ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
The ESRC has launched a £692,000 initiative that focuses on eradicating homelessness. The scheme, which funds four UK-based projects, aims to inform government policy as well as developing a greater understanding of homeless people and other aspects of social exclusion.
Award winner: Suzanne Fitzpatrick
Institution: University of York
Value: £260,921
The nature and patterns of multiple-exclusion homelessness across the UK
Award winner: Philip Brown
Institution: University of Salford
Value: £131,7
The relationship between social exclusion and homelessness
Award winner: Gillian Manthorpe
Institution: King's College London
Value: £176,881
A study of those who work with homeless people with complex needs, focusing on the advantages and disadvantages of how people in different jobs work together
THE LEVERHULME TRUST
Major research fellowship recipients for 2008.
Award winner: Neil Jackson
Institution: University of Liverpool
Value: £79,740
Japan and the West: an architectural dialogue
Award winner: Andres Rodriguez-Pose
Institution: London School of Economics
Value: £156,504
Decentralisation and economic development
Award winner: Stephen Parker
Institution: University of Manchester
Value: £119,618
Bertolt Brecht: a life
Award winner: Brian Cummings
Institution: University of Sussex
Value: £131,691
The confessions of Shakespeare
Award winner: Martin Thomas
Institution: University of Exeter
Value: £121,738
Empire protest and police repression: political economies of colonial violence
Award winner: Timothy Williamson
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £120,462
Philosophical applications of second-order modal logic
Award winner: Ingo Gildenhard
Institution: University of Durham
Value: £109,178
Ovid and the Bible: studies in the cultural imaginary of the West
Award winner: Bob Hale
Institution: University of Sheffield
Value: £93,678
Modality, ontology, mathematics, abstraction
Award winner: Roderick Beaton
Institution: King's College London
Value: £136,476
Byron's war: the Greek Revolution and the English Romantic imagination
Award winner: Saki Dockrill
Institution: King's College London
Value: £136,951
Impossible victory: Japan in the Pacific War and its contemporary legacy
Award winner: Michael Bentley
Institution: University of St Andrews
Value: £136,544
Divided by a common past: a comparative historiography of the modern West
Award winner: Usha Goswami
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £90,959
Dyslexia, a new theoretical framework: rhythmic perception, music and language
Award winner: Greg D. Woolf
Institution: University of St Andrews
Value: £139,408
Seedbed of religions
Award winner: Steven French
Institution: University of Leeds
Value: £85,421
Physical structuralism: its origins and future development
IN DETAIL
Award winner: Peter Dwyer
Institution: Nottingham Trent University
Value: £92,643
The priorities in supporting homeless people with multiple problems contributing to their exclusion from society
This project is led by Peter Dwyer, professor of social policy at Nottingham Trent University. In focusing on the perspectives of people with relevant first-hand experience, it intends to achieve a greater understanding of the causes of multiple-exclusion homelessness. It hopes to shift thinking on the problem and to ensure that policymaking is better informed by more robust evidence.