British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Japan: Past Awards
See also: Information on how to apply for grants under this scheme
Year of award:
Individual Visits: 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 |1997 | 1996
Post-doctoral Fellowships: 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003
Joint Projects: 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004
2010
(a) Post-doctoral Fellowships
Dr T Froese
(University of Oxford)
To study the role of social interaction for cognition by robotic modeling of psychological studies
Dr M Ji
(University of Sheffield)
The influence of imported Western and Japanese scientific ideas and technologies on China's early modern scientific identity, with a temporal focus on the 18-19th Centuries
Dr H Mitsui
(University of Cambridge)
Living and feeling beyond the nation: cosmopolitanism in contemporary Japan
(b) Joint Projects
Dr A Siddiqui
(University College London)
Distributed Generation Capacity Choice under Competition, Uncertainty, and Operational Flexibility
with Dr Ryuta Takashima (Chiba Institute of Technology)
£2,625
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2009
(a) Post-doctoral Fellowships
Dr S Atanassova Croydon
(University of Oxford)
A case study of policy decision-making: the re-introduction of jury system in Japan
Dr H Jaeger
(Manchester Metropolitan University)
Re-valuing places and practices of Urban Resistance: the case of contemporary Tokyo
Dr S P Koga-Browes
(University of Sheffield)
Creating creators: training and career development as a local television broadcaster in Japan
(b) Joint Projects
Professor H Short
(King's College London)
Automated categorisation techniques using multivariate stylometric analysis on the Nineteenth Century Serials Editions corpus
with Professor Tomoji Tabata & Maki Miyake (University of Osaka)
£10,000
Professor C M Williams
(University of Wales, Swansea)
History, culture, education and regeneration in the coalfields of South Wales and Japan
with Professor Naoko Shimazaki (Waseda University)
£9,620
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2008
(a) Post-doctoral Fellowships
Dr K Son
(University of Sheffield)
Elite Norms, Social Hierarchies and Challenges to the Japan-US Alliance
Dr J Ko
(University of Sheffield)
Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Japanese Cinema
(b) Joint Projects
Dr W K Olsen
(University of Manchester)
The Study of Strategies of Social Change using the Method of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)
£5,000
2007
(a) Post-doctoral Fellowships
Dr M Conway
(University of Sheffield)
Tagging of Temporal Expressions in Disease Outbreak Reports
Dr U Vyas
(University of Sheffield)
The Influence of Japanese NGOs on Japan-China Relations
2006
(a) Post-doctoral Fellowships
Dr E Perez
(University of Liverpool)
Development and validation of the Auditory Grammar
(b) Joint Projects
Professor C Heath
(King's College London)
Interactions with artifacts in public spaces: informing the design of advanced technologies
With Professor Keiichi Yamazaki (Saitama University)
£10,000
Professor R Imrie
(King's College London)
The management and maintenance of public space in Britain and Japan
With Dr Minoru Takamizawa and Dr Aya Sakai (Yokohama National University)
£4,316
2005
(a) Post-doctoral Fellowships
Dr M Dowman
(University of Edinburgh)
Developing the Iterated Learning Paradigm for the explanation of language universals and typology
(b) Joint Projects
Dr D Charles
(Oriel College, Oxford)
Essence and explanation: Aristotle and modern philosophy of science
With Professor Kei Chiba (University of Hokkaido)
£5,000 (Second year of funding)
Professor C A Essau
(Roehampton University)
Social anxiety and Taijin Kyofusho symptons in England and Japan: A cross-cultural comparison
With Professor Juji Sakano (University of Hokkaido)
£1,000 (Second year of funding)
Dr D Tambini
(University of Oxford)
Comparison of copyright systems and implementation of Creative Commons in Japan and the UK
With Mr K Kaminimura (GLOCOM)
£5,000 (Second year of funding)
2004
(a) Individual Visits
Dr O Rackham FBA
(Corpus Christi College)
Landscape history and archaeology in Japan
Professor C Burnett FBA
(Warburg Institute)
Beyond Modern Metaphysics and Postmodern Nihilism: The experience of meaning in the philosophies of Nishida Kitaro and Gabriel Marcel
Dr G J Cipriani
(University of Central England)
Abu Ma'shar's Great Introduction to Astrology in Arabic, Greek, and Latin
(b) Post-doctoral Fellowships
Mr R Ronald
(Nottingham Trent University)
The Japanese housing system: Fragmentation and sustainability in context of economic globalisation
Dr Hyangjin Lee
(University of Sheffield)
Images of Korea in the Japanese mass media and popular culture: Consumption of Korean popular culture in Japan
(c) Joint Projects
Dr D Charles
(Oriel College, Oxford)
Essence and explanation: Aristotle and modern philosophy of science
With Professor Kei Chiba (University of Hokkaido)
£5,000
Professor C A Essau
(Roehampton University)
Social anxiety and Taijin Kyofusho symptons in England and Japan: A cross-cultural comparison
With Professor Juji Sakano (University of Hokkaido)
£4,640
Dr D Tambini
(University of Oxford)
Comparison of copyright systems and implementation of Creative Commons in Japan and the UK
With Mr K Kaminimura (GLOCOM)
£5,000
2003
(a) Individual Visits
Dr G Gallimore
(Oxford Brookes University)
Investigation of primary and secondary materials relating to the life and works of Shoyo Tsubouchi (1859-1935), pioneer of Shakespeare translation and Shakespear studies in Japan
Dr E Seki
(University of Aberdeen)
Stewardship of environmental resources: comparative field study of non-pecuniary motivations to contribute to public goods
Dr D Martinez
(School of Oriental and African Studies)
Translations and permutations: the films of Akira Kurosawa and an anthropology of the global
Professor C Burnett FBA
(Warburg Institute)
The astrological corpus of Abu Ma'shar
Professor M J B Hall
(Loughborough University)
Assessment of recent banking reforms in Japan
(a) Post-doctoral Fellowships
Mr L Woolgar
(University of Manchester)
University strategies for research collaboration and engagement with industry
2002
Professor M H Spufford FBA
(University of Surrey Roehampton)
A study of Kami-shiojiri, Nagano Prefecture
Professor P Spufford FBA
(University of Cambridge)
A study of Kami-shiojiri, Nagano Prefecture and monetary history
Professor G D Hook
(University of Sheffield)
Japan's response to the Sept 11th terrorist attacks on the US
Professor GN Bailey
(University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
The Archaeology of Prehistoric coastlines in Japan
2001
Dr John W M Chapman
(University of Glasgow)
Anglo-Japanese Collaboration in Military and Naval Science and Technology, 1900-1922
Dr K Lander
(University of Manchester)
Dynamic morphing and the recognition of identity
Professor A J Barnard
(University of Edinburgh)
Hunter-gatherer studies in Japan: theory, ethos, organization and historical trajectory
Professor C.S.F Burnett
(Warbug Institute)
Al-Qabisi on Astronomy and Astrology: Influences in Europe
2000
Professor C.S.F Burnett
(Warburg Institute)
The Works of al-Qabisi on Astrology
1999
Professor J. Dunn
(University of Cambridge)
The impact of the political and economic experiences of Japan since the ending of the bubble economy
Dr P.S Plowright
(University of London)
In search of Lady Joruri
1998
Dr C.S.F Burnett
(Warburg Institute)
Studies on Astrology
Professor B.S McDougall
(University of Edinburgh)
Private writing in public spaces:The nature and function of privacy in modern Chinese letters
1997
Dr M.J.B Hall
(University of Loughborough)
Financial reform in Japan', 'The fragility of the Japanese banking system','A comparative study of implementation of the Basle committee's Agreed proposals for market risk in the UK, USA and Japan
Dr J.F Wilson
(University of Manchester)
Management education and training: Japan and the UK compared
1996
Dr C.S.F Burnett
(Warbug Institute)
The common sources of astrology and astronomy in West and East
Dr S.H. Dodd
(University of London)
Landscapes of Power