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Below is a list of known successful applications submitted.  In some cases the Principal Investigator has given permission for us to share the successful application.  These applications can be accessed by clicking on the project title, this facility is only available to UoN staff.


 

 

Known successful applications August 2012 to present

Funder and Scheme Staff Member Project Title Outcome date
Leverhulme Trust, Philip Leverhulme Prize Vlassopoulos Kostas, Classics (Humanities) Philip Leverhulme Prize - Classics 19-Dec-12
Leverhulme Trust, Major Research Fellowship Johnson Chris, French (Modern Languages) Chris Johnson - Major Research Fellowship - Language, technology, aesthetics: the work of André Leroi-Gourhan 19-Dec-12
Leverhulme Trust, Major Research Fellowship O'Connell Davidson Julia, Sociology Julia O'Connell Davidson - Major Research Fellowship - 'Modern Slavery' and the margins of Freedom: Debtors, Detainees and Children 18-Dec-12
AHRC, Fellowships Taylor Jeremy, Contempory Chinese Studies Jeremy Taylor Fellowship - 'Enemy of the People': Visual Representations of Chiang Kai-shek in communist, Japanese and Taiwanese propaganda 12-Dec-12
Department for International Development, IGC Country Programme Morrissey Oliver, Economics Expanding Agricultural Production in Tanzania 04-Dec-12
Institute of Development Studies, Research Contract Morrissey Oliver, Economics Aid and Tax Effort: New Data New Evidence 03-Dec-12
Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, Council Grants Eidinow Esther, Classics (Humanities) Postgraduate bursaries to attend workshops on the relation of ancient religion with cognitive science 16-Nov-12
Danish Research Council, Advanced Grant Taylor Robert, Economics Developing and implimenting new bootstrap methods for the econometric analysis of financial and macroeconomic time sries data 16-Nov-12
Leverhulme Trust, Philip Leverhulme Prize Finglass Patrick, Classics (Humanities) Philip Leverhulme Prize - Classics 01-Nov-12
NERC, Small Grant Jones Matthew, Geography Climate Change and the Plague of Justinian 02-Oct-12
Human Sciences Research Council, Research Contract McGrath Simon, Education Labour Market Intelligence Project 2 20-Sep-12
Humboldt Foundation, Feador Lynen Research Fellowship Harvey Liz, History A Social History of the "Fourth Age". Very Old People in the Aging Societies of West Germany, Britain and Italy, 1960 - 1990 14-Sep-12
British Academy, Small Research Grant Eidinow Esther, Classics (Humanities) Religious Belief and Ritual Practice: Ancient and Modern Approaches 13-Sep-12
AHRC, Creative Economy Knowledge Exchange Projects Benford Steve, Computer Science Archives, Audiences and Industrial Heritage: new modes to engage audiences with archival content and heritage sites 06-Sep-12
AHRC, Fellowships Sharman Adam, Hispanic Studies (Modern Languages) Adam Sharman Fellowship - Moments of Modernity in Spanish America 06-Sep-12
Higher Education Academy, Teaching Development Grant Binks Martin, Business School Dirk Moosmeyer, Ningbo - Assessing Active Class Participation in a Sino-British Context 23-Aug-12


 


Known successful applications August 2011 to July 2012

Funder & Scheme  Staff Member Project Title Outcome date
NESTA, Research Contract Crook Charles, Education Education in a digital environment: An overview of leading practice for technology in learning 26-Jul-2012
ESRC, Centres and Large Grants Starmer Chris, Economics Network for Integrated Behavioural Science 09-Jul-2012
Nuffield Foundation, Open Door Fenn Paul, Business School Funding clinical negligence cases: Access to justice at reasonable cost? 02-Jul-2012
EU, COST Action Foody Giles, Geography Mapping and the citizen sensor (MCS) 30-Jun-2012
ESRC, Future Resaerch Leaders Ganguli Jayant, Economics Economic implications of ambiguity 23-Jun-2012
AHRC, Collaborative Doctoral Award Studentship Ramsay Gordon, English Reimagining the rural tour: new forms for new audiences 12-Jun-2012
AHRC, Collaborative Doctoral Award Studentship Daniels Stephen, Geography Painter and Place: exhibiting the art of Joseph Wright in Derby, 1800-1900 12-Jun-2012
ESRC, Small Grant Ferguson Harry, Sociology Performing child protection: Social workers' experiences of home visiting and relating to children and their parents in their homes 11-Jun-2012
ESRC, RGC Joint Research Scheme Gu Qing, Education Bilateral (Hong Kong) - Reshaping Educational Practice for Improvement in Hong Kong and the UK: How schools mediate government reforms 11-Jun-2012
Leverhulme Trust, Early Career Fellowship Harvey Liz, History Esperanza Rodriguez-Garcia Leverhulme EC Fellowship - Creating, marketing and distributing music in the renaissance: Tomas Luis de Victoria 08-June-2012
AHRC, Networks McLelland Nicola, German (Modern Languages) Towards a History of Modern Foreign Language Teaching and Learning (MFLTL) 06-Jun-2012
AHRC, Fellowships Lewthwaite Stephanie, American and Canadian Studies Early Career Fellowship - Remaking Modernism: Cross-Cultural Encounters in Hispano Art, 1930-1960 31-May-2012
Leverhulme Trust, Early Career Fellowship Davies Catherine, Hispanic Studies (Modern Languages) Katya Krylova - Leverhulme EC Fellowship - The Treatment of the Past and Austrian Identity in Contemporary Austrian Literature and Film 29-May-2012
AHRC, Early Career Fellowship McDonagh Briony, Geography Beyond the park pale: elite women and the agricultural landscape, 1700-1830 25-May-2012
AHRC, Early Career Fellowship Nikita Kalliopi, Archaeology (Humanities) Early Career Fellowship - From Thebes to Mycenae: exploring divergent vitreous industries in Mycenaean Greece 25-May-2012
AHRC, Fellowships Young John, History Case study of an Ambassador: David Bruce and the American Embassy in London, 1961-69 24-May-2012
ESRC, Knowledge Exchange Opportunities Goodwin Matthew, Politics Extremism and its Support: Developing more effective policy responses 17-May-2012
ESRC, Research Seminar Series Stickley Theo, Nursing Researching Arts, Health and Wellbeing 25-Apr-2012
Marc Fitch Fund, Research Funding Riden Philip, History The Household Accounts of William Cavendish, 1st Baron Cavendish of Hardwick, 1597-1607 23-Apr-2012
Leverhulme Trust, Research Fellowship Predelli Stefano, Philosophy (Humanities) Meaning and Conversation 11-Apr-2012
British Academy, Small Research Grant Jergens Fiona, Business School Fear and loathing in the Acute Hospital?  The recognition and maintenance of empathy druing the discharge process towards frail people 26-Mar-2012
British Academy, Small Research Grant Foody Giles, Geography Neogeography and mapping 26-Mar-2012
British Academy, Small Research Grant Bernhofen Daniel, Economics Exploiting a natural experiment to assess the welfare effects from international trade 26-Mar-2012
British Academy, Small Research Grant Riden Philip, History Transport and Trade in the East Midlands 1660-1840 26-Mar-2012
British Academy, Small Research Grant Jones Susan, Education New literacies and cross-generational learning: an ethnography of everyday family practices on a Midlands council estate 23-Mar-2012
British Academy, Small Research Grant Henderson Julian, Archaeology (Humanities) The first provenance of Hittite glass 23-Mar-2012
British Council, Jewitt Sarah, Geography Climate Change, Environmental Degradation, Livelihood Security and Conservation of Tropical Peatland

20-Mar-2012

 

AHRC, Networks Heffernan Mike, Geography Re-Enacting the Silk Road: East-West Encounters for the 21st Century 13-Mar-2012
ESRC, Pump Priming Priestnall Gary, Geography Spatial Knowledge Acquisition: Exploring the Potential of the Projection Augmented Relief Model (PARM) technique 13-Feb-2012
AHRC, Follow on Fund Davies Catherine, Hispanic Studies (Modern Languages) Women and Independence in Latin America: A New Multimedia Community-Contributed and Community-Drive Online Resource 13-Feb-2012
AHRC, Networks Lorenz Katharina, Classics (Humanities) Data - Method - Asset.  Harnessing the infinitive archive 13-Feb-2012
Nottingham City Primary Care Trust, Tender Shaw Ian, Sociology CVD Risk and Statin Uptake in Primary Care 09-Feb-2012
AHRC, Skills Development Call Arts Graduate Centre Hidden Collections: From Archive to Asset 07-Feb-2012
AHRC, Communities, Cultures, Health & Well-Being Post Workshop Funding Crawford Paul, Nursing Mutual Recovery for Mental Health and Wellbeing through Creative Practice 02-Feb-2012

AHRC, Researching Environmental Change

Endfield Georgina, Geography 

Local Places, Public Values: Embedding Histories of Environmental Change (lead institute Bristol)

30-Jan-2012

AHRC, Connected Communities Scoping Studies and Research Reviews 

Seymour Susanne, Geography 

Writing Our History and Digging Our Past: Enhancing and Expanding Community History and Archaeology Through Academic Engagement 

25-Jan-2012 

 AHRC, Translating Cultures: Research Development Networking

Yuan Xiaohui, Modern Languages 

Translating Cultures in International Dispute Resolution 

23-Jan-2012 

AHRC, Translating Cultures: Research Development Networking Call

Miller Viven, American and Canadian Studies

Translating Penal Cultures

23-Jan-2012

AHRC, Follow on Fund

Grainge Paul, American and Canadian Studies

TV and Digital Promotion: Agile Strategies for a New Media Ecology

20-Jan-2012

AHRC, Science in Culture Exploratory Awards

Metcalfe Sarah, Geography

Representing and communicating uncertainty: climate change and risk

19-Jan-2012

NERC, Standard Grant

Swann George, Geography

Silicon isotope records of recent environmental change and anthropogenic pollution from Lake Baikal, Siberia

19-Jan-2012

AHRC, Early Career Fellowship

Frank Siggy, Russian and Slavonic Studies (Modern Languages)

Vanishing worlds: Russian exile culture in Paris under the Nazis

04-Jan-2012

 AHRC, Early Career Fellowship

Malloch Simon, Classics (Humanities) 

An edition of Menander's Samia with introduction and commentary

04-Jan-2012

European Commission, FP7-SSH-20011-2

Holford John, Education

Lifelong Learning, Innivaion, Growth and Human Capital Tracks in Europe (LLLIGHT'in'Europe) (lead institute Zeppelin University)

01-Jan-2012

States of Guernsey, Tender

Stafford Bruce, Sociology

Provision of Disability Needs Survey

01-Jan-2012

AHRC, Early Career Fellowship

Finglass Patrick, Classics (Humanities)

Dama International: fallow deer (Dama dama dama) as a medium for exploring the nature and dynamics of European society 4000 BC - AD 1600

10-Oct-2011

AHRC, Follow on Fund

Baron Nick, History

Refugees in post-1945 Europe: experiences in and beyond the DP camp

02-Sept-2011

Nominet Trust, Research Funding

Crook Charles, Education

Virtual Walking: Rich Mobile Communications to Enhance Social Interaction and Cultural Particiapation for Isolated Individuals

11-Aug-2011

Leverhulme Trust, Research Fellowship

Fawcett James, Law

Human Rights & Private International Law

02-Aug-2011



 

 

Known successful applications August 2010 to July 2011

Funder & Scheme  Staff Member Project title Outcome date
EU Fundamental Rights Agency, Tender Harris David, HRLC (Law) 18-Jul-2011
Leverhulme Trust, Early Career Fellowship Thompson Graham, American and Canadian Studies Michael Collins Early Career Fellowship - Reluctant Cosmopolitans: Solidarity, Diversity and Realism in Gilded Age America 15-Jul-2011
British Academy, Small Research Grant Hibberd Sarah, Music (Humanities) Opera as spectacle: staging practices in France and Italy during the mid-19C 12-Jul-2011
ESRC, Knowledge Exchange Small Grants Hirono Miwa, Politics What is Quebecois Literature? 11-Apr-11
EPSRC, Bridging the Urban and Rural Divide Clarke Michele, Geography Rural Hybrid Energy Enterprise Systems 28-Mar-11
ESRC, RGC Joint Research Scheme Heywood Paul, Politics Re-designing the Integrity Management Framework in the British, Chinese, & Hong Kong Public Services 24-Mar-11
AHRC, Museums and Galleries Research Programme Follow-up Funding Turville-Petre Thorlac, English New Audiences for the Wollaton Antiphonal: widening engagement through innovative technology 01-Mar-11
Loeb Classical Library Foundation, Research Grant Hodkinson Stephen, Classics (Humanities) Comparing Spartan Militarism 28-Feb-11
ESRC, micro data - China Song Lina, Sociology The Impacts of Fall in Exports on Livelihoods in China 25-Feb-11
AHRC, Fellowships Bernier Celeste-Marie, AmCan Philip Leverhulme Prize 29-Oct-10
Leverhulme Trust, Philip Leverhulme Prize Bernier Celeste-Marie, AmCan Financial Literacy and Over-Indebtedness in the United Kingdom 28-Sep-10
EPSRC, Ideas Factory Grainger Andrew, Business School IDEAS Factory - Risk Taking for Resilience 14-Sep-10
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Clark/Allemand Fellowship Wrigley Richard, Art History (Humanities) Clark/Allemand Fellowship 09-Sep-10
MoD, Research Grant Chuah Swee-Hoon, Business School Understanding and Influencing in Cyberspace 27-Aug-10
ESRC, Standard Grant Busby Helen, Sociology Risk, safety and consent in contemporary blood services in the United Kingdom: perspectives from sociology and law 17-Aug-10
ESRC, Standard Grant Bieler Andreas, Politics Globalisation, National Transformation and Worker's Rights: An Analysis of Chinese Labour Within the Global Economy 17-Aug-10
AHRC, Early Career Fellowship Ryan Maria, American and Canadian Studies The English Village: culture, economy and society in the long run 13-Aug-10
AHRC, Early Career Fellowship Sinclair Neil, Philosophy (Humanities) Neil Sinclair Fellowship - Moral Descriptivism and Mental Content 13-Aug-10
ESRC, Small Grant  Munro Vanessa, Law 05-Aug-10
 

Known successful applications August 2009 to July 2010
 Funder & Scheme   Staff Member  Project Title Outcome Date
RCUK, China Workshop Stringer Julian, American and Canadian Studies Mapping Present and Future Media Cultures in China: The Presentation of Digital 3-D Cinema in the World’s Biggest Market 29-Jul-10
British Academy, BARDA Morgan Stephen, Contempory Chinese Studies Welfare and Economic Growth in Early Modern China, 17-19th Centuries 05-Jul-10 
British Academy, BARDA Gottsche Dirk, German (Modern Languages)  The Politics of Cultural Memory and Nineteenth-Century German Literature  05-Jul-10 
European Commission, FP7  Nathanail Paul, Geography  FP7 - Holistic Management of Brownfield Regeneration (HOMBRE)  22-Jun-10
British Academy, BARDA  Warren Tracy, Sociology Changing Gender and Class Inequalities in Economic Well being in Britain?  21-Jun-10 
British Academy, Small Research Grant  du Bois Francois, Law    18-Jun-10
British Academy, Small Research Grant  Sullivan Jon, Politics  'Scientific Marvels' in Early Modern Europe  14-Jun-10 
British Academy, Small Research Grant Merovach Irit, Law  Recognition and Relief under UNCITRAL: A Comparative Empirical Study  14-Jun-10 
British Academy, Small Research Grant  Goldfinch Shaun, Business School  Lisa McKenzie Early Career Fellowship - Council Estate Life: Belonging and Exclusion  28-May-10
AHRC, Early Career Fellowship McMichael Polly, Russian and Slavonic Studies (Modern Languages)  Rock Stardom in Late Soviet Culture: Performing Identities under Socialism  26-May-10 
  Steven Michael, Geography  the Detection of Archaelogical Residues Using Remote Sensing Techgniques - (DART)  05-May-10 
AHRC, Researching Environmental Change  Endfield Georgina, Geography  24th Annual MELUS Conference  19-Apr-10 
AHRC, Fellowships  Barker Stephen, Philosophy  Beyond Semantics: A theory of language in which semantics has no role in explaining how language functions  19-Apr-10 
Meditteranean Archaeological Trust,  Cavanagh Bill, Archaeology (Humanities)  Kouphovouno Publication  16-Apr-10
British Academy, Overseas Conference Grant  Thompson Graham, American and Canadian Studies  Exploiting corpus research for English Language teaching applications  24-Mar-10 
British Academy, Small Research Grant  Bradley Mark, Classics (Humanities)  Antecedents of internationalisation in emerging economies; the role of government support  25-Feb-10 
British Academy, Small Research Grant  La Chimia Annamaria, Law  Food Aid Policies on both sides of the Atlantic  25-Feb-10 
British Academy, Small Research Grant  Sewell Bevan, American and Canadian Studies Herman Melville's Magazine Fiction and 1850s Print Culture  25-Feb-10
British Academy, Small Research Grant  Appleby David, History  In Redcoat Rags: The Demilitarisation of Restoration Britain  25-Feb-10 
British Academy, Small Research Grant  Fraser David, Law  Philip Leverhulme Prize  10-Nov-09 
ESRC, Small Grant  Taylor Robert, Economics  Robust Testing for Unit Roots in the Presence of Multiple Breaks in Trend and Volatility  28-Oct-09 
European Commission, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship 2007 - 2013 Yip Andrew, Sociology  Citizens in Diversity 20-Oct-09
NERC, Directed Proposal  Aplin Paul, Geography  Innovative Technologies for Terrestrial Earth Observation  14-Oct-09 
EPSRC, Cross-Displinary Feasability Account  Benford Steve, Computer Science  Towards Pervasive Media  08-Oct-09 
US Department of Defence, ERAP   Thornton Ian Rod, Politics Examining the current process of organisational change in the Russian Airborne Forces  25-Sep-09
Internal, Research Strategy Fund Townsend Sue, History Workshops of the World: A Comparative History of Nagoya, Japan and Birmingham 23-Sep-09 
Leverhulme Trust, Research Project Grant Baker John, English  Landscapes of Governance: Assembly Sites in England, 5th - 11th Centuries  14-Sep-09
British Academy, Overseas Conference Grant  Sommerstein Alan, Classics (Humanities)  Crisis on Stage: Tragedy and Comedy in Late 5th Century Athens  21-Aug-09 
British Academy, Overseas Conference Grant  Zoric Vladimir, Russian and Slavonic Studies (Modern Languages) 41st Annual Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies  18-Aug-09 
British Academy, Overseas Conference Grant Miller Viven, American and Canadian Studies  American Studies Annual Meeting 2009: Practices of Citizenship, Sustainability and Belonging  18-Aug-09 
British Academy, Conference Support Adlington Robert, Music (Humanities) 

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