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Current projects

Title Funder Start date End date
Achieving healthy young minds Economic and Social Research Council 12 January 2018 30 November 3022
Routes to Content Screen Industries Growth Network/Research England 1 February 2019 1 January 2099
Mobilising the Masses: Appeals to Emotion in German Political Writing, 1871–1933 The Leverhulme Trust 1 November 2024 31 October 2027
Mapping New Geographies of Cultural Production in Brazil through Pontos de Cultura The British Academy 7 October 2024 6 October 2027
A zero-sum game? Exploring a both-and approach to biological disorder and religious experience in relation to Christians who experience psychosis and/or mania The British Academy 16 September 2024 15 September 2027
INCLUsive Digital Economy Network+: Exploring how social and digital environments can be built, shaped and sustained to enable all people to thrive Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council 1 September 2022 1 September 2027
Women, Ageing and Machine Learning on Screen Leverhulme Trust 8 January 2024 31 March 2027
Uncoupling Heteropatriarchy in African Feminism: Unmarried Women and Indigenous Knowledges of Gender and Sexuality among the Shona of Zimbabwe British Academy 1 February 2023 1 January 2027
BAT Monitoring via novel Assays and smart Nano-electronics (BATMAN) Leverhulme Trust 1 September 2023 31 December 2026
MUSICSTREAM: Music Culture in the Age of Streaming European Union 1 December 2021 1 December 2026
Communication and Creativity AHRC 1 December 2023 30 November 2026
Enhance Music Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council 1 June 2022 30 November 2026
Intake (Multifunctional nanocomposite material for hybrid energy harvesting) EU Horizon 1 September 2022 31 August 2026
Film Costumes in Action AHRC/UKRI 1 August 2023 31 July 2026
The Inner Music and Wellbeing Network AHRC 3 June 2024 2 June 2026
'What’s on?' Rethinking class in the television industry AHRC 16 October 2023 15 April 2026
Network Plus in Circular Fashion and Textiles – Programme Coordination Team (PCT) UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), National Environment Research Council (NERC), Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Innovate UK (IUK) 1 April 2024 31 March 2026
Romain (Robotic inspection and repair of wind turbine composite blade) EU Horizon 1 September 2022 1 February 2026
Science for the People: Popular Print and the Making of the Victorian World Leverhulme Trust 1 October 2022 31 January 2026
Rethinking Holocaust Literature: Contexts, Canons, Circulations AHRC 2 January 2023 31 December 2025
Linguistic diversity and accent bias in Higher Education and beyond Michael Beverley Innovation Fellowship 1 September 2024 1 December 2025
Deloneliness (Smart textile for monitoring and help to reduce loneliness) EPSRC 2 May 2022 1 November 2025
Public Service Media in the Age of Platforms (PSM-AP) PSM-AP is supported by UKRI, United Kingdom; FWO, Belgium; DAFSHE, Denmark; and NCN, Poland, under CHANSE ERA-NET Co-fund programme, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, under Grant Agreement no 101004509. 1 November 2022 31 October 2025
Mediated climate change politics: the epistemology and performance of contested digital truth claims AHRC 1 October 2023 1 October 2025
Animal Desire: A Theory of Desire and Practical Rationality Leverhulme Trust 1 October 2022 30 September 2025
Hematopolitics: Blood Donation and Contested Belonging in East Asia Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 1 October 2023 30 September 2025
Colonial subjects and citizens in the French (Internal) Resistance Office National des Combattants et des Victimes de Guerre (France) 1 March 2020 1 September 2025
Co-creating guidelines for the use Q-BEx for language screening ESRC Impact Acceleration (via LSSI) 1 September 2024 31 August 2025
Exploring the Democratic Role of News Media During Covid-19: Triangulating Digital News Outputs, Journalists’ Professional Reflections, and Audiences’ Experiences in the UK and Germany BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant 1 June 2022 1 June 2025
A Cultural History of Disability in Byzantium, c. 1000-1200 Wellcome Trust 23 May 2022 22 May 2025
Of Comradeship and Sisterhood: A Political History of 'Die Gleichheit', 1891-1917 Leverhulme Foundation 1 April 2022 31 March 2025
Revolutionising Waterless Textile Dyeing Innovate UK 1 October 2023 31 March 2025
Characterizing the effects of hearing loss and hearing aids on the neural code for music Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit 1 March 2022 28 February 2025
Non-formal education for youth-led change AHRC 1 January 2024 31 January 2025
Sex and the Sacred: Queering Black Performing Arts in Cape Town, South Africa UKRI 1 February 2023 31 January 2025
LivingBodiesObjects: Technology and the Spaces of Health Wellcome Trust Research Development Award 1 January 2022 31 December 2024
Imagining Technologies for Disability Futures Wellcome Trust Collaborative Award 1 January 2020 31 December 2024
Empowering Women: Co-Producing Histories of Women and Energy in the Home AHRC 1 January 2023 30 December 2024

Past projects

Title Funder Start date End date
Congruence Engine Arts and Humanities Research Council 14 November 2021 13 November 2024
Interdisciplinary Dialogues in Industry and Literature, 1770-1830 Arts and Humanities Research Council 1 January 2024 31 October 2024
Martin Thomas Memorial Art Project Head of School discretionary funds 2 October 2023 31 August 2024
Sudan revolution archive: songs, chants and poems of the 2019 Sudanese revolution BA/Leverhulme 1 October 2021 31 August 2024
Smart Multifunctional textile with printed electronics to promote healthy ageing in musculoskeletal conditions Innovate UK 1 December 2022 31 August 2024
Re-archiving the Individual: British Army Officers, 1790-1820 Arts and Humanities Research Council 1 August 2022 31 July 2024
Chasing Status: The Sustainability of the Freelance Translation Profession in the United Kingdom BA/Leverhulme Small Grant 1 August 2023 31 July 2024
How variable is speech, how reliable are single recordings? Assessing the medium-term dynamics of speech through iterative data collection British Academy/Leverhulme Trust 4 July 2022 1 July 2024
The Western Indian Ocean in the First Millennium CE British Academy/Wolfson Fellowship 31 March 2020 30 June 2024
Computational Agent Responsibility Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council 31 January 2022 30 June 2024
Abuse in Religious Settings Arts and Humanities Research Council 2 January 2022 31 May 2024
Group thinking: new foundations European Union 3 January 2019 29 February 2024
God and Human Speech: A Planning Grant in Comparative Science-Engaged Theology John Templeton Foundation 1 August 2022 31 December 2023
GPs Reaching Out Work (GROW) NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) School for Primary Care Research 1 November 2022 14 December 2023
Digital Explorations: Opening the Medieval Manuscript Fragments from the Ripon Cathedral Library UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Research England 1 February 2023 31 July 2023
Music for Girls: Women's Knowledge Cultures of Popular Music Arts and Humanities Research Council 1 February 2022 31 July 2023
Stigma and Shame? Challenging Menstrual Taboo Through Time Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute 1 October 2022 31 July 2023
The circulation of Spanish books and their impact on English drama, 1604–1625 The Leverhulme Trust 1 August 2020 31 July 2023
Feminist Horror Cinema Arts and Humanities Research Council 1 February 2022 31 July 2023
Frederic Forster's Mourning Warehouse and the disappearing trade in female mourning wear in Leeds, UK 1849-1923 Leeds Museums and Galleries/Cultural Institute Cross Disciplinary Innovation Fund 1 April 2022 31 July 2023
Vital Circulations: A framework for understanding social dynamics in and beyond a pandemic White Rose University Consortium Collaboration Fund 1 July 2021 30 June 2023
Polyester Infinity: Carbon Dioxide-based Polyester Dyeing and Recycling in a Textile Circular Economy John Lewis PLC 16 May 2022 31 May 2023
Sexuality and Religion Network in East Africa AHRC and GCRF/Newton Consolidation Account 1 February 2020 31 March 2023
The Shiloh Project Arts and Humanities Research Council 8 January 2019 31 March 2023
Impact Acceleration Account 2019 Economic and Social Research Council 4 January 2019 31 March 2023
UK-China Song of the Female Textile Workers: past, present and the future Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) - UKRI 15 February 2022 15 March 2023
Tackling antimicroibal resistance (AMR) in schools Arts and Humanities Research Council, ESRC Acceleration Impact funding -- 1 March 2023
Extinction as cultural heritage? Exhibiting human-nature entanglements with extinct and threatened species Arts and Humanities Research Council 2 January 2019 31 January 2023
Maternal mortality in East Africa Global Challenges Research Fund; University of Leeds Economic and Social Research Council Impact Acceleration Account 1 February 2018 31 January 2023
The Sacred Landscapes of Medieval Monasteries: An inter-disciplinary study of meaning embedded in space and production Arts and Humanities Research Council 2 January 2019 1 January 2023
Crime, Punishment and Colonial Soldiers Gerda Henkel Foundation 1 January 2021 31 December 2022
Developing a youth-leadership programme for deaf children in, and beyond, South Africa AHRC 1 February 2021 30 September 2022
Instrumentalising Electronic Sound, 1945-75 British Academy 2 September 2019 10 September 2022
Autism in Theology Blueprint 1543 10 January 2021 30 August 2022
Psychopathology and religious experience: could someone be experiencing a mental illness and having a religious experience at one and the same time? Science-Engaged Theology, New Visions in Theological Anthropology, John Templeton Foundation 1 January 2021 31 July 2022
The Buddhist Retreat Project: Tracing the contours of the sacred and secular in contemporary British Buddhism British Sociological Association 8 January 2020 21 July 2022
SPARKLE: Sustaining Practice Assets for Research, Knowledge, Learning and Engagement Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 10 January 2022 9 July 2022
Social Photography Research Group Economic and Social Research Council 15 January 2021 30 June 2022
God and the Book of Nature John Templeton Foundation (US) 9 January 2019 31 May 2022
Reform and Clerical Authority: Comparative Perspectives, c. 1000-1200 Leverhulme Trust; Internal funding 1 October 2016 21 May 2022
The Tim Hetherington collection and conflict imagery network Arts and Humanities Research Council 1 July 2020 1 May 2022
GCRF Sexuality and Religion Network in East Africa Arts and Humanities Research Council 2 January 2020 31 March 2022
Religion and Extinction Network Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 9 March 2018 31 March 2022
The politics of religious infrastructure: Christian and Muslim urban worlds in Africa British Academy 15 September 2018 14 March 2022
Meta-Alethic Expressivism: A New Theory of Thinking and Saying What is True British Academy 9 January 2018 28 February 2022
Making the Science(s) of Coal: the changing role of miners and savants, 1660–1880 Royal Society 1 March 2022 4 February 2022
Tales of Sexuality and Faith: The Ugandan LGBT Refugee Life Story Project British Academy 1 April 2019 30 November 2021
Language and Language Use European Union 9 January 2019 14 October 2021
Pastoral Care, Literary Cure and Religious Dissent: Zones of Freedom in the British Atlantic (c. 1630-1720) AHRC 12 February 2020 30 September 2021
Sacred Queer Stories: The Ugandan LGBT Refugees Life Story Project British Academy 1 April 2019 30 September 2021
GCRF Development Awards: The hidden peace-builders Arts and Humanities Research Council 7 January 2019 31 July 2021
Electrifying Women: Understanding the Long History of Women in Engineering. AHRC Follow-on funding scheme 1 June 2019 31 March 2020
Death in Early Modern Venice Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), British Academy/Leverhulme Trust, I Tatti: The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies 24 January 2011 31 July 2019
Leeds Russian Centre Internal funder 6 December 2011 12 December 2018
Cultures of Intelligence: Military Intelligence Services in Germany, GB, and the USA, 1855-1947 (Britain, 1918-1947) Arts and Humanities Research Council 1 November 2012 30 June 2016
Men, Masculinity and Maternity in Britain, from the 1950s to the Present University of Leeds Arts Engaged Fellowship 1 October 2012 30 April 2016
Agents of Future Promise: The ideological use of children in culture and politics (Britain and France, c. 1880-c. 1950) Arts and Humanities Research Council 1 October 2014 30 September 2015
Soldiers and soldiering in Britain, c.1750 to 1815 Arts and Humanities Research Council 1 July 2010 30 December 2011
ORCIT European Commission-funded project 1 July 2020 ongoing
Hidden Histories of Environmental Science partnership seed fund UK Research and Innovation 27/08/2021 06/09/2021
Ethical Dating Online Partly internally funded for an event 14 February 2023 Ongoing
echome: a wearable technology for sound and movement interaction [please note echome is all low fonts] ESRC, Healthy Ageing Catalyst Award; Michael Beverley Innovation Fellowship; Participatory Research Grant, Research England 1 August 2019 Ongoing
Alone against Secularisation? Gender identity in Anglican and Catholic women (England-Spain, 1960-2015) This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement. 1 September 2019 7 December 2021