Current / Recent Departmental Research Projects

This page lists current and recent departmental research projects which have attracted targeted internal and external investment, and which have produced or will produce significant research publications. For individual interests, please see the staff profiles and Research clusters pages.

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Liquid Knowledge

The rise of uroscopy in medieval Byzantine and Arabic medicine.

Simon Swain, Caroline Petit and Uwe Vagelpohl

Wellcome Discovery Award (2026-2031)

Streamlining Galen

Medical Summaries and the Transmission of Medicine in Medieval Islam

Uwe Vagelpohl and Simon Swain

Wellcome Trust Collaborative Award (2019-2026)

Rome and the Coinages of the Mediterranean

Kevin Butcher

ERC Advanced Grant (2019-2026)

Care of the Other

Seneca and the Work of Mourning

Victoria Rimell

Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2022-2024)

Rome's Imagined Africa

Elena Giusti

British Academy Research Fellowship (2022-2023)

The Evolution of Tiberian Political Discourse

Alison Cooley

Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2020-2022)

The Materiality of Graeco-Roman Festivals

Zahra Newby

Leverhulme Trust Research Project (2017-2021)

Token Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean

Clare Rowan

ERC Starting Grant (2016-2021)

Galen's Commentary to the Hippocratic Epidemics

Uwe VagelpohlWellcome Trust Research Fellowship (2012-2018)

Coin finds from Basilica Aemilia

Suzanne Frey-Kupper

2014-2016

Historia Numorum Sicily

Suzanne Frey-Kupper with Keith Rutter and John Morcom