Research projects and grants (since 2008)
Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) Stakeholder Workshop Programme, Centre for Comedy Studies Research (CCSR), 2022-2025, £3500.
Research Seminar Series Awards 2019-2020, Brunel University of London, Centre for Comedy Studies Research (CCSR) ‘Beyond a Joke’: Censorship and Free Speech Seminar Series 2019-2020’, £2499.
Global Lives Research Centre Project Funding 2018-2019, Brunel University of London, Satire, Populism and Brexit, £2500.
Research Seminar Series Award 2018-2019, Brunel University of London, Centre for Comedy Studies Research (CCSR) and Department of Education ‘Beyond a Joke’: Comedy and Critical Thought Seminar Series 2018-2019, £2494.
Research Seminar Series Awards 2017-2018, Brunel University of London, Centre for Comedy Studies Research (CCSR) and Magna Carta Institute (MCI) ‘Beyond a Joke’: Comedy, Politics and Populism Seminar Series 2017-2018, £2489.
Research Seminar Series Awards 2016-2017, Brunel University of London, Centre for Comedy Studies Research (CCSR) ‘Beyond a Joke’: Comedy, Identity and Offence Research Seminar Series 2016-2017, £2478.
Research Seminar Series Awards 2015-2016, Brunel University of London, Centre for Comedy Studies Research (CCSR) and Magna Carta Institute Comedy and Politics: Putting the ‘Mock’ into Democracy Research Seminar Series 2015-2016, £2418.
Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts, 2014. The Comedy Asylum withBrightsparks Comedy Asylum, The Bradgate Mental Health Unit, Big Difference Company, Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust and Beauty & Utility Arts), £8020.
School of Advanced Study: University of London, AHRC and BA, 2014, Being Human: A Festival of the Humanities, Feeling Funny, Being Human: What Can Humour Tell Us About Being Human?, £1500.
Research Seminar Series Awards 2014-2015, Brunel University of London, Comedy Matters Research Seminar Series 2014-2015: Comedy, Health and Disability, £2494.
Research Seminar Series Awards 2013-2014, Brunel University of London, Comedy Matters Research Seminar Series 2013-2014, £2388.
Brunel Research Initiative & Enterprise Fund (BRIEF) 2013-2014, Brunel University of London, Examining ‘Race’, Racism and Representation: An audience reception study of the comedy of Sacha Baron Cohen, £13994.
Sir Halley Stewart Trust Research Grant, Exploring the Potential of Disabled Comedians in Improving the Lives and Experiences of Disabled People, 2012, £3100.
The Rhetoric of Racist Humour: Analysing the Role of Humour in Racism, April 2009-March 2010 (ESRC: £60442)