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Grants

2023 – 2027:

EU Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Network (Horizon Europe and UKRI) (Co-Principal Investigator, €2.8m)

“European Social Science Genetics Network” (ESSGN)

ESSGN includes Erasmus University Rotterdam, University of Bielefeld, University of Bologna, University of Bristol, University of Oslo, University of Oxford, University of Uppsala, VU University Amsterdam

2022 – 2024:

National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) (Co-Investigator, £848,787)

“Evaluation and co-creation to optimise use and benefits fo the Healthy Start scheme”

2020 – 2025:

European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant (Principal Investigator, €1.5m)

“Developmental Origins: exploring the Nature-Nurture Interplay”

2018 – 2021:

NORFACE DIAL grant (Co-Principal Investigator, with Co-PIs Hans van Kippersluis and Pietro Biroli, €1.5m)

“Gene-Environment Interplay in the Generation of Health and Education Inequalities”

2014 – 2016:

Rank Prize New Investigator Award (Principal Investigator, £7,000)

“Evaluating Ways to improve Dietary Choices”

2011 – 2014:

MRC Early Career Fellowship in the Economics of Health (Principal Investigator, £271,817)

“The Economics of Food Consumption, Caloric intake and Obesity”

2011 – 2014:

British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Exemplary Award (Principal Investigator, £239,864), not taken up

“The Economics of Food Consumption, Caloric intake and Obesity”

2009 – 2011:

ESRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship (Principal Investigator, £180,843)

“The Economics of Childhood Obesity”

2004:

Leonardo da Vinci Scholarship

2003 – 2004:

VSBfonds Studentship (€ 7,000)

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Honours and Awards

2014:                 Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

2013:                 Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing, Journal of Health Economics

2007:                 Winner of the iHEA 6th World Congress Student Paper Prize

2005 – 2009:     ESRC Postgraduate Studentship