Royal Society

Wolfson Research Merit Awards

Awards are worth ?10,000-?30,000 a year, which is a salary enhancement

• Award winner: Graham Cormode
• Institution: University of Warwick

Small summaries for big data

• Award winner: Pierre Friedlingstein
• Institution: University of Exeter

Earth System biogeochemical feedbacks, climate targets and emissions mitigation

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

Research Grants

• Award winner: John Woolliams
• Institution: University of Edinburgh
• Value: ?262,715

GplusE: Genomic selection and environment modelling for next-generation wheat breeding

• Award winner: John Bothwell
• Institution: Durham University
• Value: ?841,968

Transnational approaches to resolving biological bottlenecks in macroalgal biofuel production (SuBBSea)

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• Award winner: Tracy Palmer
• Institution: University of Dundee
• Value: ?406,287

Coordinating different protein translocation machineries during assembly of a membrane protein

Leverhulme Trust

International Networks
Humanities

• Award winner: James Belich
• Institution: University of Oxford
• Value: ?124,789

Global nodes, global orders: macro- and micro-histories of globalisation

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• Award winner: Mark Frost
• Institution: University of Essex
• Value: ?102,877

War memoryscapes in Asia partnership: routes to post-conflict reconciliation

Social sciences

• Award winner: Paolo Di Martino
• Institution: University of Birmingham
• Value: ?22,239

Re-doing business: insolvency and bankruptcy legislation, models of business, and firms¡¯ governance in historical and comparative perspective (1900-2010)

• Award winner: Suman Gupta
• Institution: The Open University
• Value: ?121,959

Framing financial crisis and protest: northwest and southeast Europe

Economic and Social Research Council

Transformative Research

• Award winner: Kath Browne
• Institution: University of Brighton
• Value: ?193,087

Making liveable lives: rethinking social exclusion

• Award winner: Dawn Watkins
• Institution: University of Leicester
• Value: ?197,944

Where do I stand? Assessing children¡¯s understanding of law as an empowering force in their lives

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In detail

Economic and Social Research Council

Award winner: Farida Vis
Institution: University of Sheffield
Value: ?206,880

Picturing the social: transforming our understanding of images in social media and big data research

This project is the world¡¯s first cross-platform academic research project into social media images, exploring the impact images of this kind have on society. A key aim of the project is to use the insight from academia and industry to build a free research tool that will allow researchers to capture this visual data to highlight and study different aspects. ¡°Images tend to be trickier to study than words,¡± said Farida Vis. ¡°With the rise in techniques that focus on large volumes of text, specifically with the growing interest in so-called big data, images tend to get forgotten.¡± Findings from the project will be disseminated via the new .