Currently Active Grants in AHSS | Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

The list below is a sample of currently active research grants across the School of Arts and Humanities and School of the Humanities and Social Sciences that have been externally funded.

If your research grant is not listed and you would like to have it added, please contact ahss-srf-administrator@admin.cam.ac.uk.

Academy of Medical Sciences

Charlotte Hammer (Centre for the Study of Existential Risk) Disease (re-)emergence and high consequence infectious disease outbreak risk in disrupted socio-ecological systems

ARIA

Richard Milne (Education) An ethical and systems framework for future implementation of neurotechnology to maintain cognitive function and reduce dementia risk

British Academy: Global Professorships

British Academy: International Fellowships

Mathieu Beaudouin (Theoretical and Applied Linguistics) Unveiling Tangut Syntax: At the Crossroads of Comparative Linguistics and Automated Annotation
Laura Popa (History) A Global History of the Bible Woman in the Age of Empires, 1857-1918

British Academy: International Writing Workshops

British Academy: Mid-career Fellowships

British Academy: Postdoctoral Fellowships

Sara Caputo (HPS) Health and Medicine in European Navies, 1750-1830
Barry Coughlan (Cambridge Reproduction) Antecedents of suicide, suicidal ideation, and self-harm for young people with social services involvement: a mixed-methods study
Joris Hoste (Economics) On the causes and consequences of market integration through transportation
Edward Marshall (Theoretical and Applied Linguistics) Building choral sound from the ground up: phonetic convergence in choral singing
Holly Sutherland (Theoretical and Applied Linguistics) Autistic Conceptualisations Of Lying: A Mixed Methods Study Of The (dis)honesty Of Non-literal Language And Social Talk
Daniel Sutton (Classics) Voting Against Democracy: The Athenian Revolution of 411
Jasmin Vieri (McDonald Institute) Past Pathways to Production Centralisation
Sergei Zotov (HPS) Albums of Secrets in the Age of Reason

British Academy: Researchers at Risk Research Support Grant

Mohammedwesar Amer (Sociology) Communication Amid Times of War: Hamas Communication Strategies during the 2023-2025 Gaza War

British Academy: Small Grants

British Academy: UK-German Frontiers

Joseph Powell (Divinity) African identities, the artefacts of Empire and the claims of belonging in European sporting spaces

British Association for International and Comparative Education

Angharad Bulter-Rees (Education) Meaningful Vocational Education: The Perspectives of Young Disabled Persons in the United Kingdom & Germany

British Council

Darshil Shah (Architecture) BIO-RIDE: Bio-based Materials Innovation for Durable and Efficient Bicycle Tyres

British Institute for the Study of Iraq

Steve Renette (McDonald Institute) Lagash Archaeological Project 2026

British Red Cross Society

Brendan Simms (CRASSH) ‘Whole of Society’ Resilience in Conflict

Cabinet Office

Heather Strang (Criminology) Preventing VAWG against Top 100 Victims by Testing Arrest Benefits For the VV-100 in 3 Police Forces

Cambridge University | Nanjing Centre of Technology and Innovation

Lili Jia (CHIA) Global transparent environmental reporting: enabling Chinese manufacturers to embrace green trade opportunities

Daphne Jackson Trust

Anna Tristram (MMLL) Evolving Varieties of English in Corby, Northants

ERC Grants

Lovleen Bhullar (Land Economy) | SOAS University of London (Lead) Addressing The Multi-scalar Dimensions Of Sectoral Water Conflicts Through The Lens Of Water Security: Lessons From South Asia (ERC AdG, UKRI Underwrite)
Matthew Collins (McDonald Institute) | University of Leicester (Lead) INSULAR. Insular Manuscripts in the Age of Charlemagne (ERC AdG, UKRI Underwrite)
Sarah Colvin (MMLL) The Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe (UKRI Underwrite)
Ariel Goldstein (CHIA) From Understanding to Generating Meaningful Language: Unravelling the Origins of Our Words (ERC Starting)
Anna Korhonen (MMLL) MultiConvAI - Enabling Multilingual Conversational AI (ERC Proof of Concept)
Anna Korhonen (MMLL) Towards Globally Equitable Language Technologies (EQUATE) (UKRI Underwrite)
Paul Lane (McDonald Institute) Landscape Historical Ecology and Archaeology of Ancient Pastoral Societies in Kenya (ERC AdG, UKRI Underwrite)
Peter McMurray (Music) Ottoman Auralities and the Eastern Mediterranean: Sound, Media and Power, 1789-1922 (ERC Starting, UKRI Underwrite)
Abigail Moffett (McDonald Institute) ENTANGLED: Entangled materialities and new global histories from southern Africa (ERC Starting, UKRI Underwrite)
Darshil Shah (Architecture) Integrated, Circular, and Digitally Supported Sustainable Solutions for Waste Minimization and Carbon Capture in Buildings and the Construction Sector (UKRI Underwrite)
Darshil Shah (Architecture) Sustainable solutions for upgraded smart wearables and equipment in sport (UKRI Underwrite)
Sujit Sivasundaram (History) Colombo: Layered Histories in the Global South City (ERC AdG, UKRI Underwrite)
Phillipa Steele (Classics) Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems (ERC Consolidator, UKRI Underwrite)

ESRC: Fellowship

Pallavi Banerjee (Education) Multiple disadvantages, offending and reoffending: An MoJ-DfE administrative data study
Deborah Kent (Criminology) Placing prison officers in late modernity
Anna Pozzali (Sociology) Intersections of Poverty and Everyday Multiculturalism

ESRC: Research Grants

Debopam Bhattacharya (Economics) Econometric Demand and Welfare Analysis
Uradyn Bulag (Social Anthropology) Trading Mongolia's Sovereign Meat: the Social Transformations and Everyday Geopolitics of the 'Livestock Revolution'
Paolo Campana (Criminology) Networked violence: A relational approach to explain serious violence in the UK
Romola Davenport (Geography) Airs, waters and agues: The historical impact of malaria in England and Denmark
Romola Davenport (Geography) Water, Sanitation and Health in the first industrial society: Britain 1780-1930
Eric French (Economics) ESRC Institute for the Microeconomics Analysis of Public Policy
Alexis Litvine (History) Gamifying History
Emma Mawdsley (Geography) Development consultants and contractors: for-profit companies in the changing world of 'Aidland'
Joana Nascimento (Social Anthropology) Rethinking work, social reproduction and 'sustainable futures' in contemporary
Deborah Talmi (Psychology) A critical test of the dual-representation account of PTSD

ESRC: Research & Innovation

Alexis Litvine (History) PSTI
Kyle Treiber (Criminology) Peterborough Adolescent to Adult Development Study: PADS+ Phase 3

Horizon Europe

Laura Diaz Anadon (Land Economy) Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneosui Cambiamenti Climatici (Lead) PRISMA: Net Zero Pathway Research through Integrated Assessment Model Advancements
Haifeng Niu (Land Economy) eMOTIONAL Cities - Mapping the cities through the senses of those who make them

Inner Circle Education Trust: Research Grant

Claire Crawford (Education) | University of Birmingham (Lead) Research Evaluation of ICET Head Start into Higher Education Programme

Isaac Newton Trust: Research Grant

Elizabeth DeMarris (McDonald Institute) Following the Thread – Investigating the Earliest Cotton Route in Ancient South America
Max Sternburg (Architecture) Mid-Career Researcher Study Leave in the Humanities
Aiora Zabala (Land Economy) Targeting Biodiversity Leak Hotspots of Area Protection and Food Systems Trade-Offs

Käte Hamburger Kolleg

Natalia Buitron Arias (Social Anthropology) Indigenous Sovereignities: legal models for self-determination in Ecuadorian Amazonia

Leverhulme Trust: Early Career Fellowships

Ahmed Abouzaid (Sociology) Genealogies of Political Violence in Modern Middle East: Colonialism, Sharia, and Legal Hybridity
Christian Anderson (Divinity) Declaring Spiritual War on Islam: Evangelical deliverance ministry and the demonization of the Muslim world
Vean Al-Saka (AMES) The Neo-Aramaic dialect of Baritle
Estara J Arrant (University Library) Regaining lost realities: medieval Judaeo-Arabic and the society that shaped it
Ani Avetisyan (AMES) Languages of Healing: Knowledge Transmission in Jewish and Christian Traditions
Harriet Baker (English) The Painter's Notebook: Life-Writing by Twentieth-Century Women Artists
Rishabh Bajoria (Law) 'This Freedom Is A Lie': International Lawfare And Decolonisation In Postcolonial India
Vincent Beiler (Cambridge University Library) Unlocking the Firkovich Bibles
Luis Fernando Bernardi Junqueira (HPS) Healing through the mind: the rise of mind-cure movements in modern East Asia
Audrey Borowski (Cambridge Digital Humanities) The alogrithmisation of ideology
Kieran Gilfoy (Centre of Latin American Studies) When gold enters the blood: life, labour, and minerals in the Brazilian Amazon
Zora Hauser (Criminology) Mafia diplomacy: the external relations of organised crime
Catherine Klesner (McDonald Institute) Tracing the Spread of Knowledge Through Decorated Ceramic Traditions
Ziyu (Claude) Liu (Law) Statutory lawlessness and real lawlessness: two pathologies of a legal system
Philippa Mullins (Education) Intellectual disability and the imagination of inclusive worlds
Jiayu Pan (Architecture) Invisible heat, unseen resilience: participatory mapping of gendered experience
Alice Pearson (CRASSH) Inequalities of information economics: an interdisciplinary history
Tom Powell Davies (Social Anthropology) Settler colonialism and the Indigenous child: the politics of adoption in Papua
Dongjun Seo (Divinity) Religious Transnationalism During the Cold War
Mehdy Shaddel (AMES) Manifest destiny: Islam and the rhetoric of universal empire
Teresa Soley (History of Art) Africa and Portugal: art and exchange in the age of exploration
Lei Song (Architecture) Building Hygiene: Sino-British Water Infrastructure, Materials, and Labour (1840-1949)
McNeil Taylor (Cambridge Film & Screen) When one divides into two: politics of the couple in late twentieth-century France
Marietta van der Tol (Divinity) Imagining sacred lands: the ‘Russian world’, ‘Hungarian world’ and ‘holy Serbia’
Zhiwu Wei (Land Economy) Place and the geography of opportunities in the UK
Alice Wickenden (English) The material and ethical afterlives of named library collections
Emmanuela Wroth (Music) Diasporic divas: racialised and gendered celebrity in Western Europe, 1715–1925

Leverhulme Trust: Major Research Fellowships

Mark Chinca (MMLL) Formation of medieval German literature, 750–1250
Helen McCarthy (History) The social experience of retirement in Britain science 1945
Nicholas Zair (Classics) Understanding Oscan

Leverhulme Trust: Philip Leverhulme Prizes

Lea Niccolai (Classics) Philip Leverhulme Prize
John Rowan (McDonald Institute) Philip Leverhulme Prize
Henry Spelman (Classics) Philip Leverhulme Prize
Constantine Yannelis (Economics) Philip Leverhulme Prize

Leverhulme Trust: Research Fellowships

Alexander Bird (Philosophy) Creativity across the arts and sciences
Doyle Calhoun (MMLL) Florence: an enslaved childhood between abolitions
Kathryn Moeller (Education) Silicon futures: how Silicon Valley venture capitalists influence education
Jason Scott-Warren (English) The Climate Crisis and the Book

Leverhulme Trust: Research Project Grants

Graham Denyer Willis (Centre of Development Studies) The prison consensus: incarceration, investment and inequality in Brazil
Robert Hedley (Divinity) Literary Platonism from 1500 to the present
Suzanne Jones, CoI (MMLL) French-Language Publications in England to 1685
Ali Meghji (Sociology) Theorizing the global field: the de-Americanisation of the Pan-African movement
Vincenzo Vergiani (AMES) An intellectual history of late Vedanta, 1750–1900

Leverhulme Trust: Visiting Professorship

Mia Bay (History) Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship for Prof. Kali Gross
Surabhi Ranganathan (Law) Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship for Professor Balakrishnan Rajagopa

Lincoln Record Society

Joerg Haustein (Divinity) The Crowland Abbey cartulary and other materials

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions: Postdoctoral Fellowship

Ariadna Acevedo-Rodrigo (History) What Counts as Knowledge? Women Experts and Knowledge Circulation in Education and Development, 1920-1970 (WEKNOW)
Pinar Ceylon (History) Markets, urban demand and agriculture in the 16th-century Eastern Mediterranean
Kingsley Daraojimba (McDonald Institute) Social settlement dynamics and environmental processes in pre-colonial Nigeria: growing the Igbo-Ukwu cultural landscape (SosDen)
Annapaola Fedato (McDonald Institute) Revealing Prehistoric Human Behavior: A Novel Biomechanical Study of Paleolithic Ergonomics and Hand-Stone Tool Interactions
Kristina Jonutyte (Social Anthropology) Minority Russia: Negotiating Racialisation and Belonging at a Time of War
Diane Leca (English) American Short Verse and Micro-Ecologies, 1860 to the Present
Qin-Qin Lu (McDonald Institute) Production and Dispersion of Silk Road Glass in Central Asia
Erin O'Halloran (McDonald Institute) GUERNICA AS ORIENT
Rocco Rotunno (McDonald Institute) EHSCAN-Exploring Early Holocene Saharan Cultural Adaptation and social Networks through socio-ecological inferential modelling
Maria Gloria Tumminelli (History) Mediterranean Diasporas. The Migration of Albanians and Gypsies from the Ottoman Empire to the Kingdom of Naples in a compared perspective (XV- XVIII)
Lieven Verdonck (Classics) Imaging the past using methods of the future: computer-aided interpretation of ground-penetrating radar data collected at Roman towns in Italy
Victoria Westmont (McDonald Institute) Spatial and Critical Approaches to Industrial Heritage Landscapes

Mastercard Research Catalyst Funding

Paul Lane (McDonald Institute) Climates of Change Around Lake Chalbi, Kenya: Developing a Deep History of Human-Environment Interactions
Abigail Moffett (McDonald Institute) Integrated heritage protection: building resilience and sustainability in coastal Mozambique
Richardo Sabates Aysa (Education) Empowering Teachers to Foster Climate-Resilient Youth: A Research-Based Development of the 'One Child One Tree' Educational Package
Yusuf Sayed and Pauline Rose (Education) Indigenous Knowledge Systems as Pedagogical Drivers for Climate Change Education in South African Science Classrooms

McDonald Agape Foundation

Simeon Zahl (Divinity) The Seen and the Unseen: Theology and the Frontiers of Experience

Metropolitan Centre for Far East Studies

Henning von Mirbach (History of Art) Maternal Landscapes: Women and the Politics of Commemoration in Early Modern Chinese Art

Minderoo Foundation

Constantin Arnsheidt (Centre for the Study of Existential Risk) Scoping cascading catastrophic consequences from lethal humidity
Ronita Bardhan (Architecture) Estimating invisible impact of lethal heat and humidity on women mortality in India

National Lottery Community Fund

Anastasia Badder (Divinity) Believe in Climate Action

National Research Foundation, Singapore: Campus for Research Excellent and Technological Enterprise (CREATE)

Michelle Ellefson (Education, PI) John Suckling (Psychiatry, PI) University College London (PI) and Nanyang Technical University (PI) Centre for Lifelong Learning and Individualised Cognition (CLIC)

NERC: Centre

Ann Ferguson-Smith (PVC for Research, PI) Bashkar Vira (PVC for Education and Environmental Sustainability, PI), Shaun Fitzgerald (Engineering), Richard Bradbury (Zoology), Christopher Sandbrook (Geography), Jerome Neufeld (Earth Sciences), Alexandra Turchyn (Earth Sciences), Emily Shuckburgh (Computer Science and Technology), Jennifer Howard-Grenville (Judge Business School), Carl Ek (Computer Science and Technology), Shailaja Fennell (Land Economy), Manish Chhowalla (Material Science & Metallurgy), William Sutherland (Zoology), Andrew Friend (Geography), Nik Petek-Sargeant (Archaeology), Zhaoyang Liu (Land Economy), Liliana Janik (Archaeology), John Clarkson (Engineering), Henry Moss (Applied Mathematics), Lynn Dicks (Zoology), Thomas Spencer (Geography), Roderic Jones (Chemistry), Chiara Giorio (Chemistry), Adam Pellegrini (Plant Sciences), Andrew Balmford (Zoology), Carol Brayne (Cambridge Public Health), Srinivasan Keshav (Computer Science and Technology), David Coomes (Plant Sciences), Emily Lines (Geography), Jennifer Gabrys (Sociology), Laura Diaz Anadon (Land Economy), Paul Dupree (Biochemistry) Landscape Regeneration Solutions to the Interlinked Extinction and Climate Crises that support Sustainable Development

Open Society Foundations

David Sneath (Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies) Steppe Socialism Conference

Regional Studies Association

Stefania Fiorentino (Land Economy) The Regional Studies Association Research Network on VOICES (Visions on Inequality, Community, Exclusion, and Spatial Justice)

Royal Society

Ying Jin (Architecture) From decoding high density to spatial elucidation: A new approach to developing effective interventions for high-density urban areas in the UK and China
Ben Marwick (McDonald Institute) Beyond narrative: Applying evolutionary models to the archaeology record to test hypotheses of human cultural history

Swiss National Science Foundation

Michal Gath Morad (Architecture) EVIDENT: Evidence-Based Architectural Design of Emergency Departments for Greater Communication, Collaboration and Care Delivery

Templeton Religious Trust

Sriya Iyer (Economics) On Religion and Economic Development

Turning SouthEast

Yasser Quershi (Divinity) Reading Classical Ash‘arism in its Avicennan Context: Study of a Theological Framework

UKRI

Charlotte Collins (CHIA) How humans inspire AI for life sciences research
Niamh Gallagher (History) Ireland and the 'ends' of the British Empire, 1886 to the present
Joseph Webster, Paul Fletcher and Richard Holton (Divinity, Psychiatry, Philosophy) Exploring the Grey Zone: A Biopsychosocial Approach to Religious Delusions and Conspiracy Beliefs

Wise Qatar Foundation

Hilary Cremin (Education) Progressive Education in Qatar: a Cambridge - Academyati Research Collaboration

Youth Endowment Fund Charitable Trust

Paolo Campana (Criminology) Networks of Youth Violence: A Relational Approach to Prevention