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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
Early Career Fellowships 2016
University of Oxford
Dr Tian S. Liang
Anatomising the body: art, science and the...
The Vale of York hoard
Early Career Fellowships 2016
University of Oxford 
Dr Jane Kershaw
Britain’s Viking silver hoards
Emeritus Fellowships
Painted tomb wall depicting a couple in regional ethnic clothing
Emeritus Fellowships 2022
University of York
Professor Maureen Carroll
Dress and identity in early Roman southwest Italy
Folds in the Nilgiri mountain range showing north-south crustal shortening.
Emeritus Fellowships 2022
University of Oxford
Professor Michael Searle
Structural and metamorphic evolution of the Nepal...
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
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
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 Warwick
Dr Alice Mah
Global environmental injustice
Philip Leverhulme Prizes 2017
Lancaster University
Professor Nick Graham
Charting coral reef futures
Research Fellowships
Cemetery including burial mound.
Research Fellowships 2022
University of Chester
Professor Tim Grady
‘The unwelcome gravediggers’: war, memory and...
sketch of a desk
Research Fellowships 2022
University of Oxford
Dr Jennifer Altehenger
Revolutionary designs: furnishing life in...
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
Rope-dancers, vaulters, musicians, clowns and performing monkeys
Research Project Grants 2019
University of Roehampton
Professor Clare McManus
Engendering the stage: the records of early...
Professor Jo Morgan servicing a seismometer in New Zealand to collect data for the application of full-waveform inversion
Research Project Grants 2019
Imperial College London
Dr Rebecca Bell
Unlocking the secrets of silent earthquakes
Study Abroad Studentships
Study Abroad Studentships 2018
Stockholm University
Ms Emma Welton
Theatrical leadership in refugee theatre projects...
Study Abroad Studentships 2017
University of British Columbia
Ms Elise Gallois
Cassiope tetragona growth rate as a proxy of...
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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