anderson
Institution: King's College London
Value: £23,356
E-research approaches to historical weather data: sources, collaborations and methodologies for researching environmental change
Award winner: Simon Naylor
Institution: University of Exeter
Value: £23,740
Anticipatory histories of landscape and wildlife
Award winner: Leigh Payne
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £213,408
The impact of transitional justice on human rights and democracy
Award winner: Peter Coates
Institution: University of Bristol
Value: £24,186
Local places, global processes: histories of environmental change
Award winner: Stephen Bottoms
Institution: University of Leeds
Value: £24,400
Reflecting on environmental change through site-based performance
Award winner: David Sneath
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £24,042
Climate histories: communicating cultural knowledge of environmental change
Award winner: Georgina Endfield
Institution: University of Nottingham
Value: £23,873
Cultural spaces of climate network
IN DETAIL
Award winner: Michael Goodman
Institution: King's College London
Value: £23,696
Spectacular environmentalisms: Celebrity and the mediation of environmental change
With ever more celebrities joining environmental campaigns, this interdisciplinary study examines the relationship between celebrities, environmentalism and media power. Dr Goodman will consider how celebrity involvement in climate change issues has helped reshape interactions with the environment, how non-governmental conservation bodies have reformulated their interactions with celebrity, and how celebrities themselves have expanded their spheres of influence and, thus, their power and impact within society.