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Research Project Grants 2012

Sciences

Dr Andrey Abramov
University College London
Novel properties of phylogenetically ancient molecule in the mammalian cells
£189,202

Professor Nabeel Affara
University of Cambridge
Control of offspring sex ratio by spermatid genes that evade transcript sharing 
£244,745

Dr Suzanne Aigrain
University of Oxford
A robust toolbox for exoplanet data analysis    
£219,278

Dr Tim Albrecht
Imperial College London    
Ringtronics: single-molecule circuitry for electronics and spintronics
£507,855

Professor David Andrews
University of East Anglia
Electrodynamics of optically coupled and activated nanoparticles
£140,424

Dr Alexandre Anesio
University of Bristol    
Are viruses major ecological and evolutionary drivers of microbial community change in low temperature habitats?
£158,083

Professor Judith Armitage
University of Oxford    
Spatio-temporal positioning of proteins through bacterial cell cycle
£172,562

Dr Heike Arnolds
University of Liverpool
Ultrafast spectroscopy of molecular electronic junctions    
£102,813

Professor Alison Baker
University of Leeds
Synthetic organelles: manipulating peroxisome protein import to create designer compartments    
£225,906

Professor Eric Barnard
University of Cambridge
Assemblies and migrations of native P2Y ATP-receptors in developing brain 
£74,598

Dr Gabriel Barrenechea
University of Strathclyde
Minimal stabilisation procedures on anisotropic meshes and nonlinear schemes
£188,037

Dr Tomas Bellamy
University of Nottingham    
Analysis of cell signalling networks using dynamic inputs
£227,242

Professor Isabel Bermudez
Oxford Brookes University
Characterising the functional spectrum of the mosquito GABA receptor    
£153,275

Dr Jan-Willem Bos
Heriot-Watt University
Reduced titanium and niobium oxide thermoelectrics    
£145,784

Professor Simon Bottrell
University of Leeds
Validating models for microbial colonisation and function in the subsurface
£109,839
Dr Neil Bowles
University of Oxford    
Thermal emission spectroscopy to support remote sensing of asteroids
£243,399

Dr Jason Braithwaite
University of Birmingham
Cortical hyperexcitability and the out-of-body experience (OBE)
£125,634

Dr Will Branford
Imperial College London
Imaging low temperature phases in artificial spin ice    
£223,471

Professor Zdzislaw Brzezniak
University of York
Quasi-geostrophic and related stochastic partial differential equations    £93,155

Professor Martin Buck
Imperial College London    Quantitative live cell imaging of enhancer dependent gene expression
£241,106

Professor Franco Cacialli
University College London
Complementary zinc-oxide optoelectronics    
£245,618

Dr Colin Campbell
University of Edinburgh
Mapping local steady state redox potentials with subcellular resolution    
£243,900

Dr John Carr
University of Cambridge
Payback: do plant viruses compensate their hosts by helping attract pollinators?    
£241,544

Dr Steven Cobb
Durham University
The development of 19F-NMR as a tool for analysing steroid degradation in active urine samples
£68,268

Professor Colyn Crane-Robinson
University of Portsmouth
Linker histones and the structure of the chromatosome
£72,990

Dr Peter Crittenden
University of Nottingham
The ecology of mat-forming lichens—new vision using X-ray computed tomography    
£136,299

Professor Darren Crowdy
Imperial College London
Holey optical fibre (MOF) fabrication: towards a mathematical model
£242,640

Dr Colin Crump
University of Cambridge    
Developing super-resolution microscopy for the analysis of virus replication
£188,516

Professor Jamie Davies
University of Edinburgh
Building a synthetic cell patterning mechanism to test a biological model    
£238,569

Dr Alfonso De Simone
Imperial College London
Combining carbon-detected NMR and simulations to study intractable proteins    
£176,847

Professor Fred Diamond
King’s College London
Langlands correspondences for GL(2) in finite characteristic
£113,091

Professor Jens Eggers
University of Bristol
Geometrical description of free-surface singularities and cusp universality    
£141,437

Professor Andrew Ellis
University of Leicester    Freezing complexes in helium nanodroplets: a unique tool for chemical dynamics
£122,734

Dr Thomas Ellis
Imperial College London
Organised natural structures using synthetic biology    
£78,215

Dr Karen Faulds
University of Strathclyde
Assembly of nanoparticles for optimisation of enhanced Raman scattering
£169,093

Dr Matt Friedman
University of Oxford
Reconciling ichthyology and palaeontology with exceptionally preserved fossils    
£212,663

Dr Matthew Fuchter
Imperial College London
Asymmetric photochemical synthesis with circularly polarised light    
£110,609

Dr Todor Gerdjikov
University of Leicester
Optogenetic analysis of reward mechanisms in the brain: contributions of the PPN-VTA circuit    
£82,067

Dr Fiona Gill
University of Leeds
Investigating biogeochemical evidence for chemosymbiosis at fossil cold seeps    
£85,002

Professor Gerard Gilmore
University of Cambridge
The Gaia-ESO survey: quantifying the formation and evolution of the Milky Way    
£262,680

Professor John Goodby
University of York
Microsponges derived from plant spores in novel materials applications
£189,710

Dr Jelena Grbic
University of Manchester
The homotopy theory of toric spaces    
£219,633

Dr Chris Greenwell
Durham University
Archean earth peptide formation: setting geochemical constraints on the origin of proteins    
£240,015

Dr Kay Grünewald
University of Oxford
Polysomes in cells – the society of ribosomes
£250,000

Dr Chris Hamilton
University of East Anglia
Methods for analysing ‘invisible’ cellular disulfides
£114,770

Dr Robert Harrison
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Has defence dictated the evolution of venom composition in spitting cobras?    
£209,171

Dr Natalie Hempel de Ibarra
University of Exeter
How insects learn: the fixed and variable components of bumblebee learning flights    
£237,467

Dr Katharine Hendry
Cardiff University
Southern Ocean sponges: the link between biogeography and geochemistry    
£75,142

Dr Joseph Jackson
Aberystwyth University
Thermal variation and immunity in ectothermic vertebrates    
£242,019

Dr MS Jackson
Newcastle University
Mechanisms and impact of post transcriptional exon shuffling (PTES) in mammals
£172,955

Professor Marcel Jaspars
University of Aberdeen
Natural product nanotechnology: engineering natural products for new uses
£218,274

Dr Mikko Juusola
University of Sheffield
From wiring to brain function in Drosophila; the role of intrinsic activity    
£236,734

Dr Malcolm Kadodwala
University of Glasgow
Ultrasensitive characterisation of biological structure with supertwisted light    
£162,255

Dr Terence Kee
University of Leeds
A novel chemoton model for the emergence of self-maintaining systems
£166,816

Dr Heather Knight
Durham University
Control of specificity in gene expression    
£172,188

Professor Michael Krom
University of Leeds
Understanding the delivery of phosphorus nutrient to the oceans
£170,558

Dr Nick Lane
University College London
A far-from-equilibrium reactor to investigate the origin of life
£248,883

Dr Richard Layfield
University of Manchester
Selective functionalisation of pentadienylsilanes
£144,971

Dr Isaac Kuo-Kang Liu
University of Warwick    
Multiscale biomechanical investigation of engineered tissue
£211,105

Dr Sylvain Ladame
Imperial College London
G-quadruplexes in gene promoters and untranslated regions: myth or reality?    
£174,974

Professor Stephen Matthews
Imperial College London    
Investigating chaperone-usher pili for assembling new biosynthetic materials
£192,357

Professor Peter Meyer
University of Leeds
Dissecting an ancient, but hitherto cryptic function of DNA methyltransferases    
£101,765

Professor Carmen Molina-Paris
University of Leeds    
Vascular receptor-ligand programming: stochastic modelling of cellular fate
£245,031

Professor William Motherwell
University College London
Studies of non-covalent Interactions of functional groups with pi systems    
£155,648

Dr Robert Nudds
University of Manchester    
Reconstructing the flight capabilities of feathered fossils
£148,988

Dr Neil Oldham
University of Nottingham
Trans-polyketide synthases and their products: making the connection    
£153,221

Professor Chris Oliver
University of Birmingham    
Social-cognition and its relation to social development in neurodevelopmental disorders
£206,184

Dr Hannah O’Regan
Liverpool John Moores University
Quantifying the mosaic: testing modern analogues for African palaeoenvironments
£222,780

Dr Iain Oswald
University of Strathclyde
Pressure-induced synthesis of doped polymers—a greener route to functional polymers    
£159,982

Dr Mark Paine
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Molecular characterisation of Anopheles gambiae heme oxygenase    
£205,361

Dr Rosie Parnell
University of Sheffield
Children transforming spatial design: creative encounters with children    £231,059

Professor Roy Quinlan
Durham University
Development of a multiscale model of the eye lens to inform evolution and tissue morphogenesis    £251,138

Professor Ferruccio Renzoni
University College London
Exploring stochastic thermodynamics with optical traps
£149,040

Professor David Ritchie
University of Cambridge
Developing thermodynamic probes to study two-dimensional electron systems    
£243,523

Dr Jonathan Rossiter
University of Bristol
A robot that decomposes: towards biodegradable robotic organisms
£209,558

Dr Jennifer Rowson
University of Sheffield    A novel methodology for modelling complex biomechanical systems using Bayesian uncertainty analysis
£88,248

Professor Alexander Ruban
Queen Mary, University of London
Photosynthetic light harvesting in natural and artificial membranes
£176,412

Professor Ian Russell
University of Brighton    Exploiting acoustic distortion by mosquitoes to listen on the wing
£193,688

Dr Jonathan Sadler
University of Birmingham
Integrating ecology and social science in conservation: orchards, beetles, and agroecology    £256,552

Professor Ekhard Salje
University of Cambridge
Domain boundaries as active elements in multiferroic materials and in minerals    
£90,178

Professor Pauline Schaap
University of Dundee    
Regulation of eukaryote sessility by diguanylate cyclise
£184,308

Professor Mark Sephton
Imperial College London    The Moon as a recorder of organic matter in the Solar System
£123,053

Dr Joanna Setchell
Durham University    
Stress, life history, and dental development in primates
£67,325

Dr James Sharp
University of Nottingham
Oscillations of sessile droplets    
£66,062

Dr Nadia Sidorova
University College London
Localisation for branching Bouchaud random walks    
£200,253

Dr Radostin Simitev
University of Glasgow
Two-layer thermo-compositional dynamo models of the geomagnetic field    
£147,661

Dr Dmitry Skryabin
University of Bath
Nonlinear photonics of microcavity polaritons in periodic structures
£156,936

Dr Jason Smith
University of Oxford
Tunable microcavities for sensing in the physical and biological sciences
£227,833

Dr Binod Sreenivasan
Coventry University
Experimental simulation of magnetoconvection in the Earth’s tangent cylinder
£91,997

Dr Junwang Tang
University College London
Feasibility of nanomaterial fabrication by microwave-promoted microreactor    
£249,930

Dr Richard Tipping
University of Stirling    Landscape dynamics and Bannockburn 1314: scientific answers to historical problems
£119,359

Dr Tchavdar Todorov
Queen’s University Belfast
Dynamics of irradiation in materials and biological systems    
£88,509

Dr Dave Townsend
Heriot-Watt University    
A novel LIAD source for the enhanced study of molecular dynamics
£210,426

Dr Sophia Tsoka
King’s College London
Community structure detection in complex networks     
£185,267

Dr Tobias Uller
University of Oxford
Epigenetics in context: how ecology shapes the epigenome in wild animals    
£107,740

Professor Robert Upstill-Goddard
Newcastle University
What is the surfactant control of air-sea gas exchange across contrasting biogeochemical regimes?
£138,544

Professor Paul Valdes
University of Bristol
Assessing the tropical climate over the last glacial/interglacial    
£177,357

Dr Giovanni Verri
University College London    
Photoluminescence imaging and spectroscopy of painting and conservation material
£156,792

Professor Robin Walker
Royal Holloway, University of London    
The role of the human midbrain in response preparation
£188,034

Dr Darren Walsh
University of Nottingham
Fuel cells inspired by nature: thin film catalysts from renewable materials    
£70,565

Dr Jonathan Wilden
University College London
Development of novel sulfonamide-based peptidomimetics    
£78,170

Dr Gregory Wildgoose
University of East Anglia
Calixarene-modified electrodes: enzyme mimics for heterogeneous chiral synthesis    
£80,063

Dr Mark Williams
University of Leicester
Pioneer ostracod zooplankton    
£153,981

Dr James Wilton-Ely
Imperial College London
Gold nanoparticles functionalised with transition metal units    
£74,545

Professor Dek Woolfson
University of Bristol
The design, assembly and functionalisation of peptide nanotubes
£143,611

Dr Geraldine Wright
Newcastle University
The molecular logic of gustation in bees    
£270,770

Dr Aidong Yang
University of Surrey
Engineering localised synergetic production networks based on renewable resources    
£179,597

Dr Shengfu Yang
University of Leicester
Synthesis of neutral helium compounds in superfluid helium nanodroplets    
£132,980

Dr Xiangbing Zeng
University of Sheffield
Liquid quasicrystals and their approximants    
£236,701

Dr Shuang Zhang
University of Birmingham    
Controlling Casimir force using optical metamaterials
£242,820

Humanities

Dr Eleni Asouti
University of Liverpool
‘Unfamiliar landscapes’: from foraging to farming in central Anatolia, Turkey
 £231,948

Dr Tim Ayers
University of York
The building accounts for St Stephen’s Chapel, Palace of Westminster, 1292–1366    
£118,832

Professor Peter Barry
Aberystwyth University
Devolved voices: Welsh poetry in English since 1997
£232,042

Professor Neil Bermel
University of Sheffield
Acceptability and forced-choice judgments in the study of linguistic variation
£130,676

Professor Dauvit Broun
University of Glasgow
The transformation of Gaelic Scotland in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries    
£240,327

Dr Pratik Chakrabarti
University of Kent
An antique land; geology, philology and the making of the Indian subcontinent, 1830–1920    
£221,439

Dr Oliver Creighton
University of Exeter
Anarchy? War and status in twelfth-century landscapes of conflict    
£135,782

Professor Anne Curry
University of Southampton
‘Old wine in new bottles’. English Gascony (1360–1453) for the digital future    
£247,692

Professor Jim Davis
University of Warwick
British-Australian cultural exchange: live performance 1880–1960
£131,343

Dr Cecile De Cat
University of Leeds
Referential communication and executive function skills in bilingual children    
£161,284

Dr Peter Flugel
SOAS, University of London
Johannes Klatt’s Jaina-onomasticon    
£245,160

Dr Peter Garrard
St George’s, University of London
A ‘semantic space’ to analyse content and coherence in eighteenth-century writing
£105,082

Professor Thomas Higham
University of Oxford
Modern human colonisation of Europe: chrono-cultural comparison of east and west    
£176,237

Professor Hugh Kennedy
SOAS, University of London
Bridging religious difference in a multicultural Eastern Mediterranean society
£256,693

Dr Clark Lawlor
Northumbria University
Fashionable diseases: medicine, literature and culture, c. 1660–1832    
£259,193

Dr Stana Nenadic
University of Edinburgh
Artisans and the craft economy in Scotland c. 1780-1914    
£242,645

Dr Jeff Oliver
University of Aberdeen
European migrant landscapes and intercultural relations in western Canada    
£159,367

Professor Ben Rampton
King’s College London
Crossing languages and borders: intercultural language education in a conflict-ridden context    
£151,303

Dr Richard Reid
SOAS, University of London
Endangered histories: the role of the deep past in the making of modern Uganda
£235,820

Professor Sarah Street
University of Bristol
Colour in the 1920s: cinema and its intermedial contexts
£246,243

Dr Kasia Szpakowska
Swansea University
Ancient Egyptian demonology project: second millennium BC    
£158,220

Professor Martin Thomas
University of Exeter
The rhetoric of empire: managing imperial conflict between Britain and France     
£148,566

Professor Philip Torr
Oxford Brookes University
Structured models for natural language description of scenes
£218,981

Professor Janet Watson
University of Salford
Documentation and ethnolinguistic analysis of the modern South Arabian languages    
£149,680

Professor Christopher Wickham
University of Oxford
The South Oxfordshire project: perceptions of landscape, settlement and society c. 500–1650
£261,176

Social Sciences

Professor Stephen Ball
Institute of Education, University of London
New philanthropy, education policy and governance    
£186,062

Dr Barbara Bompani
University of Edinburgh
‘I have cursed you all’: sexuality, religion and politics in Africa
£79,411

Dr Romola Davenport
University of Cambridge
Mortality and epidemiological change in Manchester, 1750–1850    
£200,846

Professor David Deacon
Loughborough University
Changes in British election news reporting (1918–2010)    
£38,700

Dr Shira Elqayam
De Montfort University
Generative capacity of norms: a theory of inference from ‘is’ to ‘ought’    
£75,450

Professor Harriet Evans
University of Westminster
Conflicts in cultural value: localities and heritage in Southwestern China    
£201,712

Professor John Gaffney
Aston University
The nature and process of the construction of contemporary leadership discourse and persona    
£77,055

Professor Christopher Harding
Aberystwyth University
Explaining and understanding business cartel collusion    
£87,743

Dr Mark Harris
University of St Andrews
Past lessons for future challenges in the Brazilian Amazon    
£176,514

Professor Glyn Humphreys
University of Oxford
Group modulation of perception    
£87,336

Professor Hazel Johnson
Open University
Understanding rural co-operative resilience in Uganda: a pilot study
£113,257

Dr Patricia Justino
Institute of Development Studies
Community cooperation in post-conflict Bosnia: coping strategies and violence    £64,635

Professor Vera Kempe
University of Abertay Dundee
When do dialects become languages? Let the human cognitive system decide
£67,897

Professor Sushanta Mallick
Queen Mary, University of London
Social alienation and uncertain growth: a pre- and post-reform analysis in India    
£78,738

Professor Sam McKinstry
University of the West of Scotland    
Scott and Glasgow University: the management and aesthetic direction of Europe’s largest architectural practice
£88,325

Professor Anthony Musson
University of Exeter
Law and arms: the English medieval Court of Chivalry    
£178,371

Dr Kimberly Quinn
University of Birmingham
Witnessing virtue versus vice: comparing moral praise and moral condemnation    
£78,297

Dr David Ryves
Loughborough University
Stories of subsistence: people and coast over the last six thousand years in the Limfjord, Denmark    
£217,515

Dr Susie Scott
University of Sussex
A qualitative exploration of asexual identities and practices of intimacy    
£103,782

Professor Matthew Smallman-Raynor
University of Nottingham
Humanitarian crises, population displacement and epidemic diseases, 1901–2010    
£167,506

Professor Miri Song
University of Kent
Mixed race parents' racial classification of their children    
£113,479

Dr Mark Tarrant
University of Exeter    
Using social identity to promote psychological well-being and reduce maladaptive eating amongst morbidly obese people
£86,283

Professor Jonathan Tonge
University of Liverpool
A membership survey of the Democratic Unionist Party in Northern Ireland
£88,296

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