Research projects

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Current projects

Title Funder Start date End date
Achieving healthy young minds Economic and Social Research Council 12 January 2018 30 November 3022
A zero-sum game? Exploring a both-and approach to biological disorder and religious experience in relation to Christians who experience psychosis and/or mania The British Academy 16 September 2024 15 September 2027
Uncoupling Heteropatriarchy in African Feminism: Unmarried Women and Indigenous Knowledges of Gender and Sexuality among the Shona of Zimbabwe British Academy 1 February 2023 1 January 2027
God, Language and Diversity: Spiritual Flourishing in Neurodiverse and Multilingual Communities John Templeton Foundation 1 March 2024 30 November 2026
Science for the People: Popular Print and the Making of the Victorian World Leverhulme Trust 1 October 2022 31 January 2026
Animal Desire: A Theory of Desire and Practical Rationality Leverhulme Trust 1 October 2022 30 September 2025
Sex and the Sacred: Queering Black Performing Arts in Cape Town, South Africa UKRI 1 February 2023 31 January 2025
LivingBodiesObjects: Technology and the Spaces of Health Wellcome Trust Research Development Award 1 January 2022 31 December 2024

Past projects

Title Funder Start date End date
Congruence Engine Arts and Humanities Research Council 14 November 2021 13 November 2024
Computational Agent Responsibility Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council 31 January 2022 30 June 2024
Abuse in Religious Settings Arts and Humanities Research Council 2 January 2022 31 May 2024
Group thinking: new foundations European Union 3 January 2019 29 February 2024
God and Human Speech: A Planning Grant in Comparative Science-Engaged Theology John Templeton Foundation 1 August 2022 31 December 2023
Impact Acceleration Account 2019 Economic and Social Research Council 4 January 2019 31 March 2023
The Shiloh Project Arts and Humanities Research Council 8 January 2019 31 March 2023
Sexuality and Religion Network in East Africa AHRC and GCRF/Newton Consolidation Account 1 February 2020 31 March 2023
Extinction as cultural heritage? Exhibiting human-nature entanglements with extinct and threatened species Arts and Humanities Research Council 2 January 2019 31 January 2023
Autism in Theology Blueprint 1543 10 January 2021 30 August 2022
Psychopathology and religious experience: could someone be experiencing a mental illness and having a religious experience at one and the same time? Science-Engaged Theology, New Visions in Theological Anthropology, John Templeton Foundation 1 January 2021 31 July 2022
The Buddhist Retreat Project: Tracing the contours of the sacred and secular in contemporary British Buddhism British Sociological Association 8 January 2020 21 July 2022
Social Photography Research Group Economic and Social Research Council 15 January 2021 30 June 2022
God and the Book of Nature John Templeton Foundation (US) 9 January 2019 31 May 2022
Religion and Extinction Network Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 9 March 2018 31 March 2022
GCRF Sexuality and Religion Network in East Africa Arts and Humanities Research Council 2 January 2020 31 March 2022
The politics of religious infrastructure: Christian and Muslim urban worlds in Africa British Academy 15 September 2018 14 March 2022
Meta-Alethic Expressivism: A New Theory of Thinking and Saying What is True British Academy 9 January 2018 28 February 2022
Making the Science(s) of Coal: the changing role of miners and savants, 1660–1880 Royal Society 1 March 2022 4 February 2022
A European AI On Demand Platform and Ecosystem (AI4EU) EU H2020 1 January 2019 31 December 2021
Tales of Sexuality and Faith: The Ugandan LGBT Refugee Life Story Project British Academy 1 April 2019 30 November 2021
Language and Language Use European Union 9 January 2019 14 October 2021
Sacred Queer Stories: The Ugandan LGBT Refugees Life Story Project British Academy 1 April 2019 30 September 2021
GCRF Development Awards: The hidden peace-builders Arts and Humanities Research Council 7 January 2019 31 July 2021
Inclusive Robotics for a better Society (INBOTS) EU H2020 1 January 2018 31 December 2020
Imprecise Probability Models of Rational Belief Marie Curie Fellowship (European Commission) 1 August 2018 31 July 2020
Rejuvenation Research 1 March 2015 1 May 2020
Electrifying Women: Understanding the Long History of Women in Engineering. AHRC Follow-on funding scheme 1 June 2019 31 March 2020
Science-engaged theology John Templeton Foundation 1 September 2017 1 September 2019
Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence British Academy/Leverhulme Trust 1 September 2018 30 May 2019
Scientific realism reinvigorated: How to think about scientific progress and knowledge in the 21st century BA 1 January 2018 31 December 2018
The risks of childbirth in historical perspective (2016-2018) Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 15 September 2016 30 September 2018
Mental Suffering, the Experience of Beauty and Well-Being John Templeton Foundation. Philosophy Department, St Louis University. 1 September 2016 1 June 2018
Scientific Realism and the Quantum Arts and Humanities Research Council 1 March 2015 21 May 2018
The idea, context, framing and realities of 'Sikh radicalisation' in Britain CREST (Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats) 1 September 2016 1 November 2017
The Nature of Representation European Research Council 1 November 2012 31 October 2017
The State of Science: Governing Knowledge of Nature in Victorian Britain 2020 2023
Rethinking Patent Cultures Arts and Humanities Research Council
Reimagining a True Social Order Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 1 January 2016 30/04-/2017
Persons as Animals: Understanding the Animal Bases of Agency, Perceptual Knowledge and Thought The Arts and Humanities Research Council; Leadership Fellows Scheme. 1 February 2015 1 July 2016
Leading Minds - 2013 -
International Development and Intellectual Property: The Impact of Seed Exchange and Replacement on Innovation among Small-Scale Farmers in India Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 2016 September 2017
Innovating in Combat: Telecommunications and Intellectual Property in the First World War Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 2016 2016
Hidden Histories of Environmental Science partnership seed fund UK Research and Innovation 27/08/2021 06/09/2021
Harewood’s Electricity Story  The Culture Capital Exchange 2016 2016
Ethical Dating Online Partly internally funded for an event 14 February 2023 Ongoing
The politics of religious infrastructure: Christian and Muslim urban worlds in Africa The British Academy 1 September 2018 1 September 0021
Meta-Alethic Expressivism: A New Theory of Thinking and Talking about Truth British Academy 1 September 2018 31 August 0021