Specialist Research Projects
2024-2025: Secured European Research Council funding through the Body-Politics project (PI: Marianne Hem Eriksen, Grant agreement No. 949886) to co-organize an international workshop, with Dr Alex Wilson, entitled Law and the Body at the University of Leicester 27-28 February 2025.
2023-2025: Berit Wallenbergs Stiftelse Research Project funding (grant number: BWS 2022.0040) for the research project A Landscape of Death: Changes in Customary law in Viking and Medieval Scandinavia (translated from Swedish: Dödens landskap: Sedvanerätt i förändring i vikingatid och medeltid) (Co-I along with Christine Ekholst (Uppsala, PI) and Alexandra Sanmark (University of the Highlands and Islands, Co-I).
2022-2023: UKRI Participatory Research Fund funding for the initial phases of the Suffolk’s Cooking Heritage: Food, places, and Recipes, 1650 – 1850 research project (Co-I along with Mike Sauter (Suffolk) and Harvey Osborne (Suffolk))
2021-2023: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship (ref: 756-2021-0499) to undertake postdoctoral research at Université de Montréal.
2021-2022: Wallace Johnson Program Fellowship research funding to work towards the publication of my first monograph.
2015-2018: Elphinstone Scholarship to undertake doctoral research at the University of Aberdeen
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning & Public Outreach Research Projects
2023-2026: University of Suffolk School of Social Sciences and Humanities core funding awarded to develop an archaeological handling exhibit of medieval artefacts for the history department. Experimenting with both 3D printing and historical reproductions.
2023-2024: UKRI Policy Development Fund funding to develop a co-created policy playbook for higher education institutions. This project led to an important new output from the Learning Hubs project (below) which sets a new standard for ethical, engaged co-creation in diverse learning communities.
2022-2023: UKRI Participatory Research Fund funding for the initial phases of the Co-Creating Learning Hubs research project (Project team co-I under PI Dr Ivana Lessner Lištiaková (Suffolk)). This project brings students and staff together to co-create digital learning resources for skill development to be deployed across the School of Social Sciences and Humanities.
Feb. 2020: University of Nottingham School of English Research and Knowledge Exchange Committee funding. Principal Applicant to re-establish a regular Norse and Viking Seminar for staff and research students in the Centre for the Study of the Viking Age.
Apr. 2019: Digital literacy pilot project at the University of Nottingham: awarded technology for developing blended and inclusive learning environments.