Research projects

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Current projects

Title Funder Start date End date
Communication and Creativity AHRC 1 December 2023 30 November 2026
Imagining Technologies for Disability Futures Wellcome Trust Collaborative Award 1 January 2020 31 December 2024
LivingBodiesObjects: Technology and the Spaces of Health Wellcome Trust Research Development Award 1 January 2022 31 December 2024
Interdisciplinary Dialogues in Industry and Literature, 1770-1830 Arts and Humanities Research Council 1 January 2024 31 October 2024
The Society of Authors, 1884-1914: Professional Association and Literary Property Leverhulme Trust 1 October 2020 30 October 2024

Past projects

Title Funder Start date End date
Linked Early Modern Drama Online Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada) Partnership Development Grant. 1 June 2020 1 December 2023
Stigma and Shame? Challenging Menstrual Taboo Through Time Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute 1 October 2022 31 July 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
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
Harold Pinter: Histories and Legacies Arts and Humanities Research Council 1 January 2017 31 December 2019
Predictive Analytics, Identities and Cultures of Prevention 1 March 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