ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL
• Award winner: Steven Hooper
• Institution: University of East Anglia
• Value: £644,933
Fijian art: political power, sacred value, social transformation and collecting since the 18th century
• Award winner: Derek Offord
• Institution: University of Bristol
• Value: £687,746
The history of the French language in Russia
THE LEVERHULME TRUST
Basic sciences
• Award winner: Brendon Lovett
• Institution: Heriot-Watt University
• Value: £247,884
Quantum coherence in natural and artificial energy harvesting
• Award winner: Matthew Gibson
• Institution: University of Warwick
• Value: £158,080
Ice growth inhibition by synthetic macromolecules: experiments and modelling
• Award winner: Paul Upchurch
• Institution: University College London
• Value: £158,089
Testing the relationships between latitude and biodiversity in the Cretaceous
• Award winner: Maggie Cusack
• Institution: University of Glasgow
• Value: £255,234
Biomineralisation: protein and mineral response to ocean acidification
• Award winner: Michelle Ellefson
• Institution: University of Cambridge
• Value: £198,211
Young children's reasoning about everyday chemistry
• Award winner: Jonathan Keating
• Institution: University of Bristol
• Value: £231,584
Arithmetical correlations from random matrix theory
• Award winner: Michael Hanley
• Institution: University of Plymouth
• Value: £145,538
Signalling intent: do seedling volatiles influence attack by mollusc herbivores?
INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS
Humanities
• Award winner: Ignacio de la Torre
• Institution: University College London
• Value: £122,760
Percussive technology in human evolution: a comparative approach
• Award winner: Jennifer Saul
• Institution: University of Sheffield
• Value: £107,002
• Implicit bias and philosophy
APPLIED SCIENCES (including architecture)
• Award winner: Kathrin Schreckenberg
• Institution: University of Southampton
• Value: £124,772
Preserving safety and nutrition of 24 months indigenous fruits and their derivatives
SOCIAL STUDIES (including anthropology, geography and social psychology)
• Award winner: Peter Wade
• Institution: University of Manchester
• Value: £249,966
Public engagement with genomic research and race in Latin America
ROYAL SOCIETY
Wolfson Research Merit Awards
All awards are valued between £10,000 and £30,000 per year
• Award winner: Andrew Baker
• Institution: University of Glasgow
Developing a novel virus for human gene therapy
• Award winner: Mark Cannell
• Institution: University of Bristol
Computing and seeing a new solution to problems in the heart
• Award winner: David Haddleton
• Institution: University of Warwick
Controlled polymerisation to new materials: polymer therapeutics to oil recovery
IN DETAIL
• Award winner: Thomas O. Clancy
• Institution: University of Glasgow
• Value: £725,800
Scottish toponymy in transition: progressing county surveys of the place names of Scotland
This three-year project aims to advance the long-term goal of surveying all of Scotland's place names, publishing survey volumes on three of its historical counties, while researching its other regions. The project is headed by two University of Glasgow academics: Thomas Clancy, professor in Celtic and Gaelic, and Carole Hough, professor in English language. The chief researcher is Simon Taylor, one of Scotland's foremost place-name specialists. The team will work with county museums and local history societies to create an interactive exchange of local knowledge via events such as road shows.