He was awarded an Imperial Relations Trust bursary to study media in India and a Leverhulme scholarship for research in Sri Lanka.
On his death in 1925, Lord Leverhulme left a proportion of his interest in the company he had founded, Lever Brothers, in trust for specific beneficiaries: to include first certain trade charities and secondly the provision of "scholarships for the purposes of research and education".
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In the succeeding years, Lever Brothers became a cornerstone of Unilever, a major multinational company, created in 1930 by the merger of Lever Brothers with the Van den Bergh's margarine company of the Netherlands.
Deeply impressed by his experience of the need for systematic education research, he obtained from the Leverhulme Trust in 1940 a grant of £2,000 to the University of London Institute of Education for this purpose.
In 2000 she completed a Ph.D. on the writer Hilda Doolittle and the artist Claude Cahun, and in 2003 received a Leverhulme research fellowship for her writings on poetics, visual theory and semiotics.
Research has been funded by a range of organisations, including: NERC, BBSRC, The Royal Society, The Leverhulme Trust, The British Ecological Society, The Biodiversity Trust, The Royal Entomological Society, South Northamptonshire Council, Friends of the Upper Nene (FUN), The University of Northampton, English Partnerships,
National Trust | National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty | Wellcome Trust | National Trust for Historic Preservation | National Trust of Australia | Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute | The Prince's Trust | BBC Trust | Leverhulme Trust | Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust | Devon Wildlife Trust | Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Metropolitan Bank and Trust Company | William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme | The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust | Terrence Higgins Trust | Saccharine Trust | Prince's Trust | Pilgrim Trust | NHS trust | New Zealand Historic Places Trust | National Book Trust | J. Paul Getty Trust | Trust law | Teenage Cancer Trust | Social Security Trust Fund | Russell Trust Association | Police Memorial Trust | Karachi Port Trust | Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust |
She is a Guggenheim Fellow, a recipient of the Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship in the UK, and Fulbright Senior Scholar who has taught at Columbia University, Princeton University, NYU, Duke University, the University of California-San Diego, Free University of Berlin, and the Autonomous University of Barcelona Institute for Theatre .
In 2001 Lahr, with co-founder Robert Foley, established the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies (LCHES) at the University of Cambridge, with funding from the Wellcome Trust and the Leverhulme Trust.