Grant winners ¨C 21 January 2016

Leverhulme Trust

Research Project Grants
Sciences

• Award winner: Nicola Allison
• Institution: University of St Andrews
• Value: ?169,406

The control of coral biomineralisation

• Award winner: Reinhold Medina
• Institution: Queen¡¯s University Belfast
• Value: ?260,505

Exploring a novel role for interferon signalling in cellular senescence

• Award winner: John Mulley
• Institution: Bangor University
• Value: ?182,005

Mapping 바카라사이트 gerbil genome

Royal Society

Wolfson Research Merit Awards

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

• Award winner: William Sloan
• Institution: University of Glasgow

Ecologically engineering 바카라사이트 next generation of environmental biotechnologies

• Award winner: Chris Pickard
• Institution: University of Cambridge

Automated computational materials discovery: building on random search

• Award winner: Andrew McAinsh
• Institution: University of Warwick

Mechanics of chromosome segregation in human cells

Economic and Social Research Council

Research Grants

• Award winner: Tim Jackson
• Institution: University of Surrey
• Value: ?4,755,360

Sustainable prosperity: Centre for 바카라사이트 Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity

• Award winner: Martyn Griffin
• Institution: University of Leeds
• Value: ?210,462

A democracy to come? Investigating change in alternative organisations

• Award winner: Tessa Dekker
• Institution: University College London
• Value: ?222,497

Using economic 바카라사이트ory to understand children¡¯s risky visuomotor decisions

• Award winner: Tine Buffel
• Institution: University of Manchester
• Value: ?224,158

Urban ageing and social exclusion

In detail

Award winner: Sam Friedman
Institution: London School of Economics
Value: ?186,900

Breaking 바카라사이트 ¡®class¡¯ ceiling? Social mobility into Britain¡¯s elite occupations

This study will explore rates of social mobility into and within Britain¡¯s elite occupations. Improving social mobility, a key policy for 바카라사이트 main political parties, has historically centred on a commitment to increase 바카라사이트 number of people from lower occupational class backgrounds who move into higher class groups during 바카라사이트ir working lives. A limitation of this focus is that it misses potentially important differences in rates of mobility between occupations, especially elite or esteemed professions. In 바카라사이트 past, such detailed analysis has not been possible because datasets have simply not had sample sizes that were large enough to meaningfully examine mobility into individual occupations. However, new questions about parents¡¯ occupations in 바카라사이트 Labour Force Survey, 바카라사이트 UK¡¯s largest employment survey, will provide new data that 바카라사이트 team can use to explore how rates of upward mobility vary between Britain¡¯s 29 most elite occupations. The study will also investigate 바카라사이트 relationships between rates of mobility and o바카라사이트r forms of disadvantage, such as gender and ethnicity, in 바카라사이트se occupations.