WOLFSON RESEARCH MERIT AWARDS
These awards range in value from £10,000 to £30,000. The first tranche of winners was published last week.
• Award winner: Andy Purvis
• Institution: Imperial College London
Biotic responses to environmental change: bridging from meso to macro scales
• Award winner: Rodrigo Quian Quiroga
• Institution: University of Leicester
Study of complex brain processes with single-cell recordings in humans
• Award winner: Steve Rawlings
• Institution: University of Oxford
Science on the path to the Square Kilometre Array
• Award winner: Nancy Reid
• Institution: University College London
Statistical theory and methods for complex data
• Award winner: Eelco Rohling
• Institution: University of Southampton
Climate-change and sea level (C-CHASE)
• Award winner: Alan Stitt
• Institution: Queen's University Belfast
Towards vascular stem cell therapy for ischaemic retinopathies
• Award winner: Jonathan Timmis
• Institution: University of York
An interdisciplinary approach to self-healing swarm robotic systems
THE LEVERHULME TRUST
• Award winner: Nick Jelley
• Institution: University of Oxford
• Value: £224,754
A low-cost solar concentrator using simple surfaces
• Award winner: Dennis Wheeler
• Institution: University of Sunderland
• Value: £249,884
Arctic climate change 1750-1850: new insights from old documents
• Award winner: Catherine Higgitt
• Institution: British Museum
• Value: £151,400
Andean textiles: organic colourants, biological sources and dyeing technologies
• Award winner: Konstantin Vasilevskiy
• Institution: Newcastle University
• Value: £248,103
GRApheNe Transistor grown by local solid-phase epitaxy
• Award winner: Anthony Davis
• Institution: University of Bristol
• Value: £106,009
Chiral encoding in the origin of life?
• Award winner: Juan Garrahan
• Institution: University of Nottingham
• Value: £147,212
Non-equilibrium dynamics of open quantum systems
• Award winner: Sharon Ashbrook
• Institution: University of St Andrews
• Value: £162,944
Ionothermal 17O enrichment and solid-state NMR of microporous solids
• Award winner: Zhaohui Luo
• Institution: Royal Holloway, University of London
• Value: £147,661
Lexical semantics in type theory with coercive subtyping
• Award winner: Mark Brown
• Institution: Royal Holloway, University of London
• Value: £110,528
Are bumblebees the extended phenotype of nematodes? A transcriptomics approach
• Award winner: Stephen Mann
• Institution: University of Bristol
• Value: £157,485
The quest for molten proteins
• Award winner: David Wild
• Institution: University of Warwick
• Value: £197,690
Analysing protein energetics with statistical machine learning
• Award winner: Jonathan Lee
• Institution: University of Birmingham
• Value: £208,486
Prediction error and memory reconsolidation
• Award winner: Neil Cameron
• Institution: Durham University
• Value: £230,121
A synthetic cell that displays receptor-mediated endocytosis
CHARTERED SOCIETY OF PHYSIOTHERAPY CHARITABLE TRUST
• Award winner: Hilary Gunn
• Institution: University of Plymouth
• Value: £19,915
An investigation of the risk factors associated with falls in people with multiple sclerosis
IN DETAIL
• Award winner: Nicola Walsh
• Institution: University of the West of England
• Value: £249,999
Research into clinical and cost-effectiveness of prescribing exercise and self-management for older people with chronic knee, hip or back pain.
Many older people experience joint pain that leads to functional difficulties. The exercise and self-management recommended are delivered as joint-specific interventions. The benefits of generic classes for people with chronic knee, hip or lower back pain are yet to be established.
Walsh and her team aim to determine whether a six-week exercise and self-management regimen improves function and how the cost of this combined approach compares with that of continued GP management.