Grant winners - 30 January 2014

Royal Society

University Research Fellowships

• Award winner: Pascal-Antoine Christin
• Institution: University of Sheffield
• Value: £451,518

Fine-scale genetics of large-scale evolutionary innovation

• Award winner: Simone De Liberato
• Institution: University of Southampton
• Value: £446,713

Cavity QED with artificial atoms: towards next-generation integrated THz emitters

• Award winner: David Jennings
• Institution: Imperial College London
• Value: £467,512

Novel quantum resources and the analysis of exotic quantum field systems

• Award winner: Gunnar Moller
• Institution: University of Cambridge
• Value: £469,133

Simulating strong correlations in unconventionally ordered systems

Leverhulme Trust

Research Project Grants
Social sciences

• Award winner: Leon Watts
• Institution: University of Bath
• Value: £135,401

Investing care and appreciating effort in the use of personal communication technology

Major Research Fellowships

• Award winner: James Harold Barrett
• Institution: University of Cambridge
• Value: £160,061

Northern journeys: reimagining the medieval revolution and its aftermath

• Award winner: Miranda Fricker
• Institution: University of Sheffield
• Value: £99,204

Blame and forgiveness: negotiating shared moral understanding

• Award winner: Kevin Passmore
• Institution: Cardiff University
• Value: £130,538

The Maginot Line in history, culture and memory

• Award winner: Nigel Fabb
• Institution: University of Strathclyde
• Value: £142,777

Epiphanies in literature: a psychological and literary linguistic account

National Institute for Health Research

Health Services and Delivery Research Programme

• Award winner: Jo Rycroft-Malone
• Institution: Bangor University
• Value: £149,269

Improving skills and care standards in the clinical support workforce: a realist synthesis of workforce development interventions

• Award winner: Rupert Pearse
• Institution: Queen Mary University of London
• Value: £1,236,310

Enhanced peri-operative care for high-risk patients (EPOCH) trial: a stepped wedge randomised cluster trial of an intervention to improve quality of care for patients undergoing emergency laparotomy

In detail

Public Health Research programme

Award winner: Christopher Bonell
Institution: Institute of Education, University of London
Value: £233,232

The effects of positive youth development interventions on substance use, violence and inequalities: systematic review of theories of change, processes and outcomes

This project is investigating whether community-based youth work programmes that focus on developing positives such as self-esteem and social confidence rather than on avoiding risk are effective in reducing violence and the use of substances such as cigarettes, alcohol and drugs. “There has already been a review of these sorts of interventions’ effects on sexual health, but not on violence and substance use,” Christopher Bonell said. A lot of money is being invested in such schemes, and he hopes to discover if this is “likely to be a good use of resources”.