National Institute for Health Research

Health Technology Assessment Programme

• Award winner: Khalid Khan
• Institution: Queen Mary University of London
• Value: ?983,153

Accuracy of a rapid intrapartum test for maternal group B streptococcal colonisation and its potential to reduce antibiotic usage in mothers with risk factors (GBS2)

• Award winner: Daniel Prieto-Alhambra
• Institution: University of Oxford
• Value: ?340,486

Risks and benefits of bisphosphonate use in patients with chronic kidney disease: a population-based cohort study

• Award winner: Sube Banerjee
• Institution: University of Sussex
• Value: ?1,487,380

SYMBAD: Study of mirtazapine or carbamazepine for agitation in dementia

• Award winner: Brian Ritchie Davidson
• Institution: University College London
• Value: ?1,762,782

Thermal ablation versus surgery for patients with colorectal liver metastases

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Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

• Award winner: Christine Foyer
• Institution: University of Leeds
• Value: ?397,731

Functions of the Whirly 1 protein in chloroplast-nucleus crosstalk

Leverhulme Trust

Research Project Grants
Sciences

• Award winner: Adam Hardy
• Institution: Cardiff University
• Value: ?270,284

The Nagara tradition of temple architecture: continuity, transformation, renewal

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• Award winner: William Harwin
• Institution: University of Reading
• Value: ?253,141

3D learning in a rich cooperative haptic environment

• Award winner: Silvana Cardoso
• Institution: University of Cambridge
• Value: ?204,433

Precipitation reactions in environmental plumes: implication for oceanic methane releases

Social sciences

• Award winner: Miriam Bernard
• Institution: Keele University
• Value: ?140,606

The ageing of British gerontology: learning from the past to inform the future

• Award winner: Mirco Tonin
• Institution: University of Southampton
• Value: ?119,820

The long-term effects of property rights and institutional ownership on regional development

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In detail

Award winner: Jenny Thomson
Institution: University of Sheffield
Value: ?189,038

Evaluating the effect of exposure to digital text on early literacy development

This project will focus on the need to update understanding of young children¡¯s reading development in light of their increased exposure to digital texts on different-sized devices. It will explore whether learning to read text on a tablet involves different skills from learning to read from traditional print books. ¡°Certainly, as an adult, reading from digital devices can feel like a very different experience to our experience of reading from paper,¡± writes Jenny Thomson, senior lecturer in the department of human communication sciences at the University of Sheffield, in the Leverhulme Trust¡¯s newsletter. ¡°However, our experiences as individuals who first learned to read on paper will be quite different to children whose first exposure to print may be across books, tablets, computers and smartphones.¡± This project will explore whether traditional notions of early predictors for reading success need updating in the digital era.