2007 to 2008

Accounting, Finance and Management

Award Holder	Funding Body	Amount	Project Title	Duration
Total

Art History and Theory

Award Holder	Funding Body	Amount	Project Title	Duration
Matthew Poole	AHRC via Sheffield Hallam	£3,033	Curating Video	3 months
Total		£3,033

Biological Sciences

Award Holder	Funding Body	Amount	Project Title	Duration
Professor P Mullineaux Professor N Baker	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council	£700,872	Elucidating Signalling Networks in Plant Stress Responses	4 years
Professor M Wilson, Professor C Cooper and Dr D Svistunenko	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council	£379,918	Formation of Tyrosine Radicals in Haem Proteins: Their Role in Electron Transfer	2 years
Dr T Lawson, Professor R Geider, and Professor D Nedwell	National Environment Research Council	£326,620	Effect of light, CO2 and nutrient limitation on photosynthesis in marine diazotrophic cyanobacteria	3 years
Dr D Suggett	National Environment Research Council	£306,601	Response of Emiliania Huxleyi to a high CO2 World: Assessing the extent of genetic diversity in the pattern of gene expression	25 months
Dr P Dobbin and Dr S Battah	Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council	£252,853	Synthesis and biological studies of multifunctional dendritic conjugates of synergistically acting therapeutic agents	3 years
Professor C Cooper	Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council	£183,135	The Magic of Blood: Shining Light on Chemistry, Physics & Bioengineering	3 years
Professor C Cooper	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council	£114,938	Artificial Blood: Reducing the Intrinsic Toxicity of Haemoglobin	1 year
Professor C Reynolds	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council	£101,782	Incorporating MM Polarization in hybrid QM/MM Calculations	16 months
Dr Edward Codling	National Environment Research Council	£68,470	Simplifying the Assessment and Management of Fisheries and Other Natural Resources	1 year
Dr E Klenova	Essex Rivers Healthcare NHS Trust	£55,647	Evaluation of BORIS as an early biomarker of breast cancer	1 year
Dr Corrine Whitby	Forest Research Commission	£39,000	Impact of nitrogen deposition on microbial communities in relation to nitrogen/carbon cycling in forest soils	3 years
Dr D Suggett, Dr D Smith and Dr T McGenity	National Environment Research Council	£35,409	Regulation of Isoprene Production by Coastal Benthic Communities	7 months
Dr Jody Mason	Alzheimers Research Trust	£27,462	Semi-rationally designed peptides to target and sequester amyloid and synuclein as small non toxic oligomers	2 years
Dr D Smith	Earthwatch Institute	£22,000	Coral and Coastal Ecology of the Seychelles	1 year
Dr A Harrison	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council	£20,500	Detecting Alternative Splicing and Alternative Polyadenylation in Rice Based on a large scale microarray data anaylysis	3 years
Dr N Kad	The Royal Society	£14,899	Observing and Quantifying the process of prokaryotic nucleotide excision DNA repair (NER) using single molecule imaging	1 year
Professor J Norton	Essex Rivers Healthcare - NHS Trust	£12,574	Clinical Research Fellowship Dr C Liao	3 months
Dr J Mason	The Royal Society	£12,508	The Effects of peptide inhibitors on the binding of DNA by Activator Protein-1: A Fluorescence Anisotropy Study	1 year
Dr D Smith	Environment Agency	£10,000	The Concentration of Faecal Pollution Indicators within Brightlingsea Creek Phase 1	26 days
Dr J Worrall	The Royal Society	£6,230	Protein Interactions between a DEAD-box RNA helicase & its co-activator	1 year
Professor G Underwood, Dr M Steinke	Colchester Oyster Fisheries	£3,226	Lobster Feeding Project	5 months
Professor  G Underwood	Brightlingsea Harbour Commissioners	£2,435	Colne Estuary Partnership Conference	3 months
Dr T Lawson	Forestry Commission	£4,100	Investigating Chlorophyll a Fluorescence imaging of aphid effects on trees	1 year
Dr J Mason	Royal Society	£1,220	Annual Symposium of the Protein Society	6 days
Professor C Cooper	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council	£1,190	International Scientific Interchange Scheme Free Radical Chemistry of Haemoglobin: Implications for Biotechnology & Health	5 days
Dr S Pilgrim	Royal Society	£1,015	14th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management USA	6 days
Dr D Suggett	Royal Society	£1,000	11th International Coral Reef Symposium USA	3 weeks
Dr Neil Kad	Royal Society	£800	Joint Meeting of the Biophysical 52nd Annual Meeting	5 days
Total		£2,706,404

Centre for Computational Finance and Economic Agents (CCFEA)

Award Holder	Funding Body	Amount	Project Title	Duration
Dr N Constantinou and Professor S Markose	HSBC	£60,000	HSBC Senior Research Fellow in Risk and Insurance	11 months
Dr Wing Lon Ng and Professor S Markose	German Research Council	£20,045	DFG Project	11 months
Total		£80,045

Centre for Environment and Society

Award Holder	Funding Body	Amount	Project Title	Duration
Professor S Bunting	Asian Development Bank	£77,056	Project Processing and Capacity Development - Capacity Building for Protection of East Kilkata Wetlands	6 months
Dr M Griffin Professor J Pretty	Mid Essex Primary Care Trust	£10,000	General Healthy Living Project	15 months
Professor J Pretty	Columbia University, New York	£9,728	How different are the Sciences	10 months
Professor J Pretty	South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust	£5,000	Evaluation of Traumatic Stress Service at Vauxhall City Farm	9 months
Professor J Pretty	LEAF	£3,400	The mental health and well-being effects of visiting LEAF farms in the UK	9 months
Professor J Pretty	University of Wales Aberystwyth	£3,000	Economics of Organic Farming (DEFRA)	1 Year
Professor J Pretty	The Wilderness Foundation UK	£2,000	Social Benefits Project	8 months
Total		£110,184

Chimera (ISTIR)

Award Holder	Funding Body	Amount	Project Title	Duration
Dr B Anderson	British Telecom	£376,512	UK Expenditure Model Phase II	37 months
Dr B Anderson	Intel Corporation	£79,019	The Analysis of Mobile Behaviour Through Time Sequencing	1 year
Dr B Anderson	Dept. for Communities and Local Government	£68,000	Small Area Estimates of Income Poverty	17 months
Dr M Gardner	Sun Microsystems Inc	£42,730	MiRTLE	1 year
Dr B Anderson	Welsh Assembly Government	£12,399	Welsh Small Area Estimates of Income Poverty	13 months
Paul Stoneman	Business Development Research Consultant	£7,900	The Financial Lifestage Consumer Atlas 2008 - Data Analysis Proposal	3 weeks
Dr B Anderson	Commission for Rural Communities	£6,200	Small Area Estimates of Income Poverty	19 days
Professor C Fowler	British Telecom	£6,000	2nd Life:  Users & Usages - A Preliminary Study	1 year
Professor C Fowler	Kodak	£5,000	Evaluation of Kodak Products within the i-Dorm Environment	5 months
Dr B Anderson and Dr M Harris	Solihull Care Trust	£4,000	The Relationship Between Innovative Technologies, Change Management and Organisational Re-design	11 months
Dr B Anderson	Economic and Social Research Council	£2,300	ESRC e-Society Research Programme Travel Fellowships	9 days
Dr M Gardner	British Telecom	£1,100	Social Networks/Education Work on understanding the young consumer	20 days
Total		£611,160

Computing and Electronic Systems

Award Holder	Funding Body	Amount	Project Title	Duration
Professor R Poli and Dr F Sepulveda	Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council	£370,346	Analogue Evolutionary Brain Computer Interfaces	3 years
Professor H Hagras, Dr M Gardner, Dr M Colley and Dr V Callaghan	EU (7th Framework)	£370,268	ATRACO: Adaptive and Trusted Ambient Ecologies	2 years
Dr U Kruschwitz and Dr M Fasli	Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council	£282,002	Automatic Adaption of Knowledge Structures for Assisted Information Seeking	3 years
Professor D Simeonidou and Dr R Nejabati	EU (7th Framework)	£203,418	Dynamnic Impairment Constraint Networking for Transparent Mesh Optical Networks (DICONET)	30 months
Professor D Simeonidou	EU (7th Framework)	£179,732	EUROFOS - Network of Excellence	4 yeaqrs
Professor D Simeonidou, Dr R Nejabati, Professor M O'Mahony, Professor S Walker and Dr K Guild	EU (7th Framework)	£133,215	Building the future optical network in Europe (BONE)	2 years
Professor Mike Adams	EU (7th Framework)	£126,959	Injected Spin Lasers	2 years
Profess E Tsang	British Telecommunications	£125,000	Workforce Dynamics Simulator	1 year
Professor J Woods and Steve Fitz	Carbon Connections	£89,400	CLIPS - Control of Intelligent Power Systems	1 year
Dr S Lucas and Dr U Kruschwitz	DTI	£71,945	To develop an Intelligent Mail Server Using Natural Language Engineering and Search Technology to Support Collaborative Management and Cross-Enterprise Projects	2 years
Dr S Lucas and Dr U Kruschwitz	Active Web Solutions Ltd	£55,435	To Develop an Intelligent Mail Server Using Natural Language Engineering and Search Technology to Support Co9llaborative Management and Cross-Enterprise Projects	2 years
Professor R Poli and Dr B Langdon	Economic and Social Research Council	£39,099	Bringing Contemporary Biology into Evolutionary Computation: Plastic, Hierarchy, and Genetic Re-Use	3 months
Professor B Ridley	Office of Naval Research	£30,361	Theory of Electron Transport at High Electric Fields in Nitride Structure	1 year
Dr D Hunter and Dr M Reed	British Telecommunications	£29,000	Investigation and Simplification of Interior Gateway Routing Protocols	3 Years
Professor Hu	The Royal Academy of Engineering	£22,000	Multi-modal Human-Machine Interfaces for hands-free control of intelligent wheelchairs	1 year
Dr S Walker	European Commission	£21,410	Multi Service Access Everywhere (MUSE II)	27 months
Professor E Tsang and Dr Q Zhang	Honda Research Institute Europe GMBH	£13,462	Modelling distribution of pareto-optimal  solutions for multi-objective optimization	15 months
Professor M Adams	QinetiQ	£2,125	MSC Placement Guilhem de Valicourt Malvern 2008	4 months
Dr K Yang	The British Academy	£1,240	IEEE Globecom Conference	8 days
Dr U Nehmzow	The Royal Academy of Engineering	£1,000	International Travel Grant o Brazil	4 months
Total		£2,167,417

Economics

Award Holder	Funding Body	Amount	Project Title	Duration
Professor M Chambers	Economic and Social Research Council	£80,822	Jackknife Methods of Estimation & Inference in Dynamic Econometric Models	15 months
Professor A Muthoo	Economic and Social Research Council	£74,364	Designing Dynamic Tournaments	1 year
Total		£155,186

Government

Award Holder	Funding Body	Amount	Project Title	Duration
Professor P Whitely	Economic and Social Research Council	£1,507,632	British Election survey 2009/10	4 years
Professor A Weale	Economic and Social Research Council	£364,107	Professorial Fellowship Scheme: Social Contract, Deliverative Demoncracy and Public Policy	2 years
Dr M Popescu	The British Academy	£203,708	Explaining when and why Media Influence Citizens: A Multi-Method Cross-National Analysis	3 years
Dr L Ezrow	Economic and Social Research Council	£57,349	Subconstituency Representation Across Western Europe	13 months
Dr A Norval	ESRC NCRM University of Southampton	£24,092	Discourse Analysis Network	8 months
Professor R Bellamy	European Commission	£19,426	NEWGOV	4 years
Professor K Gleditsch	International Peace Research Institute	£13,635	Disaggregating Civil War	1 year
Professor E Kirchner, Professor A Muthoo, Dr H Dorussen, Mr F Grundig and Professor H Ward	European Commission	£13,023	Global and Regional Security Governance:Security threats and Instutional Response (GARNET)	5 years
Professor H Dorussen	Folke Bernadette Academy	£5,000	Peacekeeping Locations Events  Dataset	11 months
Profesor H Dorussen	Folke Bernadette Academy	£5,000	UN Peacekeeping and Local Governance	6 months
Dr P Bou-Habib	The British Academy	£1,910	Justice Between Age Groups	3 days
Dr P Bou-Habib	Mind Association	£600	Justice between age groups (Major Conference Grant)	3 days
Dr P Bou-Habib	Society for Applied Philosophy	£500	Justice Between Age Groups (Workshop Grant)	3 days
Dr P Bou-Habib	Analysis Trust/Nottingham University	£150	Analysis Conference Grant - Justice between Age Groups	3 days
Total		£2,216,132

Health and Human Sciences

Award Holder	Funding Body	Amount	Project Title	Duration
Professor G Green	The Secretary of State for Health	£5,137,495	The NIHR Reserch Design Service for the East of England	3 years 11 months
Professor G Green	The Secretary of State for Health	£45,800	East of England RDSU	2 months
Total		£5,183,295

History

Award Holder	Funding Body	Amount	Project Title	Duration
Total

Human Rights Centre

Award Holder	Funding Body	Amount	Project Title	Duration
F Hampson	British Academy	£7,498	Private military companies/private security companies: accountability and legal control	9 months
Professor P Hunt	UNFPA	£5,282	Support for the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health	2 months
Total		£12,780

Institute for Social and Economic Research

Award Holder	Funding Body	Amount	Project Title	Duration
Professor N Buck, Professor R Berthoud, Professor P Lynn, Professor S Jenkins, Dr H Laurie and Dr L Platt	Economic and Social Research Council	£14,697,330	UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) Interim Grant - core funding	4years, 10 months
Professor R Berthoud, Dr M Iacovou Professor S Jenkins Dr M Bryan Professor H Sutherland and Professor P Lynn	Economic and Social Research Counci	£391,246	Life Chances and Living Standards Across The New Europe:Revised proposal	3 years
Dr T Siedler	Economic and Social Research Council	£50,288	Family Structure and Adult Children's Location Decisions	1 year
Professor S Pudney	Home Office via NATCEN	£31,973	Longitudinal Anylysis of Offending and Drug Use data from the offending crime and justice survey	11 months
Dr L Platt and Dr S Longhi	Equality and Human Rights Centre	£24,775	Pay Gaps Across Equalities Areas	5 months
Professor H Sutherland	Applica SPRL/sub-contract with E U	£22,726	Establishment of a European observatory with the aim to inform the social policy debate and to provide analytical input for the report on the social situation in the EU Lot 2 - Social inclusion	43 months
Professor S Pudney	Economic and Social Research Council	£22,200	Research Centre on Microsocial Change (MISOC)	5 years
Professor P Lynn	Longview (Subcontract ESRC)	£19,945	Solving the Problem of Attrition in Longitudinal Surveys	3 years
Professor P Lynn	European Social Survey (ESSI Project)	£13,429	EC/sub-contract with City University	3 years
Professor R Berthoud	Department for Work and Pensions	£9,920	Impact of DLA/AA A Feasibility Study	6 weeks
Dr L Platt	Department for Work and Pensions	£9,832	Ethnicity and Child Poverty	8 months
Professor R Berthoud	Department for Work and Pensions	£8,150	Independent Expert Disability Allowance	2 years
Professor S Pudney	Home Office	£7,790	Economics Advisory Panel	1 year
Dr J Burton	Economic and Social Research Council	£5,043	Co-ordinator for the Survey Design and Measurement Initiative	7 months
Dr J Burton	The British Academy	£200	Survey Methods in Multinational, Multiregional, and Multicultural Contexts	1 day
Total		£15,314,847

Language and Linguistics

Award Holder	Funding Body	Amount	Project Title	Duration
Dr C Felser	Economic and Social Research Council	£73,146	The Time-Course of Syntactic Constraints in Second Language	1 year
Dr N Kula	The British Academy	£700	Overseas Conference Grant: African Linguistics Special 6th World Congress	5 days
Dr B Petric	The British Academy	£500	Writing Research 3rd International Conference	3 days
Total		£74,346

Law

Award Holder	Funding Body	Amount	Project Title	Duration
Professor J Gobert	The British Academy	£7,456	European Developments in Corporate Criminal Liability	1 month
Total		£7,456

Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies

Award Holder	Funding Body	Amount	Project Title	Duration
Dr J Gillies	The British Academy	£6,403	Shakespeare in Caribbean Literature	2 months
Dr B Klein	The British Academy	£500	Shakespeare Association of America 36th Annual Conference 2008	3 days
Total		£6,903

Mathematics

Award Holder	Funding Body	Amount	Project Title	Duration
Dr E Coding	Marine Institute via University College Cork	£57,243	Marine Institute Research Grants	7 years
Total		£57,243

 

Philosophy

Award Holder	Funding Body	Amount	Project Title	Duration
Total

Psychology

Award Holder	Funding Body	Amount	Project Title	Duration
Dr N Geeraert	Economic and Social Research Council	£290,525	The Impact of Living Abroad: Stress, Adaption, and Intergroup Contact	42 months
Professor S Orbell	Economic and Social Research Council	£79,535	Social & Cognitive Processes in Illness Schema Activation and 'Sick Behaviour'	13 months
Professor R Meddis	RNID	£69,642	Tinnitus and Hearing Deficits	3 years
Dr C Uller	The British Academy	£7,500	Numerical Discrimination in 10 month old infants	1 year
Dr T Rakow	The British Academy	£7,426	Assessing complex graphics for communicating medical risks to the public	3 months
Dr C Cinel	University of Bristol (Experimental Psychology Society)	£2,000	Binding Across the Senses	1 year
Dr C Uller	The Royal Society	£1,840	20th Annual Meeting of the Human Behaviour and Evolution Society	4 days
Dr A Uskul	The British Academy	£300	European Association of Experimental Social Psychology 15th General Meeting	4 days
Total		£458,768

Sociology

Award Holder	Funding Body	Amount	Project Title	Duration
Dr R Ryan-Flood	Economic and Social Research Council	£82,192	Sexuality, Citizenship and Migration:  The Irish Queer Diaspora in London	15 months
Professor P Thompson	Heritage Lottery Fund	£43,000	Colne Maritime Oral History Project	32 months
Dr N Allum	EC - FP7	£41,995	Sensitive Technologies and European Public Ethics (STEPE)	2 years
Dr Y Soysai	Research Grants Council-The Chinese University of Hong Kong	£23,964	Citizenship Education in Asia and Europe: A Cross-National and Longitudinal Study	28 months
Dr H Tanaka	Japan Foundation Endowment Committee	£2,400	Beyond a mere exchange of opinions: A study on sequences of self-depreciations, criticisms and compliments in Japanese converstion	2 months
Total		£193,551

UK Data Archive

Award Holder	Funding Body	Amount	Project Title	Duration
Professor K Schurer	Economic and Social Research Council	£10,145,294	Economic and Social Data Service (Essex) Core Award 2007
Mr K Miller	JISC via Edinburgh University	£44,409	Storelink Developing a toolset to link the outputs of research	6 months
Prof K Schurer	JISC via Edinburgh University	£31,000	Source-to-output Repositories	3 years
Total		£10,220,703

 

University of Essex

Total

£39,579,453