2015

• Giants in the City: Mythic History as Material Culture in London from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century. British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship. 

2013

• Material Witness: The Interrogation of Physical Objects for Humanities Researchers. AHRC Collaborative Skills Development scheme.  February 2013-July 2015. £53k. 

2008-12

• Contributor to the AHRC-funded ‘Wollaton Medieval Manuscripts: Texts, Owners and Readers’ project, based at Nottingham University (PI: Thorlac Turville-Petre, University of Nottingham, and Ralph Hanna, Professor of Palaeography, Oxford).  Initially funded by the AHRC’s ‘large grants’ scheme in 2008, and recently awarded further funding. 

2010-13

• Contributor to DocExplore2, a collaboration between the School of Engineering and Digital Arts and the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent, and computer scientists and archivists at Rouen and Le Havre, to develop digital tools for the analysis and presentation of historical manuscripts (www.docexplore.eu). The University of Kent component of the INTERREG IV grant is €207,457 over three years (2010-2013).  

2007

• Colyer Fergusson Fund from the University of Kent research grant for travel, £500  

2003

• Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Research Support Grant, £1000  

2003

• Raised funds to support the ‘Under the Influence’ conference from the British Academy, Christie’s, the Courtauld Institute Research Committee, and Sam Fogg  

1996-1999

• Overseas Research Student Grant

• Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, 2013-present 
  
• Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, 2012-present 
  
• Member, The Bibliographical Society, 2012-present 
  
• Member, British Archaeological Association, 2007- present
  
• Honorary Research Fellow, University College London, Department of History, 2005-7 
  
• Palaeography and Diplomatic Teachers’ Group, Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies University of London, 2002-6
  
• Steering Committee, Research Centre for Illuminated Manuscripts (RCIMS), Courtauld Institute of Art, 2000-8. The RCIMS is a co-operative of academics and curators based at the Courtauld Institute, the University of Kent, the British Library, and the Victoria and Albert Museum with strong links to centres in Leuven and Lille.  
• Vision Committee, Courtauld Institute of Art, 2001. External member of the committee that prepared a document outlining the Courtauld Institute’s strategy for development as it sought independent college status.

• Leadership for Areas of Significant Responsibility (LASR), a leadership development programme run by the University of Kent, 2013/14
• PGCHE (Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education), University of Kent, 2008

TV & DVD 

• Contributor to ‘Are you having a laugh? Comedy and Christianity’, BBC1, first broadcast 21 March 2013
  
• Contributor to ‘The Beauty of Books: Medieval Masterpieces’, BBC4, first broadcast 14 February 2011 
• Presenter of ‘In Search of Medieval Britain’: 6 x 30 minute episodes, part of BBC4’s 2008 ‘Medieval Season’. Series first broadcast in spring 2008, and re-transmitted in autumn 2010
  
• Scripted and presented an Open University DVD on Renaissance manuscript illumination for their module AA315: Renaissance Art Reconsidered, produced by Illuminations Media, 2006 
• Interviewed for Channel 4 news item on the Chaworth Roll exhibition and publication, February 2005
  
• Consultant for the Terry Jones ‘Medieval Tales’ series (Oxford Film and TV), BBC2, 2003