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Research Awards - May 2004

(2 June 2004)

This month staff in the departments of Anthropology, Archaeology, Biological & Biomedical Sciences, Chemistry, Education, Engineering, School for Health, Mathematical Sciences, Physics, and Wolfson Research Institute have been successful in securing funding for research.

ANTHROPOLOGY
Professor P Sillitoe: Contextual instantiation of indigenous domain knowledge: an e-Science approach - ESRC £2,500
(co-investigator: Dr S Lyon - Anthropology)

ARCHAEOLOGY
Dr J C Chapman: HBTPOLARCH - Climatic and anthropogenic drivers in the Holocene vegetation development of two large European river basins: the Maritsa Valley in Bulgaria & NW Turkey and the Tisza Valley in E Hungary - European Commission £114,798
Dr A R Millard: Isotopic investigation of migration, residential mobility, diet and the geography of food production at the Mesolithic/Neolithic transition in the Lower Rhine Basin - Leiden University £10,940.26

BIOLOGICAL & BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES
Professor R Edwards: Understanding and harnessing multiple herbicide resistance in weeds - BBSRC £221,439.30
Dr P Emerson: World Vision trachoma programs in Vietnam, Tanzania and Ethiopia - World Vision United States £17,624
Dr J A Gatehouse: Novel pest control based on insect immune suppression and endocrine disruption (fusion proteins) - Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs £400,182
Dr M Lucas: Dispersal of Coarse Fish - Environment Agency £80,640

CHEMISTRY
Dr N R Cameron: 227th American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition - Conference Grant - The Royal Society £1,341
Dr N Clarke: Towards a model for pattern formation in thin-film binary mixtures - EPSRC £9,000
Professor J A K Howard: Dimas Software Modules - Bruker AXS, Inc. £75,000
Dr R Kataky: International Incoming Short Visit - Professor A Salem - Electrochemical and optical quantification of some nucleic acids - The Royal Society £3,226

EDUCATION
Dr C Bagley: Local Evaluation Sure Start Central Hartlepool - Sure Start (Hartlepool) £14,150

ENGINEERING
Dr P C Matthews: Machine learning of probabilistic design models - Science Award Schemes - The Nuffield Foundation £4,500
Professor M C Petty: Nanoparticles for low power electronics and environmental chemical sensors - British Council (Athens) £5,200
Dr Q Wang: Improving product life cycle management - Science Award Schemes - The Nuffield Foundation £4,000

SCHOOL FOR HEALTH
Dr E Kirkman: To study the effects of thoracic primary blast injury on urinary albumin excretion - DSTL (Porton Down) £60,324
Professor M Farber (Mathematical Sciences): Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award - Topological Applications - The Royal Society £100,000

MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
Dr R de Jeu: AAG - European Commission £140,042

PHYSICS
Professor C S Frenk: The Virgo Consortium (VirTU disk storage system) - University of Sussex £55,000
Professor P D Hatton: Soft x-ray diffraction studies at low temperature using X1B, NSLS - EPSRC £19,183
Professor A D Martin: Prospects for new physics at the large hadron collider - The Royal Society £10,000

WOLFSON RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND GEOGRAPHY
Professor R Hudson: The Durham-CMI Knowledge Exchange Laboratory - The Cambridge-MIT Institute £182,986