Grant winners – 13 April 2017

Medical Research Council

• Award winner: Julia Sinclair
• Institution: University of Southampton
• Value: £151,503 

Exploring the teachable moment for alcohol reduction in breast clinics: formative work to inform intervention design, development, process evaluation

• Award winner: David Mabey
• Institution: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
• Value: £607,227 

Studies towards infectious disease elimination on the Bijagós archipelago of Guinea-Bissau

• Award winner: Zhengming Chen
• Institution: University of Oxford
• Value: £604,988

Assessing health risks associated with exposure to household and ambient air pollution in rural and urban China

Royal Society

University research fellowships

These offer early career scientists, who have the potential to become leaders, an opportunity to build an independent research career 

• Award winner: Patricia Sanchez-Baracaldo
• Institution: University of Bristol
• Value: £486,470

Transition from a freshwater to a marine biosphere during the early Earth

• Award winner: Alistair Boyer
• Institution: University of Glasgow
• Value: £321,513

Sulfonyl triazoles: a next-generation building block for molecular complexity

• Award winner: Ricardo Monteiro
• Institution: Queen Mary University of London
• Value: £452,148

 Geometric aspects of scattering amplitudes

Arts and Humanities Research Council

• Award winner: John Dupré
• Institution: University of Exeter
• Value: £307,270

Representing biology as process

• Award winner: Fearghal McGarry
• Institution: Queen’s University Belfast
• Value: £556,581

A global history of Irish Revolution, 1916-1923

• Award winner: Christina Sevdali
• Institution: Ulster University
• Value: £193,712

Investigating variation and change: case in diachrony

In detail

Award winners: Lucy Bell (PI) and Alex Flynn

Institution: University of Surrey and Durham University

Value: £249,910

Precarious publishing in Latin America: relations, meaning and community in movement

This project will investigate the Latin American publishing phenomenon of editoriales cartoneras (“cardboard publishers”) and how they have forged new local and global literary communities. Editoriales cartoneras are small independent publishing projects that make books out of  recycled cardboard and sell them at reduced prices, with the aim of increasing access to literature in countries where books are expensive. Cartonera is a reference to the cartonero figure – the cardboard collector or “waste picker” – a product of the 2001 Argentine economic and unemployment crisis, which saw individuals take to the streets of Buenos Aires to collect and sell scrap materials. Editoriales cartoneras therefore might also be translated as “waste-picking publishers”. Many have subsequently recycled the idea, adapting it to different local contexts, communities and social needs. Underpinning these divergent projects is the shared notion of working productively and creatively from a situation of precariousness – material, social, political, economic and/or environmental. In this comparative study of Brazilian and Mexican cartoneras, researchers will explore “precarious publishing” in its two closely inter­related guises: an artistic trend and a social movement.