Here are all the successful projects that received funding in February 2026.
Dr Michela Bariselli (Politics and Philosophy) has been awarded funding for the project ‘J.L. Austin’s Notes for ‘How to Do Things with Words’: a Case Study for the Performative Approach to Archival Material’ from the British Academy.
Professor Nicholas Branch (Environmental Science) has received a grant from the British Academy to study ‘Water and Sustainable Heritage in Peru (WASH-PERU)‘.
Professor Branch has also received funding to serve as a co-investigator on a project funded by the McKnight Foundation entitled ‘ancestral hydraulic systems for the adaptation and resilience of agroecological food systems in high Andean communities of the Cordillera Negra of Ancash, Peru, facing climate change’.
Dr William Cross (Biomedical Sciences & Biomedical Engineering) has received funding from the Academy of Medical Sciences for the project ‘Quantifying telomere aging as a biomarker for patient outcome across twelve common cancer types’.
Dr John Harding (Built Environment) has been named as lead investigator on an AHRC-funded project ‘UKRI4287: Hybrid Digital Vernacular: Earthen Architecture Combining Robotic Fabrication and Human Skills’.
Professor Rachel Mairs (History & Classics) has been granted funded for the project ‘Aurel Stein Archives and Collections: New Directions for Research‘ from the British Academy.
Dr John McKendrick (Pharmaceutical and Chemical Sciences) has been granted funding from the African Research Excellence Fund (AREF) for the project ‘Targeting G-Quadruplex DNA in Trypanosoma brucei with Photoactivated Ruthenium(II) Polypyridyl Complexes for Human African Trypanosomiasis Therapy’ as part of a fellowship.
Professor Maria Shahgedanova (Environmental Sciences) has been funded by the Royal Geographical Society for the project ‘Quantifying contributions of Mountain Cryosphere Components to Groundwater Recharge Using Isotopic Analyses’
Dr Connor Sharp (Biomedical Sciences & Biomedical Engineering) has been awarded funding from the Academy of Medical Sciences for the project ‘(i)nvestigating how E. coli exploits bacterial warfare in the microbiome’