THE BRITISH ACADEMY
The British Academy has awarded eight senior research fellowships for the academic year 2008-09. The awards, worth about £35,500 each, allow established scholars to take a year's leave to complete a major piece of research while day-to-day teaching and administrative duties are covered.
- Award winner: Alvin Jackson
Institution: University of Edinburgh
The survival of the unions: England, Scotland and Ireland, 1707-2007
- Award winner: Lai Kvavilashvili
Institution: University of Hertfordshire
Mechanisms of prospective memory: insights from Vietnam veterans with head injury
- Award winner: Stephen Tierney
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Let the people decide: referendums in a post-sovereign age
- Award winner: Patricia Clavin
Institution: University of Oxford
Bread and butter internationalism and the League of Nations, 1919-1945
- Award winner: Hakim Adi
Institution: Middlesex University
The International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers 1928-1939
- Award winner: Roger Brock
Institution: University of Leeds
Greek political imagery from Homer to Aristotle
- Award winner: Tim Hayward
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Global justice, human rights and ecological debt
- Award winner: William Mander
Institution: University of Oxford
A history of British idealism
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL
- Award winners (institution): Raja Ganeshram (University of Edinburgh) and Michael Meredith (British Antarctic Survey)
Value: £684,509
Carbon fluxes in Antarctic sea ice environments (CASE)
- Award winner: David Robinson
Institution: University of Aberdeen
Value: £481,820
Direct in situ measurement of resource competition by plants along environmental gradients
- Award winner: Terry Brown
Institution: University of Manchester
Value: £55,291
Novel methodology for distinguishing ancient and contaminating DNA in human archaeological remains
- Award winner: Alex Elliott
Institution: Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
Value: £53,076
Modelling the effects of changing discharge patterns on lake phytoplankton communities
- Award winner (institution): Louise Heathwaite (Lancaster Environment Centre) and Kate Heppell (Queen Mary, University of London)
Value: £656,760
Implications of groundwater-surface water connectivity for nitrogen transformations in the hyporheic zone
THE WELLCOME TRUST
These grants are part of the £30 million awarded to 26 UK research groups for the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium project (WTCCC). Twelve research groups (detailed below) received £13 million to work independently of the project (14 research groups receiving £17 million to work with the WTCCC were listed last week).
- Award winner: Matthew Bown
Institution: University of Leicester
Abdominal aortic aneurysms
- Award winner: John Collinge
Institution: Institute of Neurology, University College London
Human prion disease
- Award winner: Bill Cookson
Institution: Imperial College London
Asthma
- Award winner: John Danesh
Institution: University of Cambridge
Myocardial infarction
- Award winner: George Davey Smith
Institution: University of Bristol
Extreme obesity
- Award winner: Douglas Easton
Institution: University of Cambridge
Breast cancer
- Award winner: Sadaf Farooqi
Institution: University of Cambridge
Early-onset obesity
- Award winner: Richard Houlston
Institution: Institute of Cancer Research
Adult glioma
- Award winner: Jaspal Kooner
Institution: Imperial College London
Coronary artery disease - Indian Asians
- Award winner: Sanjay Sisodiya
Institution: Institute of Neurology, University College London
Partial epilepsies
- Award winner: David van Heel
Institution: Queen Mary, University of London
Coeliac disease
- Award winner: Krina Zondervan
Institution: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford
Endometriosis.
