Other fellowships
Christopher/Knot Foundation
The Institute of Advanced Study, at the request of Durham University’s Research Committee, took over the responsibility for the administration of the Sir Derman Christopherson/Sir James Knott Foundation (internal) Fellowships in 2006/07. It established a competitive Fellowship scheme for solo scholars conducting interdisciplinary research, enabling three Fellows a year to be supported in this way.
In 2018/19, in accord with its new research framework, the IAS repurposed the programme to support major interdisciplinary projects and their Principal Investigators. From 2019/20, the IAS Christopherson-Knott (CK) Foundation has supported four IAS sponsored projects and their two leads each year. Details of the 2019/20 projects can be located below, along with all previous CK Fellows since 2006/07.
2019/20
Dr Catherine Turner (Law)
Dr May Darwich (Government and International Affairs)
Professor Tiago Moreira (Sociology)
Dr Margarita Staykova (Physics)
Dr Gary Sharples (Biosciences)
Dr Kim Jamie (Sociology)
Dr Helen Foxhall Forbes (History)
Dr Karen Milek (Archaeology)
2016/17 - Scale
Professor Clare McGlynn (Law)
Dr Susanne Braun (Business School)
2013/14 - Light
Dr Colin Lever (Psychology)
Dr Ted Kaizer (Classics and Ancient History)
Professor Eleanor Spaventa (Law)
2010/11 - Futures I
Dr Simon J James (English Studies)
Professor Holger Maehle (Philosophy)
Professor Yaoling Niu (Earth Sciences)
2018/19
Dr Amy Russell (Classics and Ancient History)
Dr Gleider Hernández (Law)
Professor Robert Schütze (Law)
2015/16 - Evidence
Dr Alex Easton (Psychology)
Professor David Heman (English Studies)
Professor Bennett Zon (Music)
2012/13 - Time
Professor Lewis Ayres (Theology and Religion)
Dr Nayanika Mookherjee (Anthropology)
Professor Pamela Clemit (English Studies)
2009/10 - Water
Professor Tom Shanks (Physics)
Professor Carlo Caruso (School of Modern Languages)
Dr Anna Leone (Department of Archaeology)
2017/18 - Structure
Dr Mike Church (Archaeology)
Dr Kaspar Peeters (Mathematial Sciences)
Dr Ehmke Pohl (Chemistry and Biosciences)
2014/15 - Emergence
Professor Richard Bower (Physics)
Professor Martin Clayton (Music)
Professor Nicholas Saul (Modern Lanugages and Cultures)
2011/12 - Futures II
Dr Daniel Paulusma (Engineering and Computer Sciences)
Dr Colin McFarlane (Geography)
Professor Nick Zangwill (Philosophy)
2008/09 - Being Human
Professor Timothy Clark (English Studies)
Professor Neil Cameron (Chemistry)
Dr Matthew Ratcliffe (Philosophy)
Distinguished Visitors
2019/20
Professor Kevin Rosso, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
COFUND Senior Fellows
Since 2011 this scheme, COFUNDed between Durham University and the European Union, has gathered scholars, researchers, policy makers or practitioners from around the world and across the full spectrum of science, social science, arts and humanities to address themes of global significance in collaboration with Durham’s Research Institutes and researchers.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 267209.
Between 2011 and 2019 this scheme, COFUNDed between Durham University and the European Union, recruited up to 24 Senior Research and Policy & Enterprise Fellows for periods of six weeks to six months. This included scholars, researchers, policy makers or practitioners from around the world and across the full spectrum of science, social science, arts and humanities to address themes of global significance in collaboration with Durham’s Research Institutes and researchers.
2018/19
Michaelmas Term 2018:
Dr Jeanette Beasley, New York University, USA
Dr Stephan Glatzel, University of Vienna, Austria
Professor Marc Oxenham, Australian National University, Australia
Professor James Young, University of Victoria, Canada
Epiphany Term 2019:
Dr Arjun Bagchi, Indian Institute of Technology, India
Dr Dmitry Biriukov, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia
Professor Samuel Fernandez, Facultad de Teologia Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile
Dr Patrick Heady, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany
Professor Nike Pokorn, University of Ljubliana, Slovenia
Dr Cesar Ramirez-Sarmiento, Pontifcia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile
Professor Rajiv Sinha, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Dr Maria Tysiachniouk, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Professor Ying Zhang, Ohio State University, USA
Easter Term 2019:
Professor Bozena Czerny, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Dr Nathan Devir, University of Utah, USA
Dr Dogan Keles, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Dr Ga-Lai Law, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Professor Gerlinde Mautner, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Dr Fiona McDonald, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Prof Ilaria Ramelli, Angelicum, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Italy
Professor Min Wang, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Dr Tomas Zelinsky, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia
Summer Term 2019:
Dr Deane-Peter Baker, University of New South Wales, Australia
2015/16 - Evidence
Michaelmas Term 2015:
Prof Brian Cowan, McGill University, Canada
Prof Françoise Deconinck-Brossard, Universite de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Defense, France
Prof Hubert Locher, Universitaet Marburg, Germany
Dr Giuseppina Simone, University of Napoli, Italy
Prof Iolanda Ventura, CNRS – IHRT, France
Epiphany Term 2016:
Dr Bruce K Christensen, Australian National University, Australia
Dr Lidia Galabova (Policy & Enterprise Fellow), TU Sofia, Bulgaria
Dr Monireh Kheirkhah, Geological Survey of Iran, Iran
Dr Hok Bun Ku, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Prof Dr Rudolf Leube, Uniklinik RWTH Aachen, Germany
Prof Aila-Leena Matthies, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Dr Bala Raju Nikku, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malasia
Dr Klára Petrželková, Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Rep
Dr Robin Veder, Penn State University, USA
Dr Paul Watt, Monash University, Australia
Easter Term 2016:
Prof Eric Wing Hong Chui, University of Hong Kong, PR China
Prof Joe Goddard, University of California San Diego, USA
Dr Richard C Miles, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
Dr Dan Podjed (Policy & Enterprise Fellow) ZRC SAZU / Uni Ljubljana, Slovenia
Prof David John Nesbitt, University of Colorado, USA
Dr Ali H. Reshak, West Bohemia University, Czech Republic
Dr Tripta Thakur, National Institute of Technology, MANIT Bhopal, India
Prof Leonid Zhmud, Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, Russia
Summer 2016:
Dr Wenzhe Fa, Peking University, China
Prof Anuj Srivastava, Florida State University, USA
2012/13 - Time
Michaelmas Term:
Dr Boian Alexandrov, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA
Professor Heidi Campbell, A&M University, Texas, USA
Dr Andrea Cardini, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
Dr Greti Dinkova-Bruun, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, Canada
Dr Sophia Labadi (Policy & Enterprise Fellow), University of Kent, UK (previously UNESCO, France)
Professor George McBane, Grand Valley State University, Michigan, USA
Dr Luxia Wang, University of Science and Technology, Beijing, China.
Epiphany Term:
Dr Mithun Kumar Mitra, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India.
Professor Scott Paterson, University of Southern California, USA
Professor Ilaria Ramelli, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy
Easter Term:
Dr Felice Cimatti(Policy & Enterprise Fellow),University of Calabria, and Freudian Institute, Rome, Italy (deferred to 2014)
Professor Fiona Harrison, California Institute of Technology, Caltech, USA (deferred to 2014)
Professor Nikos Hatziargyriou (Policy & Enterprise Fellow), National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Professor Andy Kraynik, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, USA (Retired)
Professor Ashwini Nangia, University of Hyderabad, India
Summer 2013
Professor Falin Chen, National Taiwan University, China
2017/18 - Structure
Michaelmas Term 2017:
Dr Julien Baglio, University of Tuebingen, Germany
Prof Alisa Bokulich, Boston University, USA
Dr Christoph Galle, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany
Dr Caroline Lenette, University of New South Wales, Australia
Prof Jose Manuel Losada, Universidad Complutense, Spain
Mr Scott Montgomery, University of Washington, USA
Epiphany Term 2018:
Dr Lucia Alba-Ferrara, The National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina
Dr Doru Costache, Sydney College of Divinity, Australia
Professor Krista Kesselring, Dalhousie University, Canada
Dr Giuseppina Simone, Northwestern Polytechnic, PR China
Professor Ramesh Subramaniam, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Professor Jeff Wilkesman, University of Carabobo, Venezuela
Easter Term 2018:
Dr Nazmi Al-Masri, Islamic University of Gaza, Palestine
Professor Christine Alexander, University of New South Wales, Australia
Dr Godfrey Asiimwe, Makere University, Uganda
Dr Mark Dickson, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Professor Todd Ehlers, University of Tuebingen, Germany
Tamar Elias, United States Geological Survey, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, USA
Professor Derek Jones, Hamilton College, USA
Professor Darrell Rowbottom, Lingan University, Hong Kong
Professor Auli Vahakangas, University of Helsinki, Finland
Summer 2018:
Professor Hiroshi Ishikawa, Waseda University, Japan
Dr Jasmin Joecks, University of Tuebingen, Germany
2014/15 - Emergence
Michaelmas Term 2014:
Professor Lili Fang (Policy & Enterprise Fellow), Chinese Academy of Arts, Beijing, PR China
Professor Xu Huang (Yuk Wong), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Professor Henrietta Mondry, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Professor Darrell P Rowbottom, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Dr Elowyn Yager, University of Idaho, USA
Epiphany Term 2015:
Professor Malcolm Hughes, University of Arizona, USA
Professor Gerhard Lauer, University of Göttingen, Germany
Dr Christophe Verlinde, University of Washington, USA
Easter Term 2015 :
Professor Mary Brydon-Miller, University of Cincinnati, USA
Professor Timothy R H Davies, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Professor Ermanno Malaspina, University of Turin, Italy
Dr Alexander Mitov, University of Cambridge, UK
Summer 2015:
Professor Jinyuan Liu, Nanjing University, PR China
Professor Karsten E Sørensen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Dr Dan Zhang, Nanjing University, PR China
Dr Lijian Zhang, Nanjing University, PR China
2011/12 - Futures II
Professor Denis Arčon, Institute Jozef Stefan, Slovenia
Dr Emmanuel Eliot, Université de Rouen, France
Professor France Gagnon, Télé-Université (Québec), Canada
Professor Susan Kieffer, University of Illinois, USA
Dr Isabella Lazzarini, University of Molise, Italy
Professor Roy MacLeod, University of Sydney, Australia
Dr Timothy Sim, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Professor Walter Stephens, Johns Hopkins University, USA
2016/17 - Scale
Summer 2016:
Dr Ajay Singh Panwar Indian Institute of Technology, India
Michaelmas Term 2016:
Dr Oldrich Bures Metropolitan University Prague, Czech Republic
Dr Nazir Ganai Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, India
Dr Sian Halcrow University of Otago, New Zealand
Dr Elay Shech Auburn University, USA
Dr Kirsti Stuvøy Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
Epiphany Term 2017:
Prof Herbert Tucker University of Virginia, USA
Easter Term 2017:
Dr Marco Barducci Gerda Henkel Member in the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA.
Dr Francesco Ferretti University of Siena, Italy
Dr Ludger Gailing Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space, Germany
Prof Carlos F.G.C Geraldes University of Coimbra, Portugal
Dr Bijender Kumar University of Jammu, India
Dr Emese Lafferton Central European University, Hungary
Dr Mohammed Nuruzzaman Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait
Dr Mikle South Brigham Young University, USA
Dr Anna Maria Stagno University of the Basque Country, Spain
Dr Merlinda Weinberg Dalhousie University, Canada
Summer 2017:
Dr Michael Blakeney University of Western Australia
Dr Chunli Chen Huazhong Agricultural University, China
Prof Chi Fai (Benny) Cheung The HK Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Dr Nathan Paul Devir University of Utah, USA
Prof Bikang Huang Peking University, China
2013/14 - Light
Michaelmas Term:
Dr Shahram Chubin (Policy & Enterprise Fellow), non-resident Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment, Geneva, Switzerland
Professor Peng Gao, Syracuse University, New York, USA
Dr Róbert Mészáros (Policy & Enterprise Fellow), Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Mr James Page (Policy & Enterprise Fellow), United Nations, Afghanistan, Canada & UK
Dr Ana Rita Roders Pereira (Policy & Enterprise Fellow), Eindhoven University, Netherlands
Professor Matti Seppälä, University of Helsinki, Finland
Epiphany Term:
Dr Larysa Bryzhyk, Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev, Ukraine
Dr Jeffrey Greathouse, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico, USA
Dr Sergio Sepúlveda (Policy & Enterprise Fellow), University of Chile
Easter Term:
Dr Dominic Boyer & Dr Cymene Howe (Policy & Enterprise Fellow), Rice University Houston, USA
Dr Martin Daly, Historian of the Middle East and North Africa, Author, Editor, and Consultant
Professor Fiona Harrison, California Institute of Technology, Caltech, USA
Dr Ute Hasenöhrl, Leibniz-Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning, Erkner, Germany
Dr Robert Ingram, Ohio University, USA
Professor V Spike Peterson, University of Arizona, USA
Professor Rajiv Sinha (Policy & Enterprise Fellow), Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
Summer 2014
Professor Yashodhan Hatwalne, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India
Professor Nicholas Kaiser, University of Honolulu, USA (Round 4)
Dr David Kennedy, University of Melbourne, Australia
Professor Arnaud Rykner, Paris Sorbonne University, France (Round 4)
COFUND Junior Fellows
2018/19
Dr George Athanasopoulos
Dr Ivana Bicak
Dr Nassim Bozorgnia
Dr April Dalton
Dr Celine Dinet
Dr Azadeh Fattahi-Savadjani
Dr Christos Filippidis
Dr Guido Furci
Dr Matthieu Giaime
Dr Georgios Giannakopoulos
Dr Nick Hughes
Dr James Christian Kirby
Dr Philippe Lynes
Dr Andrew Martin
Dr Tehseen Noorani
Dr Leonidas Oikonomakis
Dr Exequiel Porta
Dr Alexander Richings
Dr Anders Dahl Sorensen
Dr Alessandra Varalli
Dr Katy Williams
Dr Tessa Young
Dr Konstantin Zamyatin
2015/16 - Evidence
Dr Mathieu Dellinger
Dr Daniel Derrin
Dr Katarzyna Granat
Dr Jianhua He
Dr Monica Hellstrom
Dr Christopher Hurl
Dr Adriano Lameira
Dr Elias Lopez-Asamar
Dr Andreas Maier
Dr Eleni Mamoulaki
Dr Caitlin Nunn
Dr Jeremy Richardson
Dr Joshua Robinson
Dr Tom Robinson
Dr Kimberley Skelton
Dr Timothy Topper
Dr Julie Wardlow
Dr Hui Zhao
2012/13 - Time
Dr James Aird
Dr Marco Bernini
Dr Esther Clarke
Dr Paula Franklin
Dr Leonardo Gregoratti
Dr Lucas Herchenroeder
Dr Algae Kellerer
Dr Alberto Mariotti
Dr Morgan Salisbury
Dr Inchan Hwang
2017/18 - Structure
Dr Shankha Banerjee
Dr Srinjoy Bose
Dr Thomas Bristow
Dr Ed Garrett
Dr Åsa Jansson
Dr Sacha Kacki
Dr Astrid Krenz
Dr Mark Lovell
Dr Angela Perri
Dr Federico Petrucci
Dr Luke Powell
Dr Jakub Scholtz
Dr Yasmine Shamma
Dr Guzel Yusupova
2014/15 - Emergence
Dr Megan Cavell
Dr Andrew Cooper
Dr Jessica Dinh
Dr Barbara Gribling
Dr Dhana Hughes
Dr Aaron Ludlow
Dr Olivier Mattelaer
Dr Vitale Sparacello
Dr Francesco Venturi
Dr Daniel Viete
Dr Antonis Vradis
2011/12 - Futures II
Dr Yanchuan Cai
Dr Amalia Di Girolamo
Dr Christoph Englert
Dr David Gehring
Dr Gary King
Dr Hermine Landt
Dr Donald E Lavigne
Dr Oystein Rolandsen
Dr Alanna Rudzik
Dr Sebastian Sapeta
Dr Paul Thornton
Dr Laura Turnbull
Dr Noa Vaisman
Dr Brig (Ret.) Iftikhar Zaidi
2016/17 - Scale
Dr George Bepete
Dr Mujeeb Ullah Chaudhry
Dr Sarah Collins
Dr Nathan Gilbert
Dr Ramona Groeber
Dr Dominikus Heift
Dr Philip Heron
Dr Anthony Hooper
Dr Charles Jose
Dr Richard Jones
Dr Hara Kouki
Dr Elisabeta Lusso
Dr Franz-Julius Morche
Dr Nicola Polloni
Dr Adam Powell
Dr Jesse Proudfoot
Dr Felix Ringel
Dr Luke Ulas
Dr Jin Wang
2013/14 - Light
Dr Nicholas Boterf
Dr Hannah Burrows
Dr Celine Degrande
Dr Stephanie Dornschneider
Dr Marc-Alban Millet
Dr Chris Murray
Dr Katarzyna Nowak
Dr Natalya Reznichenko
Dr Helen Russell
Dr Ernesto Schwartz-Marin
Dr Deodato Tapete
Dr Wenting Wang
Dr Martin Wiebusch
Dr Lucas Wood
Addison Wheeler Fellows
Addison Wheeler Fellowships are funded through the bequest of Addison James Wheeler to encourage ‘efforts for increased knowledge of people and their make-up so as to enable them to make better use of their life here on Earth’. The Fellowships are designed to provide young researchers of outstanding promise with three years to pursue original ideas, free from teaching and administrative responsibilities. The Fellowship has provided over 30 researchers the opportunity to pursue new research ideas of their own design, undertaken in collaboration within academic researchers at Durham University.
Current
| Name | Department | Institute |
| Dr Alex Brown | History | IMEMS |
| Dr Rachel Bryant-Davies | Classics | Centre for 19th Century Studies |
| Dr Emma Cross | Earth Sciences | |
| Dr Tom Robinson | Geography | IHRR |
Previous
| Name | Year | Department |
| Professor EF Corrigan | 1972/74 | Mathematics |
| Professor Richard GM Morris | 1973/75 | Neuroscience |
| Dr EC Saxon | 1977 | Anthropology |
| Dr Christopher John Jones | 1977 | Biomedical Sciences |
| Dr DDR Williams | 1978 | Biomedical Sciences |
| Professor JA Gatehouse | 1979/84 | Biosciences |
| Professor LR Harris | 1980/83 | Psychology |
| Dr CJ Jones | 1982 | Biomedical Sciences |
| Professor AM Derrington | 1983 | Psychology |
| Winthrop Professor David Badcock | 1984 | Psychology |
| Dr JJA Scott | 1986 | Zoology |
| Dr Robert J Allison | 1987 | Geography |
| Dr Caroline Ross | 1993 | Anthropology |
| Professor Steve Faulkner | 1993/98 | Chemistry |
| Dr AJ Reynolds | 1994 | Biosciences |
| Professor Fiona Newell | 1995/99 | Psychology |
| Professor Stephen Faulkner | 1997 | Chemistry |
| Robert McIntosh | 2000/05 | Psychology |
| Dr Una Strand Vidarsdottir | 2001 | Anthropology |
| Dr Sonia Zakrzewski | 2003 | Archaeology |
| Dr Mark Skipsey | 2004 | Biology and Biomedical Sciences |
| Professor Russell Hill | 2005 | Anthropology |
| Professor HC Greenwell | 2007/10 | Earth Science/Chemistry |
| Dr Simon Beaumont | 2012 | Chemistry |
| Dr Sushma Grellscheid | 2012 | Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Dr Thomas Hinton | 2012 | Modern Languages and Cultures |
| Dr Ian James Kidd | 2012 | Philosophy |
| Dr Thomas Scott-Phillips | 2012 | Anthropology |
| Dr Alex Brown | 2013 | History |
| Dr Daniel Knight | 2013 | Anthropology |
| Dr Christopher Prior | 2013 | Mathematics |
| Dr Alice Wilson | 2014 | Anthropology |
| Dr Pratika Dayal | 2014 | Physics |
| Dr Rachael Wiseman | 2014 | Philosophy |
| Dr Rachel Bryant-Davies | 2016/17 | Classics & Ancient History |
| Dr Tom Robinson | 2016/17 | Geography |
This table has been largely retrospectively compiled and we apologise for any omissions, Please use the contact the IAS page and we will happily update any errors.