This is a selection of past projects that that have been undertaken by members of the School of Politics and International Relations, arranged by their end date.
Funder: Leverhulme TrustPrincipal Investigator: Dr Simon ToubeauDuration: April 2025 - April 2026
During this one-year fellowship, Dr Toubeau will bring together theories from economics, political science, sociology andgeography to assess the effectiveness of multi-level states policy responses to Covid-19.
Funder: Arts and Humanities Research CouncilPrincipal Investigator: Dr Pauline EadieDuration: April 2025 - April 2026
The project examines the issue of 'tied' visas that bind migrant workers or partner/spouses to designated households in the UK. We will explore the extent to which tied visas facilitate abuse as victims are dependent on their employers or spouse/partner for their legal immigration status.
Funder: Leverhulme TrustPrincipal Investigator: Dr William DanielDuration: February 2025- January 2026
This project, led by Will Daniel, explores how politicians from different political parties – but with similar personal backgrounds – use personal commonalities as a way of building professional connections that can ultimately relieve contentious forms of polarisation.
The project takes inspiration from scholarship on ethnic and gender identity’s effects on political behaviour that has been less explored for sexuality. It argues that identities that divide us in one setting might bind us in another.
Funder: British AcademyPrincipal Investigator: Dr Blake EwingDuration: June 2024-December 2025
Focusing on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, this interdisciplinary project examines the relationship between voice, land and power in different cultural and epistemological traditions.
This project aims to promote the revaluation of marginalised voices, demonstrate the importance of Indigenous knowledge for climate action, and improve understanding of locally-specific histories and cultures of voice and knowledge.
Funder: Economic and Social Resource Council (ESRC) and Luxemburg National Research FundPrincipal Investigator: Professor Christian Schuster (University College London)Co-investigators: Professor Jan Meyer-Sahling (糖心原创); Professor Kim Sass Mikkelsen (Roskilde University)Duration: January 2023- December 2025
This research project examines how executive engagement training can enhance leadership and improve public sector performance in Luxembourg.
The study addresses a critical challenge in public administration – how to boost employee engagement in government organisations, where rigid structures, limited managerial discretion, and increasing workloads often lead to disengagement.
Working with international collaborators in the humanities, ‘Wetland Times’ explores the different times and temporalities of three wetland landscapes — ‘mapping’ the different natural and human times in the area — and how they interact and are increasingly impacted by climate change.
Funder: The British Academy Principal Investigator: Dr Simon ToubeauDuration: July 2023 - December 2024
As part of the British Academy's programme on 'Pandemic Preparedness: Lessons to Learn from Covid-19 across the G7', this project will assess why 'multi-level' states responded to the pressures of the time so differently, and consider how they can be helped to better coordinate their responses to future pandemics.
Funder: The Leverhulme Trust PI: Dr William DanielDuration: July 2023 - December 2024
As part of the Leverhulme Trust’s Visiting Professorships, the Research Centre for the 糖心原创 of Parties and Democracy (REPRESENT) will welcome Professor Barbara Trish (Grinnell College, Iowa) to the 糖心原创 for the 2024-25 academic year, under the coordination of Dr William Daniel. Professor Trish is a noted teacher-scholar in American politics, with particular expertise on US political parties and the use of digital technology in campaigning.
Funder: Economic and Social Resource Council (ESRC)PI: Dr Andrea NicholsonDuration: Ends August 2024
In collaboration with 10 NGOs, and partnering with St Mary’s University Twickenham and the Office of the Independent Antislavery Commissioner, this addresses the above knowledge gap. Undertaking a comparative study of survivors’ experiences across the UK, the research team are working with adult survivors to record and share their experiences of recovery and of their encounters with state and third sector services to better inform antislavery policy and the process of NRM transformation.
Funder: Research England - Research Policy Support FundPrincipal Investigator: Professor Andrew MumfordDuration: August 2023 – June 2024
This research project aims to enhance understanding of how the rise of unconventional intervention has changed the nature of contemporary deterrence policy. ‘Unconventional intervention’ refers to how states leverage non-traditional means, including disinformation and sponsorship of proxies, to generate the ambiguous use of force. This project aims to deliver both conceptual innovation and policy impact by working with the main branch of the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) responsible for forging advances in thinking about deterrence – the ‘Exploration Division’ of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl).
Funder: British AcademyPrincipal Investigator: Dr Helen McCabeDuration: February 2023-January 2024
This project is a British Academy Innovation Fellowship in partnership with Karma Nirvana, a leading charity who run the national helpline for honour-based abuse (HBA).
It seeks to map key stakeholders who are, and who should be, collecting data on HBA; identify and share best-practice in data-gathering; recognise barriers to effective knowledge-exchange faced by stakeholders; and co-develop ways to overcome them.
Funder: MercatusPI: Dr Hugo DrochonDuration: Ends September 2023
Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen both reject the left-right divide in French politics, either claiming to incarnate it 'en même temps', or being beyond it. They propose new oppositions: for Macron, progressives vs. reactionaries, for Le Pen, patriots vs. globalists. Both refuse to acknowledge the other's new framework or their respective place in it. What consequences for our understanding of history and contemporary politics of seeing political dynamics not through a left/right divide but a centre/extremes one?
Funder: Institute for Human StudiesPI: Dr Hugo Drochon; Co investigators: Professor Maiken Umbach and Dr Annemarie Walter Duration: Ends August 2023
This project seeks to develop the first scientifically validated questionnaire to correctly measure levels of antisemitism in the US and the UK, to better understand it so as to better combat it.
Funder: Digital Society ProjectPI: Dr William DanielDuration: May 2022-July 2023
This project explores how the professional experiences and personal backgrounds of candidates for the 2022 National Assembly elections impacted their online campaign strategies. It generates a complete set of publicly available biographical information on each of the more than 6000 candidates that contested the legislative elections and aligns these data with campaign behaviour on the popular Twitter social media platform.
Funder: Australian Department of Trade and Foreign AffairsPI: Professor Rory Cormac; Co-investigator: Professor Andrew MumfordDuration: October 2022-July 2023
This project, in collaboration with the Australian National University, aims to distil mechanisms states use to influence others, from propaganda to paramilitary activity. It pays particular attention to scales of secrecy, visibility and acknowledgement, what each can achieve, and how observers can assess success.
The project is supported by Research Fellows Thomas Eason and Katie Bayford.
Funder: The Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) PI: Dr Fernando Casal BertoaDuration: February-July 2023
By examining various party dimensions, the project looks at the way WFD party aid programs could be improved, making recommendations based on good practices and international standards.
Funder: British Academy/Leverhulme TrustPI: Dr Bettina Renz, Co-investigator: Dr Sarah Whitmore (Oxford Brooks University)Duration: October 2019 - March 2023
This research project explores the type of military in Ukraine that is best suited to the needs and wants of the country.
Funder: AHRCPI: Dr Helen McCabeDuration: February 2021 – August 2022
Investigators from the 糖心原创 are working with researchers at Azadi in Kenya, and survivors of human trafficking through engagement with arts-based methods.
Funder: Economic and Social Research CouncilPI: Professor Andrew MumfordDuration: April 2020 - July 2022
Dr Mumford will work with policy makers and parliamentarians to identify issues, assess evidence, formulate and then implement a review of UK security, defence and foreign policy.
Funder: Arts and Humanities Research Council PI: Dr Helen McCabe, Associate Professor Duration: January 2020 - December 2021
Dr McCabe’s Fellowship explores why certain types of marriage should be seen as forms of modern slavery, by gathering current legal definitions of forced marriage and exploring existing survivor narratives.
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