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Research Awards September 2003

(10 October 2003)

Research awards have been awarded to staff in Applied Social Studies, Archaeology, Biological & Biomedical Sciences, Business School, Chemistry, Education, Engineering, Law, Mathematical Sciences, Physics, Politics, Psychology, Sociology and Social Policy.

Applied Social Studies

• Professor G Glover: Mapping mental health services for older people - Department of Health
  £50,846

Archaeology

• Dr P G Newson: Rural settlement in the Roman to Islamic Near East: Social and cultural change, between the 1st and 8th centuries AD, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship - The British Academy £84,681

Biological & Biomedical Sciences

• Dr F Brandizzi: Shedding light on obscure dynamics of the plant endoplasmic reticulum, David Phillips Fellowship - BBSRC £395,796
• Dr R R D Croy: Enhanced prediction of susceptibility to mechanical damage in harvested and stored potato tubers - SAPPIO-LINK programme £474,513 (which comprises £184,572 Defra, £60,000 British Potato Council, and in-kind contributions of £229,941 Greenvale AP, McCain Foods, Tesco Plc, Branston Potatoes Ltd, Martin Lishman Ltd, MBM Produce Ltd and the British Potato Council). Research Partners are University of Durham and ADAS Consulting Ltd.
• Dr P Emerson: Environmental strategies for trachoma control, Career Development Fellowship - Medical Research Council £498,719
• Dr M C Lucas: Examination of factors affecting the migration of adult River Lamprey in the Ouse and Derwent - (NE) Environment Agency £74,000
• Dr A Maatta: Cytoskeletal linker proteins as a target to prevent squamous cell carcinoma invasion, William Ross PhD Studentship Ms Lorna Marshall - Cancer Research UK £24,811
• Dr S Pyner: A selective role for oxytocin and vasopressin controlling the heart and kidney - British Heart Foundation £145,796

Business School

• Professor T Cockerill: Evaluation of the economics of education programme - Department for Education & Skills £60,000
• Professor I Stone: Local evaluation of the connexions service - Department for Education & Skills £100,000

Chemistry

• Dr P Hodgkinson: Testing the limits of resolution in solid-state NMR - EPSRC £135,222
• Dr R Kataky: Commonwealth Split-Site Award, Mr Rupam Jyoti Sarma - Association of Commonwealth Universities £10,220
• Professor T B Marder: Synthesis and properties of conjugated phenylene-ethynylene rigid-rods: a class of multifunctional materials; Short term visit to the UK, Dr T M Fasina - The Royal Society £4,111
• Dr G Sandford: Diversity-oriented (5,6)-fused heterocycle synthesis GSK Studentship - Matthew Cartwright - GlaxoSmithKline £64,400

School of Education

• Dr P J Rothermel: Postdoctoral Fellowship: Home-Education: Rationales, Practices and Outcomes - ESRC £26,549.52

Engineering

• Dr C E Augarde: Developing the scaled boundary finite element for geomechanics: Visiting Fellowship for Dr Andrew Deeks -EPSRC £12,123

Law

• Professor R F Hobbs: Women on the door: female bouncers in the new night-time economy - ESRC £97,847.60

Mathematical Sciences

• Dr J Bolton: Mathematical Genetics: An LMS Durham Research Symposium - EPSRC £52,142

Physics

• Dr G D Love: SPANAS: Systems for photonic adjustment of nano-scale aggregated structures - EPSRC £368,612
• Dr S Moretti: Workshop - Electroweak radiative corrections to QCD observables at TeV energies - European Science Foundation £9,836
• Dr G C K Cheung (Politics): Regional Governance: Greater China in the 21st Century - Lee Foundation £2,500
  (co-investigator: Dr W A Callahan, Politics)

Psychology

• Dr T P Alloway: Development of a school-based tool for assessing working memory- ESRC £46,761.83
• Dr Anthony Atkinson: The neuropsychology of emotion perception from static and dynamic body expressions - Short Term Fellowship - Human Frontier Science Program £3,900

Sociology and Social Policy

• Mr Robin Williams: Visiting Scholar Scheme, Jay Aronson -ESRC £1,100