British Academy Research Development Awards: 2008-09 Round
Abrams, Professor Dominic BR52827
University of Kent
Psychology
The role of group status and social norms in children's peer exclusion behaviour
Value of award: £115,874
Aron, Dr Janine BR52836
University of Oxford
Economics
The policy challenge of volatile exchange rates under inflation targeting: macro- and micro- measures of exchange rate pass-through in South Africa
Value of award: £58,384
Baker, Dr Geoffrey BR52844
Royal Holloway, University of London
Music
"El Sistema": music as social action in Venezuela
Value of award: £119,415
Barnett, Dr David BR52845
University of Sussex
Modern Languages and Literature from c.1800/German
A history of Berliner Ensemble
Value of award: £119,958
Beinart, Professor William BR52848
University of Oxford
History of Science
Literature, film and photography on African wildlife in the 1950s and 1960s
Value of award: £119,972
Bowden, Dr William BR52858
University of Nottingham
Archaeology
The Caistor Roman town project: the origins, development and end of a _civitas_ capital
Value of award: £67,734
Braund, Professor David BR52861
University of Exeter
Archaeology/Classical Antiquity
The straits of Kerch (Crimean Bosporus): from the eighth century BC to sixth century AD
Value of award: £89,072
Cartwright, Professor Nancy BR52872
London School of Economics
Philosophy
A theory of evidence for use
Value of award: £109,048
Dawson, Dr Hannah BR53008
University of Edinburgh
History of Ideas
'Disputations on the law of nature' for the Clarendon edition of the works of John Locke
Value of award: £112,434
Dhami, Dr Mandeep BR53015
University of Cambridge
Psychology
The antecedents and consequences of apology in a restorative justice context
Value of award: £82,398
Dolan, Professor Paul BR53019
London School of Economics
Economics
Valuing the well-being impact of wind farms
Value of award: £58,828
Ellis, Professor Katherine BR53035
Royal Holloway, University of London
Music
Beyond Paris: music in regional France from the July Monarchy to the First World War
Value of award: £111,866
Gagnier, Professor Regenia BR53050
University of Exeter
English
The global circulation of Charles Dickens’ novels
Value of award: £89,963
Harkness, Dr Nigel J BR53096
Queen’s University Belfast
Modern Languages and Literature from c.1800/French
'Reves de Pierre': literature, sculpture, geology in ninteenth-century France
Value of award: £49,563
Laing, Professor Angus BR52945
Loughborough University
Business and Management Studies
Informational empowerment: cross-national comparison of internet health information use and patient behaviour
Value of award: £87,755
Lewis, Dr George BR52985
University of Leicester
Modern History from c.1800/American Studies
Un-Americans: ideological dissent, patriotic subversion and isolating the 'Other' in the USA
Value of award: £111,404
Lewisohn, Dr Leonard BR53227
University of Exeter
Oriental Languages
Flowers of Persian song and verse: a database website for the Golha programmes
Value of award: £48,248
McLaren, Dr Lauren BR52926
University of Nottingham
Political Studies
Immigration & political community
Value of award: £111,330
Owens, Dr David John BR52950
University of Sheffield
Philosophy
Telling and trusting
Value of award: £64,680
Pallikadavath, Dr Saseendran BR52798
University of Portsmouth
Sociology
Women's social benefits of early sterilisation and low fertility in South India
Value of award: £72,041
Palmer, Professor Nigel BR52957
University of Oxford
Medieval History
The Venetian book-trade in the 15th century: material evidence for the economic and social history of the Renaissance
Value of award: £118,062
Prescott, Dr Sarah BR52983
Aberystwyth University
English
Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women writers from Wales
Value of award: £78,412
Reed, Dr Mark S BR53003
University of Aberdeen
Human Geography
Involved: what makes stakeholder participation work?
Value of award: £119,159
Robinson, Professor Wendy BR53026
University of Exeter
Education
Revisiting teacher professional development: past and present models 1920-2008
Value of award: £92,639
Ryrie, Dr Alexander Gray BR53042
University of Durham
Early Modern History
Being Protestant: living a Protestant life in Reformation Britain
Value of award: £83,652
Sherwood, Dr Yvonne BR53082
University of Glasgow
Theology and Religious Studies
Between Abraham and 'the Modern': religion, secularity, authority and critique
Value of award: £112,528
Skeates, Dr Robin Gerald BR53097
University of Durham
Archaeology
Journeys to the underworld: ritual transformations of persons, objects and caves in Neolithic central
Sardinia
Value of award: £52,384
Viding, Dr Essi BR53229
University College London
Psychology
Neural correlates of empathy dysfunction in children with callous-unemotional conduct problems
Value of award: £116,089
Wachsmann, Dr Nikolaus BR53235
Birkbeck, University of London
Modern History from c.1800
Into the abyss: the Nazi concentration camps (1942-45)
Value of award: £85,283
Whyte, Dr David BR53262
University of Liverpool
Sociology
Developing corporate liability for human rights violations
Value of award: £109,261
Williams, Dr J Robert G BR53286
University of Leeds
Philosophy
The cognitive role of indeterminacy
Value of award: £84,847
Williamson, Professor Jon BR53292
University of Kent
Philosophy
Causality across the levels: biomedical mechanisms and public health policies
Value of award: £119,541
Wydell, Professor Taeko BR53304
Brunel University
Psychology
A cross-cultural and cross-linguistic study of reading processes including dyslexia in France, UK
and Japan
Value of award: £103,128
Wyer, Dr Natalie BR53305
University of Plymouth
Psychology
Social exclusion: cues and consequences
Value of award: £103,919