Leverhulme Trust

The Trust is thrilled to announce the 2026 Philip Leverhulme Prize winners. Congratulations to this year’s cohort. Thirty extraordinary researchers from across a range of disciplines: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/2026PLP

Congrats 🎉 to Abhishek and Shantaram for their paper (doi.org/10.1002/ceur...) accepted in #ChemistryEurope. 👏 This work was done in collab/w the Ingleson group, and thanks also to the OEMgroup and Andy Monkman.🥳 @leverhulme.ac.uk #boronPG @standrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

I am excited to share that we received a @leverhulme.ac.uk project grant to investigate the development of imagery and reality monitoring with models and fMRI in kids! 🤩 Can't wait to get started with @aozsu.bsky.social, @tessamdekker.bsky.social and @adriendoerig.bsky.social!

ICYMI: Selected from over 400 nominations, this year the Trust offered five Philip Leverhulme Prizes in each of these subject areas: Biological Sciences, History, Law, Mathematics and Statistics, Philosophy and Theology, and Sociology and Social Policy. www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/2026PLP

Good change is possible. With clear goals, a realistic pathway to achieve them, the agency to deliver, and the resilience to overcome barriers, a future where people and nature thrive can become a reality. Read the Good Anthropocene report, created by WWF-UK and LCAB: www.wwf.org.uk/articles/the...

Reminder: Two weeks left to apply for the Trust's Research Fellowships; open to experienced researchers in any discipline. www.leverhulme.ac.uk/research-fel...

🌿 How can businesses take effective action for nature recovery? Join us at #COP17Armenia to launch a new briefing on coherent strategies, impactful actions & communicating corporate contributions to a #NaturePositive future. 📅 28 Oct, 13:00–13:45 📍 UNEP-WCMC Business and Finance Hub

More about the prize & project here — I’ll be looking at how indigenous, black, and European peoples attributed significance to, feared, and transformed the night in the British, French, and Spanish Antilles and the circum-Caribbean www.bristol.ac.uk/arts-law-soc...

This afternoon, the final Knowledge Orders cohort visited the Canterbury Cathedral Archives with @bbombi.bsky.social and @hwaetspur.bsky.social to view some beautiful 8th- through 15th-century charters, letters, and papal confirmations. Thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk for making this trip possible!

Our annual conference 2027 call for papers is out now! Latent Spaces: an interdisciplinary conference on how AI latent spaces reconfigure knowledge, society, and culture. We invite interdisciplinary contributions. Abstracts deadline 30 November. leverhulmecal.webspace.durham.ac.uk/lcal-confere...

Congratulations to Professor Giuseppe Cannizzaro on receiving a 2026 Philip Leverhulme Prize! 🎉 Read the full announcement: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/2026PLP

The prize recognises and celebrates the achievements of outstanding researchers whose work has already attracted international recognition and whose future careers are exceptionally promising. Read more about the prize here: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/2026PLP @leverhulme.ac.uk #history #news #lse

I am so happy to share that I am one of the Philip Leverhulme Prize winners for History for 2026. What an honour! The award will support me doing the archival research for and writing a book on A History of the Night in the Greater Caribbean, across boundaries of empire and language.

Delighted to see Dr Flo Camus awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize. A well-deserved recognition of her outstanding research and future potential. Congratulations, Flo! www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science... #LifeSciences #ResearchExcellence

Congratulations to Professor @thomstubbs.bsky.social, who's been awarded a 2026 Philip Leverhulme Prize in recognition of his work on the economic sociology of austerity, welfare states, social protection and international financial institutions. More: ow.ly/Isrz50ZZBI2 @rhulpir.bsky.social

We’re excited to host Latent Spaces at @leverhulmecal.bsky.social in April 2027! An interdisciplinary conference on how AI latent spaces are reconfiguring knowledge, society and culture. Call for papers is out now: leverhulmecal.webspace.durham.ac.uk/lcal-conference-2027/

💥 WOAHHH! Floored to have won a Philip Leverhulme Prize @leverhulme.ac.uk Reminded again of Raph Sam - ‘history is a social form of knowledge; the work in any given instance of a thousand different hands’ & feeling wildly lucky to have such wonderful & generous friends, mentors, & colleagues ❤️‍🔥

I have the most amazing colleagues - so outrageously proud of @lauracforster.bsky.social and Steph Mawson! 🗃️ www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

🎉 Huge congratulations to CREMS colleague Stephanie Mawson for winning a Philip Leverhulme prize! This will support her pioneering work on #earlymodern Southeast Asia, and regions where indigenous populations created 'zones of refuge' outside state control.

📣Congratulations to @alexhallcrim.bsky.social who has been selected as one of 30 scholars to receive a Philip Leverhulme Prize from @leverhulme.ac.uk Winners were chosen from more than 400 nominations and recognise research with global impact. 🔗More: www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

👏Associate Professor Dr Ali Meghji has won one of the prestigious @leverhulme.ac.uk Prizes for his outstanding research. Read Dr Meghji's comment and the full article here: www.sociology.cam.ac.uk/news/associa... #philipleverhulmeprize #historicalsociology #cambridgeuniversity

Every future scientist kid wants to have a paper about dinosaurs. Here I go ✅ with this in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com with @tweetisaurus.bsky.social, @richardjbutler.bsky.social and T Matthews. We asked - how to study islands in the fossil record? Turns out - with great difficulty! @leverhulme.ac.uk

📢 Registration is open! Join our short course, Bayesian Methods for Demography and Beyond: A Primer, 11–15 January 2027 at @reubencollege.bsky.social, University of Oxford. Explore applied Bayesian statistics and real-world applications. @leverhulme.ac.uk @oxpop.bsky.social @cpc-cg.bsky.social

🎉 Congratulations to UCL Laws' Dr Franziska Arnold-Dwyer on being awarded a 2026 Philip Leverhulme Prize in Law by @leverhulme.ac.uk. The award is the first Philip Leverhulme Prize in Law to be given for modern insurance law scholarship. 🏆⚖️ ⬇️ Read more www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/news/20...

Congratulations to Dr Adriane Esquivel Muelbert on being awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for her work on the impacts of global change on forest biodiversity & ecosystem functioning! 🎉 Read more: tinyurl.com/3jvcrxcr @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social @conservation.cam.ac.uk 🧪

The School sends warmest congratulations to Dr Mahmood Kooria, Lecturer in the History of the Indian Ocean World, who is the winner of a 2026 Philip Leverhulme Prize. #History

Oxford Mathematician Kaibo Hu has won one of this year's Philip Leverhulme Prizes. The award recognises outstanding researchers whose work has already attracted international recognition and whose future career is exceptionally promising. @leverhulme.ac.uk www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/85956

Thrilled to have been awarded the 2026 Philip Leverhulme Prize! 🏆 Big thanks to all lab members and mentors through the years! Very excited to explore some new mitochondrial avenues with this award. 🥳🔬🧬 @leverhulme.ac.uk @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @cloeucl.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social

We are delighted that @anjalihinch.bsky.social has been awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize! This award recognises her pioneering research into how genetic variation arises in human eggs and sperm, and how this can threaten genome integrity. @leverhulme.ac.uk www.path.ox.ac.uk/news-article...

I'm thrilled to share that I am the winner of one of @leverhulme.ac.uk's 2026 Philip Leverhulme Prizes. Among other things, I will spend the prize money supporting a series of conferences on animal politics. www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/2026PLP

🔥 Making fire modelling more accessible and useful for wildfire management. Michel Valette attended to co-chair 2 sessions.🌎 41 participants from 7 countries joined the event, led by the Global Wildfire Collective. Read more 👇 centreforwildfires.org/news/updates...

Understanding our Living Planet: A Journey Through Marshmallows, Doughnuts, & Earth's Metabolism Join Barney Steel, @ymalhi.bsky.social @kateraworth.bsky.social at Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities for a journey through art, science, & economics exploring our place within a living planet. 7 /11

How should AI be used in memorialisation? A new report co-authored by Dr Tomasz Hollanek examines the role of generative AI in preserving testimony and creating digital representations of the deceased. Find out more: www.lcfi.ac.uk/news-events/...

The School of Classics welcomes applications for the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship scheme 2027. Send preliminary applications to classicsdor@st-andrews.ac.uk by 31 October 2026 at 5pm. 🔗 View details and apply: buff.ly/CCJZIIb #Funding #ClassicsBluesky

Please do get in touch before the 23rd of November if you are interested in applying for a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship with us. 3-year fellowships for applicants within 4 years of their PhD. See our news story below for more information www.york.ac.uk/archaeology/...

📢 We're inviting Expressions of Interest for the 2027 @leverhulme.ac.uk Early Career Fellowships! An opportunity for early career researchers to undertake a significant piece of research at Oxford Sociology! 📅 Register your interest by Friday 20 Nov www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/articles/oxf...

🆕 What shapes our decisions to quarantine? A new study protocol for the Epi-Q study in @bmj.com, co-authored by LCDS Director Melinda Mills, explores how risk information and social norms influence quarantine decisions using app-based epidemic simulation games. @melindacmills.bsky.social

Better biodiversity decision-making for business is the focus of a new report, launched to coincide with #COP17 Based on new research, it uses scenarios to guide businesses' conservation action for greater progress on global goals for nature recovery. @iccs.bsky.social @ejmilnergulland.bsky.social

In an article in Science today @hdavidcooper.bsky.social & @sdiazecology.bsky.social state that to reverse nature loss, we must change what drives it. Protecting 30% of land & sea isn’t enough: we must also transform the economic, political & social forces driving it. @ecioxford.bsky.social

New research by archaeologists including Professor Chris Hunt, reveals how a Neanderthal discovered in Shanidar Cave, Iraq was laid to rest after a fatal encounter with a wooden spear. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Read about Professor Hunt's project 👉 media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/chri...

A small round hole in a Neanderthal's shoulder blade tells an extraordinary story 🦴🔎 Researchers @cam-archaeology.bsky.social have uncovered what may be the earliest known evidence of a human ancestor killed by a wooden spear. Dig further into this new study 👉 https://bit.ly/4yK2QNM

A new technique to partially embed different types of nanoparticles into the surface of polymer materials such as plastics developed by @uniofleicester.bsky.social scientists could allow relatively inert polymer materials to be given a wide range of active surface functions.