Researchers from the University of Glasgow have received funding through the Autumn 2024 round of the RSE’s Research Awards Programme. 

The University was successful in securing funding for 16 out of the 66 projects, which are worth a total of £686,500. 

The Research Awards Programme enables research across all academic disciplines, with projects including tackling the impacts of air pollution on health, the development of a novel measurement tool for the subsurface Net-Zero energy transition, assessing wetland diversity in Scotland using ecoacoustics, and an investigation into how women's participation in martial arts influences their recovery from gender-based violence. 

The RSE’s Research Awards Programme runs twice a year, in spring and autumn. It aims to support Scotland’s research sector by nurturing promising talent, stimulating research in Scotland, and promoting international collaboration. 

RSE Vice President, Research, Professor Anne Anderson OBE FRSE, commented, “The RSE's Research Awards Programme is crucial in supporting Scotland's vibrant research community. These awardees will drive forward knowledge, address global challenges, and make valuable contributions to Scottish society. On behalf of the RSE, I congratulate these outstanding researchers and their international collaborators, and I look forward to following the outcomes of their work." 

Professor Chris Pearce, Vice Principal for Research and Knowledge Exchange, said: "The University of Glasgow is very grateful to the RSE for its ongoing support of our research and our researchers. The awards demonstrate the depth of talent and breadth of ideas at the University – advancing knowledge, addressing challenges and driving impact."

The Spring 2025 RSE Research Awards Programme is currently open until noon, 9 April 2025. 

Visit rse.org.uk/programme/research to find out more. 

The call includes five different funding opportunities covering all career stages and academic disciplines: 

  • Small Research Grants  
  • Research Collaboration Grants  
  • Personal Research Fellowships 
  • International Joint Projects  
  • Scotland-Lower Saxony Research and Innovation Scheme 

Autumn 2024 RSE Awardees from UofG: 

Small Research Grants 

Dr Alex Antoniou, University of Glasgow. Imperialism and emperor worship: Local responses to the emperor's divinity 

Professor Martin Lee, University of Glasgow with collaborator Professor Cristina Persano, University of Glasgow. Unique speleothems of the Inner Hebrides 

Dr Souvik Naha, University of Glasgow. Physical culture, race and masculinity in Britain's Colonial Army, 1858-1939 

Dr Lucas Pagura, University of Glasgow with collaborator Dr Clare Harding, University of Glasgow. Down to brass tacks: The role of copper in metabolic flexibility of toxoplasma gondii 

Dr Francisco Ruiz-Raya, University of Glasgow. Is phenotypic flexibility in adulthood determined by environmental variability during development? 

Research Collaboration Grants 

Dr Lesley Anne Barnes Macfarlane, University of Glasgow with collaborator Professor Emile Zitzke, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Rationalising childhood contributory negligence: An exploration of international perspectives and approaches 

Dr David McMenemy, University of Glasgow with collaborator Professor Steven Buchanan, University of Stirling. “More than one way to burn a book?”: Culture wars, censorship, and neutrality in Scottish public libraries 

Professor Melanie Ramdarshan Bold, University of Glasgow with collaborators Professor Ann Steiner, Uppsala University, Sweden and Dr Macarena Garcia-Gonzalez, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. Exploring audiobooks in cross-cultural contexts: A comparative pilot study of audiobook usage and engagement among upper-primary 

Personal Research Fellowships 

Dr Oliver Charbonneau, University of Glasgow. Mohonk: Making the US pedagogical empire 

Professor Jacqueline Kinghan, University of Glasgow. Strengthening the sector: Exploring the working lives of criminal legal aid lawyers in Scotland 

International Joint Projects (Stream 1) 

Professor Fiona Macpherson, University of Glasgow with collaborator Professor E.J. Green, Johns Hopkins University, United States. New foundations of the structure of perception 

International Joint Projects with DAAD-RSE (Stream 2) – Supported by the Scottish Government Berlin Office 

Professor Dominic Chalmers and Dr Felix Honecker, University of Glasgow with collaborator Professor Matthias Waldkirch, EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht, Germany. Deceptive entrepreneurship in digital spaces: A conceptualization and empirical investigation 

Dr Jinaglin Lan, University of Glasgow with collaborator Dr Yu Feng, Technical University of Munich, Germany. A real-world data-driven simulator for interaction-aware autonomous driving benchmarking 

International Joint Projects with CNR-RSE (Stream 2) 

Professor Massimo Vassalli, University of Glasgow with collaborator Dr Lucia Gardini, INO-CNR, Italy. IN-ROOTS: Indentation experiments to dissect the plant ROOTS mechanotransduction 

International Bilateral Visits 

The Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the RSE Bilateral Exchange Programme (Outgoing Programme): 

  • Professor Anselm Heinrich, University of Glasgow visiting colleagues at the University of Maribor, Slovenia. Theatre ecologies in 20th-Century Slovenia. German-language theatres and companies, 1918 – 1945 

National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), Taiwan and RSE Bilateral Exchange Programme (Outgoing Programme): 

  • Dr Yu-Lin Hsu, University of Glasgow visiting colleagues at the Financial Technology Innovation Research Centre, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. Corporate reporting and data mining 

First published: 26 February 2025

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