Research title


Small research projects
This scheme funds small projects (from £1,000 to £10,000) such as experimental initiatives, temporary research assistance, and travel and resource support for individual scholars. Nineteen projects are supported within the scheme.

See also:

Networks and Workshops Projects
Large Research Projects

Successful Applications

Applicant

Institution

Project Title

Professor John Baily

Goldsmiths College University of London

Afghan music in London and its ongoing communications with Kabul and the Afghan Transnational Community; A concert of Afghan music held on 23 November 2006.

Dr Joanne A Carruthers

University of Bristol

Performing Diaspora:Jewish Identity, Place and Nation in the Purimspiel Dramatic Traditionopens in a new window
End of year report 2007

Dr Sandra Dudley

University of Leicester

Materialising Exile:Material Culture and the Embodied Experience of Karenni Refugee-ness

Dr Ben John
Highmore

University of the West of England , Bristol

The Spice of Life: Migrating Foods and the Sensual Experience of Diasporic Culture

Dr Maria Holt

University of Westminster

Memory identity and change: a case study of Palestinian refugee women in Lebanon
End of year report 2007

Dr Maurizio Isabella

Birkbeck, University of London

Risorgimento in Exile: Italian Romantic emigres and the Post-Napoleonic Liberal International

Dr Richard Jankowsky

School of Oriental and African Studies

Black Sprits, White Saints: Sub-Saharan Music, Spirit Possession and the Geo-Cultural Imagination in North Africa

Dr Tania Kaiser

School of Oriental and African Studies

Answering Exile: how Sudanese refugees deal with displacement

Dr Susan Lok

Middlesex University

'Golden':interdisciplinary creative practice and the aesthetics and poetics of leisure and nostalgia in diaspora

Dr Harold Clive Mytum

University of York

Commemoration and Scottish emigration:graveyard memorials, texts, and symbols in Ulster , North America and Australia

Dr Deirdre Osborne

Goldsmiths College University of London

Inheritors of the Diaspora: Contemporary Black British Drama in the New Millennium

Dr Kate Pahl

University of Sheffield

Artefacts and narratives of migration: Rotherham museum collections and the Pakistan/Kashmiri community of Rotherham. www.everyobjecttellsastory.org.uk;http://vcj.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/7/2/170

Dr Christer Petley

Leeds Metropolitan University

The identities of slaveholders in the British Atlantic world: a case study of Simon Taylor

Dr Aaliya Rajah-Carrim

University of Edinburgh

Creole and technology:Building bridges among ethnolinguistic groups in Mauritius

Dr Fiona Richards

The Open University

The impact of Lutheran migration on music in Australia

Dr Nils Roemer

University of Southampton

German Jewish Travelling Cultures,1919-1939

Dr Paola Toninato

University of Warwick

The Making of Gypsy Diasporas; http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/italian/staff/paolatoninato/   

Dr Kath Woodward

The Open University

Representing Identities: Re-configuring Diaspora in the Field of Sport

Dr Hua Zhu

University of Newcastle
Upon Tyne

Duelling Languages, Duelling Values:Conversational codeswitching in intergenerational disputes in bilingual immigrant families

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