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-UB201708
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Reconstruction and analysis of a 3D Silurian fossil sponge
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Dr Mark Sutton (Imperial College London)
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2,100.00
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01/05/2017
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PA-GA201707
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Evolution in the dark: unifying our understanding of eye loss; SICB 2018
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Dr Lauren Sumner-Rooney (Museum fur Naturkunde, Berlin)
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1,000.00
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01/05/2017
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PA-WA201601
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Measuring genome size in the earliest fossil plants
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Dr Zuzanna Wawrzyniak (University of Silesia)
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1,494.00
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01/05/2017
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PA-SW201602
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Evaluating bite marks and predation of heterostracan ostracoderms (fossil, jawless vertebrates) during the rise of jawed vertebrates
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Emma Randle (University of Manchester)
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1,428.00
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01/05/2017
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PA-SB201604
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Revising mammoth evolution in Eurasia
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Hanwen Zhang (University of Bristol)
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1,500.00
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01/05/2017
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PA-RG201703
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Pyritization of soft tissue at the Precambrian-Cambrian Boundary in the Southwest USA
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Dr Emily F. Smith (Smithsonian Institution)
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9,660.00
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01/05/2017
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PA-GA201704
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Second International Meeting of Early Stage Researchers in Palaeontology (IMERP)
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Dr George Iliopoulos (University of Patras)
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1,000.00
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01/05/2017
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PA-RG201701
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A molecular palaeobiological approach to understand Onychophora terrestrialization: assessing the impact of fossils
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Dr Jesus Lozano-Fernandez (University of Bristol)
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4,688.00
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01/05/2017
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PA-SW201601
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A comprehensive anatomical, taxonomic, and phylogenetic analysis of Teleosauridae, and a look into macroevolutionary trends
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Michela Johnson (University of Edinburgh)
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1,457.00
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01/05/2017
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PA-UB201704
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Taxonomy and taphonomy of ‘sparkly worm tubes’ from the Tafilalt Lagerstätte, Ordovician, Morocco
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Dr Breandán MacGabhann (Edge Hill University)
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1,575.00
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01/05/2017
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PA-OE201601
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Pliosaurus: Dive into the Jurassic deep
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Isla Gladstone (Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery)
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15,000.00
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01/05/2017
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PA-UB201701
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Morphometric data from new Paleocene dermochelyid may help clarify comparative rates of evolution in marine turtles
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Dr Roger Benson (University of Oxford)
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2,100.00
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01/05/2017
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PA-UB201702
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An enigmatic early diapsid from the Late Triassic of England
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Prof Phil Donoghue (University of Bristol)
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2,100.00
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01/05/2017
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PA-GA201703
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The Old Red: Hugh Miller's Geological Legacy
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Martin Gostwick (Cromarty)
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1,000.00
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01/05/2017
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PA-SB201602
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Breathing life into an extinct sea scorpion: revealing the gill structure of a three-dimensionally preserved eurypterid
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Dr James C. Lamsdell (West Virginia University)
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450.00
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01/05/2017
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PA-UB201706
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Functional drivers of the evolution of beak shape in birds
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Prof Emily Rayfield (University of Bristol)
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2,100.00
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01/05/2017
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PA-GA201705
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International Workshop on Konservat-Lagerstätten
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Dr Maria McNamara (University College Cork)
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2,240.00
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01/05/2017
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PA-GA201701
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Mass Extinctions: Past, Present and Future?; 2017 GSA Annual meeting
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Dr David Bond (University of Hull)
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1,500.00
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01/05/2017
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PA-GA201708
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Advances in Computational Paleobiology; 2017 GSA Annual meeting
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Dr Rachel Warnock (ETH Zurich)
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1,500.00
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01/05/2017
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PA-GA201706
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6th International Conference on Trilobites and their Relatives
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Dr Helje Parnaste (Tallinn University of Technology)
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1,980.00
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01/05/2017
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PA-GA201702
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65th Symposium on Vertebrate Palaeontology & Comparative Anatomy
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Dr Richard Butler (University of Birmingham)
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2,000.00
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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-SB201603
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Physicochemical importance of seawater carbonate saturation
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Dr Caitlin Keating-Bitonti (Smithsonian)
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1,286.00
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01/05/2017
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PA-RG201702
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Opening a new window onto the Cambrian Explosion of animal life
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Dr Ben J. Slater (Uppsala University)
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4,385.00
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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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