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The Perrot–Warrick Fund is administered by Trinity College, Cambridge, and awards grants for research in parapsychology. According to Susan Blackmore, it is the second largest source of grants for psychical research in the UK, after the University of Edinburgh's Koestler Parapsychology Unit.〔Susan Blackmore, ("Perrott-Warrick Project" ), susanblackmore.co.uk, accessed 22 January 2012.〕 Caroline Watt of the University of Edinburgh has been Perrott–Warrick Senior Researcher since 2010. The position was previously held by Rupert Sheldrake, Richard Wiseman and Nicholas Humphrey.〔For Watt, see ("Dr Caroline Watt" ), University of Edinburgh. *For Sheldrake, see Rupert Sheldrake, (Homepage ), sheldrake.org. *For Wiseman, see Richard Wiseman, ("Biography" ), richardwiseman.com. *For Humphrey, see Nicholas Humphrey, ("Nicholas Keynes Humphrey" ), humphrey.org.uk.〕 ==Background== The fund derives from a bequest to Trinity College by Frank Duerdin Perrott in 1937, made in memory of F. W. H. Myers (1843–1901), a fellow of Trinity and founder of the Society for Psychical Research. Another bequest was made to it in 1956 by Frederic Walmsley Warrick.〔Rupert Sheldrake, ("The Perrott-Warrick Project" ), sheldrake.org.〕 C.D. Broad (1887–1971), Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy and a fellow of Trinity, was interested in parapsychology and until his death chaired the fund's committee of electors.〔''Journal of the Society for Psychical Research'', Volume 58, 1992, p. 279.〕 The fund aims to study "mental or physical phenomena which seem ''prima facie'' to suggest (a) the existence of supernormal powers of cognition or action in human beings in their present life, or (b) the persistence of the human mind after bodily death." Grant recipients have included Whately Carington (1892–1947), S.G. Soal (1889–1975), Anita Gregory (1925–1984), Stephen I. Abrams (1938–2012), Spencer Brown, Trevor Hall, George Zorab, Alan Gauld, James Webb, Carl Sargent, Richard Broughton, Christopher J. Stephenson, Adrian Parker, Susan Blackmore, Wendy E. Cousins, Chris Roe, Melvyn J. Willin, and Gregory Shushan. 〔For Carington, Soal and Blackmore, see Susan Blackmore, ("Perrott-Warrick Project" ), susanblackmore.co.uk, accessed 22 January 2012. *For Gregory, see "Cambridge Awards Category: Official Appointments and Notices," ''The Times'', 12 July 1965, p. 6. *For Abrams, see "Psychical research student at Cambridge," ''The Guardian'', 06 July 1964. *For Humphrey, "University News," ''The Times'', 14 May 1992, p. 14. *For Parker, see "About the editor and contributors," James Houran (ed.), ''From Shaman to Scientist'', Scarecrow Press, 2004, p. 265.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Perrott-Warrick Fund」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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