Independent Scholar Fellowship (ISF7)

In July 2020, the ISRF launched its seventh Independent Scholar Fellowship competition. Having received a number of strong proposals, the Selection Panel met in December 2020, and voted to make five awards.

Awards were made to:

Dr Hanne Cottyn

Independent Scholar Fellow 2021-22

Dr Phil Crockett Thomas

Independent Scholar Fellow 2021-22

Dr Steve Graby

Independent Scholar Fellow 2021-22

Dr H Patten

Independent Scholar Fellow 2021-22

Dr Seb Rumsby

Independent Scholar Fellow 2021-22

For the following projects:

Dr Hanne Cottyn

The “more-than-human” history of a disappearing lake. Historicizing indigenous responses to socio-environmental change in and around Lake Poopó, Bolivia

In its global strategy to address climate change, the UN deems indigenous knowledges of key importance to...

Phil Crockett Thomas

Prison Break: Imagining Alternatives to Prison in the UK

This inventive project invites people variously engaged in prison abolition (activists, academics,...

Dr Steve Graby

Work without bosses, housing without landlords, and nothing about us without us: researching disabled people’s involvement in co-operatives in the UK

The proposed research aims to investigate the involvement of disabled people in co-operatives in the UK....

Dr ‘H’ Patten

Reggae/dancehall: a dynamic continuity of resistance and survival for disenfranchised and marginalised young people

My research focuses on the migration and genealogical history of reggae/dancehall contemporary urban dance...

Seb Rumsby

Behind the scenes at the nail salon: an ethnographic exploration into the everyday politics of undocumented Vietnamese migrants in the UK

This project will be the first ethnographic study of the everyday political economy of undocumented...

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