ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
The ESRC has announced the winners of its professorial fellowships. The six fellowships have been awarded to social scientists working in the UK who are recognised as international leaders in their respective fields to allow them to carry out research into key social scientific issues that will have an impact on the future.
Award winner: Albert Weale
Institution: University of Essex
Value: £364,108
Social contract, deliberative democracy and public policy
Award winner: Herb Marsh
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £431,489
Value adding in diverse educational contexts: substantive-methodological synergies that address complex issues with sophisticated methodology
Award winner: John Hills
Institution: London School of Economics
Value: £226,301
Dynamics and the design of social policies
Award winner: Graham Loomes
Institution: University of East Anglia
Value: £440,535
Modelling imprecise preferences and identifying the implications for theory and policy
Award winner: Katrina Brown
Institution: University of East Anglia
Value: £250,201
Resilient development in social ecological systems
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Award winner: Russell Spears
Institution: Cardiff University
Value: £230,915
Social identity theory extended: a SITE map for understanding intergroup relations
"Happy slapping", "flaming" and other social phenomena will be the focal points in this project. Professor Spears, professor of psychology at Cardiff University, is leading this effort to find psychological explanations for such behaviour in intergroup relations. Using social identity theory, he will attempt to explain how individuals view themselves in group situations, highlighting the "emotional rationality" of group behaviour instead of seeing it as a product of self-interest.
ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
Award winner: J.A. Noble
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £595,225
Quantitative 4D echocardiography using fusion techniques and spatio-temporal analysis
Award winner: B.J. Gallacher
Institution: Newcastle University
Value: £147,011
A stable parametrically amplified gyroscope
Award winner: M. Kohl
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £585,864
Quantum-limited tomographic detection of correlations in a strongly interacting atomic Fermi gas
Award winner: R. Bridson
Institution: University of Birmingham
Value: £312,947
Production and evaluation of microparticulate drug-delivery systems to enhance arterial chemoembolisation
Award winner: P. Nithiarasu
Institution: Swansea University
Value: £101,918
Patient-specific modelling network
Award winner: T. Thomson
Institution: University of Manchester
Value: £657,6
Exchange spring magnetic thin films: the future recording media
BREAST CANCER CARE
Award winner: Fehmidah Munir
Institution: University of Loughborough
Value: £11,220
Exploring interventions for chemotherapy-induced cognitive dysfunction and ability to work
Award winner: Elena Odintsova
Institution: University of Birmingham
Value: £15,000
The role of metastasis suppressor tetraspanin CD82/KAI1 in Herceptin-mediated degradation of ErbB2 receptor in breast-cancer cells
Award winner: Julian Barwell
Institution: University of Leicester
Value: £15,000
The biological ageing effect of breast-cancer radiotherapy on cardiac function
Award winner: Ian Ellis
Institution: University of Nottingham
Value: £15,000
Optimisation of SNP in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) breast-cancer tissues
Award winner: Luke Gaughan
Institution: Newcastle University
Value: £15,000
Examining a role for histone methyltransferases and demethylases in oestrogen-dependent breast cancer
Award winner: Leonard Seymour
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £15,000
Ultrasound-enhanced virotherapy for breast cancer