Leverhulme Trust
Research Project Grants
Sciences
- Award winner: Karen Olsson-Francis
- Institution: The Open University
- Value: ?170,394
The feasibility of contemporary life elsewhere in our solar system
- Award winner: Saverio Russo
- Institution: University of Exeter
- Value: ?254,711
Room-temperature quantum electronics
- Award winner: Pauline Schaap
- Institution: University of Dundee
- Value: ?227,354
Understanding the molecular mechanisms that control somatic cell specialisation
- Award winner: Bridget Waller
- Institution: University of Portsmouth
- Value: ?106,827
Cultural variation in the social function and expression of guilt
- Award winner: Eske Willerslev
- Institution: University of Cambridge
- Value: ?354,456
Method for quantification of ancient plant populations using fossil pollen DNA
National Institute for Health Research
Health Technology Assessment Programme
- Award winner: Dawn Craig
- Institution: Newcastle University
- Value: ?295,516
The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of surgical treatments for women with stress urinary incontinence: an evidence synthesis (ESTER)
- Award winner: Simon Gilbody
- Institution: University of York
- Value: ?169,551
The randomised evaluation of the effectiveness and acceptability of computerised therapy (REEACT) trial
- Award winner: Nigel Hall
- Institution: University of Southampton
- Value: ?482,882
CONTRACT: Conservative treatment of appendicitis in children: a randomised, controlled trial (feasibility study)
- Award winner: Norman Waugh
- Institution: University of Warwick
- Value: ?70,410
Systematic review of treatment of dry age-related macular degeneration and Stargardt disease
Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation Programme
- Award winner: Jennifer Walsh
- Institution: University of Sheffield
- Value: ?461,059
The effect of selenium supplementation on musculoskeletal health in older women
In detail
Award winner: John Klapper
Institution: University of Birmingham
Value: ?314,730
Inner and outer exile in fascist Germany and Spain: a comparative study
This project will evaluate the cases of German writers under National Socialism (1933-45) and of Spanish writers under the Franco regime (1939-75). The research team aims to illuminate the common features of the writers from these two countries and the shared rootedness of “inner” and “outer” discourses of opposition to dictatorial regimes. Besides focusing on self-identity, terminology, literary tropes, images and the uses of history, the project will draw on archival sources to make previously unheralded works available in English translation and will open up the field for more interdisciplinary research. As discussions on these forms of exile have historically been restricted to cases of individual nations, this study is important for espousing a cross-cultural approach to the many questions around exile.