Research funding

Over the course of my academic career I have successfully applied for funding from a range of sources, in the UK including UKRI, and internationally. Prior to starting my PhD in 2014 I worked in educational engagement at the University of Leeds where I had a strong track record for attracting funding for my work and that of the wider academic school. 

Research funding

External Research and Knowledge Exchange grants awarded to date

Over £390,000 external funding awarded 2014-2022 (including AHRC funding for doctoral research).

• 02/2023: PI. Participatory Research Call (Research England). Supporting adoptive parents through multi-arts creative practice. c. £14,300. 

• 08/2022: PI. Economic and Social Research Council Festival of Social Sciences public engagement event ‘Re-Emerge’. £1,000. 

• 09/2021: PI (academic). NHS Leeds Hospitals Trust (with The Art House Wakefield, as lead partner). Re-emerge. £75,000.

• 07/2021: Lead. Jyväskylä University visiting researcher scheme. 3,000 Euro.

• 01/2021: Co-applicant (with Rebecca Lawthom). White Rose Social Sciences Doctoral Training Programme Collaborative Award (with Genuine Partnerships, Rotherham, UK). Hopes and fears about growing up: A co-produced approach to understanding young people’s lived experiences of transition to adulthood. £80,000.

• 06/2020: Co-applicant (with Sabine Little). Economic and Social Research Council Festival of Social Sciences public engagement event ‘Our Super Diverse City’. £3,400. 

• 06/2020: Co-Principal Investigator (with Becky Parry). Arts and Humanities Research Council XR Stories ‘StoryBox’. £100,000.

• 06/2019: Principal Investigator. Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Festival of Social Sciences public engagement event ‘Multilingualism in the City’. c. £1,500.

• 01/2019: Co-applicant (With Lou Harvey). British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) and Cambridge University Press seminar ‘Creative Inquiry in Applied Linguistics: Purposes, Practices, Possibilities’ (10-11 July 2019). c. £2,650.

• 12/2018: Principal Investigator. Multilingual Manchester (Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)/Open World Research Initiative (OWRI)/Cross Language Dynamics) for ‘Multilingual streets: Translating and curating the linguistic landscape’. c. £30,000. (12/2018).  

• 08/2017: Co-applicant (with Duncan Martin). Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) National Coordinating Outreach Programme (NCOP), Go Higher West Yorkshire (GHWY), lead applicant (Institute of Childhood and Education, Leeds Trinity University). Successful tender for a scoping project into methodologies for researching and evaluating outreach and engagement activity with young people.  £25,000.

• 02/2016: Co-applicant (with James Simpson) Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Connected Communities Utopias Festival for ‘Migration and Home: Welcome in Utopia’. £20,000. (02/2016).

• 03/2014: AHRC Doctoral Studentship. (School of Education, TLANG project, PI Angela Creese). c. £54,000.

Internal Research and Knowledge Exchange grants awarded to date

Over £43,000 awarded in internal research and knowledge exchange grants from 2015 – 2022.

• • 09/2022: Lead applicant: ERASMUS staff mobility scheme to Jyväskylä University, Finland for invited talk October 2022. 1355 Euro. 

  • 03/2022: Lead applicant. University of Sheffield Social Research Internships. c. £1500.

  • 10/2021: Lead applicant. University of Sheffield HEIF for impact and engagement activities with The Art House, Wakefield. c. £2500.

  • 08/2021: Lead applicant. University of Sheffield NPIF for impact workshops with cultural and creative partners, including High Rise Project. c. £2500.

  • 02/2018: Lead applicant. Leeds Trinity University Knowledge Exchange Development Fund (KEDF) to develop the Institute of Childhood and Education (ICE)’s knowledge exchange activities. c. £5,000 (total awarded).

  • 01/2018: Lead applicant. Leeds Trinity University HEFCE Driving Social Mobility through Degree Apprenticeships (DSM), GHWY, for research and evaluation of the DSM project. c. £4,000.

  • 07/2017: Lead applicant. University of Leeds Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures Out There Challenge for impact and engagement event for ‘What is Culture’ event, linked to TLANG Project and Leeds City Council Culture Strategy. c. £600.

  • 02/2017: Co-applicant (with James Simpson). University of Leeds Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (ESSL) 2017 Undergraduate and Research Leadership Scholarships (UGRLS) for an undergraduate scholar to work on LangScape Curators related research and activities. £4,000.

  • 07/2016: Co-applicant (with James Simpson). University of Leeds Leeds Social Science Institute (LSSI) Impact Acceleration Fund. Co-applicant for ‘Migration and Settlement: Extending the Welcome’, a continuation of the AHRC-funded Utopias Festival project. £15,000.

  • 11/2016: Lead applicant. University of Leeds Educational Engagement Social Sciences Cluster for development and delivery of ‘LangScape Curators’ summer school. £2,000.

  • 11/2016: Lead applicant. University of Leeds Educational Engagement Social Sciences Cluster for development and delivery of ‘LangScape Curators’ workshops, IntoUniversity, Leeds South. £1,500.

  • 07/2016: Lead applicant. University of Leeds Educational Engagement Social Sciences Cluster for development and delivery of ‘LangScape Curators’ workshops, IntoUniversity, Leeds East. £1,500.

  • 10/2015: Co-applicant (with Lou Harvey). University of Leeds Centre for Language Education Research for Language Research, Performance and the Creative Arts seminar, £300. 

  • 08/2015: Lead applicant. University of Leeds Educational Engagement Social Sciences Cluster for research and development of schools-based materials based on TLANG research into linguistic landscapes. c. £650.

  • 02/2015: Lead applicant. University of Leeds LSSI Placement Scheme for social audit of Harehills-based social enterprise. £1,990. Funding for widening participation and outreach activities (2005-2014)

Widening participation and outreach activities funding

Over £400,000 awarded for widening participation and outreach activities in arts and modern languages 2005 – 2014, including for Routes into Languages Yorkshire and Humber.