Dr Gwilym Dodd is Associate Professor of Medieval History, University of Nottingham. Dr Dodd will be the leader of research strand 2. He has been the principal investigator on grants from the British Academy and AHRC and is the author of Justice and Grace: Private Petitioning and the English Parliament (2007) and co-editor of Medieval Petitions: Grace and Grievance (2009) and Petitions to the Crown from English Religious Houses (2010).