Grant winners – 14 July 2016

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

Research grants

• Award winner: Jake Bowers
• Institution: Loughborough University
• Value: £99,846

Solution-processed CIGS thin film solar cells from metal chalcogenide precursors

• Award winner: Claire Higgins
• Institution: Imperial College London
• Value: £484,636

Parameters for re-engineering stump skin to alleviate pressure ulcers

• Award winner: Michele Zagnoni
• Institution: University of Strathclyde
• Value: £298,108

Droplet-based microfluidic platform for intracellular ion channel drug discovery

National Institute for Health Research

Health Technology Assessment Programme

• Award winner: Gordon Fuller
• Institution: University of Sheffield
• Value: £482,800

The ACUTE (ambulance CPAP: use, treatment effect and economics) feasibility study: a pilot randomised controlled trial of pre-hospital CPAP for acute respiratory failure

• Award winner: Xavier Griffin
• Institution: University of Oxford
• Value: £235,842

Trial of acute femoral fracture fixation (TRAFFIX): a feasibility study

• Award winner: Matthew Costa
• Institution: University of Oxford
• Value: £1,248,593

DRAFFT 2: Distal radius acute fracture fixation trial 2

Economic and Social Research Council

Research grants

• Award winner: Iosif Kovras
• Institution: City University London
• Value: £521,257

Truth, accountability or impunity? Transitional justice and the economic crisis

• Award winner: Eirini Flouri
• Institution: University College London
• Value: £375,380

Early family risk, school context and children’s joint trajectories of cognitive ability and mental health

• Award winner: Vernon Gayle
• Institution: University of Edinburgh
• Value: £118,115

Have socio-economic inequalities in childhood cognitive test scores changed? A secondary analysis of three British birth cohorts

In detail

Award winner: Loretta Lees
Institution: University of Leicester
Value: £615,341

Gentrification, displacement, and the impacts of council estate renewal in 21st-century London

This project will explore the effects of gentrification in London. Researchers will investigate how tenants have been affected by displacement in the wake of council estate renewal and redevelopment, and they will also analyse the impact those people have on the relocation sites that they eventually move to. The project team has three aims. The first is to quantitatively measure and map the extent, location and kinds of neighbourhood-level social change and displacement associated with estate renewal and gentrification more generally in the capital. The scholars will also generate a historical inventory of all council estate renewal proposals, plans and final outcomes, which they will use to evaluate their aggregate impact on housing stocks and the availability of social housing in Greater London. Finally, they will consider the impact of estate renewal programmes on pre-existing council estate residents, the communities across the South East to which they are being displaced, and the new “mixed” communities that are emerging as a consequence of estate renewal projects.