Leverhulme Trust

Research Fellowships
Sciences

• Award winner: Susan Brooks
• Institution: Birkbeck, University of London
• Value: ?42,914

Development and application of a new shoreline response model

• Award winner: Emma Hart
• Institution: Edinburgh Napier University
• Value: ?34,465

Ensemble methods for optimisation

• Award winner: Andrew James Fleming
• Institution: University of Sheffield
• Value: ?38,033

Cell wall mechanics and stomatal function

Humanities

• Award winner: Stephen Barker
• Institution: University of Nottingham
• Value: ?40,000

Language agency: new foundations for a theory of communication

• Award winner: Crispin Branfoot
• Institution: Soas, University of London
• Value: ?48,638

Pious vandalism: building temples in the Tamil Renaissance, 1850?1930

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

Research grants

• Award winner: Anthony Bengough
• Institution: University of Dundee
• Value: ?79,076

Rhizosphere by design: breeding to select root traits that physically manipulate soil

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• Award winner: Eileen Wall
• Institution: SRUC, Scotland¡¯s Rural College
• Value: ?271,755

Developing next-generation genetic improvement tools from next-generation sequencing

• Award winner: John Brameld
• Institution: University of Nottingham
• Value: ?335,296

Novel targets for increased muscle growth or feed efficiency

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• Award winner: Sue Vaughan
• Institution: Oxford Brookes University
• Value: ?472,200

Using SBEM and cellular electron tomography to study the basal body/pro-basal body linker

• Award winner: Natalia Sanchez?Soriano
• Institution: University of Liverpool
• Value: ?401,844

Understanding essential roles of microtubule regulators during synapse formation and maintenance

In detail

US-UK Fulbright Commission: Fulbright Scholar Award

Award winner: Philip Kaisary
Institution: University of Warwick
Value: About ?40,000 ($60,000)

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From the Haitian Revolution to Appomattox: law, slavery and citizenship in the Atlantic World, 1791-1865

This project will explore the impact of the Haitian Revolution of 1791 to 1804 on 19th-century debates about liberty and bondage in the US and around the Atlantic more widely. ¡°The Haitian Revolution was the only successful slave revolt in world history, and I am especially interested in its impact on the discourses of free black men and women in the antebellum United States,¡± Philip Kaisary, assistant professor of law at the University of Warwick, told Times Higher Education. Scholars have long overlooked the Haitian Revolution, Professor Kaisary said. ¡°The field is young and much work remains. I am hopeful that through this project I will be able to offer a more nuanced account of 19th-century interpretations of the revolution,¡± he continued. ¡°The project will cast new light on the significance of the decline of slavery in the 19th century for our world today. It will also encourage a shift of perspective that gives the Haitian Revolution a place in American and Atlantic history that is much more central than the one it enjoys today. The work will, in addition, recall the voices of Haiti¡¯s ex-slave revolutionaries and their still-unfulfilled project of dignity, justice and liberation.¡±