Examples of taxpayer-funded AHRC studies

£4,531,869 in funding total below

The Europe that Gay Porn Built, 1945-2000

Funded Value: £841,830

Sequins, Self & Struggle: Performing and Archiving Sex, Place and Class in Pageant Competitions in Cape Town

Funded Value: £189,017

Remediating Stevenson: Decolonising Robert Louis Stevenson's Pacific Fiction through Graphic Adaptation, Arts Education and Community Engagement

Funded Value: £809,334

Perverse Collections: Building Europe's Queer and Trans Archives

Funded Value: £136,909

Asexual Epidemics, Detectives and Spinsters: the construction of pathological asexuality in Victorian fiction

Funding = Studentship (more funding info here and below)

“You could get:

• a minimum stipend of £19,237 per year for your living costs, which is paid to you in regular instalments

• support for your tuition fees (minimum £4,786 per year)”

Peopling of the Tularosa Playa during the Last Glacial Maximum

Funded Value: £714,845

Decolonising the Museum: Digital Repatriation of the Gaidinliu Collection from the UK to India (DiMuse)

Funded Value: £805,769

Trans Performance Now: Glitching cisgenderism

Funded Value: £185,627

Trans Archiving Network (TAN)

Funded Value: £23,556

And the study I wrote about on Sunday:

Diverse alarums: centering marginalised communities in the contemporary performance of early modern plays

Funded Value: £805,745