British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Larger Research Grants: 2006-07
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Please note: Awards are arranged alphabetically by surname of the grant recipient. The institution is that given at the time of application. The grants listed were awarded during the academic session 2006-07.
For more information about this scheme, please see Larger Research Grants in the Guide to Awards
Dr H Abdul-Raof University of Leeds
Schools of Qur'anic exegesis
(Section: H2)
£79014
Dr D Albertazzi University of Birmingham
Resisting the tide: cultures of opposition during the Berlusconi years
(Section: H6)
£67914
Dr S Amrith Birkbeck, University of London
Cosmopolitanism and race in Tamil Southeast Asia, 1920-1970
(Section: H10)
£53723
Dr L Archer King's College London
The 'black' middle classes and education
(Section: S4)
£49319
Dr G Aybet University of Kent
From peace to state building: an assessment of EU and NATO conditionality in Bosnia and Herzegovina
(Section: S5)
£79966
Dr S Ayers University of Sussex
Adjustment to parenthood, mental health, and parent-infant interaction
(Section: S6)
£79728
Professor G N Bailey University of York
Southern Red Sea project: Farasan Islands
(Section: H7)
£74615
Dr J Barnes Oxford Brookes University
Exploring the neuropsychology of visual hallucinations in Parkinson's disease
(Section: S6)
£53138
Dr S Beckerleg University of Warwick
Khat and social identity in Uganda
(Section: S3)
£62386
Dr M Biggs University of Oxford
Hunger strikes by Suffragettes and Irish Republicans 1909-1923
(Section: S4)
£71873
Dr D Boric University of Cambridge
Forager-farmer encounters in the Balkans: revision archaeological investigations at Vlasac (Serbia)
(Section: H7)
£59846
Dr A Bowett Victoria and Albert Museum
British furniture woods: timbers used in historic British furniture-making, 1400-1900
(Section: H11)
£40364
Dr R Brooks University of Surrey
International higher education and the mobility of UK students: motivations, experiences and labour market outcomes
(Section: S4)
£73478
Dr A Chafer University of Portsmouth
Towards a new policy partnership? France and Britain in Africa since Saint-Malo
(Section: S5)
£74046
Professor P J Corr University of Wales, Swansea
Avoidance behaviour and personality: a pharmacological investigation of the revised reinforcement sensitivity theory of personality
(Section: S6)
£65928
Dr H Cremin University of Leicester
Comparing student and teacher voices to construct school self-review of inclusion
(Section: S4)
£68455
Professor B Daniel University of Dundee
How is the concept of resilience operationalised in practice with vulnerable children?
(Section: S6)
£66766
Dr S Dein University College London
Religious experience in three religious groups: theological and phenomenological characteristics
(Section: S3)
£79990
Dr G J A Dodd University of Nottingham
Petitions to the Crown from English religious houses, c. 1270-c. 1485
(Section: H8)
£79339
Professor R F Ellen, FBA University of Kent
The Eolithic controversy as a problem in the history of science, and of archaeology in particular: an approach from cognitive anthropology
(Section: S3)
£43551
Dr E Flouri Institute of Education
Early contextual risk and children's emotional and behavioural problems at age 3
(Section: S6)
£73423
Dr A I Forbess Goldsmiths College University of London
Standing in for God and Caesar: the political lives of orthodox monastics in Romania and Serbia
(Section: S3)
£16212
Dr F Gabbert University of Abertay Dundee
Protecting eyewitness evidence: testing the efficacy of a self-administered interview tool
(Section: S6)
£55622
Dr R Ganguly University of East Anglia
Secession in world politics: contemporary dilemmas
(Section: S5)
£68553
Professor R Gilchrist University of Reading
Glastonbury Abbey excavations, 1904-1979
(Section: H7)
£47076
Dr B Godfrey Keele University
Prosecution and sentencing processes in international perspective, 1880-1940
(Section: H10; S1)
£61885
Dr C Goetze University of Nottingham
Who governs? The political sociology of UN interim administrators
(Section: S5; S4)
£38582
Professor R B Goodwin Brunel University
The acculturation of Polish immigrants into British society
(Section: S6)
£79705
Dr B Gruffydd Jones University of Leeds
Forms of resistance in Africa's neo-liberal social order: a comparative study in Mozambique and Ghana
(Section: S5)
£79158
Professor G Hague University of Bristol
Bride price, marriage rights and domestic violence in Uganda
(Section: S4)
£68116
Mrs J Hall Museum of London
Roman sculpture from south-east England
(Section: H7)
£52126
Professor F A Hassan University College London
Palaeoenvironments, landscape, dynamics and cultural development in middle Egypt
(Section: H7)
£79755
Dr C Hezser School of Oriental and African Studies
Mobility and the transfer of knowledge amongst Jews in Roman Palestine and the Diaspora
(Section: H2)
£41688
Professor R Imrie King's College London
The significance of building control and the process of urban design
(Section: S3)
£76872
Dr S Johnson University College London
Offender targeting decisions for acquisitive crime
(Section: S6)
£62613
Professor A Keay University of Leeds
Defining the corporate objective: formulating an entity maximisation and sustainability model
(Section: S1)
£19097
Professor S Keynes Trinity College, University of Cambridge
Dictionary of Old English
(Section: H8)
£20000
Dr L Knight University of Plymouth
Medical students' explanations of behaviour following professionalism dilemma situations
(Section: S6)
£60832
Professor F Lough University of Birmingham
Exile remains: ways of thinking, writing and remembering Spanish Republican Exile
(Section: H6)
£78877
Dr C P Loveluck University of Nottingham
Central places, power and identity at the nexus of the North and Baltic Seas, AD 400-1200: pilot archaeological research on the 150-hectare settlement at Stavnsager, northeast Jutland
(Section: H7)
£67020
Professor A M McCleery Napier University
The contribution of Scottish literary magazines to cultural and political debate 1979-1999
(Section: H6)
£73149
Dr J J McGavin University of Southampton
Records of Early English Drama: London theatres bibliography
(Section: H5)
£20000
Professor S A M McLean University of Glasgow
Alcohol in the age of autonomy: finding a safety net for the alcohol dependent in choice-led public health policies
(Section: S1)
£50815
Dr N Mellor University of East London
Mapping the pan-Arab journalistic field - a field study among Arab journalists
(Section: H6)
£77327
Dr H Mendick London Metropolitan University
The impact of the depiction of work in TV drama on young peoples' career aspirations and choices
(Section: S4)
£38037
Professor F G B Millar, FBA University of Oxford
Judaism and Christianity in Palestine and Arabia, fourth-sixth centuries AD
(Section: H1)
£62639
Professor L B Myers Brunel University
The relationship between repressive coping, childhood experiences and adult romantic attachment
(Section: S6)
£67196
Dr G Noble University of Glasgow
The Strathearn Environs and Royal Forteviot project (SERF)
(Section: H7)
£50827
Dr J Ostapkowicz Liverpool Museum
Pre-Hispanic Caribbean sculptural arts in wood
(Section: H7)
£79903
Dr M Pace University of Birmingham
A 'Modern' Islamic democracy? Perceptions of democratisation in the Arab-Mediterranean world
(Section: S5)
£35140
Dr C M Pariante King's College London
Understanding the role of stress in the cognitive abnormalities of psychosis
(Section: S6)
£78574
Dr S Philpott University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Virtually the same: Asia among the digital fragments
(Section: S5)
£65472
Dr A Pluskowski University of Cambridge
Establishing a colonial heartland during the crusades: the ecological impact of the Teutonic Order's castle in medieval Prussia
(Section: H7)
£13788
Professor J N Postgate, FBA Trinity College, University of Cambridge
Archaeological excavation at Kilise Tepe, southern Turkey
(Section: H7)
£58223
Dr J Randall University of Aberdeen
The role of the change agent in the management of cultural change: the case of the merger between the Inland Revenue and HM Customs & Excise
(Section: S4)
£59305
Dr R Read Bournemouth University
Volunteering care: the gendered politics of voluntary networks in three Czech hospitals
(Section: S3)
£27555
Dr C Romani Aston University
Where is syllable structure represented in speech production? Evidence from aphasia
(Section: S6)
£29144
Professor C Sedikides University of Southampton
Narcissistic self-presentation: controllability and consequences
(Section: S6)
£78942
Professor R Sharpe, FBA University of Oxford
Corpus of British Medieval library catalogues
(Section: H8)
£40750
Dr P Shaw University College London
An electronic edition of Dante's _Divina Commedia_
(Section: H8)
£75278
Professor A Simone Goldsmiths College University of London
Renewing urbanities: comparative studies on how low-income residents reshape Bangkok and Phnom Penh
(Section: S4)
£36090
Dr J Simpson University of Leeds
Identity online: ESOL learners' textual identities in and out of class
(Section: S3)
£77338
Professor P Sims-Williams, FBA University of Wales, Aberystwyth
A supplement to _Celtic personal names in the Latin inscriptions of the Roman Empire_
(Section: H4)
£29488
Mr P Spicer Royal College of Music
Biography of Sir George Dyson
(Section: H11)
£23784
Professor C L Sriram University of East London
Rule of law in African countries emerging from violent conflict: critical issues and cases
(Section: S5; S1)
£80000
Dr J D Steinert University of Wolverhampton
Young forced labourers in national socialist Germany and German occupied Eastern Europe, 1939-1945
(Section: H10)
£43481
Dr D Stokes University of Kent
American energy diversification and international security in the age of terror
(Section: S5)
£69246
Professor J M Twigg University of Kent
Clothing, age and the body
(Section: S4)
£79069
Professor L K Tyler, FBA University of Cambridge
The role of conceptual structure in object processing
(Section: S6)
£79530
Dr K Voltmer University of Leeds
Political communication in new democracies: government-media relationships in transition
(Section: S5)
£79813
Mr M Webber University of the Arts London
Critical mass: an oral history of avant-garde film - the new American cinema and beyond
(Section: H11; H6)
£28429
Dr H G West School of Oriental and African Studies
Local food in a global marketplace: Artisan cheesemaking in the 21st century
(Section: S3)
£71049
Professor R D Whitehouse University College London
Tavoliere-Gargano prehistory project
(Section: H7)
£54185
Professor P Woods University of Aberdeen
Entrepreneurialism, leadership and organisational reform in the public sector: the case of an independent state school in the inner city
(Section: S4)
£54230
Dr L Yueh University of Oxford
Foreign direct investment, technology transfers and economic growth: evidence from China
(Section: S2)
£70757
Dr D J Zizzo University of East Anglia
Statistical inference on equilibrium exchange rates
(Section: S2)
£29376