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Research Fellowships 2018

Sciences

Professor Alexandre Anesio
University of Bristol
A-CORE: AnthropogeniC impact On EuRopean glaciErs
£54,762

Professor David Borchers
University of St Andrews
Statistical models for digital wildlife surveys
£48,260

Dr Christina Cobbold
University of Glasgow
Insect abundance and climate variability: novel insights from homogenisation
£53,734

Dr Maria Dornelas
University of St Andrews
Multi-scale prediction of reef coral diversity
£54,976

Professor Andrew Gilbert
University of Exeter
Vortices and waves in complex fluid flows
£46,862

Dr Tristram Irvine-Fynn
Aberystwyth University
How does autumn rainfall ‘reset’ glacier surfaces in a wetter Arctic?
£54,756

Dr Eun-jin Kim
University of Sheffield
Variability and self-organisation in stellar evolution
£50,925

Professor Simon Poulton
University of Leeds
Dynamics of the Great Oxidation Event
£54,944

Professor Alastair Rucklidge
University of Leeds
Complex and disordered patterns
£54,037

Dr Marco Schlichting
University of Warwick
Higher K-theory of forms
£43,778

Dr Francesco Shankar
University of Southampton
Cutting-edge semi-empirical models for supermassive black hole-galaxy evolution
£54,999

Dr Matthias Soller
University of Birmingham
Understanding the role of mRNA methylation in fine-tuning gene expression
£54,728

Professor Einar Steingrimsson
University of Strathclyde
Connecting physics models via permutations
£54,683

Professor Steven Tobias
University of Leeds
The origin of the eleven-year solar activity cycle
£52,475

Dr Floriana Tuna
University of Manchester
Two-dimensional HYSCORE spectroscopy of actinide complexes
£54,917

Dr Elizabeth Wanner
Aston University
Lyapunov design of success-based adaptation rules
£42,430

Humanities

Dr Arif Ahmed
University of Cambridge
The value of the future
£52,583

Dr Nadia Ali
Independent researcher
Reconstructing the visual cultures of pre-Islamic Arabia
£9,700

Professor Marc David Baer
London School of Economics and Political Science
Guided by Goethe: German-Jewish gay Muslim writer Hugo Marcus, 1880–1966
£54,170

Professor Paul Betts
University of Oxford
The re-civilisation of Europe after 1945
£48,075

Dr Kasia Boddy
University of Cambridge
Zero years: American literature and the census
£52,550

Professor Rosalind Brown-Grant
University of Leeds
Visualising power and justice in late medieval French Romance manuscripts
£38,445

Dr Luciano Cardellicchio
University of Kent
Our future heritage: conservation issues of contemporary architecture in Rome
£54,562

Dr Ting Chang
University of Nottingham
Playing empire in the nineteenth century: games, spectacles and colonial subjects
£50,598

Dr Anne Desler
University of Edinburgh
Opera performed: Nicola Grimaldi, ‘Nicolini’ – singer, actor, director, promoter
£42,654

Dr David Doddington
Cardiff University
Old age and American slavery
£50,148

Dr Gillian Dow
University of Southampton
Women writers and the romantic-period novel in Britain and France
£48,891

Professor Martin Evans
University of Sussex
Comparing and connecting postcolonial globalisation: Paris and London, 1962–89
£51,425

Professor Karin Friedrich
University of Aberdeen
Dynastic identity in early modern Poland: Boguslaw Radziwill and his world
£54,509

Dr Robert Gillett
Queen Mary, University of London
Representing Rosmer: Elsa Bernstein as writer and salonnière
£27,822

Professor Hilary Greaves
University of Oxford
Towards a theory of rational philanthropy
£53,731

Professor Helen Hackett
University College London
The Elizabethan mind: a reader’s guide
£46,055

Professor Thomas Harrison
University of St Andrews
Belief in Greek religion
£52,716

Dr Irena Hayter
University of Leeds
Spectacular subjects: modernism, gender and visuality in interwar Japan
£32,316

Dr Naomi Head
University of Glasgow
Empathy under fire: ‘hearts and minds’ and the politics of empathy
£53,711

Professor Piers Hellawell
Queen’s University Belfast
Extending music’s compositional strategies through a fusion of two new works
£51,511

Professor Mark Hewitson
University College London
The violence of war: Germany, 1888–1968
£52,341

Dr Suzanne Hobson
Queen Mary, University of London
Unbelief: interwar cultures of doubt
£54,934

Dr Claudia Hopkins
University of Edinburgh
Rethinking orientalism: identity in Spanish art, c. 1830–1956
£38,592

Professor Richard Kirkland
King’s College London
A cultural history of Irish London, 1880–1916
£48,231

Dr Inna Kupreeva
University of Edinburgh
Alexander of Aphrodisias and Aristotle’s De anima
£48,157

Dr Charlie Louth
University of Oxford
What happens when we read a poem? Reading Rilke
£49,850

Dr Xiaoning Lu
SOAS, University of London
Transnational practices: film culture and politics in China, 1949–1989
£54,951

Professor Kate Marsh
University of Liverpool
Policing French colonial metropolises, 1918–1962
£27,835

Professor David Maw
University of Oxford
Guillaume de Machaut: inventor of absolute music
£49,958

Dr Briony McDonagh
University of Hull
Gendering the commons
£53,905

Professor Jeff McMahan
University of Oxford
Killing, saving, and causing to exist
£54,352

Professor Lynda Mugglestone
University of Oxford
Words in war time: searching for meaning in WW1
£43,217

Professor Daniel Ogden
University of Exeter
The werewolf in the Greek and Roman world: a folkloric study
£46,998

Dr Sheldon Penn
University of Leicester
Mexican time and identity: Bergson and Bergsonism in literature and film
£42,395

Professor Clare Pettitt
King’s College London
Revolutionary seriality: 1848 in Britain, Europe and America
£50,302

Dr Alistair Rider
University of St Andrews
The lifelong work: long-term artists’ projects since 1960
£45,505

Dr Matthew Robinson
University of Oxford
At the edge of poetry: acrostic and telestics in Latin poetry
£48,525

Dr Miriam Ronzoni
University of Manchester
Constructing justice
£54,500

Professor Phillip Rothwell
University of Oxford
A rebellious mirror to their nation: women writing in Angola
£48,250

Dr Anita Rupprecht
University of Brighton
Indenturing ‘re-captured Africans’ in the British Caribbean, 1807–1828
£38,095

Dr David Russell
University of Oxford
Facing reality: sage writers on human flourishing
£45,717

Dr John Sabapathy
University College London
The institutionalisation of Europe in the thirteenth century
£54,997

Dr Len Scales
Durham University
The Kaiser myth: medieval emperors and German memory, CE 900–2000
£44,646

Dr Samiksha Sehrawat
Newcastle University
Decolonising the history of biomedicine: patients and hospitals in India
£46,900

Professor Peter Sells
University of York
Verb and verb phrase topicalisation in languages of Eurasia
£39,893

Dr Hugo Service
University of York
Nazis, communists and the fate of central Europe’s Jews, 1939–1949
£53,176

Dr William Short
University of Exeter
Most erected spirits: a cultural semantics of Roman courage and cowardice
£53,827

Dr Alex Silk
University of Birmingham
Context-sensitivity in normative language and discourse
£50,740

Professor Gurharpal Singh
SOAS, University of London
A world turned upside down: Sikhs and the partition of India
£53,654

Dr Paulina Sliwa
University of Cambridge
Telling right from wrong: moral testimony and moral knowledge
£54,938

Dr Axel Stähler
University of Kent
Jerusalem destroyed: literature, art, and music in nineteenth
century Europe
£46,994

Dr Adrian Streete
University of Glasgow
Polemical laughter in English literary culture, c. 1500–1700
£53,903

Dr Simona Valeriani
Victoria and Albert Museum
Designing the future: innovation and the construction of the Royal Albert Hall
£54,919

Dr Saskia Vermeylen
University of Strathclyde
Utopian literatures and space law
£54,874

Dr Caroline Warman
University of Oxford
The atheist’s bible: Diderot’s Eléments de physiologie, its importance and reach
£49,950

Dr Paul White
University of Leeds
Elegia renascens: Latin love elegy collections from antiquity to the Renaissance
£18,401

Dr Heather Wiebe
King’s College London
Mobilising music in wartime British film
£48,232

Dr Susannah Wilson
University of Warwick
Morphine and the cultural imagination in France, 1870–1930
£34,835

Dr Gillian Woods
Birkbeck, University of London
Representational dynamics in Renaissance theatre
£36,886

Dr Ramona Wray
Queen’s University Belfast
A literary biography of Elizabeth Cary, Lady Tanfield (1585/6–1639)
£49,792

Social Sciences

Dr Jutta Bakonyi
Durham University
The art of governing without a state: experiences from Somalia
£48,982

Dr Anna Ball
Nottingham Trent University
Moving women, moving stories: rethinking representations of forced migration
£43,436

Dr Tendayi Bloom
Open University
Noncitizenship and the global compact for migration
£40,176

Dr Morgan Clarke
University of Oxford
A new anthropology of rules
£49,075

Dr Angharad Closs Stephens
Swansea University
National affects: towards a cultural politics of atmospheres
£29,028

Dr Daniel Conway
University of Westminster
The global politics of Pride: LGBTQ+ activism, assimilation and resistance
£37,007

Dr Simon Cottee
University of Kent
Atrocity porn: a qualitative study of death and gore enthusiasts
£25,005

Dr Helen Cowie
University of York
Fashion victims: animal commodities in Britain, 1800–1914
£54,689

Dr Jamie Doucette
University of Manchester
Korea’s Candlelight Revolution and the post-developmental state
£54,569

Dr Alexander Easton
Durham University
Developing a language-free test of episodic memory in children
£46,772

Dr Fabienne Emmerich
University of Keele
‘Swimming against the current’: women, prison reform and resistance
£52,203

Dr Crispian Fuller
Cardiff University
Brexit, foreign corporations and regional development
£52,908

Professor Caroline Gatrell
University of Liverpool
The paternal body: a lens for articulating fathers’ involvement in childcare
£36,641

Dr Virginie Grzelczy
Aston University
No child’s play: politics of toys in conflict and post-conflict spaces
£49,497

Dr Helen Haugh
University of Cambridge
Community entrepreneurship: history, institutions and networks
£51,038

Dr Christina Hellmich
University of Reading
Suffering silently: miscarriage in professional women in the UK
£46,944

Dr Aggie Hirst
King’s College London
Producing soldiers in a digital age: total immersion training in the US army
£52,332

Dr Ben Hunter
University of Greenwich
Corporate criminal careers: environmental offending by organisations
£50,721

Dr Rico Isaacs
Oxford Brookes University
Sustaining authoritarianism: parliaments and personalism in central Asia
£44,614

Dr Julie Jones
University of Sheffield
A historical perspective on Antarctic climate change
£54,369

Professor Aristotle Kallis
University of Keele
Housing as practical utopia: a critical reappraisal of the ‘minimum dwelling’
£45,695

Professor Peter Kraftl
University of Birmingham
Plastic childhoods
£51,389

Dr Monika Krause
London School of Economics and Political Science
Ideosyncratic ties: mission agencies and the future of transnational relations
£50,939

Dr Patricia Lewis
University of Kent
Post-feminism in the City: feminine leadership as lived experience
£53,112

Professor Katie Lloyd Thomas
Newcastle University
The architect as shopper: building products and the proprietary turn in the UK
£28,751

Dr Elizabeth Mavroudi
Loughborough University
Children’s politicisation in diaspora: a comparative exploration
£43,829

Dr Gearoid Millar
University of Aberdeen
Ambition and ambivalence: peace studies in a changing world
£46,848

Dr Jonathan Oldfield
University of Birmingham
The development of environmental monitoring capacities in the USSR and Russia
£38,522

Dr Dimitris Papadopoulos
University of Leicester
Benign by design: the emergence of ecologically sustainable chemical innovation
£51,320

Dr Lena Rethel
University of Warwick
Markets as spectacles? Principles, practices and governance of Islamic economies
£54,144

Dr Amanda Rogers
Swansea University
Dance in contemporary Cambodia: nation, geopolitics, identity
£54,998

Dr Pollyanna Ruiz
University of Sussex
Remembering and forgetting; media, memory, activism
£54,807

Dr Minoli Salgado
University of Sussex
The other side of violence: terror and trauma in contemporary exilic literature
£54,741

Dr Mohammad Shahabuddin
University of Birmingham
Postcolonial statehood and international law: the Rohingya crisis and beyond
£50,845

Professor Maria Tamboukou
University of East London
Revisiting the nomadic subject
£54,248

Dr Weipin Tsai
Royal Holloway, University of London
Couriers for the common folk: the private firms that joined up China
£51,280

Professor Dimitris Tziovas
University of Birmingham
Crisis Greece: culture, identity and the West
£46,581

Dr Han van Wietmarschen
University College London
A theory of social hierarchy
£37,348

Professor Vron Ware
Kingston University
One village, one world
£37,691

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