National Institutes for Health Research
Health Services and Delivery Research grants
- Award winner: Alicia O’Cathain
- Institution: University of Sheffield
- Value: ?708,287
Drivers of Demand for Emergency and Urgent CarE (DEUCE)
- Award winner: Matthew Maddocks
- Institution: King’s College London
- Value: ?128,612
An evidence synthesis of holistic services for refractory breathlessness in advanced malignant and non-malignant disease
- Award winner: Karen Spilsbury
- Institution: University of Leeds
- Value: ?922,217
Relationship between care home staffing and quality of care: a mixed methods approach
Public Health Research grant
- Award winner: Niamh Fitzgerald
- Institution: University of Stirling
- Value: ?837,440
EXILENS: Exploring the Impact of alcohol Licensing in England and Scotland: a mixed-method, natural experiment evaluation of public health engagement in alcohol premises licensing and impact on alcohol-related harms
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Research grants?
- Award winner: Gareth Wyn Jones
- Institution: University of Manchester
- Value: ?95,564
Deformed shape optimisation for elastic bodies
- Award winner: Matthew Philip Jones
- Institution: Durham University
- Value: ?804,634
?Solid state superatoms
- Award winner: Eric Keaveny
- Institution: Imperial College London
- Value: ?694,462
?Modelling sperm-mucus interactions across scales
- Award winner: Christopher MacMinn
- Institution: University of Oxford
- Value: ?101,050
Controlling viscous fingering with fluid-structure interactions
Science and Technology Facilities Council
Research grants
- Award winner: Bjoern Seitz
- Institution: University of Glasgow
- Value: ?28,403
Directional assessment of radiation sources
- Award winner: Helen Mason
- Institution: University of Cambridge
- Value: ?248,560
Understanding the dynamical solar atmosphere
- Award winner: Eugene Lim
- Institution: King’s College London
- Value: ?56,605
Testing the foundations of cosmology
In detail
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Research grant
Award winner: Michael Bok
Institution: University of Bristol
Value: ?304,823
Looking with gills: the evolution and function of distributed visual systems in fan worms with a view to future resilient sensor arrays
Marine fan worms are among Earth’s oddest known creatures: they live on the sea floor in tubes of hardened mucus and have protruding fans of tentacles (radioles). Among other functions, the radioles are used for vision. Some species of marine fan worm have just two eyes on the end of each tentacle, while others have hundreds on each tentacle. As these may be unique evolutionary developments, marine fan worms are valuable in explorations of the origin of visual sensory systems. Michael Bok will study radiolar eyes using computational, molecular and neurobiological approaches, including using new sequencing techniques to identify the genes involved with detecting light. He will use his findings to create a simple model for distributed optical sensory arrays, which will contribute to biomimetic robotics.