Grant winners – 23 March 2017

Leverhulme Trust

Research project grants

Sciences

• Award winner: Patrick Mesquida
• Institution: King’s College London
• Value: £107,268

Are collagen fibrils ladders for cells?

• Award winner: Svetlana Makovets
• Institution: University of Edinburgh
• Value: £174,381

Proteolysis-dependent regulation of telomerase catalytic subunit

• Award winner: David Procter
• Institution: University of Manchester
• Value: £163,225

Asymmetric copper-catalysed multi-component assembly of high-value amines

• Award winner: Shengfu Yang
• Institution: University of Leicester
• Value: £137,884

Investigation of combustion chemistry using superfluid helium nanodroplets

Arts and Humanities Research Council

• Award winner: Stephanie Pitts
• Institution: University of Sheffield
• Value: £342,832

Understanding audiences for the contemporary arts

• Award winner: Philip Schwyzer
• Institution: University of Exeter
• Value: £633,984

Inventor of Britain: the complete works of Humphrey Llwyd

• Award winner: Julia Stapleton
• Institution: Durham University
• Value: £705,478

Church, state, and nation: the journals of Herbert Hensley Henson, 1900-39

• Award winner: Catrin Huber
• Institution: Newcastle University
• Value: £279,795

Expanded interiors: bringing contemporary site-specific fine art practice to Roman houses at Herculaneum and Pompeii

Natural Environment Research Council

• Award winner: William McCaffrey
• Institution: University of Leeds
• Value: £100,283

Database technology for deep marine clastic characterisation: upscaling for impact

• Award winner: Robbie Girling
• Institution: University of Reading
• Value: £501,019

Degradation of odour signals by air pollution: chemical mechanisms, plume dynamics and insect-orientation behaviour (DOMINO)

• Award winner: David Large
• Institution: University of Nottingham
• Value: £234,546

InSAR (interferometric synthetic aperture radar) as a tool to evaluate peatland sensitivity to global change

In detail

Award winner: Hector Patmore

Institution: Cardiff University

Value: £200,452

Demonic exegesis: the role of biblical interpretation and exegetical encounter in the shaping of Jewish and Christian demonologies

Judaism had developed an extensive set of beliefs about demons by the end of the rabbinic period (AD70-c.500). Literature from this era connected these beliefs to specific writings from the Hebrew Scriptures. However, in their original historical contexts, few of these biblical texts have anything to do with demons. So how, and why, did the religious texts come to be understood as speaking of demons? This project will explore this phenomenon, “demonic exegesis”, by posing questions such as: which biblical texts did Jews in the period connect with demons, when were the texts first associated with demons, and how do these traditions relate to Christian biblical interpretation connected to demons? The study will draw together demonology, biblical interpretation, and Jewish-Christian interaction in the rabbinic period.