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Research awards - January 2004

(5 February 2004)

Staff in the departments of Applied Social Studies, Anthropology, Archaeology, Biological & Biomedical Sciences, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Geography, Mathematical Sciences, Physics and Sociology & Social Policy were awarded funding from various bodies in January 2004.

Dr J M Schneider (CASS): SESAMI - Social inclusion through Employment Support for Adults with Mental Illness: what works for whom in which context? - European Commission £158,475

Dr A Gallinat (Anthropology): Postdoctoral Fellowship: Being someone in Eastern Germany: On personhood, life-stories and public culture - ESRC £26,507.53

Professor R J Cramp (Archaeology): Wearmouth and Jarrow Monastic Sites - English Heritage £9,135.89

Dr C M Gerrard (Archaeology): Clarendon Palace Project - English Heritage £14,000

Dr A R Millard (Archaeology): Statistical models for dating and correlating long environmental records - NERC £27,977.91

Dr M C Lucas (Biological & Biomedical Sciences): Seasonal movements & habitat use by Grayling in UK rivers - The Grayling Research Trust £5,000

Professor A R Slabas (Biological & Biomedical Sciences): Ricinoleic acid biosynthesis in plants - BBSRC £251,332.45
(co-investigator: Dr W Simon, Biological & Biomedical Sciences)

Dr N R Cameron (Chemistry): Tunable biomaterials for soft tissue engineering - BBSRC £196,379

Dr E Khosravi (Chemistry): RESPOLMED - Marie Curie Fellowship - European Commission £105,853

Professor D Parker (Chemistry): Lanthanide probes of water structure: static and dynamic analysis - EPSRC £214,287
(co-investigator: Dr John Evans, Chemistry)

Professor J P Davidson (Earth Sciences): Innovative approaches to determining processes and pathways of magmatic differentiation - NERC £152,616.09

Dr G R Foulger (Earth Sciences): Seismological investigations at the Coso Geothermal Area, California - US Geological Survey £22,000

Professor S Lane (Geography): Integrated assessment of controls upon fish habitat at the drainage basin scale - The Eden Rivers Trust £24,000

Professor V Abrashkin (Mathematical Sciences): Characterisation of geometrically interesting p-adic representations - EPSRC £127,101

Dr S L Cornish (Physics): University Research Fellowship - Neutral atom quantum computation in deformable optical lattices - The Royal Society £135,200

Dr C Done (Physics): X-rays from stellar and supermassive black holes - PPARC £167,675.05

Professor C S Frenk (Physics): The Virgo Consortium: Cosmological supercomputer simulations (Equipment) -PPARC £75,000

Dr R W Wilson (Physics): Study of a portable SLODAR profiler - European Southern Observatory £13,525

Professor D S Byrne (Sociology & Social Policy): British Conference Grant, Quantitative Social Science: Challenges and Possibilities - The British Academy £1,250