Leverhulme Trust

Research Project Grants
Sciences

• Award winner: Marco Beato
• Institution: University College London
• Value: £196,355

The tuning of motor circuits by recurrent excitation and inhibition

• Award winner: Roger K. Butlin
• Institution: University of Sheffield
• Value: £129,902

The role of natural selection in divergence between aphid host races

• Award winner: Paola Carbone
• Institution: University of Manchester
• Value: £150,482

Effect of responsive copolymers on the structure of phospholipid bi-layers

Social sciences

• Award winner: Lynda Boothroyd
• Institution: Durham University
• Value: £249,918

Impact of media access and local ecology on beauty ideals in Nicaragua

• Award winner: Mitchell Callan
• Institution: University of Essex
• Value: £129,479

Personal relative deprivation and status consumption

Natural Environment Research Council

• Award winners: Peter Golyshin, Davey Jones and Nathalie Fenner
• Institution: Bangor University
• Value: £440,000

Characterisation of the nature, origins and ecological significance of dissolved organic matter in freshwater ecosystems

Catalyst Grant

• Award winners: Barrie Johnson, Lynne Macaskie, Angela Murray and Hylke Glass
• Institutions: Bangor University, University of Birmingham and University of Exeter
• Value: £88,000

Beyond biorecovery: environmental win-win by biorefining of metallic wastes into new functional materials

Royal Society

Wolfson Research Merit Awards

Awards are worth £10,000-£30,000 a year, which is a salary enhancement.

• Award winner: Malcolm Bennett
• Institution: University of Nottingham

Re-engineering plant and crop root systems architecture

• Award winner: Kai Bongs
• Institution: University of Birmingham

Quantum simulators and sensors with ultracold atoms

• Award winner: Gregory Challis
• Institution: University of Warwick

Discovery, biosynthesis and bioengineering of novel bioactive natural products