Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

Research grants

• Award winner: Timothy Green
• Institution: Imperial College London
• Value: ?985,244

RHYTHM: resilient hybrid technology for high-value microgrids

• Award winner: Graham Hutchings
• Institution: Cardiff University
• Value: ?874,075

Parallel-screening equipment for advanced catalyst testing and process intensification

• Award winner: Alison Noble
• Institution: University of Oxford
• Value: ?507,583

EPSRC-NIHR HTC Partnership Award ¡°Plus¡±: Medical Image Analysis Network (Median)

• Award winner: Cheryl Woolhead
• Institution: University of Glasgow
• Value: ?224,752

Droplet-based microfluidic platform for intracellular ion channel drug discovery

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Natural Environment Research Council

Research grants

• Award winner: Lucy Carpenter
• Institution: University of York
• Value: ?431,594

Iodide in the ocean: distribution and impact on iodine flux and ozone loss

• Award winner: Matthew Collins
• Institution: University of Exeter
• Value: ?1,118,210

Robust spatial projections of real-world climate change

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Leverhulme Trust

Research project grants
Sciences

• Award winner: Simon Harvey
• Institution: Canterbury Christ Church University
• Value: ?88,288

Nematode genetic variation and protein misfolding disease

• Award winner: Thomas Penfold
• Institution: Newcastle University
• Value: ?146,559

Probing femtosecond dynamics with core hole spectroscopy: a theoretical approach

Research fellowships

• Award winner: Victoria Browne
• Institution: Oxford Brookes University
• Value: ?20,820

Pregnancy without birth: the philosophy and ethics of miscarriage

• Award winner: Fiona Crisp
• Institution: Northumbria University
• Value: ?48,705

Material sight: re-presenting the spaces of fundamental science

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In detail

Award winner: Neal Hinvest
Institution: University of Bath
Value: ?127,111

Elucidating the ¡®shared brain¡¯

Everything we know about how a person¡¯s social identity is formed has been based on conscious processes of measurement and self-assessment (post hoc questionnaires or verbal reports, for example). It is highly likely that the formation of a conscious social identity begins in processes within the unconscious, as decades of research have suggested. ¡°In order to understand how social identity is formed we must investigate processes occurring within both the conscious and unconscious,¡± Neal Hinvest, director of studies in the department of psychology at the University of Bath, writes on the Leverhulme Trust website. ¡°[Research has] shown that a shared emotional state between interacting individuals is necessary for a shared identity to be formed, and that underlying this shared emotional space is a sharedness in active neural processes which can be visualised by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG).¡± This project will develop a ¡°visual map¡± of the emergence of the shared identity, and will provide insight into the unconscious and conscious (emotional) processes instrumental in the development (or degradation) of a shared identity.