Grant winners - 6 March 2014

Economic and Social Research Council

• Award winner: Andy Furlong
• Institution: University of Glasgow
• Value: £67,750

The making of the “precariat”: unemployment, underemployment and work-poor young adults in harsh economic conditions

• Award winner: Martin Kretschmer
• Institution: University of Glasgow
• Value: £33,826

The value of public domain works: collaboration and knowledge exchange to develop policies for the commercial use of public domain works

National Institute for Health Research

Health Technology Assessment Programme

• Award winner: Mohamed Sakr Abdel-Fattah
• Institution: University of Aberdeen
• Value: £1,456,252

Adjustable anchored single-incision mini-slings versus standard tension-free mid-urethral slings in the surgical management of female stress urinary incontinence: a pragmatic multicentre non-inferiority randomised controlled trial: the SIMS trial

• Award winner: Rebecca Palmer
• Institution: University of Sheffield
• Value: £1,466,779

Clinical and cost-effectiveness of aphasia computer therapy compared with usual stimulation or attention control long-term post stroke (Cactus)

Leverhulme Trust

Major Research Fellowships

• Award winner: Matthew Fox
• Institution: University of Glasgow
• Value: £131,852

Roman materialism

• Award winner: Daniel Maudlin
• Institution: University of Plymouth
• Value: £128,526

Different places, same spaces: the inn and the traveller in the Atlantic world

• Award winner: Katherine Hawley
• Institution: University of St Andrews
• Value: £94,445

The importance of being competent: ethics and epistemology

Research Project Grants
Sciences

• Award winner: James Adelman
• Institution: University of Warwick
• Value: £253,912

The easyNet system for implementing and visualising cognitive models

• Award winner: Mete Atature
• Institution: University of Cambridge
• Value: £249,792

Revealing magnetic phenomena at oxide interfaces via diamond-based nano-MRI

In detail

Award winner: Ian Bastow
Institution: Imperial College London
Value: £126,349

The building of North America: evidence from seismology

The Earth’s geology was sculpted by processes that have long ceased. Gathering geological evidence preserved deep within tectonic plates in ancient regions is essential to improving our understanding of the early Earth. As that can be difficult to achieve by traditional field geology, seismology is increasingly being employed. Seismic networks are now deployed in regions of tectonic interest to detect distant earthquakes. The seismograms provide a record not only of the earthquake but also the deep-Earth geology encountered by the seismic waves. Because southeastern Canada is home to rocks that span more than 3 billion years of Earth history, it is an excellent place to explore how tectonic processes have developed over geological time. This project will use seismology to unravel how North America was assembled and to discover how the very thick plate developed beneath the heart of it.