Research talent win Royal Society of Edinburgh awards
Twelve University staff members have been announced as recipients of prestigious grants to develop research to benefit Scottish society.
The researchers have won funding in the annual awards of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE).
The grants will enable Edinburgh researchers to build partnerships to tackle challenges across a range of themes including the LGBTQIA+ community’s mental health, greener supercomputing and children’s rights.
Totalling more than £617,000, the RSE awards have been made to 33 researchers representing all 10 of Scotland’s universities.
In announcing the awards the RSE said the funding supports the outstanding talent in Scotland’s vibrant research community to advance knowledge, tackle global challenges and provide new ways of thinking to benefit Scottish society.
The RSE’s Research Awards Programme is crucial in supporting Scotland’s vibrant research sector. The outstanding work of these awardees will advance our knowledge, help us to tackle global challenges, and be of benefit to Scottish society. On behalf of the RSE, I applaud them, wish them well in their research endeavours, and thank them for their contributions.
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Dr Nick Brown of the College of Science and Engineering was awarded a RSE Personal Research Fellowship for the research project ‘Greener Supercomputing: Ensuring Weather and Climate Simulations Do Not Cost the Earth’.
Dr Emile Chabal of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology was awarded a RSE Personal Research Fellowship for ‘The Marxist Imagination: An Intellectual Biography of Eric Hobsbawm’.
Dr Hazel Marzetti of the School of Health in Social Science received a RSE Research Networks Grant to develop an interdisciplinary LGBTQIA+ mental health network for Scotland in collaboration with Professor Jamie Frankis of Glasgow Caledonian University.
Dr Maria Maclennan of Edinburgh College of Art received a RSE Research Networks Grant for the research project ‘Identifying the Displaced: Enhancing the Value of Personal Effects as a Forensic Aide in the Migration Context’.
Professor Graciela Muniz-Terrera of the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences and Ms Sarah Gregory of Edinburgh Dementia Prevention won a RSE Research Networks Grant for the research project ‘The Eatwell Guide, Brain Health, and Neurodegeneration Network’ together with Dr Oliver Shannon of Newcastle University.
Dr Xuelei Huang of the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures received a RSE Research Workshop Grant with Dr William Tullett of Anglia Ruskin University for the research project ‘The Smell of Scotland: History, Heritage, and Practice’.
Dr Jenny Watson of the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures won a RSE Research Workshop Grant for ‘Uneven Ground: Literary Representations of the “Holocaust by Bullets”’.
Dr Ann-Christin Zuntz of the School of Social and Political Science and Professor Lisa Boden of the Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems received a RSE Research Workshop Grant with Dr Shaher Abdullateef of Syrian Academic Expertise for ‘Recycling Ruins - Refugee and Migrant Waste-pickers in Türkiye after the 2023 Earthquake’.
Dr Michael Chandler of the School of Geosciences was awarded a RSE Small Research Grant for ‘Laboratory Scale True-triaxial Deformation of Halite Using the Smart Cell: Leakage Risks During Hydrogen Storage’.
Dr Annette Davison of the Reid School of Music received a RSE Small Research Grant for ‘Gushing! Oil and Audio-visual Media’.
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