ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL
Thirteen projects will share more than ?300,000 under the Science and Heritage Research Clusters Scheme. The other winners were listed last week.
Award winner: A.M. Pollard
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: ?24,415
Centre for the Study of the Book (based in the Bodleian Library). BookNET: a network for the technological study of the book and manuscript as artefact
Award winner: E.M. Pye
Collaborating institutions: University College London, Royal College of Art
Value: ?24,449
Cultural encounters and explorations: conservation's Catch-22
Award winner: J.C. Roberts
Collaborating institutions: Bangor University, English Heritage, National Museum of Ireland, National Museum of Wales, National Trust
Value: ?24,340
Modelling, interpretation and alternate representations: visualisation technology, heritage buildings and coastal threats
Award winner: R. Till
Collaborating institutions: Durham University, University of Huddersfield, University of Sheffield
Value: ?24,487
Research cluster for the investigation of acoustic and musical elements of prehistoric archaeological sites in Britain
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCH
The NIHR's Health Technology Assessment programme produces independent research information on the effectiveness, costs and broader impact of healthcare treatments and tests for those who plan, provide or receive National Health Service care. Listed here are the February-March 2009 research grant awards.
Award winner: Philip Edwards
Institution: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Value: ?265,214
Adaptive e-learning to improve dietary behaviour: systematic review
Award winner: Helen Snooks
Institution: Swansea University
Value: ?1,147,158
Care of older people who fall: evaluation of the clinical and cost- effectiveness of new protocols for emergency ambulance personnel to assess and refer to appropriate community-based care
Award winner: Jo Dumville
Institution: University of York
Value: ?1,012,624
VenUS IV (Venous Leg Ulcer Study IV): A randomised controlled trial of compression hosiery versus compression bandaging in the treatment of venous leg ulcers
Award winner: Janet Powell
Institution: Imperial College London
Value: ?1,044,106
Can emergency endovascular aneurysm repair (eEVAR) improve the survival from ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms?
Award winner: Simon Gilbody
Institution: University of York
Value: ?1,621,924
The randomised evaluation of the effectiveness and acceptability of computerised therapy (REEACT) trial
Award winner: David Jayne
Institution: Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge
Value: ?1,441,592
Plasma exchange and glucocorticoids in anti-neutrophil cytoplasm antibody associated systemic vasculitis: a randomised controlled trial
Natural Environment Research Council
Award winner: D. Pyle
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: ?24,149
Extent and impact of distal ash fallout from the May 2008 eruption of Chaiten, Chile
Award winner: A.L.D. Densmore
Institution: Durham University
Value: ?19,632
Surface rupture in the 12 May 2008 Sichuan earthquake
Award winner: C.J. Horwell
Institution: Durham University
Value: ?26,940
Rapid assessment of the potential health hazard of ash from Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii
Award winner: M. Edmonds
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: ?35,160
Summit eruption of Kilauea Volcano: a unique opportunity to test magma-degassing models using new spectroscopic methods.
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Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Principal investigator: John McCanny
Institution: Queen's University Belfast
Value: ?25 million
The Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) at the Queen's Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology has become the UK's leading site for the development of technologies that counter malicious cyber attacks. In a combined funding scheme from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the Technology Strategy Board, industry partners and the institution itself, the CSIT will bring together researchers in fields such as data encryption, network security systems, wireless-enabled security systems and intelligent surveillance technology to help safeguard information stored electronically.