Local Governance and Community Resilience: How Internal Drainage Boards (IDBs) and Communities Managed Flooding in England Nov 1, 2017 - Apr 30, 2022
This project examines forms of community flood risk management in the past in the form of IDBs and their precursors, to determine their viability as a model for future policy-making. It develops an approach that views flood as a social construction a... Read More about Local Governance and Community Resilience: How Internal Drainage Boards (IDBs) and Communities Managed Flooding in England.

Conquest and the ‘Right to Hold’: Territorial Sovereignty and the American Revolution Oct 1, 2017 - Dec 31, 2018
Historians hold these truths to be self-evident: that the ideological origins of the American Revolution lie in arguments about political rights, which were conducted exclusively within English and European frameworks of political ideas. This project... Read More about Conquest and the ‘Right to Hold’: Territorial Sovereignty and the American Revolution.

Gender, Debt And Family Relations: The Temples Of Stowe Jul 17, 2017 - Sep 16, 2017

Risks Hazards Disasters and Cultures Exploring an Integrated Humanities Natural Sciences and Disaster Studies Approach Mar 1, 2016 - Aug 31, 2017

Increasing Resilience to Natural Hazards Sep 28, 2015 - Dec 31, 2018

White Rose Social Sciences Doctoral Training Partnership Oct 1, 2017 - Sep 30, 2021

Hazards, Tipping Points, Adaptation and Collapse in the Indo-Pacific World Jan 1, 2016 - Jun 30, 2021

Earthquakes without frontiers: a partnership for increasing resilience to seismic hazard in the continents Jul 1, 2012 - Jun 30, 2018
Disasters in seismically-prone regions are the outcome of physical hazards interacting with a vulnerable population (Wisner et al, 2004). Just as these disasters are ‘co-produced’, so research on increasing people's resilience to withstand, recover a... Read More about Earthquakes without frontiers: a partnership for increasing resilience to seismic hazard in the continents.

Thames Consortium’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Scheme Oct 1, 2014 - Sep 30, 2017
The project investigates the role of women as plaintiffs, defendants and witnesses, in law suits brought before the late 17thcentury Court of Chancery. It will be the first research to use TNA's newly-searchable early-modern catalogue data created un... Read More about Thames Consortium’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Scheme.

Going to Chancery: Gender, Family and Law in England, 1550-1750 Feb 1, 2019 - May 31, 2022
'Going to Chancery' will lead to a completely new cultural history of the early-modern equity court of Chancery. The project offers a revised interpretation of the organization of family finances and emotional exchange. The research will form a colla... Read More about Going to Chancery: Gender, Family and Law in England, 1550-1750.

England's First Colony: State-Building on an Irish Frontier, 1199-1265 Sep 1, 2019 - Apr 30, 2022
The spectre of empire still haunts the history of Ireland. Once a mainstay of Anglo-centric narratives of colonisation, historians of the medieval conquest of Ireland now shun the concept in favour of models of decentralised power and authority. This... Read More about England's First Colony: State-Building on an Irish Frontier, 1199-1265.

British Academy Visiting Fellowships - Professor Dale Turner Aug 1, 2018 - Feb 28, 2019

Brightening the Covenant Chain: Revealing Cultures of Diplomacy Between the Crown and the Iroquois Apr 1, 2021 - Sep 30, 2024
This project will showcase cultures of diplomacy between the British Crown and the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee), focusing specifically on the range of objectives listed below. Although the processes surrounding settlement of American lands have been expl... Read More about Brightening the Covenant Chain: Revealing Cultures of Diplomacy Between the Crown and the Iroquois.

What Would Nixon Do?:The Forgotten Republican Roots of American Environmentalism’ Sep 1, 2019 - Mar 2, 2023

United Nations Television in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina Jul 22, 2019 - Sep 30, 2021

Cities of Culture Research Network: Turning Evaluation into Policy Jun 1, 2019 - Mar 31, 2022
The project aims to build a network of UK universities and a small number of our European counterparts engaged in City/Capital of Culture research. The theme is turning evaluation into policy and the network would engage with key cultural policy mak... Read More about Cities of Culture Research Network: Turning Evaluation into Policy.

Arts and Humanities Research Council Collaborative Doctoral Partnership with the British Library Oct 1, 2019 - Jan 21, 2024
I am the Principle HEI Supervisor on a CDP awarded in January 2019 in collaboration with the British Library titled, 'North American Indigenous Languages in the British Library's post-1850 Collections.' This doctoral partnership has been awarded to... Read More about Arts and Humanities Research Council Collaborative Doctoral Partnership with the British Library.

BA Global Professorship - Professor Gregory Smithers (Virginia Commonwealth University ) Jan 27, 2020 - Jul 26, 2024

Risky Cities: Living with water in an uncertain future climate Aug 1, 2020 - Nov 30, 2023
https://riskycities.hull.ac.uk/

Estuarine and coastal cities are acutely vulnerable in the face of climate uncertainty. 40% of the world's population lives within 100km of the sea and coastal populations are directly at risk from risin... Read More about Risky Cities: Living with water in an uncertain future climate.

Economic History Society Coordination Project Apr 1, 2020 - Mar 31, 2021
Externally funded post, funded by Economic History Society (EHS).
Please approve this so this can be immediately processed to Post Award, this is not a Research application but rather a post to be funded by the Economic History Society with a... Read More about Economic History Society Coordination Project.