Grant winners – 12 January 2017

Natural Environment Research Council

Research grants

• Award winner: Carol-Anne Duthie
• Institution: SRUC (Scotland’s Rural College)
• Value: £202,100

Novel animal-mounted sensor technology to improve efficiency and sustainability

• Award winner: David Johnson
• Institution: University of Aberdeen
• Value: £508,385

Social networking in plants: biodiversity as a selective force for inter-plant signalling

• Award winner: Francis Jiggins
• Institution: University of Cambridge
• Value: £619,950

Why does Drosophila vary in susceptibility to parasitoid wasps?

• Award winner: Sylvia Toet
• Institution: University of York
• Value: £248,101

Upscaling of greenhouse gas emissions from freshwater wetlands

National Institutes of Health Research

Public Health Research Programme

• Award winner: Stacy Clemes
• Institution: Loughborough University
• Value: £413,041

Stand out in class: restructuring the classroom environment to reduce sedentary behaviour – a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial

Health Technology Assessment Programme

• Award winner: Catrin Evans
• Institution: University of Nottingham
• Value: £124,951

Improving care for women and girls who have undergone female genital mutilation: qualitative evidence synthesis

• Award winner: David Torgerson
• Institution: University of York
• Value: £718,067

Does occupational therapist-led environmental assessment and modification reduce falls among high-risk older people?

Health Services and Delivery Research Programme

• Award winner: Angela Hassiotis
• Institution: University College London
• Value: £1,405,284

Clinical and cost-effectiveness of a parent-mediated intervention to reduce challenging behaviour in preschoolers with moderate to severe learning disability: a randomised controlled trial

Australian Research Council

Discovery Project Grants

• Award winner: Thomas Wernberg
• Institution: University of Western Australia
• Value: A$385,000

The mechanisms behind climate-mediated declines in kelp

• Award winner: Gavan NcNally
• Institution: University of New South Wales
• Value: A$477,500

How the brain parses danger signals

• Award winner: Boris Baer
• Institution: University of Western Australia
• Value: A$414,500

The molecular basis of sperm competition

In detail

Science and Technology Facilities Council

Research grant

• Award winner Melvin Hoare
• Institution University of Leeds
• Value £202,437

Development in Africa with radio astronomy

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a planned radio telescope comprising a network of thousands of dishes across Australia and southern Africa that will be 50 times more sensitive than any previous radio instrument. Part of the SKA will be hosted in South Africa, and eight other African countries will be involved. As there are few astronomers in this region, the creation of the African Very Long Baseline Interferometry Network – using 30m dishes in each country – will form the basis of a radio astronomy training programme. Melvin Hoare’s UK team and South African colleagues will teach locals how to use and maintain the dishes, building skills useful in telecommunications and other sectors.