Grant winners

NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCH

HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT PROGRAMME

Award winner: Martin Orrell

Institution: University College London

Value: £1,213,646

Individual cognitive stimulation therapy for dementia (iCST Trial)

Award winner: Thomas R.E Barnes

Institution: Imperial College London

Value: £1,148,900

Amisulpride augmentation in clozapine-unresponsive schizophrenia

Award winner: Nicholas Webb

Institution: Royal Manchester Children's Hospital

Value: £734,697

Long-term tapering versus standard prednisolone (steroid) therapy for the treatment of the initial episode of childhood nephrotic syndrome: national multicentre randomised double-blind controlled trial

Award winner: John Cleland

Institution: University of Hull

Value: £3,420,622

Clopidogrel compared to aspirin in chronic heart failure

Award winner: Pablo Perel

Institution: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Value: £121,025

Development and validation of a risk score for trauma patients with haemorrhage. The CRASH-2 score

Award winner: Steven Goodacre

Institution: University of Sheffield

Value: £176,928

Cost-effectiveness of diagnostic strategies for suspected acute coronary syndrome

SERVICE DELIVERY AND ORGANISATION PROGRAMME

Award winner: Helen Snooks

Institution: Swansea University

Value: £518,375

Predictive risk stratification: impact on care for people with or at risk of chronic conditions

Award winner: Simon French

Institution: University of Manchester

Value: £124,040

A scoping study of emergency planning in healthcare research and development needs

Award winner: Alison Bullock

Institution: Cardiff University

Value: £110,057

A formative evaluation of the service delivery and organisation management fellowships

Award winner: Michael Bresnen

Institution: University of Manchester

Value: £298,075

Being a manager, becoming a professional? Exploring the use of management knowledge across communities of practice in healthcare organisations

Award winner: Jon Nicholl

Institution: University of Sheffield

Value: £135,928

A systematic review of clinical outcome and cost-effectiveness comparing a policy of triage and direct transfer to specialist care centres with delivery to the nearest local hospital

Award winner: Julia Addington-Hall

Institution: University of Southampton

Value: £474,690

The impact of variations in out-of-hours end-of-life care provision on patient experience, staff and health systems

EFFICACY AND MECHANISM EVALUATION PROGRAMME

Award winner: Christian Ottensmeier

Institution: Southampton University Hospital

Value: £973,304

A novel anti-Wilms-Tumour-1 (WT1) vaccination strategy in haematological malignancy using DNA fusion vaccines delivered with electroporation

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

PROFESSORIAL FELLOWSHIPS

The ESRC has announced the winners of its professorial fellowships. The three fellowships have been awarded to social scientists working in the UK who are recognised as international leaders in their respective fields to allow them to investigate key social scientific issues that will have an impact in the future.

Award winner: Gerard George

Institution: Imperial College London

Value: £328,793

Resource-constrained innovation and inclusive growth: a research and practice agenda

Award winner: Helen Margetts

Institution: University of Oxford

Value: £429,336

The internet, political science and public policy: re-examining collective action, governance and citizen-government interactions in the digital era

IN DETAIL

Award winner: Christopher Hood

Institution: University of Oxford

Value: £360,201

When the party's over: the politics of austerity in public services

Examining previous times of austerity in the UK during the 1920s, post-war 1940s, 1970s-80s and the early 1990s, Professor Hood will compare and contrast these periods with current events to examine how, where and why cuts are made to public services in times of hardship. The project will involve an analysis of historical documents and archival data, as well as interviews with previous members of government, current politicians and senior civil servants. It intends to look at whether changes are made to normal working practices in order to make reductions, what motivates cuts in particular areas, as well as looking at how politicians try to avoid the blame for such cutbacks.