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Research Awards March 2004

(14 April 2004)

Research awards were recently achieved by staff in Anthropology, Archaeology, Biological & Biomedical Sciences, CAHHM, CASS, Chemistry, Education, English, Geography, Law, Mathematical Sciences, Music, Physics, Psychology, and Sociology & Social Policy.

Professor P Sillitoe (Anthropology): The International Sea Food Trade: supporting sustainable livelihoods among poor aquatic resource users in Asia -Department for International Development £4,073

Dr R.A. Wilson (Anthropology): Bottom-up course design and evaluation in Undergraduate Applied Social Anthropology - C-SAP (Centre for Learning and Teaching Sociology, Anthropology and Politics) £2,866

Mrs Y Beadnell (Archaeology): Barnard Castle Illustrations - English Heritage £4,190.20

Dr J C Chapman (Archaeology): Parts and Wholes: Fragmentation in Context - The British Academy £4,980
Black Sea palaeo-environmental reconstructions and the prehistoric exploitation of salt - The British Academy £1,000
The creation of a web site for the Durankulak Archaeological Project (Phase II) - The British Academy £1,000

Professor R Cramp (Archaeology): Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture - The British Academy £5,000

Dr Diaz-Andreu (Archaeology): Breaking through rock art recording: three dimensional laser scanning of megalithic rock art - AHRB £44,073

Mrs J P Huntley (Archaeology): Regional Advisor for the North East Region- English Heritage £250,349

Dr M J White (Archaeology): Dover Hinterland Palaeolithic Project - The British Academy £2,995

Dr A R Hoelzel (Biological & Biomedical Sciences): Microsatellite DNA development for deep sea fish - Institute of Marine Research £14,300

Professor C J Hutchison (Biological & Biomedical Sciences): The role of lamin A in gene regulation in adrenal cortex carcinoma cell lines - Association for International Cancer Research £189,181

Professor K Lindsey (Biological & Biomedical Sciences): Functional analysis of regulatory genes expressed in spatially restricted domains of the Arabidopsis embryo - BBSRC £219,861

Dr A Maatta (Biological & Biomedical Sciences): Role of syndecan-1 in epidermal cell migration and proliferation - Association for International Cancer Research £123,552

Mr M White (CAHHM): Arts and Health Action Plan for East Midlands - Arts Council, England £10,000

Professor J Carpenter (CASS): Outcomes of custody diversion for violent offenders -
Department of Health £98,059

Dr S Hackett (CASS): NSPCC Literature Review - NSPCC £10,000

Professor M R Bryce (Chemistry): Basic Technology: Controlled electron transport through single molecules - EPSRC £258,391

Dr P J Low (Chemistry): Carborane radical anions: A missing link in cluster systematics - EPSRC £146,482
The cyanoacetylide ligand: taking cyanide chemistry to new lengths - EPSRC £179,294

Dr A E M Shell (English): Catholics in exile at home and abroad: recusant archives and remains from the three kingdoms - British Conference Grant £1,972

Dr L Bracken (Geography): Monitoring fine sediment transfer within the River Esk, North York Moors - Environment Agency £5,000

Dr M A Crang (Geography): International Postgraduate Class on Advances in Cultural Geography - ESRC £11,755

Mr C A Riley (Law): The Chartered Company: is its regulation in need of modernisation? - The British Academy £4,798

Dr J Bolton (Mathematical Sciences): L-functions and galois representations - London Mathematical Society £2,000
Mathematical Genetics - London Mathematical Society £2,000
Topological solitons and their applications: An LMS Durham Research Symposium - EPSRC £54,681

Dr R A W Gregory (Mathematical Sciences): Post-Strings 2004 - EPSRC £4,305

Dr B Zon (Music): 13th International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music - British Conference Grant - The British Academy £1,430

Professor R A Abram (Physics): Franco-British Partnership Programme 2004 - The British Council £2,013

Dr P M Chadwick (Physics): Student Bursary in Very High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy - Royal Astronomical Society £1,160

Dr S L Cornish (Physics): A two-species mixture of quantum degenerate gases - EPSRC £311,955

Dr K Durose (Physics): SUPERGEN - PV materials for the 21st Century - EPSRC £3,091,742

Professor C S Frenk (Physics): Latin American European Network for Astrophysics and Cosmology - European Commission £631,711
Support of a Senior Computer Programmer for the Starlink Project - CCLRC £60,056.82

Professor M R Pennington (Physics): International Undergraduate Summer School - PPARC £56,000

Professor R M Sharples (Physics): Astrophotonics: The application of photonic technology to astronomical instrumentation - PPARC £60,877.34

Dr A Atkinson (Psychology): The McDonnell Project in Philosophy and the Neurosciences - James S. McDonnell Foundation £4,200

Professor J Elliott (School of Education): IPRN - Promoting behaviour 4 learning principals/outputs within parent HEI - Teacher Training Agency £40,286

Mr Robin Williams (Sociology & Social Policy): Forensic DNA Databasing: A European Perspective - The Wellcome Trust £189,538