Grant winners – 3 September 2015

Leverhulme Trust

Research project grants
Sciences

• Award winner: Ross Hatton
• Institution: University of Warwick
• Value: £166,140

Engineering hybrid interface materials for thin film photovoltaics

• Award winner: Eros Mariani
• Institution: University of Exeter
• Value: £258,209

Quantum drum

• Award winner: Simon McQueen-Mason
• Institution: University of York
• Value: £249,173

Mannitol metabolism in marine microalgae: physiology and applications

Royal Society/Academy of Medical Sciences/British Academy

Newton Advanced Fellowships

The scheme gives researchers a chance to develop their research groups through collaboration and reciprocal visits

• Award winner: Roberto Serra
• Institution: Universidade Federal do ABC (host: University of York)
• Value: £67,100

Quantum thermodynamics in many-body systems

National Institute for Health Research

Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation programme

• Award winner: Tom Solomon
• Institution: University of Liverpool
• Value: £1,163,548

COHESIVE – corticosteroids in herpes simplex virus encephalitis

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

• Award winner: Jason Wolf
• Institution: University of Bath
• Value: £379,287

Bilateral BBSRC-FAPESP: A genome-wide view of the evolutionary processes shaping genetic variation in natural populations

Economic and Social Research Council

Research grants

• Award winner: Yvonne Rydin
• Institution: University College London
• Value: £341,081

Evidence, publics and decision-making for major wind infrastructure

• Award winner: Tim Schwanen
• Institution: University of Oxford
• Value: £265,927

DEPICT: Designing and policy implementation for encouraging cycling and walking trips

• Award winner: Andrea Hollomotz
• Institution: University of Leeds
• Value: £198,380

Realist evaluation of adapted sex offender treatment programmes for men with intellectual disability

In detail

Award winner: Marianne Hester
Institution: University of Bristol
Value: £780,193

Justice, inequality and gender-based violence (GBV)

The aim of this project is to address how “justice” – in its wider sense – is understood, sought and experienced by victims/survivors of gender-based violence (which includes sexual and domestic violence, forced marriage and “honour-based” violence) as well as by key practitioners. Incidents of such violence consistently drop out of the justice system. To explore this “justice gap”, the team will ask questions including: how do victims/survivors and others experience and perceive “justice”, and how does inequality affect access to support pathways and trajectories through the formal and informal justice systems? The researchers will also ask how are notions of empowerment linked to notions of justice and access to justice, how do practitioners themselves perceive notions of “justice”, whether enacted through formal or informal routes, and what would a truly victim-focused justice agenda for gender-based violence look like?