CANCER RESEARCH UK
• Award winner: Geoff Higgins
• Institution: University of Oxford
• Value: £741,000
Investigation of the molecular basis of tumour radiosensitivity
ACTION MEDICAL RESEARCH
• Award winner: Graeme Black
• Institution: University of Manchester
• Value: £96,206
Corneal fragility - brittle cornea syndrome
• Award winner: Mark Kilby
• Institution: University of Birmingham
• Value: £182,012
Pre-eclampsia - vitamin D deficiency in pregnancy
• Award winner: Daqing Ma
• Institution: Imperial College London
• Value: £119,906
Brain damage in newborn babies: can inhaled gases during labour help?
• Award winner: Christopher Redman
• Institution: University of Oxford
• Value: £133,262
Birth asphyxia - diagnosing fetal distress during labour
LEVERHULME TRUST
Major Research Fellowships
• Award winner: Antony Eastmond
• Institution: Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
• Value: £87,620
Women and art as diplomatic agents from the Mediterranean to Mongolia
• Award winner: Valerie Walkerdine
• Institution: Cardiff University
• Value: £119,475
Roots and routes: a psychosocial approach to intergenerational transmission
• Award winner: Jane Wills
• Institution: Queen Mary, University of London
• Value: £158,648
Place and politics: localism in the United Kingdom
Research Project Grants
Applied sciences
• Award winner: Yassir Makkawi
• Institution: Aston University
• Value: £175,162
Wet and dry particle flow at the intermediate regime
• Award winner: Paolo Vineis
• Institution: Imperial College London
• Value: £249,999
Causes, health impacts and mitigation of saline intrusion in Bangladesh
Basic sciences
• Award winner: Paul Knox
• Institution: University of Liverpool
• Value: £89,860
Comparison of saccades across cultures
• Award winner: Veronique Seidel
• Institution: University of Strathclyde
• Value: £83,396
Bioactive chemicals in African bee glue
• Award winner: Richard Szabo
• Institution: Heriot-Watt University
• Value: £78,935
AGT conjecture: relations between moduli spaces, Lie algebras and string theory
IN DETAIL
• Award winner: Nicholas Till
• Institution: University of Sussex
• Value: £139,591
Opera, myth and modernity: early opera in the early modern era
This study will undertake a fundamental re-evaluation of the first 50 years of opera in light of current historiographical understandings of the concept of "early modernity", suggesting that opera came into being as a cultural response to developments that constitute the early modern era. The project will show how works in the operatic field from c.1585 to 1650 deploy new forms of expression to represent those aspects of modernity that are associated with the uncertainties brought about by political, social and religious instability, scientific enquiry and colonial exploration.