Damian Clarke (Economics, ESE): Does Increasing Spending in Public Health Improve Health? Lessons from a Constitutional Reform in Brazil (with Rudi Rocha and Michel Szklo)

This project seeks to estimate the causal impacts of public health spending on individual health outcomes in Brazil. It studies a major health reform in Brazil in which municipalities were mandated to spend 15% of their revenue on health.

Dr Caitlin Kight (School of Education, HASS): Exploring Creativity as a tool for Improving Wellbeing of students and host providers in Hospiscare

This project explores the power of art to support students and their host providers during nursing placements.

Dr Davide Pettinato (Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, HASS): British Mosques and Energy Consumption

This HASS-STEMM project aims to identify good practice in energy use within the British mosque sector.

Dr Janet Geipel (Management, ESE): Using Language to Improve Inclusivity in the Labour Market

This project explores how discrimination and stereotyping in the European labour market can be reduced by submitting job-related information in a foregin language. 

Professor Catriona Pennell (History, HaSS Cornwall): The Future of Global Britain

This interdisciplinary project investigates the marginalised voices of young people in the UK Overseas Territories, at a crucial point in time when their unique relationship with the UK is repeatedly called into question.

Dr Victoria Wong (School of Education, HASS): Students' use of Mathematics in Science

This interdisciplinary, cross-Faculty project will explore how students bring mathematical and scientific knowledge together to solve problems.

Professor Sarah Hartley (Management, ESE): Responsible Governance of Gene Drive

This social science-led project will explore how the powerful biotechnology known as gene drive can be governed responsibly in ways that are attentive to power structures, language, knowledge politics and conservation.

Dr Thomas Roland (Geography): The Life and Afterlife of Extraction

This project seeks to broaden the discussions of decolonising museology to consider ‘natural’, as well as cultural, collections.

Professor James Mark (History): Whiteness Beyond the West 

This initiative explores the histories of whiteness across the world. A workshop will be held in Spring 2023, co-organised with Manuela Boatcă and Zoltán Ginelli. Further details to follow.

Dr Ina Linge (Languages, Cultures and Visual Studies, HASS): Queer Natures

This humanities-led project explores how German-language artists, scientists and writers (1860s-1930s) mobilised knowledge about non-human animals and their natural environment to create new ideas about the place of LGBTQ+ people in a fair society.