Currently Active Grants in AHSS
The list below is a sample of currently active research grants across the School of Arts and Humanities and School of 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
AHRC: Research Grants
- Rachel Ballantyne and Poppy Szaybo (Archaeology and Plant Sciences) Online atlas of past animals and plants in the Fens
- Sandra Brunnegger (CRASSH) Nasawe'sx ya'yu'cenxi (Weaving Our Own Justice): Justice and Authority in the Nasa Communities of the Sa'th Tama Kiwe Territory, Caldono, Colombia
- Donal Cooper (History of Art) Serious 3D for Art and Architectural History
- Celia Donert (History) Globalising Gender Studies after the Cold War: Histories and Movements, 1985-2025
- Jonathan Duquette (AMES) Beyond the Court. Sanskrit Expert Knowledge in Brahmanical Communities of the Kaveri delta, 1650-1800
- Sally Faulkner (MMLL) Invisibles e insumisas / Invisi'veis e insubmissas: Leading Women in Portuguese and Spanish Cinema and Television, 1970-1980
- Jean-Michael Johnston, Co-I (History) Imperial Afterlives: Life in the Wake of the German Empire, 1918-34
- Alastair Key (Archaeology) Cutting-edge technology (CET): the mechanical optimisation of stone technologies by early humans in Africa
- Paul Lane (Archaeology) Aadaa: Intergrating Policies on Pastorialist Cultural Heritage and Climate Change in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia
- Mary Laven (History) Objects and Spaces of Encounter in Renaissance Italy
- Samuel Lunn-Rockcliffe (Archaeology) Reimagining Forest Futures Through Citizen Science Archaeology
- Marcos Martinon-Torres (Archaeology) "Small performances": investigating the typographic punches of John Baskerville (1707-75) through heritage science and practice-based research
- Flora Samuel (Architecture) Public Map Platform
- Darshil Shah (Architecture) CamBoom: Championing inclusion in cricket with engineered bamboo bats
- Ioanna Sitaridou (MMLL) Tracing the African roots of Sri-Lanka Portuguese
- Phil Stastney (Archaeology) A FAIR Fenland Deposit-modelling Dataset
Ax:Son Johnson Foundation
British Academy: Academy Research Projects
British Academy: CNRS and The British Academy Knowledge Frontiers Symposium
- Anna Wood (Social Anthropology) Urbanism network building in francophone West Africa
British Academy: Early Career Network Cluster
British Academy: Global Professorships
- Quentin Deluermoz (History)Rethinking Nineteenth-Century European Modernities
- Saloumeh Gholami (FAMES) Persisting Through Change: A Study of Oral Literature and Cultural Interaction in the Zoroastrian Community
- Eric Winsberg (HPS) Complex Modelling and Political Decision Making: Addressing Technical and Moral Problems
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
- Natalia Buitron Arias (Social Anthropology) Enhancing Research about Amazonia: A Mentorship Programme for Brazilian Early Career Researchers
- Caroline Lanskey and Shannon Philip (Criminology and Sociology) Strengthening Research, Writing and Publishing Capacity for Early-Career Humanities and Social Sciences Scholars in Kenyan Universities in Rural Setting: A Writing Workshop for Sustainable Development in Kenya
- Pauline Rose (Education) Building Research Capacity through Writing: A Workshop for Researchers in African Countries
British Academy: Mid-career Fellowships
British Academy: Postdoctoral Fellowships
- Shruti Balaji (POLIS) At the Cold War’s Margins: New Theory of Indian Women's Pacifist Thought
- Lydia Barnes (MRC) Understanding generalisation: Prediction, attention, and neural mechanisms
- 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
- Salvatore Morra (Music) Italian-Arab Musical Encounters (1860-1960): Sound, Colonisation and Power
- Miguel Ohnesorge (HPS) Measuring Planets: Quantification in Geophysics
- Dominic Pollard (Archaeology) Between the Local and Global: A Multi-scalar Comparative Analysis of Urbanisation in Iron Age Greece, Etruria and Sicily
- Tomaz Potocnik (Classics) How to Hedge in Latin: A pragmatic Approach
- Daniel Sutton (Classics) Voting Against Democracy: The Athenian Revolution of 411
- Aristel Skrbic (Law) The price of “Fortress Europe”: Or, how the EU’s migration policies undermine its constitutional imaginary
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
- Nviktoriia Vdovuchenko (Slavonic Studies) Transforming Security Dynamics in the Black, Baltic and Mediterranean Seas: From Periphery to the Core of European Security
British Academy: Small Grants
- Zaid Aziz (History) Toil and Trouble: Workers, Citizenship and the Afterlives of Empire
- Alexander Cairncross (Theoretical and Applied Linguistics) What really lingers along the garden path?: Exploiting pseudorelatives to disentangle syntactic and semantic explanations for good-enough parsing effects
- James Clark (Archaeology) The Old Park Palaeolithic Project: Investigating the Earliest Acheulean in Britain
- Carolin Hoeltken (Land Economy) Housing Conditions and Long-Term Outcomes in the UK
- Carsten-Andreas Schulz (POLIS) Waves of Imperialism: "Effective Occupation" in Chile's Annexation of Rapa Nui in 1888
- Elena Sottilotta (MMLL) Fairy-Tale Weavers: Unravelling Women’s Hidden Networks and Forgotten Voices in Nineteenth-Century Italian Folklore and Children’s Literature
- Alexander Weide (Archaeology) Capital economies in ancient Mesopotamia: reconstructing palatial cuisines and agricultural systems at Carchemish, Niniveh, and Dur Kurigalzu
- Lauren Wilcox (POLIS) Land and Flesh: Corporeal Formations in Global Politics and (In)Security
- Aiora Zabala (Land Economy) AI-generated information for climate-smart agriculture adoption in the U.S.
British Academy: UK-German Frontiers
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 Educational Research Association
- Steve Watson (Education) Dialogic Use of Generative AI to Support Students with SEND in Secondary Maths Classroom
British Institute of Persian Studies
- Steve Renette (Archaeology) Kani Shaie Project 2025 - Hellenstic-Parthian
British Institute for the Study of Iraq
- Steve Renette (Archaeology) Lagash Archaeological Project 2026
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 (Archaeology) | 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)
- 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 (Archaeology) 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 (Archaeology) ENTANGLED: Entangled materialities and new global histories from southern Africa (ERC Starting, 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
- Catherine Barnard (Law) Picking, packing and plucking: International Migration in the post Brexit world
- Mihai Hotae (History) Summit meetings, state visits, and trade: Romania's triangular relationship with the US and the UK, 1974-1980
- Sarah Hall (Geography) Levelling up? Implications and impacts of changing geopolitical landscapes for the UK's economic geography
- Susanna Hulley (Criminology) MoJ Improving Outcomes UKRI Policy Fellowship
- Thelma Obiakor (Education) Enhancing Learning Outcomes in Nigeria through Effective Language of Instruction Policies
- Lalitha Sundaram (Centre for Future of Intelligence) FCDO Building a secure and resilient world, arms control and non proliferation UKRI Policy Fellowship
- Flavio Toxvaerd (Economics) CMA Competition and Productivity Economics UKRI Policy Fellowship
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
International Mastercard Research Catalyst Funding
- Richardo Sabates Aysa (Education) Empowering Teachers to Foster Climate-Resilient Youth: A Research-Based Development of the 'One Child One Tree' Educational Package
Isaac Newton Trust: Research Grant
- Alex da Costa (English) Multilingual Manuscript Cultures and the Case of CUL MS Gg.1.1
- Fiona Smyth (Architecture) Spectres and Camouflage: The Sound of Silence (1938-1970)
Käte Hamburger Kolleg
- Natalia Buitron Arias (Social Anthropology) Indigenous Sovereignities: legal models for self-determination in Ecuadorian Amazonia
KPMG
- Diane Coyle, Gordon Thomas Harold, Zhao Qingyuan (Bennett School of Public Policy, Education, Maths) Mental Health Literary Training Project
Leakey Foundation
- John Rowan (Archaeology) Late Miocene hominin evolution in the Turkana Basin, Kenya
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
- Harriet Baker (English) The Painter's Notebook: Life-Writing by Twentieth-Century Women Artists
- 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 (Archaeology) 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
- 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
- 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
- Katharine Ellis (Music) Catholic music of the French Concordat, 1801–1905
- Matthew Gandy (Geography) Zoonotic urbanisation
- Emma Gilby (MMLL) Women and the making of modern languages: a new modernism
- Priyamvada Gopal (English) Decolonisation: the life and times of an idea
- Shruti Kapila (History) New India: passions and power in the world’s largest democracy
- Helen McCarthy (History) The social experience of retirement in Britain science 1945
Leverhulme Trust: Philip Leverhulme Prizes
- Lea Niccolai (Classics) Philip Leverhulme Prize
- John Rowan (Archaeology) Philip Leverhulme Prize
- Henry Spelman (Classics) Philip Leverhulme Prize
Leverhulme Trust: Research Fellowships
- Anna Berman (MMLL) Russia’s greatest forgotten novelist: Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya
- Alexander Bird (Philosophy) Creativity across the arts and sciences
- Edmund Birch (MMLL) Industrial literature: Alexandre Dumas, empire and nation
- Doyle Calhoun (MMLL) Florence: an enslaved childhood between abolitions
- Donal Cooper (Art History) Poverty’s price: experiencing Franciscan art in late medieval Italy
- Sarah Dillon (English) AI and literature: rhetoric, influence and epistemology
- Laura McMahon (MMLL) Feminist remediations: archival reworkings in feminist film and video, 2000–2025
- Kathryn Moeller (Education) Silicon futures: how Silicon Valley venture capitalists influence education
- Catherine Pickstock (Divinity) The poetic metaphysics of Plato
Leverhulme Trust: Research Project Grants
- Graham Denyer Willis (Centre of Development Studies) The prison consensus: incarceration, investment and inequality in Brazil
- Vincenzo Vergiani (AMES) An intellectual history of late Vedanta, 1750–1900
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 (Archaeology) Social settlement dynamics and environmental processes in pre-colonial Nigeria: growing the Igbo-Ukwu cultural landscape (SosDen)
- Annapaola Fedato (Archaeology) 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 (Archaeology) Production and Dispersion of Silk Road Glass in Central Asia
- Erin O'Halloran (Archaeology) GUERNICA AS ORIENT
- Rocco Rotunno (Archaeology) 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 (Archaeology) Spatial and Critical Approaches to Industrial Heritage Landscapes
Mind Association
- Julia Borcherding (Philosophy) A Force That Binds: Love in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy
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 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