Research projects

Principal investigators: Jarad Zimbler, Jade Bentil, Michelle Kelly, Henry Brefo.

Archives in Action (AiA) gathers scholars, archivists and community organisations whose work focuses on or is based in West Africa and its diaspora.

Project status: Ongoing

Principal investigators: Zoë Norridge, Rachel Kerr, Nicola Palmer.

How can researchers draw on culturally sensitive arts methodologies to explore civilian responses to living with the threat or reality of resurgent conflict?

Project status: Ongoing

Principal investigators: Jarad Zimbler.

Exploring the 'craft wars' debates on the decolonization of poetry in the Global South.

Project status: Ongoing

Principal investigators: Liliana Bounegru, Jonathan Gray.

KingsCAT is an instance of the open source 4CAT: Capture and Analysis Toolkit set up to support interdisciplinary and collaborative social media research.

Project status: Ongoing

Principal investigators: Jana Dambrogio, Daniel Starza Smith.

This collaborative and interdisciplinary project based on the study of 250,000 archival documents sets out a complete theory for the study of letterlocking.

Project status: Ongoing

Principal investigators: Dr Zeena Feldman.

Establishing an interdisciplinary network of academic, policymaking, and civil society stakeholders to address the policy needs of the UK’s LGBTQ+ population.

Project status: Ongoing

Principal investigators: Jarad Zimbler.

Addressing fundamental questions about literary materials and their appropriation, with a focus on arts education and cultural production in Ghana.

Project status: Ongoing

Principal investigators: Clare Birchall.

REDACT - Analysing how digitalisation shapes the form, content, & consequences of conspiracy theories, including online sociality & offline actions and effects.

Project status: Ongoing

This project provides insights for policy-makers and frontline practitioners about revictimisation for survivors of trafficking and modern slavery.

Project status: Ongoing

Connecting researchers and activists to address societal problems.

Project status: Ongoing