Society and Culture Funded Projects

The Society & Culture Spotlight has funded projects through their Seed Grant Scheme to enable research activities which are both interdisciplinary and support one or more of the Spotlight鈥檚 themes.

2025-2026

Creativity, wellbeing and collaboration: A webinar to design a digital exhibition promoting the cross-cultural exchange of art-for-wellbeing experiences among young adult caregivers in Nigeria and the UK - Galina Gardiner, PGR, 果冻传媒 Medical School

Protective or precarious? The role of research centres in supporting ECRs in an uncertain higher education sector

Evan Zheng, PhD student in Education Studies & DEAR centre student rep and Emily F Henderson, Professor and Director of the Doctoral Education and Academia Research Centre

UK Latin American Historians (UKLAH) Annual Meeting

Professor Thomas Long, Politics and International Studies

2024-2025

It's The End Of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine): Popular Culture, Global Politics, and the Generation of the IR Knowledge -

Professor Trevor McCrisken, Politics & International Studies

Investigating Innovation: Raising Awareness of Science Parks - Panagiotis Kyriakopoulos, Research Fellow, WBS

Pounamu and the history of knowledge - Michael Bycroft, Associate Professor, History

Democracy, System, Design: A Workshop - Professor Michael Saward, Politics & International Studies

REWIND - Professor Alison Ribeiro de Menezes, School of Modern Languages and Cultures

An Archipelago Aflame - Professor Kate Astbury, School of Modern Languages and Cultures

Adapting LaleoLab: A Multicultural Approach to Gender Awareness in Education - Dr Sara Parisi, Dr Andreana Pastena, Ninna Makrinov, David Reynolds