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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
Women reading a book
Early Career Fellowships 2020
University of Birmingham
Dr Sanne van der Kleij    
Understanding the benefits of fiction for skilled...
ceramic phrenology head
Early Career Fellowships 2020
Keele University
Dr Gabriel Dupre
The philosophical significance of the competence/...
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 2011
Queen Mary, University of London
Artist in Residence Grants, Ranjit Kandalgaonkar
Experimental digital ethnography of the market...
Former Scheme 2011
Centre for Alternative Technology
Artist in Residence Grants, Jony Easterby
Living landscape and protection 
International Fellowships
International Fellowships 2018
Lancaster University
Professor Graham Mort
Taking Liberties: ideals of freedom in...
Antique Print – ANATOMY-HUMAN HEART-TAB III-HUIJBERTS after RUYSCH – 1701
International Fellowships 2018
University of Aberdeen
Professor Catherine Jones
Historiography of anatomy in the northern...
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
A bird’s eye view of a forest fragment adjacent to an oil palm plantation
Research Project Grants 2020
University of Bristol
Dr Tommaso Jucker
Disturbance and its fingerprint on the structure...
white dwarf stellar interior in the process of solidifying into a carbon/oxygen crystal
Research Project Grants 2020
University of Warwick
Dr Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay    
Dynamical stellar models for active evolved...
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
Visiting Professorships 2013
University of Southampton
Professor Stefano Moretti
Neutrino masses and B-L extensions of the...
Visiting Professorships 2013
University of Oxford
Professor Patrick Roche
Universal Simulations
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