Arts and Humanities Research Council

Science in Culture Innovation Awards

• Award winner: Tony Prescott
• Institution: University of Sheffield
• Value: £64,118

Cyberselves in immersive technologies

• Award winner: John Coleman
• Institution: University of Oxford
• Value: £63,532

Ancient sounds: mixing acoustic phonetics, statistics and comparative philology to bring speech back from the past

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Royal Society

Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowships

This scheme supports outstanding scientists and engineers at an early stage of their career and is designed to help them progress to permanent academic positions

• Award winner: Lily Asquith
• Institution: University of Sussex
• Value: £428,611

New physics searches and Higgs coupling measurements with ATLAS

• Award winner: Giulia Zanetti
• Institution: Birkbeck, University of London
• Value: £450,647

Role of COPII vesicle coat in trafficking of procollagen and its regulation

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Wolfson Research Merit Awards

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

• Award winner: Malcolm White
• Institution: University of St Andrews

The CRISPR-Cas system for prokaryotic antiviral defence

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• Award winner: Sandy Cochran
• Institution: University of Dundee

Medical micro-ultrasound: minimally invasive high resolution imaging and therapy

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Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

Standard Research

• Award winner: Nathan Gomes
• Institution: University of Kent
• Value: £926,417

NIRVANA: intelligent, heterogeneous virtualised networking infrastructure

• Award winner: Xujiong Ye
• Institution: University of Lincoln
• Value: £125,230

MyLifeHub: An interoperability hub for aggregating lifelogging data from heterogeneous sensors and its applications in ophthalmic care

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Leverhulme Trust

Research Project Grants
Sciences

• Award winner: Andrew Horsfield
• Institution: Imperial College London
• Value: £147,073

Novel excited electron devices: a computational investigation

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• Award winner: Liz Sockett
• Institution: University of Nottingham
• Value: £143,770

The molecular control of bacterial biting and gliding in Bdellovibrio

Humanities

• Award winner: Parvathi Kumaraswami
• Institution: University of Manchester
• Value: £160,035

Beyond Havana and the nation? Peripheral identities and literary culture in Cuba

In detail

Award winner: Charlotte Burns
Institution: University of York
Value: £224,372

Evaluating the impact of austerity upon environmental policy in Europe

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This project investigates whether the global financial crisis has had an impact on environmental policy, taking the European Union as a case study. The team will analyse EU and state-level policies. “The main rationale for the project is that previous economic crises have generally had a negative effect upon the environment,” said Charlotte Burns, a lecturer in the department of environment. “Over the long term the economy tends to take precedence over environmental policy with knock-on effects upon policy ambitions.” The team hopes to develop a way to measure environmental policy change in response to the crisis, and to provide data on whether and how policy change has occurred as a consequence.