The research projects of the faculty units are nationally and internationally networked and include numerous large-scale projects, collaborative projects and individual projects. The remarkable academic achievements of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in the area of research are reflected not least in its great success in acquiring third-party funding. It has an excellent external funding ratio (ratio of external funding raised to the university's financial contribution), which has been around 60 percent in recent years (2014-2017).

• nccr - on the move, sub-project "Dealing with Crises and Liminal Situations: The Agency of Ukrainian and Syrian Forced Migrants in Three National Contexts", Prof. Dr. Walter Leimgruber (Leading House: University of Neuchâtel)

PRIMA

• Early Childhood and Dynastic Reproduction at Princely Courts, 1600-1800: European and Global Perspectives, Nadine Amsler
• Le Rire des vers, Anne-Sophie Bories
• Gendered Security Strategies: How Women Matter in the Policy and Practice of Countering Violent Extremism, Elizabeth Mesok
• Red Tower of Babel: Soviet minorities experiment in interwar Ukraine, Olena Palko
• Au-delà du texte. Les nouvelles compositions funéraires d'époque gréco-romaine : textualité et archéologie à Thèbes, Sandrine Marie Vuilleumier

Eccellenza

• Shared Reading in the Age of Digitalization: Online Discussions, Face-to-Face Groups and the Role of Absorption in the Promotion of Reading and Well-Being, Moniek Kuijpers
• PRECURBICA - Precarious Urbanisms in Coastal Africa, Jon Schubert

SNSF Starting Grant

• EGRAPSA: Retracing the evolutions of handwritings in Greco-Roman Egypt thanks to digital palaeography, Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello
• Killing to Keep: Violent Field Practices and Imperial Natural History in the Long Nineteenth-Century, Marie Muschalek
• Aspirational Urbanism and the Recodification of Defiance (ASPIRA), Julie Ren

SNSF Consolidator Grant

• Just Parenthood: The Ethics and Politics of Childrearing in the 21st Century, Sabine Hohl
• Futures Interrupted: Social pluralism and political projects beyond coloniality and the nation-state, Falestin Naïli

SNSF Advanced Grant

• The Night Side of Music: Towards a New Historiography of Musicking in Europe, 1500-1800, Hanna Walsdorf

• Intersensoriality.Achieving the intelligibility of multimodal resources in and for social interaction, Lorenza Mondada
• The contemporary history of the impact of Richard Wagner's 'Judaism in Music', Matthias Schmidt
• Intimacy, Im/Mobility, and Belonging across Africa and Europe, George Paul Meiu
• Class identity politics: the (new) political role of social class in Western Europe, Denise Traber
• SwissBritNet: Swiss-British cultural exchange and knowledge networks 1600-1780, Ina Habermann
• Connecting the Dots:Reconstructing the Social Production of Suspicious Knowledge, Oliver Nachtwey
• Inherited Futures? Objects, Time, Knowledge, Lorena Rizzo
• Resonating networks.Discursive, spatial and personal hubs of research paradigms in Old Norse studies (1650-1950), Lena Rohrbach
• The Albanian Language in Antiquity, Michiel de Vaan
• Economies of Space. Practices, Discourses, and Agents on the Basel Property Market (1400-1700), Lucas Burkart
• Rethinking collapse: the fall of Sybaris (ca. 510 BC) and the transformation of Greek colonial space, Martin A. Guggisberg
• A conceptual framework for sustainable consumption - bridging perspectives in a boundary concept (Frame4SC), Antonietta Di Giulio
• Mapping the Scriptures in Western Sephardi Literature, Harm den Boer
• Mobility, social structures and dynamics in late antique Basilia and in early medieval Bazela, Peter-Andrew Schwarz
• When and why do citizens distrust politicians? The role of the representative function, Stefanie Bailer
• Urban Biographies of the Roman and Late Antique Worlds: Antinoopolis and Heracleopolis in Egypt, c. 100 - c. 650 CE, Sabine R. Huebner
• Crisis and Praxis, Gunnar Hindrichs
• Improving the visibility of Equatorial Guinea as a Spanish-speaking country, Sandra Schlumpf
• Argumentative discourse skill levels of school children, Martin Luginbühl
• The (In)Audible Past, Ute Holl
• People and Houses. Dwelling, Constructing and House Keeping in Rural Switzerland, Walter Leimgruber
• The Roman Egypt Laboratory: Climate Change, Societal Transformations, and the Transition to Late Antiquity, Sabine R. Huebner
• Pressed to write. On digital editing and researching Friedrich Nietzsche’s manuscripts for printing 1886-1889, Hubert Thüring
• International Peacemaking in Pursuit of a "Good Peace": Integration or Separation?, Laurent Goetschel
• L'italiano istituzionale svizzero: analisi, valutazioni, prospettive (It-Ist_CH), Angela Ferrari
• Beyond the 3Rs - Developing a 21st century account of strains and harms in animal research, Matthias Eggel
• 3Rs and the Ethics of Transition, Nico Müller
• Contentious Non-Compliance with Pandemic Response, Oliver Nachtwey
• Reversing the Gaze: Towards Post-Comparative Area Studies, Elisio Macamo
• Participatory Knowledge Practices in Analogue and Digital Image Archives, Walter Leimgruber
• Everybody speaks about the weather: An EMCA approach to weather in social interaction, Lorenza Mondada
• Historical Perspectives on Comparative Philosophy: A Digital Humanities Mapping Approach and Paul Masson-Oursel as Nodal Point for a Global History, Ralph Weber
• Bureaugraphies.Administration After the Age of Bureaucracy, Markus Krajewski
• Food coalitions beyond the local scale: spaces for a democratic sustainability transformation, Manfred Max Bergman