Natural Environment Research Council
- Award winner: Stuart Barr
- Institution: Newcastle University
- Value: £1,523,520
Flood-PREPARED: predicting rainfall events by physical analytics of real-time data
- Award winner: Mathew James Owens
- Institution: University of Reading
- Value: £307,290
Space weather impact on ground-based systems
- Award winner: Daniel Stone
- Institution: University of Leeds
- Value: £428,670
Impacts of Criegee intermediate decomposition and reaction with water determined by direct measurements in ozonolysis reactions
Science and Technology Facilities Council
- Award winner: Richard Bates
- Institution: University of Glasgow
- Value: £88,633
Development on nano-imprint lithography stamps using DRIE PVD tungsten films
- Award winner: Judith Helen Croston
- Institution: Open University
- Value: £100,583
Jet energy injection in galaxy groups and clusters – transfer of CG funding
- Award winner: Benjamin Allanach
- Institution: University of Cambridge
- Value: £1,736,330
Particles, fields and extended objects
Economic and Social Research Council
Research grants
- Award winner: Susannah Hulley
- Institution: University of Cambridge
- Value: £330,466
Conceptions of violence, friendship and legal consciousness among young people in the context of joint enterprise
- Award winner: Irene Hardill
- Institution: Northumbria University
- Value: £467,293
Discourses of voluntary action at two “transformational” moments of the welfare state, the 1940s and 2010s
- Award winner: Rebecca Thompson
- Institution: Nottingham Trent University
- Value: £152,513
Who experiences or witnesses ASB and in what context?
In detail
Award winner: Alison Grant
Institution: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Value: £1,704,750
Infection prevention and control for drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa in the era of decentralised care: a whole systems approach
Drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) is a significant threat to global public health, and is estimated to account for one in four worldwide deaths attributable to antimicrobial resistance. In South Africa, DR-TB transmission within clinics is well documented. More clarity is needed on the extent to which exposure in clinics, compared with other community settings, drives ongoing transmission of DR-TB, so that resources to address the problem can be organised.
Guidelines for clinics concerning infection prevention and control (IPC) measures to reduce DR-TB transmission are readily accessible, and while there is wide evidence that recommended measures are not put into practice, it is not known why. A comprehensive approach to understanding barriers to implementation is required to design effective IPC interventions for DR-TB. Failure of IPC measures for DR-TB is often attributed to healthcare workers’ non-adherence to guidelines.
The team will examine how a health system supports IPC measures, as a whole. They will explore biological, environmental, infrastructural and social dynamics of DR-TB transmission in clinics in two provinces in South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal and Western Cape), with the aim of providing evidence for effective ways to improve IPC for DR-TB.
John Elmes