Anna Stanisz-Lubowiecka (English Language and Applied Linguistics) has been awarded an ESRC (SEDarc) Postdoctoral Fellowship for Language for and against Democracy: Ideologies and Metalinguistic Discourse in Poland and Beyond, which is an expansion on her postdoctoral research into how language can contribute to both the bolstering or weakening of democracy through metalinguistics. Stanisz-Lubowiecka will be looking at Polish recent history in particular; the last two decades of communist authoritarianism (1970–1989), the period of liberal democracy building (1989–2015), democratic backsliding (2015–2023), and democratic restoration (since 2023) and based on my PhD thesis entitled The Polish Language and Political Ideologies. Language Ideologies in Polish Professional Metalinguistic Discourse since 1970, set to be published by Routledge.
Ben Harvey (School of Mathematical Physical & Computational Sciences) has been awarded a standard research grant from NERC as lead investigator with no partners for the project Explosively deepening diabatic Rossby waves: an unexplored climate threat
Jumbly Grindrod (School of Philosophy Politics and Economics) has received funding from the AHRC for the project Large Language Models as Philosophical Inquiry
Jorge Campos Gonzalez (School of Agriculture Policy & Development)’s project sustAInable: AI-Driven Research for Sustainable Agri-Food Futures has been granted a UKRI Lead (No Partners) Standard Research Grant
Afroditi Chatzifragkou (School of Chemistry Food & Pharmacy) Fermentation as biofortification tool for ancient grains Quadram Insititute Bioscience Lead (No Partners) Standard Research Grant
Rory Jones (School of the Built Environment Lead) has received ESRC funding to investigate Residential Air-conditioning Demand Futures (RADFutures)
Amy Smith (School of Humanities Lead) has received the Margo Tytus Visiting Fellowship from the University of Cincinnati (UC)
Jessica Kirwin-Gusthart (School of Chemistry Food & Pharmacy)’s project Labs for all: increasing the accessibility of chemistry labs for neurodiverse students has received a grant from the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Jonathan Gregory (School of Mathematical Physical & Computational Sciences) has been granted funding from NERC to act as an investigator on the project APP67095: Physical and observational constraints on 21st-century global warming.
Ian Hamley (School of Chemistry Food & Pharmacy) has been awarded a grant from UKRI to study New Micellar Bioactive Collagen-Stimulating Peptide Derivative for Cosmetic Applications
Alexandros Skouralis (Henley Business School) has been awarded funding for the project Lead Measuring Risk and Resilience in Building Societies from the Building Societies Association
Carol Wagstaff (School of Chemistry Food & Pharmacy) has received a grant from the University of Bristol for the project FoodSEqual-Essentials: Using data-driven solutions to enable consumers in hard-to-reach communities to access and afford nutritious food and eat with dignity