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Top 10 UK university and 54th in the world (QS Rankings 2025)
This study was described by the judging panel as ‘a wonderful book [and] a very significant contribution to knowledge.’
November 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
This year prizes were awarded across a range of academic disciplines, including Archaeology, Chemistry, Economics, Engineering, Geography and Languages and Literatures.
October 21, 2025 at 9:01 AM
The annual scheme commemorates the contribution to the work of the Leverhulme Trust made by Philip, Third Viscount Leverhulme and grandson of William Lever, the founder of the Trust.
October 21, 2025 at 9:01 AM
"...Her new book on face blindness, supported by this prize, promises to continue her work revealing unacknowledged interior landscapes with artistic grace and humanistic integrity."
October 21, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Professor Alison Donnell, Head of the School of Humanities, commented: “The School of Humanities is delighted that the exceptional contribution made by Dr Noreen Masud’s critical and creative work on aphorism and flatness has been recognised with a Philip Leverhulme Prize..."
October 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
...The award will support me to write a creative non-fiction book, titled Blank Face, about how faceblind writers and artists see and organise the world – and how a better understanding of faceblindness might reframe our sense of beauty, environment and relationship.’
October 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Dr Masud said: “I am so stunned and so grateful to the Leverhulme Trust for this life-changing award - I keep reading and rereading the award email, sure I’ve made a mistake!...'
October 21, 2025 at 8:59 AM
This award will allow her to research faceblindness (also known as prosopasgnosia): a neural condition making it difficult or impossible to recognise faces.
October 21, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Dr Masud is an award-winning expert in twentieth-century literature, an acclaimed writer of creative non-fiction, and a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker.
October 21, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Philip Leverhulme Prizes are designed to recognise and facilitate the work of outstanding research scholars of proven achievement, who have made and are continuing to make original and significant contributions to knowledge in their particular field.
October 21, 2025 at 8:58 AM