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.
AHRC: Research Grants
- Gareth Austin (History) Where have all the Workers Gone? Labour and Work in Ghana, 1951-2010
- 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
- Sally Faulkner (MMLL) Invisibles e insumisas / Invisi'veis e insubmissas: Leading Women in Portuguese and Spanish Cinema and Television, 1970-1980
- Mary Laven (History) Objects and Spaces of Encounter in Renaissance Italy
- Marcos Martinon-Torres (Archaeology) "Small performances": investigating the typographic punches of John Baskerville (1707-75) through heritage science and practice-based research
- John Munns (History) Hidden Heritage: Multi-disciplinary and Multi-sector Perspectives on the Norman Chapel, Durham
- Edwin Rose (HPS) Natural History in the Age of Revolutions, 1776-1848
- Flora Samuel (Architecture) Public Map Platform
- David Sneath (Social Anthropology) Mongolian Cosmopolitical Heritage: Tracing Divergent Healing Practices Across the Mongolian-Chinese Border
- Ioanna Sitaridou (MMLL) Tracing the African roots of Sri-Lanka Portuguese
British Academy: Global Professorships
British Academy: Horizon Europe Pump Priming Collaboration Fund
British Academy: Mid-career Fellowships
- Mina Gorji (Music) Romantic Listening: Poetry and Aurality in the Romantic Period
- Charlotte Lee (MMLL) A study of the relationship between poetry and movement
- Monica G. Moreno Figueroa (Sociology) Internalised Oppression, Defensiveness and Resentment
- Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe (Divinity) The Devil's Work: Ideas of Diabolical Agency in Late Antiquity
- Thomas Roulet (Judge Business School) Combining Spatial and Temporal Work as a Source of Resilience: An Organisational Perspective on How the French Resistance took the Maquis (1940-1944)
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
- Shruti Balaji (POLIS) At the Cold War’s Margins: New Theory of Indian Women's Pacifist Thought
- 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
British Academy: Small Grants
- Lorren Eldridge (Law) The History of the Leasehold Estate in Land
- Dimitra Lazaridou Chatzigoga (MMLL) CoIs: Edward Matthew Husband (Cambridge) and Suzi Oliveira de Lima (U of Toronto) Investigating generics across languages: a toolkit
- Elena Sottilotta (MMLL) Fairy-Tale Weavers: Unravelling Women’s Hidden Networks and Forgotten Voices in Nineteenth-Century Italian Folklore and Children’s Literature
- Leontien Talboom (UL) Future Nostalgia: Safeguarding the knowledge of floppy disks
Childhood Trust: Research Grant
EPSRC: Research Grant
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
- Pallavi Banerjee (Education) DfE Applying Behavioural Insights to Education
- 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
- 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
- Jo-Anne Dillaborough (Education) Higher Education, States of Precarity and Conflict in the 'Global North' and 'Global South': UK, Hungary, South Africa, and the UK
- 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
- David Sneath (Social Anthropology) Resource frontiers: managing water on a trans-border Asian river
- 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
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
- Estara J Arrant (University Library) Regaining lost realities: medieval Judaeo-Arabic and the society that shaped it
- Luis Fernando Bernardi Junqueira (HPS) Healing through the mind: the rise of mind-cure movements in modern East Asia
- Zora Hauser (Criminology) Mafia diplomacy: the external relations of organised crime
- Ziyu (Claude) Liu (Law) Statutory lawlessness and real lawlessness: two pathologies of a legal system
- 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
- Emmanuela Wroth (Music) Diasporic divas: racialised and gendered celebrity in Western Europe, 1715–1925
Leverhulme Trust: Philip Leverhulme Prizes
- Lea Niccolai (Classics) Philip Leverhulme Prize
- Henry Spelman (Classics) Philip Leverhulme Prize
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
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
- 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
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
