Current projects

The following projects and fellowships currently receive external funding. If you would like details of your project to be included please contact the Faculty of Arts Research Development officer (maxag@bristol.ac.uk).

Title of project School/department Principal investigator
Remembering Television Arts (Drama: Theatre, Film and Television) Dr Helen Piper
Project title: In the Shadow of Things Arts (Drama: Theatre, Film and Television) Mr Peter Metelerkamp
Knowing Science, Knowing Medicine Arts (Philosophy) Professor Alexander Bird
Classics for the Masses: socialist realism and the Western canon in Soviet music, 1917-1964 Arts (Music) Dr Pauline Fairclough
The Home Front (1914-1918) and its Legacies: a Pilot study for a national public archaeology recording project of First World War Legacies in Britain: 2014-2018 Arts (Archaeology and Anthropology) Ms Emily Glass
High Resolution Imaging Arts (Drama: Theatre, Film and Television) Mr Terry Flaxton
Portraits of the Working People of Somerset Arts (Drama: Theatre, Film and Television) Mr Terry Flaxton
Performing Documents: modelling creative and curatorial engagements with live art and performance archives Arts (Drama: Theatre, Film and Television) Professor Simon Jones
Colour in the 1920s: Cinema and its Intermedial Contexts Arts (Drama: Theatre, Film and Television) Professor Sarah Street
Creation of the Derek C. Hulme Digital Sound Archive Arts (Music) Dr Pauline Fairclough
Scientific Knowledge Arts (Philosophy) Professor Alexander Bird
Foundations of Structuralism Arts (Philosophy) Professor James Ladyman
Darwinism and the Theory of Rational Choice Arts (Philosophy) Professor Samir Okasha
Epistemic Utility Theory: Foundations and Applications Arts (Philosophy) Dr Richard Pettigrew
The Power and the Water: Connecting Pasts with Futures Humanities (History of Art) Professor Peter Coates
A Traveller’s Tales: Myth and Storytelling in Pausanias’ Periegesis Humanities (Classics and Ancient History) Dr Greta Hawes
Bronze Age Carian Iasos Humanities (Classics and Ancient History) Dr Nicoletta Momigliano
Thucydides: reception, reinterpretation and influence Humanities (Classics and Ancient History) Professor Neville Morley
Baths and Bathing in Medieval Literature and Society Humanities (English) Professor Elizabeth Archibald
The Album Poem and Nineteenth-Century Manuscript Culture Humanities (English) Dr Sam Matthews
The Dynamics of the Medieval Manuscript: Text Collections from a European Perspective Humanities (English) Professor Ad Putter
The Verse Forms of Middle English Romance Humanities (English) Professor Ad Putter
Vanessa Bell's "Experimental Works" 1912-17 Humanities (History of Art) Dr Grace Brockington
Internationalism and Cultural Exchange 1870-1920 (ICE) Humanities (History of Art) Dr Grace Brockington
My Games: The View From The South West Humanities (History of Art) Dr Mike O'Mahony
Der Blaue Reiter Centenary Conference Humanities (History of Art) Dr Dorothy Rowe
Know Your Place Humanities (History) Professor Robert Bickers
An Archive for China Humanities (History) Professor Robert Bickers
The Places that Speak to Us and the Publics We Talk With: Shaping Environmental Histories Humanities (History) Professor Peter Coates
Holocaust Landscapes Humanities (History) Dr Tim Cole
Getting Back to Nature: Access and Recreation in the Protected Spaces of Southwest Britain Humanities (History) Dr Marianna Dudley
Dropping out of Socialism Humanities (History) Dr Juliane Furst
The Cabot Project Humanities (History) Dr Evan Jones
Robert the Monk Humanities (History) Dr Brendan Smith
Abhidharma: the Buddhist Model of the Mind Humanities (Theology and Religous Studies) Professor Rupert Gethin
Project title Using Interactive Data Visualisations to Explore the Creative Process Modern Languages (French) Dr Bradley Stephens
The Crisis of Authority of the Liberal State in Spain: Between the Catalan Quagmire and the Red Spectre (November 1918-April 1919) Modern Languages (Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies) Dr Francisco Romero
Ernst Jünger’s Intercultural Encounters Modern Languages (German) Dr Christophe Fricker
Sleeping with the Enemy? French writers and the press: 1890-1920 Modern Languages (French) Dr Marieke Dubbelboer
Language policy and language conflict in Schleswig-Holstein 1810-1888 Modern Languages (German) Dr Nils Langer
The History of the French Language in Russia Modern Languages (Russian) Professor Derek Offord
In search of Italian cinema audiences in the 1940s and 1950s: Gender, Genre and National Identity Modern Languages (Italian) Dr Catherine O'Rawe (Co-I)