Leverhulme Trust

Research grants
Sciences

• Award winner: David Chesmore
• Institution: University of York
• Value: ?310,933

Automatic acoustic observatories: non-invasive long term monitoring of acoustic species

• Award winner: Michael Morgan
• Institution: City, University of London
• Value: ?122,047

A Bayesian approach to the control of eye movements in human subjects

• Award winner: James Kilner
• Institution: University College London
• Value: ?149,231

The role of emotion in believable acting

• Award winner: Sarah Horswell
• Institution: University of Birmingham
• Value: ?245,580

Advanced bioelectrochemical measurements on unsupported membranes

Natural Environment Research Council

Research grants

• Award winner: Colin Forsyth
• Institution: University College London
• Value: ?481,247

Determining and predicting the size and onset times of substorms

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• Award winner: Jarrod Hadfield
• Institution: University of Edinburgh
• Value: ?442,528

The genetic basis of family effects and the evolutionary limits to large body size

• Award winner: Andrew John Biggin
• Institution: University of Liverpool
• Value: ?436,183

Phanerozoic palaeomagnetic variations and their implications for the Earth¡¯s deep interior

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Economic and Social Research Council

Research grants

• Award winner: Adeline Delavande
• Institution: University of Essex
• Value: ?152,727

The effects of a tailored health warning on socio-economic behaviours and health outcomes

• Award winner: Katherine Twomey
• Institution: Lancaster University
• Value: ?144,531

Understanding infants¡¯ curiosity-based exploration

• Award winner: Sergio Carrera
• Institution: Queen Mary University of London
• Value: ?80,589

Anti-smuggling policies and their intersection with humanitarian assistance and social trust

In detail

Award winner: Michael Silk
Institution: Bournemouth University
Value: ?286,487

Sex work in the context of sports mega events: examining the impacts of Rio 2016

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This project will explore the implications of sports mega events (SME) on informal sex economies. The aim is to address the spatial regulation of informal sex economies during a SME, the normalisation of specific sexual identities/practices through these processes, and the challenges this poses for sex workers. ¡°Research into Olympic cities and those hosting other mega sporting events tends to focus on national-identity making, media representation and urban regeneration,¡± said Michael Silk, professor of sport at Bournemouth University. ¡°There has been much less interest in the relationship between sporting events and the informal economies that spring up around them. Media speculate that there will be a heightened demand for sexual services, but policing and other control measures are often used to disrupt the sex trade.¡± Displacing sex workers and ¡°moving them even further towards the margins can have all sorts of consequences for safety, criminal control and violence. In Brazil, the situation is very complex as sex work is a recognised legal profession, so marginalisation can leave people in vulnerable situations,¡± he said. The project will involve partners from the UK, Canada and Brazil.