Wolfson Research Merit Awards
Awards are worth ?10,000-?30,000 a year, which is a salary enhancement
- Award winner: Graham Cormode
- Institution: University of Warwick
Small summaries for big data
- Award winner: Pierre Friedlingstein
- Institution: University of Exeter
Earth System biogeochemical feedbacks, climate targets and emissions mitigation
<ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ>Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ>Research Grants
- Award winner: John Woolliams
- Institution: University of Edinburgh
- Value: ?262,715
GplusE: Genomic selection and environment modelling for next-generation wheat breeding
- Award winner: John Bothwell
- Institution: Durham University
- Value: ?841,968
Transnational approaches to resolving biological bottlenecks in macroalgal biofuel production (SuBBSea)
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- Award winner: Tracy Palmer
- Institution: University of Dundee
- Value: ?406,287
Coordinating different protein translocation machineries during assembly of a membrane protein
<ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ>Leverhulme TrustÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ>International Networks
Humanities
- Award winner: James Belich
- Institution: University of Oxford
- Value: ?124,789
Global nodes, global orders: macro- and micro-histories of globalisation
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- Award winner: Mark Frost
- Institution: University of Essex
- Value: ?102,877
War memoryscapes in Asia partnership: routes to post-conflict reconciliation
Social sciences
- Award winner: Paolo Di Martino
- Institution: University of Birmingham
- Value: ?22,239
Re-doing business: insolvency and bankruptcy legislation, models of business, and firms¡¯ governance in historical and comparative perspective (1900-2010)
- Award winner: Suman Gupta
- Institution: The Open University
- Value: ?121,959
Framing financial crisis and protest: northwest and southeast Europe
<ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ>Economic and Social Research CouncilÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ>Transformative Research
- Award winner: Kath Browne
- Institution: University of Brighton
- Value: ?193,087
Making liveable lives: rethinking social exclusion
- Award winner: Dawn Watkins
- Institution: University of Leicester
- Value: ?197,944
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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