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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
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
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
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
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
Strangers: Migration and Multilingualism in Early Modern London Leverhulme Trust 1 August 2024 31 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
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
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
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
Revolutionising Waterless Textile Dyeing Innovate UK 1 October 2023 31 March 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

Past projects

Title Funder Start date End date
Interdisciplinary Dialogues in Industry and Literature, 1770-1830 Arts and Humanities Research Council 1 January 2024 31 October 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
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
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
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
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
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