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Grants Awarded

Recently awarded Small Grants include:

May to July 2008

Dr Jennifer Aydelott, Dr Jenny Crinion and Dr Robert Leech

School of Psychology, Birkbeck, University of London
An ear for language II
£7,462

Dr Smita C Banerjee

Lincoln School of Health and Social Care, University of Lincoln
My/Our experience, your lesson: Using transportation theory to examine efficacy of anti-drug testimonials
£7,500

Professor Dermot Bowler

Autism Research Group, City University
Object representations in individuals with Asperger's Syndrome
£7,422

Professor Andrew Colman and Dr Briony D Pulford

School of Psychology, University of Leicester
Evolution of cooperation through similarity recognition
£7,272

Dr Anna Dimitrijevics

Department of Politics, University of Cambridge
On the cusp of coexistence; Group concerns and ethnic relations in northern Serbia
£7,324

Dr Yulia Egorova

Department of Anthropology, Durham University
Castes of genes? The social implications of population genetic research in South Asia
£7,485

Dr Brian Ewart

Department of Psychology, University of Sunderland
A study of retail offending teams
£7,440

Dr Caroline Floccia

School of Psychology, University of Plymouth
The effect of bilingualism and bidialectalism on word learning in 14- to 20-month-old children
£7,004

Professor Richard Giulianotti

School of Applied Social Sciences, Durham University
Sport and peace; A sociological study of interventionist programmes
£5,955

Dr Steffen Hertog

Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Durham University
Comparing systems of bureaucratic power in Syria and Saudi Arabia
£7,280

Professor John Knight

Department of Economics, University of Oxford
Social interaction and subjective well-being in rural China
£7,484

Professor Oliver Richmond

Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of St Andrews
Culture and the welfare paradox in liberal peacebuilding
£7,420

Dr Chris Rumford

Centre for Global and Transnational Politics, Royal Holloway, University of London
Borderwork: Citizen empowerment through bordering
£6,900

Dr Julia Sallabank

Endangered Languages Adademic Programme, School of Oriental and African Studies
Investigation into the role of a Language Support Officer in endangered language revitalisation
£5,900

Dr Robert J Witt and Dr Barry Reilly

Department of Economics, University of Surrey
Racial differences in sanction outcomes in English football
£7,500

Ms Jessica Woodhams

Department of Natural and Social Sciences, University of Gloucestershire
Offender violence and victim coping in group rape; Advancing theory and interventions
£2,310


February to April 2008

Professor Ian Brown

Faculty of Arts and Humanities, School of Oriental and African Studies
The colonial construction of criminality in Burma
£7,524

Dr Amon Chizema

Business School, Loughborough University
To disclose or not to disclose: An account of German board remuneration
£5,481

Dr Shana Cohen

Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield
Social work, social class and public altruism
£7,268

Professor Richard Croucher

Middlesex University Business School, Middlesex University
Minimum wage setting, compliance and enforcement in the UK. A longitudinal perspective
£7,471

Dr Piers Fleming and Professor Daniel John Zizzo

School of Social Work and Psychosocial Studies, University of East Anglia
Do individual differences in social desirability bias imply sensitivity to social pressure and risk?
£7,218

Professor Barry Gunter, Dr Vincent Campbell and Professor Rachel Gibson

Department of Media and Communication, University of Leicester
Blogging and the impact of citizen journalism: A pilot study
£5,900

Dr Catherine Hunt

Faculty of Business, Environment and Society, Coventry University
A regional history of the National Federation of Women Workers
£6,896

Dr Mark Jackson

School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol
City as exhibition, place as consumption: The world's largest commodity market -Yiwu, China
£7,500

Dr Maria Kavussanu

School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Birmingham
Observed antisocial behaviours in sport: Examining age and gender differences and exploring the underlying mechanisms
£9,571

Professor John Kelly

Department of Management, Birkbeck, University of London
Labour and the cold war: Allan Flanders and the history of the field of industrial relations in Britain
£2,678

Professor Barry Mitchell

Coventry Law School, Coventry University
An empirical investigation of involuntary manslaughter
£10,179

Dr Wyn Morgan and colleagues

School of Economics, University of Nottingham
Sugar policy reform and world price volatility
£7,256

Dr Tanja R Müller

School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester
'Memories of paradise' - Life journeys of a cohort of young Mozambiqueans after schooling and vocational training in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR)
£6,486

Dr Chris Reynolds

School of Arts and Humanities, Nottingham Trent University
Re-evaluating French collective memory of the 1968 events
£3,263

Dr Dirk Schubotz

ARK (Northern Ireland Social and Political Archive), Queen's University Belfast
Mental and emotional health of 16-year olds in Northern Ireland
£8,300

Professor Roger Seifert

Centre for Industrial Relations, Keele University
The life and times of Bert Ramelson (born Baruch Ramilevich Mendelson, 1910-1994): A very English communist
£8,042

Dr Rachel Smith and Dr Rachael-Anne Knight

Department of English Language, University of Glasgow
Perceptual learning about word boundaries in familiar and unfamiliar accents
£7,491

Dr Harriet R Tenenbaum

Psychology Research Unit, Kingston University
Adolescents' reasoning about the rights of asylum-seeking children
£6,607

Dr Jodi Tommerdahl

School of Education, University of Birmingham
How long does a spontaneous language sample need to be? Testing the reliability of four different sample lengths in grammatical analysis
£7,125

Mr Tim Vollans

Faculty of Business, Environment and Society, Coventry University
Fiscal Justice - an inhibiting experience
£7,500

Dr Aidan While, Professor David C Gibbs and Professor Andrew Jonas

Department of Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield
Planning for new industrial spaces in Asia
£7,416

Last Updated Wed, 6 August 2008