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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
Work-related Suicide. An International Social Justice Analysis Wellcome Trust 1 February 2025 31 January 2029
Data in the Archive <a href="https://dcch.leeds.ac.uk/">Digital Creativity and Cultures Hub</a>, Higher Education Innovation Funding 1 May 2025 31 December 2028
Inclusive Art for Wicked Problems: Innovating Creative Methods for Systems Change with Learning Disabled Artists and Their Facilitators UKRI 1 September 2024 31 August 2028
Darwinian Inheritance: Communication and Empire in the Making of a Scientific Dynasty The Leverhulme Trust 1 May 2025 30 April 2028
Hope and Homes for Children KTP: Building Accountability to Young People in Youth Focussed Development Innovate UK and the Fraxinus Trust 27 January 2025 26 December 2027
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
Nationalist polarization and the fight over climate change: how nationalism is shaping the politics of climate skeptics and activists in the US and Canada Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada 1 November 2024 14 May 2027
Women, Ageing and Machine Learning on Screen Leverhulme Trust 8 January 2024 31 March 2027
BAT Monitoring via novel Assays and smart Nano-electronics (BATMAN) Leverhulme Trust 1 September 2023 31 December 2026
What might an effective multiglossic approach to Arabic look like Qatar Foundation International 1 August 2025 31 December 2026
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
Shakespeare and Early Modern Proverbial Culture AHRC 1 March 2025 31 August 2026
Intake (Multifunctional nanocomposite material for hybrid energy harvesting) EU Horizon 1 September 2022 31 August 2026
Strangers: Migration and Multilingualism in Early Modern London Leverhulme Trust 1 August 2024 31 July 2026
Film Costumes in Action AHRC/UKRI 1 August 2023 31 July 2026
Rheon Lab Ltd KTP Innovate UK/RHEON Labs Ltd 27 January 2025 26 July 2026
The Ethics of Medical Photography: Past, Present, and Future Arts and Humanities Research Council 1 July 2024 30 June 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
Gamifying Urban Change: Willingness to Pay as Key to Citizen-Centred Approaches DARe Flex Fund – UKRI (EPSRC) 6 January 2025 31 December 2025
Global Health Histories podcast series Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures Impact Acceleration Account 1 December 2025 31 December 2025
Reproducing Renaissance Drama The British Academy 1 January 2025 30 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
The Return of the Repressed: Sexuality Discourse in Hausa Digital Prose Fiction The British Academy 1 May 2025 31 October 2025
Mediated climate change politics: the epistemology and performance of contested digital truth claims AHRC 1 October 2023 1 October 2025
Co-creating guidelines for the use Q-BEx for language screening ESRC Impact Acceleration (via LSSI) 1 September 2024 31 August 2025
From Lab to Screen: A Response to AI’s Threat to the Media Localisation Industry AHRC’s Impact Acceleration Account 1 March 2025 31 August 2025
Re-imagining Relationships with Urban Nature Internal funder 18 October 2024 31 July 2025
Developing Healthy Engagement Research England Enhancing Research Culture Fund 1 December 2024 31 July 2025
Dental Histories: Towards a Digital Museum Research England Enhancing Research Culture Fund 1 September 2024 31 July 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

Past projects

Title Funder Start date End date
‘Self-worth as a community asset: co- authoring burlesque’s protected and deregulated spaces as good practice’ AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) 1 April 2024 31 March 2025
Revolutionising Waterless Textile Dyeing Innovate UK 1 October 2023 31 March 2025
Centre for Cultural Value AHRC 1 October 2019 31 January 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 Research Development Award 1 January 2022 31 December 2024
Empowering Women: Co-Producing Histories of Women and Energy in the Home AHRC 1 January 2023 30 December 2024
Interdisciplinary Dialogues in Industry and Literature, 1770-1830 Arts and Humanities Research Council 1 January 2024 31 October 2024
Newcomers in the City: Reading Japanese and Chinese Literary Modernism in the Inter-war Period Japan Foundation Endowment Committee 1 July 2024 30 September 2024
Smart Multifunctional textile with printed electronics to promote healthy ageing in musculoskeletal conditions Innovate UK 1 December 2022 31 August 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
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
GPs Reaching Out Work (GROW) NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) School for Primary Care Research 1 November 2022 14 December 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
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
COVID-19: Impacts on the cultural industries and implications for policy AHRC/UKRI 1 September 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
Electrifying Women: Understanding the Long History of Women in Engineering. AHRC Follow-on funding scheme 1 June 2019 31 March 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
Leeds Russian Centre Internal funder 6 December 2011 12 December 2018
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
Transforming the Cultural & Heritage Sector’s Data Infrastructure: A pilot study to establish a cultural data observatory ESRC 1 July 2024 30/09/2025 (3 month no-cost extension approved)
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
Talking about things Internal – IAA Fund 1 September 2024 01/9/2026
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
ORCIT European Commission-funded project 1 July 2020 ongoing
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
My Castle Gateway ESRC IAA and City of York Council My Castle Gateway started as a collaboration between the City of York Council and Helen Graham and Phil Bixby with support and funding for activities from the University of Leeds’ Leeds Social Science Institute. Since 2019 City of York Council has funded My Future York’s engagement activities. Wider Castle Gateway project governance is via the Council’s Executive. 2017 2025
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
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
Coercive Control: From Literature into Law Arts and Humanities Research Council Research Networking Award 1 April 2023 1 April 2025
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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