Current research grants
Details of current research grants and projects in the School of History, Politics and International Relations are listed below.
Details of some of our previous grants and completed research projects.
Fortune Telling and Astrology in Early Modern South Asia (1700-1900)
- Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship 2024-2027
- Dr Heena Heena
Making Useful Subjects: Penal Labour in Britain and its Empire (1770-1895)
- Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship 2024-2027
- Dr Kiran Mehta
Between Diaspora and the 'Land of Israel': Jewish Dress, Migration and Belonging, 1880s-1948
- Arts and Humanities Research Council (£250,000)
- February 2023 - January 2025
- See the project website
- Dr Svenja Bethke
The First Hindu Nationalist: A New Biography of Bal Gangadhar Tilak, 1856–1920
- Leverhulme (£199,052)
- October 2022 - September 2025
- Dr Prashant Kidambi
Convicts, Creolization and Cosmopolitanism in the British and French empires
- Leverhulme Trust (£371,541)
- May 2021 - April 2025
- Professor Clare Anderson
- See the Convicts, Creolization and Cosmopolitanism in the British and French empires website
Domestic Slavery and Sexual Exploitation in the Households of Europe, North Africa, and the Near East, from Constantine to c. AD 900/ AH 287
- European Research Council (£1,477,206)
- January 2021 - September 2026
- Dr Erin Thomas Dailey