Grants

2022

The National Archives’ Archives Revealed Cataloguing Grant, with Holocaust Survivors’ Friendship Association, for the project Unlocking the Holocaust in the North of England (£17,900)

University of Huddersfield’s International Collaboration Fund with Alex Kay (University of Potsdam) to translate and publish A Boy’s Diary from the Siege of Leningrad (£3,000)

2021

University of Huddersfield’s School Impact Fund with David Rudrum (English) to produce student-led anthology ‘Through Our Eyes: A Student-Produced Anthology of Holocaust Survivors’ Testimonies from the North of England’ (£3,500)

UKRI’s Quality Related Research Strategic Priorities Fund 2020-21 for professional policy training for Dr Rob Piggott and myself (£1,896).

2020

Swiss National Science Foundation, (75,000 CHF), SPARK fund for international collaborative project with Dr Elisabeth Möckli (University of Fribourg/Geneva) held at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting at the University of Geneva to undertake 12 month project on the role of translation in humanitarian action in modern warfare.

University of Huddersfield (£1100), International Sabbatical Fund, for presenting at conferences in Vienna, Austria and Florence, Italy.

2019

University of Huddersfield, England, (£1500) International Sabbatical Fund, for collaborative research project with Dr Elisabeth Möckli (University of Fribourg/Geneva) to visit the Swiss Federal Archives in Bern, Switzerland, and offer a one-day event at the University of Huddersfield for interdisciplinary scholars in northern England about translation and humanitarianism in modern warfare.

2017

Roosevelt Institute, USA ($1,750 USD) for independent postdoctoral research in the FDR Library, Hyde Park, New York

University of Edinburgh, Economic and Social History Research Group (£200) towards costs to host one-day international workshop on childhood history and experiences

2016

University of Edinburgh, Research Student Support Fund (£500)

2014

University of Edinburgh, Research Student Support Fund (£250)

2013

University of Edinburgh, MacMillan Scholarship (£3,950) for best international student doctoral thesis in their second year

Centre for the Study of Modern Conflict Fund (£444) for archival research relating to modern conflict

University of Edinburgh, Research Student Support Fund (£400)

2009

University of Calgary, Graduate Student Scholarship ($3,500 CAD)

University of Calgary, Graduate Research Scholarship ($2,500 CAD)

University of Calgary, Teaching Assistantship ($15,000 CAD)

2008

University of Calgary, Graduate Research Scholarship ($2,500 CAD)

University of Calgary, Teaching Assistantship ($7,500 CAD)

Province of Alberta, Queen Elizabeth II Open Scholarship ($10,000 CAD)