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Current projects

Title	Funder	Start date	End date
The Senses and the Meanings of Modernity in East Asia	Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Grant LCS Strategic Research and Development Grant	01 June 2018	31 December 2099
What is History on Film? The Case of Italian Cinema 1911-2010	Internally funded	1 January 2015	31 December 2099
The Cultural Life of Money and Finance	Internally funded	1 October 2020	31 December 2025
Moving Mountains: Memory, Identity, and the Geological Imaginary after Landslide Disasters	AHRC, British Council, Newton Fund	1 January 2018	1 December 2024

Past projects

Title	Funder	Start date	End date
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
Laughter from the Grassland: Humour and Comedy in Amdo Tibet	Internally funded	1 January 2013	1 June 2021
Hematopolitics: A Comparative Study of Reciprocity and Exclusion in the Blood Economy	Wellcome Trust	1 June 2020	31 May 2021
Framing the Lyric Subject Matter: Prose Headings in Italian Books of Poetry (c.1450-c.1650)	Humboldt Fellowship	1 November 2019	30 April 2021
Heritage with and without the State	Internally funded	1 September 2017	1 January 2020
Parameters & Practice: A Year of Tasks for Creative Collaboration	Internally funded	1 October 2018	30 September 2019
Suicide Voices: Neoliberal Globalisation and Workplace Trauma	AHRC	1 January 2017	30 June 2018
Soft Power, Cinema and the BRICS	AHRC	1 December 2015	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
Screening European Heritage: History on Film, the Heritage Industry and Cultural Policy	AHRC	1 February 2013	31 December 2013
Middlebrow culture in Europe 20th/21st centuries	Internally funded	1 January 2014	Ongoing
Family Sagas in World Literatures and Audio-Visual Cultures: Reimagining Nations Across the Globe	UoL / BCLA	2017	2017
Exploring Diversity in an Interstitial Urban Locale: The LGBTQ Community of Ceuta	Institute of Ceutan Studies	1 February 2022	28 February 2023
EStages.UK. Spanish theatre in United Kingdom (1982-2019)	Marie Skłodowska-Curie (Individual Fellowship), Horizon 2020, European Commission. Grant agreement ID: 797942	2019	2023
Dostoevsky Now	Internally funded	2016	2016