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.
Histories of Nobody: The Pauper Body in England and Wales, 1750-1914
- Leverhulme (£46,541)
- 2023 - 2024
- Prof Elizabeth Hurren
The First Hindu Nationalist: A New Biography of Bal Gangadhar Tilak, 1856–1920
- Leverhulme (£199,052)
- October 2022 - September 2025
- Dr Prashant Kidambi
Menopaurus: Words Women Use to Talk About Menopause
- ESRC IAA (£3,987)
- December 2021 - March 2022
- Dr Helen Foster
Story Sharing: Developing a Wellbeing Approach to Gathering Midlife Narratives
- Wellcome Trust ISSF (£8,688)
- October 2021 - April 2022
- Dr Helen Foster
Diversity, Identity and Social Change in South Wales, 1730-1830
- British Academy (£6,100)
- September 2021 - August 2023
- Dr Angela Muir
The Imagined Village: A Digital Community of Dignity and Diversity
- Midlands Innovation, Inclusive Transformation Fund (£7,500)
- 2021 - 2023
- Prof Elizabeth Hurren
Colonial and Post-colonial History: enhancing knowledge, capacity and networks in the Caribbean, sub Saharan Africa and South Asia
- British Academy (£9,856)
- March 2021 - March 2022
- Professor Clare Anderson
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 - December 2025
- Dr Erin Thomas Dailey
Silence in the Archives: an oral history of menopause
- Heritage Lottery Fund (£10,000)
- January 2020 - May 2021
- Dr Helen Foster
War, travel and cultural exchange: William Gell and the British in Iberia, 1750-1830
- The Leverhulme Trust (£222,380)
- October 2020 - September 2023
- Professor Roey Sweet
Enhancing UK flood resilience: past floods, present threats, future responses
- Arts and Humanities Research Council (£25,010)
- January 2020 - December 2022
- Dr Richard Jones
Princely Cities: Towards a New Urban History of South Asia, c. 1860-1960
- British Academy (£7,930)
- January 2019 - June 2021
- Dr Prashant Kidambi and Dr Kate Boehme
Worked in Stone (WiST): Completing the Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture
- Arts and Humanities Research Council (£54,880)
- February 2018 - January 2023
- See the Worked in Stone website
- Professor Jo Story
Conflict, Welfare and Memory during and after the English Civil Wars, 1642-1710
- Arts and Humanities Research Council (£545,088)
- June 2017 - December 2021
- See the Conflict, Welfare and Memory during and after the English Civil Wars website
- Dr Andrew Hopper
Unlocking Our Sound Heritage: Save our Sounds
- Heritage Lottery Fund via the British Library (£528,924)
- September 2018 - November 2021
- See the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage website
- Dr Sally Horrocks
MNS Disorders in Guyana's Jails, 1825 to the present day
- Economic and Social Research Council (£1,007,672)
- September 2018 - July 2022
- See the MNS Disorders in Guyana's Jails website
- Professor Clare Anderson
Alcohol, Race and Ethnicity: The United States, Mexico and the Wider World, 1845-1940
- Arts and Humanities Research Council (£191,976)
- September 2019 - August 2022
- Dr Deborah Toner
The death penalty in British Overseas Territories since 1965
- The British Academy (£4,796)
- July 2018 - June 2021
- Dr James Campbell
Post-War urban reconstruction in China, 1937-1958
- Arts and Humanities Research Council (£200,818)
- September 2018 - September 2021
- See the Post-war urban reconstruction in China website
- Dr Toby Lincoln