Current projects
Sustainability, inclusiveness, productivity and equity and the transformation of Swedish working life courses (SIPET)
Funded by The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare
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’s 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
Ethnicity and Unequal Ageing: Experiences in Rotherham and Sheffield
Funded by ESRC
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.
Professor Majella Kilkey, Professor Matthew Bennett, Professor Alan Walker, Dr Jo Britton, Dr Lorna Warren, Dr Lois Orton and Dr Dan Holman
Conceptualising and evaluating the impact of policing drug markets
Funded by N8 Policing Research Partnership
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.
Understanding criminality in the private rented sector and co-producing solutions
Funded by ESRC
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.
Watch Groups: Citizen-led Policing, Digital Surveillance & Vulnerable Groups
Funded by Leverhulme Trust
The project focuses 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.
Evaluating the impact of national and local action aimed at levelling up and pandemic recovery - Phase 1
Funded by NIHR
‘Levelling up’ 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 will use different research approaches to look at the government’s 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.
Storying Life Courses for Intersectional Inclusion: Ethnicity and Wellbeing Across Time and Place
Funded by ESRC
The project's key aim is 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.
Professor Majella Kilkey, Professor Matthew Bennett, Professor Alan Walker, Dr Jo Britton, Dr Lorna Warren, Dr Lois Orton and Dr Dan Holman
Living with gender in diverse times
Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
Neuro-adversity and transition: Key time points for action
Funded by Barrow Cadbury Trust
Generic Visuals in the News: the role of stock photos and simple data visualizations in assembling publics
Funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
Mix & match: Constituting racialized communities in UK stem cell donation
Funded by The Wellcome Trust
Experiencing pregnancy and cancer: a sociological exploration of gestational trophoblastic neoplasia
Funded by The Wellcome Trust
Health inequalities and Roma populations: deconstructing a European policy problem
Funded by The Wellcome Trust
An evaluation of Level Up - an intervention addressing child-to-parent violence
Funded by Cranstoun
Domestic abuse interventions for mothers in or exiting prison: An evidence review
Funded by the Nuffield Foundation
RDAC: Rethinking Domestic abuse in child protection: responding differently
Funded by the Nuffield Foundation