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Grant winners

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September 18, 2014
<ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ>Royal Society

Wolfson Research Merit Awards

Awards are worth ?10,000-?30,000 a year, which is a salary enhancement

Small summaries for big data

Earth System biogeochemical feedbacks, climate targets and emissions mitigation

<ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ>Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

Research Grants

GplusE: Genomic selection and environment modelling for next-generation wheat breeding

Transnational approaches to resolving biological bottlenecks in macroalgal biofuel production (SuBBSea)

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Coordinating different protein translocation machineries during assembly of a membrane protein

<ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ>Leverhulme Trust

International Networks
Humanities

Global nodes, global orders: macro- and micro-histories of globalisation

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War memoryscapes in Asia partnership: routes to post-conflict reconciliation

Social sciences

Re-doing business: insolvency and bankruptcy legislation, models of business, and firms¡¯ governance in historical and comparative perspective (1900-2010)

Framing financial crisis and protest: northwest and southeast Europe

<ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ>Economic and Social Research Council

Transformative Research

Making liveable lives: rethinking social exclusion

Where do I stand? Assessing children¡¯s understanding of law as an empowering force in their lives

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In detail

Economic and Social Research Council

Award winner: Farida Vis
Institution: University of Sheffield
Value: ?206,880

Picturing the social: transforming our understanding of images in social media and big data research

This project is the world¡¯s first cross-platform academic research project into social media images, exploring the impact images of this kind have on society. A key aim of the project is to use the insight from academia and industry to build a free research tool that will allow researchers to capture this visual data to highlight and study different aspects. ¡°Images tend to be trickier to study than words,¡± said Farida Vis. ¡°With the rise in techniques that focus on large volumes of text, specifically with the growing interest in so-called big data, images tend to get forgotten.¡± Findings from the project will be disseminated via the new .

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