Latest research awards In 'Funding and awards' Funding and awardsLatest research awardsWellcome ISSF Back to 'Research' Continuity and rupture DescriptionProfessor Matthew Rampley awarded a €2.4 million Advanced Grant by the European Research Council.Date:17/04/2018 £126,000 to investigate the fight against the trafficking of Polish women and children DescriptionDr Klaus Richter has secured a £126,000 grant from the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung to investigate the fight against the trafficking of Polish women and children during the interwar period.Date:11/04/2018 Emma West awarded prestigious British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship DescriptionThe Fellowship has been awarded to Dr West for her postdoctoral project 'Revolutionary Red Tape: How State Bureaucracy Shaped British Modernism.'Date:10/04/2018 Scientists awarded £3 million to investigate cancers that are resistant to treatment DescriptionScientists in the College of Medical and Dental Sciences have been awarded nearly £3 million from Cancer Research UK to investigate cancers that are resistant to treatment.Date:15/03/2018 Multi-million pound award aims to create new breakthrough therapies DescriptionA recently-formed health consortium, jointly led by the National Institute for Health Research Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre (NIHR Birmingham BRC) and NHS Wales, has been awarded £7 million by Innovate UK to ensure more patients benefit from a new generation of breakthrough therapies.Date:13/03/2018 Two Marie Curie Fellowships secured DescriptionThe College of Arts and Law has secured two European Commission Marie Curie Individual Fellowships, totalling £150,000.Date:19/02/2018 University of Birmingham set to receive £11m for pioneering cancer research DescriptionScientists at the University of Birmingham are set to receive a major cash boost for pioneering research into cancer.Date:15/02/2018 £54 million funding to transform health through data science DescriptionBirmingham Health Partners will lead one of six new sites across the UK created to address challenging healthcare issues through use of data science, funded by £30 million from Health Data Research UK. A further £24 million will be invested in upcoming activities, including a Future Talent Programme and work to address targeted data research challenges through additional partnership sites.Date:08/02/2018 Grant greenlight for immersive drama project DescriptionDr Joanna Bucknall has secured a grant of £60,399 from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for a project called 'Corpus Quod'. It will develop augmented reality and immersive strategies that will enable audiences to experience what it is like to be an asylum seeker in the UKDate:05/01/2018 Blue Revolution receives £179,312 Leverhulme Trust grant DescriptionProfessor Corey Ross of the School of History and Cultures will research and write the first history of the international effort to develop fisheries in the global South during the 'long 20th Century' (1870s to present).Date:15/12/2017 Displaying 1 to 10 of 167 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … Next