South East Asia Resilience Hub (SEARCH): Socio-Economic Resilience of Coastal Communities

The SEARCH Network links scholars and practitioners from South East Asia (SEA) and the UK around the topic of disaster risk management (DRM), community response, and socio-economic factors of coastal communities and coastal hazards.


Minorities on Campus: Discrimination, Equality, and Politics of Nationalism in Indian HE

This research network, at its very heart, is conceptualised as a response to students' activism for equality and rights. In doing so we address issues around sustained inequality and discrimination as experienced by minorities and women on Indian campuses.


Support to Traditional Cultural Practices in Northern Iraq

This project foregrounds the linkages between cultural meaning and agricultural landscapes to examine the compounded social, cultural, agricultural, and economic effects of the IS occupation on ethnic and religious minority communities in Northern Iraq.


Expressions of Self: Race, Religion and Representation of care-experienced children and young people

This research will work with Black, Asian and mixed-heritage children and young people to generate child-led narratives of their identity, focussing on understandings of ethnicity and religion and how these intersect with being in adoptive or foster care.


STEM and Belief in UK and USA Higher Education

To promote meaningful university STEM opportunities for underrepresented belief groups, this mixed methods project seeks to better understand how to foster STEM environments inclusive of belief diversity.


Exploring unarmed civilian self-protection in Cameroon's Anglophone conflict

This research investigates community-led initiatives of unarmed civilian protection in the ongoing ‘Anglophone conflict’ in Cameroon.


Resilience Beyond Observed Capabilities - RBOC Network Plus

The RBOC (Resilience Beyond Observed Capabilities) Network Plus will create new knowledge, new capabilities and new opportunities for collaboration to help the UK prepare for security threats in the coming decades.


The rise of Christian social franchises: responding to UK poverty

Whilst geographers of religion, poverty, and volunteering have given attention to faith-based organisations, the question of how UK faith-based organisations have grown so rapidly has not been addressed.


"A Sea of Opportunity” - The Maritime Dimension of Brexit Narratives

This project aims to address this gap in scholarly knowledge through new data and outputs that will, for the first time, reveal the maritime dimension of Brexit narratives, why this mattered, and how it continues to create impasses in UK-ROI-EU relations


Uncovering the legacy of Black British Social Workers: Between the personal, the professional and the political

This project collects oral histories of Black Social Workers in Britain to uncover the history of racialised identities and inequalities in the children’s care system in Britain.


The Women in Space Leadership Programme (WiSLP)

The Women in Space Leadership Programme (WiSLP) emerges from the UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI) strategic focus on women’s leadership in science and research.


Enacting solidarity, ritual and collective emotions in a Black Lives Matter protest: An affective practices and virtual reality analysis

Black Lives Matter protests following the murder of George Floyd spread quickly in 2020 to include many cities and towns outside the United States. Indepth investigation of these protests will provide insights into how and why it is important for people to enact complex shared emotions as part of a physical and psychological group. 


Hidden hardship: everyday experiences, coping strategies, and barriers to wellbeing in rural Britain

To understand lived experiences of people in hardship in the rural North Cotswolds


Visualising early warning and preparedness in civilian protection: Investigating local vernaculars of community adaptations to insecurity

The overall aim is to investigate the under-studied topic of community signs, symbols and culturally specific communications for gathering, sharing, and responding, in the face of threats of violence.


Social capital and financial access to healthcare in Ghana

This research seeks to critically examine the dynamic nature of informal risk sharing networks and their mechanisms for dealing with health care expenses among poor households in Northern Ghana.


Conflict Transformations in the Middle East and Europe

The goal of CTMEE is to explore what types of conflict transformation mechanisms are being utilised in Turkey and Palestine, and how these mechanisms relate to conflict transformation in Western Europe.


The Organisational, Financial and Human Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Christian Faith-Based Organisation Service Sector in Great Britain

CTPSR project funded by the British Academy looking at the organisational, financial and human impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Christian Faith-Based Organization Service Sector in Great Britain


Sexual and Gender-based Violence and Torture Experiences of South Sudanese Refugees in Northern Uganda: Health and Justice Responses

This research investigated the health and justice service responses to the needs of South Sudanese refugees living in refugee settlements in Northern Uganda who had been subjected to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and torture.


The Interplay between Transitional Justice and Reconciliation in Peacebuilding

This project focuses on how transitional justice and reconciliation mechanisms and processes interplay and how this interrelationship works in practice across different contexts.


Supporting Urban Integrated Transport Systems (SUITS)

SUITS is one of the three projects of the EU’s CIVITAS 2020 initiative focusing on sustainable urban mobility plans.