Research Grants

Many of our researchers work at the cutting edge of their disciplines. The quality of research at Durham University generates significant financial resource for the university to continue its research excellence. In the academic year 2005/06, Durham was awarded over £33.5 million in research grants from a variety of sources and a further £17.6 million of research-related income from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE).

October 2009

Anthropology

Dr A Russell
Revealing "alcohol narratives".  A qualitative study of young people's relationships with alcohol in Co. Durham and Darlington.
Just4Youth, £47,791.00

Biology

Stefan Przyborski
Development Biology of novel synthetic retinoids
The Anatomical Society of Great Britain, £62040.00

Chris Hutchison
Identification of risk Biomarkers for Colorectal Cancer
NHS, £36071.00

Sean Twiss
Realising the potential of population information from seal photo-ID studies
NERC, £11426.00

Chemistry

John  Evans
Power diffraction and rietveld refinement school 2010
EPSRC, £15612.00

Colin Bain
Realising the potential of next-generation printed pharmaceuticals
TSB via GSK, £198494.00

Jas Pal Badyal
KT Fellow in Chemistry - KTA
EPSRC, £40,000.00

Paul Hodgkinson
New Paradigms for NMR of organic solida
EPSRC, £445,981.00

Classics

Ted Kaizer
Muenster Visiting Fellowship
Muenster University, £6210.00

Engineering & Computing Sciences

A Unsworth
SHIELD
Technology Strategy Board, £219454.00

A Krokhin
Submodular optimisation, lattice theory and maximum constraint satisfaction problems
EPSRC, £299319.00

Geography

Prof. Stuart Lane
(Prof. R Tomasic, Prof. P Waugh, Dr J Nash, Prof B Huntley, Prof D Greatbatch, Prof T Clark, Prof B Straughan, Prof M Goldstein, Prof R Michie, Prof PA Williamson, Dr A Bentley, Prof A Amin)
Tipping Points: Mathematics, Metaphors and Meanings
The Leverhulme Trust, £1,674,345.00

Dr D Bridgland
Stratigraphy and Geochronology of Palaeolithic (Pleistocene) Fluvial Deposits in Northern Syria
CBRL, £4000.00

Maths

Frank Collen
Collaboration/lecture visit to UK by Prof. N Balakrishnan
LMC, £1100.00

Modern Languates and Cultures

Peter Macardle
The reconstruction of the Musical Stratum of the Frankfurter Dirigierrolle
AHRC, £26,632.00

Physics

V Khoze
International Travel Grant
Royal Society, £1000.00

SL Morris
UK Role in the European Extremely Large Telescope Durham interim funding
UK ATC, £228377.55

See the archive section for details of the awards received each month.