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Funding Awarded

Each year the Palaeontological Association distributes grants of varying sizes to a wide range of research topics. Grants/awards (from 2014 onwards) are listed below with information on the amount granted, recipient, project, and any outcomes (e.g. publications etc...).

Awarded Funding List

Award Date	Reference	Title	Principle Applicant	Award Amount (£)
01/05/2017	PA-UB201703	Reconstructing food webs across the Toarcian Ocean Anoxic Event	Dr Alex Dunhill (University of Leeds)	2,100.00
01/05/2017	PA-GA201707	Evolution in the dark: unifying our understanding of eye loss; SICB 2018	Dr Lauren Sumner-Rooney (Museum fur Naturkunde, Berlin)	1,000.00
05/01/2017	PA-UB201705	Does a taxonomic identification bias affect diversity analyses on dinosaurs?	Dr Susannah Maidment (University of Brighton)	1,575.00
12/10/2016	PA-GA201606	Experimental and analytical palaeontology (EGU 2017 session)	Dr Duncan Murdock and Prof Mark Purnell (University of Leicester)	5,850.00
12/10/2016	PA-GA201607	25th International Workshop on Plant Taphonomy	Dr Carole Gee and Prof Thomas Litt (University of Bonn)	2,000.00
04/05/2016	PA-UB201606	Sharks with question marks: Impacts of a new fossil on interrelationships of early bullhead sharks	Dr Kate Ashbrook (University of Worcester)	1,200.00
04/05/2016	PA-UB201603	Depth related dispersal patterns in ‘complex’ conodonts	Dr Ivan Sansom (University of Birmingham)	1,600.00
04/05/2016	PA-UB201607	Analysis of soft-tissues from a Silurian bivalve	Dr Mark Sutton (Imperial College London)	1,600.00
04/05/2016	PA-UB201604	A new phylogeny of Stegosauria (Ornithischia: Dinosauria)	Dr Susannah Maidment (Imperial College London)	1,600.00
04/05/2016	PA-RG201603	The diagenetic alteration of eumelanin - a squids perspective	Dr Jakob Vinther (University of Bristol)	6,125.00
04/05/2016	PA-UB201608	Small-bodied estuarine plesiosaur from the Middle Jurassic gap	Dr David Norman (University of Cambridge)	1,600.00
04/05/2016	PA-UB201601	New sauropod dinosaur remains from the Late Cretaceous of North Africa	Dr Philip Mannion (Imperial College London)	1,600.00
04/05/2016	PA-RG201602	A search for aquatic fungi: understanding the origins of mutualists and parasites	Dr Christine Strullu-Derrien (NHM, London)	9,564.00
04/05/2016	PA-UB201605	Survival of the smallest? Trends in brachiopod size across the End-Triassic mass extinction	Dr Alex Dunhill (University of Leeds)	1,600.00
04/05/2016	PA-UB201609	Coccolithophore cell size and growth rates across the Greenhouse-Icehouse transition	Dr Tom Dunkley Jones (University of Birmingham)	1,600.00
04/05/2016	PA-UB201602	Chitinozoan biostratigraphy of the elusive P. linearis graptolite biozone in Girvan, Scotland	Dr Thijs Vandenbrouke (Ghent University)	1,600.00
04/05/2016	PA-RG201601	Anatomy of the oldest candidate snake based on a new skeleton	Dr Roger Benson (University of Oxford)	5,793.00
16/03/2016	PA-GA201602	1st International Meeting of Early-stage Researchers in Palaeontology (1st IMERP)	Dr Carlos Martinez Perez (University of Valencia)	1,500.00
16/03/2016	PA-GA201605	SPPC & SVPCA 2016	Dr Peter Falkingham (Liverpool John Moores University)	1,181.00
16/03/2016	PA-GA201603	7th International Conference on Fossil Insects, Arthropods and Amber	Dr Andrew Ross (National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh)	1,710.00
16/03/2016	PA-GA201601	Across space and through time: understanding evolution and ecology using paleobiogeography; 2016 GSA Annual meeting	Dr Alexander Dunhill (University of Leeds)	1,500.00
16/12/2015	PA-GA201507	Biomineralisation in the fossil record (EGU 2016 session)	Dr Fiona Gill (University of Leeds)	5,750.00
16/12/2015	PA-UB201508	Shell thickness distribution in Ordovician and Silurian rhynchonelliformean brachiopods	Gajasinghe Samarawickrama (Plymouth University)	1,600.00
16/12/2015	PA-OE201503	Fossils For Everyone: Palaeontology Outreach in Children’s Hospitals	Dr Shaena Montanari (University of Edinburgh)	3,100.00
16/12/2015	PA-UB201501	Dissecting the rise of the archosaurs	Gareth A. Coleman (University of Bristol)	1,600.00

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