ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
Research Seminar Awards
Political science and international studies
• Award winner: Mark Webber
• Institution: University of Birmingham
• Value: £17,815
Nato after Afghanistan
• Award winner: Jamie Gaskarth
• Institution: Plymouth University
• Value: £16,917
Normative challenges to international society: rising powers and global responses
Wellcome Trust
Wellcome Trust Investigator Awards
The awards will range from £1 million over five years to £3 million over seven years.
• Award winner: Ronald Hay
• Institution: University of Dundee
Determining the role and mechanism of action of the SUMO-targeted ubiquitin ligase RNF4 in maintaining genome integrity
• Award winner: Xiaodong Zhang
• Institution: Imperial College London
Structures and mechanisms of key components in the DNA damage response
• Award winner: Molly Stevens
• Institution: Imperial College London
Exploring and engineering the cell-material interface for regenerative medicine
LEVERHULME TRUST
International Networks
Humanities
• Award winner: David Lines
• Institution: University of Warwick
• Value: £56,354
Renaissance conflict and rivalries: cultural polemics in Europe, c.1300-c.1650
• Award winner: Kate Fletcher
• Institution: University of the Arts London
• Value: £124,735
Local wisdom: post-growth fashion and a user's craft
Research Project Grants
Sciences
• Award winner: Kay Grunewald
• Institution: University of Oxford
• Value: £250,000
Polysomes in cells - the society of ribosomes
• Award winner: Terence P. Kee
• Institution: University of Leeds
• Value: £166,816
A novel chemoton model for the emergence of self-maintaining systems
• Award winner: Richard Layfield
• Institution: University of Manchester
• Value: £144,971
Selective functionalisation of pentadienylsilanes
Humanities
• Award winner: Ben Rampton
• Institution: King's College London
• Value: £151,303
Crossing languages and borders: intercultural language education in a conflict-ridden context
IN DETAIL
• Award winner: Peter Barry
• Institution: Aberystwyth University
• Value: £232,042
Devolved voices: Welsh poetry in English since 1997
The development of Welsh poetry in English since 1997 will be the focus of this project, which includes plans to produce a wide range of publications. One full-length scholarly volume will place contemporary Welsh poetry in English in its wider British context, while another will provide detailed studies of major figures in the field. A book of extended interviews with key poets will provide in-depth engagement with practitioners, and a final book of essays will consider the specific question of poetic production within the context of Wales' devolutionary journey. The project will also launch a video-rich website that will provide an important record of poets reading their own work, discussions with the writers and interviews with other notable players on Wales' English-language poetry scene.