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Current projects

Title Funder Start date End date
Routes to Content Screen Industries Growth Network/Research England 1 February 2019 1 January 2099
INCLUsive Digital Economy Network+: Exploring how social and digital environments can be built, shaped and sustained to enable all people to thrive Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council 1 September 2022 1 September 2027
Nationalist polarization and the fight over climate change: how nationalism is shaping the politics of climate skeptics and activists in the US and Canada Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada 1 November 2024 14 May 2027
Women, Ageing and Machine Learning on Screen Leverhulme Trust 8 January 2024 31 March 2027
MUSICSTREAM: Music Culture in the Age of Streaming This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, in the form of an Advanced Research Grant awarded to Professor David Hesmondhalgh, at the University of Leeds (Grant agreement no.101020615) 1 December 2021 1 December 2026
Film Costumes in Action AHRC/UKRI 1 August 2023 31 July 2026
'What’s on?' Rethinking class in the television industry AHRC 16 October 2023 15 April 2026
Public Service Media in the Age of Platforms (PSM-AP) PSM-AP is supported by UKRI, United Kingdom; FWO, Belgium; DAFSHE, Denmark; and NCN, Poland, under CHANSE ERA-NET Co-fund programme, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, under Grant Agreement no 101004509. 1 November 2022 31 October 2025
Mediated climate change politics: the epistemology and performance of contested digital truth claims AHRC 1 October 2023 1 October 2025
Exploring the Democratic Role of News Media During Covid-19: Triangulating Digital News Outputs, Journalists’ Professional Reflections, and Audiences’ Experiences in the UK and Germany BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant 1 June 2022 1 June 2025

Past projects

Title Funder Start date End date
Generic Visuals in the News: the role of stock photos and simple data visualizations in assembling publics AHRC 1 October 2020 1 October 2023
Feminist Horror Cinema Arts and Humanities Research Council 1 February 2022 31 July 2023
Music for Girls: Women's Knowledge Cultures of Popular Music Arts and Humanities Research Council 1 February 2022 31 July 2023
The Tim Hetherington collection and conflict imagery network Arts and Humanities Research Council 1 July 2020 1 May 2022
Communicating the Pandemic: Improving Public Communication and Understanding Arts and Humanities Research Council 1 August 2020 1 August 2021
Defining Freedom of the Press Arts and Humanities Research Council 1 May 2018 31 May 2020
Improving Deliberation, Improving Copyright (Follow-on Project) Arts and Humanities Research Council 1 May 2019 30 April 2020
Information in Climate Change Adaptation in rural Kenya: a pilot field study Global Challenges Research Fund 1 February 2019 1 August 2019
Histories of Women in the British Film and Television Industries, 1933-89 1 January 2014 31 December 2018
Virtual Holocaust Memoryscapes Arts and Humanities Research Council & Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council ‘Next Generation of Immersive Experiences’ 1 November 2017 1 November 2018
Development assistance and independent journalism in Africa and Latin America: a cross-national and multidisciplinary research network Arts and Humanities Research Council, Department for International Development 1 November 2016 31 October 2018
Digital Community Workspaces: delivering impact through public library and archive networks YARN 1 February 2017 31 March 2018
Visualising the UK General Election 2015 TV Debates Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council 1 November 2013 30 June 2017
Seismic Cities Natural Environment Research Council; Global Challenges Research Fund 8 January 2017 31 March 2017
Improving Deliberation, Improving Copyright Arts and Humanities Research Council 1 November 2016 30 November 2016
Digital Data Analysis, Public Engagement and the Social Life of Methods Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council 1 February 2013 1 July 2013
Communicating Copyright: An Exploration of Copyright Discourses in the Digital Age Economic and Social Research Council 1 June 2011 30 November 2012
Social Issues in Primetime Television: Production Processes and Audience Responses Economic and Social Research Council 1 January 2009 31 December 2010
Strike Stories - Opening the archives on the miners' strike 1984-85 AHRC/BBC Knowledge Exchange Partnership September 2007 June 2009
New Uses of Screens in Post-Lockdown Britain Research England - Policy Support Fund 2 December 2021 Ongoing