Grant winners - 5 June 2014

Leverhulme Trust

Research Project Grants
Sciences

• Award winner: Gabriel Yvon-Durocher
• Institution: University of Exeter
• Value: £290,658

The molecular mechanisms of thermal acclimation and adaptation in marine algae

• Award winner: Christoph G. Salzmann
• Institution: University College London
• Value: £119,421

Mixtures of large hydrophobes and amorphous ice: new directions in ice research

National Institute for Health Research

Health Services and Delivery Research Programme

• Award winner: Alison Eastwood
• Institution: University of York
• Value: £508,461

HS&DR evidence synthesis centre/team

• Award winner: Helen Hogan
• Institution: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
• Value: £383,865

Avoidable mortality from in-hospital cardiac arrest: have interventions aimed at recognising and rescuing deteriorating patients made an impact on incidence and outcomes?

• Award winner: Justin Keen
• Institution: University of Leeds
• Value: £382,441

Information systems: monitoring and managing from ward to board

Action Medical Research

Project grants

• Award winner: Christoph Tang
• Institution: University of Oxford
• Value: £199,991

Protecting more children from meningitis by developing a new MenB vaccine

• Award winner: Nick Europe-Finner
• Institution: Newcastle University
• Value: £183,040

Premature birth: how to stop women from going into labour too soon

• Award winner: Colin McCaig
• Institution: University of Aberdeen
• Value: £191,577

Cataracts: could a new approach to surgery improve children’s vision?

Arts and Humanities Research Council

• Award winner: Gill Valentine
• Institution: University of Sheffield
• Value: £867,356 (AHRC contribution)

Intergenerational justice, consumption and sustainability in comparative perspective

In detail

Award winner: Georgina Endfield
Institution: University of Nottingham
Value: £848,683 (AHRC contribution)

Spaces of experience and horizons of expectation: the implications of extreme weather events, past, present and future

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There is growing concern over the impact of interannual climate variability and anomalous and “extreme” weather events such as droughts, floods, storms and unusually high or low temperatures. This project will examine the nature, timing and socio-economic and cultural consequences of, and responses to, climatic extremes in the UK, looking at case studies between 1700 and the present. This study will employ a combination of archival investigation and oral history approaches in order to reconstruct episodes of extreme weather and to explore whether and how these events affected the lives of local people and became inscribed into the cultural fabric and social memory of selected local communities within the case study regions. The project will also explore how the recording of these events has changed over time and is still changing.