THE LEVERHULME TRUST
Award winner: Marjorie Weiss
Institution: University of Bath
Value: £167,765
The sociology of prescribing: what can we learn from new prescribers?
Award winner: Ian Douglas Whyte
Institution: University of Lancaster
Value: £150,845
Post-medieval vegetation change and grazing management in an upland landscape
Award winner: Allan Kellehear
Institution: University of Bath
Value: £62,200
End-of-life practices in the Republic of Moldova
Award winner: Ann Colley
Institution: University of Leicester
Value: £36,454
Public sporting role models, sports interest and sport participation among the young
Award winner: Peter Adey
Institution: University of Keele
Value: £85,740
Mobility, regulation and control in a time of terror: the Liverpool Blitz
Award winner: Orlando Figes
Institution: Birkbeck College
Value: £33,740
The Mishchenko-Ivanova correspondence
Award winner: Jose Esteban Castro
Institution: Newcastle University
Value: £124,291
Research network on governance and citizenship in water management and environmental health
Award winner: Doerthe Tetzlaff
Institution: University of Aberdeen
Value: £122,620
Northern watershed ecosystem response to climate change
Award winner: Simone Hochgreb
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £65,900
Stratified combustion network
Award winner: Nicolas Moulin
Institution: University of Sheffield
Value: £12,500
Cross-media
Award winner: Chila Kumari Burman
Institution: University of East London
Value: £11,820
Print/paint/photography
Award winner: Jonathan Freeman-Attwood
Institution: Royal Academy of Music
Value: £54,000
Leverhulme conducting fellowships
Award winner: Sholto Kynoch
Institution: Bangor University
Value: £11,800
Song accompaniment and chamber music
Award winner: Henry Tietzsch-Tyler
Institution: Leeds University
Value: £12,500
Painting and installation
Award winner: Richard Weedon
Institution: University College London
Value: £12,079
Photography
Award winner: Ruth Padel
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £11,080
Poet/novels
Award winner: Jai Redman
Institution: University of Leeds
Value: £12,100
Visual arts
ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
Knowledge Transfer Accounts
The EPSRC has awarded up to £44 million of funding over three years to 16 institutions for Knowledge Transfer Accounts, which aim to ensure that all EPSRC-funded research is exploited fully and produces results that will benefit the UK economy. Below are the 12 main universities that will receive funding, several of which will work with partners.
- Institution: University of Bath
Value: £3.4 million
- Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £2.2 million
- Institution: Durham University
Value: £2.6 million
- Institution: University of Exeter
Value: £3.2 million
- Institution: University of Glasgow
Value: £2.5 million
- Institution: University of Liverpool
Value: £3.5 million
- Institution: Loughborough University
Value: £3 million
- Institution: University of Manchester
Value: £8.3 million
- Institution: Queen Mary, University of London
Value: £2.9 million
- Institution: University of Sheffield
Value: £5.7 million
- Institution: University of Strathclyde
Value: £2.6 million
OTHER EPSRC GRANTS
Award winner: P.G. Harrison
Institution: Imperial College London
Value: £61,9
Compositional analysis of markovian process algebra (CAMPA)
Award winner: D.P. Brumby
Institution: University College London
Value: £215,0
Interactions on the move: understanding strategy adaptation in dynamic multi-task environments
Award winner: K.J. Kirk
Institution: University of the West of Scotland
Value: £173,171
High-temperature ultrasonic measurements of plant and components for defect detection and monitoring
Award winner: E.A. Boiten
Institution: University of Kent
Value: £73,820
Formal methods and cryptography: the next generation of abstractions (CryptoForma)
Award winner: J.A. Clark
Institution: University of York
Value: £140,323
The birth, life and death of semantic mutants
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
Award winner: M.I. Hutchings
Institution: University of East Anglia
Value: £394,344
Isolation and characterisation of novel antimycotics
Award winner: W.H.I. Mclean
Institution: University of Dundee
Value: £540,140
Optimised delivery of therapeutic siRNA into human skin
Award winner: R.J. Lucas
Institution: University of Manchester
Value: £397,816
Achieving instantaneous control of G-protein coupled receptors using light as a ligand
Award winner: S.N. Baker
Institution: Newcastle University
Value: £411,208
Reprogramming the nervous system through a wearable neurostimulation device
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCH
The NIHR's Health Technology Assessment programme produces independent research information on the effectiveness, costs and broader impact of healthcare treatments and tests for those who plan, provide or receive National Health Service care. Listed here are the January-February 2009 research grants awards.
Award winner: Michael Ussher
Institution: University of London
Value: £1,182,613
A pragmatic randomised controlled trial of physical activity as an aid to smoking cessation during pregnancy
Award winner: Ian Goodyer
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £2,406,538
Randomised controlled trial of brief psychodynamic psychotherapy, cognitive behaviour therapy and treatment as usual in adolescents with moderate to severe depression attending routine child and adolescent mental health clinics
Award winner: David Mendelow
Institution: Newcastle University
Value: £2,328,920
Surgical trial in traumatic intra-cerebral haemorrhage (STITCH)
Award winner: David Harrison
Institution: Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre
Value: £617,028
Risk adjustment in neurocritical care (RAIN): prospective validation of risk-prediction models for adult patients with acute traumatic brain injury to use to evaluate the optimum location and comparative costs of neurocritical care
IN DETAIL
Award winner: Karen Kirkby
Institution: University of Surrey
Value: £3.85 million
This Knowledge Transfer Account will help to create new business opportunities by increasing engagement with industry and accelerating the exploitation of new technologies.
The bid is a collaboration between the University of Surrey's faculty of engineering and physical sciences, its research and enterprise department and the National Physical Laboratory (NPL). It aims to produce significant benefits in three key areas: communications and signal processing; next-generation materials and characterisation; and nanotechnology and photonics.
As part of the scheme, the institutions will use NPL-developed systems to monitor the impact of their programme on the UK economy.