Grant winners – 17 March 2016

Royal Society

Wolfson Research Merit Awards
These awards are worth £10,000-£30,000 a year, which is a salary enhancement.

• Award winner: David Spring
• Institution: University of Cambridge

Drugging the undruggable: discovery of protein-protein interaction modulators

• Award winner: Thomas Krauss
• Institution: University of York

Wavelength-scale biosensors to explore biology at the level of individual cells

University Research Fellowships

• Award winner: Timothy Easun
• Institution: Cardiff University
• Value: £503,125

Photogating nanofluidics: ultrafine spatially controlled diffusion and reactivity

• Award winner: Andrzej Szelc
• Institution: University of Manchester
• Value: £473,558

Searching for sterile neutrinos with liquid argon

• Award winner: Martin How
• Institution: University of Bristol
• Value: £503,785

Polarised light as an alternative to colour in animal vision

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

• Award winner: Rajat Gupta
• Institution: Oxford Brookes University
• Value: £150,017

WLP+ (Whole Life Performance Plus)

• Award winner: Kamran Mumtaz
• Institution: University of Sheffield
• Value: £98,456

Layered extrusion of metal alloys (LEMA)

• Award winner: Adrien Desjardins
• Institution: University College London
• Value: £1,087,560

All-optical pulse-echo ultrasound imaging for real-time guidance of minimally invasive procedures

Natural Environment Research Council

• Award winner: James Lee
• Institution: University of York
• Value: £390,617

Sources and emissions of air pollutants in Beijing

• Award winner: Sean Wilkinson
• Institution: Newcastle University
• Value: £141,857

Real-time assessments of wind-related damage to electricity infrastructure (societal theme: sustainability)

• Award winner: Larissa Naylor
• Institution: University of Glasgow
• Value: £98,747

A decision framework for integrated green grey infrastructure (IGGIframe)

In detail

European Union – European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights

Award winner: Adele Jones
Institution: University of Huddersfield
Value: €400,000

None-in-Three

(This grant was awarded in response to a call issued by the EU delegation to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean titled “Towards a Future Free from Domestic Violence”)

This project will investigate domestic violence in the countries of Grenada and Barbados and use the data gathered to develop an interactive, role-playing computer game aimed at changing attitudes in potential perpetrators of violence while empowering those at risk of victimisation. Adele Jones, professor of social work at the University of Huddersfield, told Times Higher Education that the project was motivated by the “high prevalence of domestic violence” in the region. “[It] is investigating the impact of domestic violence on women who may be especially vulnerable, are particularly marginalised, or who may have difficulties in leaving a violent relationship.” The groups were chosen “because there is virtually no research in the Caribbean” about keeping them safe. The team will also study the views of men and youth from two groups: those convicted of offences who are accessing behaviour change programmes, and those who grew up in violent homes but are not violent.