First published in CommUnicate issue 315.

Professor Simon Swain, Head of the Department of Classics and Ancient History, has been awarded one of 26 Major Research Fellowships from the Leverhulme Trust, for his study into Bryson’s Household Management.

The Fellowships are designed to allow well-established researchers to dedicate themselves to a single project of outstanding originality and significance, where a period of concentrated research is necessary and which can be completed within two to three years. All fields within Humanities and Social Sciences were eligible to apply.