Grant winners - 30 May 2013

National Institute for Health Research

Health Services and Delivery Research Programme

• Award winner: Ellen Nolte
• Institution: RAND Europe (Cambridge office)
• Value: £99,939

Learning for the NHS on procurement and supply chain management: rapid evidence synthesis

Health Technology Assessment Programme

• Award winner: Roger Greenhalgh
• Institution: Imperial College London
• Value: £376,058

Late aneurysm-related mortality up to 15 years, secondary endovascular repair late sac rupture risk, and costs and cost-effectiveness implications in the United Kingdom EndoVascular Aneurysm Repair randomised controlled trials

• Award winner: Nigel Klein
• Institution: Institute of Child Health
• Value: £61,850

Does short-cycle antiretroviral therapy impact on inflammation, immune activation, thrombo­genesis and CD4 cell dynamics?

• Award winner: Lesley Uttley
• Institution: University of Sheffield
• Value: £148,108

Art therapy for people with non-psychotic mental disorders

Leverhulme Trust

Major Research Fellowships

• Award winner: David Parrott
• Institution: University of Oxford
• Value: £151,663

Government, war and political culture in France, 1652-1661: the forgotten decade

Philip Leverhulme Prizes
Classics

• Award winner: Kostas Vlassopoulos
• Institution: University of Nottingham
• Value: £70,000

Ancient Greek history

Earth, ocean and atmospheric sciences

• Award winner: Paul Williams
• Institution: University of Reading
• Value: £70,000

Geophysical fluid dynamics

History of art

• Award winner: Matthew Potter
• Institution: Northumbria University
• Value: £70,000

Visual culture and the construction of national identities

• Award winner: Leon Wainwright
• Institution: The Open University
• Value: £70,000

The history of modern and contemporary art in Britain and the Caribbean

Royal Society

Wolfson Research Merit Awards

Awards are worth £10,000-£30,000 a year, which is a salary enhancement.

• Award winner: Nicholas Anderson
• Institution: Loughborough University

Remote lakes as sensors and recorders of disturbed global biogeochemical cycles

• Award winner: Angus Buckling
• Institution: University of Exeter

Real-time feedback between microevolution and soil microbial community structure

In detail

European Commission

Award winner: Christian W. Haerpfer
Institution: University of Aberdeen
Value: €2,489,914

ARAB-TRANS: Political and Social Transformations in the Arab World

This project aims to compare seven Arab countries – Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Jordan and Iraq – to consider the root causes, ­evolution and future of the Arab Revolution. “We hope to discover whether long-term democratisation can co-exist in societies with a ­dominant Islamic population, and whether the ‘oil curse’ of autocratic regimes with massive natural resources can be replaced by the concept of ‘oil-rich democracy’,” Professor Haerpfer says.