THE LEVERHULME TRUST
Basic sciences
Award winner: Karl Evans
Institution: University of Sheffield
Value: £136,403
Can climate change induce trophic mismatches that reduce orchid reproduction?
Award winner: Ian Crossley
Institution: University of Sussex
Value: £134,556
Conjugated phosphapolyynes: en route to functional phosphaorganometallic polymers
Award winner: Kim Bard
Institution: University of Portsmouth
Value: £135,232
Socio-emotional experiences and primate social cognition
Award winner: Chris Blackman
Institution: University College London
Value: £106,151
Nanotechnology for gas sensors
Award winner: Gareth Gaskell
Institution: University of York
Value: £159,231
Novel word integration in adults and children
Award winner: Klaus von Haeften
Institution: University of Leicester
Value: £116,965
Superfluidity effects in molecule-helium interactions
Award winner: James Russell
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £131,256
The developmental trajectory of episodic memory from the pre-school years
Award winner: Maximilian J. Telford
Institution: University College London
Value: £178,177
Convergence or homology of larvae and guts in animal evolution
Award winner: Vasilios Stavros
Institution: University of Warwick
Value: £64,768
Femtosecond dynamics of tyrosine and tryptophan
Award winner: Fernando Bresme
Institution: Imperial College London
Value: £86,904
Water polarisation under thermal gradients
Award winner: Kenneth Gilhooly
Institution: University of Hertfordshire
Value: £40,311
Incubation in creativity: the thought suppression hypothesis
Award winner: Ai-Lan Lee
Institution: Heriot-Watt University
Value: £97,313
Enantioselective intermolecular oxidative heck couplings
Award winner: Nicholas Roberts
Institution: University of Bristol
Value: £62,790
Ontogeny of aquatic and aerial polarisation vision in an insect predator
Award winner: Vasily Oganesyan
Institution: University of East Anglia
Value: £93,090
Molecular dynamics and EPR spectroscopy: new structural tools for biology
Award winner: Barry Lygo
Institution: University of Nottingham
Value: £90,722
Transition state driven development of efficient organocatalysts
Award winner: Zewei Luo
Institution: University of Birmingham
Value: £91,643
Novel methods for mapping quantitative trait loci in autotetraploid species
Award winner: Johan Hulleman
Institution: University of Hull
Value: £33,829
A unified model of visual search
Award winner: Glyn Humphreys
Institution: University of Birmingham
Value: £93,261
From case studies to theories of vision: Agnosia and Balint's syndrome
LAW, POLITICS, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Award winner: Alan Story
Institution: University of Kent
Value: £96,299
The North-to-South transplantation of copyright laws and values
EXTRA LEVERHULME WINNERS
Basic sciences
Award winner: Frans Maathuis
Institution: University of York
Value: £50,299
Fluorescent reporters for live cell imaging of cAMP and cGMP in plants
Award winner: Henner Busemann
Institution: University of Manchester
Value: £82,628
Correlated early solar system chronology – djerfisherite in enstatite chondrites
Economics, business studies, industrial relations
Award winner: John Finch
Institution: University of Strathclyde
Value: £103,410
Sorting goods from bads: how actors collaborate in marketing green chemistry
Award winner: Ian Crawford
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £112,560
Are behavioural economic models falsifiable?
Award winner: Matthew Cole
Institution: University of Birmingham
Value: £69,493
Industrial activity and the environment: a spatial analysis
Humanities
Award winner: Stephen Baxter
Institution: King’s College London
Value: £254,742
Profile of a doomed elite: the structure of English landed society in 1066
Award winner: Martin Richards
Institution: University of Leeds
Value: £147,965
Complete mtDNA variation and the modern human settlement of Southwest Asia
Award winner: John Barnden
Institution: University of Birmingham
Value: £188,065
Metaphor and metonymy: addressing a debate and a neglected problem
Award winner: Bruce Bradley
Institution: University of Exeter
Value: £231,237
Learning to be human: skill acquisition and the development of the human brain
Award winner: Philip Schofield
Institution: University College London
Value: £158,516
Jeremy Bentham on sex, law and religion
Award winner: Sacha Stern
Institution: University College London
Value: £104,790
The Jewish calendar in al-Biruni and other early Islamic sources
Award winner: Alexandra Villing
Institution: British Museum
Value: £181,417
Naukratis: trade and interaction between Greece and Egypt 700-300 BC
Award winner: Peter Adamson
Institution: King’s College London
Value: £249,733
Natural philosophy in the Islamic world
Award winner: Christina Victor
Institution: Brunel University
Value: £213,482
Inter, intra-generational and transnational caring in minority communities
Award winner: Jody Joy
Institution: British Museum
Value: £96,044
The Chiseldon cauldrons: investigation of British and Irish iron-age cauldrons
Award winner: Sean Connolly
Institution: Queen’s University Belfast
Value: £58,149
An urban history of Belfast
Award winner: David Hardiman
Institution: University of Warwick
Value: £95,533
A history of non-violent resistance in South Asia
Social studies
Award winner: Pasco Fearon
Institution: University of Reading
Value: £251,810
The genetics of attachment in the “TEDS” longitudinal twin study
Award winner: Russell King
Institution: University of Sussex
Value: £174,117
Everyday life in communist Albania
Award winner: Caroline Upton
Institution: University of Leicester
Value: £151,232
Community, place and pastoralism: nature and society in post-Soviet Central Asia
INTERNATIONAL NETWORK
Humanities
Award winner: Alexander Broadie
Institution: University of Glasgow
Value: £78,937
Scottish philosophers in 17th-century Scotland and France
Award winner: Guido Bonsaver
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £93,858
Destination Italy: representing migration in contemporary media and narrative
Award winner: Stacy Gillis
Institution: Newcastle University
Value: £84,264
Approaching war: children’s culture and war, 1880-1919
Award winner: Stephen Tuck
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £45,570
European perspectives on US history
Fine and performing arts
Award winner: Richard Gough
Institution: Aberystwyth University
Value: £83,664
Laboratory theatre network
Award winner: Richard Thomson
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Value: £123,755
Redefining European symbolism c. 1880-1910
Law, politics, international relations
Award winner: Tonia Anna Novitz
Institution: University of Bristol
Value: £84,015
Voices at work: legal effects on organisation, representation and negotiation
Award winner: Lara Perry
Institution: University of Brighton
Value: £56,839
Transnational perspectives on women’s art, feminism and curating
Social studies
Award winner: Sara Gonzalez
Institution: University of Leeds
Value: £65,957
Towards a “post-neoliberal urban deal”? Uneven local responses to the global recession
Award winner: Andres Ruiz-Linares
Institution: University College London
Value: £122,000
Network for the study of the evolution of Latin American populations
ARTS TRAINING
Award winner: Iain Borden
Institution: University College London
Value: £49,772
Graduate mentorships at the Bartlett School of Architecture
Award winner: Rhian Samuel
Institution: City University London
Value: £50,193
Music composition workshops
Award winner: Angela Bond
Institution: The Bush Theatre
Value: £69,000
Training programme for new writers and directors
Award winner: Chris Marshall
Institution: Birmingham Conservatoire
Value: £80,043
Junior conservatoire mentoring scheme
Award winner: Martin Fitzpatrick
Institution: English National Opera
Value: £34,500
ENO trainee repetiteur
IN DETAIL
Award winner: Christopher Hood
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £96,384
Yesterday's tomorrows: what happened to the future of government?
Professor Hood's study will investigate changes to the way in which UK central government has operated over the past 35 years. By conducting interviews and focus groups with current and former members, and delving into archives and official data sets, this project will examine major transformations such as New Public Management, the development of government information and communications technology, and a new form of spin doctoring. Working with research assistant Ruth Dixon, Professor Hood will seek to uncover whether these developments did alter the state and its capacity, and lead to lower costs and better relations with citizen-customers.