Philip Leverhulme Prize


The Philip Leverhulme Prize is awarded by the Leverhulme Trust to recognise the achievement of outstanding researchers whose work has already attracted international recognition and whose future career is exceptionally promising. The prize scheme makes up to thirty awards of £100,000 a year, across a range of academic disciplines.
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History and criteria

The award is named after Philip Leverhulme who died in 2000. He was the grandson of William Leverhulme, and was the third Viscount Leverhulme. The prizes are payable, in instalments, over a period of two to three years. Prizes can be used for any purpose which can advance the prize-holder's research, with the exception of enhancing the prize-holder's salary.
Nominees must hold either a permanent post or a long-term fellowship in a UK institution of higher education or research that would extend beyond the duration of the Philip Leverhulme Prize. Those otherwise without salary are not eligible to be nominated. Nominees should normally have been awarded their doctoral degree not more than ten years prior to the closing date.

Awards

Leverhulme awards are granted annually.

2025

In 2025 the prizes were awarded in the following fields:
  • Archaeology: Georgia Andreou, Beatriz Marín-Aguilera, Elisabeth Niklasson, Philip Riris, John Rowan
  • Chemistry: Rebecca Beveridge, Emily Draper, Alexander Forse, Meera Mehta, Mattia Silvi
  • Economics: Clare Balboni, Felipe González, Attila Lindner, Ludvig Sinander, Constantine Yannelis
  • Engineering: Soroush Abolfathi, Letizia Gionfrida, Jun Jiang, Emilio Martínez-Pañeda, Noa Zilberman
  • Geography: Sydney Calkin, Thomas Cowan, Joshua Dean, Matthew Jones, Kasia Paprocki
  • Languages and Literatures: Ian Cushing, Callan Davies, Noreen Masud, Mathelinda Nabugodi, Ed Pulford

2024

In 2024 the prizes were awarded in the following fields:
  • Classics: Lilah Grace Canevaro, Katherine McDonald, Lea Niccolai, Henry Spelman, George Woudhuysen
  • Earth Sciences: Michael Byrne, Sam Giles, Louise Slater, Anw Thomson, Iestyn Woolway
  • Physics: Natalia Ares, Paulo Ceppi, Davide Michieletto, Bartomeu Monserrat, Hannah Wakeford
  • Politics and International Relations: Federica Genovese, Maxime Lepoutre, Nivi Manchanda, José Ciro Martínez, Pavithra Suryanarayan
  • Psychology: Miriam Klein-Flugge, Sheina Lew-Levy, Catherine Manning, Aja Murray, Michael Muthukrishna
  • Visual and Performing Arts: Ross Cole, Sasha Litvintseva, El Morgan, Mario Slugan, Amy Twigger Holroyd

2023

In 2023 the prizes were awarded in the following fields:
  • Biological Sciences: Anders Bergström, Katharine Coyte, Sandy Hetherington, Tommaso Jucker, Alison Wright
  • History: Emily Corran, John Gallagher, Bérénice Guyot-Réchard, Ryan Hanley, Peter Hill
  • Law: Anna Chadwick, Seán Columb, Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne, Sharon Thompson, Joe Tomlinson
  • Mathematics and Statistics: Holly Krieger, Po-Ling Loh, Michael Magee, Chris Oates, Yi Yu
  • Philosophy and Theology: Adrian Currie, Jessie Munton, Nil Özlem Palabiyik, Amia Srinivasan, Mohammad Saleh Zarepour
  • Sociology and Social Policy: Ella Cockbain, Rebecca Elliott, Maziyar Ghiabi, Remi Joseph-Salisbury, Ridhi Kashyap

2022

In 2022 the prizes were awarded in the following fields:
  • Archaeology: Chiara Bonacchi, Marianne Hem Eriksen, Corisande Fenwick, Patrick Gleeson, Sarah Inskip
  • Chemistry: Bryan Bzdek, Nicholas Chilton, Brianna Heazlewood, Rebecca Melen, Ruth Webster
  • Economics: Abi Adams-Prassl, Stefano Caria, Thiemo Fetzer, Sandra Sequeira, Daniel Wilhelm
  • Engineering: Sebastian Bonilla, John Orr, Daniel Slocombe, Harrison Steel, Jin Xuan
  • Geography: Maan Barua, Sarah Bell, Anita Ganesan, Ed Manley, Isla Myers-Smith
  • Languages and Literatures: Joanna Allan, Josie Gill, Joseph Hone, Preti Taneja, Sam Wolfe

2021

In 2021 the prizes were awarded in the following fields:
  • Classics: Tom Geue, Theodora Jim, Giuseppe Pezzini, Henry Stead, Kathryn Stevens
  • Earth Sciences: Nicholas Brantut, Andrea Burke, Paula Koelemeijer, Erin Saupe, Nem Vaughan
  • Physics: Jayne Birkby, Radha Boya, Denis Martynov, Jonathan Matthews, Samuel Stranks
  • Politics and International Relations: Teresa Bejan, Christopher Claassen, Graham Denyer Willis, Janina Dill, Inken von Borzyskowski
  • Psychology: Jennifer Cook, Jim A.C. Everett, Tobias Hauser, Patricia Lockwood, Netta Weinstein
  • Visual and Performing Arts: Jennifer Coates, Mohamad Hafeda, Lonán Ó Briain, Martin O'Brien, Annebella Pollen

2020

In 2020 the prizes were awarded in the following fields:

2019

In 2019 the prizes were awarded in the following fields:

2018

In 2018 the prizes were awarded in the following fields:
  • Classics: Amin Benaissa, Myles Lavan, Alex Mullen, Amy Russell, Shaul Tor
  • Earth Sciences: Juliet Biggs, Stephen L. Brusatte, Heather Graven, Babette Hoogakker, Amanda Maycock
  • Physics: Alis Deason, Simone De Liberato, Katherine Dooley, Rahul Raveendran Nair, John Russo
  • Politics and International Relations: Ezequiel Gonzalez Ocantos, Chris Hanretty, Sophie Harman, Lauren Wilcox, Lea Ypi
  • Psychology: Emily S Cross, Stephen Fleming, Claire Haworth, Harriet Over, Nichola Raihani
  • Visual and Performing Arts: Erika Balsom, Daisy Fancourt, Ian Kiaer, Peter McMurray, Tiffany Watt Smith

2017

In 2017 the prizes were awarded in the following fields:

2016

In 2016 the prizes were awarded in the following fields.

2015

In 2015 the prizes were awarded in the following fields.

2014

In 2014, thirty-one prizes were awarded. The 2014 subjects and prizewinners were:

2013

The 2013 subjects were:
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics: Richard Alexander, Stefan Kraus, Mathew Owens, Mark Swinbank, John Taylor
  • Economics: Jane Cooley Fruehwirth
  • Engineering: Haider Butt, Bharathram Ganapathisubramani, Eileen Gentleman, Aline Miller, Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena
  • Geography: Ben Anderson, Dabo Guan, Anna Lora-Wainwright, Erin McClymont, Colin McFarlane, David Nally, Lindsay Stringer
  • Modern languages and Literature: Kathryn Banks, Andrew Counter, Sally Faulkner, Lara Feigel, David James, James Smith, Hannah Sullivan
  • Performing and Visual Arts: Martin John Callanan, Nadia Davids, James Moran, Tim Smith

2012

The 2012 subjects were:

2011

The 2011 subjects were:
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics: Emma Bunce, Andrew Levan, Richard Massey, David Pontin, David Seery
  • Economics: Michael Elsby, Andrea Galeotti, Sophocles Mavroeidis, Helen Simpson, Paul Surico
  • Engineering: Maria Ana Cataluna, Simon Cotton, Antonio Gil, Katsuichiro Goda, Karen Johnson
  • Geography: Peter Adey, Siwan Davies, Hayley Fowler, Simon Lewis, Simon Reid-Henry
  • Modern European Languages & Literatures: Anthony Bale, Lindiwe Dovey, Kirsty Hooper, Ben Hutchinson, Robert Macfarlane
  • Performing & Visual Arts: Ed Bennett, Helen Freshwater, Esther Johnson, Phoebe Unwin, Emily Wardill

2010

The 2010 subjects were:
  • Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, e.g. Tamsin Mather
  • History of Art
  • Law
  • Mathematics and Statistics: Caucher Birkar
  • Medieval, Early Modern and Modern History

2009

The 2009 subjects were:

2008

The 2008 subjects were:

2007

The 2007 subjects were:

2006

The 2006 subjects were:
  • Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences: Lucy Carpenter, Tim Wright
  • History of Art
  • Medieval, Early Modern and Modern History
  • Mathematics and Statistics: Matt Keeling
  • Zoology

2005

The 2005 subjects were:

2004

The 2004 subjects were:
  • Anthropology
  • Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences: Alastair Lewis
  • Economics
  • Mathematics and Statistics
  • Medieval, Early Modern and Modern History

2003

The 2003 subjects were:
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics : Louise Harra
  • Classics
  • Engineering
  • Geography
  • Philosophy and Ethics

2002

The 2002 subjects were:

2001

The 2001 subjects were:
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Classics
  • Engineering
  • Geography
  • Philosophy and Ethics