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To see what type of research the Trust funds, take a look at grant holders’ accounts of their projects below.
Arts Scholarships
Man previewing film camera
Arts Scholarships 2021
London Film School
Future filmmakers at London Film School
Summer residencies in 2018. Photographer: Kirsten McTernan.
Arts Scholarships 2021
National Youth Arts Wales
Youth arts training for all
Early Career Fellowships
tenement flat red flowers in foreground
Early Career Fellowships 2023
University of Sheffield
Dr Sharda Rozena
The last place: thinking through the implications...
red wooden house in mountain pasture
Early Career Fellowships 2023
University of Edinburgh
Dr Ryan Foster
Are traditional transhumance practices the...
Emeritus Fellowships
First folio of the oldest complete manuscript of the Latin Alexander, depicting the 'wise doctor' Alexander and Holy Cross
Emeritus Fellowships 2023
University of Manchester
Professor David Langslow
A Latin medical translation from Ravenna in print...
A ternary plot showing vote shares among the three main parties in England at the 2019 General Election.
Emeritus Fellowships 2023
University of Warwick
Professor David Firth
It’s all relative: a fresh approach to...
Former Schemes
Former Scheme 2015
Queen’s University of Belfast
Artist in Residence Grants, Dr Tancredi Caruso
BeSA – Belowground visions of life: Soil makes Art
Former Scheme 2015
University of Oxford
Artist in Residence Grants, Professor Tonia Vincent and Miss Francesca Corra
Healing hands: the art and science of arthritis
International Fellowships
Microscopy image of Bacillus subtilis cells
International Fellowships 2023
Imperial College London
Professor Angelika Gründling
Bacillus LTD: using Bacillus to learn, teach and...
Black and white image of older man holding a dumbbell at a gym.
International Fellowships 2022
University of Essex
Dr Jamie Tallent
Corticospinal responses to different modes of...
Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships
Photo of Dr Imani Strong, Dr Marina Bazhydai, Nuni Jorgensen and Benedetta Zocchi
Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships 2023
Doctoral Scholar case studies
Doctoral Scholars over the years
Plan of the village of port sunlight
Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships 2020
Professor Steven Miles    
Manchester Metropolitan University
The playful city
Leverhulme International Professorships
Muon g-2 magnet at Fermilab. Photograph by Ryan Postel.
Leverhulme International Professorships 2021
University of Liverpool
Professor Graziano Venanzoni
The muon: studying a tiny particle to unveil the...
Leverhulme Research Centres
Autonomous Kuka mobile robot
Leverhulme Research Centres 2015
University of Liverpool
Professor Andy Cooper
Leverhulme Research Centre for Functional...
LCFI Image
Leverhulme Research Centres 2015
University of Cambridge
Dr Stephen Cave
Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence
Major Research Fellowships
Ambulances in a queue
Major Research Fellowships 2022
University of York
Professor Martin Smith
The rise of the chaotic state: decline, decadence...
Grey brick castle.
Major Research Fellowships 2022
Canterbury Christ Church University
Dr Leonie Hicks
Landscapes of the Normans: ways of seeing
Philip Leverhulme Prizes
black box – bioreactor system
Philip Leverhulme Prizes 2022
University of Oxford
Dr Harrison Steel
Unlocking the potential of engineered...
Paula Koelemeijer holding a blue ball shaped like earth
Philip Leverhulme Prizes 2021
Royal Holloway, University of London
Dr Paula Koelemeijer
What makes a city move?
Research Fellowships
Yellow building, The Paston House, Elm Hill, Norwich
Research Fellowships 2023
University of Surrey
Professor Diane Watt
God’s own gentlewoman: a life of Margaret Paston
A woman rolls her eyes at her sister.
Research Fellowships 2023
University of Manchester
Dr Wendy Bottero
Grudging acts
Research Leadership Awards
A visualisation of quantum many-body scars
Research Leadership Awards 2019
University of Leeds
Dr Zlatko Papić
New paradigms of order amidst quantum chaos
Research Leadership Awards 2012
University of St Andrews
Dr Gordon Florence
Taking inspiration from nature: a novel approach...
Research Project Grants
The continents and oceans on the modern Earth. NASA Deep Space Climate Observatory Satellite, 06/07/17.
Research Project Grants 2019
University of Birmingham
Dr Alan Hastie  
Icelandic continental analogue for sialic...
Excavations of the Viking Age house at Hrísbrú, Iceland, in 2008. The excavator in the foreground, holding a cat, is sampling th
Research Project Grants 2019
Durham University
Dr Karen Milek
Cohabiting with Vikings: social space in...
Study Abroad Studentships
small coastal village on green mountainside
Study Abroad Studentships 2023
University of the Faroe Islands, Denmark
Miss Róisín Kennelly
Small boats sail as well as ships: climate change...
Man wearing blue gloves, placing monkey faeces into sample pot
Study Abroad Studentships 2023
State University of Zanzibar
Mr Patrick Allsop
From forests to fields: how human disturbance...
Visiting Professorships
Niagara Suspension Bridge in 1859
Visiting Professorships 2021
Professor Felix Driver, Royal Holloway, University of London
Professor Joan M Schwartz, Queen’s University, Canada
Photographs, archives and the geographical...
Portrait of Professor Maria Helena Pereira Toledo Machado
Visiting Professorships 2021
Professor Maria Helena Pereira Toledo Machado, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Professor Emily West, University of Reading
Enslaved women in the Atlantic world: comparative...
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