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Current projects

Title Funder Start date End date
Spectacular Subjects: Modernism, Gender and Visuality in Interwar Japan Leverhulme (January – July 2019 only) 1st August 2018 31 December 2099
God, Language and Diversity: Spiritual Flourishing in Neurodiverse and Multilingual Communities John Templeton Foundation 1 March 2024 30 November 2026
Communication and Creativity AHRC 1 December 2023 30 November 2026
Film Costumes in Action AHRC/UKRI 1 August 2023 31 July 2026
A Cultural History of Disability in Byzantium, c. 1000-1200 Wellcome Trust 23 May 2022 22 May 2025
Fragmented Geographies: Japanese and German Fieldwork on the New Colonial Peripheries of Northeast Asia, 1925-1950 Academy for Korean Studies; Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute 1 October 2018 31 January 2025
LivingBodiesObjects: Technology and the Spaces of Health Wellcome Trust 1 January 2022 31 December 2024
Chasing Status: The Sustainability of the Freelance Translation Profession in the United Kingdom BA/Leverhulme Small Grant 1 August 2023 31 July 2024
Re-archiving the Individual: British Army Officers, 1790-1820 Arts and Humanities Research Council 1 August 2022 31 July 2024
Epistolary Lives and the Making and Re-Making of First World War Archives British Academy 1 June 2022 31 May 2024

Past projects

Title Funder Start date End date
The Other From Within: Indian Anthropologists and the Birth of the Nation Arts and Humanities Research Council 1 September 2019 31 March 2024
MultiLingual Minds and Factors Affecting MultiLingual Outcomes UiT (Arctic University of Norway) 1 September 2020 31 December 2023
Remembering what matters': Nature, culture and autism The Wellcome Trust; The John and Lorna Wing Foundation 1 October 2019 31 October 2022
The phonetics and phonology of Modern South Arabian: Mehri and Shehret Leverhulme Trust 1 December 2019 30 September 2022
The Joust as Performance: Pas d’armes and Late Medieval Chivalry AHRC 1 October 2021 30 September 2022
SPARKLE: Sustaining Practice Assets for Research, Knowledge, Learning and Engagement Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 10 January 2022 9 July 2022
Imagining Posthuman Care AHRC 1 January 2018 31 May 2022
Reform and Clerical Authority: Comparative Perspectives, c. 1000-1200 Leverhulme Trust, Internal funding 1 October 2016 21 May 2022
Social Distancing and Development ESRC 1 May 2020 30 November 2021
The PAR3TY project - PAR3 for Teens and Young Adults Living with Cancer British Academy/Leverhulme 8 January 2020 31 October 2021
The Operas of Thomas Adès AHRC 1 January 2020 30 September 2021
Assessing core language skills at the beginning of secondary school in the Born-in-Bradford cohort Bradford Opportunity Area 15 September 2020 14 September 2021
The Impact of Covid-19 on Key Learning and Education (ICKLE) ESRC 1 September 2020 30 August 2021
Medieval history texts in translation Internal funding 1 October 2004 1 October 2020
Predictive Analytics, Identities and Cultures of Prevention 1 March 2017 31 December 2019
Creating/Curating the Decolonial Classroom LAHRI 1 September 2018 31 August 2019
Genetics and Biocolonialism in Contemporary Literature and Film 1 October 2015 1 July 2019
Digital Library of Chinese Theatre Internal 1 January 2014 31 December 2017
The idea, context, framing and realities of 'Sikh radicalisation' in Britain CREST (Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats) 1 September 2016 1 November 2017
The Documentation and Ethnolinguistic Analysis of Modern South Arabian Leverhulme Trust 1 January 2013 31 December 2016
Mull Transect 1 April 2008 31 May 2008
The State of Science: Governing Knowledge of Nature in Victorian Britain 2020 2023
The Midsomer Norton Dig Project 2005 2005
The Hidden Peacebuilders Network AHRC - £100K; British Academy - £200K 2018 Ongoing
Sounds from the Bunker: aural culture and the remainder of the Cold War - -
Skipton’s First World War Prisoner-of-War Camp Ignite Funding 2015-16; HLF 2017-19; Erasmus 2017-18; First World War Network 2019; University of Leeds Q-Step (summer 2019); University of Leeds Laidlaw Scholarship (2020-22). 01 September 2015 01 September 2099
Research Project template University of Leeds 1.1.23 1.1.28
New Uses of Screens in Post-Lockdown Britain Research England - Policy Support Fund 2 December 2021 Ongoing
Middlebrow culture in Europe 20th/21st centuries Internally funded 1 January 2014 Ongoing
Media, Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) EU7 1 January 2014 31 January 2017
John Harper : Broken and Breaking Ground 2005 2009
Immunofluorescence labelling and the exploration of process-led sculpture making Integrated Biological Imaging Network Ongoing -
Exploring Diversity in an Interstitial Urban Locale: The LGBTQ Community of Ceuta Institute of Ceutan Studies 1 February 2022 28 February 2023
EStages.UK. Spanish theatre in United Kingdom (1982-2019) Marie Skłodowska-Curie (Individual Fellowship), Horizon 2020, European Commission. Grant agreement ID: 797942 2019 2023
Coercive Control: From Literature into Law Arts and Humanities Research Council Research Networking Award 1 April 2023 1 April 2025
Bridges - -
Back To Baselines in Circular Fashion and Textiles - Establishing a Baseline to Analyse the Sector’s Sustainability Status UKRI NERC 01.11.23 31.10.25.
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