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| Title | Funder | Start date | End date |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Cultural History of Disability in Byzantium, c. 1000-1200 | Wellcome Trust | 23 May 2022 | 22 May 2025 |
| Revolutionising Waterless Textile Dyeing | Innovate UK | 1 October 2023 | 31 March 2025 |
| ‘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 |
| 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 |