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Research Awards - March 2005

(11 April 2005)

Archaeology

Dr A Leone:LacusIuturnae

Academy of Finland: £13,840

Dr P G Newson: Settlement and Landscape Development in the Basalt Region of Homs, Syria

The British Academy: £6,796

Dr R Skean: Prehistoric pintaderas and visual communication in Italy

The British Academy: £2,400

Biological & Biomedical Sciences

Professor R Edwards: Plant Glutathione Transferases Functioning as Ligandins

BBSRC: £265,132

Professor S W Lindsay: Screening-homes to prevent malaria

Medical Research Council: £265,478

Dr S A Przyborski: Molecular Regulation of Stem Cells - Conference Grant, Canada

The Royal Society: £1,160

CAHHM

Mr M J White: Lantern Project

Private Donation from Mr Peter Holland: £5,000

Mr M J White: Arts in Health Training Days and Forum Event

Arts Council England (East Midlands): £30,000

Mr M J White: Mike White Fellowship

The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Art(NESTA):£74,674

CEM Centre

Dr P Barmby: Further evaluation of MEI Distant Learning Project

The Gatsby Charitable Foundation:£17,865

Chemistry

Dr K S Coleman: Chemically modified carbon nanotubes and their use in nanocomposites

The Royal Society: £15,000

Engineering

Professor A Purvis: Maskless non-planar photolithography

EPSRC: £242,282

(Co-investigators: Dr S Johnson, Engineering; Dr R McWilliam, Engineering)

English

Professor J R Watson: A replacement for John Julian, A Dictionary of Hymnology (1892, 1907)

The British Academy: £17,277

Geography

Dr B Anderson: Hope and Cultural Regeneration: A Case Study of Liverpool ‘Capital of Culture’

The British Academy:£7,442

History

Professor M C Prestwich: Tithe income and management in southern England, 1280-1480

ESRC:£36,495 (via the University of Cambridge)

Dr G Rowlands: 1) The Last Argument of the King: Arms, Artillery and Absolutism under Louis XIV (book)

2) The Treasury of the Extraordinaire des Guerres and the Financing of Louis XIV’s Final Wars (essay)

The British Academy: £1,500

Dr J Willis: Survival of culture; Culture of survival. Local authority in southern Sudan since 1956

The Leverhulme Trust: £67,380

Physics

Professor C S Frenk: Visiting Fellows at Durham

PPARC: £47,414.32

Professor C S Frenk: Extragalactic astronomy and cosmology at Durham 2005-2010

PPARC: £2,092,296.23

(Co-investigators: Dr J R Allington-Smith, Physics; Dr J R Lucey, Physics; Professor T Shanks, Physics; Professor R M Sharples, Physics; Dr S L Morris, Physics; Dr S Cole, Physics; Professor I R Smail, Physics; Professor R G Bower, Physics; Dr A C Edge, Physics; Dr C M Baugh, Physics; Dr C J Simpson, Physics; Dr V Eke, Physics; Dr T Theuns, Physics)

Mr G Georgiou: Calculation of gauge theory amplitudes using twistor-inspired techniques and gauge-string theory dualities - Postdoctoral Fellowship

PPARC: £117,767

Dr D P Hampshire: High pressure - high field measurements of the effect of axial and radial strain on the critical current density of superconductors

EPSRC: £1,642,176

Mr A M Swinbank: Mapping the properties of young galaxies with integral field spectroscopy - Postdoctoral Fellowship

PPARC: £94,131

School of Education

Professor J Elliott: The Meanings of Learning, Achievement, and Motivation: A Study of Schooling Beliefs and Behaviour in Three Cultural Milieux

William T. Grant Foundation: £11,601

School of Modern Languages and Cultures- French

Dr J Clarke: Working conditions in the seventeenth-century French theatre

Arts and Humanities Research Board: £1,596

School of Languages and Cultures - Spanish,

Dr S Fouz-Hernandez: Representations of the male body in contemporary Spanish cinema - Research Leave Scheme

Arts and Humanities Research Board: £14,013

Theology and Religion

Professor D Davies: Wesley Research Lectureship - Dr David Wilkinson Wesley Study Centre: £15,000

Dr A Forrestal:Vincent de Paul (1580/1-1660) and His Communities: The Formation of Identity and Culture in Catholicism

The British Academy: £7,448

Professor A Louth:Greek East and Latin West: the Christian Church AD 681-1071 - Research Leave Scheme

Arts and Humanities Research Board: £10,510

Dr P D Murray: Catholic Learning: Explorations in Receptive Ecumenism

The British Academy:£7,000