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
What is History on Film? The Case of Italian Cinema 1911-2010 Internally funded 1 January 2015 31 December 2099
Bridging Worlds: Brazilian Cultural Thought in Global Perspective Internal (LCS) 1 September 2025 30 August 2026
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
Moving Mountains: Memory, Identity, and the Geological Imaginary after Landslide Disasters AHRC, British Council, Newton Fund 1 January 2018 1 December 2024
INDIGENIA: Generative AI for Indigenous Futures and ‘Digital Good Living’ Digital Good Network (ESRC funding, University of Sheffield) 1 September 2023 30 April 2024
Fate and Choice in Edgar Reitz's Heimat Internally funded 1 October 2018 30 September 2022
Beyond Tomorrow. German Science Fiction and Utopian Thought in the 20th and 21st Century Internally funded 1 January 2014 31 December 2020
Les Femmes s'entêtent: Feminism, writing, art and film 1975-2015 Internally funded 1 January 2015 31 December 2019
Parameters & Practice: A Year of Tasks for Creative Collaboration Internally funded 1 October 2018 30 September 2019
Community Arts Against Antibiotic Resistance in Nepal (CARAN) AHRC / MRC GCRF 1 September 2018 31 March 2019
The Hercules Project: A hero for all ages AHRC-supported 1 September 2016 31 December 2018
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
Using Film to Examine Heritage, Identity and Global Citizenship: supporting the work of the Bautzen Memorial to Engage New Audiences AHRC 1 September 2015 31 December 2015
Using digital tools in heritage AHRC 1 March 2014 31 July 2016
Theatricality and Interrelations between Art, Film and Theatre AHRC 1 January 2017 1 July 2018
Screening European Heritage: History on Film, the Heritage Industry and Cultural Policy AHRC 1 February 2013 31 December 2013
Post-Work: Framing Labour in Post Industrial Europe AHRC 2017 2018
ORIGEM: Queering Indigeneity in Northeastern Brazil Internal funders 1 March 2019 Ongoing
Family Sagas in World Literatures and Audio-Visual Cultures: Reimagining Nations Across the Globe UoL / BCLA 2017 2017
AIAI: Artificial Intelligence, Art and Indigeneity Internal funders 1 January 2023 Ongoing