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Title Achieving healthy young minds Funder Economic and Social Research Council Start date 12 January 2018 End date 30 November 3022
Title Routes to Content Funder Screen Industries Growth Network/Research England Start date 1 February 2019 End date 1 January 2099
Title Music and Me Funder Internal Start date 1 January 2025 End date 1 January 2030
Title Work-related Suicide. An International Social Justice Analysis Funder Wellcome Trust Start date 1 February 2025 End date 31 January 2029
Title Inclusive Art for Wicked Problems: Innovating Creative Methods for Systems Change with Learning Disabled Artists and Their Facilitators Funder UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship Start date 1 September 2024 End date 1 September 2028
Title Darwinian Inheritance: Communication and Empire in the Making of a Scientific Dynasty Funder The Leverhulme Trust Start date 1 May 2025 End date 30 April 2028
Title Hope and Homes for Children KTP: Building Accountability to Young People in Youth Focussed Development Funder Innovate UK and the Fraxinus Trust Start date 27 January 2025 End date 26 December 2027
Title Mobilising the Masses: Appeals to Emotion in German Political Writing, 1871–1933 Funder The Leverhulme Trust Start date 1 November 2024 End date 31 October 2027
Title Mapping New Geographies of Cultural Production in Brazil through Pontos de Cultura Funder The British Academy Start date 7 October 2024 End date 6 October 2027
Title 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 Funder The British Academy Start date 16 September 2024 End date 15 September 2027
Title INCLUsive Digital Economy Network+: Exploring how social and digital environments can be built, shaped and sustained to enable all people to thrive Funder Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Start date 1 September 2022 End date 1 September 2027
Title Nationalist polarization and the fight over climate change: how nationalism is shaping the politics of climate skeptics and activists in the US and Canada Funder Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Start date 1 November 2024 End date 14 May 2027
Title Women, Ageing and Machine Learning on Screen Funder Leverhulme Trust Start date 8 January 2024 End date 31 March 2027
Title Uncoupling Heteropatriarchy in African Feminism: Unmarried Women and Indigenous Knowledges of Gender and Sexuality among the Shona of Zimbabwe Funder British Academy Start date 1 February 2023 End date 1 January 2027
Title Born in Covid Year - Core Lockdown Effects (BICYCLE) Funder ESRC Start date 1 January 2024 End date 1 January 2027
Title What might an effective multiglossic approach to Arabic look like Funder Qatar Foundation International Start date 1 August 2025 End date 31 December 2026
Title BAT Monitoring via novel Assays and smart Nano-electronics (BATMAN) Funder Leverhulme Trust Start date 1 September 2023 End date 31 December 2026
Title MUSICSTREAM: Music Culture in the Age of Streaming Funder 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) Start date 1 December 2021 End date 1 December 2026
Title Enhance Music Funder Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Start date 1 June 2022 End date 30 November 2026
Title Communication and Creativity Funder AHRC Start date 1 December 2023 End date 30 November 2026
Title Shakespeare and Early Modern Proverbial Culture Funder AHRC Start date 1 March 2025 End date 31 August 2026
Title Intake (Multifunctional nanocomposite material for hybrid energy harvesting) Funder EU Horizon Start date 1 September 2022 End date 31 August 2026
Title Film Costumes in Action Funder AHRC/UKRI Start date 1 August 2023 End date 31 July 2026
Title Rheon Lab Ltd KTP Funder Innovate UK/RHEON Labs Ltd Start date 27 January 2025 End date 26 July 2026
Title The Inner Music and Wellbeing Network Funder AHRC Start date 3 June 2024 End date 2 June 2026
Title A Cultural History of Disability in Byzantium, c. 1000-1200 Funder Wellcome Trust Start date 23 May 2022 End date 22 May 2026
Title 'What’s on?' Rethinking class in the television industry Funder AHRC Start date 16 October 2023 End date 15 April 2026
Title My First 1000 Days Funder Private Donor Start date 1 November 2022 End date 1 April 2026
Title Network Plus in Circular Fashion and Textiles – Programme Coordination Team (PCT) Funder UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), National Environment Research Council (NERC), Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Innovate UK (IUK) Start date 1 April 2024 End date 31 March 2026
Title Romain (Robotic inspection and repair of wind turbine composite blade) Funder EU Horizon Start date 1 September 2022 End date 1 February 2026
Title Science for the People: Popular Print and the Making of the Victorian World Funder Leverhulme Trust Start date 1 October 2022 End date 31 January 2026
Title Global Health Histories podcast series Funder Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures Impact Acceleration Account Start date 1 December 2025 End date 31 December 2025
Title Rethinking Holocaust Literature: Contexts, Canons, Circulations Funder AHRC Start date 2 January 2023 End date 31 December 2025
Title Gamifying Urban Change: Willingness to Pay as Key to Citizen-Centred Approaches Funder DARe Flex Fund – UKRI (EPSRC) Start date 6 January 2025 End date 31 December 2025
Title Reproducing Renaissance Drama Funder The British Academy Start date 1 January 2025 End date 30 December 2025
Title Linguistic diversity and accent bias in Higher Education and beyond Funder Michael Beverley Innovation Fellowship Start date 1 September 2024 End date 1 December 2025
Title Deloneliness (Smart textile for monitoring and help to reduce loneliness) Funder EPSRC Start date 2 May 2022 End date 1 November 2025
Title Project CREATE - Creating Research Ecologies to Advance Transdisciplinary lEarning: Arts-based programs and the study of adolescent loneliness Funder UKRI Start date 1 January 2023 End date 31 October 2025
Title Public Service Media in the Age of Platforms (PSM-AP) Funder 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. Start date 1 November 2022 End date 31 October 2025
Title The Return of the Repressed: Sexuality Discourse in Hausa Digital Prose Fiction Funder The British Academy Start date 1 May 2025 End date 31 October 2025
Title Mediated climate change politics: the epistemology and performance of contested digital truth claims Funder AHRC Start date 1 October 2023 End date 1 October 2025
Title Hematopolitics: Blood Donation and Contested Belonging in East Asia Funder Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Start date 1 October 2023 End date 30 September 2025
Title Animal Desire: A Theory of Desire and Practical Rationality Funder Leverhulme Trust Start date 1 October 2022 End date 30 September 2025
Title Colonial subjects and citizens in the French (Internal) Resistance Funder Office National des Combattants et des Victimes de Guerre (France) Start date 1 March 2020 End date 1 September 2025
Title Co-creating guidelines for the use Q-BEx for language screening Funder ESRC Impact Acceleration (via LSSI) Start date 1 September 2024 End date 31 August 2025
Title From Lab to Screen: A Response to AI’s Threat to the Media Localisation Industry Funder AHRC’s Impact Acceleration Account Start date 1 March 2025 End date 31 August 2025
Title Re-imagining Relationships with Urban Nature Funder Internal funder Start date 18 October 2024 End date 31 July 2025
Title Dental Histories: Towards a Digital Museum Funder Research England Enhancing Research Culture Fund Start date 1 September 2024 End date 31 July 2025

Past projects

Title 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 Funder BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant Start date 1 June 2022 End date 1 June 2025
Title ‘Self-worth as a community asset: co- authoring burlesque’s protected and deregulated spaces as good practice’ Funder AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) Start date 1 April 2024 End date 31 March 2025
Title Revolutionising Waterless Textile Dyeing Funder Innovate UK Start date 1 October 2023 End date 31 March 2025
Title Of Comradeship and Sisterhood: A Political History of 'Die Gleichheit', 1891-1917 Funder Leverhulme Foundation Start date 1 April 2022 End date 31 March 2025
Title Characterizing the effects of hearing loss and hearing aids on the neural code for music Funder Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit Start date 1 March 2022 End date 28 February 2025
Title Centre for Cultural Value Funder AHRC Start date 1 October 2019 End date 31 January 2025
Title Sex and the Sacred: Queering Black Performing Arts in Cape Town, South Africa Funder UKRI Start date 1 February 2023 End date 31 January 2025
Title Non-formal education for youth-led change Funder AHRC Start date 1 January 2024 End date 31 January 2025
Title LivingBodiesObjects: Technology and the Spaces of Health Funder Wellcome Trust Research Development Award Start date 1 January 2022 End date 31 December 2024
Title Imagining Technologies for Disability Futures Funder Wellcome Trust Collaborative Award Start date 1 January 2020 End date 31 December 2024
Title Empowering Women: Co-Producing Histories of Women and Energy in the Home Funder AHRC Start date 1 January 2023 End date 30 December 2024
Title Congruence Engine Funder Arts and Humanities Research Council Start date 14 November 2021 End date 13 November 2024
Title Interdisciplinary Dialogues in Industry and Literature, 1770-1830 Funder Arts and Humanities Research Council Start date 1 January 2024 End date 31 October 2024
Title Newcomers in the City: Reading Japanese and Chinese Literary Modernism in the Inter-war Period Funder Japan Foundation Endowment Committee Start date 1 July 2024 End date 30 September 2024
Title Sudan revolution archive: songs, chants and poems of the 2019 Sudanese revolution Funder BA/Leverhulme Start date 1 October 2021 End date 31 August 2024
Title Smart Multifunctional textile with printed electronics to promote healthy ageing in musculoskeletal conditions Funder Innovate UK Start date 1 December 2022 End date 31 August 2024
Title Martin Thomas Memorial Art Project Funder Head of School discretionary funds Start date 2 October 2023 End date 31 August 2024
Title Re-archiving the Individual: British Army Officers, 1790-1820 Funder Arts and Humanities Research Council Start date 1 August 2022 End date 31 July 2024
Title Chasing Status: The Sustainability of the Freelance Translation Profession in the United Kingdom Funder BA/Leverhulme Small Grant Start date 1 August 2023 End date 31 July 2024
Title How variable is speech, how reliable are single recordings? Assessing the medium-term dynamics of speech through iterative data collection Funder British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Start date 4 July 2022 End date 1 July 2024
Title Computational Agent Responsibility Funder Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Start date 31 January 2022 End date 30 June 2024
Title The Western Indian Ocean in the First Millennium CE Funder British Academy/Wolfson Fellowship Start date 31 March 2020 End date 30 June 2024
Title Abuse in Religious Settings Funder Arts and Humanities Research Council Start date 2 January 2022 End date 31 May 2024
Title Group thinking: new foundations Funder European Union Start date 3 January 2019 End date 29 February 2024
Title God and Human Speech: A Planning Grant in Comparative Science-Engaged Theology Funder John Templeton Foundation Start date 1 August 2022 End date 31 December 2023
Title GPs Reaching Out Work (GROW) Funder NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) School for Primary Care Research Start date 1 November 2022 End date 14 December 2023
Title Stigma and Shame? Challenging Menstrual Taboo Through Time Funder Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute Start date 1 October 2022 End date 31 July 2023
Title Frederic Forster's Mourning Warehouse and the disappearing trade in female mourning wear in Leeds, UK 1849-1923 Funder Leeds Museums and Galleries/Cultural Institute Cross Disciplinary Innovation Fund Start date 1 April 2022 End date 31 July 2023
Title Feminist Horror Cinema Funder Arts and Humanities Research Council Start date 1 February 2022 End date 31 July 2023
Title Digital Explorations: Opening the Medieval Manuscript Fragments from the Ripon Cathedral Library Funder UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Research England Start date 1 February 2023 End date 31 July 2023
Title Music for Girls: Women's Knowledge Cultures of Popular Music Funder Arts and Humanities Research Council Start date 1 February 2022 End date 31 July 2023
Title The circulation of Spanish books and their impact on English drama, 1604–1625 Funder The Leverhulme Trust Start date 1 August 2020 End date 31 July 2023
Title Vital Circulations: A framework for understanding social dynamics in and beyond a pandemic Funder White Rose University Consortium Collaboration Fund Start date 1 July 2021 End date 30 June 2023
Title Polyester Infinity: Carbon Dioxide-based Polyester Dyeing and Recycling in a Textile Circular Economy Funder John Lewis PLC Start date 16 May 2022 End date 31 May 2023
Title The Shiloh Project Funder Arts and Humanities Research Council Start date 8 January 2019 End date 31 March 2023
Title Sexuality and Religion Network in East Africa Funder AHRC and GCRF/Newton Consolidation Account Start date 1 February 2020 End date 31 March 2023
Title Impact Acceleration Account 2019 Funder Economic and Social Research Council Start date 4 January 2019 End date 31 March 2023
Title UK-China Song of the Female Textile Workers: past, present and the future Funder Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) - UKRI Start date 15 February 2022 End date 15 March 2023
Title Tackling antimicroibal resistance (AMR) in schools Funder Arts and Humanities Research Council, ESRC Acceleration Impact funding Start date -- End date 1 March 2023
Title Maternal mortality in East Africa Funder Global Challenges Research Fund; University of Leeds Economic and Social Research Council Impact Acceleration Account Start date 1 February 2018 End date 31 January 2023
Title Extinction as cultural heritage? Exhibiting human-nature entanglements with extinct and threatened species Funder Arts and Humanities Research Council Start date 2 January 2019 End date 31 January 2023
Title The Sacred Landscapes of Medieval Monasteries: An inter-disciplinary study of meaning embedded in space and production Funder Arts and Humanities Research Council Start date 2 January 2019 End date 1 January 2023
Title Crime, Punishment and Colonial Soldiers Funder Gerda Henkel Foundation Start date 1 January 2021 End date 31 December 2022
Title Developing a youth-leadership programme for deaf children in, and beyond, South Africa Funder AHRC Start date 1 February 2021 End date 30 September 2022
Title Instrumentalising Electronic Sound, 1945-75 Funder British Academy Start date 2 September 2019 End date 10 September 2022
Title Evaluation of the impact of the Leeds Story Buses on children's reading skills and their home learning environment Funder Libraries Connected Start date 1 June 2022 End date 31 August 2022
Title Autism in Theology Funder Blueprint 1543 Start date 10 January 2021 End date 30 August 2022
Title Psychopathology and religious experience: could someone be experiencing a mental illness and having a religious experience at one and the same time? Funder Science-Engaged Theology, New Visions in Theological Anthropology, John Templeton Foundation Start date 1 January 2021 End date 31 July 2022
Title The Buddhist Retreat Project: Tracing the contours of the sacred and secular in contemporary British Buddhism Funder British Sociological Association Start date 8 January 2020 End date 21 July 2022
Title SPARKLE: Sustaining Practice Assets for Research, Knowledge, Learning and Engagement Funder Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Start date 10 January 2022 End date 9 July 2022
Title Social Photography Research Group Funder Economic and Social Research Council Start date 15 January 2021 End date 30 June 2022
Title God and the Book of Nature Funder John Templeton Foundation (US) Start date 9 January 2019 End date 31 May 2022
Title Reform and Clerical Authority: Comparative Perspectives, c. 1000-1200 Funder Leverhulme Trust; Internal funding Start date 1 October 2016 End date 21 May 2022
Title The Tim Hetherington collection and conflict imagery network Funder Arts and Humanities Research Council Start date 1 July 2020 End date 1 May 2022
Title Religion and Extinction Network Funder Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Start date 9 March 2018 End date 31 March 2022
Title GCRF Sexuality and Religion Network in East Africa Funder Arts and Humanities Research Council Start date 2 January 2020 End date 31 March 2022
Title The politics of religious infrastructure: Christian and Muslim urban worlds in Africa Funder British Academy Start date 15 September 2018 End date 14 March 2022
Title Meta-Alethic Expressivism: A New Theory of Thinking and Saying What is True Funder British Academy Start date 9 January 2018 End date 28 February 2022
Title Making the Science(s) of Coal: the changing role of miners and savants, 1660–1880 Funder Royal Society Start date 1 March 2022 End date 4 February 2022
Title Tales of Sexuality and Faith: The Ugandan LGBT Refugee Life Story Project Funder British Academy Start date 1 April 2019 End date 30 November 2021
Title COVID-19: Impacts on the cultural industries and implications for policy Funder AHRC/UKRI Start date 1 September 2020 End date 30 November 2021
Title Language and Language Use Funder European Union Start date 9 January 2019 End date 14 October 2021
Title Sacred Queer Stories: The Ugandan LGBT Refugees Life Story Project Funder British Academy Start date 1 April 2019 End date 30 September 2021
Title Pastoral Care, Literary Cure and Religious Dissent: Zones of Freedom in the British Atlantic (c. 1630-1720) Funder AHRC Start date 12 February 2020 End date 30 September 2021
Title GCRF Development Awards: The hidden peace-builders Funder Arts and Humanities Research Council Start date 7 January 2019 End date 31 July 2021
Title Electrifying Women: Understanding the Long History of Women in Engineering. Funder AHRC Follow-on funding scheme Start date 1 June 2019 End date 31 March 2020
Title Death in Early Modern Venice Funder Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), British Academy/Leverhulme Trust, I Tatti: The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies Start date 24 January 2011 End date 31 July 2019
Title Leeds Russian Centre Funder Internal funder Start date 6 December 2011 End date 12 December 2018
Title Cultures of Intelligence: Military Intelligence Services in Germany, GB, and the USA, 1855-1947 (Britain, 1918-1947) Funder Arts and Humanities Research Council Start date 1 November 2012 End date 30 June 2016
Title Men, Masculinity and Maternity in Britain, from the 1950s to the Present Funder University of Leeds Arts Engaged Fellowship Start date 1 October 2012 End date 30 April 2016
Title Agents of Future Promise: The ideological use of children in culture and politics (Britain and France, c. 1880-c. 1950) Funder Arts and Humanities Research Council Start date 1 October 2014 End date 30 September 2015
Title Soldiers and soldiering in Britain, c.1750 to 1815 Funder Arts and Humanities Research Council Start date 1 July 2010 End date 30 December 2011
Title Transforming the Cultural & Heritage Sector’s Data Infrastructure: A pilot study to establish a cultural data observatory Funder ESRC Start date 1 July 2024 End date 30/09/2025 (3 month no-cost extension approved)
Title Talking about things Funder Internal – IAA Fund Start date 1 September 2024 End date 01/9/2026
Title ORCIT Funder European Commission-funded project Start date 1 July 2020 End date ongoing
Title My Castle Gateway Funder ESRC IAA and City of York Council My Castle Gateway started as a collaboration between the City of York Council and Helen Graham and Phil Bixby with support and funding for activities from the University of Leeds’ Leeds Social Science Institute. Since 2019 City of York Council has funded My Future York’s engagement activities. Wider Castle Gateway project governance is via the Council’s Executive. Start date 2017 End date 2025
Title Hidden Histories of Environmental Science partnership seed fund Funder UK Research and Innovation Start date 27/08/2021 End date 06/09/2021
Title Ethical Dating Online Funder Partly internally funded for an event Start date 14 February 2023 End date Ongoing
Title echome: a wearable technology for sound and movement interaction [please note echome is all low fonts] Funder ESRC, Healthy Ageing Catalyst Award; Michael Beverley Innovation Fellowship; Participatory Research Grant, Research England Start date 1 August 2019 End date Ongoing
Title Alone against Secularisation? Gender identity in Anglican and Catholic women (England-Spain, 1960-2015) Funder This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement. Start date 1 September 2019 End date 7 December 2021