Selected Grants and Projects on

SCSC Research Grant

Sparkes, M. (PI) Credit scores as 'codes' to markets and mobilities.
Cambridge Humanities Research Grants Scheme (2022): £4,050

"The disbandment of Hong Kong’s largest pro-democracy union coalition in 2021"
at the Philomathia Social Science Research Symposium, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge (29 June – 1 July 2022)

Co-Lead, ‘End Everyday Racism’ Project. University Diversity Fund (2022): £1,497.80

Gonville & Caius College Graduate Academic Grant

UCCL Grants

2021-2022: Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge

Chinese translation of "Alienation Is Not ‘Bullshit’: An Empirical Critique of Graeber’s Theory of BS Jobs." by Soffia, M, Wood, A and Burchell, B (Work, Employment and Society, 2021.)

“The State of the Hong Kong Labor Movement”, Nordic Asia Podcast Available at: https://nias.ku.dk/nordic-asia-podcast/podcasts/the-state-of-the-hong-ko... (2 July, 2021)

Co-Applicant, UK Research and Innovation Economic and Social Research Council Impact Acceleration Fund (ESRC IAAs) (December 2021—November 2022). Name of Impact Project: ‘A Messaging Chatbot to Support Refugees’ Documentation of Human Rights Violations in UK Asylum Accommodation’, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cambridge Political Economy Society Trust

Cambridge Political Economy Society Trust (2021)

The Global roots of Black sociology, Cambridge Humanities Research Grants Scheme (£1425).

2020, Centre for Research in the Arts , Social sciences & Humanities (CRASSH): Conference Support Funding 2021/22, Black Voices of Resistance.

Gibraltar Scholarship Grant 2020

Magdalene College Graduate Tutors Grant for PhD fieldwork in Benin

University of Cambridge Covid-19 response fund. A rapid and reliable assessment method for screening mental health and wellbeing in job centres in the United Kingdom: A Computerised Adaptive Testing (CAT) response to the mental health impacts of Covid19 related job-loss. CO-I with Professor Peter Jones and Dr Jan Stochl

Applied Research Collaboration (ARC), NIHR East of England, Mental health over the life course. Researcher

2020: Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS), School of Advanced Study-University of London, Events Grant Scheme-Podcast Series, “The Cultural Politics of Reproduction in Latin America"

2019: Global Challenges Research Fund, University of Kent: International Conference for “The Cultural Politics of Reproduction in Latin America”

Trinity College Rouse Ball Research Grant (2019)

Geelan, Torsten. 2012 Scholarship: Oticon Foundation (value: £3,000)

2019 Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship (total value: $70,000 CAD per annum)
*award declined

Meghji, A. (PI) A new Black consciousness? Anti-racism among the Black elite in South Africa and the United States. Cambridge Humanities Research Grants Scheme (2019): £13,657.20

2019-2022 Wellcome Trust PhD Studentship

Kolopp Sarah, New Investigator Grant (2019-2022), “Governing Public Virtue. ‘Conflict of Interest’ in Comparative Perspective” £296,772

Geelan, Torsten. 2019 Research Development Award, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Leicester (value: £3,300)

Geelan, Torsten. 2019 Workshop Grant, School of Business, University of Leicester (value £2,500)

2018: Queens’ College, University of Cambridge, Travel Grant

Cambridge Commonwealth, European and International Trust PhD scholarship

British Sociological Association Early Career Grant– “Symbolic Objects in Contentious Politics” –  £1000 (October 2018)

Gabrys, J. (PI) AirKit. European Research Council (ERC) Proof of Concept Grant (2018-2019): £150,000

‘Emerging evaluative cultures: The assessment of research in policy knowledge fields’, (2018-2019), British Academy and Leverhulme Small Grant (£10,000).

Technologies of Desire, funded by the Leverhulme Trust and the Isaac Newton Trust (2018-2022)

2018    “Becas Chile” Scholarship Program, Call 2018, for eligible DPhil Degree Programs at foreign universities, awarded by the National Commission of Scientific and Technological Research of the Republic of Chile (CONICYT)”, and covering full funding to pursue the “DPhil in Sociology” at the University of Cambridge until September 2022.

European Union, Swedish International Development Agency, and RECOFTC (2018-2019), “A
Social and Gender Analysis of Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade: Opportunities and Risks in the Illegal Timber Supply Chain in Xayaboury Province,” Laos.

Page, T. (CI) What universities can learn from workplace policies on preventing sexual misconduct. British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant (2018): £9,966

European Union, Swedish International Development Agency, and RECOFTC (2018-2019), “A
Social and Gender Analysis of Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade: Opportunities and Risks in the Illegal Timber Supply Chain in Xayaboury Province,” Laos.

Page, T. (CI) Analysis of secondary data on staff sexual misconduct in UK higher education. University of Portsmouth grant (2018): £6877.16

Cambridge Political Economy Society Trust: The employment dosage: How much work is needed for health and wellbeing? CO-I with Dr Brendan Burchell and Dr Daiga Kamerade

Hogarth, S. (PI) CancerScreen: Screening for cancer in the post-genomic era: diagnostic innovation and biomedicalisation in comparative perspective. European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant (2017-2021): £903,167

Blell, M. (PI) Nuclear Families: Understanding the experiences of the test veterans community. British Nuclear Test Veterans Association (2017): £5630.

2017: Queens’ College, University of Cambridge, Travel Grant

National Research University Higher School of Economics. Grant from the Young Faculty Support Programme in category “Future Professoriate” to cover visiting fellowship at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. “Representations of the police in contemporary Russian TV series: the case of Glukhar’”. 01/08/2014–15/09/2014. £2,000.

Travel Grant (2017), Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness

Miller, J. (PI) Funding for trauma resilience research (2017- 2019), University of Cambridge: £111,225.

Burchell, B & Annor, F. Self-employment and family life: A study of workers in Ghana's informal sector. Cambridge-Africa Alborada Research Fund (2017): £6000

2017 HCB Grant, Research Talent for PhD proposal development
University of Amsterdam, Department of Anthropology

Reagen-Fascell Democracy Fellowship, National Endowment for Democray, October 2017 - March 2018

Coutts, A. (PI) Putting evidence into policy: The health and wellbeing impacts of Active Labour Market Programmes in the United Kingdom. The Health Foundation (2017-2019).

Murray Edwards College Gateway funding for the study of Italian (2017)

"Anne McLaren and Translation: a 10th anniversary conference”, Wellcome Trust and the Anne McLaren Fund 

Cambridge Commonwealth, European & International Trust, Cambridge-Africa Scholarship, 2017-20.

Competitive Cambridge International & Leslie Wilson Scholarship by Cambridge Trust and Magdalene College Cambridge. 2016–2019. 100% of the University Composition Fee and maintenance allowance £14,296 per year.

McPherson, E. PI (2016-17), ‘Ethics and Governance of Autonomous Systems and Machine Learning in the Digital Society: Bid Preparation Project,’ School of the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Support Fund (£39,282)

Sefat, K.  2016: Cambridge Political Economy Society, University of Cambridge (write-up/dissertation grant; value: £4,000).

Sefat, K. 2016: Iran Heritage Foundation (grant; value: £5,000).

Professor Blackburn has received numerous grants from SSRC, ESRC, NSF(USA), EEF, Nuffield Foundation, 'Gourmets', SSHRC(Canada), ILO and UN.

PhD Fellowship (2016-2017), Orient Institut Istanbul

Zhang, L. Queens' College Travel Grant , January 2016, £300 

Yopo, M. Programa University of Cambridge, Santander Mobility Grant, September 2016 - December 2016

Graduate Research and Fieldwork Fund (2016-2017), Murray Edwards College

The James Ferris Grant– “Mobilization Beyond the Movement: Contention, Affinity and Convergence in New York, Cairo and Paris” - £1600 (May 2016)

2016, ESRC Sponsorship Social Science Festival: Reggae-on sea: Southend on-sea the Dub capital of Europe. (Application 8519398).

Garima Sahai, Rajiv Gandhi Cambridge Trust Scholarship, 2016-2019

Desai, M. (PI) Comparative Study of Gendered Violence: India and South Africa. School of the Humanities and Social Sciences (2016-18): £67,845

Desai, M. (PI) Colonial State-Building and Development Trajectories within India. Cambridge Humanities Research Grant (2016): £11,563

Murray Edwards College travel grant (2016-2017) for field research to Cote d’Ivoire

2016 Seton Cavendish Fund Grant, Downing College, Cambridge

Yildiz, Y. Y. June 2016 Supplementary Funding, Cambridge Political Economy Society

Cambridge Commonwealth, European and International Trust Three-year Full PhD scholarship

Irdam, D. Gates Cambridge - MPhil in Modern Society and Global Transformations.

Yildiz, Y. Y., January – June 2015 Fieldwork funding, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge 

Chen, T. Chinese Scholarship Council, 2015-2019, 30000 GBP a year.

Brablec, D., Aug. 2015 Fieldwork Scholarship. ‘Sociology Graduate Education Committee (GEC) fieldwork funding’ 

Brablec, D., Jul. 2015 Fieldwork Scholarship. ‘Fieldwork Grant’. Newnham College, University of Cambridge 

Brablec, D., Jul. 2015 Continuing Research Studentship 2015-2016, Newnham College, Cambridge 

Principal Investigator, ‘The Whistle: A Digital Platform for Citizen Witnesses of Human Rights Violations.’ Impact Acceleration Account, University of Cambridge (2015): £10,800

Tiffany, A. Woolf Institute/Cambridge Trust Scholarship, October 2015-October 2018 

Pearson, A. ESRC Studentship, starting October 2015.

Yopo, M. Programa Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (CONICYT), Chile and Cambridge Trust, PhD Scholarship, October 2015 - September 2019

Spratt, T. ESRC Studentship, October 2015 - September 2018.

Barlee, D. 2015 - 2016: Board of Graduate Studies, University of Cambridge, fieldwork funding. 

Sun, X. China Scholarship Council. 

Sun, X. Downing College Travel Fund Grant (May, 2015).

International Society of Political Psychology Small Grant - “Collective Action, Change, and Resistance” - $4,000 (March 2015)

Men’s Attitudes to Intimate Life, funded by the British HIV Association and the Wellcome Trust (2015-2018)

Olga Zeveleva. Newnham College, Principal's Studentship, Award for 3 years of PhD study. Newnham College, University of Cambridge. 2015-2018.

King, L., Principal Investigator, and Stubbs, T., Co-Investigator: “IMF Lending and Socio-Economic Development: The evolution and consequences of structural adjustment, 1985-2014” 2015-2017. Cambridge Political Economy Society Trust/Centre for Business Research Grant Competition. £300,000. 

Kandil, H. The Philip Leverhulme Prize (2015-2018 for £100,000) 

Mottier, V. Small Research Grant from Decanat SSP, University of Lausanne (2015).

Franklin, S. (PI) and van de Wiel, L., (CI) ‘Life in Glass’: a programme of public engagement. Wellcome Trust Provision Award (2015-2018): £222,999.00

Yildiz, Y. Y. November 2015 Visiting PhD fellowship, Centre for International Governance and Justice, Australian National University

Yopo, M. Programa Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (CONICYT), Chile and Cambridge Trust, PhD Scholarship, October 2015 - September 2019

Geelan, Torsten. 2014 Cambridge Political Economy Society Trust Supplementary Funding (value: £6,916)

Principal Investigator, ‘Social Media, Human Rights NGOs, and the Potential for Governmental Accountability.’ ESRC Future Research Leader grant and Isaac Newton Trust grant (2014-17): £254,310

Thompson, J. B. Balzan Foundation, 'The Human and Social Consequences of Economic Crisis in Europe' (2014-2017), £112,414

Suen, Johan. NUS-Tsao Foundation Ageing Research Initiative, Qualitative Study on Coping Strategies and Caregiving Arrangements of Lower-Income Households with Dependent Elderly, July 2014-March 2016, S$24,978.24

2014: Dissertation Field Research Travel Grant, Columbia University in the City of New York, Fieldwork-Puerto Rico

Mulcahy, N. 2014 – 2017 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada): Doctoral Fellowship ($60,000 CAD) 

Barlee, D. 2014 - 2015: Queens’ College, University of Cambridge, travel grant. 

Mottier, V. Swiss National Science Foundation, Co-Investigator with V. Barras and C. Kraus (P.I.), ‘Manufacturing Heterosexuality: The History of ‘Female Desire Disorders’ in Switzerland since the 1960s’, University of Lausanne, 2014-2016, CHF175'218 (=£125.000).

ESRC Language Training Grant – “Beyond the Movement: A Relational Study of Social Movements” £4465 (2014)

2014    Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC) ‘Participation in international conferences for academics’

Ahmad, M. Cambridge Commonwealth, European & International Trust, Cambridge European Scholarship, 2014-2017, University and College Fees. 

Luther-Davies, P. Hughes Hall, Hughes Hall Bursary, 2014-2018 

Yildiz, Y. Y. May 2013 Funding for PHD summer school on transcultural memory in Europe, COST Network, Copenhagen, Denmark

Yildiz, Y. Y., December 2013 Travel grant, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge 

Thompson, J. B. Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 'The Digital Revolution in Publishing' (2013-2017), $137,000 

Hardy, V. Cambridge Commonwealth Trust, Cambridge International Scholarship, 2013-2016 (Full stipendiary scholarship) 

Yildiz, Y. Y., May 2013 Funding for PHD summer school on transcultural memory in Europe, COST Network, Copenhagen, Denmark 

Bro, Naim. Full doctoral scholarship (2013-2017) - Conicyt Chile

Smietana, M. Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, ‘Adoptions and fosterages in Spain: Tracing challenges, opportunities and problems in the social and family lives of children and adolescents’ (coordinated R+D research group project). 1 January 2013 – 31 December 2015. 

Bagnoli, A. Wolfson College, Wolfson’s Worlds, academic year 2013/2014.

With the project Wolfson’s Worlds Anna investigated the needs of international students through an innovative methodology based on collage workshops.  

ESRC Doctoral Training Grant –  ~£60,000 (2013-2017)

Olga Löblová, International Visegrad Fund scholarship, 2014/15, 2013/14

Silva, F. C. A History of Sociology in Six Books. British Academy Small Research Grants of £9870. 2013-2015.

Olga Zeveleva. National Research University Higher School of Economics, Basic Research Program. Research grant on "Migrants in receiving societies," conducted at the Laboratory for Political Studies, Higher School of Economics. 2013. 

King, L. Principal Investigator: “The political economy of structural adjustment: IMF conditionality, 1986-2011”. 2013-2015. Institute for New Economic Thinking. $188,828 

Baert, P. (PI) Cooperation – socioeconomic sciences and humanities. EU Collaborative Project Programme, UK team (2013-16): €300,000

Franklin, S. (PI) The IVF History Project. British Academy Research Grant (2012): £25,000

2012-2014 Leverhulme Trust Fellowship project: ‘Identity, Emotions and Political Mobilization’.

Bournemouth University Vice Chancellor’s Fee Waiver (2012)

Bournemouth University Foundation Grants (2012- 2014) £25 000

Santander Travel Grants (2012- 2014) £5000

Burchell, B. (PI) Gender and working conditions. European Foundation (2012): £30,000

Miller, J. (PI) Research grant for PTSD, DNA & Spatial Processing. Army of Angels (2012-2013): £14,000

Olga Zeveleva. National Research University Higher School of Economics, Postgraduate academic research stipend, 2012-2015. 

Hammond, Kathleen. William Vaughan Lewis Research Award, 2012.

trujillo, M. Full ESRC doctoral studentship (2012-2015).

Baert, P. (PI) The rise of French existentialism, 1944–1947: a sociological explanation. British Academy Small Grant (2011-13): £6,750 

Scott, J. Practicing Gender equality in science (Prages) - EU FP7 - £74,821 

Geelan, Torsten. 2011 Scholarship: Knud Hojgaard Foundation (value: £3,100)

Franklin, S. 15/06/11-14/02/12 ‘Final Deposit of 28 Interviews from Wellcome Funded Project History of Mammalian Developmental Biology in the UK’ Medical Humanities Small Grant 096679/Z/11/Z £6000.00, S Franklin PI, with Martin Johnson and Nick Hopwood Co-apps. 

Bro, Naim. Principal Investigator (team of three): “Migration, elite formation, and development. Curicó and Talca in comparative perspective” (2011-2012). £1,000 (one million CLP). Initiation in Social Research Competition, University of Chile. 

Mulcahy, N. 2011 – 2012 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada): Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Master’s Scholarship ($17,500 CAD) 

Mulcahy, N. 2011 – 2012 Walter H. Johns Graduate Fellowship (University of Alberta) ($5,184 CAD).

Dow, K., ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship, Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh, 2010-2011.

Scott, J. Gender aspirations of young people and SET careers - Nuffield 2010 £7584

Collaborator, ‘Understanding the Dynamics of Urban Flexibility and Reconstruction.’ Research Award from the Future of Cities Programme at the University of Oxford, (2010-11): £45,000

van de Wiel, L., VSB Grant, VSB Fund, 2010, €3.500. 

Desai, M. (PI) Beyond Identity?: Markets and Logics of Democratization in Post-1991 India. Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant (2010-2013): £78,500

Sancak, M. The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD); University Summer Course Grant; August 2009; £1000 

Watson, P. THE BRITISH ACADEMY, research project entitled: Critical Condition? Mental Health and Civil Society in Transitional Europe. 2009-2011

Miley, J. Elites Políticas Autonómicas en España, Financed by Spain’s Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (Spring 2009-Fall 2010). P.I.: Francesc Xavier Coller Porta. 

Scheiring, G. 2009-2010: Cambridge Political Economy Society Trust bursary: GBP 5,000.

Sancak, M. The European Commission; Erasmus Mundus Programme Scholarship; January-July 2008; £4000 

Miley, J. Framing Attitudes towards Migration and Asylum: Effects of Immigration Politics and Policies in 15 EU Countries. Financed by the Spanish Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Spring 2008 – Spring 2012). P.I.: Enric Martínez Herrera. 

van de Wiel, L., Leonardo da Vinci Grant, European Union’s Lifelong Learning Programme, 2008, €5.385. 

Watson P. ISAAC NEWTON TRUST Co-funding for project entitled: Health Care Change in Transitional Europe: Polish Localities and Meta-Transformation, 2007.

“Social Rights in Portugal: Their Constitutionalization and Socio-economic Implications” (PTDC/CPO/71295/2006), funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology, Portuguese Ministry for Science, Technology and Higher Education.

Smietana, M. Government of Catalonia and European Social Fund, ‘Family-based affirmative action? Subversion and resilience strategies of gay father families’ (FI: Formació de Personal Investigador - Training of Research Staff). 1 January 2007- 31 December 2010, 50.000 EUR. 

Joint scholarships from Trinity College and Lomonosov Moscow State University for a research stay at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. 10/2007–12/2007. £1,500.

Franklin, S. Declined MRC Research Award, ‘Generation of GMP human embryonic stem cell lines’(King's College London, £1,520,535m, Principal Investigator Professor Peter Braude). 

Miley, J. Desarrollo de técnicas de docencia en la asignatura: Técnicas de investigación en Ciencia Política. Financed by the Junta de Castilla y León (Spring 2007 - Spring 2008). P.I.: Natalia Ajenjo.

Franklin, S. 01/07/07 – 31/07/08 Wellcome Trust Engaging Science Art Awards, ‘Future Mix: Transgenic Art Online’ (ArtAkt London, £18k, Principal Investigator Catarina Albano) 

van de Wiel, L., HSP Huygens Talent Grant, Nuffic, 2006-2007, €23.785. 

van de Wiel, L., AUV Grant, University of Amsterdam, 2006-2007, €550.

Franklin, S. 01/09/06 – 31/08/09 Wellcome Trust Society Programme Research Grant ‘From Communication to Deliberation: Scientists Perspectives on Public Engagement’, Principal Investigator, (£220,757k).

Desai, M. (PI) Ethnic Violence and State Formation in Western India. British Academy Research Grant (2006-2008): £6,750

Dow, K., ESRC 1+3 PhD Studentship, Social Anthropology, London School of Economics, 2005-2009.

2004, ERSC 1+3 PhD Research Studentship, University of Essex (PTA-031-2004-00143).

Mottier, V. Swiss National Science Foundation, Principal Investigator and Research Team Leader, ‘Social and Political Implications of Eugenic Practices’, University of Lausanne, 2002-2006, CHF978.781 (=£700.000).

Franklin, S. 1 February 2001 – 30 August 2002 Economic and Social Research Council and Medical Research Council, ‘Definitions of Genetic Knowledge: an ethnographic study of preimplantation genetic diagnosis’ Principal Investigator, (90k) 

Competitive Russian State Scholarship for the BA programme in philosophy at Lomonosov Moscow State University. 2000–2005.

Franklin, S. (PI) ‘Life After Dolly': anthropological perspectives on cloning. Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship (1999 - 2000): £28,000

1999-2001 ESRC 'One Europe or Several?' Programme. Research project: Regional Identity and European Citizenship. Co-director. Award reference number L213 25 2031.

Watson, P. ISAAC NEWTON TRUST, for research project entitled: Understanding the East-West Mortality Divide in Europe. 1997. 

Watson, P. INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY, PRINCETON USA Project Title: Gender and Globalisation. 1994-1995.

Franklin, S. 1991-2 European Commission, 'Kinship and the New Genetic Technologies' (Principal Investigator, with M. Strathern) (Euros 47k).