Grant winners – 11 February 2016

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

• Award winner: Eric McInnes
• Institution: University of Manchester
• Value: £295,760

Non-classical paramagnetic susceptibility and anisotropy in lanthanide coordination complexes: a combined experimental and theoretical study

• Award winner: Maria Oswald
• Institution: University of Bristol
• Value: £1,150,810

Leakage-aware design automation (LADA): tools and techniques for software crypto implementations

• Award winner: Kylie Vincent
• Institution: University of Oxford
• Value: £2,940,740

New routes to driving enzyme-catalysed chemical synthesis using hydrogen gas

• Award winner: Agba Salman
• Institution: University of Sheffield
• Value: £333,192

Discrete computational modelling of twin screw granulation

• Award winner: Rachel Williams
• Institution: University of Liverpool
• Value: £247,693

Novel chemical cross-linking of the cornea for treatment of keratoconus

Royal Academy of Engineering/Lloyd’s Register Foundation

Research Fellowships

• Award winner: Martynas Beresna
• Institution: University of Southampton
• Value: £593,809

Ultrafast laser-induced nanostructuring: a pathway to advanced optical fibre engineering

• Award winner: Trung Duong
• Institution: Queen’s University Belfast
• Value: £670,645

Meeting future wireless capacity via secure and energy-efficient small-cell networks

• Award winner: Mark Batty
• Institution: University of Kent
• Value: £526,646

CGrail: unified, optimisable and formally specified C concurrency

• Award winner: David Phillips
• Institution: University of Glasgow
• Value: £623,290

Sensing and actuation of nano-scale mechanics in biological systems

Arts and Humanities Research Council

• Award winner: Ian Goode
• Institution: University of Glasgow
• Value: £357,867

The major minor cinema: the Highlands and Islands film guild (1946-71)

• Award winner: Helen Nicholson
• Institution: Royal Holloway, University of London
• Value: £68,348

For love or money? Collaboration between amateur and professional theatre

In detail

Award winner: Jonathan Culpeper
Institution: Lancaster University
Value: £1 million

Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare’s Language

“The project investigates Shakespeare’s language, but not simply how it is used to create meanings within Shakespeare,” said Jonathan Culpeper, professor of English language and linguistics at Lancaster University. “It will compare his language with that of a 321 million-word corpus comprising the works of his contemporaries.” Professor Culpeper told Times Higher Education that the UK was a “world leader in corpus-based methods” – using computers to identify language patterns in vast collections of electronic texts. The UK has “generated dictionaries, grammars and more”, he said, but this has “never been done for Shakespeare”. The researchers hope to discover “what is unique about Shakespeare’s language and what it would have meant to his contemporaries” – for example, attitudes towards “love” or “death”, what it means to be “Welsh” or a “harlot”, or even the significance of eating “fish” instead of “beef”.