Reg. Charity No. 1168330
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...).
| Award Date | Reference | Title | Principle Applicant | Award Amount (£) |
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01/05/2017
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PA-SB201601
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Testing global oceanic anoxia as an alternative cause for the Hirnantian (latest Ordovician) mass extinction
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Julie De Weirdt (Ghent University)
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1,500.00
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01/05/2017
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PA-UB201703
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Reconstructing food webs across the Toarcian Ocean Anoxic Event
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Dr Alex Dunhill (University of Leeds)
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2,100.00
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05/01/2017
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PA-UB201705
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Does a taxonomic identification bias affect diversity analyses on dinosaurs?
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Dr Susannah Maidment (University of Brighton)
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1,575.00
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12/10/2016
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PA-GA201606
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Experimental and analytical palaeontology (EGU 2017 session)
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Dr Duncan Murdock and Prof Mark Purnell (University of Leicester)
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5,850.00
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12/10/2016
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PA-GA201607
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25th International Workshop on Plant Taphonomy
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Dr Carole Gee and Prof Thomas Litt (University of Bonn)
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2,000.00
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04/05/2016
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PA-RG201601
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Anatomy of the oldest candidate snake based on a new skeleton
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Dr Roger Benson (University of Oxford)
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5,793.00
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04/05/2016
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PA-UB201606
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Sharks with question marks: Impacts of a new fossil on interrelationships of early bullhead sharks
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Dr Kate Ashbrook (University of Worcester)
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1,200.00
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04/05/2016
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PA-UB201603
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Depth related dispersal patterns in ‘complex’ conodonts
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Dr Ivan Sansom (University of Birmingham)
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1,600.00
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04/05/2016
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PA-UB201607
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Analysis of soft-tissues from a Silurian bivalve
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Dr Mark Sutton (Imperial College London)
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1,600.00
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04/05/2016
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PA-UB201604
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A new phylogeny of Stegosauria (Ornithischia: Dinosauria)
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Dr Susannah Maidment (Imperial College London)
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1,600.00
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04/05/2016
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PA-RG201603
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The diagenetic alteration of eumelanin - a squids perspective
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Dr Jakob Vinther (University of Bristol)
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6,125.00
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04/05/2016
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PA-UB201608
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Small-bodied estuarine plesiosaur from the Middle Jurassic gap
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Dr David Norman (University of Cambridge)
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1,600.00
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04/05/2016
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PA-UB201601
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New sauropod dinosaur remains from the Late Cretaceous of North Africa
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Dr Philip Mannion (Imperial College London)
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1,600.00
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04/05/2016
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PA-RG201602
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A search for aquatic fungi: understanding the origins of mutualists and parasites
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Dr Christine Strullu-Derrien (NHM, London)
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9,564.00
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04/05/2016
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PA-UB201605
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Survival of the smallest? Trends in brachiopod size across the End-Triassic mass extinction
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Dr Alex Dunhill (University of Leeds)
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1,600.00
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04/05/2016
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PA-UB201609
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Coccolithophore cell size and growth rates across the Greenhouse-Icehouse transition
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Dr Tom Dunkley Jones (University of Birmingham)
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1,600.00
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04/05/2016
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PA-UB201602
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Chitinozoan biostratigraphy of the elusive P. linearis graptolite biozone in Girvan, Scotland
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Dr Thijs Vandenbrouke (Ghent University)
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1,600.00
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16/03/2016
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PA-GA201602
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1st International Meeting of Early-stage Researchers in Palaeontology (1st IMERP)
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Dr Carlos Martinez Perez (University of Valencia)
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1,500.00
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16/03/2016
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PA-GA201605
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SPPC & SVPCA 2016
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Dr Peter Falkingham (Liverpool John Moores University)
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1,181.00
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16/03/2016
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PA-GA201603
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7th International Conference on Fossil Insects, Arthropods and Amber
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Dr Andrew Ross (National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh)
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1,710.00
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16/03/2016
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PA-GA201601
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Across space and through time: understanding evolution and ecology using paleobiogeography; 2016 GSA Annual meeting
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Dr Alexander Dunhill (University of Leeds)
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1,500.00
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16/12/2015
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PA-GA201507
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Biomineralisation in the fossil record (EGU 2016 session)
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Dr Fiona Gill (University of Leeds)
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5,750.00
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16/12/2015
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PA-UB201508
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Shell thickness distribution in Ordovician and Silurian rhynchonelliformean brachiopods
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Gajasinghe Samarawickrama (Plymouth University)
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1,600.00
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16/12/2015
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PA-OE201503
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Fossils For Everyone: Palaeontology Outreach in Children’s Hospitals
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Dr Shaena Montanari (University of Edinburgh)
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3,100.00
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16/12/2015
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PA-UB201501
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Dissecting the rise of the archosaurs
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Gareth A. Coleman (University of Bristol)
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1,600.00
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