Current Awards

Dr Ellen Swift ( Archaeology)
Design for living: artefact function and everyday social practice in the Roman world.
British Academy Small Research Grant (Chittick Fund)

Dr. Vikki Janke (English Language and Linguistics)
Acquisition of Syntactic and Pragmatic Aspects of Control and Binding: a comparison between autistic and non-autistic children. ( British Academy Small Research Grant)

The School of European Culture and Languages has been awarded a grant of £43, 662 from the AHRC Skills Development award scheme to run a training programme on 'Researching the contemporary moral landscape: concepts, methods and approaches to public engagement'.

Many thanks to Gordon Lynch who put together the successful bid for this award. 

Dr Efrosyni Boutsikas (Classical and Archaeological Studies)
Ancient Greek Mystery Cults (British Academy Small Research Grant)
Myth, Ritual and the Cosmos: Greek Astronomy in Ancient Athenian Culture (British Academy Small Research Grant)

Professor Jeremy Carrette (Religious Studies)
Religious Non-Governmental Organizations and the United Nations in New York and Geneva (AHRC Large Grant, Religion and Society scheme)

Dr David Corfield (Philosophy)
A Dialogue on Infinity (Templeton Foundation Award)

Professor Laurence Goldstein (Philosophy)
Exploitation of Context in Communication (Leverhulme Trust International Network Grant)

Dr Evangelos Kyriakidis (Classical and Archaeological Studies)
Minoan Peak Sanctuaries of Central Crete (Institute for Aegean Prehistory Award)
Minoan Constellations (Cotsen Foundation Award)
Initiative for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (Cotsen Foundation Award)
Centre for the History of Archaeology (Cotsen Foundation Award)

Dr Csaba La'da (Classical and Archaeological Studies)
Greeks, Jews and Egyptians: An Alphabetically Arranged Tax List of a Multi-Cultural Village in Ptolemaic Egypt (P. Vindob. G60514-60518) (British Academy Small Research Grant)

Dr Luke Lavan (Classical and Archaeological Studies)
Excavations at Ostia, Port of Rome (University of California, Los Angeles Grant)

Dr Anna Katharina Schaffner (Comparative Literature)
Poetry Beyond Text: Vision, Text and Cognition (Arts and Humanities Research Council Large Research Grant)

Dr Natalia Sobrevilla Perea (Hispanic Studies)
Barbara S. Mosbacher Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, USA
Recovering the Provincial Nineteenth-Century Press: Survey of Newspapers Held in National and Regional Archives in Peru (British Library Endangered Archives Programme)

Dr Susanne Wagner (Centre for Language and Linguistic Studies)
Null Subjects in English (Leverhulme Visiting Fellowship)

Professor Jon Williamson (Philosophy)
Mechanisms and the evidence hierarchy (AHRC award)
Causality Across the Levels: Biomedical Mechanisms and Public Health Policies (British Academy Research Development Award)
Mechanisms and Causality (Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant)
In Defence of Objective Bayesianism (Leverhulme Research Fellowship)

Recent Awards

Professor Graham Anderson (Classical and Archaeological Studies)
Romancing Royalty: Kingship Fiction in the Graeco-Roman World (Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2005-8)

Dr Adam Bartley (Classical and Archaeological Studies)
Near Eastern Hellenistic and Imperial Literature (German Academic Exchange Service Reinvitation Scheme for Former Stipendium Holders, Summer 2008)

Dr Antonio Lázaro-Reboll (Hispanic Studies)
Spanish Horror Film (AHRC Research Leave Scheme Award, 2007-8)

Dr Karl Leydecker (German)
Divorce in the German Novel in the Long Nineteenth Century (German Academic Exchange Service: Study Visits for Senior Academics Scheme, Summer 2008)

Professor Peter Read (French)
Apollinaire et les artistes: correspondance, 1902-1918 (AHRC Research Leave Scheme Award, 2007-8)

Dr Axel Stähler (Comparative Literature)
The Playwright as Author Icon: The Case of Arnold Wesker (Mellon Research Fellowship, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Summer 2008)

Professor Jon Williamson (Philosophy)
The Levels of Causality / Causality Study Fortnight (British Academy Small Research Grant, 2008)
Probabilistic Logic and Probabilistic Networks (progicnet) (Leverhulme Trust International Network Grant, 2006-8)