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Research Awards - July 2004

(2 August 2004)

Research grants have recently been awarded to members of staff from a number of University departments.

Dr R A Hill (Anthropology): Capacity building in mammal management for Western Cape nature reserves Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) £98,306

Dr G Porter (Anthropology): Social resilience among young Liberian refugees in Ghana The Nuffield Foundation £9,880 (co-investigator: Dr K R Hampshire, Anthropology)

Professor I K Bailiff (Archaeology): Development of new techniques for dating archaeological ceramics based on spatially-resolved optically stimulated luminescence - Undergraduate Research Bursaries 2004 - Rachel Wood The Nuffield Foundation £1,310

Professor I K Bailiff (Archaeology): Reference database for gamma dose assessment in retrospective luminescence dosimetry The Leverhulme Trust £40,169

Dr M Diaz-Andreu (Archaeology): Completion of book entitled Archaeology and the national historical imagination. Two hundred years of archaeological discourse and practice - Research Leave Scheme Arts and Humanities Research Board £10,510

Professor C Haselgrove (Archaeology): Traprain Law Environs Project Historic Scotland £16,000 (extension to existing award)

Dr S J Lucy (Archaeology): The Als Project: The changing social landscape of a Danish island c.3000 BC to AD 1000: 2004 season The British Academy £4,943

Dr R Bashir (Biological & Biomedical Sciences): Identifying compensatory proteins of dysferlin Muscular Dystrophy Campaign £41,848

Dr A Benham (Biological & Biomedical Sciences): Oxidation and quality control of MHC class II molecules and invariant chain in the endoplasmic reticulum BBSRC £189,566.61

Dr P Chazot (Biological & Biomedical Sciences): Establishing the importance of the NMDAR2B sub-unit as a molecular target for dementia and dyskinesias in Parkinson's disease Parkinson's Disease Society £86,084

Professor R Edwards (Biological & Biomedical Sciences): Knowledge Transfer Partnership - Oxford Chemicals Ltd £152,524

Professor Robert Edwards, Biological and Biomedical Sciences, £133,500 for a three-year, DTI-funded Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Oxford Chemicals Ltd.

Professor C J Hutchison (Biological & Biomedical Sciences): Contribution of auto-activation of the canonical wnt signalling pathway in EDMD Muscular Dystrophy Campaign £41,688

Dr M C Lucas (Biological & Biomedical Sciences): Size related variations in spatial behaviour and habitat use of grayling Thymallus thymallus - Undergraduate Research Bursaries 2004 - Chris Bielby The Nuffield Foundation £1,260

Dr C L Thompson (Biological & Biomedical Sciences): Investigating the role of stargazing in GABAa receptor assembly - Wellcome Trust Vacation Scholarship - K M Britton The Wellcome Trust £1,280

Professor G Glover (CASS): Mental Health Service Mapping 2004/05 National Institute for Mental Health in England £79,995

Dr P Barmby (CEM Centre): Evaluation of the Gatsby Transition Project Gatsby Technical Education Projects £36,000

Professor M R Bryce (Chemistry): Electroluminescent oligomers and polymers for light emitting devices - International incoming short visits - Dr Svitlana B. Lyubchyk/Ukraine The Royal Society £3,514

Dr N Clarke (Chemistry): Stability and dynamics in thin film binary mixtures The Leverhulme Trust £50,410

Professor J A K Howard (Chemistry): 10th Intensive Course in x-ray structural analysis of small and medium sized molecules, 4th - 11th April 2005 EPSRC £20,001

Professor T Marder (Chemistry): Theoretical and experimental studies of metal acetylides and organoboranes - International Joint Project The Royal Society £10,400

Dr A Whiting (Chemistry): Extending high throughput technologies to chemical process development (the automation of mechanism determination) EPSRC £330,825 (The University of Newcastle is the Lead Institution)

Professor J P Davidson (Earth Sciences): Isotopic microsampling in earth, environmental, biological and archaeological sciences European Science Foundation £9,345

Dr K J W McCaffrey (Earth Sciences): Building 3D models of Geological structures from integrated fieldwork and laser scanned outcrop data - Undergraduate Research Bursaries 2004 - Steven A.F. Smith The Nuffield Foundation £1,650

Dr G A Milne (Earth Sciences): 2004 Joint Assembly of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and the Canadian Geophysical Union (CGU) - Conference Grant The Royal Society £1,120

Dr C Peirce (Earth Sciences): A deep seismic study of hotspot volcanism on the Cape Verde mid-plate swell NERC £31,328.96

Dr C Peirce (Earth Sciences): Ocean bottom instrumentation consortium University of Southampton £117,000

Professor J Elliott (Education): Psychological assessment and identification and assessment of SEN (phase 2) CEA@Southwark £14,992

Dr R G Dominy (Engineering): The measurement and analysis of atmospheric unsteadiness close to the ground - Undergraduate Research Bursaries 2004 - Naomi Allen The Nuffield Foundation £1,450

Dr D Gallipoli (Engineering): Mechanics of unsaturated soils for engineering (MUSE) European Commission £184,136

Dr K Mahkamov (Engineering): High capacity compact solar heat accumulators for domestic/business heating - International incoming short visits - Dr Murat Kenisarin/Uzbekistan The Royal Society £3,670

Professor Paul Maropoulos, School of Engineering, £99,044 for a two-year, DTI-funded Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Microbac Ltd.

Dr M A Crang (Geography): Commodifying Captain Corelli's Island: the visual aesthetics of film-based tourism The British Academy £4,910

Professor S Graham (Geography): British Academy Research Readership - Rethinking the digital divide: the software-sorted society The British Academy £43,759

Professor S Lane (Geography): Flow structures and flow partitioning at river channel bifurcations NERC £177,261.03

Professor S Lane (Geography): Generation, preservation and prediction of sandy braided alluvium: an integrated ground penetrating radar, digital photogrammetry and probabilistic modelling approach NERC (via University of Birmingham who are the lead University) £50,432.16

Dr A Thompson (History): Germans and Zeppelin: state and nation on the eve of the First World War 1 - Research Leave Scheme Arts and Humanities Research Board £10,510

Dr J Willis (History): Traditional accountability and modern governance in Africa - British Conference Grant The British Academy £1,691

Dr J Bolton (Mathematical Sciences): Geometry, conformal field theory and string theory: An LMS Durham Research Symposium EPSRC £54,336

Dr M C Barnet (Modern European Languages - French): Book Project: Jacques Derrida: champs mediatiques, portraits magnetiques The British Academy £1,674

Dr A M Beresford (Modern European Languages - Spanish): The legends of Saints Thais and Pelagia in medieval Hispanic literature - Research Leave Scheme Arts and Humanities Research Board £14,013

Dr A Harrington (Modern European Languages - Russian): The modernist and postmodernist incarnations of Anna Akhmatova - Research Leave Scheme Arts and Humanities Research Board £14,013

Dr P Macardle (Modern European Languages - German): Critical, annotated edition of Confabulationes tyronum literariorum (1525), a Latin school colloquy collection by the Cologne humanist Hermann Schotten The British Academy £1,615

Dr E J Welch (Modern European Languages - French): From novelist to intellectual: The transformation of Francois Mauriac - Research Leave Scheme Arts and Humanities Research Board £14,013

Dr C M Baugh (Physics): Understanding how star formation depends upon galaxy environment - Undergraduate Research Bursaries 2004 - Nurhana Tajuddin The Nuffield Foundation £1,650

Professor E W N Glover (Physics): GridPP2: PhenoGRID Applications PPARC £155,342.39

Dr D P Hampshire (Physics): Tests of advanced Nb3 Sn strands UKAEA (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority) £53,130

Dr G D Love (Physics): Opticon - Advanced Adaptive Optics for 8-10m Telescopes European Commission £209,040

Professor A P Monkman (Physics): Charge and energy transfer between metal complexes and conjugated polymers - International Joint Project The Royal Society £11,775 Mr D J Robertson (Physics): Opticon - Smart Focal Planes European Commission £214,668 Dr A Dickson (Politics): Fair trade, ethical production and consumer values The British Academy £2,350

Dr A Casiday (Theology): Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship - Evagrius Ponticus: Christian philosophy in the desert The Leverhulme Trust £27,985