Leverhulme Trust

Research project grants
Sciences

• Award winner: Timothy Birkhead
• Institution: 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Sheffield
• Value: ?261,958

Evolution of avian egg design

• Award winner: Peter Davidson
• Institution: 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Cambridge
• Value: ?246,028

Are planetary magnetic fields generated and maintained by inertial waves?

• Award winner: Kayla King
• Institution: 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Oxford
• Value: ?226,955

Transitions to defensive mutualism: an experimental coevolution approach

Humanities

• Award winner: Siobhan Lambert-Hurley
• Institution: Loughborough 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ
• Value: ?91,977

Veiled voyagers: Muslim women travellers from 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ and the Middle East

Royal Society

Wolfson Research Merit Awards
These awards are worth ?10,000-?30,000 a year, which is a salary enhancement

51¹ú²úÊÓƵ

• Award winner: Sharon Ashbrook
• Institution: 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of St?Andrews

Exploiting NMR spectroscopy: local structure and disorder in solids

• Award winner: Lucy Walker
• Institution: 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ College London

Exploring new biomarkers for the prediction and therapy of type 1 diabetes

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Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

• Award winner: Gianluca Demartini
• Institution: 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Sheffield
• Value: ?99,555

BetterCrowd: human computation for big data

• Award winner: Dennis Lam
• Institution: 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Bradford
• Value: ?379,154

Structural and fire resistance of a reusable steel/concrete composite floor system

• Award winner: Paolo Missier
• Institution: Newcastle 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ
• Value: ?584,269

ReComp: sustained value extraction from analytics by recurring selective recomputation

• Award winner: Laura Murciano
• Institution: 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Cambridge
• Value: ?498,834

Integrated anode-less PEM fuel cells (iaPEM-FC) ¨C beyond hydrogen

In detail

European Research Council

Award winner: James Mallinson
Institution: Soas, 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of London
Value: €1.85?million

51¹ú²úÊÓƵ

The Hatha Yoga Project: mapping Indian and transnational traditions of physical yoga through philology and ethnography

This project will explore the history of hatha yoga, a source of much of the modern yoga practised around the world today. It will draw on hatha yoga¡¯s textual corpus and on fieldwork among its current ascetic practitioners to reconstruct the history of its practice. The team will explore the form, and its practitioners, concentrating on the period of its formalisation, between the 11th and 15th centuries. The study will also document its subsequent development and proliferation and attempt to identify what constituted yoga practice in India on the eve of colonialism. ¡°The history of hatha yoga is crucial for an understanding of both Indian religion and modern yoga, but is yet to be the object of serious study,¡± said James Mallinson, lecturer in Sanskrit and classical Indian studies at Soas, 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of?London. ¡°As a?result, key questions about yoga ¨C?such as who were hatha yoga¡¯s first practitioners and why did they practise it, and which modern yoga practices predate colonialism and which are innovations ¨C are yet to be answered satisfactorily. The project seeks to redress this by identifying the origins of both hatha and modern yoga.¡±