About the project

Project Staff

  • Dylan Foster Evans, Cardiff University (Principal Investigator)

  • David Callander, Cardiff University (Co-Investigator)

  • Ann Parry Owen, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies (Co-Investigator)

  • Alexander Roberts, Swansea University (Co-Investigator)

  • Jenny Day, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies (Research Associate, editor of poems 8-25)

  • Ben Guy, Cardiff University (Research Associate, editor of poems 3, 5, 6)

  • Llewelyn Hopwood, Cardiff University (Research Associate, editor of poems 1, 2, 7)
     

Funding, Partners and Advisory Board

The Welsh Merlin Poetry project was funded by an AHRC grant of £716,013 for the period 1 March 2022 - 28 February 2025. Further details are available here.

The project has benefitted from collaboration with its project partner, the Royal Commission of Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales, particularly with regard to mapping.

The project's Advisory Board, who provided feedback and support throughout the process, were as follows: Thomas Charles-Edwards (Oxford); Ben Guy (Cambridge); Andrew Hawke (CAWCS); Marged Haycock (Aberystwyth); Dafydd Johnston (CAWCS); Megan Leitch (Groningen); Barry Lewis (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies); Peredur Lynch (Bangor);  Catherine McKenna (Harvard); Oliver Padel (Cambridge); Patrick Sims-Williams (Aberystwyth); Nia Williams (Museums Wales); Juliette Wood (Cardiff).