Grant winners – 3 March 2016

Leverhulme Trust

International Networks
Social sciences

• Award winner: Xuebing Cao
• Institution: Keele University
• Value: £105,873

Collective pay determination and changing labour relations in globalised China

• Award winner: Patricia Noxolo
• Institution: University of Birmingham
• Value: £118,908

Caribbean in/securities: creativity and negotiation in the Caribbean

Research project grants
Sciences

• Award winner: Wael Bahsoun
• Institution: Loughborough University
• Value: £126,818

Statistical properties of dynamical systems: an interplay between randomness and determinism

• Award winner: Tim Blackburn
• Institution: University College London
• Value: £100,211

The phylogenetics of invasions: untangling evolutionary and human historical contexts in the introduction and spread of alien bird species

• Award winner: Dermot Lynott
• Institution: University of Lancaster
• Value: £132,423

If it looks like a duck: emergent categorical structure in the human conceptual system

Economic and Social Research Council

Research grants

• Award winner: Eric Robinson
• Institution: University of Liverpool
• Value: £208,031

Eating attentively: episodic memory and eating behaviour

• Award winner: Tuukka Toivonen
• Institution: Soas, University of London
• Value: £196,473

Networked creativity in London’s hubscape: digital entrepreneurs in search of value and systemic change

• Award winner: Anja Neundorf
• Institution: University of Nottingham
• Value: £157,523

The legacy of authoritarian regimes on democratic citizenship

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

Research grants

• Award winner: Stephen Chivasa
• Institution: Durham University
• Value: £198,635

Novel gene technology for developing drought tolerant crops

• Award winner: Vladimir Botchkarev
• Institution: University of Bradford
• Value: £10,081

International workshop “epigenetic control of skin regeneration and ageing”

In detail

Arts and Humanities Research Council

Research grant award winner: Rosemary Wall
Institution: University of Hull
Value: £200,712

Crossing boundaries: the history of first aid in Britain and France, 1909-1989

Over the past two decades, historians have developed a detailed picture of primary and secondary healthcare growth in the UK. This focus on professional, institutional care, however, has neglected personal, voluntary and communitarian forms of healthcare – first aid. Studying the course of non-institutional treatment across the 20th century can help to illuminate where state provision, individual responsibility and voluntary action border each other. It can also help to inform responses to the pressures on GPs’ surgeries and accident and emergency departments. The research team will focus on initial treatment of minor injuries and techniques for basic life support undertaken by people other than recognised medical professionals. A large part of their study will be the first aid activity and diffusion of first aid knowledge conducted by the British Red Cross. The typicality of the UK experience will be considered through an examination of the development of non-professional treatment in France.