Grant listings

Dr Nika Adamian
University of Aberdeen
Feature-based attentional selection in dynamic vision
 
Dr Godwin Aleku
University of Cambridge
Addressing disfavoured imine equilibrium in water for clean drug synthesis

Dr Anne Baar
University of Hull
The changing shape of estuaries

Dr Prateek Bansal
Imperial College London
Transit network resilience: a new approach to causal inference 
 
Dr Richard Bono
University of Liverpool
Earth’s ancient magnetic shield and the implications for life
 
Dr William Brittain
Durham University
Sustainable and green catalysis using stapled peptides and peptidomimetics
 
Dr Alexandra Burgess
University of Nottingham
ArchiCrop: casting light on the architecture of crop yield
 
Dr Adam Carnall
University of Edinburgh
The metal contents of massive galaxies across cosmic time
 
Dr Chaona Chen
University of Glasgow
Equipping artificial agents psychologically-derived dynamic facial expressions
 
Dr Nguyen Dang
University of St Andrews
Constraint-based automated generation of synthetic benchmark instances
 
Dr Lauren Davies
University of Cambridge
A palaeo-approach to reduce volcanic ash dispersal model uncertainties
 
Dr Natalie Farrell
University of Manchester
Weakening Earth’s crust: defining stress-driven reaction enhancement in feldspar
 
Dr Roberto Fernández
University of Hull
Natural sculptures carved by melting and dissolution 
 
Dr Jeremy Froidevaux
University of Stirling
From bats to bees: effects of artificial electromagnetic fields on biodiversity
 
Dr Catherine Hale
University of Edinburgh
Studying the influence of dark matter environments on galaxy evolution over time
 
Dr Ali Ismael
Lancaster University
Quantum-interference-enhanced thermoelectric materials
 
Dr Arne Jacobs
University of Glasgow
How to lose your gut: the genetic mechanisms of gut remodelling in lampreys
 
Dr Theodoros Kapourniotis
University of Warwick
Building trust in quantum simulators
 
Dr Devesh Mistry
University of Leeds
The physics of 3D printed liquid crystal elastomer composites
 
Dr Elias Nkiaka
University of Sheffield
Enhancing water security in global drylands under environmental change
 
Dr Dhecha Nopchinda
University College London
mm-wave circuit-aware spectrally-efficient communication systems (mm-CASES)
 
Dr Diana Catalina Palacio Lozano
University of Warwick
Toward greener biofuel: a new method to reveal structural insights into bio-oils
 
Dr Elsa Panciroli
University of Oxford
Growing up fast: uncovering the evolutionary origins of mammal growth
 
Dr James Robinson
Lancaster University
Fisheries transitions for future coral reefs
 
Dr Michael Rule
University of Cambridge
Stable control of voluntary action: closing the loop on sensorimotor plasticity
 
Dr James Ryalls
University of Reading
The little things that run a polluted world
 
Dr Simon Rydin Myerson
University of Warwick
From Diophantine equations to dispersive PDEs
 
Dr Michael Scott
University of East Anglia
Half life: interactions between haploid selection and life histories
 
Dr Jeffrey Thompson
Natural History Museum
Some things change, some stay the same: morphological diversity in sea urchins
 
Dr Juan Sebastian Totero Gongora
University of Sussex
Route to artificial intelligence (AI) control of micro-comb lasers
 
Dr Tilman Troester
University of Edinburgh
Cosmology in the non-linear and baryonic universe
 
Miss Anastasiia Vasylchenkova
University College London
Modelling of ultra wide band transmission
 
Mr Gang Wang
Heriot-Watt University
Does hybrid use of subsurface rocks hold the key to full-scale decarbonisation?
 
Dr Thomas Wilkes
University of Sheffield
Unlocking the potential of volcanic SO₂ measurements
 
Dr Yikai Xu
Queen’s University Belfast
Directing competitive adsorption on nanoparticles

Dr Lindsay Aqui
University of Westminster
The awkward partner myth: the lives and work of the British in Brussels, 1973–1986
 
Dr Katherine Bank
University of Birmingham
Music and visual culture in early modern England
 
Dr Francesca Brooks
University of York
Divine abstraction: medieval modern insular networks of faith and culture
 
Dr Claire Burridge
University of Sheffield
Crossroads: the evolution of early medieval medicine in global and local contexts
 
Dr Eleanor Chan
University of Manchester
False relations: music and the rhetoric of dissonance in early modern Europe

Dr Jessica Chiba
University of Birmingham
Shakespeare’s untranslatability

Dr Isobelle Clarke
Lancaster University
Understanding the linguistic repertoires across anti-science narratives
 
Dr Federica Coluzzi
University of Warwick
Dante’s transnational female public in the long nineteenth century, 1789–1921
 
Dr Tom Cuthbertson
Newcastle University
Environmental selves: film, autobiography and the natural world
 
Dr Dan Degerman
University of Bristol
Mortifying consciousness: Mental disorder, self-stigma and powerlessness
 
Dr Michelle Devereaux
University of Warwick
Gender, trauma and Cavellian scepticism in contemporary film and television
 
Dr Sarah Dunstan
Queen Mary, University of London
Crises of man: contesting race and humanity from Great Depression to Cold War
 
Dr Gabriel Dupre
University of Keele
The philosophical significance of the competence/performance distinction
 
Dr Richard Fallon
University of Birmingham
Borderline geoscience and transatlantic literature in the age of lost worlds
 
Dr Victoria Beatrix Maria Fendel
University of Oxford
Giving gifts and doing favours: unlocking Greek support-verb constructions
 
Dr Bethan Fisk
University of Edinburgh
Transimperial Blackness: slavery and freedom in Jamaica & New Granada, 1655–1810
 
Dr Jonathan Gardner
University of Edinburgh
Reimagining British waste landscapes
 
Dr Dorota Gaskins
King’s College London
Metaphor production in young speakers of English and Polish
 
Dr Sean Geddes
University of Oxford
Forms of continuance: time and writing in Renaissance literature
 
Dr Barbara Gentili
Cardiff University
The ‘modern’ soprano: performing the donna nova in early twentieth-century Italy
 
Mr George Green
University of Oxford
Determining the flow of gold across ancient Asia, Africa and Europe, 200–700 CE
 
Dr Sacha Hepburn
Birkbeck, University of London
Indispensable workers: historicising child labour in Africa
 
Dr Stephen Hewer
University of Liverpool
Minorities under English rule: Gaels in Ireland and Flemish in England, 1150–1300
 
Dr Daniel Hodgkinson
University of Oxford
Visions of life: the creation of postcolonial screen cultures in Africa
 
Dr Andrew Horn
University of St Andrews
‘Sacred drama’: art, faith and performance in Borromeo’s Milan
 
Dr Tomos Hughes
University of Warwick
Shadowing the master class: proslavery in the Black radical imagination
 
Dr James Hutton
University of Edinburgh
Rules of the mind: Kant’s inescapable ethics of belief
 
Dr Jasmine Jagger
Roehampton University
‘Radical rhymesters’: the female comic spirit in Victorian verse
 
Dr Hannah Jeffery
University of Edinburgh
Beauty in the struggle: interior mural art of the Black freedom movement 
 
Dr Lyndsey Jenkins
Queen Mary, University of London
A woman’s place is in the house: Labour women MPs 1945–1979
 
Dr Charlotte Jones
Queen Mary, University of London
Anarchist aesthetics: radical politics and the novel
 
Dr Anna-Maria Kanta
University of York
“Communication fever”: West German art during the Cold War
 
Dr Alexandra Kviat
University of Leicester
A blast from the past? The resurgence of board games in the post-digital age
 
Dr Fabrice Langrognet
University of Oxford
Negotiating asylum at European airports, 1979–1993
 
Dr James Lewis
University of Birmingham
Interpersonal normativity: the sources of ethics and aesthetics
 
Dr Helena Lopes
University of Bristol
Chinese interactions with European colonialism in 1940s South China
 
Dr Steven Lydon
University of Oxford
Beyond life and death: medicine in German literary romanticism
 
Dr Patrick McGhee
Durham University
The anatomy of atheism in the Atlantic world, c. 1600–1800
 
Dr Danielle McLean
University of Oxford
Volcanic ash for synchronising archaeological and climate records in NW Africa
 
Dr Francesca Modini
University of Warwick
Soundtracks of identity: the politics of music in Roman Greece
 
Dr Rachel Murray
University of Sheffield
Strange attachments: marine life in modern and contemporary literature
 
Dr Monica Nicolaides Ramsey
University of Cambridge
Anthropogenic wetlands and the long transition to agriculture in the Levant
 
Dr James Norrie
University of Birmingham
Re-coining the eleventh century: value, religion and gender in Italy
 
Dr Jacob Olley
University of Cambridge
Debating music in the Ottoman press, 1876–1928
 
Dr Sara Parks
University of Nottingham
The intersection of misogyny and anti-Judaism at the parting of the ways
 
Dr Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey
University of Sheffield
The orchestra in Afghanistan
 
Dr Lucy Powell
University of Oxford
‘Plumy people’: birds and the routes of empire in the eighteenth century
 
Dr Namratha Rao
University College London
Early modern sympathies: magic, materiality, morality
 
Dr Matthew Raven
University of Nottingham
Earls and transnational kingship in the medieval Plantagenet empire, c. 1300–1400
 
Mr Alexander Roberts
University of Oxford
The boundaries of possibility
 
Dr Katie Robertson
University of Birmingham
Increasing entropy: from black holes to the direction of time 
 
Dr Gareth Roddy
Northumbria University
Enchantment and affect in the borderscapes of Britain and Ireland, c. 1880–1979
 
Dr Ruggero Sciuto
University of Oxford
D’Holbach: the absent author at the heart of the European Enlightenment 
 
Dr Isabel Seguí
University of Edinburgh
Women’s nonfiction filmmaking in Peru, 1970–2020
 
Dr Adam Simmons
Nottingham Trent University
Africa, Africans and Portuguese knowledge strategies, c. 1415–1550
 
Mr Il-Kweon Sir
University of Cambridge
A literary history of Greek and Latin lyric metres
 
Dr Robert Stagg
University of Birmingham
Inventing blank verse: an alternative history
 
Dr Clare Stainthorp
Queen Mary, University of London
Reading the freethought movement: atheism, agnosticism and secularism, 1866–1907
 
Dr Sophie Stevens
University of East Anglia
Latin American women dramatists as artists, activists and agents of change
 
Dr Ana Suzina
Loughborough University
Youth designing the future: media usage and visions of development in the Amazon
 
Dr Emilie Taylor-Pirie
University of Birmingham
Medical research and the poetic imagination: a study of Sir Ronald Ross
 
Dr Daniel Vanello
University of Warwick
Shaping our moral identity: how identity and moral values motivate moral action
 
Dr Charlotte Van Regenmortel
University of Liverpool
Labour in the Hellenistic age: workers, wages and markets
 
Dr Anais Waag
University of Lincoln
Female royal rulership in theory and practice: queens regnant, 1109–1328
 
Dr Dominic Walker
University of Cambridge
Underwriting the market: a literary genealogy of modern economic thought
 
Dr Xiaona Wang
University of Warwick
From falling bodies to orbiting planets: a new history of gravity, c. 1200–1800
 
Dr Claire Wanless
University of Edinburgh
Quaker activism: the role of shared practice in action on climate change
 
Dr Harry Warwick
University of Warwick
Pipework: energy, environment and dystopia in post-1960 Anglo-American culture
 
Mr William White
University of York
The pursuit of peace in revolutionary Britain and Ireland, 1637–1660
 
Dr Antonia Wimbush
University of Liverpool
Representing the BUMIDOM: French Caribbean migration in literature and culture
 
Dr Rachel Winchcombe
University of Manchester
Environment, emotion and diet in the early Anglo-American colonies, 1570–1660

Dr Tom Young
University of Warwick
Shaped on stone: lithography and the foundations of the modern world
 
Dr Natalia Anna Makaryk Zajac
University of Manchester
Royal women, cultural exchanges and Rus’ ecumenical marriages, c. 1000–1250
 
Dr Doriane Zerka
University of Cambridge
Women as transcultural agents in premodern European literature
 
Dr Edward Zychowicz-Coghill
University of Cambridge
A cultural history of wealth and its distribution in early Islam, 750–950 CE

Dr Akanksha Awal
University of Oxford
Politics of anger: wilful women and the police in contemporary India
 
Mr Bolaji Balogun
University of Sheffield
Boundaries of Europeanness: ‘race–migration nexus’ in Poland
 
Dr Mareike Beck
King’s College London
Asset-based inequality in the age of asset management
 
Dr Natalia Buitron
University of Oxford
Indigenous sovereignties: a study of political plurality in Ecuadorian Amazonia
 
Miss Olimpia Burchiellaro
University of Westminster
 Re-thinking global homocapitalism: LGBT rights, corporate power and hierarchy
 
Dr Stephen Burrell
Durham University
The climate crisis as masculine violence? Engaging men in caring for the planet
 
Dr Adam Carter
University of Sheffield
Laughing through life?: Humour’s role for families facing challenging times
 
Dr Thomas Cowan
University College London
Automated property: digitising land through the everyday state
 
Dr Rachael Durrant
University of Sussex
Eco-feminist migrations and women’s civil labour on the land
 
Dr Kelly Fagan Robinson
University of Cambridge
Communication faultlines on the frontlines
 
Dr Tiffany Fairey
King’s College London
Imaging peace: the role of images and photography in building peace and dialogue
 
Dr Lorenzo Feltrin
University of Birmingham
Workers between precarity and environmental crisis in Italy and Tunisia
 
Dr Mike Foden
University of Sheffield
Everyday culinary innovation and the transition to reduced meat diets
 
Dr Susan Forde
University of York
Spatial agency and spaces of peace and conflict in Cape Town, South Africa
 
Dr Maya Goodfellow
University of Sheffield
Centrism beyond methodological whiteness: racism, the centre ground and Britain
 
Dr Ioanna Gouseti
London School of Economics and Political Science
Gendered harassment in public and the potential for a zero-tolerance culture
 
Mr Jaakko Heiskanen
University of Cambridge
Placing the nomad in international relations
 
Dr Dyi Dieuwertje Huijg
Roehampton University
ADHD women: resisting a neuronormative world
 
Dr Pantea Javidan
University of Warwick
Corroboration of popular and legal cultures in politics of belonging
 
Dr Lyn Johnstone
Royal Holloway, University of London
Queer space, place and politics in postcolonial African states
 
Dr Susann Kassem
University of Oxford
Spatial ordering and political subjectivity in south Lebanese borderlands
 
Dr Sarah Kunz
University of Bristol
The citizenship industry: commodified mobility and global inequalities
 
Dr Hugh Lamarque
University of Edinburgh
The Causes and consequences of border closures in Africa: a comparative analysis
 
Dr Christopher Long
University of Sussex
Biotechnology and global health security: the fight against infectious diseases 
 
Dr Barbara Piotrowska
University of Oxford
Bureaucracy in the transition to democracy: testing a theoretical assumption
 
Dr Cosmin Popan
Manchester Metropolitan University
Doing gig work: social implications of platform-based food deliveries
 
Dr Enora Robin
University of Sheffield
Off-grid cities: the financial mediations of life off the grid in African cities

Dr Alice Rudge
University College London
The ethics of human–plant relationships: oil palms in the Anthropocene
 
Dr Alexandra Sexton
University of Sheffield
Protein radicals: power, place and promise in alternative protein futures
 
Dr Dishil Shrimankar
Royal Holloway, University of London
Building cross-ethnic coalitions in divided societies: local candidates in India
 
Dr Sanne van der Kleij
University of Birmingham
Understanding the benefits of fiction for skilled reading and social cognition
 
Dr Laurence Williams
University of Sussex
Contested connections: critically examining the emerging controversy over 5G 
 
Dr Amanda Wilson
University of Warwick
Restoring restorative justice: rational reconstruction via identificatory guilt
 
Dr Polly Withers
London School of Economics and Political Science
Neoliberal visions? Gendering consumer culture and its resistances in the Levant
 
Dr John Zerilli
University of Oxford
The use of artificial intelligence in government and official decision-making
               

Dr Fabrizio Alberti 
University of Warwick 
Engineering a yeast cell factory for production of high value meroterpenoids

Dr Francesca Arrigo 
University of Strathclyde 
Don’t look back – non-backtracking walks in complex networks

Dr Daniel Barrios-O’Neill 
University of Exeter 
Towards a systematic understanding of habitat structure and trophic interactions

Dr Christopher Cooney 
University of Sheffield 
Sexual signal divergence and the cycle of speciation

Dr Gabrielle Davidson 
University of Cambridge
Interactions between microbiome, cognition and behaviour in a wild population

Dr Bart de Nijs 
University of Cambridge 
Nanoplasmonic ultra-confinement of light for sensing, activation and reactions

Dr Claire Donnelly 
University of Cambridge 
Domain wall dynamics in three dimensional magnetic nanostructures

Dr Liam Dougherty 
University of Liverpool 
Understanding the link between mate choice and the environment

Dr Lloyd Fletcher 
University of Southampton 
Imaging impact: image-based methods for dynamically testing bone

Dr Heye Freymuth 
University of Cambridge 
Fluid flow in the mantle beneath volcanic arcs: timescales and mechanisms

Dr Wiebke Gandhi 
University of Reading 
Learning to expect failure – unravelling dynamic processes in the human brain

Dr Gyorgy Pal Geher 
University of Reading 
Entanglement entropy in quantum spin chains

Dr Susana Gomes 
University of Warwick 
Parameter estimation in macroscopic models for pedestrian dynamics

Dr Samantha Gregory 
Aston University 
Memory enrichment by social context: a virtual reality EEG research project.

Dr Kelly Jakubowski 
Durham University 
Prevalence, features, and retrieval of music-evoked autobiographical memories

Dr Charlotte Kenchington 
University of Cambridge 
Constraining biological diversity in Ediacaran ecosystems

Dr Jaehoon Kim 
University of Warwick 
Embeddings and packings in graphs

Dr Christopher Lancefield 
University of St Andrews 
Unravelling the chemistry that drives lignocellulose degradation in nature

Dr Marjorie Lundgren 
Lancaster University 
Assessing the potential for C2 photosynthesis to boost crop productivity

Mr Christopher Markou 
University of Cambridge 
Artificial intelligence, technological change, and legal evolution

Dr Lucia Marti Prats 
University of Cambridge 
How does alcohol soothe you? Neural and cellular basis of coping

Dr Alice Mason 
University of Warwick 
From encoding to retrieval: how memory drives risky choice

Dr Charlie McTernan 
University of Cambridge 
Controlling the temporal evolution of molecular capsules

Dr Alison Ming 
University of Cambridge 
Capturing the complexity of atmospheric chemistry with mathematics

Dr Paul-Antoine Moreau 
University of Glasgow 
Quantum technologies in high dimension

Dr Jonathan Noel 
University of Warwick 
Hypergraphs limits, percolation and extremal set theory

Dr Oluwafunmilola Ola 
University of Exeter 
Functional nanocomposites as durable electrochemical energy storage devices

Dr Thomas Phillips
Durham University 
Fingerprinting structural inheritance: its styles and expression in rift systems

Dr Ed Pope 
Durham University 
Explaining turbidity current runout distances using field measurements

Dr Jordi Prat Camps 
University of Sussex 
Spatial sound modulation by acoustic metamaterials

Dr Thomas Puschel 
University of Oxford 
This study has teeth: exploring human origins and climate change through time 

Dr Jason Sanders 
University of Cambridge 
Dynamics of the inner Milky Way with Gaia

Dr Sara Sangtarash 
Lancaster University 
Quantum engineering of high-performance molecular-scale thermoelectricity

Dr Joshua Silverstone 
University of Bristol 
Silicon quantum computing: light work with long waves

Dr Audrey Verma 
Newcastle University 
Digital afterlives of nature: online resistance and responses to ecological loss

Dr Yinan Wang 
University of Warwick 
Modelling and aerodynamic control of large and flexible wind turbine

Dr Thomas Whale
Unviersity of Warwick
Untangling chemical and topographical impacts on heterogeneous ice nucleation

Dr Dominic Alford-Duguid 
University of Oxford 
On the epistemic significance of perceptual structure

Dr Caroline Ashcroft 
Queen Mary, University of London 
Technological determinism in Cold War political thought

Dr Michelle Assay (Eshghpour) 
University of Huddersfield 
Shakespeare and censorship: Soviet and post-Soviet music,theatre and film

Dr Matteo Barbato 
University of Birmingham 
Anti-political-establishment ideology in Athenian democracy

Dr Georgina Barker 
University College London 
Classical ‘lesbians’ in the Russian imagination

Dr Caroline Barron Birkbeck 
University of London 
Fake inscriptions and the eighteenth century art market

Dr Doug Battersby 
University of Bristol 
The heart of modernist fiction: 1899–1938

Dr Kavita Bhanot 
University of Leicester 
Beyond the nation: British self and Punjabi (m)other in British Asian literature

Dr Gonul Bozoglu 
Newcastle University 
Living with a hostile history: Greek-Istanbulite memory cultures

Dr Thea Buckley 
Queen’s University Belfast 
South Indian Shakespeares: reimagining art forms and identities 

Dr Andrew Buskell 
University of Cambridge
Counting cultures: the metaphysics of cultural individuality

Dr Lucy Campbell 
University of Warwick 
Epistemological pluralism

Dr William Carruthers 
University of East Anglia 
Making global heritage: Afro-Asianism and the archaeological survey of India

Dr Marta Bianca Maria Celati 
University of Warwick 
The ‘mirror’ of history. prince and tyrant in Italian Renaissance literature

Ms Magdalen Connolly
University of Cambridge
Jewish, Muslim and Christian Middle Arabic folk tales from the Ottoman Period

Dr Arabella Currie 
University of Exeter 
William Golding and the classics

Dr Rachel Delman 
University of York 
Women and the built environment in late medieval England

Dr Polly Dickson 
Durham University 
Reading doodles: From E T A Hoffmann to Oscar Wilde

Dr Lorna Dillon
University of Ulster 
The symbolic in processes of transitional justice: textile art in Latin America

Dr Yuval Evri 
King’s College London 
Between partitions and translations: reviving Andalusian visions in Palestine

Dr Natalie Ferris 
University of Edinburgh 
Technicities of illusion: dynamism and deception in post-war literature 

Dr Matthew Gotham 
University of Oxford 
The semantics and pragmatics of individuation

Dr Laxshmi Greaves 
Cardiff University 
The Rāmāyaṇa in art: the development of epic imagery, fifth to ninth centuries CE

Dr Benjamin Harriman 
University of Edinburgh 
Physics, ethics and the unity of Stoic philosophy

Dr Julia Hartley 
University of Warwick 
West-Eastern encounters: Iran in French Literature, 1829–1908

Dr Florence Hazrat 
University of Sheffield 
Pause for thought: the role of brackets in experiencing Renaissance literature

Dr Siobhan Hearne 
Durham University 
Masculinity and sexuality in the late imperial Russian military, 1890–1917

Dr Ben Holgate 
Queen Mary, University of London 
Money in the digital age: cyber-capital, culture, consumption & world literature

Dr Nick Hughes 
University of Oxford 
Dilemmic epistemology

Dr Katarzyna Kosior 
Northumbria University 
Kingship, elective monarchy and masculinity in Poland–Lithuania, 1573–1733

Dr Matthew Laube 
Birkbeck, University of London 
Sound, violence and the emotions in the Dutch revolt

Dr Yang Liu 
University of Cambridge 
Realistic decision theory

Dr Livia Lupi 
University of Warwick 
The rhetoric of architectural painting in early renaissance Italy

Dr Pippa Marland 
University of Leeds 
The pen and the plough: modern British nature writing and the farm

Ms Noreen Masud 
Durham University 
Speaking flat: aesthetics of flatness in twentieth-century literature

Dr Daniel Matore 
Royal Holloway, University of London 
Contrapuntal modernism: fugal thinking in twentieth-century literature

Dr Onya McCausland 
University College London 
From coal mine waste to landscape painting: new British earths

Dr Megan C. McNamee 
School of Advanced Study, University of London 
Numeracy and representation in medieval Europe

Dr Stephen Millar 
Cardiff University 
Performing paramilitarism: music, conflict, and Ulster Loyalism

Dr Robin Mills 
Queen Mary, University of London 
The Scottish Enlightenment explains the gods, c.1740–c.1830

Dr Nathaniel Morris 
University College London 
Communal militias, Indian autonomy and the Mexican state, 1850 to the present

Dr Francesca Mussi 
Northumbria University 
Truth-telling/story-telling: literary and critical perspectives on Canada’s TRC

Dr Alexa Neale 
University of Sussex 
Black books: the institutional memory of hanging and mercy at the Home Office

Dr Samuel O’Donoghue 
University of Warwick 
The struggle for Holocaust consciousness in Franco’s Spain

Dr Luke O’Sullivan 
King’s College London 
Doubtful truth-telling in early modern France

Dr Maria Pavlova 
University of Warwick 
The renaissance knight: war, nobility and virtue from Pulci to Ariosto, 1461–1532

Dr Emma Payne 
King’s College London 
The evolution of technology and the interpretation of classical sculpture

Dr Alessandra Petrocchi 
University of Oxford 
Encounters with the East: Hindu-Arabic numerals in renaissance Italy

Dr Matthew Phillips 
Royal Holloway, University of London 
Depressive texts: mental well-being and the modern French novel

Dr Benjamin Pope 
University of Manchester 
The oppression of the nobility: town, country and identity in medieval Germany

Dr Theo Reeves-Evison 
Birmingham City University 
Speculative natures: contemporary art and interventionist ecology

Dr Justin Rivest 
University of Cambridge 
The state and the charitable distribution of drugs in Old Regime France

Dr Maria Roca Lizarazu 
University of Birmingham 
Dis-/integration: reimagining togetherness in recent German-language literature

Dr Maria Raquel Rojo Carrillo 
University of Cambridge 
Plainchant in medieval Iberia: from the Old Hispanic rite to the Roman rite

Dr Devani Singh 
University of Oxford 
To the reader: the English preface in print, c. 1475–1623

Dr Giulia Smith 
University of Oxford 
Landscape, identity and belonging in post-imperial Britain

Dr Ian Stewart 
Queen Mary, University of London 
Language and race in British imperial and international thought, 1784–1914

Dr Michael Sugarman 
University of Bristol 
Fluid urbanism: water, inequality and the making of Asia’s port cities

Dr Justine Trombley 
University of Nottingham 
The condemnation of heretical texts in the late middle ages 

Dr Michael Yat Him Tsang 
Newcastle University 
World literature Influences on twentieth-century Chinese and Japanese literary scenes

Dr David Veevers 
Queen Mary, University of London 
Transnational constitutions: Asian governance in a global world, 1600–1750

Dr Jenny Watson 
University of Edinburgh 
Restless earth: landscapes of extra-concentrationary violence after 1945

Ms Callie Hannah Wilkinson 
University of Warwick 
Secrecy and transparency in the English East India Company, 1784–1834

Dr Nicola Williams 
Lancaster University 
Quality of life transplantation: philosophical and policy questions

Dr Yanling Yang 
Loughborough University 
Film co-productions as soft power for the UK and China

Dr Alexandra Abello Colak 
London School of Economics and Political Science 
Systems of urban violence in the Americas

Dr Hanna Baumann 
University College London 
Urban dis/connections: infrastructures of refugee integration in Beirut & Berlin

Dr Carrie Benjamin 
University of Warwick 
Multisensory encounters with whiteness: public space, race and the senses

Dr Josh Bowsher 
Brunel University London 
Accounting for the past: the neoliberal logics of transitional justice

Dr Ekaterina Braginskaia 
University of Bristol 
Minority faith and civil society responses to refugee integration in Britain

Dr Sarah Burton 
City, University of London 
Ambivalence, power, and ‘the cosmopolitan intellectual’

Dr Benjamin Chemouni 
University of Cambridge 
The legacy of rebel organisational culture in post-conflict governance

Dr Licia Cianetti 
Royal Holloway, University of London 
What happened to the multicultural city? Effects of nativism and austerity

Dr Katherine Collins 
University of Oxford 
Knowledge for liberation? The participatory vision of Freire, Fals-Borda, Rahman

Dr Maggie Dwyer 
University of Edinburgh 
Peacekeeping veterans: deployment effects on African soldiers and communities

Dr Cara Jardine 
University of Strathclyde 
Corners of community: exploring the role of the ‘outside’ in prison life

Dr Matthias Kranke 
University of Warwick 
Pitching expertise: how international organisations establish their authority

Dr Don Lee 
University of Nottingham 
Rise of populist parties and assessment of representative democracy in Asia

Dr Jasper Montana 
University of Oxford 
Grappling with governance systems: biodiversity in the UK Overseas Territories

Dr Poorna Mysoor 
University of Oxford 
Achieving copyright balance through the structure of tangible property

Dr Jack Palmer 
University of Leeds 
Zygmunt Bauman and the West: exile, culture, dialogue

Dr Alida Payson 
Cardiff University 
Charity shop country: conviviality and survival in austerity Britain

Miss Juliana Pistorius 
University of Huddersfield 
Operatic migrations: coloniality and adaptation in the ‘new’ South Africa

Dr Uma Pradhan 
University of Oxford 
(Re)-constructing the state: rebuilding schools in post-earthquake Nepal

Dr Robert Pralat 
University of Cambridge 
Technologies of desire: a comparative study of IVF and PrEP

Dr Deborah Ralls 
University of Manchester 
Redefining education for a social solidarity urban economy: becoming relational 

Dr Kombola Ramadhani Mussa
Cardiff University 
Language, mobility and identity among the Zigula (Somali Bantu)

Dr Anne-Line Rodriguez 
Queen Mary, University of London 
EU governmentality of migration and the ethics of Islamic reformism in Senegal

Dr Lindsay Sawyer 
University of Sheffield 
Power, authority and land: an intra-city comparison of urban processes in Lagos

Dr Matthew Thompson 
University of Liverpool 
Reimagining the city: new municipalism and the future of economic democracy

Dr Ophélie Véron 
University of Sheffield 
Is the alternative city a just city? 

Dr Sanne Weber 
University of Birmingham 
Gendering reconciliation: local reintegration from an international perspective

Dr William Wheeler 
University of Manchester 
Seeking asylum in the UK: an ethnography of destitute lives ruled by paper

Ms Anahi Wiedenbrug 
University of Oxford 
Banking for the public interest 

Dr Thorsten Wojczewski 
King’s College London 
Populism in Indian and US foreign policy: the politics of representing the people

Dr Sally Shinan Zhu 
University of Glasgow 
Shifting paradigms of material property relations in cyber-sharing-economies

Dr Konstantin Barylyuk    
University of Cambridge    
High-resolution spatial proteomics of the model apicomplexan Toxoplasma gondii

Dr Martin Benning    
University of Cambridge    
Learning from mistakes: a supervised feedback-loop for imaging applications

Dr Radha Boya    
University of Manchester    
Gas separation with atomically precise designer capillaries

Dr Guillem Carles
University of Glasgow    
Seeing within extended volumes and 3D structures: 3D imaging and applications

Dr Thibaut Charpentier
University of Leeds
Nano-enabled water desalination

Dr Jeongmin Choi
University of Cambridge
Decoding an ancient plant-microbe dialogue: the signalling role of DWARF 14 LIKE (D14L) protein in arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis of rice

Dr George Constable    
University of Bath 
Noise in ecological systems: from individual variation to ecosystem stability

Dr Andrew Crombie
University of East Anglia    
Uncovering novel mechanisms for the microbial regulation of atmospheric methane

Dr Frances Davis    
University of Southampton    
A novel method to characterise the high strain rate properties of soft tissues

Dr Anita Dawes    
Open University    
The physico-chemical properties and aggregation of interstellar dust and ice

Dr Duygu Dikicioglu    
University of Cambridge    
Understanding the beneficial impact on biotechnological processes of mixed culture of multiple microbial species

Dr Tao Ding    
University of Cambridge    
Light-powered plasmonic actuating nanomachines: ANTs

Dr Alexander Duthie
University of Stirling
Biodiversity and ecosystem function in ephemeral patches: a trait-based approach

Dr Lena Grinsted    
Royal Holloway, University of London    
The social life of spiders: evolution of dispersal and group living

Dr Fang Huang    
University of Liverpool    
Exploring the self-assembly and heterologous engineering of bacterial CO₂-fixing machinery

Dr Thomas Hudson    
University of Warwick    
A mathematical study of discrete dislocation dynamics

Dr Anna Kalogirou    
University of East Anglia    
Controlling the complex behaviour of microfluidic flows using surfactants

Dr Jackie Kendrick    
University of Liverpool    
Understanding the frictional behaviour of volcanic rocks and magmas

Dr Peter Keys    
Queen's University Belfast    
The polarimetric properties of waves in the solar atmosphere

Dr Dmitry Kishkinev    
Bangor University    
The disrupting effect of electromagnetic noise on avian magnetic compass sense

Dr Hong Liu    
University of Warwick    
Counting in finite fields, integers and graphs

Dr Marcelo Lozada-Hidalgo    
University of Manchester    
Proton transport through atomically thin interfaces

Dr Duncan Murdock    
Oxford University Museum of Natural History    
The hard parts of the Cambrian explosion

Dr Antonio De Paola
Imperial College London
Game theory applications towards a green and sustainable power network

Dr Steven Parsons    
University of Sheffield
Fundamental astrophysics with white dwarf binaries

Dr Marc Reid    
University of Strathclyde    
Manganese by numbers: a 'chem-tech' toolbox for innovation

Dr Guillaume Schweicher    
University of Cambridge    
Organic semiconductors to enable a new electronics

Dr Victor Soria-Carrasco    
University of Sheffield    
The impact of speciation mode on macroevolutionary dynamics

Dr Juraj Szavits-Nossan    
University of Edinburgh    
Deciphering rules for optimal protein biosynthesis

Dr Peter Wadley    
University of Nottingham    
The domain structure and electrical switching behaviour of antiferromagnets

Dr Tong Zhang
Durham University    
Effective bound for arithmetic line bundles in Arakelov geometry

Dr Noa Zilberman
University of Cambridge
Systems for big data applications: revolutionising personal computing

Dr Jason Allen    
University of Leeds
Witnessing, memory and poetics: trauma and the epic in anglophone and francophone Caribbean literature

Dr Naomi Billingsley
University of Manchester
The formation and reception of the Macklin Bible

Dr Luke Blaxill 
Anglia Ruskin University
The war of words: quantifying the language of British politics, 1880–1945

Dr Menaka PP Bora    
Royal Holloway, University of London    
From tradition to contemporary: Sattriya music and dance in India and global contexts

Dr Rachel Bower    
University of Leeds    
Transcultural collaboration: poets of Leeds and Nigeria unite, 1950–1970

Dr Stephanie Bowry    
University of Leicester    
Cultivating the art gallery in the early modern garden

Dr Harriet Boyd-Bennett    
University of Nottingham    
Modern migrations: musical travels through Italy in the 1920s

Dr Angus Brown    
University of Birmingham    
Book lovers: affect and the history of reading in the late age of print

Mr Andrew Brown    
Bournemouth University    
Making land: settlement dynamics in marginal Polynesia

Dr Tom Brughmans    
University of Oxford    
Mercury: understanding the Roman economy through big data and network modelling

Dr Michael Carr
University of Edinburgh    
Managing otherness: papal permissions to trade with the ‘Infidel’, 1342–1394

Dr Adrianna Catena    
University of Warwick    
The hatters’ blues: a microglobal history of new world dyes in early modern Spain

Dr Stephanie Conner    
University of Huddersfield
Recomposing ancient music: a case study in Akkadian song

Dr Oskar Cox Jensen    
Queen Mary, University of London
Life in London: a biography of street indigenes in Seven Dials

Dr Anjali Bhardwaj Datta    
University of Cambridge
Gendering the city: urban informalities and production of space in Delhi

Dr Jennifer French    
University College London    
The palaeolithic of Europe: a demographic and social (pre)history

Dr Robert Gallagher    
University of Oxford    
The Latin lexicon of Anglo-Saxon England, 871–1016: networks, contexts and uses

Dr Sarah Goldsmith    
University of Leicester    
Embodying the aristocrat: a history of the eighteenth-century elite male body

Dr Aaron Graham    
University College London    
The problems of global finance in Britain, Ireland and Empire, 1783–1844

Dr Charlotte Hammond    
Cardiff University    
Caribbean threads: Creole networks of cloth and consumption

Mr Remco Heesen    
University of Cambridge    
Organising science: the social epistemology of scientists and their incentives

Miss Charlotte Hemmings    
University of Oxford    
Information structure in the languages of Northern Sarawak

Dr Christin Hoene    
University of Kent    
Colonial soundscapes and non-western modernities

Dr Florence Impens    
University of Manchester    
In their own words: poetry in translation in Great Britain after 1962

Dr Lama Jabb    
University of Oxford    
Tibetan literature as a confluence of the oral and the literary

Dr Lucy Jackson    
King's College London    
Ancient tales new told: the re-invention of Greek tragedy in neo-Latin

Dr Jane Kershaw    
University of Oxford    
Britain’s Viking silver hoards: an archaeological analysis of the sources and uses of silver in Scandinavian Britain, 850–1050 CE

Dr Alison Knight    
University of Cambridge    
Stranger churches: hate speech and religious refugees in early modern England

Dr Tian S. Liang    
University of Oxford    
Anatomising the body: art, science and the humanities in modern China, 1851–1949

Dr Peter Lindfield    
University of Stirling    
Antiquarian by design: fakery and the material object in Britain, 1720–1824

Mr David Lowther    
Durham University    
Imagining India: Mughal art and colonial knowledge networks in the creation of modern British zoology, 1800–1858

Dr Lydia Luncz    
University of Oxford    
Lost technology: using chimpanzee wooden tools to identify missing human records

Dr Michael Malay    
University of Sheffield    
Faceless extinctions

Dr Thomas McClelland
University of Warwick
Mental action and cognitive phenomenology: lessons from enactivism

Dr Emily McLaughlin    
University of Cambridge    
Poetic ecologies: the praxis of relation in recent French and francophone poetry

Dr Emily Oliver    
University of Warwick    
Broadcasting nations: a history of the BBC German Service, 1938–1999

Dr Nicholas Palfreyman    
University of Central Lancashire    
Patterns of variation and local identities in Indonesian sign language varieties

Dr Maroula Perisanidi    
University of Leeds    
Reform and clerical authority in the eleventh century: a comparative perspective

Dr John-Mark Philo    
University of East Anglia    
The reception of Tacitus in the British Isles, 1500–1600

Dr Rachel Randall    
University of Oxford    
A part of the family? Domésticas, babás and nanas in Brazilian and Chilean culture

Dr Sean Roberts    
University of Bristol    
Identifying causal effects in cultural systems

Ms Elizabeth Sandis    
University of Birmingham    
Political playmaking at the universities of England, 1605–1665

Dr Kathryn Santner    
School of Advanced Study, University of London    
Transpacific sisters: art and the lived experience of Peruvian and Philippine religious women

Dr Karian Schuitema
Keele University
Knowledge co-production with children in special schools through community arts

Dr Thomas Smith    
University of Leeds    
The rise of papal provisions in thirteenth-century England

Dr Inja Stanovic
University of Huddersfield
(Re)constructing early recordings: a guide for historically-informed performance

Dr Preti Taneja    
University of Warwick    
Shakespeare and human rights

Dr Damian Taylor    
University of Oxford    
Making and immateriality: art and embodiment in the digital age

Dr Claudia Tobin    
University of Cambridge    
Colour and the imagination: chromatic experience in modern literature and art

Dr Guido van Meersbergen
University of Warwick    
Cross-cultural diplomacy compared: European diplomats in South Asia, 1600–1750

Dr Rob Waters    
University of Sussex    
Streets that went black? Cultures of blackness and politics in London, 1958–1981

Dr Emma Whipday    
University College London    
“You see my sister's yet at my dispose”: siblings, subordinate roles and proprietary rights on the early modern stage

Dr Darryl Wilkinson    
University of Cambridge    
Anarchism in the prehistoric Andes: the material culture of anti-complexity

Dr Gavin Williams    
King's College London    
Geographies of the gramophone: recorded music and urban space, 1897–1939

Dr Wendy Asquith    
University of Nottingham    
Universal human rights: a century of intergovernmental display at world's fairs

Dr Dalel Benbabaali    
University of Oxford    
Uprooted adivasis: conflict, development and displacement in central India

Dr Hannah-Louise Clark    
University of Glasgow    
Healing the body of the nation? Healthcare and the state in Algeria c. 1800–1980

Dr Elena Cooper    
University of Glasgow    
Intellectual property and criminalisation: an historical perspective

Dr Zoe Cormack
University of Oxford    
Marking death in South Sudan: funerary art in museum collections and beyond

Dr Emma Davidson    
University of Edinburgh    
A new page? Libraries, austerity and the shifting boundaries of civil society

Dr Sam Halvorsen    
University of Cambridge    
Rethinking territory from below: learning from theory and practice in Argentina

Dr Sophia Hatzisavvidou
University of East Anglia
Green arguments: scientific evidence and political persuasion

Dr Anni Kajanus    
London School of Economics and Political Science    
Cooperation, punishment and violence – a comparative study of children's cooperative relationships in China and in the UK

Dr Nino Kemoklidze    
University of Birmingham
Self-determination and secession in Europe's ‘near abroad’

Dr Samuel Kirwan    
University of Warwick    
Living in debt: a sociology of everyday indebtedness

Dr George Kyris    
University of Birmingham    
Conflict, statehood and sovereignty in world politics

Dr Alexander Leveringhaus    
University of Manchester    
The politics of rescue revisited: non-state actors, drones, and intervention

Dr Kirsty Lohman    
University of Surrey    
Punk, politics and gender in the UK

Mr Eric Lybeck    
University of Exeter    
The academic self: changes in university expectations since 1800

Dr Chandra Morrison    
London School of Economics and Political Science    
New muralism and the politics of erasure: a study of public culture in Peru

Dr Amrei Mueller    
Queen's University Belfast    
Healthcare in conflict: do armed groups have obligations and responsibilities?

Dr Michal Murawski    
Queen Mary, University of London    
Moscow makeover: architecture and politics in Putin's paradise

Dr Peg Murray-Evans    
University of York    
Talking power: South Africa and the pursuit of legitimacy in the global order

Dr Chloe Nahum-Claudel    
London School of Economics and Political Science    
Intimate witchcraft: forging human life between unseen and phenomenal worlds

Dr Jonna Nyman    
University of Sheffield    
Securing China: understanding security politics beyond the west

Dr Janosch Prinz    
University of East Anglia    
More democratic, more realistic: toward a diagnostic approach to legitimacy

Dr Lizzie Richardson    
Durham University    
Digital workplaces: technology and the self-organisation of work

Dr Barbara Samaluk    
University of Greenwich    
Aiming for skilled or secure employment on the EU market: a Sisyphean task?

Dr Clara Sandelind    
University of Sheffield    
Trust and solidarity in Scandinavia: immigration and narratives of bounded communities

Dr Rosemary Smith    
University of Nottingham    
The university revolutionised: upheaval and massification in post-2000 Cuba

Dr Banu Turnaoglu    
University of Cambridge    
The western question: the eastern question seen from the east

Dr Lani Watson
University of Edinburgh
An interdisciplinary investigation into the education of questioning

Dr Julia Welland
University of Warwick    
The joy of war: pleasure and performance in contemporary military conduct

Dr Hila Zaban 
University of Warwick 
The urban effects of British Jews’ transnational practices on London and Israel

Dr Paul Albert
University of Oxford
Lake Suigetsu and volcanic ash, the key to synchronising palaeoclimate archives

Dr Alison Banwell
University of Cambridge
Calculating current and future mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet using a coupled hydrology / ice dynamics model

Dr Adrian Barker
University of Cambridge
Tidal interactions between planets and stars: simulations from first principles

Dr Nikolai Bode
University of Bristol
Genes of behaviour: mining patterns in sequenced social interactions

Dr Laura Bovo
University College London
Thin films and multilayers of frustrated magnet – tuning their exotic properties

Dr Moreno Coco
University of Edinburgh
Formation, maintenance and use of top-down knowledge in Alzheimer dementia

Dr Yvonne Dombrowski
Queen’s University Belfast
Inflammasomes in brain repair

Dr Holly Hedgeland
University College London
Unlocking friction: unifying the nanoscale and mesoscale

Dr William Hunter
Queen’s University Belfast
Extinction, ecosystem structure and carbon cycling in coastal sediments

Dr Christopher Joyner
Queen Mary, University of London
Nodal domain statistics, spectral geometry and random matrix theory

Dr Lindsay Lee
University of Leeds
Taming the uncertainty monster: using statistics to improve climate models

Dr Susan Little
Imperial College London
Unlocking the paleoclimate signal of Zn and Cd isotopes in deep-sea corals

Dr Corina Logan
University of Cambridge
What makes a large brain? Drivers of intraspecific variation in brain size

Dr David Long
University College London
Predicting the momentum and magnetic field orientation of solar eruptions

Dr Philip Mannion
Imperial College London
The impact of climate on macroevolutionary patterns in Paleogene tetrapods

Dr Jeroen Minderman
University of St Andrews
Predicting behavioural responses to environmental change from stress physiology

Dr Stephen Montgomery
University College London
Neurological adaptation, ecological diversification and the evolutionary process

Dr Richard Morton
Northumbria University
The solar regulator: a novel study of the chromosphere and its MHD wave dynamics

Dr Andy Nowacki
University of Leeds
The secret history of the Earth’s mantle

Dr Jocelyn Poissant
University of Exeter
Adaptive evolution in an unmanaged insular population of horses 

Dr Akshay Rao
University of Cambridge
Beyond the Shockley-Queisser limit: singlet fission sensitised solar cells

Dr Anne Roudaut
University of Bristol
Highly organic programmable electronics

Dr Nicholas Simm 
University of Warwick
Mesoscopic statistics of random matrices and the Gaussian free field

Dr Louise Soanes
University of Roehampton
Seabirds as bio-indicators: relating breeding strategy to the marine environment

Dr Kogularamanan Suntharalingam
King’s College London
Metal-based drugs and bioinspired nanomaterials for targeting cancer stem cells    

Dr James Taylor
University of St Andrews
Catalytic activation of carboxylic acids and alcohols

Dr Christopher Toseland
University of Kent
A biochemical and single molecule characterisation of nuclear myosin motors

Dr Ben Warren
University of Leicester
Characterisation of the mechanotransduction current in insect auditory neurons

Dr Anne-Marie Weijmans
University of St Andrews
Galaxies over cosmic time

Mr Leonard Aldea
University of Oxford
Art as alternative theological methodology: Bulgakov, Kandinsky and the Dadaists

Dr Chiara Alfano
Kingston University
“They f*** you up, your mum and dad”: narratives of infancy in post-1945 Britain

Dr Serena Bassi
Cardiff University
Translating gay liberation: the negotiation of sexual identities and political struggle between the United States and Italy

Miss Fanny Bessard
University of St Andrews
Economy and social changes in early Islam (eighth to tenth centuries)

Dr Jacob Blakesley
University of Leeds
Poets of Europe, translators of the world

Dr Sheldon Brammall
University of Oxford
The Appendix Vergiliana and the Renaissance Art of discernment

Dr Alexander Bubb
King’s College London
Persia in pocket edition: the orientalisation of Victorian reading cultures

Dr Michael Bycroft
University of Warwick
Jewellers, travellers and the science of gems in France, 1630–1830

Dr Roberta Cimino
University of Nottingham
The royal fisc in Carolingian and post-Carolingian Italy (c.774–962)

Dr Mark Condos
Queen Mary, University of London
Policing the borderlands: frontier violence in the British and French empires, c.1830–1939

Dr Rachel Crellin
University of Leicester
New materials, new worlds: understanding the uses of Bronze Age axes

Dr Jeremy Dunham
University of Sheffield
Transnational dialogues on habit: idealism, pragmatism, and spiritualism 

Dr Alberto Fernandez Carbajal
University of Leicester
Queer diasporas: Islam, homosexuality and a micropolitics of dissent

Dr Victoria Flood
Durham University
The politics of the marvellous: the fairy hunt in insular culture, c.1180s–1590s

Dr Nikolas Funke
University of Birmingham
Getting along – toleration and its limits in early modern Germany

Dr Elisabeth Giselbrecht
King’s College London
Music in early modern Europe: owners and users

Dr Felicia Gottmann
University of Dundee
National, European, or global? The Prussian East India Company

Dr Alastair Hemmens
Cardiff University
Ne travaillez jamais: the critique of work in nineteenth- and twentieth-century French thought, from Charles Fourier to Guy Debord

Dr Simon Jackson
University of Warwick
The musical publication of the seventeenth-century lyric

Dr Leslie James
University of Birmingham
Trans-Atlantic passages: empire, nationalism, and the African and Caribbean press, 1930–1960

Dr Katherine Kennedy
University of Cambridge
The fateful voyage: Rupert Brooke, FS Kelly and William Denis Browne

Dr David Lewis
University of Edinburgh
The material expression of status and inequality in classical Athens

Dr Matthew Machin-Autenrieth
University of Cambridge
Flamenco Andalusí: history and multiculturalism in contemporary Andalusia 

Dr Nikoletta Manioti
University of St Andrews
View from above: aerial perspectives in Latin epic

Dr Alexander Massouras
University of Oxford
Casts and iconoclasts: the twentieth-century plaster cast and the reproduction of culture 

Dr Justine McConnell
University of Oxford
Socrates and Anansi: between orality and literacy in African, Afro-Caribbean, and Ancient Greek poetics

Dr Katherine McGettigan
University of Nottingham
Transatlantic nationalism: inventing American literature in Britain, 1819–1860

Dr Matthew McHaffie
King’s College London
Lordship, custom, and landholding in northern France, c.1000 to c.1200

Dr Zubin Mistry
Queen Mary, University of London
‘The sterility of their wives’: handling infertility in Carolingian Europe

Dr Rachel Moore
University of Oxford
Patriotism under pressure: musical exchange and allied identity during WWI

Dr Rachel Moss
University of Oxford
Beyond between men: the medieval homosocial imagination

Dr Edward Naylor
University of Portsmouth
Decolonising welfare: social services and integration in (post)colonial France

Dr Jamie Page
Durham University
Honour, law, and the self in the medieval city: Zurich 1400–1500

Dr Christabelle Peters
University of Warwick
The cultural politics of race and national identity in the Iberian Atlantic

Dr Jaclyn Rajsic
University of Cambridge
Crossing the Channel: reading the prose Brut in France and Burgundy, 1400–1600

Dr Majied Robinson
University of Edinburgh
Marriage, Muhammad and early Islamic history: a quantitative approach

Dr Tanja Romankiewicz
University of Edinburgh
Building ancient lives: new perspectives on the past for a sustainable future

Dr Gregory Scott
University of Edinburgh
The Buddhist revival and the reconstruction of sacred spaces in modern China

Dr Rúben Serém
University of Nottingham
Portugal and the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939

Dr Emile Shemilt
University of Dundee
Celluloid film futures

Dr Ekaterina Shutova
University of Cambridge
Computational modelling of metaphorical reasoning and human creativity

Dr Nicole Sierra
King’s College London
Leonora Carrington’s surrealist space: literary and visual artistry

Dr Simon Smith
University of Oxford
Playgoing, pleasure and judgement in early modern England, 1594–1642

Dr Mark Thakkar
University of St Andrews
Wyclif’s logic: a critical edition and translation

Dr Josephine von Zitzewitz
University of Cambridge
Leningrad samizdat as social and material culture: from reader to activist

Dr Christine Whyte
University of Kent
Fostering civilisation: Liberians, imperialism and the family home, 1822–1865

Dr Benjamin Williams
University of Manchester
Reading the Bible in the Ottoman Empire: a new chapter in early modern Jewish exegesis

Dr Eleanor Bindman
Queen Mary, University of London
The EU, social rights and the state in the post-Soviet context

Dr Gwilym Blunt
University of Cambridge
Resistance and global poverty

Dr Andrew Clarke
University of Cambridge
Archaeogenetics of the first global crop: 10,000 years of bottle gourd dispersal

Dr Chris Clarke
University of Warwick
Prospects for a relational finance: the political economy of social lending

Dr Nathan Coombs
University of Edinburgh
Governing financial algorithms: a social study of regulation and compliance

Dr David Dawson
University of Leeds
Transport infrastructure problems: our future failures (TIP:OFF)

Dr Filippo Dionigi
London School of Economics and Political Science
Impact of the Syrian refugee crisis on Arab statehood: a comparative analysis

Dr Thomas Elston
University of Oxford
Understanding administrative modernity: the shared services mega-trend

Mr Michael Farquhar
SOAS, University of London
Neoliberalism and the police state in the global south: Egypt since Sadat

Dr Jude Fransman
Open University
Engaging research in the digital university: a civil society perspective

Dr Iginio Gagliardone
University of Oxford
The international politics of a fragmenting internet: a view from Africa

Dr Trever Hagen
University of Exeter
Hearing and listening in urban spaces: sound, health and community (HEALUS)

Dr Agatha Herman
University of Reading
The power of fairtrade: resilience, ethical development and wine networks 

Dr Jason Hickel
London School of Economics and Political Science
Central banking and the politics of debt in South Africa

Dr Giulia Liberatore
University of Oxford
Female Muslim leaders in Britain: transnational publics and changing forms of leadership and authority

Dr Thomas MacManus
Queen Mary, University of London
State crime contested: civil society, the public relations industry and denial

Dr John Narayan
University of Warwick
Coloured cosmopolitanism: the global politics of black British activism 

Dr Christopher Opie
University College London
A new dawn? The origins of sociality in humans and other primates

Dr Justin Pearce
University of Cambridge
Political identity, nation building and violence in Angola and Mozambique

Dr Stavroula Pipyrou
University of St Andrews
An intergenerational analysis of forced child-relocation in Italy

Dr Elisabeth Schimpfossl
University College London
Philanthropic practices of the UK and Russian Superrich: élite cultures compared

Dr Anna Tarrant
University of Leeds
Men’s experiences of family life and multiple care responsibilities in low-income localities

Dr Norbert Vanek
University of York
Conceptual reorganisation in highly advanced second language learners

Dr Julia Viebach
University of Oxford
Atrocity’s archives: the remnants of transitional justice

Dr Anthony Anderson
University of Cambridge
Freezing of colloidal dispersions and gels

Dr Leah Band
University of Nottingham
Analysing plant growth regulation by the green revolution hormone gibberellin

Dr Simon Beaumont
Durham University
Novel spectroscopic studies of catalyst surfaces under operational conditions

Dr Sarah Dalesman
University of Exeter
The causes and consequences of cognitive ability in natural populations

Dr Johnathan Dalzell
Queen’s University Belfast
Neuropeptides as transgenic nematicides

Dr Abigail Durrant
Newcastle University
Designing for dialogue: interaction design in interdisciplinary research

Dr Farhan Feroz
University of Cambridge
Statistical inference and machine learning in astrophysics and cosmology

Dr Elizabeth Fullam
University of Warwick
Sugaring the bitter pill: how the tubercle bacillus uses sugars

Dr Katja Graumann
Oxford Brookes University
Plant nuclear envelope protein targeting and functions in cell division

Dr Nicholas Hine
University College London
Computational design and optimisation of nanomaterials for solar energy

Dr Rachel Jeffreys
University of Liverpool
Climate change, food webs, energy flow and ecosystem function in the deep sea

Dr Matthew Johnson
University of Sheffield
Imaging the machinery for biological solar energy conversion

Dr Matthew Jones
University of Essex
Understanding how plants regulate responses to high light and heat stress

Dr Steven Kelly
University of Oxford
The role of 3D genome organisation in regulating gene expression in plants

Dr Marco Koschorreck
University of Cambridge
Quantum simulations with ultra-cold fermions

Dr Christoph Loenarz
University of Oxford
Breathing new life into ribosomes: how does oxygen regulate translation?

Dr Alexis Makin
University of Liverpool
How do humans maintain an accurate representation of a dynamic environment?

Dr Joseph Marshall
University of Nottingham
Interaction in motion

Dr Andras Mathe
University of Warwick
Combinatorial aspects of geometric measure theory

Dr Jonathan Matthews
University of Bristol
Photonic quantum walk simulators

Dr A J Pretorius
University of Leeds
Visualisation methods for time-lapse high-throughput microscopy

Dr Rahul Raveendran Nair
University of Manchester
Novel layered materials with on-demand properties

Dr Teresa Thurston
Imperial College London
Identifying factors that protect cells from bacterial infection 

Dr Katherine Angel
Queen Mary, University of London
What is western psychiatry? Challenging standard accounts 

Dr Damir Arsenijevic
De Montfort University
Love after genocide

Dr Emmanuela Bakola
King’s College London
Aeschylean tragedy and early environmental discourse

Dr Ranita Chatterjee
University of Westminster
The Empire looks back: early film cultures and Empire in colonial India, 1900–1926

Dr Elizabeth Dearnley
University College London
‘Oëz aprés cument avint!’ The development of the European Breton lai

Dr Michael Dee
University of Oxford
Fractured land: drought and the fall of Old Kingdom Egypt

Dr Kathryn Dutton
University of Manchester
Negotiating non-royal power in the twelfth century

Dr Alice Eardley
University of Southampton
Madeleine de Scudéry and French romance in early modern England

Dr Anna Elsner
King’s College London
‘A sensation of one’s own’—The clinical encounter in twentieth-century French literature and visual culture

Dr Alistair Fair
University College London
Recovery of natural environments in architecture

Dr Julia Farley
University of Leicester
Gold and silver in Iron Age and Roman Britain: transformations in metallurgy and value

Dr Gábor Gergely
University of Manchester
Anti-Semitism and articulations of national identity in Hungarian film 1929–44

Dr Robert Hornsby
University of Kent
Careerism, idealism and social control: the post-Stalin Komsomol

Dr Katya Krylova
University of Nottingham
The treatment of the past and Austrian identity in contemporary Austrian literature and film

Dr Elizabeth Lapina
University of Kent
Crusader imagery in monumental art in the west

Dr Alessandro Launaro
University of Cambridge
Conquerors to emperors. The impact of the Roman Empire on Italy

Dr John Lowe
University of Oxford
Syntactic and dialectal variation in Sanskrit drama

Dr Sebastian Matzner
University of Oxford
Beautiful tyrants: postcolonial reflections on philhellenism in Rome and Germany

Dr Daniel McCann
University of Oxford
Salus Animae: therapeutic reading in Late-Medieval England (1340–1540)

Dr Eoin McLaughlin
University of Edinburgh
A messy divorce? Irish debt and default, 1891–1938

Dr Rory Naismith
University of Cambridge
Medieval European coinage, vol. 8: the British Isles c. 600–1066

Dr Dora Osborne
University of Edinburgh
What remains? The archive in German memory culture after 1990

Dr Anthony Ossa-Richardson
Queen Mary, University of London
Early modern literature and the history of ambiguity

Dr Walter Pedriali
University of Stirling
When logic gives out

Dr Esperanza Rodriguez-Garcia
University of Nottingham
Creating, marketing, and distributing music in the Renaissance: Tomás Luis de Victoria

Dr Alexander Russell
University of Warwick
Corporate governance and national political culture in England, c. 1450–1600

Dr Britta Schilling
University of Cambridge
Voyages to the interior: colonial living in comparative perspective

Dr Matthew Sperling
University of Reading
British and Irish poetry publishing, 1960–2010

Dr John Stevens
School of Oriental and African Studies
Counter preachers: political theology in Britain and India, 1813–1947

Dr Anna Strhan
University of Kent
The faithful child: evangelicals and the formation of children in modern Britain

Dr Sean Williams
University of Edinburgh
Documenting the recent history of electronic music performance practice

Dr Andy Willimott
University College London
The unfinished revolution: the myth and memory of the Russian Revolution

Dr Emma Wilson
University of St Andrews
Reading for pleasure in early modern England

Dr Ananay Aguilar
University of Cambridge
Performers' rights: music-making in the digital era

Dr Alexander Anievas
University of Cambridge
Troubling time and space in world politics

Dr Miriyam Aouragh
University of Westminster
The role of the internet in the Arab revolutions: unveiling the offline-online dialectics - deconstructing the myths

Dr Richard Baxter
Queen Mary, University of London
Home and inhabitation: a biography of the Aylesbury Estate

Dr Matthew Benwell
University of Keele
‘The making of the geopolitical citizen’: the case of the Falklands/Malvinas 

Dr Leda Blackwood
University of St Andrews
Compromising ‘mainstream’ Muslim voices: the paradox of community engagement

Dr Beth Breeze
University of Kent
The formation of fundraisers: the role of personal skills in asking for money

Dr Jane Caple
University of Manchester
Ethnicity, morality and the (re)making of modernities in a Sino-Tibetan context

Dr Dominic de Cogan
University of Birmingham
Tax professionals and the law: a healthy partnership?

Dr Amy Donovan
University of Cambridge
Volcanoes on borders: potentially explosive geopolitical agents

Dr Josip Glaurdic
University of Cambridge
The politics of EU (dis)integration

Dr Jackie Gulland
University of Edinburgh
Constructing incapacity for work: conditionality in sickness benefits since 1911

Dr Christopher Harker
Durham University
The city and the family: an everyday geography of Ramallah

Dr Geneviève Helleringer
University of Oxford
Differences in legal cultures: a study on dispute clauses as a form of private regulation

Dr Ambrose Yuk Kong Lee
University of Oxford
Internal constraints to coercive harm prevention

Dr João Nunes
University of Warwick
Neglected diseases: addressing the limits of the international politics of health

Dr Paul Richardson
University of Manchester
Re-ordering post-Soviet space: the Eurasian Union

Dr Mahvish Shami
London School of Economics and Political Science
Collective action and hierarchical relationships

Dr Victor Toom
Northumbria University
Forensic bioinformation innovation: criminal justice and disaster victim identification practices

Dr Jure Vidmar
University of Oxford
Abusive governments in international law

Dr Bastian Vollmer
University of Oxford
Border security: discourses and practices in the UK

Dr Donna Yates
University of Glasgow
Illicit traffic in Latin American antiquities: the dynamics of a criminal market