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 |
| Notts schools and transatlantic slavery |
PIs: John Baker (INS) (with Sarah Badcock, History). |
Research England QR |
01/12/2020 - 31/03/2021 |
| Staffordshire Placenames Digital Interface |
Jayne Carroll, John Baker |
UoN Interdisciplinary Research Cluster, £2.1k |
01/04/2020 - 31/07/2021 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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)
|
03/08/2020 - 16/10/2020
|
| 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 |