Reconstructing the environmental and societal drivers of plague outbreaks in Eurasia between 1300 and 1900
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Funded by UK Research and Innovation.
Collaboration with Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (INSERM), Institut Pasteur, University of Cambridge, University of Glasgow and University of Oslo.
Synergy-Plague focuses on what were the environmental, biological and societal drivers of the epidemiological dynamics of human plague in Eurasia during the second and third pandemics. Synergy-Plague is a true synergistic linking of/between (i) historical, climatological and biological studies of plague substantially closer together than has been done in the past, and also by bringing (ii) together a broader spectrum of environmental sciences (paleoclimatology and soil science) than ever before. In so doing, we will go beyond 'the state of the art' in the study of plague by fundamentally shifting the frontiers of plague studies within the natural sciences and the humanities.
Total award value £1,405,374.51