Grant winners – 24 September 2015

Natural Environment Research Council

Research grants

• Award winner: Susan Waldron
• Institution: University of Glasgow
• Value: £351,212

Addressing a significant knowledge gap in fluvial system atmospheric CO₂ efflux: the contribution from karst landscapes

• Award winner: Andrew Cossins
• Institution: University of Liverpool
• Value: £631,771

Prioritised expression of stress-related proteins in environmental thermoadaptive responses of animals

• Award winner: Alan Gange
• Institution: Royal Holloway, University of London
• Value: £328,022

Community consequences of introducing a biological control agent

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

Research grants

• Award winner: Larry Bull
• Institution: University of the West of England
• Value: £298,433

Design mining: a microbial fuel cell pilot study

• Award winner: Matthew Keeling
• Institution: University of Warwick
• Value: £501,448

Cross-scale prediction of antimicrobial resistance: from molecules to populations

• Award winner: Julie Greensmith
• Institution: University of Nottingham
• Value: £101,309

ImmunoHopping: creating new nature inspired cyber defences

• Award winner: John Erkoyuncu
• Institution: Cranfield University
• Value: £125,266

Manufacturing automation within the supply chain to ensure patient safety

• Award winner: Benjamin Beri
• Institution: University of Birmingham
• Value: £96,372

Novel collective phenomena in Majorana fermion devices

NC3Rs

National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research
Research grants

• Award winner: Stephen Renshaw
• Institution: University of Sheffield
• Value: £98,319

A non-mammalian model to study innate immune modulation of airways remodelling in asthma

• Award winner: Donna Davies
• Institution: University of Southampton
• Value: £89,116

Use of drosophila models to explore the function of asthma susceptibility genes

• Award winner: Ramin Raouf
• Institution: King’s College London
• Value: £322,645

Development of an in vitro model of “pain”

In detail

Wellcome Trust

Award winner: Thomas Dixon
Institution: Queen Mary University of London
Value: £1.6 million

The Living with Feeling project

This project will explore how scientists and doctors, philosophers and politicians, patients and parents have grappled with emotions in relation to health. The team will connect the history and philosophy of medicine and emotions with contemporary science, medical practice and public policy to explore questions such as: who decides which emotions we should feel in order to be healthy? Research topics will include the anatomy of anger as a modern emotion and the relationships between religious, philosophical and scientific forms of therapy. “We will examine and analyse how different social groups have felt and perceived emotions like anger, worry, love, sadness, fear and ecstasy, in both the past and the present,” said Thomas Dixon, director of the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary University of London.