The Leverhulme Trust

1 Pemberton Row, London EC4A 3BG
Registered charity no: 288371

Research Project Grant
Outline Application 

Please consult the instructions in the Trust’s booklet, A Guide for Applicants, or our website at www.leverhulme.ac.uk, before completing this form, and send three copies of this form and a stamped addressed envelope (for acknowledgement) to the Trust’s Director. There are no closing dates for Outline Applications, but please note that closing dates for Full Applications are 21 March, 1 September and 1 December. Also, please ensure that you have read the Trust’s statement on the Data Protection Act and Intellectual Property Rights printed in the Guide or the end of this document.

Applicants are required to respond to each question.
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Result:			                                Field No.:	

(1)	Date of Outline Application:     /    /  	
(2)	Principal Applicant (joint applicants should be listed in (13)):
Any applicant holding a grant or with an application pending may not put in an application from a different institution.	
	Full Name: Ajit Narayanan	Title: Prof.	
	Date of Birth:     /    /	Signature:	
	Position in Department:	
	Institution Name:	
	Department:	
	Full Address:
	
	Tel No.:
	Fax No.:
	E-mail:
	
	Date of appointment to current post:
	
	How is your post currently funded?
	
(3)	Long title of research proposal (not to exceed 80 letters including spaces):
Electronic annotation for researchers: a feasibility study
	
(4)	Abbreviated title of research proposal (not to exceed 40 letters including spaces):
Electronic annotation
	
(5)	Amount of money requested: £25800	
(6)	General field of study and particular discipline(s) of proposed research (e.g. molecular biology, biological sciences): Computer Science; Electronic Publishing

(7)	Research experience and main publications, including titles of articles, (maximum 6) of the principal applicant:

	
(8)	Proposed starting date: 
April 1 2005	Proposed duration (in months):
18 months
	
(9)	Other research commitments:	
(10)	Number of hours a week principal applicant proposes to spend on this research distinguishing (where relevant) between term and vacation time:
	
(11)	For applicants requesting replacement teaching costs: the number of hours per week, total duration in weeks, and estimated hourly cost:

(12)	Person(s) for whose salary/salaries you are applying (if known):
	
	Title & Name:
Prof. Peter John Brown
	Title & Name:
	
	Current employment or occupation:

Visiting Professor (unpaid) and part-time teacher	Current employment or occupation:
	
	Date of birth:
30 July 1939	Date of birth:
	
	Title of thesis for higher degree and date awarded: Macro Processors and Portable Software; Cambridge University, 1968.

	Title of thesis for higher degree and date awarded:
	
(13)	Names, titles, positions and institutions/or status of other people who will be 
associated with the research as applicants (maximum 3):

(1) Mr. Derek Lewis; Director, The Foreign Language Centre; University of Exeter

(2) Prof. Peter Brown; Visiting Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Exeter (also Visiting Professor at Southampton University)

	
(14)	Two potential independent referees, who may be contacted directly by the Trust:	
	Name:
	Name:
	
	Position (if applicable):
	Position (if applicable):
	
	Full address:

	Full address:

	
(15)	Please explain why you believe the Leverhulme Trust to be best suited for the support of your research proposal: Our work is designed to apply across disciplines.  Annotation of electronic documents is a need for all researchers, but details will differ, e.g. as a result of the different types of document used in different research areas.  If our work is successful we will find underlying commonalities: for example between (1) a humanities researcher annotating parallel texts; (2) a social scientist annotating individual responses to a parallel set of questionnaires; (3) a scientist annotating individual results, outliers say, in a sequence of similar experimental results.  Following on from this we hope to design annotation software useful to all.  Such software should support new uses of annotation, well beyond the way researchers currently use annotation on paper documents.  Thus the dream is to benefit all disciplines.

	
(16)	Current or recent applications of principal applicant to other bodies for identical
or closely related projects with dates and results.  Please comment on reasons for rejection, if known:

	
(17)	Other applications (pending, successful and unsuccessful) to the Leverhulme Trust, with dates:

	

(18) Applicants should, where appropriate, complete Part A of the following form for each researcher. (This includes each research student; however, please give an amount for maintenance and fees rather than basic salary.)

(Part A)	Salaries

	Year1	Year 2	Year 3	Total	
Researcher	Prof. Brown	Prof Brown			
Scale point	special	special			
Age	65	66			
Basic salary	14000 (for 40% time)	7200 (for 40% time)			
London allowance	0	0			
National insurance	0	0			
Superannuation	0	0			
					
Total (for each researcher)	14000	7200			
					
Other, e.g. replacement teaching costs, fees, etc. (attach full details)					
(A) Total all salaries	14000	7200			

(Part B)	Associated costs (attach full details)
By far the biggest costs here are for travel and subsistence.  Some of this relates to visits to researchers during stages one and three of the project, and to Southampton University.  The bulk, however, relates to attendance at conferences and meetings; we envisage most of these will be multi-disciplinary.
	Year1	Year 2	Year 3	Total	
Clerical/
Secretarial
Assistance	1000	500			
Technical
Assistance					
Computing expenses (not equipment)	100	100			
Travel/
Subsistence	1800	900			
Consumables	100	100			
Other 
(specify and quantify)					
(B) Total associated costs
(maximum 25% of grand total)	3000	1600			
					
Grand total (A+B)	17000	8800			

(19)	Please give a summary - on a separate sheet - of your proposed research describing its aims, methods and sources and paying particular attention to its novelty and significance.  This summary will be read by assessors and should not exceed 1,000 words.  A special case must be made here for replacement teaching costs; these are normally provided only on an ad hoc hourly basis.	

Data Protection and Intellectual Property Rights

Data Protection Act

The Leverhulme Trust is registered under the Data Protection Act 1998 and complies with the provisions of the Act.  Applicants are reminded that in order for the Leverhulme Trust to assess applications, it will be necessary to store and process the information sent by them to the Trust.  Data will be held securely and lawfully processed, will be kept up-to-date, and not retained for longer than necessary.  Data may also be used to compile published lists of award holders, which may be available on the Internet and in our Annual Report.

An applicant will be deemed to have given explicit consent to the Trust to process the data sent us in the application, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998, either by signing an application form of by signing a letter of application for a grant.  

Intellectual Property Rights

The Trust is currently in discussion with universities concerning individual university agreements in respect of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). We will report on progress in due course but, should you have any queries in the interim period, please write to the Trust.

May 2004