Research Grants

The following are current grants held by members of the Centre for Brain and Behaviour that are of particular relevance:

  • Investigating the combined impact of behavioural and neurodevelopmental disorders on education.
    Margherita Malanchini, Giorgia Michelini and Jessica Agnew-Blais
    £943,596 Medical Research Council
    16-10-2025 - 15-10-2028
  • PreciVision MSCA PF 2024 Chittka/Scaccabarozzi
    Lars Chittka
    £217,591 EU Commission - Horizon Europe 
    Grant Summary

    01-09-2025 - 31-08-2027
  • Epigenetic Signatures of Neurodevelopmental Conditions
    Margherita Malanchini
    £4,865 Jacobs Foundation
    01-08-2025 - 31-07-2026
  • Online Parent Training for the Initial Management of ADHD Referrals
    Katarzyna Kostyrka-Allchorne
    £24,750 National Institute for Health Research
    01-08-2025 - 31-07-2026
  • Brain Injury, Sleep and Cognition - Untangling the long term Impact of childhood TBI (Michael Yoong)
    Michael Yoong and Bosiljka Milosavljevic
    £66,357 Barts and the London Charity
    01-06-2025 - 30-11-2026
  • Grant Transfer - Do inferences drawn from object properties influence saccade planning and perceptual updating?
    Emma Stewart
    £32,659 German Research Foundation (DFG)
    17-03-2025 - 31-12-2025
  • Validation of a Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation Device (Nettle) to Manage Symptoms of Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
    Paul Faulkner
    £87,119 SBRI Healthcare
    17-02-2025 - 17-01-2026
  • Impact of digital activity on the mental health of neurodivergent adolescents
    Katarzyna Kostyrka-Allchorne
    £24,921 The Huo Family Foundation
    01-02-2025 - 31-12-2025
  • UKRI Cross-Research Council: ANIMATING MINDS: Triangulating the age-appropriate impact of children’s media
    Rachael Bedford
    £319,763 Medical Research Council 
    Grant Summary

    01-02-2025 - 31-01-2027
  • Understanding the combined impact of behavioural and neurodevelopmental disorders on learning
    Margherita Malanchini
    £133,787 Jacobs Foundation
    01-01-2025 - 31-12-2027
  • VoCs - MSCA Doctoral Network (2023) Lavan
    Nadine Lavan
    £267,922 EPSRC - EU Scheme 
    Grant Summary

    01-12-2024 - 30-11-2028
  • International Exchanges 2023: Brain-wide circuits for spatial computation in Zebrafish
    Guifen Chen
    £12,000 Royal Society
    31-03-2024 - 30-03-2026
  • The neural basis of inter-species communication
    Valdas Noreika
    £155,098 Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council 
    Grant Summary

    14-02-2024 - 13-02-2026
  • Addressing key evidence gaps in the science of insect sentience
    Lars Chittka
    £719,449 Good Ventures Foundation 
    Grant Summary

    01-01-2024 - 01-07-2027
  • Sleep and circadian interactions with sensory sensitivity in adults with intellectual disabilities
    Valdas Noreika, Margherita Malanchini and Giorgia Michelini
    £103,229 Baily Thomas Charitable Fund, The 
    Grant Summary

    01-11-2023 - 31-12-2025
  • Adolescent Mental Health and Development in the Digital World
    Katarzyna Kostyrka-Allchorne
    £10,114 Medical Research Council
    18-09-2023 - 31-03-2026
  • Enhancing national cyber resilience via SME cyber security and digital responsibility
    Maria Bada
    £328,119 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
    01-09-2023 - 28-02-2026
  • A life course approach to understanding ADHD among women
    Jessica Agnew-Blais and Stamatina Iliodromiti
    £491,761 MRC Medical Research Council
    01-08-2023 - 31-07-2026
  • Discovering missing links in neuropeptide evolution and function
    Maurice Elphick and Arianna Fornili
    £576,040 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council 
    Grant Summary

    01-06-2023 - 31-05-2026
  • Freedom of choice in decision-making: Introspecting the cause of our actions-GRANT TRANSFER
    Lucie Charles
    £395,472 Economic and Social Research Council
    01-10-2022 - 16-11-2026
  • Building spatial maps from visual and self-motion inputs
    Guifen Chen
    £492,794 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    01-02-2022 - 26-07-2027
  • PhD Programme: Gambling Harms
    Janelle Jones and Jessica Agnew-Blais
    £156,538 GambleAware
    01-02-2022 - 30-09-2026
  • Generalisation from limited experience: how to solve the problem of induction
    Elisabetta Versace
    £269,334 Leverhulme Trust
    23-08-2021 - 31-03-2026
  • NIH: Zebrafish addiction screen
    Caroline Brennan
    £466,209 National Institutes of Health - USA
    01-08-2018 - 31-05-2026