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Research Projects

We are a research active department, which means every member of staff is regularly taking part in projects associated with their research areas.

Projects

Recent research projects are listed below.

2023

Addressing the Histories and Legacies of Colonialism in Romantic-period Literary House Museums: Dove Cottage and Beyond
01/09/2023 → 31/08/2024
Research

Scottish Book Trust New Writers' Awards 2023 Judge
15/07/2023 → 30/11/2023
Consultancy

Storying Nablus: Literary/Digital Maps
31/03/2023 → 29/09/2023
Research

BBC National Short Story Award 2023 Judge
13/03/2023 → 26/09/2023
Consultancy

“Women’s Iconography in the Twenty-First Century”
13/02/2023 → 31/03/2025
Other

AHRC Follow on Fund: Steampunk Sherlock Holmes: Knowledge Exchange through Experiential Reading in Minecraft
01/01/2023 → 30/09/2023
Research

Modern Lesbian Medievalisms
01/01/2023 → …
Research

Steampunk Sherlock Holmes: Knowledge Exchange and Impact through Experiential Reading in Minecraft
01/01/2023 → 30/09/2023
Research

2022

Mapping networks of influence and exclusion in correspondence collections
01/08/2022 → 31/07/2023
Research

The Future of Human Reproduction: new agendas and methods for the Humanities and Social Sciences
22/04/2022 → 22/07/2025
Research

IAA - AHRC Impact Acceleration Account
01/04/2022 → 31/03/2026
Research

Connecting Mobilities Research between the UK and South Korea: narrating, mobilizing, experimenting and engaging mobilities for a just future
01/02/2022 → 31/07/2023
Research

Receptor: Walking the Late Medieval Manor
01/02/2022 → …
Other

MCIF: Hybridizing Creative Writing Research: A Creatical Self-Portrait (CRESP)
01/01/2022 → 31/12/2024
Research

2021

A Living Language Approach to Old English Pedagogy
01/05/2021 → …
Research

Humphry Davy's Notebooks: How Poetry Helped Create Scientific Knowledge
18/01/2021 → 18/07/2024
Research

Scree: A Digital Guidebook to Reimagining the Lake District Fells
01/01/2021 → …
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Transforming Middlemarch: A Genetic Edition of Andrew Davies’ 1994 BBC Adaptation of George Eliot’s Middlemarch
01/01/2021 → 31/03/2023
Consultancy

2019

Dancing with Words
01/05/2019 → 31/10/2019
Other

Crowdsourced Transcriptions of Humphry Davy's Notebooks
11/03/2019 → 10/12/2019
Research

Places of Poetry
01/01/2019 → 31/10/2019
Research

2018

The Places of Poetry: a community arts project
03/12/2018 → 30/11/2019
Research

Shrewsbury Quarry: excavating the past; imagining the future
17/11/2018 → 18/11/2018
Research

Fenland Pilgrimage
01/10/2018 → …
Research

Dramatizing Penshurst: "Love's Victory" and the Sidneys
01/08/2018 → 31/12/2018
Research

North West Black Asian Minority Ethnic and Refugee Playwrights Development Scheme
13/04/2018 → 14/12/2018
Research

2017

Graphic Futures
17/10/2017 → 30/06/2018
Research

Chronotopic Cartographies
01/10/2017 → 31/01/2021
Research

Digital Threads:Towards a Personalised Craft Production in Malay Cottage Industries
14/02/2017 → 13/02/2019
Research

2016

After Fukushima: Working with Children to Build Community Resilience
01/10/2016 → 30/11/2016
Research

Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare's Language
01/05/2016 → 31/10/2019
Research

ISF: Mobile Utopia 1851 - 2051
01/02/2016 → 31/12/2016
Research

Tall Tales: Women Artists' Playful Exploration of the Human Experience
01/02/2016 → 31/07/2016
Other

Through the Weather Glass Installation Tour
01/01/2016 → 31/12/2016
Other

2015

Geospatial Innovations in the Digital Humanities: A Deep Map of the English Lake District
19/10/2015 → 19/10/2018
Other

FASS Funded Project with Young Carers
01/05/2015 → 15/08/2015
Other

Teaching poetry through movement
01/05/2015 → 31/12/2018
Research

2014

Border Masculinities
19/09/2014 → 19/09/2016
Other

Poor Souls' Light: Seven Curious Tales
15/08/2014 → 30/01/2015
Other

North-West Writers into Schools
30/04/2014 → 30/06/2015
Other

The Author and the world: New interdisciplinary approaches to authorship
06/01/2014 → 05/01/2016
Research

2013

1964: the future of the university
01/12/2013 → 01/12/2015
Other

The Longest Night: Five Curious Tales
01/08/2013 → 30/01/2014
Other

The Surface Studies Network
01/06/2013 → …
Other

Poetry and Landscape Workers project
01/03/2013 → 01/10/2013
Research

2012

Culture, Politics, Eschatology: A Symposium
21/09/2012 → 22/09/2012
Other

The Barrow Rapture
01/09/2012 → 31/12/2015
Other

Manchester Letters
14/06/2012 → 21/11/2012
Other

2011

Corpus Research in Early Modern English
01/10/2011 → …
Research

Station Stories
01/05/2011 → 20/07/2011
Other

Rethinking the Adaptation/Theorization Debate
01/02/2011 → …
Other

2008

The Whinnie Face
31/08/2008 → 31/08/2009
Other

Shakespearean Surfaces: Reading, Writing and Performing Superficiality in Sixteenth-Century England.
01/08/2008 → …
Other

2007

The chronotope in the age of cinema
01/11/2007 → …
Other

Radiophonics
01/10/2007 → …
Other

Touch
01/10/2007 → …
Other

Terrorism Before the Letter
01/06/2007 → 01/10/2008
Other

Adapting 'Shirley' For the Screen
01/05/2007 → …
Other

British Literature and the Rise of Picture Identification
01/01/2007 → …
Other

Children in horror fiction and film
01/01/2007 → …
Other

2006

Blackwell Companion to Crime Fiction
30/11/2006 → 30/12/2009
Other

Criminal Confessions
01/11/2006 → …
Other

Moving Manchester: How the experience of migration has informed writing in Manchester from 1960-the present.
01/01/2006 → 31/12/2010
Other

1900

Big Stories/Straeon Mawr
01/01/1900 → …
Other

How can using a bilingual creative process reinforce a feeling of belonging and develop an awareness of attainment and progress in primary school children?
01/01/1900 → …
Other

Literature, Adaptation, and New Media
01/01/1900 → …
Research

Reading Teacher=Reading Pupils
01/01/1900 → …
Other

Visiting Professorship - Professor Miguel Vatter
01/01/1900 → …
Research