Research projects

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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
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
Love Letters and Erotic Letters: Antiquity and Beyond Riksbankens Jubileumsfond: The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences (for the first conference, 2018) 2018 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