Selected Grants and Projects on

SCSC Research Grant

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

University of Cambridge Fieldwork Grant

Guangzhou Concord Medical Humanities Research and Education Fund

Sparkes, M. (PI) Credit scores as 'codes' to markets and mobilities.
Cambridge Humanities Research Grants University of Cambridge (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

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

In 2021, Jess joined The Royal Foundation to work on developing new trauma support for Emergency Responders across the UK.

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)

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

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"

Desai, M. (PI) Gendered Violence and Urban Transformation in India and South Africa. ESRC Large Grant (2020-2023): £1.76m

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

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.

Magdalene College Graduate Tutors Grant for PhD fieldwork in Benin

2019
Rotary International
Rotary Global Grant Scholarship

2019: Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness, Conference Travel Grant

2019: Society for Latin American Studies, Conference and Seminar Grants: Seminar Series and Reading Groups for “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)

Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (Principal Investigator) – “Resistance to Populism” – ~£185,000 (September 2019-2022)

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.

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

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

‘The digital performativity of populism: the politics of charisma, ordinariness, and spectacle’ – Awarded to Dr Angelos Kissas – Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) – postdoctoral fellowship (2018-2019 for £106,050).

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

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

2018: Faculty Research Group Support, Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, for “International Black Radicalism”

Zhang, R. Full scholarship from China Scholarship Council

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

Prince Claus Foundation, Hivos and the European Cultural Foundation ‘Force of Art’ research award for the “Contemporary Art in Eurasia: Civil Society, Art Activism and State in a Comparative Perspective” for the completion of manuscript research, 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).

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

Kandil, H. (PI) The Military Origins of Freedom and Oppression. Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study Pro Futura Fellowship (2017-2020): £198,797

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).

Ushiyama, R. (PI) The survival and reproduction of historical revisionism in Japanese public discourse: 1996-present. The British Academy (2017-2019): £228,390.

Yopo, M. Programa Centre for Latin American Studies (CLAS) University of Cambridge, Chile Projects, February 2017 - April 2017

 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.

Cambridge Principal Investigator, ‘ChainReact: Making Supplier Networks Transparent, Understandable and Responsive.’ Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Action (2017-19): €2.5m in total, £333,000 at Cambridge

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

2017: Simon Bolivar Fund, Centre for Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge

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

2016    “Becas Chile” Scholarship Program, Call 2016, for eligible Master’s 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 “MPhil in Sociology and Demography” at the University of Oxford until June of 2018.

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

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

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

Yildiz, Y. Y., March 2016 Travel grant, Selwyn College, University of Cambridge 

Williams, K. (PI) Alternative Metrics of Impact in Multilateral Agencies: The Potential for Knowledge for Sustainable Human Development. ERSC and Isaac Newton Trust (2016-2018): £173,618 & £16,209

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

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).

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

Principal Investigator, ‘Ethics and Governance of Autonomous Systems and Machine Learning in the Digital Society.’ School of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Fund (2016-2018): £39,282

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

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

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

ESRC Overseas Institutional Visit Grant – “Mobilization Beyond the Movement: Contention, Affinity and Convergence in New York, Cairo and Paris” - £2400 (April 2016)

Zhang, L. Cambridge PhD Bursary, October 2015, £500. 

Hammond, Kathleen. Fondation Brocher visiting fellowship, 2016 

Burchell, B. The Racing Foundation, ‘The quality of employment in horseracing industry’, September 2015 – August 2016, pilot funding £5,000 

Burchell, B. (PI) Self-employment programmes for young people: a review of the context, policies and evidence. International Labour Organisation (2015): £15,000

2015-2016 Amsterdam Merit Scholarship

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. 

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tiffany, A. Tuition Fees Spalding Trust, October 2015, £2000.

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

Pearson, A. ESRC Studentship, starting October 2015.

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

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

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

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’

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).

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

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

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

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). 

University of Cambridge Research Collaboration Grant – “Crisis and Social Change: Toward Alternative Horizons” –£2125 (2014)

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

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

Dr Mottier has received conference funding from Crassh, University of Cambridge; the Wellcome Trust; the British Sociological Association; l’Institut Français (Oxford); and the Gender Identity Research and Education Society GIRES, U.K. (2013).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Barlee, D. 2013 - 2016: Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholarship

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

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. 

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. 

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

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

Baert, P. (PI) The rise of French existentialism, 1944– 1947: a sociological explanation. Leverhulme Fellowship (2012-2013): £40,267

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

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

Bournemouth University Vice Chancellor’s Fee Waiver (2012)

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. 

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

Hardy, V. Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Part Scholarship, 2011-2012.

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. 

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

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

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. Koç University; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; Postgraduate Award; August 2010; £800 

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

van de Wiel, L., U21 Award, Celebrating Ageing Research, €1.250 HSP Huygens Talent Grant, Nuffic, 2010-2011, €26.100. 

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.

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. 

Miley, J. Conflicto y consenso parlamentario: el caso de la España de las autonomías (1980-2010). Financed by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Inovacion (Spring 2009-Spring 2010). P.I.: Francesc Xavier Coller Porta. 

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

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. 

Franklin, S. 01/01/08 -01/12/08 Crossing Over - Arts Council of England (Grant for the Arts - £10,000) and Wellcome Trust (People Award Grant £26,975.00) Director and Curator: Catarina Albano

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.

Scheiring, G. 2007: University of Aberdeen, “Civil Society, Social Capital and Democracy” Post-Graduate Summer School scholarship.

2007-10: from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for a Network entitled ‘Secularism: a reappraisal of institutional arrangements for religious regulation’ (£20,000). Now known as The Religion and Secularism Network and run with Humeira Iqtidar . 

“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.

“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., 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).

CARPENEDO Manoela. Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg, BW Scholarship, 2006 to 2007

Franklin, S. 1 July 2002 - 15 July 2003 Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics programme, 'PGD Patient's Understandings of Consent to Donate Embryos to Stem Cell Research' 069699/Z/02/Z (Research Expenses, 2.5k) 

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

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