Research Grants

Total research income this month: £6,098,408

Details provided below may vary as a number of awards are subject to confidentiality restrictions imposed by the awarding body.

Applied Computing

Dr GPH Gregor: £8,930 from University of Oxford for accessibility review.
Dr S Parkes: £480,524.
Dr S Parkes & Mr I Martin: £32,918.
Prof AF Newell: £180,000.
Dr GPH Gregor: £4,700.
Dr GPH Gregor: £2,820.

Biomedical Research Centre

Dr D Meek: £8,895 from The Royal Society for physiological role of the interaction between the p53 regulatory partner, Mdm2, and the rapamycin/FK506 binding protein, FKBP25.
Dr PR Clarke: £40,000 from The Royal Society for Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.
Dr M Paine: £27,482.

Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy

Dr CP Andrews-Speed: £29,000.

Civil Engineering

Dr AI Elsheikh & Dr TA Newson: £93,000 from CEC, Nanotechnologies and nanosciences for cornea engineering (STRP) (FP6).
Prof RK Dhir & Dr MJ McCarthy: £155,675 from RMC Environment Fund and Industrial Partners for feasibility of recovery and benefication of stockpiled and landfilled PFA for use in construction.
Prof MCR Davies & Dr MF Barnsby: £30,000.
Prof A Vardy: £10,000.
Prof RMW Horner: £45,000.

Dental Health Services Research Unit

Prof NB Pitts: £616,190 from Chief Scientist Office for Dental Health Services Research Unit 2004/2005.

Dental School

Prof GR Ogden: £5,727.

Design

Prof S Baxter: £6,500 from Scottish Centres for Glengonnar feasibility study.

English

Dr D Robb: £3,281 from The British Academy for a critical biography of the Scottish poet and academic Alexander Scott (1920-89).
Dr JA George: £526 from The British Academy for international auto-biography association 4th conference.

Fine Art

Mr P Harrison: £1,100.

Geography

Dr AR Black: £96,760 from Economic & Social Research Council for economic incentives, non-point pollution and integrated catchment management (joint with University of Glasgow).
Dr AR Black & Prof A Werritty: £82,250.

History

Dr MJ Van Ittersum: £4,475 from Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences for fellow in residence.
Prof C McKean: £5,000 from Historic Scotland for European renaissance study of Scotland 28/08/04 - 04/09/04.
Prof C McKean: £3,000 from The Russell Trust for European renaissance study of Scotland 28/08/04 - 04/09/04.
Prof C McKean: £2,000.

Institute of Sport & Exercise

Dr A Kirk, Mr BG Ewing, Dr DJR Cuthbertson (Medicine & Therapeutics), Dr GP Leese (Medicine & Therapeutics) and Dr H Wackerage (School of Life Sciences): £14,451 from Diabetes UK for exercise for type 2 diabetes - patient education programme.

Maternal & Child Health Sciences

Prof DJ Murphy & Prof T Fahey (Primary Care Health Sciences): £268,284 from BUPA Foundation for a randomised controlled trial of two decision aids for mode of delivery among women with a previous caesarean section (clinical trial) (joint with University of Bristol).

Medicine & Therapeutics

Prof AD Struthers, Dr S Pringle, Dr PT Donnan (Primary Care Health Sciences), Dr BM Goudie (Primary Care Health Sciences) & Prof FM Sullivan (Primary Care Health Sciences): £124,670 from British Heart Foundation for near patient BNP and portable echocardiography in General Practice.
Prof AD Struthers & Dr S Pringle: £121,995 from British Heart Foundation for left ventricular hypertrophy in coronary artery disease.
Dr SR McEwan & Prof JJF Belch: £17,430 from Scottish Heart and Arterial Disease Risk Prevention for ten year follow up for the SHARP cardiovascular population study relation to morbidity and mortality data.
Prof JJF Belch & Dr M McLaren: £10,000 from Sir John Fisher Foundation for contributing towards fellowship funding.
Prof JJF Belch & Dr F Khan: £100,000 from Sir John Fisher Foundation for contribution towards fellowship funding.
Prof JJF Belch, Dr JBC Dick, Dr F Khan, Dr M McLaren & Dr E Dow (Pathology & Neuroscience): £47,000.
Dr C Mowat & Dr JF Dillon: £10,586.
Prof P Davey: £334,875.
Prof AD Morris: £92,250.
Prof BJ Lipworth: £25,073.

Nursing & Midwifery

Ms M Wells & Mrs S McBride: £5,672.

Pathology & Neuroscience

Dr KE Robertson, Prof FA Carey, Dr N Pratt & Ms A Leslie (Surgery & Oncology): £10,000 from Tenovus Tayside for an examination of the genetic abnormalities involved in the development and progression of colonic and gastro-oesophageal cancer.
Dr D Bowen: £5,000.
Prof EG Wright, Ms S Lorimore & Dr PJ Coates: £109,664.
Dr DH Edwards: £1,000.

Primary Care Health Sciences

Prof IK Crombie: £126,000 from NHS Health Scotland for academic post in public health.
Prof FM Sullivan, Dr E Mitchell, Dr HC Pagliari, Dr GPH Gregor (Applied Computing), Prof IW Ricketts (Applied Computing) & Mr D Sloan (Applied Computing): £98,826.

Principal's Office

Dr D Duncan: £3,500.

Psychology

Dr C Scheepers: £1,750 from British Council for alliance: Franco-British Partnership programme 2004.
Prof PHK Seymour: £3,018 from Umea University for reading acquisition and disability in European orthographies.
Prof PHK Seymour: £6,297 from Stavanger University for reading acquisition and disability in European orthographies.

Research & Innovation Services

Mr J Houston: £2,182 from Scottish Higher Education Funding Council for co-ordination of European framework programme VI research projects (PACER).
Mr J Houston: £227,780 from European Regional Development Fund for biotechnology knowledge transfer fund.

Social Work

Dr BA Gillies: £119,000 from Scottish Executive - Social Work Services Inspectorate for Scottish Executive transitional funding for practice learning opportunities.

School of Life Sciences

Prof HG Jones: £1,117,553 from Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs for partial rootsone drying; delivering water saving and sustained high quality yield into horticulture (Joint with Lancaster University and Horticulture Research International).
Prof C Tickle & Dr KG Storey: £167,253 from Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council for large scale functional genomics (Joint with Sheffield University).
Prof CG Proud & Dr AR Tee: £115,243 from British Heart Foundation for dissecting Rheb/m TOR signalling in cardiomyocytes (Research Fellowship Dr AR Tee).
Dr DR Alessi: £75,000 from The Moffat Charitable Trust for PhD Studentship within Diabetes Research Unit (Al Alhakeim).
Dr JA Anderson: £10,575
Prof CG Proud: £105,750.

Surgery & Molecular Oncology

Prof Sir DP Lane: £528,016 from Cancer Research UK for exploiting tumour suppressor gene pathways for therapy.

Television & Imaging

Mr S Flack: £4,250

Town & Regional Planning

Dr WM Edgar: £103,212 from CEC Director General for a thematic study to analyse policy measures to ensure access to decent housing for migrants and ethnic minorities.
Mr W Lynch, Mrs BM Illsley & Dr R O’Riordan (Architecture): £9,500