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Research awards (August 2003)

(7 August 2003)

Awards have been made to staff in areas such as Anthropology, Archaeology, Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Centre for Applied Social Studies, Business, Chemistry, Computer Science, Engineering, English, Geography, Geological Sciences, History, Law, Mathematics, Modern European Languages, Philosophy, Physics, Psychology.

Professor Gyles Glover (Centre for Applied Social Studies): Mental Health Service Mapping 2003/4 - National Institute for Mental Health in England - £82,318

Dr S Hackett (Centre for Applied Social Studies): Animal and child maltreatment: Exploring patterns of animal ownership, attitudes towards and experiences of families with animals - NSPCC - £17,425

Dr H L Ball (Anthropology): Pilot study of new data collection methodology in preparation for RCT on the impact of bedding-in on breastfeeding rates - Vacation Scholarship: Ms Helena Hinde - The Wellcome Trust - £1,240

Dr P J Collins (Anthropology): Re-locating Anthropology?: Changing contexts of fieldwork, culture and ethnography - The British Academy (British Conference Grant) - £1,600

Mr I K Bailiff (Archaeology): Dating of bricks from late medieval merchant houses in Newcastle upon Tyne (Undergraduate Research Bursaries 2003) - The Nuffield Foundation - £1,310

Dr J C Chapman (Archaeology): The prehistoric exploitation of salt in Romania Society - Antiquaries of London - £2,000

Professor R J Cramp (Archaeology): Corpus of Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture project to Don Friston for design work on volume vi, N Yorks - The British Academy - £4,515

Professor R J Cramp (Archaeology): Corpus of Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture - The British Academy - £3,880

Dr K Dobney (Archaeology): Travelling companions and unwelcome guests: an integrated zooarchaeological and biomolecular approach to the study of human dispersal and exchange networks in the holocene - The Wellcome Trust - £271,793

Dr M Diaz-Andreu (Archaeology): Fading rock-art landscapes: evaluating the database in rock-art landscape research - The British Academy - £4,400

Dr C P Graves (Archaeology):Canon Greenwell and the development of archaeological research in north England - The Leverhulme Trust - £80,650

Dr S J Lucy (Archaeology): The Als Project: The changing social landscape of a Danish island c.3000 BC to AD 1000 - The British Academy - £4,300

Dr C M Gerrard (Archaeology): Fiona Macdonald Award - English Heritage - £54,096

Dr R G Skeates (Archaeology): Visual culture in Palaeolithic south east Italy - The British Academy - £2,100

Dr R Hingley (Archaeology): Completion of book entitled Globalizing Roman Culture - Research Leave Scheme - Arts and Humanities Research Board - £9,865

Professor C C Haselgrove (Archaeology): Traprain Law Environs Project: Phase 2 - Historic Scotland - £15,000

Professor M H Johnson (Archaeology): English Traditional Houses 1300-1800: Everyday Life and Culture in the English Countryside - Research Leave Scheme - Arts and Humanities Research Board - £9,865

Dr C M Gerrard (Archaeology): The Shapwick Project, Somerset 1989-99 - Research Leave Scheme - Arts and Humanities Research Board - £9,865

Dr M J White (Archaeology): Survey of the distribution of Palaeolithic gravels in the Upper Orontes, Syria - Council for British Research in the Levant (The British Academy) - £3,068

Dr T Hammond (Biological and Biomedical Sciences): Novel biodegradable foam filled corrugated board - European Commission - £110,171

Professor R Edwards (Biological and Biomedical Sciences): BBSRC Research Development Fellowship - Development of Arabidopsis as a plant model for xenobiotic detoxification - BBSRC - £94,344

Dr P Emerson (Biological and Biomedical Sciences): ITI Toolbox Project International Trachoma Initiative - £7,500

Dr S G Willis (Biological and Biomedical Sciences): Will climate effects limit the northern spread of the Marbled White butterfly, Melanargia galathea? - British Ecological Society - £1,470

Professor T A R Clark (Business School): Knowledge evolution in action: consultancy-client relationships - ESRC (in collaboration with Imperial College, University of London) - £2,293

Dr N R Cameron (Chemistry): Nitroxide-mediated radical polymerisation in miniemulsion - EPSRC £155,994

Professor J A K Howard (Chemistry): 9th intensive course in x-ray structural analysis - EPSRC - £17,845

Professor J A K Howard (Chemistry): Towards a fuller characterisation of intermolecular interactions: a parametric approach to diffraction data - EPSRC - £190,223
Co-investigators: Dr J S O Evans (Chemistry) & Dr A Goeta (Chemistry)

Dr E Khosravi (Chemistry): Novel biodegradable foam filled corrugated board - European Commission - £124,284

Dr J M Sanderson (Chemistry): Studying peptide-lipid complexes - The Royal Society - £9,563

Dr K E Thornton (Computer Science): Industrial Secondment: Cornwall Alcohol & Drugs Agency (CADA)- Royal Academy of Engineering - £5,300

Dr C E Augarde (Engineering): Parametric studies of multiple tunnels using the national HPC resources - EPSRC - £94,995

Professor L He (Engineering): Development of efficient methodology for analysis of aero-engine inlet distortion - United Technologies Corporation - £41,400

Dr D Wood (Engineering): Investigation of a new lighting system for bicycle applications - Mr Bruce Withington (Private Donation) - £2,125

Dr C Saunders (English Studies): Beyond Nature: Magic, Enchantment and the Marvellous in Medieval Romance - Research Leave Scheme - Arts and Humanities Research Board - £9,865

Professor T J A Clark (English Studies): The Poetics of Singularity - Research Leave Scheme - Arts and Humanities Research Board - £9,865

Professor J R Watson (English): A replacement for John Julian, A Dictionary of Hymnology (1892,1907) - Arts and Humanities Research Board - £82,186

Dr M J Bentley (Geography): Timing and rates of ice sheet thinning in the Ellsworth Mountains, Weddell Sea Embayment: constraints on West Antarctic ice sheet dynamics - NERC - £32,741

Professor R W Dutton (Geography): 4th Phase of the Jordan Badia Research and Development Programme (BRDP) - The Higher Council for Science and Technology (Jordan) - £18,000

Dr A J Long (Geography): Contract to determine the location of the coastal geomorphological interest features at Dungeness, Kent - English Nature - £7,950

Professor R Hudson (Geography): Coping with the consequences of industrial decline: the former steel workers of Sydney, Cape Breton - The Nuffield Foundation - £6,000

Professor J P Davidson (Geological Sciences): Incoming study visit for Dr Valentin Troll from Ireland - The Royal Society - £1,820

Professor R C Searle (Geological Sciences): Commonwealth Fellowship - Dr S B R Munukutla Association of Commonwealth Universities - £1,750

Professor R C Searle (Geological Sciences): Study Abroad Fellowship - Volcanic and tectonic processes in oceanic crust - The Leverhulme Trust - £4,940

Dr D Donoghue (Geography):Investigation into the sediment budget, the fate of contaminants to enable the dating of sediment - Environment Agency - £50,560

Professor R W Dutton (Geography): Restructuring the livestock health and production delivery system in rural Jordan Food and Agriculture - Organization of the United Nations - £6,000

Professor R Hudson (Geography): The social economy and regional regeneration: the case of Cape Breton - The British Academy - £3,850

Professor J P Davidson (Geological Sciences): USA Research Fellowship - Scott Travis Dreher - The Royal Society - £36,000

Dr R W Hobbs (Geological Sciences): Advanced Fellowship - Mapping the 3-D evolution of the Amazon Core - NERC - £289,862

Dr C G Macpherson (Geological Sciences): Constraining Platinum Group Element recycling in subduction zones: A comparative study of Backarc Magmatism in the Philippine Sea Plate - NERC - £66,842
Co-investigators: Dr D G Pearson, Geological Sciences & Professor J P Davidson, Geological Sciences

Dr Fred Worrall (Geological Sciences): Carbon dioxide and waste - H&J Banks & Co Ltd - £49,993

Dr M J Waring (Health): Evaluation of how the learning experience and critical thinking of sport students are enhanced through a virtual learning environment (VLE): facilitating and challenging their learning styles and preferences LTSN Hospitality, Leisure Sport & Tourism - £3,590

Dr R J Reid (History): The culture and practice of warfare in pre-colonial eastern Africa - The British Academy - £1,630

Dr O Zimmer (History): The nation in the town: nationalism and religious culture in Imperial Germany, 1871-1914 - AHRB - £28,529

Professor R F Hobbs (Law): A consultancy for research into the effectiveness of measures to stop drugs entering prisons via visits - HM Prison Service - £35,070

Ms C McGlynn (Law): Research Leave Scheme - European family values: families, law and policy in the European Union - Arts and Humanities Research Board - £9,865

Dr J Bolton (Maths): LMS funding for Durham Symposia - Markov chains - algorithms, applications and theory - London Mathematical Society - £2,000

Dr J Bolton (Maths): LMS funding for Durham Symposia - Geometry and cohomology in group theory London Mathematical Society - £2,000

Dr Chong-Sun Chu (Maths): Advanced Research Fellowship - Quantum geometry and string theory - EPSRC - £221,628

Dr Rob de Jeu (Maths): Finding explicit elements in the k-theory of number fields (Undergraduate Research Bursaries 2003) - The Nuffield Foundation - £1,400

Dr Douglas Smith (Maths): Gauss-bonnet black hole entropy as a noether charge (Undergraduate Research Bursaries 2003) - The Nuffield Foundation - £1,400

Professor W J Zakrzewski (Maths): Strongly coupled phenomena in fundamental physics - PPARC - £393,105

Dr C Dousteyssier-Khoze (French, MEL): Emile Zola seen through the comic press of his time - Research Leave Scheme - Arts and Humanities Research Board - £13,153

Dr A Braida (Italian, MEL): Literature and money in Italo Svevo’s work - Research Leave Scheme - Arts and Humanities Research Board - £13,153

Professor A H Maehle (Philosophy): Justifying medicine - historical perspectives - The Wellcome Trust - £163,493

Dr Derek Atkinson (Physics): Advanced Research Fellowship - Thermally activated processes and domain wall magnetoelectronic interactions in magnetic structures - EPSRC - £233,660

Dr R P Cowburn (Physics): Nanotechnology Project - Ingenia Holdings Ltd - £3,840,120

Dr K Durose (Physics): Supergen2 thin film PV start up - EPSRC - £2,000

Dr V R Eke (Physics): Royal Society Studentship - Helen King - The Royal Society - £2,150

Dr M R C Hunt (Physics): The carbon nanotube - semiconductor interface studied by photoemission spectroscopy - Central Laboratory of the Research Councils - £1,928

Dr M R C Hunt (Physics): Functionalisation: a means to control the low energy electronic structure of carbon nanotubes? - Central Laboratory of the Research Councils - £1,805

Professor E W N Glover (Physics): Senior Research Fellowship -Higher order QCD processes at the LHC - PPARC - £118,336

Dr I G Hughes (Physics): Magnetometry and electromagnetic induced transparency (Undergraduate Research Bursaries 2003) - The Nuffield Foundation - £1,400

Dr Sacha Davidson (Physics) & Dr Ruth Gregory (Maths): COSMO-03 International Workshop - PPARC - £12,295

Dr M R C Hunt (Physics): The surface science of nanotubes - EPSRC - £46,928
(transferred from Nottingham University) Dr V V Khoze (Physics): Senior Research Fellowship - Gauge theory/string theory connection - PPARC - £118,336

Dr G D Love (Physics): ALFONSO (Adaptive long-wave free-space optical network solutions) - Department of Trade and Industry - £125,324

Professor M R Pennington (Physics): International Undergraduate Summer School - PPARC - £50,507

Dr T J Andrews (Psychology): Society Research Studentship - How is information represented in the visual system - The Anatomical Society of Great Britain & Ireland - £50,208

Dr C Fernyhough (Psychology): Infant-mother interaction in a sample of mothers with psychosis - ESRC - £39,937