LEVERHULME TRUST
Research Project Grants
Social sciences
Award winner: David Simon Cowan
Institution: University of Bristol
Value: Pounds 71,686
Shared ownership: crisis moments
Award winner: Carolyn Hoyle
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: Pounds 110,338
Last resorts: decisions and discretion at the Criminal Cases Review Commission
Award winner: Netta Weinstein
Institution: University of Essex
Value: Pounds 189,478
Motivational prosody: a new approach to understanding motivational communication
Sciences
Award winner: Paul McGraw
Institution: University of Nottingham
Value: Pounds 238,184
The effect of abnormal visual experience early in life on cortical representation
Early Career Fellowships
These offer salary costs for researchers at the beginning of their academic careers, providing them with the opportunity for advancement and enabling them to undertake significant pieces of original publishable research. The awards are worth up to 50 per cent of each fellow's salary to a limit of Pounds 23,000.
Award winner: Corisande Fenwick
Institution: University of Leicester
Empire, emperor and Church: Imperialism and religion in the new Byzantine West
Award winner: Stefanie Frank
Institution: University of Kent
Engineering bacterial microcompartments for recombinant protein production
Award winner: Jenny Preston
Institution: Soas, University of London
Book project: art and dissent in 18th-century Japan
ROYAL SOCIETY
University Research Fellowships
Award winner: Diego Altamirano
Institution: University of Southampton
Value: Pounds 425,084
Accretion on to compact objects: extreme physics at the Eddington rates
Award winner: Vladimir Dokchitser
Institution: University of Warwick
Value: Pounds 379,737
Special values of L-functions and arithmetic
Award winner: Gavin Thomas
Institution: University of Sheffield
Value: Pounds 433,218
Understanding variation in evolutionary rates on the tree of life
Award winner: Suzuki Vidal
Institution: Imperial College London
Value: Pounds 467,441
Strong magnetised shocks: a new regime in laboratory plasma astrophysics
IN DETAIL
Award winner Brian Rappert
Institution University of Exeter
Value Pounds 123,228
Beyond the digital divide: sharing research data across developing and developed countries
This project seeks to understand current data-sharing practices (formal and informal) among scientists in developing countries and identify how practices differ in working with different types of data including non- clinical human data, non-human data and in silico (computer) data. …
