School Research Grants
2013
| Full Name (Department) |
Sponsor |
Award Value |
Project Title |
Start Date |
Duration |
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Dr. Sanjay Sharma (Sociology & Communications) |
British Academy | £9931 | Twitter Racial Discourse: an analysis of #thatsracist and #notracist hashtags | 01/05/13 | 12 months |
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Professor Menelaos Karanasos (Economics & Finance) |
European commission | £74.051 | RASTANEWS - Macro risk assesment and stabilization policies with new early warning signals | 01/02/13 | 36 months |
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Dr. Mauro Costantini (Economics & Finance) |
OeNB - Austrian National Bank | £16,950 |
Forecasting & Profitability in the Foreign Exchange Market |
01/03/13 | 15 months |
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2012
| Full Name (Department) |
Sponsor |
Award Value |
Project Title |
Start Date |
Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Professor Elke Krahmann (Politics & History) |
ESRC | £277,555 | Markets in the making of multilateral military interventions (4MI): International organizations and private military and security companies | 01/06/13 | 36 months |
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Professor Guglielmo Maria Caporale Co-Investigator(Economics & Finance) |
European Commission | £28,983 | Youth Unemployment - The political economy of youth unemployment | 01/01/12 | 48 months |
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Professor Clive Seale(Sociology & Communications) |
Cancer Research UK | £35,249 |
Understanding the role of Nurses in Decisions to use Anticipatory Prescriptions to Manage Symptoms and Distress in the Last Days of Life: a Prospective Community Based Case Study using Mixed Methods |
11/10/12 | 12 months |
| Dr Filippo Del- Lucchesse (Politics&History) |
Higher Education Authority | £5,750 | Developing multimedia resources: a flexible learning approach to the history of political thought | 28/08/12 | 12 months |
|
Professor Fernand Gobet |
ESRC | £401,911 |
Developing a psychologically realistic generalisation mechanism within MOSAIC |
2012 | 36 months |
| Dr Matthew Rablen (Economics & Finance) |
ESRC | £207,620 | Optimal Audit Portfolio Design for a Tax Authority | 01/10/12 | 24 months |
|
Dr Varun Uberoi |
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada | £10,520 | Understanding Canada - Nation building through multiculturalism | 01/07/12 | 2 months |
| Dr Sharon Lockyer (Sociology & Communications) |
Sir Halley Stewart Trust |
£3,080 |
Exploring the potential of disabled comedians in improving the lives and experiences of disabled people | 01/05/12 |
18 months |
| Dr Astrid Swenson (Politics & History) |
British Academy |
£4,814 | Crusader heritages and imperial preservation | 01/04/12 |
18 months |
| Professor Clare Williams (Sociology & Communications) |
Wellcome Trust |
£9,686 |
Selective reproductive technologies: framings, choices, responsibilities | 01/04/12 |
12 months |
| Dr Jan Fidrmuc (Economics & Finance) |
Low Pay Commission | £15,278 | An investigation into the impact of the minimum wage regime on employmnet and hours of young workers by sector and size of firm | 01/03/12 | 8 months |
| Professor John Bennett (Economics & Finance) |
IZA GmbH (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit) | £5,000 |
Understanding informal employment in transition: The case of Georgia | 16/02/12 |
1 month |
| Dr Sarita Malik (Sociology & Communications) |
AHRC |
£38,905 |
Diasporic film in communities: A scoping study of the relationship between screen culture, stakeholders and communities | 14/02/12 |
8 months |
2011
| Full Name (Department) |
Sponsor |
Award Value |
Project Title |
Start Date |
Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Philip Davies (Politics & History) |
Raytheon UK |
£2,500 |
BCISS Seminar Series AY 2011-12 | 01/12/11 |
8 months |
| Dr Rachel Crockett (Psychology) |
National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) | £154,137 |
Avoiding paradoxical effects of food packaging to achieve healthy eating: A mixed methods approach (transfer-in, Fellowship) | 01/11/11 |
12 months |
| Dr Monica Degen (Sociology & Communications) |
ESRC |
£25,994 |
Visualising Architecture - architectural atmospheres, branding and social: the role of digital visualizing technologies in contemporary architectural practice | 01/10/11 |
24 months |
| Dr Nicolas Argenti (Anthropology) |
ESRC |
£234,444 |
Remembering absence: catastrophe, displacement & identity among chiots and chiot diaspora | 29/09/11 |
48 months |
| Dr Varun Uberoi (Politics & History) |
British Academy |
£4,080 | Nation-building through policies of multiculturalism | 01/09/11 |
36 months |
| Dr Eric Hirsch (Anthropology) |
Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) | £53,643 | RAI fellowship programme - 2x fellowships | 01/09/11 |
36 months |
| Dr Barbara Prainsack (Sociology & Communications) |
Nuffield Foundation |
£3,000 |
Travel/Conference grant - emerging issues in international forensic bioinformation exchange | 01/09/11 |
4 months |
| Dr Noam Sagiv (Psychology) |
Mind Science Foundation | $15,000 | Conscious and unconscious olfactory processing in response to visual stimuli | 01/08/11 |
12 months |
| Professor Kenneth Morgan (Politics & History) |
British Library |
£4,200 |
A survey of the endangered archives of St. Vincent, West Indies, during the slavery era | 01/06/11 |
2 months |
| Dr Charlotte Russell (Psychology) |
FUNDAÇÃO Bial | £18,644 | Memory for personal experience and the parietal cortex | 01/06/11 |
48 months |
| Dr Andrew Beatty (Anthropology) |
British Academy |
£4,130 |
Emotion in two Indonesian Societies: a contribution to ethnography, methodology, and comparativism | 01/03/11 |
2 months |
| Dr Matt Vladeanu (Psychology) |
British Academy |
£6,740 | Brain lateralisation for processing facial emotion, autistic traits and their relation to prenatal testosterone exposure | 01/03/11 |
15 months |
| Ms Dilruba Karim (Economics & Finance) |
ESRC |
£103,529 |
An investigation into the causes of banking crises and early warning system design | 04/01/11 |
15 months |
| Dr Tom Widger (Anthropology) |
ESRC |
£86,893 |
Suicidal Behaviour in a globalising context: Exploring changing causalities and moralities of self-harm in Sri Lanka and comparative settings | 01/01/11 |
12 months |
2010
| Full Name (Department) |
Sponsor |
Award Value |
Project Title |
Start Date |
Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Philip Davies (Politics & History) |
European Commision |
£50,286 |
CITEX - competitive intelligence in trade and export | 01/12/10 |
13 months |
| Dr Matthew Rablen (Economics & Finance) |
ESRC |
£31,594 |
Optimal audit policy for a TAX evasion network | 01/11/10 |
12 months |
| Professor Fernand Gobet (Psychology) |
British Academy |
£83,447 | Cognitive models of problem gambling: testing the implicit-learning hypothesis | 01/10/10 |
18 months |
| Professor Taeko Wydell (Psychology) |
British Academy |
£128,907 |
A cross-cultural and cross-linguistic study of reading processes including dyslexia in France, UK and Japan | 01/10/10 |
16 months |
| Professor David Bunce (Psychology) |
The Leverhulme Trust |
£42,874 |
Early detection of cognitive decline and dementia | 01/09/10 |
24 months |
| Dr Stanley Gaines Co-I(Psychology) | ESRC |
£499,894 |
Asessing wellbeing for the alleviation of poverty | 01/08/10 |
36 months |
| Professor Clare Williams (Sociology & Communications) |
SHI Charitable Foundation |
£17,579 |
Co-editing the journal 'Sociology of Health and Illness' | 01/08/10 |
24 months |
| Professor Steven Wainwright (Sociology & Communications) |
SHI Charitable Foundation |
£17,579 |
Co-editing the journal 'Sociology of Health and Illness' | 01/08/10 |
24 months |
| Professor Robin Goodwin (Psychology) |
US Airforce |
£52,627 |
Modelling responses to rapid societal changes in Georgia, China and the US | 01/06/10 |
25 months |
| Professor Robin Goodwin (Psychology) |
Medical Research Council (MRC) |
£22,666 |
Lay perceptions, prejudice and the natural environment in the spread of animal-human and human-human infections | 01/05/10 |
9 months |
| Professor Justin Fisher (Politics & History) |
The Electoral Commission |
£9,990 |
Survey of election agents 2010 | 01/04/10 |
33 months |
| Dr Jan Fidrmuc (Economics & Finance) |
Low-Pay Commission |
£15,278 |
The impact of the national minimum wage on the labour market outcomes of young workers in recession | 01/04/10 |
7 months |
| Professor Nauro Campos (Economics & Finance) |
ESRC |
£61,435 |
The PBR-5 Network for the interdisciplinary analysis of the Brazilian economic restructuring process | 01/04/10 |
25 months |
| Professor Elisabetta Iossa (Economics & Finance) |
Nuffield Foundation |
£6,500 |
Relational contracting in public procurement | 01/03/10 |
15 months |
| Dr Melissa Parker (Anthropology) |
Imperial College London (under the auspices of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) | £38,388 |
Development, implementation and evaluation of a health package for poor populations in Burkina Faso, Niger and Tanzania - a move towards integration | 01/01/10 |
24 months |
2009
| Full Name (Department) |
Sponsor |
Award Value |
Project Title |
Start Date |
Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr John Macmillan (Politics & History) |
ESRC |
£17,923 |
Rethinking Intervention: Intervention and the Making of the Modern World | 23/10/09 |
15 months |
| Dr Peggy Froerer (Anthropology) |
ESRC |
£26,486 |
ESRC 1+3 Studentship for Adam Michael Connelly | 01/10/09 |
48 months |
| Dr Kristian Gustafson (Politics & History) |
British Academy |
£6,350 |
US Covert Actions: The CIA-DOD Dilemma | 01/10/09 |
24 months |
| Dr Fabio Spagnolo (Economics & Finance) |
Technology Strategy Board (TSB) | £97,200 |
KTP project with OptiRisk Systems Limited | 01/09/09 |
19 months |
| Dr Sumon Bhaumik (Economics & Finance) |
British Academy |
£3,600 |
Winners and losers: How does state-ownership of banks affect privately-owned firms' access to credit | 01/08/09 |
18 months |
| Professor Nauro Campos (Economics & Finance) |
Department for International Development (DFID) | £151,895 |
Secondment of Professor Nauro Campos | 01/06/09 |
46 months |
| Professor Clare Williams (Sociology & Communications) |
Wellcome Trust |
£820,000 |
The ethics of translational research: from 'unnatural entities' to experimental treatments. (Transfer-in) | 01/04/09 |
60 months |
| Professor David Bunce (Psychology) |
British Academy |
£6,700 |
Genetic, neuroanatomical, and mental health influences on attention in old age | 01/03/09 |
23 months |
| Professor Fernand Gobet (Psychology) |
ESRC |
£385,024 | Modelling the (expert) mind | 01/03/09 |
36 months |
| Professor Taeko Wydell (Psychology) |
ESRC |
£13,207 |
Using Rotated Text to Investigate Cross Cultural Differences in Reading | 01/02/09 |
22 months |
| Dr Ralitza Dimova (Economics & Finance) |
British Academy |
£29,135 |
The impact of macroeconomic policies and exogenous shocks on employment and poverty in Africa: Simulations for Benin, Burkina Faso and Senegal | 01/01/09 |
24 months |
2008
| Full Name (Department) |
Sponsor |
Award Value |
Project Title |
Start Date |
Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Guy Liu (Economics & Finance) |
European Commission |
£167,824 |
China's Electricity Industry: Efficiency, growth and the environment (CEI-EGE) | 01/11/08 |
48 months |
| Professor Fernand Gobet (Psychology) |
ESRC |
£389,874 | Modelling the cross-linguistic pattern of verb-marking and utterance-internal omission errors in MOSAIC using syllabified input | 01/08/08 |
36 months |
| Dr Matthew Hughes (Politics & History) |
Marine Corps University Foundation Inc | £25,000 |
Secondment of Dr Matthew Hughes (Horner Chair) | 01/07/08 |
32 months |
