Selected Grants and Projects on

The Sociological Review Grant 2025 (for organising the symposium; 'Movement in (Ethnographic) Method: Space, Time and Theory)

CBRL Postgraduate Grant

SCSC Research Grant

2024: ‘Theorizing global fields: the case of the de-Americanisation of Pan-Africanism’. Cambridge Humanities Research Grants Scheme (£14,000)

2024-2027: ‘Catalysts of Decolonization’. Research Lab funding through CRASSH (£10,000/yr)

Dating Apps and Transforming Intimacies - British Academy

2023/09
Institute for Humane Studies (IHS)
IHS - Graduate Sabbatical Grant

(2023) Wolfson Research Network funding for REACH Research hub.

Third Party Funding, Margherita von Brentano Center, Seed Funding Grants for innovative projects in gender studies. Production of Podcast on Gender and Migration, with Ximena Alba & Karlotta Bahnsen (2023)

2022, Fulbright: research at Harvard University, (USA)

CSC-Cambridge Scholarship

2022-2025: Co-PI, “Race Trouble. Decolonizing race andracial inequality in postcolonial Portugal” (2022.04225.PTDC) exploratory research project, funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology,Portuguese Ministry for Science, Technology and Higher Education. PI: Sofia Aboim. Funding awarded: €49.981,65.

Indian Association for Women’s Studies Research Grant 2022

2022/07 – 2023/06
Academia Sinica
Academia Sinica Fellowships for Doctoral Candidates in the Humanities and Social Sciences

2022/07 – 2022/12
Sino-British Fellowship Trust (SBFT)
SBFT Grant

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

The Annette Lawson Charitable Trust

Translation project:

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.

DOI:10.1177/09500170211015067), published on Stand News.

https://www.thestandnews.com/society/真的有-40-的工作都沒意義-大衛格雷伯狗屁工作理論與實證

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)

Principal Investigator, ‘A Messaging Chatbot to Support Refugees’ Documentation of Human Rights Violations in UK Asylum Accommodation.’ ESRC Impact Acceleration Account, University of Cambridge (2021-22): £19,771.52

Indian Association for Women’s Studies Research Grant 2021

2021: BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant (value: £10,000) to fund ‘Gig Rights Project’.

Third Party Funding, DFG - German Research Foundation, Focus Funding COVID-19 Impact of the coronavirus pandemic in the Global South. Project on Paraguayan Border Cities, with Sérgio Costa (2021/2022)

Cambridge Political Economy Society Trust

2020: Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge

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"

Gabrys, J. (PI) Smart Forests: Transforming Environments into Social-Political Technologies. ERC Consolidator Grant (2020-2025): €1.99m

2020: 'The Global roots of Black sociology'. Cambridge Humanities Research Grants Scheme (£1425).

Virgin Unite
STEAM Education for Women in Afghanistan based at Lucy Cavendish College

Gibraltar Scholarship Grant 2020

HelpAge International and the Samuel Centre for Samuel Connectedness (2020), “Understanding
Social Connectedness Among Older People in Low and Middle Income Countries,” Moldova.

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

2019: Society for Latin American Studies, Conference and Seminar Grants: Seminar Series and Reading Groups for “The Cultural Politics of Reproduction in Latin America”

Trinity College Rouse Ball Research Grant (2019)

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)

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

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

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

Miller, J. (PI) Funding for trauma resilience research (2019- 2022). Police Care UK (formerly Police Dependants’ Trust): £397,404.

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

2019
Rotary International
Rotary Global Grant Scholarship

Scholarship, DAAD - German Academic Exchange Service, Congress participation - 18th ILERA World Conference in Seoul, South Korea (2018)

2018
The University of Warwick
Opportunity Fund Award

Yildiz, Y. Y. October 2018 - March 2019 Entente Cordiale Postdoctoral Fellowship

Political Economy Research Fellowship, ISRF, April 2018 - March 2019

GCRF / RCUK Research for Health in Conflict (R4HC) 2018 - 2022. The political economy of health in the Arab region. CO-I and lead of the political economy of health component. 650K.

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

Carreira Da Silva, F. (PI) Rethinking Populism. Portuguese Ministry for Science, Technology and Higher Education - Foundation for Science and Technology (2018-2020): €208,000

Riksbankens Jubileumsfoun, The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences Communication Projects grant to organize a workshop and facilitate special issue production on “Power in Central Asia” conceptual theme, 2018.

Cambridge Commonwealth, European and International Trust PhD scholarship

2018, Heritage Lottery Fund. The 70th anniversary of arrival of the Empire Windrush 1948: an educational text. Port of Tilbury Riverside project.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

2017-21: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship

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).

2017
Tsinghua University
Full Summer Exchange Scholarship

2017-2019, EU-Marie Curie Fellowship: Post doctorate Fellowship, Newcastle University (U.K.)

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

2017: Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness, Conference and Travel Grant

 Trinity College - Cambridge, Honorary Trinity-MCSC Scholarship 2017-18. 

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.

New School for Social Research Conference Grant – “Autonomous Self-Organization in Egypt’s Revolutionary Crowds” - $1000 (April 2017)

2017 Cambridge Political Economy Society Trust, awarded for research excellence, £2,000

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

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

Moreno Figueroa, M. (PI) Becoming Black: gender, racism and representation in the Costa Chica, Mexico. Cambridge Humanities Research Grant Scheme (2016): £17,000 

Moreno Figueroa, M. (PI) Institutional racism and the logics of the contemporary Mexican state. British Academy Newton Advanced Fellowships (2016-2018): £73,952

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

2016 Seton Cavendish Fund Grant, Downing College, Cambridge

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

Mottier, V. Debating Homosexuality in Uganda: The case of members of parliament. Cambridge Africa Alborada Fund (2016-2017): £5680

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.

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

2016: Santander Mobility Grant, Fieldwork-Mexico City

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

Fazekas, M., Curbing corruption in development aid-funded procurement, British Academy and UK's Department for International Development funded research project, 2016-2017, co-investigator. Budget: 398 275 GBP

Stubbs, T. 2016-19 Co-Investigator, Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga ($485,000) (PIs - Mohi Rua & Darrin Hodgetts).

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

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

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

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)

2016-2017 Amsterdam Merit Scholarship

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

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

Bacevic, J. 2015-2018. Cambridge Commonwealth, European and International Trust PhD scholarship.

Burchell, B. ESRC Impact Acceleration Account, ‘Deepening the health and safety discourse on zero hours employment’, March 2015 – December 2015, £9,821 

Luther-Davies, P. Hughes Hall, Santander Bursary, 2015

Weatherhead Centre for International Affairs Research Grant (2015)

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

Geelan, Torsten. 2015 Cambridge Political Economy Society Trust Emergency Funding (value: £1,000)

Men's Attitudes to Intimate Life, funded by the British HIV Association and the Wellcome Trust (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. 

Cambridge International Scholarship (2015-2018), Cambridge Trust

King, L. (PI), Fazekas, M., and Toth, B.: “The Digital Whistleblower. Fiscal Transparency, Risk Assessment and Impact of Good Governance Policies Assessed” Horizon 2020 – Research and Innovation Framework Programme, European Commission. 2015-2017. €3,026,360.

National Research University Higher School of Economics. Grant from the Young Faculty Support Programme in category “Future Professoriate” to cover visiting fellowship at Harriman Institute, University of Columbia. “Public Perceptions of the Russian Police as Seen Through Online Commentaries by Police Dramas Viewers”. 01/05/2015–16/05/2015. £2,000.

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

Yildiz, Y. Y., April 2015 Funding for PHD summer school on memory and agency, COST Network, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania 

Sancak, M. Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs; Mexican Government Scholarships for International Students; January- August 2015, £4000

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

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

Lamoreaux, J. Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities Small Grant, 2015.

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

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

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

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

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’

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

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

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

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

Ahmad, M. Department of Sociology, Graduate Education Committee Funding, 2014-2017, Maintenance.

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

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

Yopo, M. Programa Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (CONICYT), Chile. MPhil Scholarship, October 2014 - July 2015

Sancak, M. The University of Cambridge; University Fieldwork Funds; October 2014- August 2015; £12000 

2014-16: from the Leverhulme Trust, for research entitled ‘Redrawing religious boundaries and identities: Messianic Jews and Christians’. (£22,000). 

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.  

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

“A History of Sociology in Six Books”. British Academy-Leverhulme Small Research Grant and Newton Trust Small Research Grant.

Zobel, M. German National Academic Foundation (2013-2015)

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

Zobel, M. Kurt Hahn Trust, Cambridge (2013-2014)

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

Gabrys, J. (PI) CitizenSense: ‘Citizen Sensing and Environmental Practice: Assessing Participatory Engagements with Environments through Sensor Technologies’. European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant (2013-2018): €1.5m

Franklin, S. (PI) Fertilization Through the Looking Glass: a sociology of IVF in the late-twentieth century. Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award 100606/Z/12/Z (2013-2018): £992,748

2013 Grant: University of Cambridge Overseas Fieldwork Funding (value: £1,340).

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

2013 Scholarship: ESRC Overseas Fieldwork Research Funding (value: £1,272).

Yildiz, Y. Y., November 2013 Travel grant, Selwyn College, University of Cambridge 

Franklin, S. 01/10/13-30/09/16 ‘(In)fertility, Education and Reproductive Health’ Philomathia Foundation, £200,000.00, Prof S Franklin and Prof J Scott, co-PIs 

Brablec, D., Jul. 2012 Scholarship ‘Becas de Magíster en el Extranjero Becas Chile’ for studying a MSc programme at the University College London

Hammond, Kathleen. Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholarship, 2012-2015.

Hammond, Kathleen. Wolfson College Cambridge Conference Fund, 2012.

2012, Right Livelihood Campus, grant through DAAD, University of Bonn, Centre for Development Research (ZEF)

CARPENEDO Manoela. Cambridge Trust, Capes-Cambridge Overseas Trust Scholarship, 2012 to present 

Fazekas, M., ANTICORRP: “Anticorruption policies revisited. Global Trends and European Responses to the Challenge of Corruption” EU FP7 financed large-scale research project, 2012-2017, associate researcher with project partner Budapest Corvinus University. Budget: 10 395 386 EUR. 

Soffia, M. 2012-2013: 'Becas Chile' full scholarship granted by the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT, Chile) for MSc studies abroad. 

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

Bournemouth University Vice Chancellor’s Fee Waiver (2012)

‘Knowledge production across research contexts: Universities, think-tanks and government agencies in international development’, (2012-2016), Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan Award and Cambridge Overseas Trust (£97,000).

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

van de Wiel, L., ASCA PhD Fellowship, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam, 2011-2015, 0.8 fte salaried contract. 

2011-2015, DAAD scholarship, PhD Study, University of Hamburg

Sefat, K. 2011 to 2015: Cambridge Trust Foundation, University of Cambridge (full scholarship/studentship).

Hardy, V. Baxter and Alma Ricard Foundation Scholarship, 2011-2012, 2014-2015 & 2016-2017 (Variable amounts) 

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

King, L. Principal Investigator: “The Impact of Privatization on the Mortality Crisis in Eastern Europe” 2011-2015. ERC Advanced Investigator Grant. European Research Council. €3,483,058. 

Gabrys, J. (CI) Sustainability Invention and Energy Demand Reduction: Co-Designing Communities and Practice. ESRC/RCUK Energy Research Programme (2011-2014): £974,133

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

Garima Sahai, Bharat Petroleum Scholarship for Higher Studies, 2010-2012

Olga Zeveleva. DAAD (Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst). Research grant on "Repatriation and transnational studies," conducted at Freie Universität Berlin. 2010-2012.

Sancak, M. The European Commission; Jean Monnet Scholarship; October 2010- September 2011; £24000 

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

Sefat, K. Penn Globalization Studies, University of Pennsylvania (research grant; value: $5,000) - University of Pennsylvania (Housing and Dining).

Scott, J. 'Gender aspirations of young people and SET careers' - Nuffield, 2010, £7,584

Scheiring, G. 2009-2012: Cambridge European Trust bursary: GBP 24,000; 

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

Competitive Erasmus Mundus Scholarship from the European Commission for the Erasmus Mundus MA programme. 09/2009–06/2011. University fees £37,657 for two years and maintenance allowance £22,414 for two years.

CARPENEDO Manoela. European Commission, Erasmus Mundus Scholarship, 2009 to 2011.

Franklin, S. 01/04/08- 31/03/10 'History of mammalian development in the UK: 1945-present' awarded to Professor Martin Johnson (PI), Professor Sarah Franklin and Dr Nick Hopwood, £20,016.00 Wellcome Trust History of Medicine Programme, Grant No. 084418. 

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

Barlee, D. 2008 - 2010: University of Victoria Teaching and Research Assistantship funding grant.

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

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). 

Franklin, S. (CI) Ethical Frameworks for Embryo Donation: the views, values and practices of IVF/PGD Staff. Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Programme 081414/Z/06/Z (2007-2010): £199,005

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) 

Competitive Russian Government Scholarship for the research MA at Lomonosov Moscow State University. 09/2007–08/2008.

“Cities and Citizenship in Portugal” (PDCT/CPO/60414/2004), funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology, Portuguese Ministry for Science, Technology and Higher Education.

Bro, Naim. Undergraduate thesis: “Political identity in the Student Movement of 2006”. £1,000. Fondecyt N°1090127, (supervisor Dr Manuel Antonio Garretón), University of Chile.

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.

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

Thompson, J. B. ESRC, ‘Concentration and Innovation in the Book Publishing Industry’ (2005-2008), £47,154 

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

Franklin, S. 01/10/02 – 01/10/07 Economic and Social Research Council, Centre for the Social and Economic Study of the New Genetics (CESAGen), Co-applicant, (£4.2m) 

Franklin, S. February 2001 Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Programme, Symposium Grant, 'Genetic Donation as "Gift" Economy', co-organised with Richard Tutton (2.5k) 

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

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

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

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.

Watson, P. BRITISH KNOW-HOW FUND Consultancy project entitled Identifying and Responding to Local Needs, 1991.