Research News
The latest research news from across the University
Latest News
24 January 2012
Leverhulme Fellow examining psychological aspects of world's largest religious gathering
Dr Clifford Stevenson, Leverhulme Research Fellow in the Psychology Department, recently travelled to Allahabad in India to investigate the Magh Mela, the largest religious gathering on earth (photo).
Find out more about Dr Stevenson's Magh Mela research.
9 January 2012
Researching Popular Performances: Faculty of Arts collaboration with Winchester Theatre Royal
Researching Popular Performances is a series of free public talks and discussions led by researchers in the Department of Performing Arts. The events are held at the Theatre Royal Winchester alongside the theatre’s spring programme.
For more information and the full list of events, visit the Performing Arts News and Events page.
4 January 2012
Funding awarded to Psychology Department for high-impact seminar series
Dr Clifford Stevenson, Leverhulme Visiting Research Fellow in Psychology, has been awarded £3000 by the British Psychology Society for a seminar series on the Social Psychology of Citizenship.
Find out more about the BPS funding
20 December 2011
'The Arts and the Big Society: sticking plaster or resistance?'
The Centre for Research into the Arts as Well-Being will host this two-hour seminar on interventions in health contexts and the politics of arts on Wednesday 29 February 2012.
For more information on the seminar, visit the Public Events Calendar or click HERE.
24 November 2011
Psychology academic appointed Research Chair of Indian National Institute of Design
Dr Valérie Bonnardel, Reader in Experimental Psychology, has been appointed Colour Research Chair of the National Institute of Design (NID) in Ahmedabad, India, one of the foremost multidisciplinary institutions in the field of design education and research.
Read more about Dr Bonnardel's work at the NID
Recent News
27 October 2011
Winchester archaeologists part of international team making headlines
ARCA, the University's archaeology consultancy, is carrying out geoarchaeological investigations as part of an international team that has just made a spectacular discovery in Sint-Geertruid, in the rolling hills of the southern Netherlands.
Photo: ARCA Director Dr Keith Wilkinson (foreground) and Dutch collaborator Yannick Henk investigating the stratigraphy of the trench.
Read more about ARCA's involvement in the Sint Geertruid excavation
21 October 2011
'Zombosium' explores zombie culture and the media
On Sunday 28 Oct, Winchester University is host to an international symposium on zombie culture and how it has spread across the media.
Find out more about the Zombosium
20 October 2011
Historic agreement with Georgian National Museum
Dr Paul Everill from the Archaeology Department has signed an important agreement with the National Museum of Georgia, which will facilitate closer collaboration and knowledge exchange.
Photo: Dr Paul Everill (r) and Prof. David Lomitashvili with the signed agreement.
Find out more about the agreement with the Georgian National Museum
Find out more about the Archaeology Department's research collaboration in Georgia
13 October 2011
History Department awarded 0.5 million in AHRC research funding
Professor Michael Hicks, Head of History, has been awarded £528,000 by the AHRC for the Inquisitions Post Mortem digitisation project, a collaboration with King's College London.
Find out more about funding for the IPMs project
7 September 2011
University welcomes Leverhulme Trust-funded Visiting Research Fellows
The University is delighted to welcome Dr Norbert Schürer from California State University Long Beach and Dr Clifford Stevenson from the University of Limerick, who will be spending ca a year in Winchester as Visiting Research Fellows.
Dr Schürer joins the Faculty of Arts to work on a project investigating the regional print culture of the eighteenth century in Hampshire, with a particularly focus on Winchester book trades. He will be working alongside Professor Chris Mounsey and Dr Debbie Welham from the Department of English, Creative Writing and American Studies, who hope to combines the research skills and interests in the department with Dr Schürer’s expertise in book history.
Dr Stevenson joins the Psychology Department in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, where he will be working with Dr Russell Luyt on three different research themes: ‘Gender and National Identity’, ‘Radicalisation of Marginalised Communities’ and ‘Identities and Helping Behaviour’.
22 August 2011
Sports Science Consultancy Unit supports future British Olympic hopefuls
Jo Batey, Senior Lecturer in Sport & Exercise Psychology and an accredited Sport and Exercise Scientist, has been providing support to the British national archery team.
Read more about support to Team GB Archery
20 July 2011
Funding for Arts academics
Lecturer in English Dr Ruth Gilbert has been awarded a research fellowship of nearly £40,000 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council for a project investigating contemporary British-Jewish literature.
Read more about Dr Gilbert's research
Programme Leader in Street Arts John Lee, working with the company Fuse, has been awarded over £36,500 by the Arts Council and £28,000 from other sources, to support and develop the International Emergent Artists Festival, which will take place on 23 July in Taunton, Somerset.
Find out more about the Emergent Artists Festival
11 July 2011
Research funding for Faculty of Business, Law and Sports academics
Sports lecturer Elwyn Cox and the Faculty of BLS's Research-Informed Teaching Officer Sabine Bohnacker-Bruce have been awarded Higher Education Academy research funding.
Read more about HEA funding in BLS
8 July 2011
British Academy funding for geoarchaeological survey
30 June 2011
British Academy funding for History academic
Dr Tom Lawson, Reader in Modern History, has been awarded a British Academy Mid Career Fellowship to take a year out to research and write an important book on the role of genocide in the history and memory of the British Empire.
Read more about Dr Lawson's Britain and genocide project
30 June 2011
Research highlights new trends in the sociology of sports
Winchester sociologist and Professor of Sport Eric Anderson has released new research highlighting a decline in homophobia and a softening of the heterosexual masculine sports culture.
Read more about Professor Anderson's research
23 June 2011
AHRC funding for Department of Theology and Religious Studies
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Dr Neil Messer, Head of TRS, was recently awarded awarded funding for an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award on ‘Bioethics, Public Policy and the Church of England’, a collaboration between the Department and the Church of England’s Mission and Public Affairs Division.
Read more about the AHRC CDA award.
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22 June 2011
Archaeology Department launches research centre
On June 16th, as part of Universities Week, the Department of Archaeology launched its Centre for Applied Archaeology and Heritage Management (CAAHM).
Read more about CAAHM