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University of Birmingham Dr P C Buckland, ?2500 from Gr0nlands Landsmuseum, 'Palaeoecology of Norse settle
ment in Greenland ', October-December 1985 Dr P C Buckland, ?16 500 from the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for
England, 'Sherburn Manor and Cowlam Village post-excavation projects, April 1985-March 1986
Dr J N Marshall, ?4500 from ESRC, 'Spatial variation in producer service employment in the UK ', July 1985-March 1986
City of London Polytechnic Dr J J Lowe, ?25 000 from the National Advisory Body to fund a research fellowship in
dendrochronology to work on the application of tree-ring studies to the reconstruction of the forest history of Rannoch Moor, Scottish Highlands; he has also received a fieldwork grant for research into the late Quatemary history of Skye, from the Carnegie Trust; and a Cotton Fellowship to fund pollen-stratigraphic investigations in Liguria and Tuscany.
Prof G I Meirion-Jones, ?35 000 from SERC (with Dr J R Pilcher, Queen's, Belfast) to work on the dating by dendrochronology of seigneurial domestic buildings in Brittany; also a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for 1985-7 for this project, for which fieldwork grants have also been received from the British Academy and the Society of Antiquaries.
Coventry Polytechnic Dr Tony Airey, ?22 796 from the Transport and Road Research Laboratory, 'Study of
passenger travel in the Meru district of Kenya', August 1985-October 1986 Dr John Dearing and Dr Ian Foster, ?25 250 from NAB, 'Lake sediment studies of soil
erosion', September 1985-August 1988
University of Glasgow A M Findlay, ?3000 from the Nuffield Foundation, 'Employment policies of British firms
working in the Middle East ', June-November 1985
University of Hull Dr John R Flenley, ?918 from the Nuffield Foundation (supplement), 'Extraction of fossil
pollen from Quaternary sediments ', August 1985-January 1986 Dr John R Flenley, ?911 0 from the British Academy, 'Human impact on Pacific islands',
October 1985-September 1986 Dr John S Pethick, ?15 000 from Holderness Council, ' Sediment transport and cliff erosion
on the Holderness coast ', October 1985-October 1986
University of Keele Dr Douglas Lockhart, ?575 from the British Academy, 'Village planning in north-east
Scotland '
University of Lancaster Dr Peter Vincent (with David Birks, Marketing, Strathclyde, Liz Chell and Jean Haworth,
Business and Administration, Salford), ?20 830 from ESRC, 'The uptake of new technology in small and medium size firms: a regional appraisal ', October 1985-September 1986
University of Leeds Dr John Lockwood, ?19 575 from NERC, 'The hydrological impact of moorland bracken
clearance', April 1985-March 1987 Dr Sally Macgill, ?434 940 from ESRC, 'Energy conservation through interventionist
initiatives ', July 1985-December 1987
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Prof Alan Wilson and Dr M Clarke, ?20 020 from Yorkshire Regional Health Authority, 'Implementation of a management information and planning system with particular reference to new hospital development ', July 1985-June 1987
University of Liverpool Dr I K Bradbury and A Charlesworth (and a colleague in the Department of Political
Theory and Institutions), ?29 000 from ESRC for a project on cereals Dr D K Chester (with colleagues from Rome, UCL and Luton College), 281 000 Belgian
Francs from NATO and ?1600 from the Royal Society to pursue investigations on volcanic processes, landforms and chronologies of two possibly dormant volcanoes between Rome and Naples
Dr P W Daniels, ?2883 from the University Research Committee, 'Producer services and urban economic development on Merseyside'
Dr A Henderson-Sellers, ? 1578 from the Faculty of Social & Environmental Studies for research involving the measurement of cloud cover with an all sky camera; further funds from the Atmospheric Environment Service of Canada for work on surface perimeterisation.
Prof F Oldfield, ?25 800 from the Royal Society and ?30 103 from NERC, 'The chronology of recent ombrotrophic peat accumulation in North West Europe'; ?5400 from University funds for radioactive monitoring on local shorelines.
Prof R M Prothero, ?2150 from the Nuffield Foundation for geomedical work in Nigeria
University of Loughborough Dr Morag Bell and Dr Neil Roberts (with Richard Faulkner, Civil Engineering), ?127 508
from the Overseas Development Administration, 'The use of dambos in rural development', 19841987
University of Manchester Dr D W Shimwell, ?850 from the Peak Park Joint Planning Board, 'The reconstruction of
the pre-aridification vegetation of the Dark Peak blanket peats ', May-October 1985 Dr D W Shimwell, ?2150 from the Nature Conservancy Council, ' Conservation of the sand
dunes and salt marshes of Orkney ', May-November 1985
Manchester Polytechnic Dr J Gunn, ?33 000 from NAB, ' Systems analysis of karst (limestone) terrains'
Open University Dr J R Blunden and Prof G K Rutherford (Queen's, Ontario), $5000 from the Centre for
Resource Studies, Queen's University, Ontario, 'Impact of environmental controls on mining development', September 1985-June 1986
Prof D B Massey (with Dr D A Elliott, Design Technology, and D V Wield, Technology), ?17 890 from SERC, 'Science parks and industrial innovation in Britain', September 1985-February 1987
L M McDowell and J R Allen, ?21 010 from ESRC, 'The geography of economic change the uneven impact of service sector expansion in East Anglia', April 1985-September 1986
Queen Mary College Dr B J Alloway, ? 10 216 from the Department of the Environment, 'Cadmium and lead in
vegetables and soils', February 1985 (supplement)
University of Sheffield Dr D J Briggs, ?100 000 from the EEC, 'Collection of basic environmental data for the EC
information system ' and ' Assessment of land quality in the Mediterranean region ' Prof R J Johnston, ?2998 from the Leverhulme Trust, 'Campaign spending in the
constituencies since 1945 ' Dr R I Woods and Dr J H Woodward, ?85 000 from the Wellcome Trust, 'The decline of
infant mortality in England 1861-1921 '
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University of Stirling (Environmental Science) Dr R I Ferguson, ?4118 from NERC, 'Sedimentology and channel changes in a braided
gravel river' (with Dr A Werritty, St Andrews), January 1985-December 1988 Dr I Grieve, ?4258 from NERC, 'Acidity and metal concentrations of soil solutions in the
Loch Dee catchment', April 1985-March 1987 Dr I Grieve, ?11 600 from South of Scotland Electricity Board, 'Loch Fleet project: the
role of organics in transporting metals', September 1985-January 1988 Dr P Selman, about ?8000 from the Nature Conservancy Council, 'Nature conservation in
local plans ', July 1985-April 1986 Dr P Selman, ?688 from ESRC to organise meetings on the Conservation and Development
Programme for the UK, August 1985-July 1986
University of Stirling (Institute for Retail Studies) J A Dawson, ?500 000 from Fraser of Allander Trust for studies of retailing, May
1985-April 1995 J A Dawson, ?2400 from Distribution Policy Institute for a study of UK wholesaling,
June-September 1985 J A Dawson and S Burt, ?45 000 from ICL plc for a study of distribution in Europe,
October 1984-September 1986 J A Dawson and T Marks, ?63 000 from Argyll Foods plc for a study of store layout and
merchandising, October 1984-September 1987 J A Dawson, A McGilvray and M Willis, ?10 000 from Scottish Development Agency for a
study of Japanese inward investment, August 1985-July 1986 J A Dawson and S Shaw, ?19 800 from EEC FAST Secretariat for a study of food distri
bution in the EEC, January-December 1985 J A Dawson and L Sparks, ?4600 from Scottish Development Department for a study of
retailing in city centres, May-September 1985
University of Sussex Dr Brian M Short, ?10 550 from the Leverhulme Trust, 'Landownership and society in
Edwardian England-the 1910 Finance Act records ', October 1985-September 1986
University College London Dr R W Battarbee, ?177 000 from the Department of the Environment for a study of the
history and extent of reservoir acidification in Great Britain, August 1984-July 1987 Dr R W Battarbee, ?87 000 from the Royal Society for a study of the palaeo-limnological
investigations of acidified lakes, October 1984-September 1988 Prof R U Cooke, ?10 000 from the Building Research Establishment for two studies of the
nature and rate of limestone decay in historical monuments, October 1984-September 1985 Dr A Gilbert, ?34 500 from the Overseas Development Administration for a study of
housing tenure and the urban poor in Third World cities, April 1985-March 1987 Dr C M Harrison, Dr J A Burgess and Dr F B Goldsmith, ?30 000 from the ESRC and the
Countryside Commission for a study of a methodology for evaluating amenity land in the urban fringe, January 1985-December 1986
Dr G E Hollis (and others), ?70 000 from the EEC to continue his study of the conservation, management and modelling of the Ichkeul wetland, Tunisia, March 1984-May 1986
Dr R J C Munton, ?19 000 from ESRC to examine the relations between amenity and occupancy change in the metropolitan Green Belt, November 1984-March 1986
Wye College Dr C Paul Burnham, Dr Bryn H Green and Dr Clive A Potter, ?39 000 from ESRC under
the Environmental Issues Initiative for Land Banking (set-aside) as an agricultural and environmental policy instrument, July 1985-September 1987
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