LEVERHULME TRUST
Major Research Fellowships
Award winner: Chandak Sengoopta
Institution: Birkbeck, University of London
Value: Pounds 138,617
Satyajit Ray: lives, dilemmas, reputations
Philip Leverhulme Prize
These prizes, worth Pounds 70,000 each, are awarded to outstanding scholars who have made substantial and recognised contributions to their field.
Engineering
Award winner: Maria Ana Cataluna
Institution: University of Dundee
Photonics
Award winner: Karen Johnson
Institution: Durham University
Community-led regeneration of brownfield land using sustainable technologies
Award winner: Katsuichiro Goda
Institution: University of Bristol
Earthquake engineering; risk and reliability analysis; and engineering seismology
Geography
Award winner: Peter Adey
Institution: Keele University
Cultural and political geography; security; and new mobilities paradigm
Award winner: Siwan Davies
Institution: Swansea University
Environmental change and Quaternary science
Modern European languages and literature
Award winner: Anthony Bale
Institution: Birkbeck, University of London
Middle English literature and late medieval culture
Wellcome Trust
Investigator Awards
These inaugural awards in the medical humanities range in value from Pounds 700,000 to just over Pounds 1.26 million.
Award winners: Rosamund Scott and Stephen Wilkinson
Institutions: King's College London and Keele University
The donation and transfer of human reproductive materials
Award winner: Volker Scheid
Institution: University of Westminster
Beyond tradition: ways of knowing and styles of practice in East Asian medicine, 1000 to present
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCH
Health Technology Assessment programme
Award winner: Pat Hoddinott
Institution: University of Aberdeen
Value: Pounds 322,127
BIBS: benefits of incentives for breastfeeding and smoking cessation: a platform study for a trial
Award winner: Helen Rodgers
Institution: Newcastle University
Value: Pounds 1,646,334
A trial to evaluate an extended rehabilitation service for stroke patients
In detail
Award winner: Kamlesh Khunti
Institution: University of Leicester
Value: Pounds 1,706,619
The promotion of physical activity through structured education with differing levels of ongoing support for those with pre-diabetes (PROPELS): randomised controlled trial in a diverse multiethnic community
Lack of exercise is one of the main causes of diabetes, but there is no definitive way to encourage people to be more active. …
