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.
2024
Countermapping Urban Palestine
01/01/2024 → 31/07/2024
Research
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
Aislinn Connor (working title)
02/01/2023 → 03/03/2025
Research
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 Nablus: Literary/Digital Maps
01/12/2022 → 31/07/2023
Research
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 → …
Research
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