FG11 | Independent Social Research Foundation

Rachel Larkin

Girlhood in Migration: New Directions in Inter-Disciplinary Research

This project brings together inter-disciplinary scholars from a newly formed Girlhood in Migration Network...

Miles Kellerman

Chasing the Smugglers: The Rise of Private Financial Institutions as Enforcers of Global Trade Security

This project seeks to host a one-day interdisciplinary workshop on the emerging role of private firms as...

Florence Dafe

Digitalisation and the changing power and purpose of banks: Banks’ control of digital infrastructure in Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria

How has the political power of banks changed in the digital era? Since the Global Financial Crisis of...

Anastas Vangeli & Ágnes Szunomár

Rethinking Europe’s electric vehicle (EV) transition from a pericentric perspective

The automotive industry is at the heart of Europe's economy and the European integration project, where the...

Melita Lazell & Ivica Petrikova

Aid or Extraction? Examining the Financialisation of UK Development Assistance in Kenya

The financialisation of official development assistance is increasing, yet remains an under-researched area...

Rodoljub Jovanović, Tijana Matijević & Milica Resanović

Fiction as Memory Work: Youth Engagement with Yugoslav Wars Through Literary Fiction

This project investigates the role of literary fiction in shaping collective memories of the 1990s among...

Diana Damian Martin & Špela Drnovšek Zorko

Entangled Easts: articulating migrant grammars and border temporalities across Eastern Europe and East Asia

If no one can quite agree on where the East begins or ends, one thing seems certain: its very indeterminacy...

Kirsteen Paton, Kirsten Lloyd, Joey Simmons & Dr Kate Wilson

Building histories from below: Learning about housing struggles from tenants’ storytelling and archiving

The housing crisis is so entrenched, that evictions and gentrification have become an urgent inequality and...

Adrian Kay

Managing regulatory tensions in international halal food trade

International trade in halal food is an important test case for the practical implications of the notion of...

Dani Madrid-Morales & Ilya Yablokov

A Digital Ethnography of Everyday Disinformation in Armenia

Disinformation has become a pressing global issue, yet much of the existing research remains tethered to...

molly ackhurst, Shaimaa Abdelkarim & Silvana Tapia Tapia

Brick-by-Brick, Wall-by-Wall: Co-Producing Transnational Feminist Abolitionist Knowledges

Since the 2010s, global uprisings against authoritarianism, corruption, and coercive overreach (e.g., the...

Rob Ralston & Jack Taggart

The Battle for Plastics: Corporate Power and the UN Global Plastics Treaty

This project examines how powerful corporate entities respond to a significant threat to business-as-usual:...

Ramon Xifré & Yulia Kasperskaya

Bridging the Green Budgeting Gap: Comparing Green Budgeting Practices in Late Beginners (Spain, Portugal, Italy) and Early Adopters (Sweden)

This project explores the adoption of green budgeting practices across the European Union (EU), focusing on...

Anya Kuteleva & Justin Leifso

Unlearning Oil: A Comparative Study of Energy Knowledge Production in Aberdeen and St. John's

This comparative study examines how oil-dependent communities learn to understand and value oil through...

Adeel Malik & Muhammad Abubakr

Water Justice in Muslim Societies: A Scoping Study of Three River Basins

This project investigates the intersection of water justice, climate change, and socio-cultural dynamics in...

Helen Kara, Kate Fox & George Watts

Defining Neurodiversity-Affirming Space

Neurodiversity-affirming space (NDAS) is a new concept which has not been researched and has no definition....

Lindsay Stirton & Jurgen De Wispelaere

Turning Failure into Success? Revisiting the Political Narrative of the Finnish Basic Income Experiment

This project proposes an in-depth examination of the politics of the Finnish basic income experiment...

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