Research Grants

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

  • Relationship between conceptual knowledge and the perception of facial emotions
    Isabelle Mareschal
    £322,905 Leverhulme Trust
    01-09-2026 - 31-08-2029
  • S&E Matched Funded PhD Studentship with Ditto
    Paul Faulkner
    £115,172 DITTO DAILY LTD
    01-09-2026 - 28-02-2030
  • Decoding Brain Information: Next-Gen Imaging Tools for Mental Health and Dementia Research
    Daniel Bor
    £429,712 National Institute for Health Research
    01-06-2026 - 01-06-2029
  • A New Approach to Supporting WM in ADHD: Adjusting External Conditions for Cognitive Enhancement
    Eda Mizrak, Jessica Agnew-Blais and Giorgia Michelini
    £919,158 Medical Research Council
    01-04-2026 - 31-03-2029
  • Predicting response to sleep deprivation and rTMS treatment for depression: an AI/ML-guided assess
    Nikolina Jovanovic and Valdas Noreika
    £71,894 Barts and the London Charity
    01-02-2026 - 31-01-2027
  • Sensory-Motor Confidence during Motor Learning
    Lucie Charles
    £7,238 Experimental Psychology Society
    01-02-2026 - 31-01-2027
  • Characterising complementary cardiovascular and behavioural measures of fear suppression
    John Apergis-Schoute
    £160,305 Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    05-01-2026 - 31-12-2028
  • Online risks and resilience in children’s daily lives (ORChiD)
    Katarzyna Kostyrka-Allchorne and Yun Fai Lau
    £496,634 The Huo Family Foundation
    01-01-2026 - 31-12-2028
  • 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
  • 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 - 15-02-2027
  • 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 - 30-09-2026
  • 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
  • Enhancing national cyber resilience via SME cyber security and digital responsibility
    Maria Bada
    £328,119 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
    01-09-2023 - 30-09-2026
  • Building spatial maps from visual and self-motion inputs
    Guifen Chen
    £492,794 Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    02-08-2023 - 31-07-2028
  • A life course approach to understanding ADHD among women
    Jessica Agnew-Blais and Stamatina Iliodromiti
    £491,761 Medical Research Council
    01-08-2023 - 30-09-2026
  • Discovering missing links in neuropeptide evolution and function
    Maurice Elphick and Arianna Fornili
    £576,040 Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council 
    Grant Summary

    01-06-2023 - 31-05-2027
  • 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
  • PhD Programme: Gambling Harms
    Janelle Jones and Jessica Agnew-Blais
    £156,538 GambleAware
    01-02-2022 - 31-07-2027
  • Generalisation from limited experience: how to solve the problem of induction
    Elisabetta Versace
    £269,334 Leverhulme Trust
    23-08-2021 - 14-01-2028