Dr Vanessa Diaz awarded a Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship

The Leverhulme Trust funds work of outstanding scholarship according to the following criteria:

• Originality-the research achieves more than the incremental development of a single discipline
• Importance-the work will enable further research or enquiry
• Significance-the proposed research has relevance outside a single field, and is able to excite those working in other disciplines
• Merit-the quality of the research design and methodology, and the suitability of the researchers and institution for the realisation of the proposed research objectives.

A second set of criteria reflect the particular values of the Leverhulme Trust, and express the Trust Board's aspiration that funding maintains a distinctive role within the current research funding landscape. The Leverhulme Trust particularly welcomes applications that:

• Reflect an individual's personal vision, aspiration, or intellectual curiosity
• Take appropriate risks in setting and pursuing research objectives
• Enable a refreshing departure from established patterns of working - either for the individual, or for the discipline
• Transcend disciplinary boundaries.

For details on the Lerhulme Trust and what they fund, click here