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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
Arts Scholarships 2013
European Youth Orchestra
The European Youth Orchestra: uniting talented...
Arts Scholarships 2011
Royal Academy of Music
Sarah Harwood
Conducting Fellowships
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 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 2012
University of Lincoln
Dr Sreenath Nair
Restoration of breath: a method of wellbeing for...
Monk outside the Buddhist temple in the China Nationalities Park, Beijing.
International Fellowships 2012
University of Manchester
Professor Sharon Macdonald
Minority cultural heritage in China
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
Philip Leverhulme Prizes 2017
University of Cambridge
Professor Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb
Deep inversion – towards adaptive physical...
Philip Leverhulme Prizes 2017
University of Warwick
Dr Alice Mah
Global environmental injustice
Research Fellowships
Firebrands stirred up by cyclone winds.
Research Fellowships 2019
University of Sheffield
Professor Yang Zhang
Advanced imaging diagnostics and modelling for...
Research Fellowships 2019
University of Warwick
Professor Boris Gäensicke
Mapping the shores of the solar neighbourhood
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
Graph that plots the number of axions in a string theory model
Research Project Grants 2022
King’s College London
Dr David Marsh
Topology from cosmology: axions, astrophysics and...
Infographic of Radium
Research Project Grants 2021
University of York
Professor Jacek Dobaczewski
Designer nuclei and molecules
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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