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Grants in focus

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
Research ship at sea
Emeritus Fellowships 2021
Heriot Watt University
Professor Dorrik Stow
Heartbeat of the Earth: deep-ocean record of...
Siân James, miner’s wife and activist in the South Wales strike, subsequently Labour MP for Swansea East
Emeritus Fellowships 2020
University of Oxford
Professor Robert Gildea
Class, community and family: the 1984–1985 miners...
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
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
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
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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