Royal Society
Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowships
The scheme is designed for scientists who would benefit from a period of full-time research without teaching and administrative duties. Employing institutions receive the full salary cost of teaching replacements. Fellowships cover all areas of the life and physical sciences, excluding clinical medicine.
- Award winner: Balazs Szendroi
- Institution: University of Oxford
Cohomological Donaldson-Thomas theory: structures and examples
Wolfson Research Merit Awards
Awards are worth £10,000-£30,000 a year, which is a salary enhancement.
- Award winner: Kostas Tokatlidis
- Institution: University of Glasgow
Oxidative folding and redox signalling in the mitochondria intermembrane space
- Award winner: Bert van den Berg
- Institution: Newcastle University
Understanding antibiotic uptake by studying bacterial outer membrane transport
Economic and Social Research Council
ESRC–RGC (Hong Kong) Bilateral Award Grant Winners
- Award winner: Jenny Yiend
- Institution: King’s College London
- Value: £80,395
Cross-cultural differences in biased cognition
- Award winner: Susan Batchelor
- Institution: University of Glasgow
- Value: £78,045
(Re)imagining youth: a comparative sociology of youth leisure in Scotland and Hong Kong
- Award winner: Michelle Ellefson
- Institution: University of Cambridge
- Value: £79,621
Cross-cultural study of family influences on executive functions in late childhood
Leverhulme Trust
Research Project Grants
Sciences
- Award winner: Patti Adank
- Institution: University College London
- Value: £150,989
The role of speech motor resonances in spoken language processing
- Award winner: Benedetta Bassetti
- Institution: University of York
- Value: £181,486
Effects of orthography on phonology in second language speakers of English: pronunciation, phonological awareness, speech perception and spelling
- Award winner: Melanie Britton
- Institution: University of Birmingham
- Value: £149,951
Magnetic resonance imaging of aluminium and zinc electroplating in ionic liquids
- Award winner: Manfred Buck
- Institution: University of St Andrews
- Value: £104,436
Supramolecular self-assemblies as nanotemplates for electrodeposition
In detail
Humanities
Award winner: Marion Löffler
Institution: University of Wales
Value: £85,302
Knowledge transfer and social networks: European learning and the revolution in Welsh Victorian scholarship
Thomas Stephens’ Literature of the Kymry helped to lay the foundations of modern Welsh learning. It was originally composed as an essay for a cultural competition sponsored by Lady Augusta Hall of Llanover. Stephens’ archive is now held by the National Library of Wales. “The material raises questions as to how a poor chemist’s apprentice was able to become an internationally acclaimed scholar,” explains Marion Löffler. “It highlights the importance of the financial and social patronage of local upper classes for success and social mobility.”