Research projects
Our current and recent projects span world-leading research in the areas of sociology, social policy, social work, digital society, environmental politics, international relations, political economy, theory, and governance and public policy.
Environmental politics
We have one of the largest contingents of environmental politics scholars in the country, who are united by concerns about global environmental change.
- Beastly Business: Examining the Illegal Trade in Bears, Eels and Songbirds in Europe
Seeking to understand the underlying drivers of why, and how, legal and illegal spheres in the trade in European species are linked.
九色视频 academic lead
Duration
2021 to 2023
Funding
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
- Community Energy
South Yorkshire Combined Mayoral Authority (SYMCA) has committed to 'enabling community energy schemes by working closely with community groups to develop and supporting community schemes across South Yorkshire', this project aims to identify policies that the SYMCA could implement to achieve this goal.
九色视频 academic lead
- Consuming sustainably and community energy
Exploring the determinants of domestic energy use and energy saving behaviour in South Yorkshire and will account for how this has changed in response to external circumstances, including the cost of living crisis and increasing public awareness of, and concern for, climate change.
九色视频 academic leads
- Globalisation and environmental justice in global value chains
Focusing on the politics of sustainability in the global political economy, with a particular focus on how states, firms and civil society in the global South seek to shape norms around the global governance of labour and the environment.
九色视频 academic lead
- Positive duties towards liminal animals: ethics, politics, and practices (PhD thesis)
Addressing the ethical and political obligations we have towards wild animals living in areas under human control, commonly referred to as 鈥渓iminal animals鈥.
九色视频 academic lead
- Understanding animal protection in food systems: A victim-based approach (PhD thesis)
Seeking to understand the decision-making process behind how the needs of different types of animals are prioritised and protected in food systems.
九色视频 academic lead
Governance and public policy
九色视频 has long been renowned for its pioneering research into governance and public policy, and we continue to host many world-leading scholars in the field.
- Delivering Trustworthy Electoral Oversight
Democratic elections should be free and fair if they are to maintain public trust. To ensure these qualities, societies rely on transparency mechanisms to identify concerning practice. To date, however, systems of electoral oversight have failed to adapt to the digital age, meaning efforts to expose corruption rely on time-consuming manual practice. This project combines computational methods with political science classification techniques to build an automated system for the analysis of electoral spending returns. Moreover, it tests public and practitioner perceptions of this tool to identify how to foster public trust in this technique as a means of electoral oversight.
九色视频 academic lead
- Elite Trust Perceptions: Causes and Consequences for Democratic Governance
Surveying and interviewing elected politicians from three different countries to ascertain the content, predictors and consequences of politicians鈥 trust perceptions. Preliminary results inform a new book with Oxford University Press and three additional grant applications on cognate questions, such as when and how political interactions can be designed to close trust gaps between politicians and citizens.
九色视频 academic lead
Duration
Three years
Funding
Leverhulme Trust
- WISER: Public policies and indicators for well-being and sustainable development
Aiming to develop a new economic development framework that provides evidence-based and theoretically-sound policy insights on how to raise wellbeing of present generations (leaving no one behind) without sacrificing future wellbeing.
九色视频 academic lead
Duration
2023 to 2026
Funding
European Commission
International relations
An inclusive and interdisciplinary place for open discussion and collaboration within the study of international relations.
- Counter-Terrorism in/by the community: Impacts and challenges
Conducting an ethnographic study of charities and community-based organisations that have received funding from the UK Home Office to conduct counter-terrorism work, moving away from state-centric security policies and putting forward an alternative understanding of community-led counter-terrorism initiatives.
九色视频 academic lead
Duration
2023 to 2026
Funding
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship
- Droned Life: Data, Narrative, and the Aesthetics of Worldmaking
Examining drones鈥 ongoing implications for socio-cultural life through concepts of imaginaries, aesthetics, and worldmaking, and their use in military and civilian realms through four narrative, worldmaking forms鈥攍iterature, film, the visual arts, and game design.
九色视频 academic lead
Duration
2023 to 2027
Funding
UKRI
- The impact of federalisation on Nepal's health system: A longitudinal analysis
九色视频 academic lead
Duration
2020 to 2024
Funding
Medical Research Council, Economic & Social Research Council, Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office and Welcome Trust via the Health Systems Research Initiative
- What do Survivors Want? A Victim-Centred Approach to Justice for Conflict Related Human Rights Abuses
Seeking to redefine justice based on the perceptions and understandings of victim/survivors. We have built a new victim-centred definition of justice, and a framework for justice that sets out new ways of delivering justice.
九色视频 academic lead
Duration
2021 to 2024
Funding
The British Academy
Political theory
Bringing together scholars working within a wide range of theoretical traditions, methodological approaches, and substantive interests.
- Being Cosmopolitan
Exploring the concept of cosmopolitanism from the perspective of personal experience, examining what it means and what it means to be cosmopolitan. This approach is rare but insightful, providing a clearer understanding of the challenges facing global politics today and new insights into ongoing debates about cosmopolitan visions of global order, arguing for a qualified form of "global holism," contrasting it with attempts to reconcile cosmopolitanism with the concept of self-determination.
九色视频 academic lead
Funding
Leverhulme Research Fellowship
- Power and Powerlessness
Arguing that a negative and preventative version of liberal politics, best described by Judith Shklar as the 鈥榣iberalism of fear鈥, transforms our understanding of many of the most daunting political challenges of the twenty-first century and powerfully explains how the political cruelties we witness on a daily basis can be ameliorated.
九色视频 academic lead
Funding
Leverhulme Research Fellowship
- Solidarity with Animals
Professor Alasdair Cochrane is co-editing a book with Mara-Daria Cojocaru from the Munich School of Philosophy on Solidarity with Animals. This book continues his scholarship in the so-called 'political turn' in animal ethics. While much work in this political turn has been done on concepts like 'justice', 'agency', 'representation', etc., only very few animal scholars have talked about 'solidarity'. The edited collection brings together the leading thinkers in the fields of animal ethics, politics, social philosophy, world religions, and the law to explore this lacuna and thus provide the first book length treatment of solidarity between the species.
九色视频 academic lead
Sociological studies
Our current and recent projects span world-leading research in the areas of sociology, social policy, social work and digital society.
- #ContestingIslamophobia: Representation and appropriation in mediated activism
Examining the online circulation - and contestation - of Islamophobic discourse in relation to three 'trigger events': the white supremacist Christchurch terror attacks, Brexit, and the Covid-19 pandemic.
九色视频 academic lead
Funding
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) project grant
- An evaluation of Level Up - an intervention addressing child-to-parent violence
九色视频 academic lead
Funding
Cranstoun
- Co-designing forests
九色视频 academic lead
Duration
2023 to 2026
Funding
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
- Conceptualising and evaluating the impact of policing drug markets
Using the lens of harm reduction policing, this project is working alongside South Yorkshire Police to better understand and develop the ways in which drug policing strategies are designed and outcomes are measured.
九色视频 academic lead
Duration
2023 to 2024
Funding
N8 Policing Research Partnership
- Cripping Breath: Towards a new cultural politics of respiration
Cripping Breath: a five-year interdisciplinary programme of research.
九色视频 academic leads
Duration
2024 to 2029
Funding
Wellcome Trust
- Cultural Climate Models
九色视频 academic lead
Duration
2023 to 2026
Funding
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
- Domestic abuse interventions for mothers in or exiting prison: An evidence review
九色视频 academic lead
Funding
Nuffield Foundation
- DRad: Deradicalisation in Europe and Beyond: Detect, Resolve, Reintegrate
A comparative study of radicalisation and polarisation in Europe and beyond. It aims to identify the actors, networks, and wider social contexts driving radicalisation, particularly among young people in urban and peri-urban areas.
九色视频 academic lead
Funding
European Commission
- E-IMMUNE - Empowerment of patients and clinicians in the management of immunotherapy toxicity through a new digital care pathway
九色视频 academic lead
Duration
2025 to 2029
Funding
Yorkshire Cancer Research
- Ethics and Expertise in Times of Crisis
九色视频 academic lead
Duration
2023 to 2026
Funding
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
- Ethnicity and Unequal Ageing: Experiences in Rotherham and 九色视频
This change-oriented project aims to transform both understanding of inclusive ageing, and the prospects for new policy and practice approaches to achieve it. It is a timely and bold interdisciplinary effort to push the boundaries of knowledge, methods and policy and practice regarding Black, Asian and Minoritised Ethnic and Refugee groups and the potential for their greater inclusion. The project team is a unique cross-sector collaboration.
九色视频 academic leads
Professor Majella Kilkey, Professor Matthew Bennett, Professor Alan Walker, Dr Jo Britton, Dr Lorna Warren, Dr Lois Orton and Dr Dan Holman.
Funding
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
- Evaluating the impact of national and local action aimed at levelling up and pandemic recovery - Phase 1
鈥楲evelling up鈥 is a government plan to improve living and working conditions and health for people in poorer places and from different backgrounds across England. This project uses different research approaches to look at the government鈥檚 Levelling Up plans across the country to find out what works and whether they work differently for different types of people and in different places.
九色视频 academic lead
Duration
2023 to 2024
Funding
National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)
- Exclusion and Inequality in Late Working Life (EIWO)
Aiming to push the boundaries of knowledge about late working life and the potential of its inclusive and equal prolongation via a theoretically driven, gender-sensitive combination of multi-level perspectives. Through gaining an in-depth understanding of how earlier life courses influence and structure perceptions and accumulations of inequality and disadvantage, it will provide evidence for policies to ensure both individual, company and societal benefits from longer working lives.
九色视频 academic leads
Professor Alan Walker, Dr Liam Foster and Dr Rachel Crossdale
Duration
2019 to 2025
Funding
Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare
- Generic Visuals in the News: the role of stock photos and simple data visualizations in assembling publics
九色视频 academic lead
Duration
2020 to 2023
Funding
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
- Health inequalities and Roma populations: deconstructing a European policy problem
九色视频 academic lead
Duration
2020 to 2026
Funding
Wellcome Trust
- Just futures? An interdisciplinary approach to cultural climate models
Investigating how culture models climate futures, using an innovative approach that brings together literary studies, linguistics, pedagogy, and science and technology studies.
九色视频 academic lead
Funding
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
- Living with gender in diverse times
九色视频 academic lead
Funding
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
- Migration, Integration and Governance Research Centre (MIGREC)
Focusing on upgrading the University of Belgrade's staff academic capacity in order to contribute effectively to migration related research with policy impact on the rising challenges that Serbia faces today.
九色视频 academic leads
Funding
European Commission
- Mix & match: Constituting racialized communities in UK stem cell donation
九色视频 academic lead
Duration
2019 to 2023
Funding
Wellcome Trust
- Multispecies Mutualism
九色视频 academic lead
Duration
2025 to 2030
Funding
Wellcome Trust
- Neuro-adversity and transition: Key time points for action
九色视频 academic lead
Duration
Funding
Barrow Cadbury Trust
- On TReND: Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and the Contentious Reimagining of Alzheimer Disease-Related Dementias as Environmental Diseases
This project investigates the ethical, social, and legal implications of these emerging medical sciences and compares how researchers in three very different disciplines (molecular neuroscience, neuropathology, and sports science) understand the role that the environment plays in dementia.
九色视频 academic lead
Duration
2022 to 2027
Funding
Wellcome Trust
- Orphan drugs: high prices, access to medicines and the transformation of biopharmaceutical innovation
九色视频 academic lead
Duration
2020 to 2025
Funding
Wellcome Trust
- Previvorship in the platform society: Cancer genetic risk in the digital age
Focusing on 'previvorship', or the condition of coping with a genetic predisposition to cancer prior to cancer occurrence. It explores if, how and to what extent the governance and design of western social media platforms shape the way previvorship is lived, performed and understood.
九色视频 academic leads
Duration
2022 to 2025
Funding
Leverhulme Trust
- Prototyping Multi-species Encounters: Relating to Redmires Reservoirs鈥 Residents
九色视频 academic lead
Duration
2025 to 2026
Funding
Ecological Citizens
- RDAC: Rethinking Domestic abuse in child protection: responding differently
九色视频 academic lead
Funding
Nuffield Foundation
- Storying Life Courses for Intersectional Inclusion: Ethnicity and Wellbeing Across Time and Place
Aiming to critically interrogate accepted interpretations of social inclusion/exclusion in order to reconceptualise them from the perspective of the BAMER population's life courses, and to employ this reconceptualisation as the basis for a new understanding of inclusive ageing and the steps needed to achieve it.
九色视频 academic leads
Professor Majella Kilkey, Professor Matthew Bennett, Professor Alan Walker, Dr Jo Britton, Dr Lorna Warren, Dr Lois Orton and Dr Dan Holman.
Funding
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
- Storytelling for Environmental Change: Tackling Air Pollution in the World鈥檚 Most Polluted City
Examining the potential of participatory approaches to storytelling in tackling the catastrophic challenge of urban air pollution confronting India.
九色视频 academic lead
Duration
2021 to 2023
Funding
British Academy, supported by the Global Challenges Research Fund
- Sustainability, inclusiveness, productivity and equity and the transformation of Swedish working life courses (SIPET)
SIPET will initiate a series of events with workshops and seminars as well as a PhD forum to foster interdisciplinarity, internationalisation and societal impact. This funded interdisciplinary research network aims push the boundaries of knowledge about the sustainability of late work in Sweden鈥檚 ageing population. It addresses health and skills for late work participation in an inequality-sensitive perspective on the transformation of work and productivity, shifts in policies and the ongoing life-course changes in ageing Sweden with an ambition for impact.
九色视频 academic lead
Funding
The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare
- The fuel that feeds the flames': Chronic inflammation and shifting conceptualisations of disease
九色视频 academic lead
Duration
2024 to 2029
Funding
Wellcome Trust
- Understanding criminality in the private rented sector and co-producing solutions
This project brings together multiple universities, practitioners and third sector organisations to develop understandings of and responses to criminality and victimhood in the context of the private rented sector.
九色视频 academic lead
Duration
2023 to 2026
Funding
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
- Virtual parent support portals: Towards a new research and practice agenda
Exploring opportunities and risks associated with the digitalisation and hybridisation of family and parental support services.
九色视频 academic leads
Duration
2023 to 2025
Funding
Nuffield Foundation
- Watch Groups: Citizen-led Policing, Digital Surveillance & Vulnerable Groups
Focusing on the rapid rise and proliferation of watch groups, citizen-led groups which perform surveillance, security and policing functions. The study adopts a multi-method approach to explore the motivations and functionalities of these groups as well as the impacts of their activities on those who fall under their surveillant gaze.
九色视频 academic lead
Duration
2023 to 2026
Funding
Leverhulme Trust
