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To see what type of research the Trust funds, take a look at grant holders’ accounts of their projects below.
Arts Scholarships
Man previewing film camera
Arts Scholarships 2021
London Film School
Future filmmakers at London Film School
Summer residencies in 2018. Photographer: Kirsten McTernan.
Arts Scholarships 2021
National Youth Arts Wales
Youth arts training for all
Early Career Fellowships
Four Black actors on a stage emulating the Peak District scenery.
Early Career Fellowships 2022
University of Manchester
Dr Gemma Edwards
This is England: staging race, class and the...
Drone captured image of blue water-filled crevasses on a glacier
Early Career Fellowships 2022
University of Durham
Dr Tom Chudley
How do crevasses transfer water to the bed of the...
Emeritus Fellowships
Folds in the Nilgiri mountain range showing north-south crustal shortening.
Emeritus Fellowships 2022
University of Oxford
Professor Michael Searle
Structural and metamorphic evolution of the Nepal...
Temple of Solomon in São Paulo, Brazil.
Emeritus Fellowships 2022
University of Cambridge
Dr David Lehmann
The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God: a...
Former Schemes
Former Scheme 2015
Queen’s University of Belfast
Artist in Residence Grants, Dr Tancredi Caruso
BeSA – Belowground visions of life: Soil makes Art
Former Scheme 2015
University of Oxford
Artist in Residence Grants, Professor Tonia Vincent and Miss Francesca Corra
Healing hands: the art and science of arthritis
International Fellowships
Black and white image of older man holding a dumbbell at a gym.
International Fellowships 2022
University of Essex
Dr Jamie Tallent
Corticospinal responses to different modes of...
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Antikensammlung, inv. Sk 2
International Fellowships 2021
University of St Andrews
Dr Laura Moretti
Object history and museum display. The...
Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships
Photo of Dr Imani Strong, Dr Marina Bazhydai, Nuni Jorgensen and Benedetta Zocchi
Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships 2023
Doctoral Scholar case studies
Doctoral Scholars over the years
Plan of the village of port sunlight
Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships 2020
Professor Steven Miles    
Manchester Metropolitan University
The playful city
Leverhulme International Professorships
Leverhulme Research Centres
Autonomous Kuka mobile robot
Leverhulme Research Centres 2015
University of Liverpool
Professor Andy Cooper
Leverhulme Research Centre for Functional...
LCFI Image
Leverhulme Research Centres 2015
University of Cambridge
Dr Stephen Cave
Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence
Major Research Fellowships
Manuscript of Andrew of Wyntoun’s fifteenth-century Original Chronicle
Major Research Fellowships 2020
University of St Andrews
Professor Rhiannon Purdie
Mapping medieval Scots literature, beginnings to...
The Panorama Museum Frankenhausen, on site of one of the battlefields.
Major Research Fellowships 2020
University of Oxford
Professor Lyndal Roper    
The German Peasants’ War, 1524–1525
Philip Leverhulme Prizes
Paula Koelemeijer holding a blue ball shaped like earth
Philip Leverhulme Prizes 2021
Royal Holloway, University of London
Dr Paula Koelemeijer
What makes a city move?
Women folding bags
Philip Leverhulme Prizes 2021
Leeds Beckett University
Dr Mohamad Hafeda
Negotiating the temporalities of borders and...
Research Fellowships
1905 and mid-twentieth century copies of Carreño’s Manual
Research Fellowships 2022
University of Aberdeen
Professor Patience Schell
Carreño’s Manual: manners, society, history
Drawing of a neighbourhood
Research Fellowships 2022
University College London
Dr Richard Taws
Charles Meryon’s graphic risk
Research Leadership Awards
A visualisation of quantum many-body scars
Research Leadership Awards 2019
University of Leeds
Dr Zlatko Papić
New paradigms of order amidst quantum chaos
Research Leadership Awards 2012
University of St Andrews
Dr Gordon Florence
Taking inspiration from nature: a novel approach...
Research Project Grants
Cuban-trained soldiers of the Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army in Luanda, Angola
Research Project Grants 2019
Professor JoAnn McGregor, University of Sussex
Professor Jocelyn Alexander, University of Oxford
Global soldiers in the Cold War: making southern...
A section of ‘The Rise of Gawain’ (© British Library Board, British Library MS Cotton Faustina B VI, fo. 32r).
Research Project Grants 2019
University of Cambridge
Dr Rosalind Love and Dr Francesco Marzella
Latin Arthurian literature and the rise of fiction
Study Abroad Studentships
Women pumping and collecting water from a village well, Liberia, West Africa.
Study Abroad Studentships 2022
Liberia and Senegal
Ms Chantal Victoria Bright
Water security, peace and fragility in Liberia:...
Russian dumplings called pelmeni
Study Abroad Studentships 2022
The Netherlands
Miss Vlada Predelina
Mapping pelmeni
Visiting Professorships
Niagara Suspension Bridge in 1859
Visiting Professorships 2021
Professor Felix Driver, Royal Holloway, University of London
Professor Joan M Schwartz, Queen’s University, Canada
Photographs, archives and the geographical...
Portrait of Professor Maria Helena Pereira Toledo Machado
Visiting Professorships 2021
Professor Maria Helena Pereira Toledo Machado, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Professor Emily West, University of Reading
Enslaved women in the Atlantic world: comparative...
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