Laurence Smith (School of Agriculture, Policy and Development) is part of a consortium who have successfully been awarded an ESRC APP14354: Reimagining Supply Chains Network Plus (RiSC+) grant for research in how we think about and model current and future supply chains. 

Piril Hepsomali (School of Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences) was awarded a BBSRC research grant for “Exploring the impact of chronic consumption of plant-based fibres on cognitive performance, gut microbiome and associated mental health outcomes in older adults with mild to moderate cognitive impairment”. 

Laurence Smith (School of Agriculture Policy & Development) was awarded an Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Partnership “To embed a rigorous scientific method to underpin the further development and practical implementation of the organisation’s Global Farm Metric Framework (GFMF), accelerating and widening its potential impact in driving a critical global transition to sustainable food systems”. 

Bryan Lawrence (School of Mathematical Physical & Computational Sciences) was awarded a NERC research grant for “WacaSoft: Weather and Climate Workflow at Scale (Software)”.

Holly Joseph (Institute of Education) received an Englefield Charitable Trust research grant for “(Co-)Designing and (co-)delivering an initiative to foster a love of reading in young children in the Oxford Road area of Reading”.

Maxime Lepoutre (School of Philosophy Politics and Economics) was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Politics and International Relations to undertake a research project on political theory, especially democratic theory, hate speech, political emotions, and political epistemology.

Michaela Hegglin (School of Mathematical Physical & Computational Sciences) part of a consortium who have been awarded a European Space Agency grant for the “ESA Water Vapour Climate Change Initiative Project” to establish high quality water vapour climate data records for use in climate research studies.

Federico Faloppa (School of Humanities) was awarded an AHRC research grant for “The Crisis of Migration Discourse: A Participatory approach for a new lexicon of Migration (CMD)”.

Zoe Barker (School of Agriculture, Policy and Development) was awarded an Innovate UK research grant for “INT – Identifying priority areas and aligned innovations for sustainable goat production in Africa”.