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Current projects

Title	Funder	Start date	End date
Decentering ableism in gender based violence (GBV) research using co-creative arts-based approaches		01/10/2024	30 September 2027
ESRC Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre	Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)	1 May 2022	30 April 2027
Side-Hustles: Young People and Employment- Adjacent Entrepreneurship		1 March 2024	28 February 2027
The Choreography of Consent: experiments in dance/law research	Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)	1 September 2024	1 March 2026
GreenAWARE: Greenspace Access, Wellbeing, and Resident Equality	Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)	1 June 2024	31 January 2026
Training park staff and volunteers to increase women’s safety in the UK’s parks and green spaces		21 October 2024	20 October 2025
Funding the UK criminal justice system since 1850: a scoping and pilot study		1 October 2024	30 September 2025
Preventing and Disrupting County Lines 'Cuckooing’ Victimisation		1 April 2022	31 July 2025
Evaluating Innovation Policy: Department for the Economy (NI) (UKRI Policy Fellowship)	UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)	1 January 2024	30 June 2025
Non-formal education for youth-led change	Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)	7 January 2024	7 January 2025
RESPONSE - Realist evaluation to improve health systems responsiveness to neglected health needs of vulnerable groups in Ghana and Vietnam	Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)	1 April 2020	31 December 2024
Breaking barriers to engagement with parliaments	UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)	1 October 2022	31 December 2024
Reimagine essay-based assessment in the wake of ChatGPT: insights from corpus-based analyses of ChatGPT - assisted writing, university student writing, and IELTS writing and human feedback on them	British Council	1 April 2024	30 December 2024

Past projects

Title	Funder	Start date	End date
In-silico trials of targeted screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm using linked healthcare data		1 May 2022	31 October 2024
TRACTION: Transnational Labour Constitutionalism: Strategic Litigation and the Constitutional Protection of Work	Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)	1 August 2022	31 July 2024
Disproportionality: Exploring the Nature of Ethnic Disparities in Sentencing through Causal Inference	Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)	1 August 2022	31 July 2024
Involving “Former Extremists” as Practitioners in Countering/Preventing Violent Extremism		1 October 2023	31 July 2024
Disabled women’s experiences of reporting sexual violence to the police		29 February 2024	24 May 2024
Understanding the geospatial and contextual patterns of rural domestic abuse: an exploratory study		1 September 2021	1 October 2023
Connecting and Comprehending Through Play		1 April 2023	30 September 2023
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		1 September 2022	31 August 2023
Youth Activism in Educational Spaces	Leeds Social Sciences Institute	9 January 2023	31 July 2023
Socio-legal Trajectories in Germany and the UK: Cultures, Actors and Institutions		1 July 2021	30 June 2023
Vital Circulations: A framework for understanding social dynamics in and beyond a pandemic		1 July 2021	30 June 2023
Safer Parks for Women and Girls		1 January 2022	31 March 2023
Qualitative research to understand the support needs of disabled adult rape victims		1 February 2022	30 September 2022
Is informed consent to LGBTQ+ ‘conversion therapy’ compatible with UK and International Human Rights Law?		1 December 2021	31 March 2022
Ordinary Citizenship	Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)