Grant winners – 4 May 2017

Leverhulme Trust

Research Leadership Awards

• Award winner: Emily Keightley 
• Institution: Loughborough University 
• Value: £994,904 

Migrant memory and the post-colonial imagination: British Asian memory, identity and community after partition 

• Award winner: Nicholas Longrich
• Institution: University of Bath 
• Value: £998,185 

The Cretaceous-Palaeogene mass extinction – severity, recovery, and biogeography 

Research Project Grants

Sciences 

• Award winner: Mark Burnley  
• Institution: University of Kent 
• Value: £160,189 

Emergent properties of the fatiguing neuromuscular system  

• Award winner: Julie Gray
• Institution: University of Sheffield 
• Value: £82,693 

How do plants restrict stomatal entry routes following pathogen attack? 

• Award winner: Lucia Sivilotti  
• Institution: University College London
• Value: £207,280

Spatially resolved optical patch clamp of single ion channels

• Award winner: David Reby 
• Institution: University of Sussex
• Value: £222,515

Voice and sex stereotypes: a developmental perspective

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council 

• Award winner: Duncan Craig 
• Institution: University College London 
• Value: £505,755 

A portable electrohydrodynamic device for in-situ production of multilayered drug-loaded meshes

• Award winner: Chaoyuan Jin 
• Institution: University of Sheffield
• Value: £100,829

Laser pulse generation by dynamically controlling Purcell factor in nanophotonic cavities

Economic and Social Research Council 

• Award winner: Meredith Crowley
• Institution: University of Cambridge 
• Value: £241,764 

The impact of trade policy and exchange rate shocks on trade volumes and prices in post-Brexit Britain

• Award winner: Gillian Doyle
• Institution: University of Glasgow
• Value: £644,757 

Television production in transition: independence, scale and sustainability

• Award winner: Penny Tinkler 
• Institution: University of Manchester
• Value: £758,709 

Transitions and mobilities: girls growing up in Britain 1954-76 and the implications for later-life experience and identity

In detail 

Award winner: Sara Hobolt

Institution: London School of Economics

Value: £120,805

What “Brexit means Brexit” means to citizens

Within the rhetoric surrounding the UK’s European Union referendum, the options of “leave” or “remain” do not give clear guidance on what kind of Brexit people want or will accept. The question at the heart of this project, therefore, is of import to policy-makers: which negotiation outcomes will be considered legitimate by the British public? Brexit negotiations will involve complex policy questions, including the trade-off over whether the government should prioritise controlling the inflow of immigrants from the EU or prefer-ential trade agreements with the bloc. But there are other policy choices relating to EU budget contributions, EU subsidies, financial services and the European Court of Justice that did not feature on the referendum ballot. This study aims to shed light on what Theresa May’s repeated epithet – “Brexit means Brexit” – means to ordinary people. What expectations do voters have of Brexit, what process do they want the negotiations to take and, ultimately, what outcome do they want?