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Grant winners ¨C 19 November 2015

<ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ class="standfirst">A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
November 19, 2015
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<ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ>Royal Society

University Research Fellowships

Rethinking galactic architecture: clues from satellites and destroyed dwarfs


Understanding the nature of electroweak symmetry breaking


Functional porous materials from inorganic waste


Emergence and evolution of planetary systems


<ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ>Leverhulme Trust

Research project grants
Sciences

Quantitative evolution of nematode gene regulatory networks


Sugar signalling during drought stress; do plants suffer diabetes when stressed?

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Prototype selection from streaming, drifting and partly labelled data using classifier ensembles


Investigating the role of movement in the recognition of identity from facial composites

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<ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ>Economic and Social Research Council/Department for International Development

ESRC-DFID Urgency Grants

EVI-MED ¨C Constructing an evidence base of contemporary Mediterranean migrations


Unravelling the Mediterranean migration crisis (MEDMIG)


<ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ>In detail

Economic and Social Research Council

Award winner: Sarah Roddy
Institution: University of Manchester
Value: ?196,403

Visible Divinity: Money and Irish Catholicism, 1850-1921

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Social science and humanities academics have long been captivated by the relationship between religious faith and economic behaviour. While this project acknowledges the work of such luminaries as Karl Marx and Viviana Zelizer, it also concerns the relationship between religious practice and economic thought, and is predicated on the idea that primary economic exchange in a religious setting has never been an intellectual one, but rather a physical one. The project suggests the process of church fundraising was/is a significant economic phenomenon, worthy of examination and conceptualisation in its own right. Also, it can tell us a great deal about the interaction of religion and economics in the lives of ordinary people. Therefore, the project¡¯s form is an investigation of the Irish Catholic Church¡¯s finance over a period of its increasing influence over the country¡¯s population ¨C the time of the Irish ¡°devotional revolution¡± up to the point that the church became the dominant denomination in a newly independent country. Although predominantly historical, the research also hopes to provide insights into individual economic behaviour in ways that mainstream economics has tended to neglect.

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