Among this year's projects are some with potentially life-changing medical applications, like a new device to measure intra-cranial pressure in trauma victims, a brain-controlled system to help people manage neuro-rehabilitation at home and a next-generation virtual reality trainer for surgeons with an enhanced sense of touch.
Other projects supported include tackling carbon capture and storage by incorporating CO2 into concrete mixtures, and improving understanding of turbulence in fluids, which could help to improve the design of wind turbines and jet engines.
Others could revolutionise computing, such developing a photon source to help bring quantum computing closer to reality and deep learning hardware architectures using 'memristors', a new device that could help create intelligent computers.
Professor William Milne FREng, chair of the Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowships selection panel said: "The Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowships are designed to foster world class engineering that is directly useful to industry and society."
