Research projects

Project title
'Lurking' and 'loitering': Historic Approaches to Policing Suspicious Behaviour in Britain and their Contemporary Resonances
21st Century Science Evaluation: Students' understandings of science explanations and ideas-about-science
Academic freedom
Academic network of European disability experts (ANED)
Access and Benefit Sharing in Practice: Community, Science and Policy
Access to Justice for Children with Mental Disabilities
A Different Take
Aesthetic Surgery and Symbolic Capital in South Korea
A Global Comparative Ethnography of Parliaments, Politicians and People: Representation, Relationships and Ruptures
AKTIVE – Advancing Knowledge of Telecare for Independence and Vitality in later lifE
Alternative Finance Opportunities for Green Energy
An Exploratory Knowledge Platform for Policing: Exploiting Knowledge Assets, Utilising Data and Piloting Research Co-production
An Investigation into Students' Global A-Level Mathematics Performance and their Performance in Routine and Non-Routine Questions
An Investigation of the Performance of English pupils in the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)
Application of Competition Law in Technology Markets
Applied science students: Examining progression routes from KS4
A Professional Register for Probation Practitioners: Opportunities and Challenges
ASCENTS 121 Support for Science
Assessing Deviance, Crime and Prevention (CRIMPREV)
Assessing the Impact of Circles of Support and Accountability
A systematic review of early interventions for parents of deaf babies
Autism across the life course
AWESOME Dissertation
BA Educational Studies (TESOL) - Oman
Barriers to Attendance
BBC Science Clips
Board Accountability in Corporate Governance
Books, bags and boxes: a study of the role and impact of the Leeds School Library Service
Boosting Growth through Strengthening Investor and Creditor Protection in China: How China Can Learn from the UK experience
Bradford mapping research: service provision for vulnerable groups in contact with the police
Business Judgment And The Courts
Carers, employment and services (CES)
Challenging institutional whiteness in postcolonial contexts
Change, continuity and crisis in the legal profession: the role of gender
Change and Continuity in Science Teachers' Work
Changing Landscapes for the Third Sector
Changing the game: The dynamics of the commercialisation of football in Eastern Africa
Child care, welfare reform and women's labour force participation
Chinese action research project: household needs, public services and community organisations
Chinese Victims of Racist Violence
Co-designing community resilience to online child sexual victimisation
Co-evolution of Facebook’s Content Policies & International Instruments
Co-POWeR: Consortium on Practices for Wellbeing and Resilience in BAME Families and Communities
Comenius Transfer-Expert on SignLanguage@School
Communicating Welfare Reform
Communication for Children with Hearing Impairment to optimise Language Development (Comm4CHILD)
Connected Data Analytics
Connecting and Comprehending Through Play
CONtract SOLutions for Effective and lasting delivery of agri-environmental-climate public goods by EU agriculture and forestry (CONSOLE)
Convenient constructs: How chief police officers in England and Wales understand the right to exercise power.
Coordination Disorders in the Early Years
Core Values, Student Learning and School Transformation
Countering Islamophobia Through the Development of Best Practice in the use of Counter-Narratives in EU Member States
County Lines Policing and Vulnerability
CPD for ITE Providers
Creating Applied Science in Schools
Creativity and Effectiveness in the Use of Electronic Monitoring as an Alternative to Imprisonment in EU Member States
Credit and Debt: Protecting The Vulnerable In Europe
CRITiCaL - Combatting cRiminals In The CLoud
Critical Thinking and Reflective Practice in Deaf Education
Cross National Comparison of Child Care Policy Options and Implementations
Data Justice in Mexico’s Multiveillant Society: How big data is reshaping the struggle for human rights and political freedoms
Deaf Children's Early Literacy at Home
Deafness and Reading for Meaning - 'DReaM'
Deepening Democracy in Extremely Politically Fragile Countries: Networking for Historical, Cultural and Arts Research on Parliaments and People
Defining Freedom of the Press : A Cross national examination of press ethics and regulation in ten European countries
Deliberating About Human Rights
Delta trainers' cognitions and practices
Derivative Actions in Corporate Law
Determinants, Dynamics and Policy Implications of Deep Poverty
Developing a clearer understanding of the Carer’s Allowance Claimant Group
Developing Curriculum Pathways in Mathematics - phase one
Developing Curriculum Pathways in Mathematics - phase two
Developing Practice in Teaching English to Young Learners - Slovenia
Dialogic Teaching in Science Classrooms
Digital Learning – Resistance and Creativity
Dirty Assets: Experiences, reflections, and lessons learnt from a decade of legislation on criminal money laundering and terrorism financing
Disability Activism in Europe
Disability Equality in English Primary Schools (DEEPS)
Disability Transitions: Combatting Young Disabled People’s Worklessness
Disproportionality: Exploring the Nature of Ethnic Disparities in Sentencing through Causal Inference
DMBC – Service review for Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council assistive technology services
Docketing Pilot
Doing embryo ethics
Domestic Abuse Service Providers and their Stories
EAL additional experience pilot
Early education for young deaf children and their caregivers in Ghana
Economic and Social Constitutionalism
Economic and Social Constitutionalism after the Treaty of Lisbon "an Interdisciplinary Perspective"
Economic and Social Integration in the EU and Beyond – Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Jean Monnet ad personam chair)
Efficacy trial of Concept Cat
Efficacy trial of the 5Rs approach to GCSE Maths resits
Efficacy trial of the Communication Friendly Settings Programme
Emerging technology and Big Data analytics: Realising the potential of Automatic Number Plate Recognition
EMPHASIS - EconoMical, PsycHologicAl and Societal Impact of RanSomware [Ransomware and Cybercrimes of Extortion]
Enactment and Impact of Science Education Reform (EISER)
Encounters between welfare professionals and citizens
English Language Learning Areas in Pre-School Classrooms: an investigation of their effectiveness in supporting EFL development
Enhance driver behaviour and Public Acceptance of Connected and Autonomous vehicLes (PASCAL)
Equality and non-discrimination: EU and UN law and policy
Equality Statistics in Practice at a Local Level
ESRC Research Group for the Study of Care, Values and the Future of Welfare
ESRC Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre
ETHER Ethics and Aesthetics of Encountering the Other: New Frameworks for Engaging with Difference
Ethnic differences in education and diverging prospects for urban youth in an enlarged Europe
Ethnic minority business: policy and practice review
EUPILLAR (European Union Private International Law: Legal Application in Reality)
European and International Equality Law
European Disability Expertise (EDE)
European research agendas for disability equality
Evaluating EU progress in implementing the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the EU Disability Strategy
Evaluating the Impact of Digital Health Communities
Evaluating the Operation of Malta's Gender Identity, Gender Expression and Sex Characteristics Act 2015: To What Extent Has it Enhanced the Bodily Integrity of Intersex Infants?
Evaluating the Social Value of Innovative Finance: A Case Study of Community Municipal Bonds
Evaluation of Fit as a Fiddle
Evaluation of Let’s Talk Bristol: Bristol Early Language (BEL) Recovery Programme
Evaluation of Supporting Carers in General Practice
Evaluation of Take-up of Science GCSEs
Evaluation of the Caring with Confidence Programme
Evaluation of the National Carers’ Strategy Demonstrator Sites Programme
Evaluation of the Primary Science Enhancement Programme
Evaluation of the Salters-Nuffield Advanced Biology Project (SNAB): implementation in the classroom
Evaluation of the ‘Raising Aspirations in Physics’ project
Everyday Challenges to the Rule of Law: The Case of Civil/Criminal Procedural Hybrids
Examination of Transactional Avoidance in the Context of European Insolvencies
Exploring Agent Computing for Understanding Police Demand
Exploring men’s experiences of care in low-income localities
Exploring Student Experience of On Campus, Online and Hybrid Delivery
Exploring the impact and potential benefits of telecare for carers in Scotland
Exploring the impacts of Body Worn Video in Incidents of Domestic Abuse
Exploring the Influence of Courtroom Questioning and Pre-Trial Preparation on Eyewitness Accuracy
Exploring ‘New’ Normative Hybridity in European Industrial Relations
Fair Shares and Families: Children’s perceptions of material resource distributions and decision-making within families
Feeding the nation: seasonal migrant workers and food security during COVID-19 pandemic
Finance and Procurement for Net-Zero
Financial Innovation Today: Towards Economic Resilience (FITTER)
Financing for Society: Crowdfunding Public Infrastructure (Pilot Fund)
FLOWS: The impact of local welfare systems on female labour force participation and social cohesion
Following Young Fathers: The lived experience of teenage parenting over time
Forensic Identification Frontiers
Formal Science Education and Life-Long Learning
Fostering effective parent-practitioner partnerships in Character Education
Fostering safer parks for women and girls in West Yorkshire and beyond through multi-agency collaboration, knowledge exchange and the co-design of research-informed guidance
FRALEX
Friendship and International Community: Cross-Cultural Concepts
Fundamental Rights of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities and Persons with Mental Health Problems
FUSION: Financialisation and Income Inequality
GCSE 21st Century Science: comparisons of participation and attainment in post-compulsory science
Gender and Employment in Local Labour Markets (GELLM)
Gender diversity, recognition and citizenship
Goals and Purposes of EU Competition Law: What Does the Data Say?
Governance and Legitimacy in the EU
Governing Through Anti-Social Behaviour
Graphic calculator use in Leeds LEA school: fragments of practice
Growing post-16 maths participation: promoting the benefits of Core Maths
Hard Knock Life: Negotiating concussion and dementia in sport
HENNA (Harehills ESOL Needs Neighbourhood Audit) project
Higher Education provision and support for disabled students
Hitting them where it hurts: The history of development of Civil Recovery powers under the Proceeds of Crime Act
Home background and the L2 motivational self-system in a developing country context
IcARUS: Innovative Approaches to Urban Security
ICT based solutions for caregivers
Identifying and Modelling Victim, Business, Regulatory and Malware Behaviours in a Changing Cyberthreat Landscape
Identity Online
IELTS Listening
Improving educational and social outcomes for deaf children of Roma families in the UK
In-silico trials of targeted screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm using linked healthcare data
INBOTS: Inclusive Robotics for a Better Society
Including a new generation? Using qualitative longitudinal methods to understand disabled people's lives in the 21st century
Inclusive Public Space: Law, Universality and Difference in the Accessibility of Streets
Indonesian Islamic School Headmasters Programme in Educational Leadership and Management
Industrial action and the peace obligation on the internal market in Europe
Innovation and the application of knowledge for more effective policing
Innovative finance instruments and local public procurement for net zero
Inspiring teachers
Institute of Physics: Supporting Physics Teaching 11-14
Intellectual Property and Biotechnology
INTERACT: Intercultural Active Citizenship
Interests and Recruitment in Science (IRIS)
International and Comparative Criminal Justice
Internationalisation of Secured Credit Law: the UNCITRAL experience
Internationalising the Curriculum and Student Experiences
International Law as a Profession: (De)Constructing the Identity of International Lawyers
Investigating the applicability of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) for self-assessment in tertiary writing instruction in China: accessibility, effectiveness, feasibility and usefulness
Investigating Unexpected Death: Values and Attitudes in Coronial Autopsies
Investigating Unexpected Death: Values and Attitudes in Coronial Autopsies
Involving “Former Extremists” as Practitioners in Countering/Preventing Violent Extremism
Iraqi English Language Development
Is informed consent to LGBTQ+ ‘conversion therapy’ compatible with UK and International Human Rights Law?
Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in Digital Governance
Knowing: knowledge, institutions and gender
L-earning: rethinking young women's working lives
Labwork in Science Education
Language and Learning in Science
Lawyering for International Criminal Justice
Lawyers in Society - 30 years on
Learner Autonomy: English Language Teachers' Beliefs and Practices
Learning and the Transition into Work
Learning Disability Health Service Quality-Checkers and User-Led Quality Measures
Learning from practice: improving the professional development of science teachers
Learning Responsibility? Exploring Doctors' Transitions to New Levels of Medical Performance
Legal Advice to Legislatures – Supporting a Professionalising Legislature
Legal Cultures and New Regional Policies towards Forced Migrants
Legal Entitlements and Problem-Solving (LEaP)
Linking School Mathematics to Out-of-School Mathematical Activities
Living Gender In Diverse Times
Long-term developments in jihadi militant ideology and its transnational impact
Making, Unmaking, Remaking? Professional Identity and Practice in Probation in the Aftermath of the Transforming Rehabilitation Reforms
Making it to the Registers: Documenting Migrant Carers’ Experiences of Registration and Fitness to Practice
Management and Intervention in Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder: the role of teachers and parents
Markets in Policing - ESRC Seminar Series
MA TESOL - Oman
Medical education assessment
Medical Practitioners, Adolescents and Informed Consent
Migration and networks of care in Europe
Mobigam: Language on the move in India
Mobile Solutions to the Mexican Kidnapping Epidemic: Beyond Elite Counter-Measures Towards Citizen-Led Innovation
Models of the Educator in Higher Education: A Bibliographic and Conceptual Map
MOdify Drivers’ behaviour to Adapt for Lower EmissionS (MODALES)
Monitoring the Educational Performance of Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder
Mother Tongue Language Policy in a Globalising World: The Case of Eritrea
Moving from Occasional to Regular Use of ICT in Mathematics Classes
Narnian Virtues: How Parents, Teachers and their 11 to 13 year-olds Learn to Cultivate Good Character through Engagement with the Novels by C.S. Lewis
National Evaluation of the Applied Learning Specialism Programme
National Survey on Innovation in Science Enquiry
Needs of carers in North Lincolnshire: A Scoping Exercise
Net-Zero Neighbourhoods
New Urbanisms, New Citizens
NIHR Improving employment opportunities for carers
Northern Exposure: Race, Nation and Disaffection in "Ordinary" Towns and Cities after Brexit
Northern Ireland Election Study 2015-16
Northern Ireland Election Study 2017-18
Northern Ireland Election Study 2019
Opportunity Areas: Impact Evaluation
Ordinary Citizenship
Parental empowerment in Sure Start programmes
Parenting And Family Life
Partnerships for Cultural Change: Reverse Mentoring in higher education and the legal profession
Pathways in Mathematics 14-19, Phase 2
Pathways to numeracy in rural India: policies, patterns and perceptions (P2N)
Perceptions of language and identity amongst international MA TESOL students
Petitioning and People Power in Twentieth-Century Britain
Physics Enhancement Programme (PEP) Evaluation
Pilot study of the Communication Friendly Home-Based Settings Programme
Police National Legal Database
Policing, vulnerabilities and domestic abuse: victims, perpetrators, interventions
Policing and community resilience in the context of climate change
Policing and Crime Control in the Victorian City
Policing Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies
Policing Children and Families: A Study of the Police Response to Child-to-Parent Violence
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Practical Impact of EU Equality Directives in Italian and UK Employment Law
Pre-charge Bail
Prefabs sprouting: Modern Methods of Construction and the English housing crisis
Pregnant Men: An International Exploration of Trans Male Practices of Reproduction
PROSEU - Prosumers for the Energy Union
Provision of replacement/alternative care for Jobcentre Plus customers who are carers
Pupil Enrichment Materials: Interactive Teaching
Q methods study of vulnerability
Racist Hostility and Racist Violence in Leeds
Rapid Evidence Assessments for the ODI
Re-counting crime: New methods to improve the accuracy of estimates of crime
Re-Evaluating the Pandemic Preparedness And REsponse agenda (REPPARE)
REACH Primary
REAding for CompreHension (REACH)
Realising Resilience: An Evidence Based Approach to Embedding Resilience in the Curriculum
Realizing the political rights of persons with disabilities (PODI)
Real Life Methods
Reducing the unanticipated crime harms of Covid-19 policies
Reforming the European Insolvency Regulation
Reform of the Human Rights Act 1998
Regional factsheets on carers
Regional Quality Standards for Inclusion
Reinforcers or reformers: an exploration of how legal educators perceive their role and its relationship with the legal profession following the introduction of the SQE
Religious Reading in a Secular Society: Learning for Life in a Liberal Democracy?
Rescuing Corporate Reorganisation: a transatlantic evaluation
Researching Accountability in the Indian System of Education (RAISE)
Research on professors, professorial academic leadership and preparation for professorship
RESPONSE - Realist evaluation to improve health systems responsiveness to neglected health needs of vulnerable groups in Ghana and Vietnam
Responsible Innovation of Medical Technologies
RETORNO: Interventions on Social Determinants of Health – A comparative study of returned migrants from the UK and Spain post Brexit referendum
REVAMP: Effectiveness of a Community Health Care Workers Programme for Maternal and Child Health in Nigeria
Review of Legislation and Policy Guidance relating to Adult Social Care in Northern Ireland
Review of Local Authorities’ Use of Carers Grant
Roma in Northern England: Creating interventions towards a better quality of life
Safer Parks for Women and Girls
Science teachers’ experiences of educational reform in Sweden: Enacting national tests and grading at Y6
Secondary National Strategy: Effective practice in Interactive Teaching
Security for sale in modern Britain: security provision, ensembles and cultures, 1785 - 1995
Security Rights and the European Insolvency Regulation
SENSE – Using technology to support older adults with dual sensory impairment
Sex binaries, performance enhancement and elite sport
Sex Entertainment Venues: Regulating Working Conditions
Shale Gas Development : A benchmark review of the regulatory Framework
Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) Project
Social exclusion in adolescence
Social Impacts of Local Energy Developments (SLED): A case study of Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay
Socio-legal Trajectories in Germany and the UK: Cultures, Actors and Institutions
Spaces of Indigenous Justice
Special Adviser to the Independent Reviewer of the Terrorism Legislation
Special Measures in Rape Trials
Strengthening Health System Delivery and Quality: Mechanisms and Effects of Performance Based Financing in the Sub-Saharan context
Strengthening in-house lawyer ethics
Student perceptions of teaching and learning within undergraduate education programmes
Students' Experience of Undergraduate Mathematics
Study on Substantive Insolvency Law
Subnational Context and Radical Right support in Europe (SCoRE)
Sugar Rush: Science, Obesity and the Social Life of Sugar
Sun, Sea, Sand and Silicone: Mapping Cosmetic Surgery Tourism
Supporting Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to Read for Meaning
Sustainable development for pastoralist women in India: dignity, heritage and adaptations in times of rapid change (HERDING)
Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture
Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies: European Policy Analysis – ‘Sustainable Agriculture’
Tackling Selection Bias in Sentencing Data Analysis
TAKEDOWN - Understand the Dimensions of Organised Crime and Terrorist Networks for Developing Effective and Efficient Security Solutions for First-line-practitioners and Professionals
Talking about sex and relationships
Taxation and Moral Regulation
Teacher Empowerment to Educate Students to Become Active European Citizens (TEESAEC)
Teacher learning on the Delta
Teachers and researchers as knowledge builders for better school science
Teaching about the Nature of Scientific Knowledge and Investigation on A/AS Level Science Courses
Teaching and Learning Science in the Primary Classroom
Teaching English Radio
Telecare: a crucial opportunity to help save our health and social care system
Terrorism and the Law
The challenge of transition from Key Stage 2 to Key Stage 3
The early take-up of Core Mathematics: successes and challenges
The Foundational Number Sense (FoNS) Research Project
The Future of Forensic Bioinformation
The future prospects of urban parks: The life, times and social order of Victorian public parks as places of social mixing
The Governance of Chinese Listed Companies
The Impact of Anti-Social Behaviour Interventions on Young People
The impact of a pre-registration transition programme (Transition to Leeds) on international PGT students’ sense of belonging
The Impact of Covid-19 on Key Learning and Education (ICKLE)
The impact of teacher education on pre-service English language teachers
The impact on students of British Council EFL classes
The Implementation of Practical Assessment in the GCSE
The Implementation of the National Curriculum
The Leeds Parks Fund: Developing a model for charitable giving to parks
The linguistic challenges of the transition from primary to secondary school
The Orientation and Integration of Local and National Alcohol Policy
The performance of disability histories
The Petitions Committee: Developing a New Style of Public Engagement
The potential of ICT in supporting the provision of domiciliary care
The protection role of the Committee on Petitions in the context of the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
The racism reduction agenda
The recruitment, induction and retention of Special Educational Needs Coordinators
The Regulatory Dance
The relational politics of equalities policy making
The Relevance of Science Education Project (ROSE)
The Responsibility to Protect The Political Sustainability of Liberal Norms in an Age of Shifting Power balances
The right to independent living of persons with disabilities: Statistical analysis for outcome indicators
The Role of Sign Language for Deaf Children with Cochlear Implants
The Semantics of Tolerance and (Anti-) Racism in Europe: institutions and civil society in a comparative perspective
The spaces of mental capacity law: moving beyond the binaries
The state of English as Medium of Instruction (EMI) in Higher Education institutions in Indonesia
The target language revisited
The Third Sector in Criminal Justice
The Ultimate Objective of the Corporation
The Unbundled University: Researching Emerging Models in an Unequal Landscape
The working lives of Special Educational Needs Coordinators
The WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism as a New Technique for Settling Disputes in International Law
Tianjin Higher Education Management Summer School
Timescapes: an ESRC qualitative longitudinal study
TNOC Transnational Organised Crime in the 21st Century
Towards a minimum policing standard
Towards an evidence-based understanding of student careers ambitions and needs: the case of criminology
Towards an understanding of the limits of collective violence during the 2011 English riots
Towards Evidence-Based Practice In Science Education
To what extent does IELTS encourage communicative language teaching in Chinese IELTS classes?
Tracking Children in their Best Interests: electronic monitoring in three European juvenile justice systems (TCBI)
Tracking people: controversies and challenges
TRACTION: Transnational Labour Constitutionalism: Strategic Litigation and the Constitutional Protection of Work
Transition, Progression and Attainment from non-traditional educational pathways
Transitions through university: Exploring expectations and motivations of undergraduate students
Translation and translanguaging: Investigating linguistic and cultural transformations in superdiverse wards in four UK cities
Translations and transformations in patienthood: cancer in the post-genomics era
Truly Engaging Citizens with the Parliamentary Process? An Evaluation of the Public Reading Stage in the House of Commons
Turing Fellow - Dr Birks
Turing Fellow - Professor Wall
U-LEAD - University of Leeds East Asia Disability Rights Forum
UK and Latin American perspectives on Disability
Undergraduate Learning in Science Project
Understanding and preventing ‘cuckoo’ victimisation
Understanding normative change to address the climate emergency
Understanding Organised Crime and Terrorist Networks TAKEDOWN
Understanding Solidarity Amid Refugee Crises
Understanding the geospatial and contextual patterns of rural domestic abuse: an exploratory study
Understanding the Moderate Drinking Students of Generation Sensible
Unveiling the factors for the predictive validity of IELTS for postgraduate studies: assessment, teaching and learning in the TLU domain
Updating AntConc for spoken and educational language data
Urban Aboriginal Youth and Self-Employment
Using digital storytelling to develop reflective learning by the use of next generation technologies and practices
Violence Against Disabled Women
Virtual School and College Education for Teenagers and Young Adults (VISCED)
Vital Circulations: A framework for understanding social dynamics in and beyond a pandemic
Voices of the rainforest: Co-creating a traditional ecological knowledge-based climate change curriculum framework with indigenous communities in Malaysia
Weight Stigma and Anti-Discrimination Law: Examining Attitudes Towards Weight as a Protected Class
Well-being and burnout in teaching: unpacking the causes and tackling the problems
White Rose Consortium on The Responsibility to Protect and Human Interconnectedness
White Spaces: racialising white femininities and masculinities
Workforce Development for Assisted Living Technology
Yorkshire Academic Sex Work Consortium
Young People & Active Journeys in Leeds
Young people's understanding of, and attitudes to, 'the new genetics'
Youth Activism in Educational Spaces
‘Sticky Objects’ and pathways to wellbeing: teacher understandings of and practices in positive psychology in their classrooms