Leverhulme Trust
Research Project Grants
Humanities
- Award winner: Rebekah Higgitt
- Institution: University of Kent
- Value: £368,663
Metropolitan science: places, objects and cultures of practice and knowledge in London, 1600-1800
- Award winner: Jim Phillips
- Institution: University of Glasgow
- Value: £215,596
Employment, politics and culture in Scotland, 1955-2015
Research Leadership Awards
- Award winner: Carolyn McGettigan
- Institution: Royal Holloway, University of London
- Value: £961,815
SONOVOX: the social neuroscience of voices
- Award winner: Julia Steinberger
- Institution: University of Leeds
- Value: £964,872
Living well within limits (LiLi)
Natural Environment Research Council
- Award winner: Rachael James
- Institution: University of Southampton
- Value: £438,475
Releasing divalent cations to sequester carbon on land and sea
- Award winner: Jonathan Blundy
- Institution: University of Bristol
- Value: £897,631
From arc magmas to ores (FAMOS): a mineral systems approach
- Award winner: Roger Butlin
- Institution: University of Sheffield
- Value: £475,938
Experimental adaptation and speciation in rotifers
Economic and Social Research Council
Research grants
- Award winner: Louise Phillips
- Institution: University of Aberdeen
- Value: £508,644
Adult ageing and social attention: the role of cognitive decline and social motivation
- Award winner: Fiona Steele
- Institution: London School of Economics
- Value: £633,392
Methods for the analysis of longitudinal dyadic data with an application to intergenerational exchanges of family support
- Award winner: Michael Green
- Institution: University of Glasgow
- Value: £103,233
Impacts of smoke-free public places legislation on youth smoking uptake
- Award winner: Kearsy Cormier
- Institution: University College London
- Value: £160,451
Language attitudes in the British deaf community: evidence from the British Sign Language Corpus
In detail
Award winner: Alison Donnell
Institution: University of East Anglia
Value: £412,750
Caribbean literary heritage: recovering the lost past and safeguarding the future
This project will focus on the fragile literary heritage behind the celebrated field of Caribbean writing. It will explore the current range and character of this heritage and investigate how chronicling the literary past can influence which authors are read and how, where and by whom. In addition to accomplishing a detailed analysis of the literary legacy, the researchers hope that by exposing the issues surrounding this cultural inheritance to a broader audience, they can help to improve our understanding of what may be lost but can be recovered, as well as what literary archives may look like in a digital age. The project, led by Alison Donnell, will also showcase the diverse styles, genres and personae that Caribbean writers assumed when writing in the UK. Both well-known and obscure authors will be studied.