Leverhulme Trust

Research project grants
Sciences

• Award winner: Ben Webb
• Institution: 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Nottingham
• Value: ?250,275

Timescales of multisensory recalibration in natural environments

• Award winner: Emmanuel Pothos
• Institution: City 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ London
• Value: ?111,895

A quantum approach to decision making in Bernoulli¡¯s St Petersburg¡¯s paradox

• Award winner: Naeem Syed
• Institution: Canterbury Christ Church 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ
• Value: ?268,307

Understanding the epigenetics of alternative splicing in the plant clock genes

National Institute for Health Research

Health Technology Assessment programme

• Award winner: Alison Avenell
• Institution: 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Aberdeen
• Value: ?530,874

REBALANCE: review of behaviour and lifestyle interventions for severe obesity: an evidence synthesis

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Public Health Research programme

• Award winner: Simon Coulton
• Institution: 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Kent
• Value: ?882,010

RISKIT-CJS ¨C pragmatic randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a multi-component intervention to reduce substance use and risk-behaviour in adolescents engaged with the criminal justice system

Economic and Social Research Council

Research grants

• Award winner: Paul Collier
• Institution: 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Oxford
• Value: ?447,762

Women empowerment, social norms and domestic violence

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• Award winner: Victor Murinde
• Institution: 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Birmingham
• Value: ?1,726,450

Delivering inclusive financial development and growth

• Award winner: Hilary Pilkington
• Institution: 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Manchester
• Value: ?30,365

Youth extremisms: understanding across ideological and religious contexts (research seminar series)

• Award winner: James Ash
• Institution: Newcastle 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ
• Value: ?162,141

Digital interfaces and debt: understanding mediated decision-making processes in high cost short term credit products

In detail

Award winner: Felicity Thomas
Institution: 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Exeter
Value: ?484,706

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Poverty, pathology and pills: moral narratives and the medicalisation of distress

Provision of effective treatment and support for mental distress is a key target for government and organisations such as the mental health charity Mind. Yet despite an urgent need to tackle health inequality, current strategies frame mental distress as a psychological problem that lies within the individual concerned. This not only presumes that distress can be ¡°corrected¡± through medical treatment, but also covers up factors often underlying the root causes of suffering ¨C poverty and unemployment, for example. Concurrently, policies restricting welfare support and popular media deploy moralising narratives to reinforce beliefs that people are responsible for their own circumstances and actions. This project aims to explore how these narratives impact on the ways people in low-income communities perceive and respond to mental distress caused by material deprivation and social disadvantage, and will examine the impacts of this on their well-being.