Grant winners – 4 February 2016

Royal Society

University research fellowships

• Award winner: Sarah Malik
• Institution: Imperial College London
• Value: £488,165

Where particle physics meets cosmology: searching for dark matter at the LHC

• Award winner: Tom Williams
• Institution: University of Bristol
• Value: £481,882

The prokaryotic prehistory of the eukaryotic cell

• Award winner: Natalie Wheeler
• Institution: University of Southampton
• Value: £467,624

Low loss hollow core-photonic crystal fibres for mid-ir (2.5-12 µm) applications

• Award winner: Arthur Lipstein
• Institution: Durham University
• Value: £421,448

Amplitudes, strings, and branes

• Award winner: Jason King
• Institution: University of Sheffield
• Value: £452,879

Defining molecular mechanisms of macropinosome processing and remodelling

Leverhulme Trust

Research project grants
Humanities

• Award winner: Donald MacRaild
• Institution: Ulster University
• Value: £235,454

The Irish and British famine, 1845–50: comparing lives lost and lives saved

• Award winner: Carole Hough
• Institution: University of Glasgow
• Value: £274,523

Recovering the earliest English language in Scotland: evidence from place names

Sciences

• Award winner: Clare Cunningham
• Institution: Abertay University
• Value: £121,780

Effects of social and practical experience on tool manipulation skills in small apes

Arts and Humanities Research Council

• Award winner: Alexandra Plows
• Institution: Bangor University
• Value: £37,449

smART cities and waste: developing an arts-led interdisciplinary network for waste management and treatment innovation

• Award winner: Ian Ewart
• Institution: University of Reading
• Value: £63,791

Sensations of Roman life: reconstructing and experiencing a multisensory virtual reality environment

• Award winner: Andrea Liggins
• Institution: University of Wales Trinity Saint David
• Value: £35,946

Cross-pollination: re-valuing pollinators through arts and science collaboration

In detail

Award winners: Jon Dovey (PI) and Tom Abba, Kate Pullinger and Ian Gadd, and Matt Hayler
Institutions: University of the West of England, Bath Spa University and the University of Birmingham
Value: ~£800,000 (£630,327 – AHRC contribution)

Ambient Literature

“We want to develop the idea of the augmented book, how can digital content add to the experience of a narrative on page or screen? We’re especially excited about how content made available in particular places, the train, the cafe, the bus station, might add to the reader’s experience,” said Jon Dovey, professor of screen media in the Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries, and Education at the University of the West of England. “So, in part this is about what happens when data in our environment aspire to literary form. We’re going to ask how situated literary experiences can be delivered through pervasive media systems.” The project draws upon “performance, audio walks and creative writing to commission three new works by contemporary authors that will demonstrate the power of situated literary experience”.