Grant winners – 22 September 2016

Economic and Social Research Council

Research grants

• Award winner: Gloria Langat
• Institution: University of Southampton
• Value: £404,130

Impact of social pensions on multiple dimensions of poverty, subjective well-being and solidarity across generations

• Award winner: Brian Roberts
• Institution: Aston University
• Value: £329,960

Interference in spoken communication: evaluating the corrupting and disrupting effects of other voices

• Award winner: Harry Ferguson
• Institution: University of Nottingham
• Value: £536,196

Organisations, staff support and the dynamics and quality of social work practice: a qualitative longitudinal study of child protection work

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

• Award winner: Clare P. Grey
• Institution: University of Cambridge
• Value: £1,735,130

Next-generation solid-state batteries

• Award winner: Panagiota Angeli
• Institution: University College London
• Value: £1,945,930

Complex oral health products (CORAL): characterisation, modelling and manufacturing challenges

• Award winner: Ruth Aylett
• Institution: Heriot-Watt University
• Value: £711,764

A robot training buddy for adults with autistic spectrum disorder

Leverhulme Trust

Research Fellowships
Humanities

• Award winner: Claudia Bolgia
• Institution: University of Edinburgh
• Value: £25,177

The “long” trecento: Rome without the popes, c.1305-1420

• Award winner: Victoria Browne
• Institution: Oxford Brookes University
• Value: £20,820

Pregnancy without birth: the philosophy and ethics of miscarriage

• Award winner: Pwyll ap Sion
• Institution: Bangor University
• Value: £22,695

Steve Reich and the paradox of modernism

Sciences

• Award winner: Ian Leary
• Institution: University of Southampton
• Value: £40,911

Cohomology and negative curvature

In detail

Award winner: Sally Hines
Institution: University of Leeds
Value: £502,102

Pregnant men: an international exploration of trans male experiences and practices of reproduction

Many male transgender people (hereafter “trans men”) transition without undergoing surgery to remove their reproductive organs or reconstruct their genitals; thus they may retain the ability and, importantly, the desire to reproduce. This project aims to explore the practices, experiences and healthcare needs of the growing number of men who may seek to, or become, pregnant and give birth after gender transition. The research team will use qualitative methods (including interviews, focus groups, virtual analysis and visual methods) and will focus on a range of countries (the UK, the US, Australia, Poland and Italy) to gain a broad perspective. The study will focus on the experiences of trans people who become parents after transition. In considering the relationship between gender identity, the gendered body, and masculinity and femininity at subjective levels, the project seeks to examine how trans male narratives of pregnancy and birth bring new understandings to the embodied and gendered processes of parenting.