Latest research awards In 'Funding and awards' Funding and awardsLatest research awardsWellcome ISSF Back to 'Research' Interview with Lisa Bortolotti by The Dissenter DescriptionBirmingham Professor interviewed by the YouTube Channel The Dissenter which covers topics in science and philosophy. In the interview, Lisa talks about her latest book, The Epistemic Innocence of Irrational Beliefs.Date:24/11/2020 Bodo Winter awarded Future Leaders Fellowship of over £1million DescriptionDr Winter is a Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Linguistics. His research will involve the construction and analysis of large multimodal corpora to explore ways of combating innumeracy, the numerical equivalent of illiteracyDate:16/10/2020 Ground-breaking trial aiming to stop women dying in childbirth starts recruitment in Africa and Asia DescriptionResearchers based at the University of Birmingham are starting a ground-breaking maternal health trial across 80 hospitals in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania and Sri Lanka.Date:09/10/2020 University of Birmingham academic awarded grant for rapid COVID research DescriptionA University of Birmingham academic is one of three UK scientists awarded a share of £50,000 to develop innovative research to improve the care of COVID-19 patients.Date:06/10/2020 School of English, Drama and Creative Studies wins prestigious British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship DescriptionDr Jack Quin will be joining the Department of English Literature for 3 years this October to research 'Dual Forms: Modernist poetry and the poetics of sculpture (1880-1940).'Date:13/07/2020 AACR-CRUK Transatlantic Fellowship Success for Dr Justin Loke DescriptionDr Justin Loke has become one of the first-ever recipients of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) – Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Transatlantic Fellowships.Date:10/07/2020 From the Mastodon to Extinction Rebellion: Grant secured for research into the history of extinction DescriptionA senior Lecturer in Modern History in the Department of History, has been awarded a £167,000 grant from The British Academy to write Vanished, a history of extinction for Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Random House.Date:30/06/2020 EU Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Funding Awarded to Project on Sustainable Public Procurement DescriptionBirmingham is part of the SAPIENS project which has been awarded a Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Innovative Training Network (ITN) grant by the European Research Agency.Date:01/06/2020 European Research Council backs research into anti-slavery in Africa and sign languages DescriptionTwo researchers from the College of Arts and Law at the University of Birmingham have been awarded ERC Advanced Grants as part of €450 million (£400 million) funding for Europe's long-term frontier research.Date:31/03/2020 Funding success for Professor Lisa Bortolotti DescriptionProfessor Bortolotti will be co-investigator in a one-year project entitled, "Agency, Social Identity & Justice in Mental Health: A Collaboration with Young People, Clinicians & Academics"Date:06/03/2020 Displaying 1 to 10 of 204 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … Next