Latest research awards In 'Funding and awards' Funding and awardsLatest research awardsWellcome ISSF Back to 'Research' Grant to fund research into metaphysics and higher-order logic DescriptionBirmingham Fellow Dr Nicholas K Jones has been awarded a Leadership Fellowship (value £226,000) by the by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), for the project 'Higher-Order Metaphysics'.Date:17/10/2017 Ancient routes to '60s upheaval - diverse range of subjects to be investigated thanks to small grants DescriptionA range of College of Arts and Law projects have been funded by through the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants scheme.Date:13/10/2017 Role of metaphysics in physical theories to be investigated DescriptionA five year research project to develop a new general framework for understanding the role metaphysics plays in how physics explains our world has secured a European Research Council Starting Grant of €1.5m.Date:06/10/2017 Birmingham Early Arthritis Treatment Centre research funding extended DescriptionThe Rheumatology Research Group (RRG) has been awarded an additional £40,000 from Arthritis Research UK to extend its Experimental Arthritis Treatment Centre, part of a network of UK units funded by the charity to support cutting edge research.Date:05/10/2017 Grant for urban environmental history project DescriptionDr Mantha Zarmakoupi (Birmingham) will work with Dr Simon Richards (Loughborough) on the 'Delos Network'.Date:26/09/2017 GlobalLit DescriptionProfessor Rebecca Gould of the Department of Modern Languages has secured a European Research Council Starting Grant of £1.3m to undertake a five-year project to reinvigorate the discipline of literary studies by looking at non-European approaches and focusing on texts from Islamic cultures.Date:22/09/2017 University of Birmingham scientist wins £1.4m to unlock mystery of how cancer 'steals the keys' to healthy growth DescriptionA scientist at the University of Birmingham has received a £1.4 million award from Cancer Research UK to carry out pioneering research that may discover how cancer 'steals the keys' from the body's locksmiths, disrupting healthy cell growth and function.Date:12/09/2017 Finding Common Ground project awarded AHRC Follow-on Fund for Impact and Engagement grant DescriptionDr Jeremy Kidwell is a co-investigator on an AHRC Follow-on Fund for Impact and Engagement grant, for the project 'Finding Common Ground'.Date:30/08/2017 Professor David Thomas awarded AHRC Research Grant DescriptionProfessor David Thomas has been awarded an AHRC Research Grant, for the project 'Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History 1800-1914'.Date:30/08/2017 £400k grant to bring to life the Codex Zacynthius DescriptionThe Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing has been awarded a £400k grant to fund a project to bring to life the Codex Zacynthius.Date:10/08/2017 Displaying 1 to 10 of 151 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … Next