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

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

James Scorer

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

Laure Humbert

  • ‘Colonial and Transnational Intimacies: Medical Humanitarianism in the French external Resistance, 1940-1945 (AHRC Early Career) 
  • Laure's research profile

Eithne Quinn

Alexia Yates

Charlotte Wildman

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

Anastasia Valassopoulos

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

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)