New grants to be published as at November 2001

Posted on Friday 30 November 2001

AHRB Dr M Jenner History

A Cleanly City? Cleanliness, Dirt and Public Health in Early Modern London.

£9,453 3 months

AHRB Mr Peter Blair English

Additional funding for a study visit to South Africa re "South African Fiction in English during apartheid 1948-90."

£2,210 4 months

AHRB Dr M Garrison History

Writers from the British Isles and their influence in early Medieval Bavaria. (Exchange with Institut fuer Oesterreichische Geshichtsforshung Professor Dr A Scharer)

Our knowledge of the literary culture and ideology of the early medieval world advances through detailed and exacting studies of texts and individuals as well as works of synthesis. Thus, localizing and attributing texts are tasks which must go hand in hand with attempts to sketch a larger picture. The project aims to answer specific questions about two eighth century writers. The findings will, in turn, contribute to a larger view of the interpretation and re-evaluation of insular activity in early medieval Bavaria.

Emigres from Anglo-Saxon England and Ireland, often called peregrini, played a crucial note in introducing and spreading literacy and christianity to continental Europe in the early middle ages. Using manuscripts and printed sources, my research will investigate the writings and careers of two of these peregrini who were active eighth-century south Germany.

£10,500 3 months

AHRB Dr S Pintzuk Language & Linguistics

Research Leave Scheme re: Verb-object order in the history of English.

£13,254 4 months

AHRB Dr S Rees-Jones Centre for Medieval Studies

Research Leave Scheme - Medieval York 1100-1475.

£9,453 3 months

Association for Science Education Prof J Holman Chemistry

Key Stage 4 Mini-projects during Science Year 2001.

£30,000 8 months

BBSRC Dr K Kirkpatrick Psychology

Temporal content and transfer effects in classical conditioning.

£155,220 3 years

BBSRC Dr J McGrady Chemistry

Biological nitrogen fixation: A functional role for metal-metal bonds.

£92,716 2 years

BBSRC Dr S M Bougourd Biology

Cell cycle dynamics and the specification of cell fate during stomatal patterning in Arabidopsis.

£237,216 3 years

BBSRC Dr D Ashford Biology

The role of peptide-n-glycanases and n-glycans in plant development.

£50,350 3 years

BBSRC Dr F Maathuis Biology

Ion transport across mycorrhizal membranes.

£194,900 3 years

BBSRC Dr M Rumsby Biology

Regulation of Protein Kinase C-Epsilon function in fibroblasts by a SER729 phosphatase B-Cop and myosin.

£217,716 3 years

Bio4 Limited Prof J Austin, Computer Science and Dr N E Pears

Student Sponsorship Agreement. Face recognition using neural networks and computer vision methods.

£65,450 3 years

BP Amoco plc Prof J Clark Chemistry

Funding for 1 Mres student for the year 2001/02 for Clean Chemical Technology.

£14,000 1 year

British Academy Dr Rachel Utley Politics

France and European Security.

£2,067 1.5 months

The British Heart Foundation Dr J Molloy Biology

Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; effects of mutations in B-cardiac myosin on force in vivo and in vitro.

£6,530 2 years

The British Library and the Wellcome Trust Chris Webb BIHR

Research Resources in Medical History - Preservation Project for the York NHS Archive.

£23,076 1 year

Cellutions Ltd Prof H Leese Biology

Embryo culture media development.

£41,900 18 months

Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (NERC) Prof M Cresser Environment

Terrestrial Umbrella - Eutrophication and acidification of terrestrial ecosystems in the UK.

£98,680 3 years

CLRC Mrs E J Dodson, Chemistry and Dr S McNicholas

Support to develop CCP4 molecular graphics package.

£143,376 3 years

Department for Education and Skills

Prof M Stein, SPSW and Prof E C Melhuish Birkbeck College

Subcontract from Birkbeck College: Sure Start National Evaluation.

£145,548 3 years

Department for Education and Skills Patricia Thornton SPRU

Employment - focussed services for disabled people: mapping existing and innovative practice in Great Britain.

£40,378 9 months

Department for Education and Skills Dr Karen Mumford Economics

Summer Placement in Whitehall 2001. To be served at the Department of Trade and Industry investigating: "The availability of family friendly work practices to single parents in Britain."

£7,000 6 months

Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions Dr Christine Oldman CHP

Information guide on the range of accommodation and support options for older people.

£28,243 6 months

Department of Health

Dr F Fylan, Health Sciences and Dr Mitchell Thomson, University of Derby and Dr Stefano Seri, The Birmingham Children's Hospital

Development of a new test of visual function for children and infants.

£63,845 15 months

Department of Health Prof M Drummond and Prof R Carr Hill CHE

Centre for Health Economics - core funding.

£1,438,820 5 years

£250,000 5 years (total £1,688,820)

Department of Health Prof S Baldwin SPRU

5 year programme grant for work on outcomes and service quality.

£1,970,295 5 years

DETR in collaboration with the University of Bradford

Dr L Emberson SEIY and Prof M Ashmore University of Bradford

Development of application of methods for modelling and mapping ozone deposition and stomatal flux in Europe.

£29,206 3 years

DTI Dr N Carslaw Environment

Gas standards for indoor and in-car air: An investigation of the causes of indoor air pollution.

£5,100 1 year

DSS Prof J Bradshaw SPRU

A comparative study of child benefit packages.

£85,318 10 months

Employment Service Dr P Thornton SPRU

Impact of Access to Work Evaluation.

£149,101 10 months

Employment Service Dr P Thornton SPRU

Good practice in work preparation.

£68,788 (£22,450 for York and £46,338 for Strathclyde Centre for Disability Research)

8 months

Employment Service Dr P Thornton SPRU

Evaluation of Access to Work and Workstep: Feasibility Study.

£16,174 5 months

EPSRC Dr L Carpenter Chemistry

On-line time-of-flight analyser for atmospheric measurements of oxygenated organics.

£237,021 3 years

EPSRC Prof Godby Physics

A Beowulf computer for condensed matter, crystallography, plasma physics and biophysics. A powerful supercomputer to support research in these four research groups in the Department of Physics.

£239,377 3 years

EPSRC Dr V Chechik Chemistry

Thiolated oligomers as building blocks for hollow nanospheres.

£62,541 3 years

EPSRC Prof J H Clark Chemistry

Masters Training Package regarding Mres in Clean Chemical Technology.

£609,953 5 years

EPSRC Dr A K Duhme-Klair Chemistry

Luminescent sensors for molybdate from siderophore derivatives.

£60,764 3 years

EPSRC Dr D Halliday Electronics

The role of correlated synaptic activity in neural integration. Towards an understanding of information processing in the human brain.

£61,941 2 years

EPSRC Prof J A D Matthew Physics

Electronic and magnetic characteristics of a new generation of amorphous alloys. Work to be carried out in conjunction with Leeds University.

£40,210 (£15,954 being ticket facilities) 2 years

EPSRC Prof E Corrigan Mathematics

Training grant for the Masters Training Package entitled "Data Analysis Networks & Nonlinear Dynmics."

£605,390 5 years

EPSRC Prof R Taylor Chemistry

Spirocyclic B-Lactone-Y-Lactams; Synthesis of oxazolomycins.

£176,179 3 years

EPSRC Prof Babiker Physics

Optical spanners: The interaction of laguerre-Gaussain laser beams with chiral molecules.

£59,552 3 years

ESRC Prof J Local Language & Linguistics

Structured variation in the phonetic interpretation of British English Liquids.

£40,933.62 1 year

European Commission Prof James Clark Chemistry

Biomimetic catalysts obtained by surface modification for green chemistry processes.

£9,342 3 years

European Commission Prof Andy Tyrrell Electronics

Reconfigurable POEtic Tissue: An electronic tissue with the ability to grow, learn, self-repair and self-replicate for application requiring high levels of reliability.

555,868 3 years

European Commission Prof J P Young Biology

Ecological and environmental biosafety assessment of novel plant and microbial biotechnology products.

60,900 3 years

Fudan University Shanghai China Dr Y Xu Electronics

Development of high field and multiconfiguration UHV magnets.

£2,500 2 years

Hull City Council Social Services Department Dr Margaret Bell Social Policy

Effective mechanisms for listening and responding to children and young people in Hull.

£15,000 8 months

IBM Dr H Laidler Physics

IBM Faculty Partnership Award "Structural and magnetic properties of applied magnetic materials."

US$ 12,000 1 year

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation Dr Mark Bevan CHP

Community involvement and modernising local government: the potential of new urban parish councils.

£7,222 12 months

LTSN Physical Sciences Centre Prof John Holman Chemistry

Part funding for the project: "Thermodynamics in Context."

£10,000 2 years

NERC Prof D Raffaelli, Environment and Dr Law, Biology

The role played by body mass on the impacts of predators on their prey, and the implications for ecosystem stability.

£84,750 3 years York's share as part of a larger collaboration with the University of Aberdeen

NHS Executive Northern and Yorkshire Ms M Crawshaw SPSW

A study of the decision making process surrounding sperm storage for adolescent minors post Tanne stage 2 within Paediatric oncology units.

£27,287 14 months

NHS Executive Northern and Yorkshire Dr D Torgerson Health Studies

A randomised trial of nurse led implementation of calcium and vitamin D supplementation for fracture prevention.

£144,234 30 months

NHS Executive in collaboration with the University of Hull. Dr Mark Sculpher CHE

Work undertaken at the University of York in respect of: Multi-centre randomised controlled trial examining the cost-effectiveness of contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging in women scheduled for wide local excision.

£72,709 5 years

NHS Executive Ms Rebecca Shaw CHE

HTA R&D Wessex Award to Sheffield.

£35,371 1 year

NHS R and D National Primary Care Awards Dr M Sculpher CHE

NHS R & D National Public Health Career Scientist Award.

£304,826 5 years

NHS Worcestershire Ms K Croucher CHP

Accommodation review and development in mental health.

£21,936 10 months

The Nuffield Foundation Dr G Altmann Psychology

Undergraduate research bursary: Predictive processing during sentence comprehension.

£1,500 10 weeks

The Prince's Trust Prof M Stein SWRDU

Mentoring Careleavers Module: Attitudes & Aspirations 2001.

£4,500 5 months

Royal College of Nursing Prof N Cullum Health Studies

Updating leg ulcer guidelines.

£14,984 12 months

Royal Society Prof M Cresser Environment

Study visit by Dr Arowolo to the UK from Nigeria, to develop new methods for assessing pollutant impacts on soils.

£2,805 1 year

Save the Children UK Prof J Bradshaw SPRU

The Well-Being of Children in the UK.

£180,000 5 years

Scottish Homes Dr N A Jones CHP

Homelessness and life skills.

£10,522 3 months

Sir Halley Stewart Trust Dr D Hepworth SPRU

Improving community care assessment and support for black and minority ethnic carers.

£9,835 8 months

Unilever Dr J Moore Chemistry

Investigation of bleach dye products.

£51,000 31 months

Wellcome Trust Dr G Kellett Biology

The molecular basis for, and control of, transepithelial peptide transport.

£273,277 5 years

Wellcome Trust Dr C Elliott Biology

Collaborative Research Initiative Grant with Dr Agnes Vehovszky at the Balaton Limnological Institute in Tihany, Hungary for a study entitled: Octopamine in snail feeding: cellular mechanisms of synaptic modulation.

£86,629 36 months

Wellcome Trust Dr K Nation Psychology

Vacation scholarship: Language-impaired children's knowledge about words and categories.

£1,160 8 weeks

Wellcome Trust Dr M Rumsby Biology

Vacation scholarship: Actin polymerisation-driven protrusion mechanism.

£1,160 8 weeks

World Health Organisation Prof R A Wilson Biology

Research Training Grant for Mr T Kariuki

$21,194 1 year

World Health Organisation Prof R A Wilson Biology

Identification of the targets of protective antibodies in schistosomiasis using proteomic techniques.

$40,000 1 year

Yorkshire Cancer Research Prof J Milner Biology

Selective inhibition of oncogenic functions of mutant p53.

£117,279 3 years

Yorkshire Cancer Research Prof R Taylor Chemistry

Studentship. Novel anti-tumour agents from marine natural products.

£52,081 3 year

75 New Grants £9,884,006.62

EXTENSIONS TO GRANTS TO BE PUBLISHED

British Aerospace Systems Prof J Austin Computer Science

Structural Health - Airframe Qualification: This project investigates systems that can identify failure of sensors on aircraft.

£70,762 12 months

NHS Executive Julie Glanville NHS CRD

Accessing the evidence in general practice: a follow up survey in the Northern and Yorkshire Region.

£29,482 1 year

Novozymes A/S Prof K S Wilson Chemistry

X-ray structure determinations of industrial enzymes.

£360,000 (total now £690,000) 3 years

PPARC Dr I Mann Physics

The UK Sub-Auroral Magnetometer Network (SAMNET).

£22,500

4 Extensions to existing grants £482,744

Grand Total £10,366,750.62