Funded Research Projects

Grant Recipients and Funded Projects 2026-27

Project Grants

• Alessandro Columbu, University of Westminster, Women Writing Existence: Existentialism, Form, and Feminist Thought in Modern Arabic Literature
• Ann-Christin Zuntz, University of Edinburgh, Fashioning futures – Informal female entrepreneurship in fast fashion supply chains in Jordan
• Colleen Morgan, University of York, Gaza on the Shelf: Palestinian Heritage in Museum Collections
• Louise Martin, UCL Institute of Archaeology, Wadi al-Dahek, the ‘White Desert’ in Jordan’s eastern Badia: Excavation of (Middle/Earlier) Palaeolithic occupations, and expansion of archaeological survey
• Muna Dajani, London School of Economics and Political Science, Njasa cisterns as living communal artefacts
• Nir Arielli, University of Leeds, Community Perspectives on the Changing Dead Sea Environment

Workshop Grants

• Alija Avdukic, University of Dundee – School of Business, Islamic Finance, Migrant Entrepreneurship, and Financial Inclusion in the Levant
• Georgia Andreou, University of Southampton, Strengthening Capacity for Maritime Heritage Management in Jordan and Palestine

Andrea Zerbini Award

• Kaja Bator, Jagiellonian University, Documentation of Water-Related Features at the Archaeological Site of Tūwāneh, Tafila-Hesa, Jordan
• Niklas Jungmann, Humboldt University Berlin, Sustainability and Luxury. The Water Management of the Ancient Nabataean City of Petra.

Grant Recipients and Funded Projects 2025-26

Project Grants

• Jen Baird, Birkbeck College, The Ruins of Local Memory: Archaeological Archives and Post-Conflict Planning
• Hannah Owens, University of Hertfordshire, Locating the Rural in International Aid Work
• Una McGahern and Rawan Nuseibeh, Newcastle University (Una), Higher Education and the Right to the City in Jerusalem: A Spatial History of Al Quds University (AQU)

Workshop Grants

• Maria Gloria Polimeno, SOAS University of London, Effects and Implications of Ecocides in Lebanon: Relevance in State Rebuilding and Stabilisation
• Jenny Scott, University of Bristol, Bristol Medical School, Developing an academic network to study the role of pharmacies and pharmacists in substance use disorders in Jordan

Andrea Zerbini Award

• Charlotte Vekemans, Ghent University, The Political Economy of Heritage Development in Jordan
• Grzegorz Sochacki, University of Warsaw, Satellite Imagery and Surveys in Reconstructing Jordan’s Agriculture

Grant Recipients and Funded Projects 2024-25

Project Grants

• Ashjan Ajour, University of Wolverhampton, Home, Displacement, and Intergenerational Hope: Palestinian Women in Refugee Camps in Jordan
• Joanne Clarke, University of East Anglia, Eastern Jordan Holocene Environmental Project (EJHEP)
• Louise Martin and Mathew Jones, University College London, Wadi al-Dahek, the ‘White Desert’ in Jordan’s eastern Badia: archaeological, geological and palaeoenvironmental survey
• Veronica Occari, University College London, Making Crusader Glass: Production, Trade and Technological Change
• Michelle Obeid, University of Manchester, Food activism at the intersection of economic collapse and anthropogenic climate change in Lebanon
• Benjamin White, University of Glasgow, Four ways of looking at the history of a refugee camp
• Mazen Iwaisi, Queens University Belfast, Sports Museum in the Palestinian Reef (Rural Areas): Untold Stories

Travel Grants

• Felicia Marchi Beltrao Campos, University of Edinburgh, Palestinian Futurities: rap, hip hop and future-making of Palestine
• Alaa Hajyahia, University of Cambridge, Ethnography of Palestinian Movement Lawyering

Research Support Grants

• Tareq Awwad, Independent, Amman, Basic information on the factors that shaped the relationship between Syrians and the archaeological sites, based on local voices (Syrian displaced in Lebanon and Jordan as a case study, 2021-2022).

Andrea Zerbini Award

• Giulia Albertazzi, University of Cyprus, The shapes of water: the ecological, productive and ideological dimensions of the humanwater relationship in Prehistoric and Protohistoric Cyprus

Grant Recipients and Funded Projects 2023-24

Project Grants  

• Kamal Badreshany, Durham University, The Koubba Project: the origins of complex society in north Lebanon 
• Emilio Distretti, School of Architecture – Royal College of Art, Architecture of Repair: heritage conservation, resistance and healing in rural Jerusalem 

• Imad El-Anis, Nottingham Trent University, Climate change adaptation and resilience-building in refugee communities in Jordan 

• Diala Lteif, University of Cambridge, Slaughterhouse Struggle: Space, Time and Ideology in Beirut’s class conflicts of the 1960s 

• David Petts, Durham University, British colonial architecture in Jordan and its management in a post-colonial context: The case for As-Safawi compound: Phase II 

• Denys Pringle, Cardiff University, ʿAqaba Castle (Qalʿat/Khān al-ʿAqaba): Final publication of the British-Belgian survey and excavations of 2000–4 

• Bruce Routledge, Liverpool University, The Nabataean Temple at Dhiban: Before, during and after the ASOR excavations 

• Nasser Tuqan, Newcastle University, Achieving Resilient Agricultural Sector in Palestine Through Sustainable Water Use 

Research Support 

• Loaay Wattad, Tel Aviv University, Children’s Literature as an Articulation of Resistance: Writing for Children in Palestine 

Travel Grants 

• Marya Hannun, University of Exeter, Between Pan-Islamism and the Eastern Women’s Congresses: Integrating Arab and Afghan Women’s Movements in the Early Twentieth Century 

• Joel Stokes, University College London, Heritage A&E’ in East Jerusalem: Palestinian Heritage Praxis, Agency, Efficacy, and legitimacy under military occupation 

• Riya Al’Sanah, University of Exeter, Predatory Inclusion:  Financial Markets, Housing and Palestinian Citizens of Israel 

• Jan Altaner, University of Cambridge, Urban Poverty, Precarious Housing, and Real Estate in the Political Economy of Beirut, c. 1943-1975 

• Liam Hilton, University of Exeter, Jumping the Wall: Negotiated Resistance of Bodies and Borders by Queer Palestinians between the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Israel (Working title) 

Andrea Zerbini Award  

• Eleri Connick, University of Amsterdam, The Materiality of Exile: The Palestinian House in Jordan and Lebanon 

• Andrea Villiani, University of Balearic Isalnds, Functional and ritual abandonment practices in Bronze Age Cyprus 

Grant Recipients and Funded Projects 2022-23

Project Grants 

• Bahar Baser, Durham University, Diasporic memory and heritage: intergenerational narratives of Kurdistani Jews in Israel 

• Andrew Petersen, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Mudawwara: excavation and survey of an Ottoman fort 

• Chris Sandal-Wilson, University of Exeter, Internationalisation Palestinian mental health, 1948-1967 

Fellowships 

• Rachel Mairs, University of Reading, Dragomans, archaeology and tourism in late Ottoman and mandate Palestine 

• Louise Martin, University College London, People and animals in the Jordanian Badia, past and present 

• Haneen Naamneh, London School of Economics, Under development of Arab Jerusalem in the aftermath of the Nakba – documenting the revival of local administration and infrastructure in Jordanian-ruled Jerusalem (1948-1967) 

Research Support 

• Gwendoline Maurer, University College London, Investigating changing socio-economic landscapes from the early Bronze I-II in the Levant through zooarchaeology and stable isotope analysis 

Travel Grant 

• Kirsty Bennett, Lancaster University, The sonic circulation of Fairouz and the Rahbani brothers between Beirut, Moscow and East Germany 

• Gal Kramarski, University of Cambridge, Between normalisation and normal lives: Israeli development interventions in Occupied East Jerusalem 

• Eibhlin Priestley, University of Cambridge, The Syrian diaspora in Egypt and Sudan 1899-1956: urban life, empire and mobility 

• Mayumi Sato, University of Cambridge, Centering anti-racism during a climate crisis: the pursuit of environmental justice in Palestine 

Grant Recipients and Funded Projects 2021-22

Project Grant 

• Farah Aboubakr, University of Edinburgh, Palestinian Transgressive Voices: Cultural Memory and Performative Arts in the Diaspora and Palestine 

• Ariell Ahearn, University of Oxford, Pastoralist Cultural Landscapes and Transhuman Land Rights: Wadi Dana, 20 years after the Dana Declaration 

• James Fraser, W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Khirbet Ghozlan Archaeology Project 

• Hala Ghanem, Hashemite University, Enhancing everyday outdoor experiences of refugees in Jordan:  A collaborative series of multi-level/actor workshops 

• Mehroosh Tak, Royal Veterinary College, Occupied Food Systems:  Case of Palestine 

• Carmen Ting, University of Leicester, The glaze is less opaque on the other side: Rethinking the role of the Levant in the emergence of Islamic glaze production
• Mandy Turner, University of Manchester, From the River to the Sea: Palestine and Israel in the Shadow of ‘Peace’ published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2019 

Residential Fellowship  

• Hanna Baumann, University College London, Infrastructural Exclusion, Incorporation and Contestation in East Jerusalem 

• Veronica Occari, University College London, Glass from Crusader sites:  technology, production and distribution as a reflection of a distinctive society

Networking Partnership Awards  

• Hussam Hussein, University of Oxford, The Implications of the European Green Deal for the Middle East: lessons from the EU-Jordan relations 

• David Petts, Durham University, British colonial architecture in Jordan and its management in a post-colonial context: The case for the Al-Safawi compound.

Travel Grants  

• Gerasimos Tsourapas, University of Glasgow, Arab Diaspora & Transnational Politics in Greece and Cyprus 

• Sultan Abdalrahman Al Khulaifi, University of Glasgow, Qatari Foreign Policy Towards the Israeli Palestinian Conflict 

• Jack McGinn, London School of Economics, Rural decentralised political organising in the Syrian Revolution 

• Julio Moreno Cirujano, SOAS University of London, Looking Like a State: Aesthetics and Materiality in British Mandate Palestine 

• Lindsay Ward, Birkbeck University of London, The contribution of learning to the evolution of policy following the Jordan Response Plan’s aims for young nationals, refugees and their host communities 

Grant Recipients and Funded Projects 2020-21

Project Grants 

• Lynn Welton, University of Toronto, Investigations of animal management strategies in the Early-Middle Bronze Ages in the Levant (Tell al-Hammam, Iktanu, Jordan Valley; Tell Nebi Mend, Upper Orontes Valley) via sequential isotopic analysis of animal tooth enamel (δ18O, δ13C, 87Sr/86Sr)   

Fellowships 

• Walaa Alqaisiya, London School of Economics, Queer(y)ing Palestine’s Future 

• Ralph Wilde, University College London, Bridging the divide: Exploring the potential and limitations of utilizing international human rights bodies in relation to the Israel-Palestine dispute 

Travel Grants 

• Olivia Mason, Northumbria University, Displacement and identity among Bedouin communities in Jordan 

• Ana Silkatcheva, University of Oxford, Geometric patterns on floor mosaicsas adolescents