Projects
Selected current and recent funded research projects and awards.
For more research projects, follow links from our People and Research Centre pages. Many of these projects are collaborations with researchers in other departments or other institutions, within the UK and beyond.
| Project title (funder) | University of Manchester contact | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Covid intimacies: Resilience and viral safety among LGBT and heterosexual people using dating apps in the Covid-19 era (ESRC) | Brian Heaphy | 2022-2024 |
| Imagine: Contested Futures of Sustainability (Research Council of Norway) | Dan Welch | 2021-2024 |
| The Waste Tip: Exploring fly-tipping and opportunities for better waste management (UMRI) | Helen Holmes | 2022-2023 |
| The social, cultural and economic impacts of the pandemic on ethnic and racialised groups in the UK (ESRC) | Bridget Byrne | 2021-2022 |
| Mental capacity and personal finances: a qualitative study of assessment and support (NIHR) | Alex Hall and Debora Price | 2021-2022 |
| The impact of Care Act Easements under the Coronavirus Act 2020 on co-resident older carers of partners with dementia (NIHR) | Philip Drake and Debora Price | 2021-2022 |
| One Bin to Rule Them All (UKRI) | Helen Holmes (Co-I); Mike Shaver (PI, SCI) | 2020-2024 |
| Exploring Racial and Ethnic Inequality in a Time of Crisis, including the Evidence for Equality National Survey (EVENS) (ESRC) | Bridget Byrne | 2020-2021 |
| Care of Older Persons in Southern Africa Network (COPSAN) (Global Challenges Research Fund) | Debora Price (Principal Investigator: Elena Moore, University of Cape Town) | 2020-2021 |
| Urbanisation and Population Ageing: Interdisciplinary perspectives on "ageing in place" in cities (Leverhulme Trust) | Tine Buffel | 2020-2025 |
| Precarious employment and pension planning (ESRC) | Debora Price | 2020-2023 |
| Descendants of Holocaust survivors and the concentration camp tattoo: Generation, memory, memorialisation and resignification (British Academy) | Alice Bloch | 2019-2022 |
| Ethnic inequalities in later life (Nuffield Foundation) | Dharmi Kapadia (Project leader: Laia Becares, University of Sussex) | 2019-2022 |
|
Migration, Care and Ageing (part of Centre of Excellence for Research on Ageing and Care) (Academy of Finland) |
Vanessa May | 2018-2022 |
| Beyond Banglatown: community, change and new urban economies in Brick Lane (AHRC) | Claire Alexander | 2018-2021 |
| Curious Connections: Being an egg or sperm donor (ESRC) | Petra Nordqvist | 2017-2021 |
| Girlhood and later life (ESRC) | Penny Tinkler | 2017-2021 |
| Dialogue about Radicalisation and Equality (DARE) (EU Horizon 2020) | Hilary Pilkington | 2017-2021 |
| Pensions on divorce (Nuffield Foundation) | Debora Price | 2017-2020 |
| Synergi Collaborative Centre - ethnic inequalities and severe mental illness (Lankelly Chase) | James Nazroo | 2017-2022 |
| Urban Ageing and Social Exclusion | Tine Buffel | 2016-2021 |
| Gender, work and care | Colette Fagan | ongoing |