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Research Projects

Recent research in the INS consists principally of etymological survey work, such as the Place-Names of Shropshire project, and interdisciplinary collaborations, such as Flood and Flow, Travel and Communication, Landscapes of Governance and related outputs.

The research contributes to our understanding of medieval perceptions of place, particularly highlighting aspects of linguistic and cultural identity.

For more information about postgraduate research within INS, please see the doctoral research page.

Current projects

Current research projects

Project	Principal Investigator	Awarding body / Award	Period
Survey of English place-names	Jayne Carroll	British Academy	Ongoing
Field-naming practices in Upper Onny (Shropshire)	Jayne Carroll	AHRC IAA	01/03/2023 - 31/10/2023
Enhancing UK Flood Resilience: Past Floods, Present Threats, Future Responses	Jayne Carroll Co-I (with Richard Jones, University of Leicester)	AHRC, £44.9k	01/01/2020 - 31/12/2022
The Staffordshire place-name project	Jayne Carroll and John Baker	Multiple	2017 – present
Flood and Flow: Place-names and river system hydrography past, present, future	Jayne Carroll (with University of Leicester; University of Wales)	Leverhulme Trust, £49.7k	Ongoing. Funded: 01/08/2016 - 31/07/2018
The Place-Names of Shropshire	PI: Jayne Carroll. Co-I: Paul Cavill (with David Parsons, University of Wales, and English Place-Name Society)	AHRC, £715k	Ongoing. Funded: 01/01/2013 - 31/12/2016

 

Past projects

Past research projects

Project	Principal Investigator	Awarding body / Award	Period
Notts schools and transatlantic slaver	PI: John Baker (INS), with Sarah Badcock (History)	Research England QR	01/12/2020 - 31/03/2021
Learning the landscape through language: Place-names and childhood education	PI: John Baker (INS). Co-I: Jayne Carroll (INS)	AHRC Follow-on Funding for Impact, £75.8k; UKRI Covid extension funding, £28.5k	Ongoing. Funded: 01/09/2019 - 30/11/2020
Staffordshire Placenames Digital Interface	Jayne Carroll, John Baker	UoN Interdisciplinary Research Cluster, £2.1k	01/04/2020 - 31/07/2021
Review of statues, blue plaques, street plaques and street-names in Nottingham which celebrate individuals directly involved in transatlantic slavery	PIs: John Baker (INS) and Sarah Badcock (History). Co-I: Jayne Carroll (INS)	ESRC Impact Acceleration Account, £10k (School share £4.4k)	03/08/202 0 16/10/2022
Travel and Communication in Anglo-Saxon England	Jayne Carroll Co-I (with Andrew Reynolds, UCL)	Leverhulme Trust,£122.6k	01/11/2014 - 31/10/2017
Digital Exposure of English Place-names (DEEP)	Jayne Carroll (with Centre for e-Research, King's College London; EDINA and Language Technology Group (LTG), University of Edinburgh; Centre for Data Digitization and Analysis (CDDA), Queen's University Belfast)	JISC, £181k	01/11/2011 - 31/07/2013
The Suffolk place-names project	Paul Cavill	Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History	Jan 2015 - Jan 2016
Travel and Communication in Anglo-Saxon England	Jayne Carroll Co-I (with Andrew Reynolds, UCL)	Leverhulme Trust,£122.6k	01/11/2014 - 31/10/2017
Digital Exposure of English Place-names (DEEP)	Jayne Carroll (with Centre for e-Research, King's College London; EDINA and Language Technology Group (LTG), University of Edinburgh; Centre for Data Digitization and Analysis (CDDA), Queen's University Belfast)	JISC, £181k	01/11/2011 - 31/07/2013
The Impact of Diaspora in the Making of Britain: Evidence, memory and invention	Jayne Carroll (with University of Leicester)	Leverhulme, £81.2k	01/01/2011 - 31/12/2015
Landscapes of Governance: Assembly sites in England, 5th-11th centuries	Jayne Carroll Co-I (with Andrew Reynolds, UCL; Barbara Yorke, Winchester)	Leverhulme, £119k	19/10/2009 - 18/10/2012
Beyond the Burghal Hidage: Anglo-Saxon Civil Defence in the Viking Age	PI: Andrew Reynolds (UCL). Co-I: David Parsons.	Leverhulme Trust and British Academy, £205,648	01/10/2005 - 30/09/2008
Perceptions of Place: English place-name study and regional variety	Jayne Carroll and David Parsons	AHRC, £330.5k	01/09/2005 - 31/08/2010
A Key to English Place-Names	Thorlac Turville-Petre	AHRC, £66.7k; £7.3k	2004; 2005
Vocabulary of English Place-Names	Thorlac Turville-Petre	AHRC, £196.4k; £10.5k	2001 - 2005; 2006
The Whittlewood Project	Centre for English Local History (University of Leicester) in collaboration with INS	AHRC
Survey of English Place-Names	David Parsons	AHRC, £332,000	[1999] – 2004

 

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