EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL
Starting Grant competition
Almost €580 million (£491 million) has been awarded by the ERC to more than 400 winners in its third Starting Grant competition. The awards, which are each worth up to €2 million, are provided to early career researchers to aid their studies. Some of the UK-based winners in the social sciences and humanities are listed below; the others will be published in the coming weeks.
• Award winner: Mauricio Avendano Pabon
• Institution: University College London
Economic cycles, employment and health: disentangling causal pathways in a cross-national study
• Award winner: Katherine Ruth Brown
• Institution: King's College London
Musical transitions to European colonialism in the eastern Indian Ocean
• Award winner: Michael Guggenheim
• Institution: Goldsmiths, University of London
Organising disaster: civil protection and the population
• Award winner: Rebecca Cassidy
• Institution: Goldsmiths, University of London
Gambling in Europe
• Award winner: Anne Claire Haour
• Institution: University of East Anglia
Crossroads of empires: archaeology, material culture and socio-political relationships in West Africa
• Award winner: Javier Lezaun
• Institution: University of Oxford
Biomedical research and the future of property rights
• Award winner: Anna Marmodoro
• Institution: University of Oxford
Causal structuralist ontologies in antiquity: powers as the basic building block of the worlds of the ancients
• Award winner: Jens Newig
• Institution: University of Leeds
Evaluating the delivery of participatory environmental governance using an evidence-based research design
• Award winner: Ioannis Papadogiannakis
• Institution: University of Oxford
Defining belief and identities in the Eastern Mediterranean: the role of interreligious debate and interaction
• Award winner: Anna Pavlova
• Institution: London Business School
Institutional frictions in international finance and asset pricing
• Award winner: Judith Pfeiffer
• Institution: University of Oxford
From late medieval to early modern: 13th to 16th century Islamic philosophy and theology
• Award winner: Aleksander Grzegorz Pluskowski
• Institution: University of Reading
The ecology of crusading: the environmental impact of conquest, colonisation and religious conversion in the medieval Baltic
• Award winner: Leonard Seabrooke
• Institution: University of Warwick
Professions in international political economies
• Award winner: Rebecca Sear
• Institution: London School of Economics
Family matters: intergenerational influences on fertility
• Award winner: Peter Anthony Stokes
• Institution: King's College London
Digital resource and database of palaeography, manuscripts and diplomatic
• Award winner: Daniel Sturm
• Institution: London School of Economics
Using natural experiments to understand the spatial economy
• Award winner: Paolo Surico
• Institution: London Business School
Macroeconomic dynamics with heterogeneous agents
• Award winner: Emmanouil Tsakiris
• Institution: Royal Holloway University of London
The plasticity of the self: experimenting with self-identity in the face of change
• Award winner: Ayse Irem Tuna Richardson
• Institution: London Business School
Corporate Governance
• Award winner: Eyal Weizman
• Institution: Goldsmiths, University of London
Forensic Architecture: The Space of Law in War
• Award winner: Georg Weizsacker
• Institution: University College London
Investors' expectations: Measuring their nature and effect
• Award winner: Jan Westerhoff
• Institution: University of Durham
Sastravid - a new paradigm for the study of Indian philosophical texts
• Award winner: Ulrike Andrea Hildegard Zeshan
• Institution: University of Central Lancashire
Multilingual behaviours in sign language users
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• Award winner: Christian Lange
• Institution: University of Edinburgh
The here and the hereafter in Islamic traditions
Dr Lange will seek to provide the first interdisciplinary analysis into the Islamic relationship between the world and otherworld. Examining a variety of historical and contemporary Muslim views on afterlife, the project will assess the extent to which Islamic traditions favour or reject a view of human existence as directed towards the otherworld.