Grant winners – 15 October 2015

Royal Society

Wolfson Research Merit Awards

These awards are worth £10,000-£30,000 a year, which is a salary enhancement

• Award winner: Michael Cant
• Institution: University of Exeter

Social development and life history evolution in animal societies

• Award winner: Kate Storey
• Institution: University of Dundee

Mechanisms regulating neural differentiation

• Award winner: Tim Wright
• Institution: University of Leeds

Improving seismic hazard assessment in the continents with satellite geodesy

• Award winner: John Smillie
• Institution: University of Warwick

New directions in dynamical systems

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

Research Grants

• Award winner: Eva Hevia
• Institution: University of Strathclyde
• Value: £379,517

Towards a paradigm shift in the principles and practice of polar organometallic chemistry

• Award winner: Sarah Meiklejohn
• Institution: University College London
• Value: £75,892

Enhancing security through improved cryptographic reductions

• Award winner: Nicholas Dodd
• Institution: University of Nottingham
• Value: £395,333

MORPHINE – redesigning the coast: the morphodynamics of large bodies of sediment in a macro-tidal environment

• Award winner: Jeremy Skipper
• Institution: University College London
• Value: £700,744

New pathways to hearing: A multisensory noise reducing and palate-based sensory substitution device for speech perception

European Commission

ITN-ETN

• Award winner: Corinne Spickett
• Institution: Aston University
• Value: £686,440 (Aston will get the total value of the award, €3,545,010, then redistribute it to other partners. The sum it will retain for central management is still under negotiation.)

Mass spectrometry training network for protein lipid adduct analysis (MASSTRPLAN)

Leverhulme Trust

International Networks
Humanities

• Award winner: Natalia Sobrevilla Perea
• Institution: University of Kent
• Value: £121,313

War and nation: identity and the process of state-building in South America (1800-40)

• Award winner: James Thompson
• Institution: University of Manchester
• Value: £117,497

In place of war: international network of cultural spaces

In detail

International Network

Award winner: Maud Bracke
Institution: University of Glasgow
Value: £108,509

Translating feminism: transfer, transgression, transformation (c. 1960-90)

This project will bring together academics from three continents to pursue original, interdisciplinary research on the global reach of feminist writing and women’s movements. The transformation of women’s social status is one of the most important global developments of the post-war period, yet little is known of how women’s rights campaigners and thinkers in different national and cultural settings communicated with one another, read and translated each other’s texts, and, locally, redefined and adapted ideas travelling the world. The network will discuss historical findings and theoretical approaches at three workshops and an international conference, with subsequent dissemination through academic publications and an interactive website.