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Current projects
2024
Dr Alex Hall
Volunteers and vulnerabilities: the politics of policing partnerships
Professor Jean Grugel
Understanding Latin American Challenges in the 21st Century - LAC-EU
Dr Nick Ritchie
Irreversibility and Nuclear Disarmament
2023
Professor Anastasia Shesterinina
Understanding Civil War from Pre- to Post-War Stages: A Comparative Approach
UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship - Round 4
Professor Martin Smith
The Rise of the Chaotic State: Decline, Decadence and Failure in UK Government
Leverhulme Trust - Major Research Fellowship
2022
Dr Udit Bhatia
Pluralist Agreement and Constitutional Transformation (PACT)
AHRC - Standard grant
Dr Sara De Jong
Brokers of Conflict and Migration
British Academy - Mid-career Fellowship
Dr Barnaby Dye
FCDO Geographical Focus ESRC Policy Fellowship
ESRC - Policy Fellowships
Professor Paul Gready
Can the Arts Save Human Rights? Human Rights Truth-Claims in a Post-Truth Era
AHRC - Standard grant
Dr Joe Turner
Channel Crossings: Irregular journeys, policies and politics in the English Channel
ESRC - Standard grant
2021
Dr Harriet Gray
The ‘Comfort Women’ and the Silence Breakers: Memorialising Sexual Violence as Feminist Politics
ESRC - New Investigator Grant
Dr Dan Keith
Regional inequalities and attitudes towards trade in a divided post-Brexit society
Dr. José Ciro Martínez
Sovereign Haze: Hashish, Trafficking and the Illicit in the Western Mediterranean
ESRC - Standard grant
Dr Andrea Peinhopf
ESRC White Rose DTP Postdoctoral Fellowship
2020
Professor Nina Caspersen
Dynamics of de facto state patron-client relations
Research Council of Norway
Dr Susan Forde
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship 2020
Dr Eva Heims
ESRC - New Investigator grant
Professor Martin Smith
Public Expenditure Planning and Control in Complex Times
The Nuffield Foundation
2019
Dr Alex Hall
Sea Ports and Security: The politics of the minor border
British Academy - Humanities and Social Sciences - Tackling the UK’s International Challenges 2019
2017
Professor Tim Stanton
Rethinking Civil Society: History, Theory, Critique
Leverhulme Trust Research Leadership Award