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Research Awards - January 2005

(9 February 2005)

Dr R A Barton: Phylogeny of Sleep - National Institutes of Health £128,831.58
“The National Institutes of Health have awarded one million dollars to Robert Barton (Department of Anthropology) and colleagues in Boston and California for a new study on the evolution of sleep. The three-year study will examine why sleep varies so much across different species of vertebrates, and aims to discover the evolutionary functions of particular sleep states such as rapid eye-movement sleep”

Dr I R Edgar: Contemporary Islamic/Sufi and Jihadist dream theory and practice in the UK and the Middle East/Pakistan
The British Academy, £7,280

Dr S Heckler: What is traditional about piaroa traditional knowledge
ESRC, £6,808.72
(transferred from University of Kent at Canterbury)

Archaeology

Dr R Carter: Archaeological and Geomorphological Survey of Coastal Iran (Bushehr Province)
British Institute of Persian Studies, £2,000

Dr D Kennet (Archaeology): Archaeological Survey in South Eastern Iran
British Institute of Persian Studies, £20,617

Biological & Biomedical Sciences

Dr P Chazot: Ms S Abuhamdah – Studentship
Islamic Development Bank, £4,000

Dr J A Gatehouse: Investigation of the function of the PTPKIS protein phosphatase in the regulation of starch degradation in Arabidopsis leaves
BBSRC, £63,685

Dr M Schroeder: Establishment of signalling specificity in endoplasmic reticulum to nucleus signalling pathways
BBSRC, £210,846

Dr G Sharples: Interplay between phage lambda and host recombinases in initiation of genetic exchange
BBSRC, £193,753 (Co-investigator: Professor A R Walmsley),

Professor A R Walmsley : Helen Frankish - Studentship Support
South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust, £51,000

Professor A R Walmsley: UNESCO-MCBN Fellowship - Mr K Fashae
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), £2,054.23

CEM CENTRE

Professor P B Tymms: Students Academic Ability Evaluation System
National Centre for School Curriculum and Textbook Development, Ministry of Education, China, £459,126

Professor P B Tymms: Analysis, Proposals, and Action: Outline for a one year Education Commission for Newcastle
Newcastle City Council, £63,590

Professor P B Tymms: Feasibility Study for an evaluation of Creative Partnership’s impact on education in North and South Tyneside
The Customs House Trust Ltd, £1,650

Chemistry

Professor J A K Howard: Analysis of multiple bonding in main group system: An integrated approach
EPSRC, £118,462 (Co-investigator: Dr A E Goeta, Chemistry)

Engineering

Dr C E Augarde: Research Fellowship - Dr Youliang Zhang
The Royal Society, £2,000

English Studies

Dr B Ravelhofer: The Early Stuart Masque: Dance, Costume and Music
The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, £1,000

Geography

Professor A Amin : Spaces of Democratization - Postdoctoral Fellowship: Mr A S Jeffrey
ESRC, £28,706.68

Professor S Lane: Flood Risk Management Research
EPSRC, £64,996 (via The University of Nottingham)

Professor S Lane: Varying compensation releases from reservoirs
Environment Agency, £32,469 (transferred from the University of Leeds)

Health

Ms L Marks: HDA EGCC Agreements
Health Development Agency, £10,000

Law

Dr R Deazley: Re-conceiving copyright: History, Theory, Language
The British Academy, £2,359

Mathematical Sciences

Dr J Bolton: Methods of integrable systems in Geometry: An LMS Durham Research Symposium
EPSRC, £52,009