Research projects

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Current projects

Title Funder Start date End date
Imagining Technologies for Disability Futures Wellcome Trust Collaborative Award 1 January 2020 31 December 2024
The Society of Authors, 1884-1914: Professional Association and Literary Property Leverhulme Trust 1 October 2020 30 October 2024
Linked Early Modern Drama Online Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada) Partnership Development Grant. 1 June 2020 1 December 2023
The circulation of Spanish books and their impact on English drama, 1604–1625 The Leverhulme Trust 1 August 2020 31 July 2023
Corridor Talk: Conservation Humanities and the Future of Europe’s National Parks AHRC and DFG. 1 February 2020 30 July 2023

Past projects

Title Funder Start date End date
Dialect and Heritage project National Lottery Heritage Fund, University of Leeds Footsteps Fund and other alumni donations plus partner museum contributions. 1 January 2020 31 March 2023
Spoken Language, Standards and Inequality in Schools Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 1 September 2021 1 February 2023
Remembering what matters': Nature, culture and autism The Wellcome Trust; The John and Lorna Wing Foundation 1 October 2019 31 October 2022
The uses of the past: History and social memory in Northern Ireland 1980-20 Leverhulme - Major Research Fellowship 15 September 2020 15 September 2022
The Dissenting Atlantic: Archives and Unquiet Libraries, 1776-1865 Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship 1 September 2020 1 September 2022
Experiments in Land and Society, 1793-1833 AHRC 1 September 2019 31 August 2022
Imagining Posthuman Care AHRC 1 January 2018 31 May 2022
Literature Project Award 2021 Arts Council Ireland / An Chomhairle Ealaíon 1 January 2021 31 January 2022
Pastoral Care, Literary Cure and Religious Dissent: Zones of Freedom in the British Atlantic (c. 1630-1720) AHRC 12 February 2020 30 September 2021
The Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research (NNMHR) The Wellcome Trust 1 May 2018 30 April 2021
Bibliotherapy for Refugees and Asylum Seekers Internal: Arts Engaged Impact and Innovation Support Fund 2012; Leverhulme ISSF Small Grant 2016. 1 January 2010 31 December 2020
Opening Up the Cecil Roth Collection Rothschild-Hanadiv 2 January 2019 2 November 2020
(S)worn State(s) Ireland's Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and the Arts Council 1 September 2019 1 October 2020
The Complete Works of John Marston Arts and Humanities Research Council 1 September 2015 30 September 2020
The Thomas Nashe Project AHRC 1 October 2015 1 September 2020
Animist Engagements: Creativity, Ecology and Indigeneity. Sadler Seminar Series 2019/20 LAHRI 1 October 2019 1 June 2020
Rejuvenation Research 1 March 2015 1 May 2020
The Effect of Literary Genre on Authorial Style: A Computational Stylistics Analysis of English Renaissance Plays, Poems, and Narrative Prose British Academy/JISC Digital Research in the Humanities Scheme 1 January 2019 31 March 2020
Predictive Analytics, Identities and Cultures of Prevention 1 March 2017 31 December 2019
Harold Pinter: Histories and Legacies Arts and Humanities Research Council 1 January 2017 31 December 2019
Genetics and Biocolonialism in Contemporary Literature and Film 1 October 2015 1 July 2019
MOTHERBABYHOME 1 January 2015 19 April 2019
Transnational Holocaust Memory Leverhulme Trust / AHRC / BA / UoL 1 January 2015 1 December 2018
Letterpress Printing: Past, Present, Future Arts and Humanities Research Council 1 July 2017 31 October 2018
Engineering the Imagination: Disability, Prostheses and the Body Royal Society 2 October 2017 1 October 2018
'Shh! Encounters in the Unquiet Library' Seminar Series Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute 1 January 2017 1 January 2018
Augmenting the Body: Disability, Care and the Posthuman The Wellcome Trust 1 January 2017 31 December 2017
Representation of transnational human trafficking in present-day news media, true crime, and fiction AHRC/ESRC 1 September 2016 1 September 2017
Home, Crisis and the Imagination LAHRI 1 January 2012 10 January 2015
Home, Community and Belonging Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute 1 January 2012 1 January 2015
Whose Voices? - -
The Sheridan Project The Leverhulme Trust 2016 2020
The Extinction Network - -
The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson - -
Representing Postcolonial Disaster: Conflict, Consumption, Reconstruction Arts and Humanities Research Council - -
Photography and Atrocity - -
Ottoman Pasts, Present Cities: Cosmopolitanism and transcultural memories Arts and Humanities Research Council 2012 2014
Leeds Animal Studies Network Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Cultures, the Leeds Animal Studies Network (LASN) 2016 -
Land Lines: British Nature Writing, 1789-2014 Arts and Humanities Research Council 2017 2019
Imagining the Place of Home Arts and Humanities Research Council, LAHRI
Hearts of Oak: Caring for British Woodlands - -
Georgic The British Academy - -
From Subjects to Citizens Arts and Humanities Research Council - -
Environmental Humanities for a Concerned Europe (ENHANCE) Marie Skłodowska Curie, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Deutsches Museum, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen - -
Creative Communities 1750-1830 Arts and Humanities Research Council 2012 2014
Coercive Control: From Literature into Law Arts and Humanities Research Council Research Networking Award 1 April 2023 1 April 2025
British Romantic Writing and Environmental Catastrophe Arts and Humanities Research Council - -
Arctic Encounters HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) Joint Research Programme II Grant 2013 2016
US Slavery and Yorkshire Anti-Slavery: Forgotten Narratives from the Leeds Archive 17 November 0016 25 November 0016