In October, Deputy Vice Chancellor Professor Alan Sibbald invited applications for the Research and Scholarship Enhancement Competition. Individuals were able to apply for up to £5,000, and research teams up to £10,000, to support research to be completed in the 2009-10 financial year.

We are pleased to announce that five out of eleven prizes were awarded to projects within the Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences. These are:

• Liz Bradbury: critically evaluating the effectiveness psychosocial training methods used in preparing armed service personnel for combat
• John Gardner and Sean Lang: investigating Theatre Royal, Bury as an original performance venue
• Paul Jackson: first stage transcription and editing of the 'Round' letters of the Australian composer Percy Grainger
• Samantha Lundrigan: coding, mapping and analysing a sample of 248 stranger rapists in order to examine the link between spacial behaviour, offender background characteristics, and environmental variables
• Alison Searle: undertaking the initial work necessary to produce a one volume publication of the works of the 17th Century Baptist, Anne Wentworth

These scholars have done extraordinarily well in a cross-faculty competition that received scores of applications.

For more information, please contact Professor Eugene Giddens, ALSS Director of Research.

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