All Projects (29)

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.

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

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

Crossing Boundaries: The History of First Aid in Britain and France, 1909 - 1989 Jun 1, 2016 - Dec 31, 2021
Not only is the history of first aid a complex and fascinating topic in its own right, allowing the boundaries between medical practice and safe public practice of healthcare techniques to be understood, but a thorough study of the history of first a... Read More about Crossing Boundaries: The History of First Aid in Britain and France, 1909 - 1989.

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.

Resilient humanitarianism: A History of The League of Red Cross Societies, 1919-1991 Mar 1, 2019 - Feb 28, 2023
Global humanitarian crises are at a significant high due to ongoing conflict and natural disasters. Nation states, bodies such as the United Nations and humanitarian organisations seem incapable of offering lasting solutions to intractable situations... Read More about Resilient humanitarianism: A History of The League of Red Cross Societies, 1919-1991.

Oxfam and the history of war, health and humanitarianism May 20, 2019 - Dec 19, 2021

United Nations Television in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina Jul 22, 2019 - Sep 30, 2021
This network brings together historians, film scholars, museum professionals, migration researchers, peacebuilding experts, journalists, filmmakers, and survivors of displacement and genocide to re-examine the work of United Nations Television (UNTV)... Read More about United Nations Television in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

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.

Post excavation analysis and publication of a multi-period site near Elloughton, East Yorkshire Mar 1, 2019 - Jul 31, 2021
This application is to complete the post-excavation analysis for this site, particularly specialist reporting of oyster shells and other molluscs and 450 previously unidentified Roman coins, for the final publication. The coins, plus those already id... Read More about Post excavation analysis and publication of a multi-period site near Elloughton, East Yorkshire.

Petuaria Revisited – Looking for a lost Roman theatre. Jul 1, 2020 - Jun 30, 2021
In 1937 a stone inscription dedicating a proscaenium (stage) by aedile M. Ulpius Januarius in the 140s AD, was found during excavations in the Burrs (then known as Bozzes Field) led by Philip Corder. Since then there has been much discussion amongst... Read More about Petuaria Revisited – Looking for a lost Roman theatre..

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 rising sea levels... Read More about Risky Cities: Living with water in an uncertain future climate.

Petuaria Revisited – Looking for a lost Roman theatre. Feb 1, 2020 - Jan 31, 2021
In 1937 a stone inscription dedicating a proscaenium (stage) by aedile M. Ulpius Januarius in the 140s AD, was found during excavations in the Burrs (then known as Bozzes Field) led by Philip Corder. Since then there has been much discussion amongst... Read More about Petuaria Revisited – Looking for a lost Roman theatre..

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 small... Read More about Economic History Society Coordination Project.

Petuaria ReVisited May 1, 2021 - Dec 6, 2021
Following a Ground Penetrating Radar survey which revealed the full complexity of Brough’s Roman archaeology in the Burrs Playing Field, a successful excavation was undertaken in August/September 2020 to test out the results of the survey, in particu... Read More about Petuaria ReVisited.