Projects
Recent research projects are listed below.
We are a research active department, which means every member of staff is regularly taking part in projects associated with their research areas.
Recent research projects are listed below.
Visiting Professorship - Professor Miguel Vatter
01/10/2024 → 31/05/2025
Research
Countermapping Urban Palestine: Nablus as Case Study (CUP)
01/09/2024 → 31/08/2025
Research
Countermapping Urban Palestine
01/01/2024 → 31/07/2024
Research
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
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 → 30/06/2025
Research
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
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
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
Writing for Wellbeing
01/08/2018 → …
Research
North West Black Asian Minority Ethnic and Refugee Playwrights Development Scheme
13/04/2018 → 14/12/2018
Research
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Addressing the Histories and Legacies of Colonialism in Romantic-period Literary House Museums: Dove Cottage and Beyond
01/01/1900 → …
Research
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