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Current projects

Title	Funder	Start date	End date
Understanding normative change to address the climate emergency	UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)	1 October 2021	30 September 2025
A Global Comparative Ethnography of Parliaments, Politicians and People: Representation, Relationships and Ruptures	European Research Council	1 September 2019	1 September 2024
Youth Activism in Educational Spaces	Leeds Social Sciences Institute	9 January 2023	31 July 2023
Petitioning and People Power in Twentieth-Century Britain	Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)	1 August 2020	31 July 2023
Finance and Procurement for Net-Zero	UK Energy Research Centre (UKRI) Flexible Research Fund	1 July 2021	30 June 2023

Past projects

Title	Funder	Start date	End date
Changing the game: The dynamics of the commercialisation of football in Eastern Africa		1 August 2020	1 April 2022
Pathways to numeracy in rural India: policies, patterns and perceptions (P2N)	Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Global Challenges Research Fund	1 November 2019	1 May 2021
Strengthening Health System Delivery and Quality: Mechanisms and Effects of Performance Based Financing in the Sub-Saharan context		1 March 2017	1 December 2020
Northern Ireland Election Study 2019	Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)	1 December 2019	30 November 2020
Sustainable development for pastoralist women in India: dignity, heritage and adaptations in times of rapid change (HERDING)	British Academy (Global Challenges Research Fund)	26 September 2018	25 November 2020
Researching Accountability in the Indian System of Education (RAISE)	ESRC - DFID	1 May 2018	31 October 2020
Deepening Democracy in Extremely Politically Fragile Countries: Networking for Historical, Cultural and Arts Research on Parliaments and People	ESRC/LSSI Impact Acceleration Account (IAA)	1 September 2017	1 September 2020
Legal Advice to Legislatures – Supporting a Professionalising Legislature	The Leverhulme Trust	1 September 2017	1 April 2019
Subnational Context and Radical Right support in Europe (SCoRE)	Open Research Area (ORA) for the Social Sciences	1 April 2016	31 March 2019
Understanding Solidarity Amid Refugee Crises		1 March 2017	31 October 2018
Friendship and International Community: Cross-Cultural Concepts		1 January 2018	30 June 2018
Northern Ireland Election Study 2017-18	Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)	1 March 2017	28 February 2018
The Petitions Committee: Developing a New Style of Public Engagement	ESRC/LSSI Impact Acceleration Account (IAA)	1 October 2016	1 May 2017
Truly Engaging Citizens with the Parliamentary Process? An Evaluation of the Public Reading Stage in the House of Commons	The Leverhulme Trust	1 October 2015	1 April 2017
The Responsibility to Protect The Political Sustainability of Liberal Norms in an Age of Shifting Power balances		1 January 2013	31 December 2016
Northern Ireland Election Study 2015-16	Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)	1 March 2015	28 February 2016
White Rose Consortium on The Responsibility to Protect and Human Interconnectedness		1 January 2013	31 December 2015
Ordinary Citizenship	Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)