My latest research is on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Rural Economy. This  follows the award of an Arts and Humanities Council  Leadership Fellowship to work on a project entitled Ezra's Legacy and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Law and Narratives of Exclusion in the course of which I founded the Second Temple Early Career Academy, a Virtual Common Room of global reach. Before that I worked on a project funded by a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship which resulted in the first Commentary of all twelve ancient manuscripts of the Community Rules (The Community Rules from Qumran: A Commentary). I was, further, host scientist-in charge for the European Research Council funded Marie Curie Fellowship of Dr. Angela Harkins and co-investigator with Isabel Wollaston on a three year educational project Jewish Heritage and Culture: Birmingham Perspectives.

Find out more - our PhD Theology and Religion  page has information about doctoral research at the University of Birmingham.