NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCH
Health Services and Delivery Research programme
• Award winner: Rachel O'Hara
• Institution: University of Sheffield
• Value: £168,690
Decision-making and safety in emergency care transitions
Public Health Research programme
• Award winner: Simon Moore
• Institution: Cardiff University
• Value: £652,159
Randomised controlled trial of all-Wales licensed premises intervention to reduce alcohol-related violence
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
Research Seminar Awards
Law and legal studies (socio-legal)
• Award winner: Laura Siobhan Caulfield
• Institution: Birmingham City University
• Value: £17,372
Enrichment activities? Arts, creativity and spirituality in criminal justice systems
• Award winner: David Gurnham
• Institution: University of Manchester
• Value: £14,949
Criminalising contagion: legal and ethical challenges of disease transmission and the criminal law
• Award winner: Mairead Enright
• Institution: University of Kent
• Value: £14,358
The public life of private law
• Award winner: Tanya Wyatt
• Institution: Northumbria University
• Value: £17,899
The ESRC green criminology research seminar series
• Award winner: Richard Sparks
• Institution: University of Edinburgh
• Value: £14,871
Crime control and devolution: policymaking and expert knowledge in a multi-tiered democracy
LEVERHULME TRUST
Research project grants
Sciences
• Award winner: Darren Crowdy
• Institution: Imperial College London
• Value: £242,640
"Holey" optical fibre (MOF) fabrication: towards a mathematical model
• Award winner: Nick Lane
• Institution: University College London
• Value: £248,883
A far-from-equilibrium reactor to investigate the origin of life
• Award winner: Marcel Jaspars
• Institution: University of Aberdeen
• Value: £218,4
Natural product nanotechnology: engineering natural products for new uses.
IN DETAIL
Health Technology Assessment programme
• Award winner: Miles D. Witham
• Institution: University of Dundee
• Value: £1,172,592
Does oral sodium bicarbonate therapy improve function and quality of life in older patients with chronic kidney disease and low-grade acidosis? A multi-centre randomised placebo-controlled trial
Many people (most commonly older people) with advanced kidney disease have high levels of acid in the blood, which is associated with muscle weakness and declining bone, blood vessel and kidney function. Bicarbonate (used in baking powder) is often used to treat high acid levels, but its effectiveness is not yet known, and it can cause elevated blood pressure and bloating. The trial will give 380 older patients either bicarbonate or placebo tablets three times a day for two years. The team will test participants' muscle strength and bulk, walking and balance, quality of life and kidney, bone and blood vessel function over the two years. They will record blood pressure and side-effects, falls, admissions to hospital and contact with GPs, and assess the cost of following the treatment against the cost of not doing so. The results should show whether the health benefits of taking bicarbonate outweigh the side-effects.