In October 2023, the ISRF launched its tenth Flexible Grants for Small Groups competition. Having received a number of strong proposals, a selection panel nominated the following 19 projects for award.
This project extends feminist and postcolonial geopolitical approaches that acknowledge the intricate interplay between private, everyday, intimate spaces, bodies and broader scales — including the national and international.
To provide novel insights into intersectionality within everyday finance, this project seeks to bring together scholars from diverse disciplines who examine different elements of financial risk, such as gender, race and socio-economic status.
This project is concerned with the changing nature of commercial sex in Europe, competing policy approaches to regulate the phenomenon, and the limited scientific evidence on the extent, experiences and needs of those involved in it.
This project seeks to illuminate the often-overlooked rural women’s experiences and leadership in agrarian struggles and their pursuit of gender equality.
This project delves into the burgeoning phenomenon of homestay accommodation, a solidarity-driven practice where private homes become sanctuaries for those displaced.
By utilising 3D modelling techniques, the project aims to translate diverse data sources into tangible models, providing a holistic understanding of detention spaces and serving as a powerful advocacy tool.
This project aims to bring together the co-PIs, in consultation with a wider network of scholars, to conceptualize, build awareness on, and counter the phenomenon of ‘juvenicide’.
This project will provide a preliminary theoretical and empirical mapping of subaltern movements in the contemporary Arab world, and what their activities and practices might mean for the prospects of political transformation in the region.
Practitioners in economics and policy, clinical therapeutic practice, and leading researchers across the social sciences, humanities and philosophy will be convened in a series of Workshops to develop an object-relational psychosocial research programme, leading to, inter alia, the creation of a new interdisciplinary Research Centre.
This project will build on the long tradition of ‘seeing like a city’ (Magnusson 2011) and the emerging broader literature on conflict and post-conflict cities.
This project sheds light on the role played by schools and teachers in enlarging and diversifying student social networks, and in forming non-cognitive skills, such as cooperation and confidence.
This collaborative seeks to transcend the conventional separation of Black Geographies from African Geographies, responding to the urgent call to move beyond this bifurcation to address the persistent coloniality within the study of African societies.
RVRGN-II aims to strengthen communication and collaboration among an interdisciplinary team of scholars and practitioners working on novel ways to address reparations for victims of widespread human rights abuses.
A Society of Black British historians, run for and by us, is a learned society for scholars of Black British and/or Black diasporic heritage, with the aim of improving retention and admission of students from these marginalised backgrounds.
Based on a broad working definition of strategic corruption as a form of corruption that nations weaponise to achieve their geostrategic goals, this project seeks to advance the conceptual debate.
This project focuses on an under-researched aspect of China’s rise: the globalisation of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) organizations and networks in Europe.
Building on Rodney’s insights, this project seeks to explore how different metropoles' ability and willingness to facilitate domestic capital accumulation in the colonies shaped the productive structures and social relations of production that were established during the colonial time and how these structures and relations are dynamically reproduced until today.
Thank you to everyone who participated in our selection processes, across long-listing, external assessment, and the final selection. We are indebted to the academic community who continue to lend their time and expertise in these challenging times.
Feature image by Marcus Hessenberg.
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