ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL
Six new research fellows in the creative and performing arts will share more than £1.4 million in funding from the AHRC. These fellowships - each worth more than £200,000 - will support creative artists in their field of study, aiding their work within a research environment.
Award winner: H. Barker
Institution: University of Exeter
Value: £245,315
Plethora and bare sufficiency: a new practice for a tragic theatre
Award winner: J.A. Crouch
Institution: University of Southampton
Value: £212,226
"The perfection of talent": the cello as chordal accompanist in simple recitative, 1750-1850
Award winner: J. Maynard Smith
Institution: Central School of Speech and Drama
Value: £230,258
Telematic theatres: usable technologies and the dramaturgies of global space
Award winner: T.M. O'Connor
Institution: Roehampton University
Value: £261,793
In conversation: exchange and relation in live art and performance processes
Award winner: C.F. Redgate
Institution: Royal Academy of Music
Value: £245,259
21st-century oboe: reactivating interactions between composers, performers and makers
BREAST CANCER CAMPAIGN
In the latest round of funding from the Breast Cancer Campaign, 29 projects have received financial support worth a total of more than £2.7 million. Below is a selection of the winners, the remainder will be listed online.
Award winner: Louise Jones
Institution: Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry
Value: £106,180
Functional and clinical significance of loss of the tumour-suppressor MMP-8 in myoepithelial cells of DCIS
Award winner: Janine Erler
Institution: Institute of Cancer Research
Value: £99,185
The role of LOXL2 in breast cancer
Award winner: Adrienne Gorman
Institution: National University of Ireland
Value: £91,767
Identification of nerve growth factor (NGF)/p75NTR proximal adaptors in breast-cancer cells
Award winner: Dylan Edwards
Institution: University of East Anglia
Value: £89,406
Degradomic analysis of ADAMTS-15 targets in breast cancer
Award winner: Joy Burchell
Institution: King's College London
Value: £95,190
Control of expression of glycosyltransferases involved in O-linked glycosylation in breast cancer
Award winner: Colin McCowan
Institution: University of Dundee
Value: £123,961
A community-based longitudinal study on adherence to endocrine therapy and cancer outcomes
Award winner: Valerie Speirs
Institution: Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine
Value: £178,961
Investigating fibroblasts as mediators of breast-tumour progression using 3D models
Award winner: Stephanie Kermorgant
Institution: Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry
Value: £185,593
Spatio-temporal c-Met signalling in breast cancer
Award winner: Paul Mullan
Institution: Queen's University Belfast
Value: £205,524
Characterisation of p63 as a BRCA1 transcriptional target
Award winner: Paul Edwards
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £188,704
Chromosome rearrangements and fusion genes in breast cancer
Award winner: Rosemary O'Connor
Institution: University College Cork
Value: £181,564
Regulation of IGF-I and adhesion signalling in breast cancer
Award winner: David Meek
Institution: University of Dundee
Value: £162,688
Role of Mage-A proteins in suppressing TP53 function in breast-tumour development
Award winner: Katrina Lavelle
Institution: University of Manchester
Value: £185,214
What role do older breast cancer patients play in decisions about surgery?
Award winner: Jason Carroll
Institution: Cambridge Research Institute
Value: £167,145
Characterising TLE1 as a pioneer factor in oestrogen-receptor action
Award winner: Alan Ashworth
Institution: Institute of Cancer Research
Value: £81,940
Targeting PI3K: determinants of sensitivity and resistance to PI3K pathway inhibition
Award winner: Fedor Berditchevski
Institution: University of Birmingham
Value: £201,326
Investigation into the role of tetraspanin6 (Tspan6) in tumourigenesis and metastasis
in breast cancer
Award winner: Marie McIlroy
Institution: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Value: £188,397
Transcription factor HOXC11, a novel SRC-1 binding partner; new pathways in endocrine resistance
Award winner: Paul Reynolds
Institution: University of St Andrews
Value: £20,000
Role of polycomb proteins in breast cancer
Award winner: Angel Armesilla
Institution: University of Wolverhampton
Value: £20,000
Novel molecular approaches to sensitise breast-cancer cells to paclitaxel-induced apoptosis
Award winner: Matthias Eberl
Institution: Cardiff University
Value: £19,944
The role of TRAIL in gamma/ delta T cell-mediated cytotoxicity towards breast-cancer cells
Award winner: Fumiko Esashi
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £20,000
Identification of novel BRCA2 interacting proteins
Award winner: Laurence Taggart
Institution: University of Ulster
Value: £19,992
The experiences of women with learning disabilities accessing breast-screening services
Award winner: Ingunn Holen
Institution: University of Sheffield
Value: £20,000
Tumour cell-bone cell interactions in breast-cancer bone metastases
Award winner: Eugene Tulchinsky
Institution: University of Leicester
Value: £19,665
Role of ZEB family members, ZEB1(DeltaEF1) and SIP1(ZEB2) in breast cancer
Award winner: Helen McCarthy
Institution: Queen’s University Belfast
Value: £18,600
A novel designer biomimetic vector for breast-cancer gene therapy
Award winner: Lorna Paul
Institution: University of Glasgow
Value: £17,324
Myofascial release to improve upper-limb mobility in women undergoing radiotherapy
Award winner: Anne Ridley
Institution: King’s College London
Value: £19,966
Regulation of Met receptor signalling by proteolytic processing
Award winner: Tina Rich
Institution: University of Glasgow
Value: £18,490
An assessment of PML isoforms as breast-cancer biomarkers
Award winner: Helen Pattison
Institution: Aston University
Value: £17,968
Development of an intervention to promote breast-screening uptake in Chinese-British women
IN DETAIL
Award winner: Nenagh Watson
Institution: Central School of Speech and Drama
Value: £228,209
The life and death of objects and puppets: immanence, intervention, presence and absence.
The fellowship will allow Ms Watson to study at the Central School of Speech and Drama, the only UK institution to offer BA and MA courses in puppet theatre. She will draw on notions of life and death to explore how puppets and objects in performance can be animated to give an illusion of life and how animators can affect this process. Her study will focus on the threshold where the lifeless becomes animate; memory within animation; tradition within ideas of the "living" and the "past"; and intimacy in engagement with puppets.