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Grants Awarded

2008

Dr Evan Killick and Dr Diana Weinhold

An inter-disciplinary study of the relationship between soybean cultivation and poverty in the Brazilian Amazon
Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics
£169,965 over 3 years - find out more

Dr Heather Lovell and Professor Donald Mackenzie

Fungible carbon
Centre for the Study of Environmental Change and Sustainability, University of Edinburgh
£166,553 over 3 years - find out more

2007

Dr Jane Nolan and Professor Malcolm Warner

An investigation of the social networks of foreign and local financial experts in Hong Kong and Shanghai
Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge
£149,938 over three years - find out more

2006

Dr Serena Heckler and Professor Paul Sillitoe

Towards an engaged anthropology: Advancing methodological approaches to indigenous knowledge research and community well-being
Department of Anthropology, University of Durham
£146,578 over 3 years - find out more

Dr Sonali Shah and Dr Mark Priestley

Including a new generation? Using qualitative longitudinal methods to understand disabled people's lives in the 21st century
School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds
£147,388 over 3 years - find out more

Dr Judith Mary Spicksley and Professor David Richardson

Debt, poverty and slavery in historical perspective
Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull
£146,416 over 3 years - find out more

2005

Dr Stephan Collishaw and Professor Andrew Pickles

Testing causes of time trends in adolescent mental health
Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London
£149,323 over 2 1/2 years - find out more

Dr Franz Dietrich and Dr Christian List

Judgment aggregation: A new model of collective decision-making
Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, London School of Economics
£108,008 over 2 years - find out more

Dr Sarah Halligan and Professor Lynne Murray

The longitudinal development of child self-regulation
School of Psychology, University of Reading
£141,421 over 2 years - find out more

2004

Dr Martha Chinouoya and Ms Eileen O'Keefe

Getting on with life: Black African families affected by HIV and AIDS in England
Department of Applied Social Science, London Metropolitan University
£89,589 over 2 years - Find out more

Dr Mercedes Hinton and Professor Tim Newburn

Globalisation and democratic policing: The effects of new migratory waves on police governance in London, New York and Paris
Department of Law, London School of Economics £119,540 over 3 years - Find out more

Dr Courtenay Norbury and Dr Kate Nation

Social well-being: Tracking the links to language
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
£119,287 over 3 years - Find out more

Dr Charis Psaltis and Professor Miles Hewstone

Intergroup contact between Greek-Cypriots and Turkish-Cypriots
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
£119,466 over 3 years - Find out more

2003

Dr Jude Browne and Professor Bob Hepple

Enforcing egalitarianism? The practical fit between normative theory and law
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities,
University of Cambridge
£118,441 over 3 years - Find out more

Dr Manuela Ciotti and Professor Patricia Jeffery

Popular democracy in northern India: An ethnographic study of political participation amongst historically marginalised women
Centre for South Asian Studies, School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh
£119,329 over 3 years - Find out more

Dr Katharine Skinner and Dr Lynne Brydon

Adult education and citizenship in Ghana: Educating for wealth or well-being?
Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham
£118,186 0ver 3 years - Find out more

Dr Amrita Narlikar and Dr Andrew Hurrell

Emerging powers and international regimes: A comparative study of Brazil, China and India
School of Historical, Political and Sociological Studies, University of Exeter
Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford
£119,892 over 3 years - Find out more

2002

Dr Edmund Chattoe and Professor Anthony Heath

A behavioural microsimulation of ethnic disadvantage in labour markets
Department of Sociology, University of Oxford
£104,254 over 3 years - Find out more

Dr Michael Collyer and Professor Russell King

From the illusions of the emigrant to the despair of the immigrant: An investigation into the changing migration strategy of undocumented migrants at different stages of the migration process
Sussex Centre for Migration Research, University of Sussex
£114,186 over 3 years - Find out more

Dr Marco Manacorda and Professor Timothy Besley

An empirical analysis of the causes and consequences of child labour
Suntory Toyota International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics
£120,822 over 2 ½ years - Find out more

Dr Edward Simpson and Professor Stuart Corbridge

The Gujarat earthquake: An ethnography of reconstruction in western India
Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics
£118,306 over 3 years - Find out more

2001

Dr Miguel N Alexiades and Professor Roy F Ellen

Environmental knowledge, perception and social interaction in an Amazonian landscape
Department of Anthroplogy and the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent
£100,000 over 3 years - Find out more

Dr Ben Crewe and Dr Alison Liebling

A new society of captives: Masculinity and modern penal culture
Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge
£99,500 over 3 years - Find out more

Dr Colm Harmon and Professor Richard Blundell

Policy options and policy effectiveness - experimental and non-experimental evaluation of labour market programmes
Department of Economics, University College London
£69,000 over 2 years - Find out more

Dr Robin A Wilson and Professor Paul Sillitoe

Knowledge, resource use and poverty in the Pacific: Improving local stakeholder participation in resource development initiatives
Department of Anthroplogy, University of Durham
£99,879 over 3 years - Find out more

2000

Dr Lorenzo Cappellari and Professor Stephen Jenkins

Earnings and income mobility in Britain: a dynamic analysis of economic well-being in the 1990s
Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex
£88,972 over 3 years - Find out more

Dr Karen Middleton and Professor William Beinart

Plant transfer, development and poverty: a comparative analysis of the historical experiences of Prickly Pears (Opuntia spp.) and Agaves in Madagascar and South Africa
Department of Politics and St Antony’s College, University of Oxford
£100,000 over 3 years - Find out more

Dr Sarah Salway and Dr Emily Grundy

Bangladeshi households in ‘North’ and ‘South’: a conceptual and empirical exploration of livelihoods and well-being
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
£76,813 over 3 years - Find out more

Dr Stephen Want and Professor Michael Siegal

Social cognition in deaf and hearing children
Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield
£99,730 over 3 years - Find out more

Last Updated Thu, 11 September 2008