Economic and Social Research Council

Transformative Research Call: ‘Transforming’ Social Science

Maximum limit of £250,000: the funding will run for 18 months.

• Award winner: George Davey Smith
• Institution: University of Bristol

The biosocial archive: transforming lifecourse social research through the incorporation of epigenetic measures

• Award winner: Vincent Reid
• Institution: Lancaster University

Understanding light in the late-term human fetus: proof of concept for social research techniques

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The Wellcome Trust

• Award winner: David Lowe
• Institution: Aston University
• Value: £154,240

Advancing a transformative health technology: smartphone-based rapid, non-invasive telemonitoring and symptom prognosis for progressive neurological disorders

European Commission

• Award winner: Nick Doran
• Institution: Aston University
• Value: £457,043

The distributed core for unlimited bandwidth supply for all users and services (DISCUS)

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Royal Society

Wolfson Research Merit Awards

Awards are worth £10,000-£30,000 a year, which is a salary enhancement.

• Award winner: Derk-Jan Dijk
• Institution: University of Surrey

Individual differences in sleep-wake regulation: a multidisciplinary approach

• Award winner: Alicia J. El Haj
• Institution: Keele University

Engineering cells and tissues for regenerative medicine and stem-cell therapies

• Award winner: Hilary Ranson
• Institution: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Ensuring the sustainability of malaria vector control

Leverhulme Trust

Research Project Grants
Sciences

• Award winner: Elizabeth Gibson
• Institution: University of Nottingham
• Value: £95,779

Dye-sensitised NiO photocathodes for solar fuel generation

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• Award winner: Yuri Kalnishkan
• Institution: Royal Holloway, University of London
• Value: £133,964

Online self-tuning learning algorithms for handling historical information

• Award winner: Leonid Kulakov
• Institution: Queen’s University Belfast
• Value: £84,070

A phage metagenomics approach to forecast the evolution of microbial communities

International Networks
Humanities

• Award winner: Elleke Boehmer
• Institution: University of Oxford
• Value: £26,289

Planned violence: postcolonial urban infrastructures and literature

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