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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
Thai Politics @ Leeds	Internally funded	2007	31 December 2099
Love Letters and Erotic Letters: Antiquity and Beyond	Riksbankens Jubileumsfond: The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences (for the first conference, 2018); Patrum Lumen Sustine Foundation, Switzerland; and University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy (for the second conference, 2025)	1 January 2018	31 December 2030
Documentary Films and Buddhist Performing Arts : innovative ways of engaging with Buddhist teachings and rethinking gender roles in modern Thai Buddhism	Multiple funders	1 January 2013	31 December 2025

Past projects

Title	Funder	Start date	End date
The Joust as Performance: Pas d’armes and Late Medieval Chivalry	AHRC	1 October 2021	30 September 2022
Concepts of ‘honour’ in Islam and Muslim communities, and their impact on Muslim women: perceptions, praxis and new modalities	WRoCAH	1 October 2016	30 November 2021
Masculinity through the lens of power and violence in post-WW2 British and French children’s literature	Excellence Scholarship (LCS)	1 October 2018	1 October 2021
Hematopolitics: A Comparative Study of Reciprocity and Exclusion in the Blood Economy	Wellcome Trust	1 June 2020	31 May 2021
The Other City: Social Exclusion and Care in Urban Japan	Multiple funders	1 May 2009	31 August 2020
Vital Circulations: Bodily Fluids in Bioeconomy	Internal	1 September 2019	31 July 2020
Yemen in Conflict: Popular literary heritage as expression of conflict and tool for conflict resolution	British Academy	1 February 2019	30 June 2020
Les Femmes s'entêtent: Feminism, writing, art and film 1975-2015	Internally funded	1 January 2015	31 December 2019
Soft Power, Cinema and the BRICS	AHRC	1 December 2015	31 May 2018
Troubling the National Brand and Voicing Hidden Histories: Historical Drama as a tool for International Development and Community Empowerment	AHRC	1 November 2016	31 May 2018
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
Middlebrow culture in Europe 20th/21st centuries	Internally funded	1 January 2014	Ongoing
EStages.UK. Spanish theatre in United Kingdom (1982-2019)	Marie Skłodowska-Curie (Individual Fellowship), Horizon 2020, European Commission. Grant agreement ID: 797942	2019	2023