Our research projects
There are a variety of research projects being undertaken within our school. Some of this research activity can be found below or by using the University's research explorer.
Research project websites
- Abusing God: Reading the Bible in the #MeToo Age
- ARCHER: A Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers
- Childhood, Education and Youth in Modern Japan
- Cross-Language Dynamics
- Cultures of Anti-racism in Latin America
- Dating Connections App
- Double Helix History
- Everything is Connected
- Flamenco after Franco
- Microscopic Records
- Multi-Story Water - Celebrating Shipley and its waterways
- My Country, a Journey
- Poor theatres: theatre, performance, poverty
- Prosecuting Rap
- Racism and anti-racism in Brazil: The case of indigenous people
- Religion and Minority
- Rise of the Rentier
- Site, Performance, and Environmental Changes
- Sleeping Well
- The Art of Peace
- The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective
- The Dialects of Kurdish
- The lexical semantics of lexical categories
- The Michael Kahan Kapelye (MKK)
- The Role of Pragmatics in Cyclic Language Change
- Trajectories of Reform
- Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers
- Voces de resiliencia
Recent and ongoing successful research grants
Recent and ongoing successful research grants, and the researchers involved, include:
Liam Harte
- ‘Conflict, Memory and Migration: Northern Irish Migrants and the Troubles in Great Britain’ (AHRC Standard)
- Liam's research profile
Hannah Baker
- ‘Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers’ (AHRC Standard)
- Hannah's research profile
James Scorer
- ‘Comics and Race in Latin America’ (AHRC Standard)
- James' research profile
Ana Carden-Coyne
- ‘Understanding Displacement Aesthetics and Creating Change in the Art Gallery for Refugees, Migrants and Host Communities’ (AHRC Standard)
- Ana's research profile
Patrycja Strycharczuk
- TarDiS: Targets and Dynamics in Speech (AHRC Early Career)
- Patrycja's research profile
Laure Humbert
- ‘Colonial and Transnational Intimacies: Medical Humanitarianism in the French external Resistance, 1940-1945 (AHRC Early Career)
- Laure's research profile
Eithne Quinn
- ‘Prosecuting Rap: Criminal Justice and UK Black Youth Expressive Culture’ (AHRC Leadership Fellow)
- Eithne's research profile
Alexia Yates
- ‘Rise of the Rentier: France and the Making of Financial Modernity, 1830-1930’ (AHRC Leadership Fellow)
- Alexia's research profile
Charlotte Wildman
- ‘Challenging Domesticity in Britain, 1890-1990’ (AHRC Research Networking Grant)
- Charlotte's research profile
Ben Harker
- ‘Confronting alienation: bringing theatre to “areas of low cultural engagement” (AHRC Research Follow-on Grant)
- Ben's research profile
Jean-Marc Dreyfus
- 'Disclosing post-Holocaust and deportation exhumations: the example of the French national search mission for corpses, 1945-1958’ (British Academy Senior Research Fellowship)
- Jean's research profile
Stephen Todd
- ‘Commentary on Lysias speeches 12-23’ (British Academy Senior Research Fellowship)
- Stephen's research profile
Anastasia Valassopoulos
- ‘Palestine in the Popular Imagination’ (British Academy Senior Research Fellowship)
- Anastasia's research profile
Chantal Conneller
- ‘Pioneers at the edge: Magdalenians of the Channel River Valley’ (British Academy Small Research Grant)
Jonathan Mair
- ‘Moral education in practice: Taiwanese Buddhist short-term renunciation’ (British Academy Small Research Grant)
Andrew Koontz-Garboden
- ‘The lexical semantics of lexical categories’ (European Research Council)
- Andrew's research profile
Paul Oldfield
- ‘Hidden Histories: Documenting the Past in Medieval Puglia (1130-1250)’ (Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship)
- Paul's research profile
Alexia Yates
- ‘Property and the Making and Unmaking of French Empire, 1870-1970’ (Leverhulme Trust Philip Leverhulme Prize)
- Alexia's research profile
Erica Baffelli
- 'Travel in Tokugawa Period Japan (1603- 1868): Identity, Nation and Social Transformation (Marie Sklodwska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship)
- Erica's research profile
Tim Peake
- Sexual health in antiquity - evidence, influence, identity’ (Wellcome Trust SEED Award)