Selected Grants and Projects on

Gonville & Caius College Graduate Academic Grant

UCCL Grants

CSC-Cambridge Scholarship

"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)

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)

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

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

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

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

UKRI 2019-20 QR Strategic Priorities Fund (QR = Quality Related) 'Attacks on Syrian healthcare workers: establishing an academic-policy network'. PI with Centre for Global Human Movement.

Magdalene College Graduate Tutors Grant for PhD fieldwork in Benin

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

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

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

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

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

In 2019 and 2020, I helped co-design and co-teach the “Social IT” Solutions Workshop for Computer Science and Engineering students at the Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology (DIT) in Tanzania and at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) in Salvador, funded by the Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab (J-WEL) and by the MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives, respectively. The goal of both workshops was was to incorporate the humanities, social sciences and artistic thinking into the STEM curriculum while addressing the sustainable development goals.

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

Trauma Resilience in UK Policing (https://www.policingtrauma.sociology.cam.ac.uk)

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

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.

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

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

Zhang, R. Full scholarship from China Scholarship Council

Cambridge Commonwealth, European and International Trust PhD scholarship

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

2018: Simon Bolivar Fund, Centre for Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge

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.

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.

Page, T. (Senior Personnel) Faculty and Staff Sexual Misconduct: An International Conference to Identify Barriers, Develop Resources and Recommendations, and Build Community. National Science Foundation (2018-2019): US$96,930

‘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).

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.

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

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

Moreno Figueroa, M. (PI) Latin American Antiracism in a ‘Post-Racial’ Age. ESRC (2017-2019): £1,005,035

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

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

‘Alternative Measures of Impact in Multilateral Agencies: The Potential for Knowledge for Sustainable Human Development’, (2017-2019), ESRC Future Research Leader grant and Isaac Newton Trust grant (£214,000).

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

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

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

2016-2017 Amsterdam Merit Scholarship

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

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

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

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

Zobel, M. ESRC Studentship co-funded by Pembroke College, Cambridge (2016 to 2021).

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

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

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

Hammond, Kathleen. Fondation Brocher visiting fellowship, 2016 

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

Stubbs, T. 2016 University of Waikato, Research Trust Contestable Fund ($5,000).

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

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

Irdam, D. Gates Cambridge - PhD in Sociology.

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

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

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

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

2015-2016 Amsterdam Merit Scholarship

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)

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

Cambridge International Scholarship (2015-2018), Cambridge Trust

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

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

Bernhardt, L. ESRC Studentship, 2015-2018.

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

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. 

Abrams, B. International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) Small Grant, “Community Indifference to Collective Problems: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Collective Action, Change, and Resistance” (with Dr Giovanni Travalignio and Dr Maria Ridda), March 3 2015, $4000

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

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

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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Soffia, M. 2014-2018: CONICYT-Chile Cambridge full scholarship granted by the Cambridge Trust in collaboration with National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT, Chile), for doctoral studies abroad. 

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

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

Blell, M. (PI): 

Project: Intimate Objects - Digital co-creation and democratisation of sex toy design

Collaborator(s): Dr Sarah Winkler Reid (University of Bristol); Ms Cassie Robinson and Ms Natasha Carolan (creative industry partners)

Funder: Research & Enterprise in Arts & Creative Technology (REACT) Hub Prototype Funding

Funds received: £30, 000

Project end date: 31 November 2014

Hammond, Kathleen. Embryo Project fellowship, Arizona State University, 2014.

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

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 

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. 

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

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.  

Bagnoli, A. Cambridge Italian Research Network Seed Funding Grant, Picturing Identities, academic year 2013/2014.

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

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

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

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

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

Smietana, M. (PI) and Franklin, S (SD). SurrogARTs Project. European Commission (EC) Marie Curie Award (2013-2016): €239,282

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

2012: from the British Academy, for research on Judaism in the Pentecostal Imaginary (£10,000).

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

Zhang, L. Cambridge Trust CSC Scholarship, October 2012- present.

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. 

Bournemouth University Vice Chancellor’s Fee Waiver (2012)

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

Santander Travel Grants (2012- 2014) £5000

Hammond, Kathleen. Gates Cambridge Scholarship, 2011-2012.

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. 

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)

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) 

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. 

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

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

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

Sefat, K.  Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for Arabic (FLAS), University of Pennsylvania (value: $15,000). 

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

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

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

“Broken Promises. The Political Origins of Socioeconomic Inequality in Portugal, 1960-2010”. Foundation for Science and Technology, Portuguese Ministry for Science, Technology and Higher Education.

Geelan, Torsten. 2009 Grant for MPhil in Sociology at the University of Cambridge from the Danish Education and Research Ministry (value:
£4,600)

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. 

Scheiring, G. 2008: Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship (SYLFF): HUF 1,080,000.

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. 

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

“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.

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) 

2007-2010 The Westfield Trust. Research project: Religious Diversity and National Identity in Britain and Spain.

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.

Scheiring, G. 2006: Schumacher College, International Development Course scholarship.

Scheiring, G. 2006: Scholarship to present “Eco-politics and the political anthropology of environmentalism in Hungary” at the Social Movements Studies Group, University of North Carolina (Chapel-Hill): USD 1,000.

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) 

Mottier, V. Small research grants from the Fondation Chalumeau, Geneva (1999) 

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