Grant winners - 17 April 2014

Leverhulme Trust

Research Project Grants
Sciences

• Award winner: Morgan Beeby
• Institution: Imperial College London
• Value: £117,620

Evolutionary pathways to rotary motors: evolution and mechanism of the archaellum

• Award winner: Don Pollacco
• Institution: University of Warwick
• Value: £145,100

Homogeneous study of transiting systems

Social sciences

• Award winner: Rob Drummond
• Institution: Manchester Metropolitan University
• Value: £107,113

Expressing inner-city youth identity through multicultural urban British English

National Institute for Health Research

Public Health Research programme

• Award winner: Lindsay Blank
• Institution: University of Sheffield
• Value: £205,352

Interventions to promote or maintain physical activity during and after the transition to retirement: evidence synthesis to inform recommendations for policy and practice

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

• Award winner: John Harris
• Institution: University of Nottingham
• Value: £38,887

Defining a pain phenotype that is predictive of altered central pain processing in dogs with spontaneous osteoarthritis

• Award winner: Leonardo Guasti
• Institution: Queen Mary University of London
• Value: £368,955

Lineage conversion of blood-derived endothelial progenitor cells to an adrenocortical phenoype: a new technology to study the adrenal gland

• Award winner: James McDonald
• Institution: Bangor University
• Value: £321,994

Unravelling a novel mechanism for cellulose decomposition in the bacterial phylum Fibrobacteres

• Award winner: Gary Frost
• Institution: Imperial College London
• Value: £805,178

Regulating appetite by targeting nutrient delivery in the gut

Arts and Humanities Research Council

• Award winner: Sian Sullivan
• Institution: Bath Spa University, transferred with grant from Birkbeck, University of London
• Value: £797,108

Future pasts in an apocalyptic moment: a hybrid analysis of “green” performativities and ecocultural ethics in a globalised African landscape

• Award winner: Philippa Ryan
• Institution: British Museum
• Value: £197,739

Sustainability and subsistence systems in a changing Sudan

In detail

Award winner: Peter Coates
Institution: University of Bristol
Value: £835,601

The power and the water: connecting pasts with futures

This project will examine the nature of environmental connectivities since industrialisation and how their legacies challenge us in the early 21st century. The team will investigate how different environmental narratives are deployed in particular places and contexts; how these narratives interact, seek to link communities and their environmental impacts, connect designated environmental experts, publics and policymakers; and how, in turn, they shape identities and forge new communities of understanding, shared infrastructure and political action. They will also consider shared negative experiences affecting community resilience, social learning and environmental policy response.