British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Small Research Grants: December 2008
The following awards were made at a meeting held in December.
Please note: Awards are arranged alphabetically by surname of the grant recipient. The institution is that given at the time of application.
For more information about this scheme, please see Small Research Grants in the Guide to Awards
Professor D A Agius University of Exeter
Letters by Muslim gallery slaves and the case of Giorgio Scala - Maltese Inquisition 1598
(Section: H9) £4761
Dr R Alcock Lancaster University
The management of synergistic risk: an exploration of regulatory thinking in the UK
(Section: S4) £7202
Dr P Allmer Manchester Metropolitan University
Rene Magritte: beyond painting
(Section: H11) £4263
Dr C Anderson University of Warwick
Marginal centres: empire and biography in the Indian Ocean world
(Section: H10) £7361
Dr G Armstrong University of Manchester
The Manchester digital Dante project
(Section: H5) £7498
Ms P Armstrong University of Oxford
Ceramics from cathedral and baptistery, Xanthos
(Section: H1) £1300
Dr E Barnes University of Leeds
Metaphysical indeterminacy
(Section: H12) £3650
Dr J Barnes Oxford Brookes University
Visual memory errors in Parkinson's disease patient with visual hallucinations
(Section: S6) £7175
Dr T P Baycroft University of Sheffield
What ever happened to Radicalism? Lyon and the Left during the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune 1870-1871
(Section: H10) £6132
Dr L Beers Newnham College, University of Cambridge
What women want: female voters and the remaking of party politic after the First World War
(Section: S5) £7144
Dr S Bhayro University of Exeter
Publication of pre-Islamic incantation bowls from Mesopotamia in Jewish Aramaic and Mandaic
(Section: H3) £5000
Dr S Birch University of Essex
Popular conceptions of political ethics and misconduct in Britain
(Section: S5) £7500
Dr S Boehm University of Essex
The social, economic and environmental impacts of carbon markets the case of the clean development mechanism (CDM)
(Section: S4) £7430
Dr P Botley Warburg Institute, University of London
An inventory of the correspondence of Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614)
(Section: H9) £1598
Dr A Braithwaite University College London
A comparative assessment of spoiling behaviour in civil violence
(Section: S5) £6064
Dr C Briganti King's College London
The domestic space reader
(Section: H6) £4230
Professor R Brown Royal Holloway, University of London
Islamic endowments (Waqf) and the Chinese Lineage Trust (Tong)
(Section: S4) £7480
Dr D Bunce Brunel University
Genetic, neuroanatomical, and mental health influences on attention in old age
(Section: S6) £6700
Dr D Caddy Oxford Brookes University
Paris dancing: essays on music and dance in the belle epoque
(Section: H11) £3067
Dr L Cameron University of Kent
Imaginary contact: Developing and evaluating a new prejudice-reduction intervention for schools
(Section: S6) £7026
Dr J Campbell University of Glasgow
Etat present of Mme de Lafayette studies
(Section: H6) £804
Dr E Canning University of Wales, Swansea
Pilar Miro
(Section: H6) £927
Dr L Clark University of Cambridge
Characterising resilience
(Section: S6) £7309
Dr J Clay Independent Researcher
St Boniface and the conversion of Hessia
(Section: H8) £2596
Dr E Cochrane University College London
The demise of the Lapita cultural complex in Fiji
(Section: H7) £7364
Dr N Copsey University of Teesside
Transatlantic perspective on anti-fascism: communists and the anti-fascist struggle in inter-war Britain and the United States
(Section: H10) £1550
Dr J Craig-McFeely Royal Holloway, University of London
Creation of inventories of music manuscripts 1400-1550
(Section: H11) £7498
Dr N Creighton Queen's University Belfast
Beyond right and left: Weimar's intellectual discourse reconsidered
(Section: H6) £4465
Dr M Crone Queen's University Belfast
On shifting sands
(Section: S4) £6361
Dr H Crowley London Metropolitan University
The significance of social cohesion for strategies of settlement and family formation of skilled and unskilled migrant women workers in the care sector
(Section: S4) £6784
Professor Sir B W Cunliffe, FBA University of Oxford
The survey of Sark
(Section: H7) £3500
Professor D L d'Avray, FBA University College London
Diplomatic of Cistercian documents: England and the Continent
(Section: H8) £7370
Professor C Davies University of Nottingham
Ramon Labra and Raphael Maria de Labra in Cuba (1840s)
(Section: H6) £1260
Dr J Deutsch St Cross College University of Oxford
Imperial cities at war, co 1914-1918
(Section: H10) £7500
Dr G DeVerteuil University of Southampton
Contours of the ethnic welfare state in London and Los Angeles
(Section: S3) £5369
Dr M Dobson University of Sheffield
The unorthodox: Baptist and Evangelical Christians in Soviet Russia, 1944-1991
(Section: H10) £6110
Professor W J Dodd University of Birmingham
Language as a discourse object in German oppositional publications 1993-1943
(Section: H6) £893
Dr R Douglas University of Liverpool
Rewriting literature: The case of the Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean
(Section: H6) £4000
Mr P Duffy Liverpool John Moores University
Investigation into clients' post-drug treatment needs
(Section: S4) £5000
Dr N Dumay University of Kent
Are lexical representations abstract or episodic?
(Section: S6) £7478
Dr L G Duncan University of Dundee
Meaningful or meaningless? What do British primary school children know about derivational suffixes?
(Section: S6) £7192
Professor M Dzelzainis Royal Holloway, University of London
The Oxford Clarnendon project
(Section: H9) £7496
Dr S Einav Oxford Brookes University
Are several heads better than one? Children's use of social consensus as a cue to reliability when learning new information
(Section: S6) £5511
Dr J Evans University of Salford
Electoral forecasting in France
(Section: S5) £4092
Dr H Finch University of Liverpool
My unknown homeland: generational and national identity in the works of W.G. Sebald
(Section: H6) £592
Dr R Ford University of Manchester
Explaining the far right resurgences in English local elections 2002-08: a spatial model of aggregate data
(Section: S5) £7000
Professor R Francis Bath Spa University
Fruitlands: a study of the Utopian experiment conducted by Bronson Alcott and Charles Lance (1843-44)
(Section: H10) £4442
Dr D Frings London South Bank University
The effect of perceived length of time upon acculturative strategy, acculturative stress and psychological /physical health
(Section: S6) £5040
Dr N E Gardner University of Glasgow
Historical considerations on the relationship between Diego Rivera and Angelina Beloff
(Section: H6) £1900
Professor G Gargett University of Ulster
Editing Voltaire's biblical criticism
(Section: H6) £5500
Dr C Gill Loughborough University
'Counterfeit Protestants' and Socinian dispute
(Section: H5) £560
Professor R Gillespie University of Liverpool
The union of the Mediterranean: significance for the Barcelona process
(Section: S5) £7400
Dr I Gleibs University of Exeter
The benefit of group memberships for well-being among older adults in care
(Section: S6) £7155
Ms L Glennon Queen's University Belfast
Finding the principals to determine economic obligations between divorcing spouses
(Section: S1) £2500
Professor J A Gowlett University of Liverpool
Palaeoanthropological research on the deep roots of Homo sapiens in the central Rift Valley, Kenya
(Section: H7) £5833
Dr E Graham University College London
Preliminary assessment of the British colonial occupation at Lamanai
(Section: H7) £3822
Dr P Granger Independent Researcher
The N-Town play: Drama and Liturgy in Medieval East Anglia
(Section: H8) £660
Ms S Greenhalgh Roehampton University
Shakespeare on North American radio
(Section: H5) £2034
Dr J Grix University of Birmingham
Behind the East German sports miracle
(Section: H10) £6110
Professor I Grosvenor University of Birmingham
Documentary film in educational research: producing methodologies
(Section: S4) £7396
Professor C Harber University of Birmingham
Teacher education and controversial issues
(Section: S4) £7470
Dr C Harding University of Edinburgh
Pioneering Asian practitioners and the emergence of psychotherapies in Japan and India, 1920-1950
(Section: H10) £5298
Professor O C G Harris Keele University
Queer and the Burroughs textual scholarship
(Section: H6) £1750
Professor S M Hart University College London
False memory and faction in the work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(Section: H6) £2000
Dr J Harwood University of Manchester
Europe's Green Revolution: the rise and fall of peasant-friendly plant breeding, 1890-1945
(Section: H10) £7386
Professor S Hayward University of Exeter
Fashioning politics: French costume dramas of the 1950s - a cinema of quality and compliance?
(Section: H6) £1650
Dr E Hertog University of Oxford
Matches made on earth: preferences, strategies and constraints in the Japanese marriage market
(Section: S4) £7480
Dr A Hiatt University of Leeds
Classical geography in the Middle Ages: Lucan's Bellum civile (Section: H8) £2951
Professor M A Hicks University of Winchester
Feasibility study on digitising the calendars of inquisitions post mortem (CIPM)
(Section: H8) £7500
Dr D Hislop Loughborough University
The challenges of working on the move with mobile technologies: how contect affects takes and technology use
(Section: S4) £2620
Dr D Hodson Birkbeck, University of London
New forms of economic diplomacy: the European Union's macroeconomic dialogues with India and China
(Section: S5) £2946
Professor D Holmes University of Leeds
Reading for pleasure - French popular fiction
(Section: H6) £3087
Dr P Honeybone University of Edinburgh
Northern English and Scots, phonology and Syntax: towards a Linguistic Atlas of Northern England and Scotland
(Section: H4) £6014
Dr E Hornby University of Bristol
Identity creation in the Old Hispanic rite: texts, melodies and theology the in directum) Mass Proper chants
(Section: H11) £3164
Dr L Hulin University of Oxford
Western Marmarica coastal survey
(Section: H7) £4450
Professor P Humfrey University of St Andrews
Giovanni Bellini: a catalogue Raisonne
(Section: H11) £1662
Dr M J Hurcombe University of Bristol
Rallying behind the Spanish Republic: Vendredi's Reportage of the Spanish Civil War
(Section: H6) £573
Professor T Ingold, FBA University of Aberdeen
Redrawing anthropology: materials, movements, lines
(Section: S3) £7315
Dr A Ishkanian London School of Economics and Political Science
Turkish Armenian relations at the level of civil society
(Section: S5) £6600
Dr N Iwasaki School of Oriental and African Studies
Cross-linguistic influences in the acquisition of mimetic words among learners of Japanese as a second language
(Section: H4) £7497
Dr C M Jackson University of Sheffield
Glass beads as an indicator of old and new world interactions during the early contact period in Canada
(Section: H7) £3973
Dr L Jacobus Birkbeck, University of London
The afterlife of the Arena Chapel, c. 1305-1600
(Section: H11) £7474
Dr A Janku School of Oriental and African Studies
Text, image and the material world: The history of a cultural landscape
(Section: H3) £4091
Dr D W Johnson Open University
Literary journals in South Africa
(Section: H6) £1280
Ms A Joynt Independent Researcher
Decorative mortar tiles: international cooperation and regeneration through the rediscovery of a lost craft
(Section: H11) £4830
Dr Judge Middlesex University
Product market characteristics and corporate hedging incentive? An empirical study if UK non-financial firms
(Section: S2) £7365
Dr R Kay University of Glasgow
Social security, care and the 'withdrawing' in rural Russia
(Section: S4) £6515
Dr S Keeler University of Exeter
Hysteria and women's agency in post-conflict Iraq (Kurdistan)
(Section: S3) £5400
Dr S Keenan De Montfort University
The Emperor's favourite
(Section: H5) £567
Dr B Kelly Queen's University Belfast
What a difference a decade makes: exploring disability and identity in young adulthood
(Section: S4) £4920
Dr C Kollmeyer University of Aberdeen
Why has union membership declined? Assessing the relative effects on political, economic and social change
(Section: S4) £5255
Dr A Krause University of Bath
Systemic risks and capital requirements: an evaluation of the role if interbank lending
(Section: S2) £4932
Dr V Kumari King's College London
Personality and reproductive fitness
(Section: S6) £7316
Dr R Kumsta University of Southampton
Investigation of psychological and physiological stress s reactivity in young adults who experienced severe early institutional deprivation
(Section: S6) £3666
Mr C A La'da University of Kent
Greeks, Jews and Egyptians
(Section: H1) £4000
Dr T Lankina De Montfort University
A sub-national dataset on globalisation and democracy
(Section: S5) £6454
Dr T Lawrence University of East London
Life and death on the New York dance floor: 1980-85
(Section: H11) £1214
Dr A Lawson Leeds Metropolitan University
New biographical contexts for Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the Iron Mills (Section: H6) £1907
Dr M Lazzari University of Exeter
Ancient social networks of North Western Argentina: the provenance of obsidian and pottery in early sedentary communities (First millennium AD)
(Section: H7) £7440
Professor A Ledeneva School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London
Defects of the Russian Judicial Systems: Evidence from Russian cases in the UK courts
(Section: S5) £7484
Dr F Leigh King's College London
Form as Structure in Plato's Sophist and Parmenides
(Section: H12) £3990
Dr C Lemanski University College London
Embedded in the city? Participation and urban governance for low-income households in Cape Town
(Section: S3) £7500
Professor A Lieven King's College London
How Pakistan works
(Section: S5) £6146
Dr N Lloyd King's College London
Sir Evan Meredith Jenkins (1896-1985) and the partition of India
(Section: H10) £4075
Dr A Long University of St Andrews
Plato in the Stoa
(Section: H1) £800
Dr S Lycett University of Kent
Hand axe variation east of the Movius Line: a comparative morphometric study of an internationally important collection of Chinese bifaces
(Section: H7) £5520
Dr A Mangini University of Exeter
Six Characters 1928: Luigi Pirandello and Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
(Section: H6) £2142
Dr K Markert University of Leeds
A digital resource for discourse relations in modern standard Arabic
(Section: H4) £7255
Dr Marsden School of Oriental and African Studies
Islam, trade and citizenship on the frontiers of Central and South Asia
(Section: S3) £7499
Dr L Marven University of Liverpool
Emerging writers in German
(Section: H6) £5455
Dr R Mason University of Edinburgh
Spiro. T.Agnew and the suburbanisation of the Republican Party
(Section: H10) £2188
Professor E Mawdsley University of Glasgow
The international history of December 1941
(Section: H10) £5150
Dr J McGonagle University of Manchester
Representations of ethnicity in contemporary French visual culture
(Section: H6) £2270
Dr A McMahon University of Cambridge
Climate change and human resilience in Northern Mesopotamia in the late 3rd-mid 2nd Millennia BC
(Section: H7) £7500
Dr R McNamara University of Ulster
Defying the winds of change: The great powers, regional players and the South African crisis, 1961-1980
(Section: H10) £7084
Dr J Merritt University of Nottingham
Westminster and the English Revolution
(Section: H9) £2214
Dr L M Milne University of Nottingham
Jokes at war: the major satirical-cultural journals in Britain, France, Russia, Germany and Austro-Hungary during the First World War
(Section: H6) £6066
Dr J Montgomery University of Bradford
An isotopic investigation into the origins of the Iron Age "Chariot" burials of East Yorkshire
(Section: H7) £7391
Dr K Moore Lancaster University
Contexts, meanings, motivations and consequences of GHB and GBL use amongst British young people
(Section: S4) £2300
Dr S Moore Queen's University Belfast
The gendering of civic space: public toilets, community and the perceptions of risk
(Section: S4) £7217
Dr A D Morton University of Nottingham
Antonio Gramsci and 'The Lyon Theses'
(Section: S5) £7445
Dr S Mossman St John's College, University of Oxford
Merchant Bankers and Knights Hospitaller. The 'Friends of God' in Strasburg and the social and cultural history of Germany, 1350-1500
(Section: H8) £5300
Dr C F Mounsey University of Winchester
Erotic French performance in the Eighteenth century
(Section: H6) £7020
Dr S F Murray University of Leeds
Disability and humanism: bodies, minds and the literature of the modern
(Section: H6) £2475
Dr F Myles Newcastle University
Computerised grammatical analyses of French learner data
(Section: H4) £7190
Dr G Nagy University of Kent
The vehicle routing problem with split deliveries and pickups
(Section: S4) £2760
Dr K Napier Gray University of Plymouth
Communities of reception: John Elliot and Algonquian Indians of Massachusetts Bay
(Section: H5) £920
Professor W J Niven Nottingham Trent University
The sinking of the 'Willhelm Gustloff' in history and memory
(Section: H10) £6390
Professor A Noble University of Durham
The new Mexican cinema
(Section: H6) £4476
Dr M Noor Canterbury Christ Church University
Overcoming competitive victimhood to foster intergroup forgiveness and reconciliation attitdues in the post-Pinochet Chile
(Section: S6) £5872
Dr K Oktem University of Oxford
Europe's Muslim neighbourhoods: contemporary Islam in the Balkans
(Section: S5) £7300
Mr R Oppong Lancaster University
Private international law in Commonwealth Africa
(Section: S1) £7400
Dr M Ota University of Edinburgh
Measuring lexical effects on children's speech perception
(Section: H4) £7454
Dr G Palattiyil University of Strathclyde
Human rights and HIV/AIDS: exploring the double jeopardy experienced by HIV positive asylum seekers and refugees in Scotland
(Section: S4) £7400
Dr M Palmer Aston University
An investigation into the practice of corporate resistance
(Section: S4) £7211
Professor P Panayi De Montfort University
Prisoners of Britain: German civilian, military and naval internees during the First World War
(Section: H10) £7480
Professor M Parker University of Central Lancashire
Seamus Heaney: Atlantic crossings
(Section: H6) £1898
Mr S Payne University of Kent
Parliamentary oversight of the intelligence and security services: a comparative study between the United Kingdom and Australia
(Section: S1) £6960
Dr L Peacock University of Hull
Serious play - modern clown performance
(Section: H6) £1423
Professor J D Y Peel, FBA Independent Researcher
The dilemmas of Yoruba Islam
(Section: S3) £6440
Dr A Petroczi Kingston University
Adherence to excercise programme and medical treatment in HIV seropositive patients
(Section: S6) £7500
Professor K Pine University of Hertfordshire
Improving the communication between infants and parents in low-income families in Hertfordshire: an evaluation of the impact of encouraging sign communication on infant language development
(Section: S6) £6764
Dr A Pinkerton Royal Holloway, University of London
Running rings around Euro-Asia: the United States and international broadcasting in the early cold war (1950-1965)
(Section: S5) £7500
Dr B M B Post University of Cambridge
A cross-linguistic study of intonational development in young infants and children
(Section: H4) £7365
Dr K G Rastle Royal Holloway, University of London
Why 'witless' is not 'lesswit': The representation of morpheme poisition in visual word recognition
(Section: S6) £5175
Dr C M Richardson Open University
The venerable English college
(Section: H9) £6658
Dr H Roberts University of Exeter
A critical edition of the works of Bruscambille
(Section: H5) £4950
Dr S Rock Independent Researcher
Walking with crosses: pilgrimage in post-Soviet Russia
(Section: H2) £885
Dr K Ruziev Aberystwyth University
Informal credit institutions in post-communist Uzbekistan. Source for investment or distress borrowing?
(Section: S2) £6652
Dr A Sari University of Exeter
The legal status of visiting armed forces under public international law
(Section: S1) £7409
Dr J M Scherpe Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge
Marital agreements and private autonomy in a comparative perspective
(Section: S1) £7468
Dr D Schwemer School of Oriental and African Studies
Corpus of Mesopotamian witchcraft literature
(Section: H3) £2033
Dr R Sear London School of Economics and Political Science
The proximate determinants of paternal care: does testosterone vary by reproductive status in Gambian men?
(Section: S3) £7500
Dr J Sears Manchester Metropolitan University
Stephen King's Gothic
(Section: H6) £1560
Revd Dr P Sedgwick Independent Researcher
Military chaplains and the ethics of conflict
(Section: H2) £4098
Dr E Seki University of Aberdeen
Auction format to improve allocation of natural resources: the case of fisheries
(Section: S2) £7378
Professor L Sharpe University of Exeter
Friedrich Schiller's theory of the function and impact of theatrical performance
(Section: H6) £2346
Dr G Shea University of St Andrews
Early British financial markets
(Section: S2) £2731
Dr E Sheen University of York
Getting organisised: Hollywood's Cold War
(Section: H6) £2570
Dr S Sherratt University of Sheffield
Routes and landscapes in Eurasia: exchange and movement from prehistory to the present
(Section: H7) £3094
Dr A Siniver University of Birmingham
The quest for peace: Abba Eban and the Arab-Israeli conflict
(Section: H10) £1132
Dr L Skinns Darwin College, University of Cambridge
Comparative perspectives on police detention
(Section: S1) £7500
Dr L J Smith University of Oxford
Oxford Handbook in Latin Palaeography: Theological texts
(Section: H8) £700
Dr P Sousa Queen's University Belfast
The folk concert of moral reasonability
(Section: S3) £3566
Professor F Spalding Newcastle University
Regions unmapped: The art of Prunella Clough
(Section: H11) £1781
Dr N Spencer British Museum
Migration and ethnic identity in Nubian Egypt
(Section: H7) £7381
Dr U Stegmann King's College London
The information consensus in ethology
(Section: H12) £6957
Professor B E Stimpson Newcastle University
La bibliotheque de Paul Valery: lectures et annotaions marginales
(Section: H6) £6939
Professor R A Stone University of Wales, Swansea
Walk, don't run: the cinema of Richard Linklater
(Section: H6) £2367
Dr K Szpakowska University of Wales, Swansea
Clay cobra figurines of ancient Egypt and the Levant
(Section: H7) £6293
Dr J Taylor Independent Researcher
A commentary on Philo of Alexandria's De Vita Contemplativa (Section: H2) £1868
Dr J Tsoukalas University of Nottingham
New approaches to modelling the UK business cycle
(Section: S2) £6443
Dr L Ugolini University of Wolverhampton
Men, masculinity and manliness on the English home front, 1914-1918
(Section: H10) £1185
Dr C Upton University of Leicester
Common ground? Identity, activism and the global pastoralists' movement
(Section: S3) £7265
Dr C Usborne University of Surrey
Imagining desire, practising pleasure. A cultural history of sexuality in Weimar and Nazi Germany
(Section: H10) £5749
Dr A Van der Vlies University of Sheffield
The postcolonial obscene: ethics, aesthetics, & "obscenity" in contemporary South African literary and performance cultures
(Section: H6) £6857
Dr A Vasudevan University of Nottingham
Dramaturgies of dissent: spatial politics in Berlin, 1968 -
(Section: S3) £5900
Dr T Vorley University of Cambridge
Entrepreneurial architecture: reconceptualising higher education's mission in Europe
(Section: S3) £6760
Dr E Wagstaff University of Birmingham
Writing art: French literary responses to the work of Alberto Giacometti
(Section: H6) £2214
Dr B T Walton Jesus College, University of Cambridge
Bel Canto in Latin America
(Section: H11) £6360
Dr P Ward King's College London
Ecclesiology and ethnography
(Section: H2) £7410
Dr P Warde University of East Anglia
The scale and impact of England's potash trade, c. 1560-1800
(Section: H9/S2) £2487
Dr H M Williams Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies University of Wales
Brittany: from postcolonialism to ecocriticism
(Section: H6) £840
Professor M Williams, FBA Oriel College University of Oxford
To leave a good earth: the life and work of Carl Sauer
(Section: S3) £7040
Dr R J Williams University of Edinburgh
Brazil: modern architectures in history
(Section: H11) £1950
Professor H G M Williamson, FBA University of Oxford
Semantics of Ancient Hebrew database
(Section: H2) £4880
Dr M Witt Bath Spa University
Enhancing the cognitive basis of mathematical learning: working memory training in the classroom
(Section: S6) £4420
Dr M Xheneti Kingston University
Exploring entrepreneurship policy transferability in post communist contexts
(Section: S4) £7313