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Grants in focus

To see what type of research the Trust funds, take a look at grant holders’ accounts of their projects below.
Arts Scholarships
Arts Scholarships 2018
Magpie Dance
Promoting pathways for learning disabled dancers
Arts Scholarships 2018
Leeds Conservatoire
Leeds Conservatoire – a leading multidisciplinary...
Early Career Fellowships
Early Career Fellowships 2020
University of Oxford
Dr Akanksha Awal    
Politics of anger: wilful women and the police in...
Early Career Fellowships 2020
Durham University
Dr Stephen Burrell
The climate crisis as masculine violence?...
Emeritus Fellowships
Emeritus Fellowships 2020
University of Oxford
Professor Robert Gildea
Class, community and family: the 1984–1985 miners...
Emeritus Fellowships 2020
University of Westminster
Professor Marion Roberts
Urban design and the urban night
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
International Fellowships 2021
University of St Andrews
Dr Laura Moretti
Object history and museum display. The...
International Fellowships 2021
Birkbeck, University of London
Professor Leslie Topp
Shadow spaces and disrupted lives: a new reading...
Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships
Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships 2020
Professor Steven Miles    
Manchester Metropolitan University
The playful city
Leverhulme International Professorships
Leverhulme Research Centres
Leverhulme Research Centres 2015
University of Liverpool
Professor Andy Cooper
Leverhulme Research Centre for Functional...
Leverhulme Research Centres 2015
University of Cambridge
Dr Stephen Cave
Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence
Major Research Fellowships
Major Research Fellowships 2020
University of St Andrews
Professor Rhiannon Purdie
Mapping medieval Scots literature, beginnings to...
Major Research Fellowships 2020
University of Oxford
Professor Lyndal Roper    
The German Peasants’ War, 1524–1525
Philip Leverhulme Prizes
Philip Leverhulme Prizes 2020
University of Oxford
Professor Heather Harrington
Applied mathematics: algebraic systems biology...
Philip Leverhulme Prizes 2019
University of Oxford
Dr Fiona McConnell    
Hidden geographies of diplomacy
Research Fellowships
Research Fellowships 2021
University College London
Dr Erin Goeres
What really happened in 1066?
Research Fellowships 2021
Birkbeck, University of London
Professor Kate Retford
Cutting and pasting: making print rooms in...
Research Leadership Awards
Research Leadership Awards 2012
University of St Andrews
Dr Gordon Florence
Taking inspiration from nature: a novel approach...
Research Leadership Awards 2012
Newcastle University 
Professor Clare Bambra
Local health inequalities in an age of austerity...
Research Project Grants
Research Project Grants 2018
The Wallace Collection
Dr Helen Jacobsen
Royal French furniture: Jean-Henri Riesener and...
Research Project Grants 2017
University of Aberdeen
Dr Kate Britton
PleistoHERD: integrative approaches to Late...
Study Abroad Studentships
Study Abroad Studentships 2020
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Dr Deborah Madden
Víctimas, violencia y violación: sexual violence...
Study Abroad Studentships 2019
University of Antwerp
Mr Samuel Grinsell
A history of estuary ports and the North Sea, c....
Visiting Professorships
Visiting Professorships 2020
Professor Kristin Bluemel, Monmouth University, New Jersey
Professor Matthew Grenby, Newcastle University    
Illustrating rural modernity: Thomas Bewick,...
Visiting Professorships 2020
Professor Nader El-Bizri, American University of Beirut
Professor Giles Gasper, Durham University
Revolutionising optics: Ibn al-Haytham and...
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