Grant winners – 28 April 2016

Medical Research Council

Research grants

• Award winner: Aisha Holloway
• Institution: University of Edinburgh
• Value: £118,771

An alcohol brief intervention (ABI) for male remand prisoners: an MRC complex intervention framework development and feasibility study

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• Award winner: Joanna Morrison
• Institution: University College London
• Value: £100,100

Supportive supervision of mid-level health workers in rural Nepal for improved job satisfaction, motivation and quality of care

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Economic and Social Research Council

Research grants

• Award winner: Roderick Stirrat
• Institution: University of Sussex
• Value: £58,371

Making philanthropy developmentally effective

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• Award winner: Victoria Leong
• Institution: University of Cambridge
• Value: £195,531

Using “naturalistic dual-EEG” to measure mother-infant brain-to-brain (b2b) synchrony in socially mediated learning

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National Environment Research Council

• Award winner: Helen Brindley
• Institution: Imperial College London
• Value: £121,362

ICE-IMPACT: International consortium for the exploitation of infrared measurements of polar climate

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• Award winner: Tat-Hean Gan
• Institution: Brunel University London
• Value: £645,464

Innovate UK HitClean high temperature inspection and cleaning by advanced ultrasonics for effective maintenance and management of oil and gas offshore

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Leverhulme Trust

Research Project Grants
Sciences

• Award winner: Bruno Dhuime
• Institution: University of Bristol
• Value: £184,313

Silicate mineral inclusions and the composition of new continental crust

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• Award winner: Martin Eimer
• Institution: Birkbeck, University of London
• Value: £185,528

Neural and cognitive mechanisms of multimodal working memory

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• Award winner: Emmanuil Georgoulis
• Institution: University of Leicester
• Value: £199,662

Reduced complexity finite element methods

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• Award winner: Joanna Morgan
• Institution: Imperial College London
• Value: £228,055

Santorini: high-resolution imaging of an active volcano with 3D full-waveform inversion

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In detail

Humanities

Award winners: Robert Jones and Martyn Powell
Institutions: University of Leeds and Aberystwyth University
Value: £272,621

The political works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan

This project will investigate the dramatist, theatre-owner and politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan, who was more notoriously known as a spin doctor, drinker and debtor. Sheridan was a politician for nearly three decades. This study is a reappraisal of his career, exploring his national and international significance as a politician and orator, and his wider political activity – such as his journalistic writing. Sheridan, on account of his excellent oratorical skills, which made his speeches popular among newspaper editors, served as progenitor for the “spin doctor”. The project will culminate in the publication of a four-volume edition of his complete political works.