2016

• Professor James Fenske from the Department of Economics has been awarded a Wiley Prize in Economics for his academic excellence in the field of economic history - in particular the quantitative economic history of Africa. Read more...
• Professor Richard Aldrich from Politics and International Studies has received a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for a project entitled "The Transparent State: Whistle-Blowers, Electronic Data And The Erosion Of Secrecy." His research focuses on the area of intelligence, security communities and whistle-blowers. Read more...
• Professor Mike Saward from Politics and International Studies has received a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship to support his work on Democratic Design. His key area of research is contemporary democratic theory. Read more...
• Dr Arzu Kibris from Politics and International Studies has received an ERC Starting Grant for her project "EXPOVIBE: Exposure to Political Violence and Individual Behaviour" in which she explores the individual level effects of being exposed to political violence in a civil conflict context. Read more...
• Dr Tom McClelland from the Department of Philosophy has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellowship for a project entitled "Mental Action and Cognitive Phenomenology", which asks whether our experience of mental processes is characterised by an awareness of our potential to perform certain mental actions, and what this might mean for our understanding of cognitive phenomenology. Read more...
• Professor John Michael from the Department of Philosophy has been awarded a five year grant from the European Research Council. His project investigates our sense of commitment in everyday social interactions, how and when people make commitments, honour them, and rely on others to honour theirs. Read more...