East and South East Asia
Dr Uradyn Erden Bulag University of Cambridge
Entangled Lines: Railways, Resource Booms, and Transnational Politics in Mongolia
Dr Dorj Shurkhuu (Mongolian Academy of Sciences; Mongolia)
3 Years; £30,000
Dr Mark Ravinder Frost University of Essex
Writing the Great Asian War
Dr Victor Zatsepine (University of Hong Kong; China)
1 Year; £9,401
Professor Mark Harvey University of Essex
Social change and systems of drinking water provision in Taiwan: an economic sociology perspective
Dr William Li (National Dong Hwa University; Taiwan)
1 Year; £5,000
Co-funded with the National Science Council of Taiwan
Dr Oliver Hensengerth University of Northumbria
Institutional Reforms and the Effects on Civil Society Groups: A Comparison of the Emergence of Environmental Organisations in China and Taiwan
Professor Yung-mau Chao (National Taiwan University; Taiwan)
1 Year; £4,980
Co-funded with the National Science Council of Taiwan
Dr Margaretta Jolly University of Sussex
Hearing her: Oral histories of women’s liberation in China and the United Kingdom
Professor Hongtao Li (China Women's University; China)
1 Year; £9,720
Dr Toby Lincoln University of Leicester
The Habitable City: Chinese urban history in a global context
Professor Xu Tao (Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences; China)
3 Years; £29,680
Dr Neil Lunt University of York
East Asian and European insights on global medical travel
Professor Ki Nam Jin (Yonsei University; South Korea)
1 Year; £7,950
Professor Ruth Mace UCL
Matrilocal kinship in China: a behavioural ecological approach
Dr Ting Ji (Chinese Academy of Sciences; China)
3 Years; £30,000
Professor Jonathan Rigg Durham University
Personalising the middle income trap and writing workshop for early career researchers
Dr Buapun Promphakping (Khon Kaen University; Thailand)
1 Year; £9,260
Dr Sarah Teasley Royal College of Art
Developing an intellectual framework for researching change through graphic and product design in Japan, 1991-2000
Miss Chiharu Watabe (Tokyo Zokei University; Japan)
1 Year; £9,414
Professor Katie Willis Royal Holloway, University of London
The Right to the City?: Inclusion, participation and policy
Professor Shew-Jiuan Su (National Taiwan Normal University; Taiwan)
1 Year; £5,000
Co-funded with the National Science Council of Taiwan
Professor David Wray University of Warwick
Toward a New Model of Readability in Other Languages
Dr Dahlia Janan (Sultan Idris Education University; Malaysia)
1 Year; £4,965
Latin America and the Caribbean
Professor Roger Halson University of Leeds
A Comparative Study of the Law Relating to the Remoteness of Loss in Argentina and England and Wales with particular reference to recent reforms proposed in Argentina.
Mr Diego Cesar Bunge (University of Buenos Aires; Argentina)
1 Year; £9,846
Dr Sara Hennessy University of Cambridge
A tool for analysing dialogic interactions in classrooms
Professor Sylvia Margarita Rojas-Drummond (National Autonomous University of Mexico; Mexico)
3 Years; £29,562
Professor Alex Marsh University of Bristol
Strengthening cross-national research capacity in the field of governance of place and cross-sector leadership.
Dr Arturo Flores (National Autonomous University of Mexico; Mexico)
1 Year; £10,000
Professor Annette Dionne Karmiloff-Smith University of London
Tablet games for stealth assessment
Dr Marcela Tenorio Delgado (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; Chile)
1 Year; £9,910
Mr Pablo Lafuente Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London
The 24th São Paulo Biennial: Anthropophagia as a Cultural Model
Dr Lisette Lagnado (Faculdade Santa Marcelina; Brazil)
1 Year; £8,640
Dr George Leeson University of Oxford
Capacity Building in Latin America
Dr Alejandro Klein (University of Guanajuato; Mexico)
3 Years; £29,812
Dr Ralph Levinson Institute of Education, University of London
Political literacy as a component of science teacher training: opportunities and challenges for practice
Professor Isabel Martins (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Brazil)
1 Year; £8,181
Dr Darren Sharpe Anglia Ruskin University
Towards ending gang and youth violence: identifying positive approaches to strengthen communities
Professor Julie Meeks Gardner (University of the West Indies; Jamaica)
1 Year; £9,494
Dr Natalia Sobrevilla University of Kent
Identity and Independence: how national consciousness crystallized during the wars of Independence from Spain
Dr Juan Luis Ossa (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez; Chile)
1 Year; £9,475
Dr Lindsay Stirton University of Sheffield
Legal Transplants and Public Service Bargains: Explaining Civil Service Performance and Reform in Jamaica and Trinidad-Tobago
Professor Ann Marie Bissessar (University of the West Indies; Trinidad and Tobago)
3 Years; £29,834
Professor Paul Taggart University of Sussex
Populism in Europe and Latin America: a cross-regional perspective
Professor Pierre Ostiguy (Instituto de Ciencia Política of the Universidad Católica de Chile; Chile)
3 Years; £29,990
Middle East and North Africa
Professor Jeff Adams University of Chester
Creative Pedagogies in Palestinian (West Bank) and English (North West) schools: A Comparative Study
Dr Hala Al-Yamani (Bethlehem University; Palestine)
3 Years; £29,846
Dr Lucy Blue University of Southampton
Maritime footprints: examing the maritime cultural landscape of Masirah Island, Oman, past and present
Dr Nasser Al-Jahwari (Sultan Qaboos University; Oman)
1 Year; £9,915
Professor Charles Burnett University of London
Averroes' Monograph, On the Theriac: A Multilingual Edition and Study on a Medieval Panacea
Professor Y. Tzvi Langermann (Bar Ilan University; Israel)
1 Year; £7,373
Dr Andrew Lovell University of Chester
Autism spectrum disorders in children: a qualitative study examining the experience of families within the UK and Egypt.
Dr Ereny Gobrial (Zagazig University; Egypt)
1 Year; £10,000
Dr Candia Morgan Institute of Education, University of London
Analysing the Palestinian school mathematics textbooks: A multimodal (multi-semiotic) perspective
Dr Jehad Alshwaikh (Birzeit University; Palestine)
1 Year; £7,580
Dr Andrei Rogatchevski University of Glasgow
Towards the centenary of the Russian presence in mandatory Palestine and Israel: Identifying and collating expatriate Russophone printed media sources
Professor Roman Timenchik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Israel)
1 Year; £9,927
Dr Renee Timmers University of Sheffield
Cross-modal perception of music
Professor Zohar Eitan (Tel Aviv University; Israel)
3 Years; £27,230
Professor Stephen Whitefield University of Oxford
The Dynamics of Political Development and its Cultural Expression in Post-Revolutionary Egypt
Dr Mazen Hassan (Cairo University; Egypt)
1 Year; £9,959
South Asia
Dr Sundari Anitha University of Lincoln
Transnational abandonment of South Asian women: a new form of violence against women
Dr Anupama Roy (Jawaharlal Nehru University; India)
3 Years; £29,170
Dr Joseph Calabrese UCL
Mental Health in Bhutan: Local Practices of Well-being and Experiences of Illness and Treatment
Dr Chencho Dorji (Bhutan Institute of Medical Sciences; Bhutan)
1 Year; £9,560
Dr Markus Daechsel Royal Holloway, University of London
Oral testimonies of development in Pakistan
Dr Ibrahim Muhammad (Government College University Lahore; Pakistan)
1 Year; £9,961
Dr Andrea Joslyn Nightingale University of Edinburgh
Political Violence and Climate Change? Resource governance and post-conflict reconstruction in Nepal
Dr Hemant R. Ojha (ForestAction Nepal and Southasia Institute for Advanced Studies; Nepal)
3 Years; £29,820
Dr Francesca Orsini School of Oriental and African Studies
Hinglish: the social and cultural dimensions of Hindi-English bilingualism in contemporary India
Mr Ravikant Sharma (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS); India)
3 Years; £29,932
Dr Cameron Petrie University of Cambridge
Climate, environment, human adaptation and civilisation in Ancient South Asia: Land, Water & Settlement (LWS)
Dr Ravindra Nath Singh (Banaras Hindu University; India)
3 Years; £28,869
Dr Gavin Rand University of Greenwich
Re-newing the military history of colonial South Asia: culture, society and the Indian Army
Dr Kaushik Roy (Jadavpur University; India)
1 Year; £9,906
Dr Saeeda Shah University of Leicester
Research Capacity Building Through International Partnership for mapping women academics' careers in Pakistan
Dr Maryam Rab (Fatima Jinnah Women University; Pakistan)
3 Years; £29,576
Dr James Simpson University of Leeds
Mobile technologies for language learning in rural India
Dr Atanu Bhattacharya (H M Patel Institute of English Training and Research; India)
1 Year; £10,000
Sub-Saharan Africa
Dr Caroline Davis Oxford Brookes University
Print, Publishing and Cultural Production in South Africa 1948-2012
Professor Archie Leonard Dick (University of Pretoria; South Africa)
1 Year; £9,590
Professor John Gowlett University of Liverpool
Palaeoanthropology and Palaeoecology in the Central Rift Valley
Dr Stephen Rucina (National Museums of Kenya; Kenya)
3 Years; £30,000
Dr Shona Hunter University of Leeds
Challenging institutional whiteness in postcolonial contexts
Professor Melissa Steyn (University of the Witwatersrand; South Africa)
3 Years; £27,311
Professor Timothy Insoll University of Manchester
Fragmentary Ancestors? Interpreting and Presenting the Archaeology of Koma Land, Northern Ghana
Dr Benjamin Warinsie Kankpeyeng (University of Ghana; Ghana)
1 Year; £7,678
Dr Lucy Jordan University of Southampton
The democratisation of social research: Reciprocal learning across boundaries in the development of a contextually relevant framework of risk for South African young adults
Professor Leila Patel (University of Johannesburg; South Africa)
3 Years; £29,300
Dr Shane Mac Giollabhui University of Oxford
Engineering Democracy: Voting Rules and Political Behaviour in Botswana
Professor Christian John Makgala (University of Botswana; Botswana)
1 Year; £9,964
Professor Henrietta Louise Moore University of Cambridge
African farming systems: an interdisciplinary pan-African perspective
Professor Caleb Adebayo Folorunso (University of Ibadan; Nigeria)
3 Years; £29,960
Professor William Niven Nottingham Trent University
Contemporary German and Afrikaner Cultural Responses to Issues of Trauma, Reconciliation and Reparation
Dr Johannes Petrus Cilliers Van Den Berg (University of the Free State; South Africa)
1 Year; £9,985
Dr Katharine Alexandra Skinner University of Birmingham
Beyond the National Archives: innovation and inter-disciplinarity in researching Ghana's past
Dr Wilson Kwame Yayoh (University of Cape Coast; Ghana)
3 Years; £26,165
Dr Jonathan Steinberg University of Oxford
Policing and Police Practice in Sub-Saharan Africa
Dr Emmanuel Olukemi Rotimi (Obafemi Awolowo University; Nigeria)
1 Year; £9,880
Dr James Van Alstine University of Leeds
Developing a research agenda for the study of the politics of good governance in the emerging petro-economy, Uganda
Dr Fredrick Kisekka Ntale (Makerere University; Uganda)
1 Year; £9,995
Professor Justin Willis Durham University
Preaching politics? Debating governance in mosques and churches on the Kenya coast
Dr Hassan Mwakimako (Pwani University College; Kenya)
1 Year; £9,955