In August 2021, the ISRF launched its eighth Flexible Grants for Small Groups competition. Having received a number of strong proposals, a selection panel nominated the following 24 projects for award.
Diego Villar
During the last century, the indigenous South American lowlands (Amazonia, Chaco, Patagonia) have been...
Branko Banović & Miloš Milenković
Coal mines and thermal power plants are generators of large number of direct and related jobs, they...
Hannah Yelin
We examine cultures of digital hate as experienced by a community under pressure from employers to be...
Mike Rowe, Tobias Eule, Bagga Bjerge & Annika Lindberg
This project will engage with the awkwardness that appears when we observe, hear, and research nothing. In...
Vincent Guermond, Ilias Alami & Ali Bhagat
This project aims to examine the racialized features and outcomes of global finance. While contemporary...
Fergus McNeill, Mary Corcoran & Beth Weaver
This project draws on the extensive experience and skills of the Co-Investigators and their networks...
Heidi Wang-Kaeding & Malte Philipp Kaeding
This project aims to explore how filmmaking helps us cultivate the viewers’ empathy as we communicate the...
Gurpinder Singh Lalli
Current studies of food pedagogies across different spheres and sites contribute to our understanding of...
David Hall & Tue Anh Nguyen
Public services are at the heart of current academic and political debates on the proper relationship...
Alison Hulme
This project creates a two-day workshop involving some of the world’s most current thinkers and...
Antonis Vradis
Recent calls to decolonise academic knowledge agree that this has been too insular and inward-looking, and...
Craig Martin & Giovanni Marmont
Originally a key handmaiden of capitalist growth, the field of design has long sought to expand its remit...
Giorgia Aquilar
As the 1970s turn 50 years old, the avant-garde experiments of the ‘radical’ architecture era emerge as an...
Balihar Sanghera, Elmira Satybaldieva, Kuat Akizhanov & Ilya Matveev
The project’s main purpose is to develop an understanding of the impact of financialisation and rent...
Leigh Oakes
In an age of increased immigration, how are newcomers to be integrated fairly and equitably into the...
Fran Amery & Rebecca Yeo
Social movements are frequently beset by segregation. This project, however, focuses on how social...
Joy Y. Zhang, Peter Beresford, Bridget Penhale, Fiona Poland, Ewen Speed & Nicola Yeates
This project is led by a team of leading empirical social scientists who are committed to the development...
Mariagiulia Giuffré
The EXTERN2 project will focus on the new and different forms of ‘contactless’ external migration control...
Louis Ellam, Fred Mear, Samuel Komakech & Miles Weaver
Goal 13 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) calls for urgent action to combat climate change and...
Gerasimos Tsourapas
This interdisciplinary project fills an important gap in our understanding of migration and foreign policy,...
Emma Luce Scali
The proposed research will represent the first attempt 1) at developing a theoretical framework (of...
Jonathan Marie & Eduardo Bastian
The project aims to understand inflation dynamics by adopting an institutionalist and Post-Keynesian...
Bridget Vincent
The development of artificial intelligence brings with it a host of unsolved ethical questions, and the...
Iris Wigger, Line Nyhagen, Elizabeth Mavroudi & David Herbert
Social boundaries associated with 'race' and identity and the historical legacy of European dominance have...
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