St Andrews University academics receive top research grants

A trio of academics from the University of St Andrews have been awarded top research grants from a national funding body.

Dr Karen Spencer, from the School of Psychology and Neuroscience, and Dr Nicola Allison, from the School of Geography and Geosciences, were awarded £169,500 and £108,000 respectively in the latest round of awards from the Philip Leverhulme Trust.

Meanwhile, Dr Rebecca Sweetman, a lecturer in the School of Classics, was awarded the prestigious Philip Leverhulme Trust Major Fellowship.

Dr Sweetman was awarded £100,000 for her project ‘The Roman and Late Antique Cyclades: Networks, Economy and Religion’.

The funding will allow Dr Sweetman to undertake two years’ research leave, allowing her to pursue a study of the Cyclades in the Roman and Late Antique periods.

The Philip Leverhulme awards recognise the achievement of outstanding researchers who have made a substantial international contribution to their particular field and whose future shows great promise.