- PI: Dr Ronald Ranta.
- Co-investigators: Dr Hilda Mulrooney from the nutrition department at Kingston and Dr Dee Bhakta from Metropolitan University.
The project (funded by CResCID) seeks to explore the experiences and perceptions of those involved in the provision of food aid, or who have received it. In particular, the experiences of food aid organisations and their employees and volunteers in response to the Covid-19 pandemic will be explored. In addition, the nutritional value of food parcels given in food aid will be evaluated and compared with national recommendations. The implications of the findings will inform a series of policy recommendations on the provision and coordination of food aid in the UK.
The collaboration with Hilda Mulrooney has also resulted in the publication of an open access article in February:
Ranta, Ronald and Hilda Mulrooney (2021) Pandemics, food (in)security, and leaving the EU: What does the Covid-19 pandemic tell us about food insecurity and Brexit?, Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 3(1)
- Coordinators: Dr Ronald Ranta and Nevena Nancheva
CResCID seed funding (2021) for a comparative project studying the role of ethnic food shops in generating migrant inclusion dynamics in diverse urban environments. The project consortium is currently across eight partners (research institutes in urban planning and sustainability, area studies and migration) in six European countries (UK, Italy, Greece, Austria, Belgium, Sweden). The focus is on implementation and policy.
- Coordinator: Professor Nick Mai
An international European Research Council funded study of migration, sex work and trafficking in Australia, France, New Zealand and the US. Professor Nick Mai leads this investigation of the impact of anti-trafficking and humanitarian and social interventions, which target migrant sex workers in strategic urban settings.
The project's aim is to contribute to more efficient and ethical policies that address migrants working in the global sex industry. It adopts an innovative and multidisciplinary methodology including long term participant observation, qualitative interviewing and participative ethnographic filmmaking to analyse migrants' own understandings and experiences of agency and exploitation.
- Coordinators: Dr Ronald Ranta and Nevena Nancheva
A British Academy and Leverhulme Trust-financed 18-month project. The research seeks to outline, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the phenomenon of migration from the EU within the national context of the UK. The focus is the impact of migration on EU migrants' identities, their sense of belonging and their place in British society and in the wider European context.
- Coordinator: Dr Atsuko Ichijo
A research project funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants. This is a pilot study to develop methodology to research on the development of political subjectivity in the non-western context, in particular, Taiwan and Hong Kong. The two sites are chosen due to their positioning at the periphery of the Sino-centric world order before the incorporation in the Westphalian order. The project entailed fieldwork in Taiwan and Hong Kong and a concluding workshop with the main partner, Academia Sinica, Taipei on 3 September 2019. The workshop was entitled ‘Islands and Mainlands: Nationalism, State-formation and Centre-Periphery Relationship' and addressed by nine speakers from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and the UK. Due to the political situation in Hong Kong, the workshop was invitation-only and about 40 academics, mainly from Taiwan, attended. A proceedings collecting all presentations was produced by Academia Sinica.
- Coordinator: Dr Nevena Nancheva
The project explores the conflict between notions of the public good and human rights in the deportation of EU criminals with family members in the UK.
