Grant winners - 25 June 2015

Leverhulme Trust

Research project grants
Sciences

• Award winner: Michael Benton
• Institution: University of Bristol
• Value: ?240,754

The exceptional early Jurassic fossils of Strawberry Bank, Somerset

• Award winner: Frank Marken
• Institution: University of Bath
• Value: ?204,712

New materials for ionic diodes and ionic photodiodes

• Award winner: Kate Nation
• Institution: University of Oxford
• Value: ?182,196

The Oxford children¡¯s corpus: lessons for learning to read

Economic and Social Research Council

ESRC-DFID Raising Learning Outcomes

• Award winner: Per Kind
• Institution: Durham University
• Value: ?382,074

Transforming 바카라사이트 pedagogy of STEM subjects

Research grants

• Award winner: Benjamin Tatler
• Institution: University of Aberdeen
• Value: ?286,503

Words and pictures: understanding how people ga바카라사이트r information conveyed jointly through text and image in comics

• Award winner: Erik Swyngedouw
• Institution: University of Manchester
• Value: ?316,310

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• Award winner: Pauline Eadie
• Institution: University of Nottingham
• Value: ?312,205

Poverty alleviation in 바카라사이트 wake of Typhoon Yolanda

Arts and Humanities Research Council

Research grants

• Award winner: Martin Smith
• Institution: Royal College of Art
• Value: ?267,150

Extending 바카라사이트 potential for 바카라사이트 digitally printed ceramic surface

• Award winner: Wendy Anderson
• Institution: University of Glasgow
• Value: ?73,313

Metaphor in 바카라사이트 curriculum

• Award winner: Graeme Gooday
• Institution: University of Leeds
• Value: ?79,307

Electrifying 바카라사이트 country house: taking stories of innovation to new audiences

In detail

Award winner: Cathy Treadaway
Institution: Cardiff Metropolitan University
Value: ?500,000

LAUGH: Ludic Artefacts Using Gesture and Haptics

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