An ethnographic study of collaboration in interpreter-mediated medical consultations at a Chinese hospital Principal investigators: Peng Wang. Interpreters play a crucial role in facilitating communication between users and providers of healthcare services who don’t speak the same language. Project status: Ongoing
Arts Approaches to Resurgent Conflict in Uncertain Times Principal investigators: Zoë Norridge, Rachel Kerr, Nicola Palmer. How can researchers draw on culturally sensitive arts methodologies to explore civilian responses to living with the threat or reality of resurgent conflict? Project status: Ongoing
EmpowerESOL: supporting local Latin American parents Principal investigators: Effy Garcia, Isabel Fernandez-Moreno, Naureen Abubacker. Tackling language barriers to reduce inequalities. Project status: Ongoing
Hedgehog Humanities: Cultures and Cultivations of Distance in the Long Twentieth Century Principal investigators: Marie Kolkenbrock. Exploring cultivated physical, emotional and interpersonal distance in the 20th and 21st centuries, with inspiration from Schopenhauer’s ‘hedgehog dilemma’. Project status: Ongoing
KingsCAT: Capture and Analysis Tool for Social Media Research at King’s College London Principal investigators: Liliana Bounegru, Jonathan Gray. KingsCAT is an instance of the open source 4CAT: Capture and Analysis Toolkit set up to support interdisciplinary and collaborative social media research. Project status: Ongoing
LGBTQ+ policymaking in the UK Principal investigators: Dr Zeena Feldman. Establishing an interdisciplinary network of academic, policymaking, and civil society stakeholders to address the policy needs of the UK’s LGBTQ+ population. Project status: Ongoing
Liturgical and literary landscapes: the cult of St Oswald of Northumbria in the German-speaking world Principal investigators: Johanna Dale. A research project exploring how and why St Oswald, an early-medieval English King, came to be so significant in the medieval German Empire. Project status: Ongoing
Sacred Secular: Religion and Secularity in French and German Literature of the 12th Century Principal investigators: Sarah Bowden, Susanne Friede. Investigating religious content, practices and meta-narratives in 12th century writing to compare the religious and the secular Project status: Ongoing
The Activist-in-Residence Scheme Connecting researchers and activists to address societal problems. Project status: Ongoing
Transcending Multilingualism and Multiculturalism Principal investigators: Shuangyu Li. Building a cultural competency co-creation consortium and an online module on cultural competency, all through a partnership with four Circle U. institutions. Project status: Ongoing
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